The perpetrators of these outrages could not be found.
[Sidenote: Passive resistance] A sterner, though passive, resistance to the government was gloriously evinced when stake and rack began to do their work.

Mary was totally unprepared for the strength of Protestant feeling in the country.

She hoped a few executions would strike terror into the hearts of all and render further persecution unnecessary.

But from the execution of the first martyr, John Rogers, it was plain that the people sympathized with the victims rather than feared their fate.

Not content with warring on the living, Mary even broke the sleep of the dead.[1] The bodies of Bucer and Fagius were dug up and burned.