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prived of his archdeaconry. Under this reign, uneasy and C H A P. 

 unsafe for him and all others that conscientiously adhered 

 to the reformed religion, he soon fled away into Germany, 

 and with several others of the best rank, both divines and 

 gentlemen, he resided at Strasburgh, and afterward at Zu 

 rich in Helvetia ; and there in peace followed his studies, 

 and heard the learned Dr. Peter Martyr^ Lectures, not 

 long before the King s Reader of Divinity in Oxford. 



And while he was here he was not idle, but employ ed instructs 

 his talent of learning partly in the instruction of certain ^ h 1M hl 

 students and young gentlemen in good literature and reli 

 gion. One of these was the son of Dannet, a worthy per 

 son, whom many years after, when he was Bishop of Lon 

 don, he called his old scholar ; and by reason of his excel 

 lent abilities he recommended to the Lord Treasurer. By 

 setting religion before this young Dannet in a true light, he 

 brought him off, as from ignorance, so particularly from 

 the superstitions wherein he had been bred : which he thus 

 elegantly set forth in a letter to the foresaid noble person, 

 when he sued in Dannet s behalf. &quot; Give me leave to en- 

 &quot; treat your honourable favour for my son Onesimus, whom 

 &quot; I begat not in my bands, but in my banishment ; fleeing 

 &quot; not from his master Philemon to Paul, but from Mise- 

 &quot; mon, the great Antichrist, to Christ.&quot; 



Some other things I find this learned confessor doing Pubiisheth 

 in his exile. Soon after the English fled from the Ro- 

 man tyranny exercised in England, a learned and excel- 

 lent letter of the Lady (late Queen) Jane, written to the 

 apostate Harding, her father s chaplain, was printed in 

 English in Strasburgh. This, I make little doubt, Aylmer, 

 formerly her tutor, was the publisher of, and perhaps the 

 bringer of it along with him from England. And when a 

 few years after John Fox, who was now busy in collecting 

 materials for his Marty rology, inquired of Aylmer what he 

 had to communicate of that right illustrious Lady, he told 

 him of that epistle, and of the publishing it in English; 

 and that if he were minded to make any memorials of her, 

 nothing could be worthier of his pen, nor redound more to 



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