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

The University of Cambridge was the first to
receive the light, but its sister of Oxford seemed to
outstrip it by being the first to be glorified by
martyrdom. Cambridge, however was now called
to drink of the same cup. On the very same day
(February 5th, 1526) on which the investigation
had been set on foot at Oxford, Wolsey's chaplain,
accompanied by a sergeant-at- arms, arrived at
Cambridge to open there a similar inquisition. The
first act of Wolsey's agent was to arrest Barnes, the
distinguished scholar, who, as we have seen, had
given the use of his pulpit in the Augustine
Convent to Latimer. He next began a search in the
rooms of Bilney, Latimer, and Stafford, for New
Testaments, which he had learned from spies were
hidden in their lodgings. All the Testaments had
been previously removed, and the search resulted
in the discovery of not a single copy. Without
proof of heresy the chaplain could arrest no
heretics, and he returned to London with his one
prisoner. An indiscreet sermon which Barnes had
preached against the cardinal's "jeweled shoes,
poleaxes, gilt pillars, golden cushions, silver
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