An admiring pupil there [at Cambridge], Emery Tylney, describes him in 1543 as a man of tall stature, comely in person, courteous, lovely, glad to teach, desirous to learn, fearing God, hating covetousness. “If I should declare his love to me, and all men, his charity to the poor in giving, relieving, caring, helping, providing, yea, infinitely studying how to do good to all and hurt to none, I should sooner want words than just cause to commend him.”
Henry Cowan in John Knox: Hero of the Scottish Reformation (London, G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1905) 57.