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

Eastern, in which Greek only was to be used, had
been assigned to the rest of the apostles. But,
inasmuch as the West had descended to themselves
through Peter and Paul, it became them to worship
in the ancient and only legitimate language of that
province. It was not the least necessary, Cole
argued, that the people should understand the
worship in which they joined, it was even to their
advantage that they did not, for the mystery of an
unknown tongue would make the worship
venerable in their eyes and greatly heighten their
devotion. Fecknam, Abbot of Westminster,
defended the cause of the monastic orders by
reference to the sons of the prophets and the
Nazarites among the Jews, and the yet weightier
example of Christ and his apostles, who, he
maintained, were monks. The Lord Keeper, who
presided, had frequent occasion to reprove the
bishops for transgressing the rules of the debate.
The Bishops of Winchester and Lincoln angrily
retorted by threatening to excommunicate the
queen, and were committed to the Tower. The
Popish cause lost by the disputation, and the
Parliament gathered courage to return, with bolder
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