It is strange how careless and apathetic are the gentry of the land--they that one would have thought to be most eager, most forward.

They stand aloof; and the richer of the trades' guilds will have little to say to us.

But amongst the poor and unlettered do we find the light working; and in them are our chiefest allies, our most earnest disciples." "Yet we have many at Oxford, learned men and scholars, who would gladly welcome changes and reforms in the church; and there are many amongst the students eager after knowledge, and who long to peruse the writings of Luther and Melancthon, and see these new versions of the Scriptures." "Ay, I know it.

I was of Oxford myself.

It is but a few years that I left my lodging in Magdalen College.