E-text prepared by Martin Robb
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Chapter I | The House by the Bridge |
Chapter II | "Christian Brothers" |
Chapter III | A Neophyte |
Chapter IV | "Merrie May Day" |
Chapter V | Sweet Summertide |
Chapter VI | For Love and the Faith |
Chapter VII | In Peril |
Chapter VIII | The Fugitive |
Chapter IX | A Steadfast Spirit |
Chapter X | A Startling Apparition |
Chapter XI | Evil Tidings |
Chapter XII | "Brought Before Governors" |
Chapter XIII | In Prison |
Chapter XV | The Fire At Carfax |
Chapter XVI | "Reconciled" |
Chapter XVII | The Clemency Of The Cardinal |
Chapter XVIII | The Release |
Notes |
The story of these young pioneers of reformation in Oxford hasbeen told by many historians. But there are slight discrepancies inthe various accounts, and it is not quite clear who were the smallminority who refused the offered reconciliation, and stood firm tothe last. But there is no doubt that John Clarke, Henry Sumner, andone other, whose name varies in the different accounts, died fromthe effects of harsh imprisonment, unabsolved, and unreconciled tothe offended church, and that Clarke would probably have perishedat the stake had