KNOX, JOHN, greatly distinguished by the part he took in the reformation in Scotland, was born in 1505, at Gifford near Haddington, and educated at the university of St Andrew's, where he took a degree in arts, and commenced teacher very early in life. At this time the new religion of Martin Luther was but little known in Scotland; Mr Knox therefore at first was a zealous Roman Catholic: but attending the sermons of a certain Black friar, named Guilliam, he began to waver in his opinions; and afterwards conversing with the famous Wishart, who in 1544 came to Scotland with the commissioners sent by Henry VIII. he renounced the Romish religion, and became a zealous reformer. Be-