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Excerpt from Life of John Knox: The Scottish Reformer; Abridged From McCries Life of Knox
John knox was born at,a village in East Lothian, in the year 1505 or as the common tradition is, at Haddington, the principal town Of the county. His parents were respectable, and in good circumstances, for they were able to give their son a liberal education. In his youth he was put to the grammar school of Haddington, and when he had acquired the rudiments of the Latin, he was sent to the University Of St. Andrews, at that time the most celebrated seminary in the kingdom. The revival of learning. In Italy and France, had not at this period reached Scotland, in any considerable degree: most of those who became learned, received their education in foreign countries. But the Latin was com mouly taught in her schools to such an extent as to enable her priests to perform their pub.
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