Protestantism in England From the Times of Henry VIII - James Aitken Wylie

call the people together."[5]
Warwick, Duke of Northumberland, an
ambitious and hypocritical man, resolved on his
death. He accused Somerset of a design to raise a
rebellion and assassinate himself and the other
privy councilors. He was tried and condemned; the
king, now entirely in the power of Warwick, signed
his uncle's death-warrant with tears in his eyes; and
he was executed (January, 1552) amidst the
lamentations of the people, by whom he was
greatly beloved, and who rushed on the scaffold to
dip their handkerchiefs in his blood. Cranmer
remained his friend to the last, but could not save
him. The next cloud that rose over the Reformed
Church of England was the dispute respecting
vestments. This contention first arose amongst a
Protestant congregation of English exiles at
Frankfort, some of whom objected to the use of the
surplice by the minister, the Litany, the audible
responses, and kneeling at the communion, and on
these grounds they separated from their brethren.
The strife was imported into England, and broke
out there with great fierceness in the reign of
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