After lying in prison for more than a month, he and several others were banished into the interior.

A rich banker, who had long been on friendly terms with the missionaries, was arrested and imprisoned in a hospital as an insane person,--a method of persecution not unfrequently resorted to in Turkey.

He was released after a week's confinement, on paying a large sum for the college at Scutari.
Nor were the Greek ecclesiastics behind the Armenian in hostility to the reformation.

The Greek Synod and Patriarch issued a decree, excommunicating all who should buy, sell, or read the books of the "Luthero-Calvinists;" and condemning in like manner the writings of Korai, the illustrious restorer of learning among the Greeks, and of the learned Bambas, the friend of Fisk and Parsons.

An imperial firman was also published, authorizing, and even requiring, the several Patriarchs to look well to their several communions, and to guard them from infidelity and foreign influence; thus connecting the Porte itself with the persecution.
A strong effort was made to procure the expulsion of the missionaries.