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The history of Lynn. Civil, ecclesiastical, political, commercial, biographical, municipal, and military, from the earliest accounts to the present time / To which is prefixed a copious introductory account of the ancient and modern state of Marshland, Wisbeach, and the Fens. By William Richards.
- William Richards
- Date:
- 1812
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The history of Lynn. Civil, ecclesiastical, political, commercial, biographical, municipal, and military, from the earliest accounts to the present time / To which is prefixed a copious introductory account of the ancient and modern state of Marshland, Wisbeach, and the Fens. By William Richards. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![archbishop, being dissatisfied with the contents, pro= ceeded to question Sawire on what he decmed the most materiai points, which chiefly related to the doctrine of transubstantiation. Among his questions were the following— * ‘*Whether in the Sacrament of the altar, after the pronouneing of the Sacramentall words, re- maineth very materiall bread, or not? W hether in the sacrament aficr the sacramentall words, rightly pro nounced of ihe priest, the same bread remaineth, which did before the words pronounced, or not ?— Whether the same materiall bread before consecration, by the sacramentall words of the priest righ:ly pronounced, be transubsiantiated from the nature of bread into the very body of Christ, or not?”’ To none of these inter- rogatories did the prisoner return an orthodox or sae tisfactory answer. His answers being therefore deemed insufficient, and the day, probably, teo far gone to * One circumstance, mentioned as having oceutred in the course ofthis examination, seems not a little difficult to account for- Fox says, that Arundel enquired of Sawtre, ‘‘Whether he had abjured the foresaid heresies and errors objected against him before the bishop of Norwich, or not; or else had revoked and renounced the said or such like conclusions or arti¢les,or not? ” and that the latter answered and affirmed that he had not.”? [p. 672. } Also four days after, when the fore-cited process of the bishop of Norwich was read to lim before the convocation, and it was urged that he had then abjured, among other errors, the heresy, that'in the sacrament of the altar, after the conse- eration made by the priest, there still remained material bread, **W hereunto the said William, answered, smiling, or in mocking wise, and denying that he knew of the premisses.” [Ib. p. 674.] Inall this there is evidently some mystery, which one knows not how to unra- vel, except on the supposition, that there was some material mistake, ‘or designed misrepresentation in the statement which bishop Spencer sent to the convocation of his process against Sawtre, and of the tenor of the latter's retractation, which might, in his opinion, justify his said denial, .](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29326618_0001_0628.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
