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

was long remembered, and often afterwards spoken
about in terms which have found their record in the
works of one of the converts of those times -
"When Master Stafford read,
And Master Latimer preached,
Then was Cambridge blessed."[5]
Similar scenes, though not on a scale quite so
marked, were at this hour taking place in Oxford.
Almost all the scholars whom Wolsey had brought
to fill his new chairs evinced a favor for the new
opinions, or openly ranged themselves on their
side. Wolsey, in selecting the most learned, had
unwittingly selected those most friendly to Reform.
Besides Clark, whom we have already mentioned,
and the new men, there was John Fryth, the modest
but stable-minded Christian, who had been
Tyndale's associate in preparing an instrumentality
which was destined soon and powerfully to dispel
the darkness that still rested above England, and
which was only feebly relieved by the partial
illumination that was breaking out at the two
university seats of Cambridge and Oxford.
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