These leaders in the English Reformation were men of learning, and most of them had been highly esteemed for zeal or piety in the Romish communion.

• 这些英国的改革家都是很有名的学者，其中多数的人曾因热诚或敬虔而一度为罗马教会所器重。他们反对罗马教，乃是因为看出教廷的许多错谬。