Several English Protestants also took shelter in foreign parts; and every thing bore a dismal aspect for the reformation.
During this revolution of the court, no protection was expected by Protestants from the Parliament which was summoned to assemble.

A zealous reformer[****] pretends, that great violence and iniquity were used in the elections; but, besides that the authority of this writer is inconsiderable, that practice, as the necessities of government seldom required it, had not hitherto been often employed in England.

There still remained such numbers devoted by opinion or affection to many principles of the ancient religion, that the authority of the crown was able to give such candidates the preference in most elections; and all those who hesitated to comply with the court religion, rather declined taking a seat, which, while it rendered them obnoxious to the queen, could afterwards afford them no protection against the violence of prerogative.

It soon appeared, therefore, that a majority of the commons would be obsequious to Mary's designs; and as the peers were mostly attached to the court from interest or expectations, little opposition was expected from that quarter.
* Heylin, p.26.Godwin, p.336.Cranm.Mem.p.

317.
** Heylin, p.