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REFORMERS GO INTO EXILE. 3-7
might remain without let or hindrance in the hands
of their present holders.
All that Mary was able to accomplish in the way
of restitution was the re-establishment of the Monastery
of Westminster, under the government of Abbot
Feckenham. The Dominicans were also replaced in
Smithfield, the Observant Friars at Greenwich, the
Bridgettines at Sion House, and the Carthusians at
Sheen. The Hospitallers, or Knights of Jerusalem,
had likewise some of their lands restpred. In each
case the property was in the hands of the Crown.
But measures fraught with evil omen to the reforming
party were soon put in force. Some of the
bishops, indeed, conformed, but others were arrested
and imprisoned, Holgate, the Archbishop of York,
being one. Others made their escape in company
with the foreign refugees who, at the very beginning of
Mary's reign, were ordered to depart from England
within a given time on pain of imprisonment and forteiture
of all their possessions. Multitudes of those who
sympathised with their religious views, and perchance
had gloomy forebodings of an impending persecution,
accompanied them into exile. They took refuge at
various places, Strasburg and Frankfort, Basle, Zurich
and Geneva, being amongst the chief places where they
received a kindly and generous welcome. Amongst
the most prominent of the English refugees were
Bishops Coverdale, Barlow, Poynet, Scory, and Bale,
certain deans and archdeacons, and a great number of
clergy, the names of some of whom subsequently became
well known, such as Jewel, Grindal, and Sandys,
Nowell and Pilkington, Whittingham and John Foxe.