Bullinger had, by this time, succeeded Zwingli in the chair. Accordingly he assumed the dress and character of a sailor, hired a boat, passed into Ireland, from thence into Holland, and onward to Switzerland. Here he continued among the Huguenots, till his dislike of some of their proceedings induced him to return to his own country where he was known, and soon found it impossible to remain in safety. In 1539, when the statute of the six articles was put in execution, he left Oxford, and became chaplain and steward to Sir Thomas Arundale, a gentleman of Devonshire, and a Roman catholic, who discovering that his chaplain was a reformer, declined, being his protector which obliged him to fly to France. Some say he became a Cistercian monk, and continued so for some few years but tired of a monastic life, he returned to Oxford, where he was converted by the writings of the German reformers, and became a zealous protestant. What became of him from this time, for several years after, is uncertain. He was admitted Bachelor of Arts, which was the highest degree he took at this university.
He was sent to Merton college, Cambridge, in 1514, about eighteen years of age, where he received his academical education under the tuition of his uncle John Hooper. THIS very learned divine was born in Somersetshire, 1495.
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