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Another was Margery Ba•kster, wife of William Backster, against whom, one Joan Cliff and was compelled by the Bishop to depose. First, that she bad her take heed of swearing, else a Bee would sting her tongue, and venom her soul: and that she rebuked her for saying Pater nosters to the Crucifix, and Ave Maries to our Lady; saying, you will do ill in […], or praying to such Images, and that God will give no more reward for such prayers, then a kindle, put under the foot, will give light in the night, saying, that lewd wrights of stocks hew such Crosses and Images, and lewd Painters gleere them with colours, and opened her arms, and told her, this is the true Cross of Christ: And that she said, if every Sacrament were God and the very body of Christ, then 1000. Priests and more, do every day make a 1000. such Gods, and eat them, and void them out of their hinder parts, filthily stinking under every hedge, where you may find many such Gods. It shall never be my God, it was falsely and deceitfully ordained by the Priests, to induce simple people to Idolatry. for it is only material bread. And that Thomas of Canterbury, whom the people cal• ⟨p. 143⟩Saint Thomas, was a false Traitor, and damned in Hell. And that the Pope, Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops, and especially the Bishop of Norwich, and others that support Heresies, and Idolatries, shall shortly have the same, or worse mischief so fall upon them, then that cursed man Thomas of Canterbury had, for they cursedly dec•iae the people with false m•mmetries, to extort money to maintain their pride, riot, and idleness, and have slain the true Preachers or Go•• Law. And that she said, that none was bound to fast in Lent, or other days appointed. and that it was lawful to eat flesh, and other meats upon the said days that Pope Sylvester made the Lent. And that William White was a good man, and falsely condemned, and at his execution, when he would have exhorted the people, a Devil, one of Bishop Caiaphas his servants, stroc•e him on the lips, that he could not declare the will of God. And that she taught her not to go to Pilgrimage, to the Lady of Walsingham, or any other Saint or place. And that she desired this deponent, and her maid, to come in the night to her chamber, to hear her husband read the Law of Christ unto them.