This too was refused.
Doubtless Knox, with his unparalleled activity, employed the period of delay in preaching the Word at Dieppe.

After his arrival in Scotland, he wrote to his Dieppe congregation, upbraiding them for their Laodicean laxity in permitting idolatry to co-exist with true religion in their town.

Why did they not drive out the idolatrous worship?
These epistles were intercepted by the Governor of Dieppe, and their contents appear to have escaped the notice of the Reformer's biographers.

A revolt followed in Dieppe.

{108b} Meanwhile Knox's doings at Dieppe had greatly exasperated Francois Morel, the chief pastor of the Genevan congregation in Paris, and president of the first Protestant Synod held in that town.
The affairs of the French Protestants were in a most precarious condition; persecution broke into fury early in June 1559.