An abridgement of the book of acts and monuments of the ChurchAn abridgement of the booke of acts and monumentes of the Church

Now the day of examination being come, which was the 23. of September, the saturday before the feast of S. Matthew, Tho. Arundell the Archb. sitting in Caiaphas room, in the Chapter house of Pauls, with Richard Clifford, Bish. of London, and Henry Bullinbrook Bishop of Winchester: Sir Robert Morley knight, and Lieutenant of the tower, brought personally before him, the said L. Cobham, and there left him for the time: unto whom the Archb. (after that he had exhibited unto them the confession of his faith, which they did not altogether mislike) required his belief on the Sacrament of the Altar: & whether there be a transubstantiating or not? Whether (as concerning the Sacrament of penance) every man be necessarily bound to confess himself to a Priest ordained by the Church? but he would answer no otherwise then he had exhibited in his bill,¹ which was, that he believed all the Sacraments that ever God ordained in his Church: he believed the blessed Sacrament of the altar to be Christs body in form of bread: That it is necessary for every man to do penance for sin, with true confession & due satisfaction, as Gods law teacheth: That who so doth the worship to dead images, that is due to god, he doth therein commit the sin of Mahumetry. That every man is a pilgrim in this world, & he that knoweth the holy commandments of God, & keepeth them shall be saved, although he never in his life go on pilgrimage, as men do to Rome, to Canterbury, &c. None other answer could they get of him: ⟨p. 315⟩which troubled them greatly, and the archb. bad him take deliberation till the Monday next following, which was the 25. of September, and then justly to answer: especially whether there remained material bread in the Sacrament of the Altar, after the words of consecration or not? and promised to send him the matters clearly determined: which the next day he did, even a blasphemous and foolish writing, made by him and his unlearned clergy.

Now the day of examination being come, which was the 23. of September, the saterday before the feast of S. Mathew, Tho. Arundell the Archb. sitting in Caiphas roome, in the Chapter house of Paules, with Richard Clifford, Bish. of London, and Henry Bullinbrook Bishop of Winchester: Sir Robert Morley knight, and Lieutenant of the tower, brought personally before him, the said L. Cobhā, and there left him for the time: vnto whom the Archb. (after that hée had exhibited vnto them the confession of his faith, which they did not altogether mislike) required his beliefe on the Sacrament of the Altar: & whether there bée a transubstantiating or not? Whether (as concerning the Sacrament of penance) euery man be necessarily bound to confesse himselfe to a Priest ordained by the Churche? but he would answere no otherwise then he had exhibited in his bill,