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

contact with foreign Protestants. Their arrival in
England greatly strengthened the hands of those
who were laboring in rebuilding the Protestant
edifice. Among these exiles was Jewell, a man of
matchless learning, which his powerful intellect
enabled him to wield with ease and grace, and who
by his incomparable work, the Apology, followed
as it was by the Defence, did more than any other
man of that age to demonstrate the falsehood of the
Popish system, and the impregnable foundations in
reason and truth on which the Protestant Church
reposed. Its publication invested the Reformed
cause in England with a prestige it had lacked till
then. The arrival of these men was signally
opportune. The Marian bishops, with one
exception, had vacated their sees--not, as in the
case of the Protestants under Mary, to go to prison
or to martyrdom, but to retire on pensions, and live
till the end of their days in security and affluence.
But the embarrassment into which they expected
the Government would be thrown by their
resignation was obviated by the appointment to the
vacant posts of men who, even they were
compelled to acknowledge, were their superiors in
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