Protestantism in England From the Times of Henry VIII - James Aitken Wylie

Standing on the pitch-barrel, he addressed the
people, telling them that "it was lawful for every
man and woman to have God's Book in their
mother tongue," and walking them against the
errors in which they and their fathers had lived.
"Thou liest, thou heretic," said Master Pane, townclerk
of London. "Thou deniest the blessed
Sacrament of the altar." "I do not deny the
Sacrament of Christ's body and blood, as it was
instituted by Christ, but I deny your
transubstantiation, and your idolatry of the bread,
and that Christ, God and man, should dwell in a
piece of bread; but that he is in heaven, sitting on
the right hand of God the Father." "Thou heretic!"
said Pane -- " Set fire to him and burn him."
The train of gunpowder was now ignited. As
the flame approached him, he lifted up his eyes and
hands to heaven, and prayed for the forgiveness of
Pane and of Sir Thomas More, and continued at
intervals in supplication till the fire had reached his
head. "It is to be observed," says the chronicler,
"that as he was at the stake, in the midst of the
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