The Frankfort congregation had now a brief interval of provisional peace, till, on March 13, 1555, Richard Cox, with a band of English refugees, arrived.

He had been tutor to Edward VI., the young Marcellus of Protestantism, but for Frankfort he was not puritanic enough.

His company would give a large majority to the anti-Knoxian congregation.

He and his at once uttered the responses, and on Sunday one of them read the Litany.

This was an unruly infraction of the provisional agreement.