Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia - James Aitken Wylie

Friesland, the troubles of Alasco multiplied along
with them. He resigned the general direction of
ecclesiastical affairs, which he had exercised as
superintendent, and limited his sphere of action to
the ministry of the single congregation of Emden,
the capital of the country.
But the time was come when John Alasco was
to be removed to another sphere. A pressing letter
now reached him from Archbishop Cranmer,
inviting him to take part, along with other
distinguished Continental Reformers, in
completing the Reformation of the Church of
England.[11] The Polish Reformer accepted the
invitation, and traversing Brabant and Flanders in
disguise, he arrived in London in September, 1548.
A six months' residence with Cranmer at Lambeth
satisfied him that the archbishop's views and his
own, touching the Reformation of the Church,
entirely coincided; and an intimate friendship
sprang up between the two, which bore good fruits
for the cause of Protestantism in England, where
Alaseo's noble character and great learning soon
won him high esteem.
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