This week’s poser is part of the last will and testament of John Knox, the Reformer, from the Edinburgh Commissary Court’s register of testaments 1573 (National Archives of Scotland, CC8/8/2 page 527).

In this, the introductory clause, Knox named his executors, the people delegated to carry out the terms of his will.

This week’s question: who were the three executors named in the testament?

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