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

pardon, was the divorce of Henry VIII, of which
forgetful of the proud cardinal lying without
epitaph in the Abbey of Leicester--they held
Cranmer to be the chief promoter. Ridley, Bishop
of London, deprived of his see, had preceded the
archbishop to prison, as had also Rogers, for
preaching the Protestant sermon at St. Paul's.
Latimer, the most eloquent preacher in all England;
Hooper of Gloucester, who preached three or four
times every day to his parishioners; Coverdale,
Bradford, Saunders, and others were deprived of
their liberty during the months of August and
September.
A commission was issued to the new Bishops
of Winchester, London, Chichester, and Durham--
who, in addition to their detestation of
Protestantism, were soured in their tempers by
what had befallen them in the past reign--
empowering them to deprive the Protestant bishops
and ministers of their offices, on pretense either of
treason, or of heresy, or of marriage. They did their
work with zeal and expedition. All the Protestant
bishops were deprived, as also numbers of the
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