ABSTRACT
This chapter emphasis on the strong friendship of Annas' and Winram's. Winram recognized the warmth of their relationship, describing himself as 'zour ladyships awin auld gude friend'. The strength of their friendship ensured that it was not undermined by Annas' determined, but ultimately futile, attempted to wrest from Winram the lands of Craigtown and Lumbo. From the scant evidence which survives it appears that an entire section discussing the rights or duties of resistance to civil authority was struck from the Confession. Instead, a small, but vital, compromise clause is found embedded in the surviving section on 'The Civile Magistrate'. Knox was appalled at this and denounced the event from the pulpit of St Giles church in Edinburgh, which he was summoned to the first of several 'reasonings' with Mary and others. Hence, Winram's friendship was a valuable commodity which those he shared it with were not willing to forfeit on account of mere dispute or a difference of opinion.
