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

to provide for their safety by seeking a foreign
asylum. Many acted on his advice, and some 800
exiles were distributed among the cities of
Germany and Switzerland.
Providence, as the historian Burner remarks,
made the storm abate on the Continent when it
began to rage in England, and as England had
offered sanctuary to the exiles of Germany in their
day of trouble, so now the persecuted of England
found refuge in Strasburg and Antwerp, in Zurich
and Geneva. But the archbishop himself refused to
flee, though urged to do so by his friends. He had
been too deeply concerned, he said, in the changes
of religion under the last reign not to remain and
own them. As things stood, this was a voluntary
surrender of himself on the altar.[5]
On the 1st of October the queen was crowned
at the Abbey of Westminster. The usual pardon
was proclaimed, but while the ordinary criminals
were set free, the prisoners in the Tower and Fleet-
-that is, the professors of the Gospel, including
Grafton and Whitchurch, the printers of the Bible--
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