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style. We hear of him for the first time in 1540,' he seems to have
visited Zurich in 1542, and he is from that period onward, for
about thirty-seven years, one of the most interesting
correspondents. Hilles left his country, because he was afraid of
persecution, and earned his living as a cloth-merchant chiefly at
Strasburg, although there are also letters dated from Frankfort,
London, or Antwerp. When he writes, his regular topic is, of
course, the state of the affairs of the church, but so many items
of worldly news, evidently received from trustworthy sources, are
inserted, that we get vivid glimpses into the public as well as
into the private life of that period. For his Zurich friends the
descriptions of Thomas Cromwell's fall and execution (28th July,
1540), of the king's proceeding against Anne of Cleves, of his
marriage with Catharine Howard, of the execution of her uncle, the
duke of Norfolk and her cousin, Henry Howard Earl ofSurrey,1 the
poet, must have been of great interest, at a time when no
newspapers or periodicals informed the people of the events of the
world. 1 Zwingliana 1899, p. IOO. The accession of King Edward
fills him with great joy, for now he may return to his native
country and his children, born abroad, are naturalized.2 Six years
later, on the 9th of July, 1553, i. e. three days after king
Edward's death, Richard Hilles in a letter to Bullinger expresses
his deep regret that England had lost that promising sovereign, but
he is full of hopes for the future, knowing that Queen Jane (Lady
Jane Grey) will protect the new doctrine: "Yet we are not
altogether without God's mercy, since he has now ordained such a
successor to so pious a king, under whom we have great hopes that
we, her subjects, shall nevertheless be able to live a godly,
quiet, and t...
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