But even so, there was a large minority of recusants.

Of 8800 beneficed clergy in England, 2000 were ejected for refusal to comply.

A very large number fled to the Continent, forming colonies at Frankfort-on-the-Main and at Geneva and scattering in other places.
The opinion of the imperial ambassador Renard that English Protestants depended entirely on support from abroad was tolerably true for this reign, for their books continued to be printed abroad, and a few further translations from foreign reformers were made.

It is noteworthy that these mostly treat of the {322} question, then so much in debate, whether Protestants might innocently attend the mass.
Other expressions of the temper of the people were the riots in London.
On the last day of the first Parliament a dog with a tonsured crown, a rope around its neck and a writing signifying that priests and bishops should be hung, was thrown through a window into the queen's presence chamber.

At another time a cat was found tonsured, surpliced, and with a wafer in its mouth in derision of the mass.