John Knox's balcony
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John Knox's balcony
Image: © kim traynor Taken: 26 Jun 2011
An unsubstantiated tradition has it that Knox preached from this balcony facing the High Street. "Sleep not in sin, for vengeance is prepared against all disobedient. Flee from Babylon, if you will not be partakers of her plagues." -- John Knox "In this meane tyme [Oct. 1570] Jhone Knox was stricken with a kynd of Aplopexia, called by the phisitiones Resolutione, whairby the perfect use of his toung was stopped. Heirof did the wicked not a litle reioys." -- Richard Bannatyne, Diurnal of Occurrents
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Image Location
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-3.184811