In England from Wicliffe to Henry VIII - James Aitken Wylie

Arundel: "William, I know well that thou hast
this twenty winters or more traveled in the north
country, and in divers other countries of England,
sowing false doctrine, laboring, with undue
teaching, to infect and poison all this land."
Thorpe: "Sir, since ye deem me a heretic, and
out of the faith, will you give me, here, audience to
tell you my belief?"
Arundel: "Yea, tell on."
Hereupon the prisoner proceeded to declare his
belief in the Trinity; in the Incarnation of the
Second Person of the God-head; and in the events
of our Lord's life, as these are recorded by the four
Evangelists: continuing thus —
Thorpe: "When Christ would make an end here
of this temporal life, I believe that in the next day
before He was to suffer passion He ordained the
Sacrament of His flesh and His blood, in form of
bread and wine— that is, His own precious body—
and gave it to His apostles to eat; commanding
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