The Just Men of Lincolnshire--Their Assemblies and Teaching--Agnes and Morden--Itinerant Libraries--Polemical Conversations--Sarcasm-- Royal Decree and Terror--Depositions and Condemnations--Four Martyrs--A Conclave--Charles consoles Wolsey, page 177 CHAPTER VIII. Character of Tyndale--He arrives in London--He preaches--The Cloth and the Ell--The bishop of London gives Audience to Tyndale--He is dismissed--A Christian Merchant of London--Spirit of Love in the Reformation--Tyndale in Monmouth's House--Fryth helps him to translate the New Testament--Importunities of the Bishop of Lincoln--Persecution in London--Tyndale's Resolution--He departs--His Indignation against the Prelates--His Hopes, page 182 CHAPTER IX. Bilney at Cambridge--Conversions--The University Cross-Bearer--A Leicestershire Farmer--A Party of Students--Superstitious Practices--An obstinate Papist--The Sophists--Latimer attacks Stafford--Bilney's Resolution--Latimer hears Bilney's Confession-- Confessor converted--New Life in Latimer--Bilney preaches Grace--Nature of the Ministry--Latimer's Character and Teaching-- Works of Charity--Three Classes of Adversaries--Clark and Dalaber, page 190 CHAPTER X. Wolsey seeks the Tiara--Clement VII is elected--Wolsey's dissimulation-- Charles offers France to Henry--Pace's Mission on this Subject--Wolsey reforms the Convents--His secret Alliances--Treaty between France and England--Taxation and Insurrection--False Charges against the Reformers--Latimer's Defence--Tenterden Steeple, page 201 CHAPTER XI. Tyndale at Hamburg--First two Gospels--Embarrassment--Tyndale at Wittemberg--At Cologne--The New Testament at Press--Sudden Interruption--Cochlæus at Cologne--Rupert's Manuscripts--Discovery of Cochlæus--His Inquiries--His alarm--Rincke and the Senate's Prohibition--Consternation and Decision of Tyndale--Cochlæus writes to England--Tyndale ascends the Rhine--Prints two Editions at Worms--Tyndale's Prayer, page 207 CHAPTER XII. Worms and Cambridge--St. Paul resuscitated--Latimer's Preaching-- Never Man spake like this Man--Joy and Vexation at Cambridge-- Sermon by Prior Buckingham--Irony--Latimer's Reply to Buckingham-- The Students threatened--Latimer preaches before the Bishop--He is forbidden to preach--The most zealous of Bishops--Barnes the Restorer of Letters--Bilney undertakes to convert him--Barnes offers his pulpit to Latimer--Fryth's Thirst for God--Christmas Eve, 1525--Storm against Barnes--Ferment in the Colleges--Germany at Cambridge--Meetings at Oxford--General Expectation, page 215 BOOK XIX. THE ENGLISH NEW TESTAMENT AND THE COURT OF ROME. CHAPTER I.