With Wilock, John Douglas and three others, Knox also drafted the First Book of Discipline. It not only advocated reform of the church but championed compulsory education up to the university level and made provisions for the poor. These principles were never adopted because the Scottish landowners did not want to squander the wealth of the church on Knox's "devout imaginings." His most notable work was the History of the Reformation of Religion within the Realm of Scotland, the first
