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Title: For the Faith

Author: Evelyn Everett-Green

Release Date: January 21, 2005 [eBook #14748]

Language: English

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FOR THE FAITH

A Story of the Young Pioneers of Reformation in Oxford

by

EVELYN EVERETT-GREEN

CONTENTS

Chapter

Note
I: The House by the Bridge
II: "Christian Brothers"
III: A Neophyte
IV: "Merrie May Day"
V: Sweet Summertide
VI: For Love and the Faith
VII: In Peril
VIII: The Fugitive
IX: A Steadfast Spirit
X: A Startling Apparition
XI: Evil Tidings
XII: "Brought Before Governors"
XIII: In Prison
XV: The Fire At Carfax
XVI: "Reconciled"
XVII: The Clemency Of The Cardinal
XVIII: The Release
Notes

Note

The story of these young pioneers of reformation in Oxford has been
told by many historians. But there are slight discrepancies in the
various accounts, and it is not quite clear who were the small
minority who refused the offered reconciliation, and stood firm to
the last. But there is no doubt that John Clarke, Henry Sumner, and
one other, whose name varies in the different accounts, died from
the effects of harsh imprisonment, unabsolved, and unreconciled to
the offended church, and that Clarke would probably have perished
at the stake had death not taken him from the hands of his
persecutors.

There is equally no doubt that Dalaber, Ferrar, Garret, and many
others "recanted," as it was called, and took part in the burning
of books at Carfax. But these men must not be too hastily condemned
as cowards and renegades. Garret, Ferrar, and several others died
for their faith in subsequent persecutions, whilst others rose to
eminence in the church, which was soon to be reformed and purified
of many of the errors against which these young men had protested.
It is probable, therefore, that they were persuaded by gentle
arguments to this act of submission. They were not in re