He had denied the merits of Christ as the Redeemer, but afterwards dropped that error, when persistence meant death at the stake.

It was in Bristol that he "burned his faggot," in place of being burned himself.

There was really nothing humiliating in this recantation, for, after his release, he did not resume his heresy; clearly he yielded, not to fear, but to conviction of theological error.

{15a} He next travelled in Germany, where a Jew, on a Rhine boat, inspired or increased his aversion to works of sacred art, as being "idolatrous." About 1542-43 he was reading with pupils at Cambridge, and was remarked for the severity of his ascetic virtue, and for his great charity.

At some uncertain date he translated the Helvetic Confession of Faith, and he was more of a Calvinist than a Lutheran.