This classic biography of the Scottish reformer John Knox is organized as
Preface I. From His Birth to His Embracing of the Reformed Religion (1505-1542) II. From His Embracing the Reformed Religion to His Release From the French Galleys (1542-1549) III. From His Release From the French Galleys to His Departure Out of England (1549-1554) IV. From His Departure Out of England to His Invitation Into Scotland, by the Protestant Nobility (1551-1557) V. From His Invitation Into Scotland, by the Protestant Nobility, to His Settlement as Minister of Edinburgh, Upon the Establishment of the Reformation (1557-1560) VI. From His Settlement as Minister of Edinburgh, at the Establishment of the Reformation to His Acquittal, From a Charge of Treason, by the Privy Council (1560-1563) VII. From His Acquittal, From a Charge of Treason, by the Privy Council to His Being Struck With Apoplexy (1563-1570) VIII. From His Being Struck With Apoplexy to His Death (1570-1572) Addenda
Rev. Dr. Thomas McCrie (sometimes known as Thomas M'Crie, McCree or Maccrae) (1772 – 1835) was a Scottish historian and writer. He was the father of Thomas McCrie (1797 - 1875).
Between 1802 and 1806, he contributed a series of biographical sketches to The Christian Magazine, including an Account of the concluding part of the Life and the Death of John Knox; a Memoir of Mr. John Murray, minister of Leith and Dunfermline at the beginning of the 17th century; a Sketch of the Progress of the Reformation in Spain; The Suppression of the Reformation in Spain; the Life of Dr. Andrew Rivet, the French Protestant minister; the Life of Patrick Hamilton; the Life of Francis Lambert of Avignon; and the Life of Alexander Henderson. He was subsequently the author of the Life of John Knox (1811) and the Life of Andrew Melville (1819).
In a series of papers published in the Edinburgh Religious Instructor McCrie criticised Walter Scott's representation of the Covenanting defenders of Scottish presbyterianism in his novel Old Mortality (1816).