We cannot, of course, prove that Knox was informed as to the Regent's malady before he prophesied; if so, he had forgotten the fact before he wrote as he did in 1566.

But the circumstances fail to demonstrate that he had a supernormal premonition, or drew a correct deduction from Scripture, and make it certain that the Regent did not fall ill after his prophecy.
The Regent died on June 11, half-an-hour after the midnight of June 10.

A report was written on June 13, from Edinburgh Castle, to the Cardinal of Lorraine, by Captain James Cullen, who some twelve years later was hanged by the Regent Morton.

He says that since June 7, Lord James and Argyll, Marischal, and Glencairn, had assiduously attended on the dying lady.

Two hours before her death she spoke apart for a whole hour with Lord James.
Chatelherault had seen her twice, and Arran once.