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Soon afterwards, Dudley, who saw Knox as a useful political tool, offered him the bishopric of Rochester.

Knox refused, and he returned to Newcastle.

On 2 February 1553 Cranmer was ordered to appoint Knox as vicar of Allhallows Church in London placing him under the authority of the Bishop of London, Nicholas Ridley.

Knox returned to London in order to deliver a sermon before the King and the Court during Lent and he again refused to take the assigned post.

Knox was then told to preach in Buckinghamshire and he remained there until Edward's death on 6 July.

Edward's successor, Mary Tudor, re-established Roman Catholicism in England and restored the Mass in all the churches.

With the country no longer safe for Protestant preachers, Knox left for the Continent in January 1554 on the advice of friends.

On the eve of his flight, he wrote: