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not get over. All refused it except Kitchen, the
Bishop of Llandaff. As might have been anticipated,
their refusal was followed by deprivation. Some few
suffered a short imprisonment, but Bonner was the
only one treated with actual severity. He was condemned
to perpetual confinement, which, according
to Heylin, was done more for his own personal safety
than in the way of punishment, the popular feeling
against him being so strong that his life would have
been in danger, had he appeared in public.
Archbishop Heath now ceased to preside over the
see of York, and went into an honourable retirement
at Cobham in Surrey, where he had a small estate.
But he was always treated with the utmost respect by
Elizabeth, who visited him at Cobham on more than
one occasion.
The statute establishing the royal supremacy paved
the way for another important measure, the first step
to Avhich consisted in the appointment of a committee
for the revisal of the two Prayer-books of Edward VI.,
and the formation of a new order of service for the
public worship of the Church of England.
Secretary
Cecil had the general direction of the proceedings
of the commissioners, and in Parker's absence through
illness, Guest, a man of great learning, and afterwards
Bishop of Rochester, was the mainspring of
the work of revision, ^\^len the book left the hands
of the committee to be submitted to the queen, it
was more in accordance with the views of the reforming
party than her majesty approved. It enjoined
the surplice, but specified no other vesture as being
allowable at the celebration of Holy Communion.