[400] Scory, Bishop of Hereford, had been given preferment by Cranmer on the dissolution of the Dominicans; he was put into the see of the deprived Catholic bishop Day of Chichester, a King’s man, and was one of Parker’s consecrators. In 1554 he renounced his wife and did penance before Bonner. The other, Day of King’s, Bishop of Winchester and brother of the Catholic prelate, was an ardent reformer. [401] Heath of Clare College was successively Bishop of Rochester and Worcester, and Primate of York. [402] Cuthbert Tunstall, who had come to King’s Hall from Oxford, and afterwards studied at Padua, was himself one of the translators of the 1540 bible. [403] See ii. p. 84. Corpus Christi College. [404] Tillotson and Stillingfleet, the most prominent churchmen in the reign of James II. [405] They were Matthew Parker of Corpus, Cox of King’s, Grindal of Pembroke, Bill and Pilkington of S. John’s, May and Sir Thomas Smith of Queens’, and David Whitehead. [406] Rowland Taylor of Christ’s College, a Suffolk rector, suffered in 1535. Latimer who had argued on the Catholic side at the university, was persuaded to Protestantism by Bilney. With Bilney Thomas M’Arthur, a fellow of S. John’s and then Principal of S. Mary’s Hostel, recanted. [407] Rogers b. 1509 at Birmingham. Burned at Smithfield Feb. 1555. [408] It was Cromwell who, as chancellor, began to wean the university from the pope; and he removed its papal script--bulls, briefs, and dispensations--which was not returned till such time as he judged the substitution of the king for the pope to be complete. [409] Falkland, _b._ 1610. Chillingworth born and educated in Oxford. Taylor born and educated in Cambridge. Stillingfleet, _b._ 1635, fellow of S. John’s, bishop of Worcester. [410] _ob._ 1648. [411] Cf. Peterhouse pp. 58-9, and Emmanuel p. 145. For religion in Cambridge at the present day, see iv. pp. 246-7. [412] Burnet, the historian of the movement, writes: “They loved the constitution of the church, and the liturgy, and could well live under them; but they did not think it unlawful to live under another form.... They continued to keep a good correspondence with those who differed from them in opinion, and allowed a great freedom both in philosophy and in divinity; from whence they were called men of latitude. And upon this, men of narrower thoughts and fiercer tempers fastened upon them the name of Latitudinarians.” [413] “Within the bosom of Protestantism they kindled for the first time the love of this nobler speculation.” (_Tulloch, vol. 2. p. 24._)