BISHOP AYLMER. 11 



he was stayed at Jene, an University erected by the Dukes c H A P. 

 of Saxony ; and should, if he had not come away, have had 

 the Hebrew lecture there which Snepphinus had, having 

 been entertained there to read in that University both 

 Greek and Latin, in the company, and with the good love 

 and liking of those famous men, Flacius Illyricus, Victorius 

 Strigellus, D. Snepphinus, (whom they termed the other 

 Luther ,) with divers others. 



When Queen Mary was extinct, whose reign was deeply Prints a 

 besmeared with blood, and her sister Elizabeth, a lady of JaUist^Knox 

 other principles, succeeded to the crown, Aylmer with the ilt s tras - 



. . . burgh. 



rest of the exiles came home to their native country, with 

 no little joy and thankfulness to God, to enjoy the quiet 

 profession of that religion they had suffered for before, and 

 endured the loss of all. But before he returned home he 

 printed an English book at Strasburgh, called An Harbo- 

 rough for faithful Subjects ; (an account whereof is given 

 towards the conclusion of the book ;) which he wrote upon 

 a, consultation, as it seems, holden among the exiles, the 

 better to obtain the favour of the new Queen, and to take 

 off any jealousy she might conceive of them and the reli 

 gion they professed, by reason of an ill book a little before 

 set forth by Knox, a Scotchman and fellow exile ; who had 

 asserted therein, that it was unlawful for women to reign, 

 and forbid by God in his word. This doctrine was season 

 ably confuted by Aylmer, and learnedly. And for Queen 

 Elizabeth, he gave her a great character, concluding that 

 there would be all peace and prosperity under a Princess of 

 such admirable parts and godly education. 



He was but newly come home, when he was appointed Engaged in 

 one of the eight to hold a disputation in Westminster, be 

 fore many of the nobility and gentry, against the like num 

 ber of the Popish Bishops : which if it had been fairly 

 prosecuted, and not declined after one or two meetings by 

 those Bishops, our learned man had shewn his great parts, 

 and that he was not ignorant in all the three learned lan 

 guages. 



Whether upon his return he enjoyed his archdeaconry of 



