ABSTRACT
John Knox was an extremely busy man in the spring and summer of 1559. In July Knox began to act as clerk to the Protestant Lords of the Congregation. But perhaps most striking of all for historians of Britain in the sixteenth century, Knox called for English solidarity with Scotland. In 1559 Knox could speak the language of Anglo-Scottish Protestant solidarity, using a vocabulary which had been moulded by the Edwardian experience. The unionist Whitelaw was in Edinburgh in July, with Knox at Berwick in August, and carrying messages for the Congregation in the same month. Knox must have been profoundly unconvinced by English claims of imperial superiority. The unionist Whitelaw was in Edinburgh in July, with Knox at Berwick in August, and carrying messages for the Congregation in the same month. In July 1559 the Congregation gave Knox 'commission to speak and propose' a number of 'Heades'.
