ion be pronounced?"

"Nay: it is but bread and wine before it is received; and when it is
received in faith and ministered by a worthy minister, then it is Christ
flesh and blood spiritually, and not otherwise."

"Dost though worship the blessed Sacrament?"

"Truly, nay: for ye make the Sacrament an idol. It ought not to be
worshipped with knocking, kneeling or holding up of hands."

"Wilt thou come to church and hear mass?"

"That will I not, so long as ye do worship to other than God Almighty.
Nothing that is made can be the same thing as he that made it. They
must needs be idolators, and of the meanest sort, that worship the works
of their own hands."

"Aroint thee, old witch! Wilt thou go to confession?"

"Neither will I that, for no priest hath power to remit sin that is
against God. To Him surely will I confess: and having so done, I have
no need to make confession to men."

"Take the witch away!" cried the chief Commissioner. "She's a froward,
obstinate heretic, only fit to make firewood."

The gaoler led her out of the court, and John Johnson was summoned next.

"What is thy name, and how old art thou?"

"My name is John Johnson; I am a labouring man, of the age of four and
thirty years."

"Canst read?"

"But a little."

"Then how darest thou set thee up against the holy doctors of the
Church, that can read Latin?"

"Cannot a man be saved without he read Latin?"

"Hold thine impudent tongue! It is our business to question, and thine
to answer. Where didst learn thy pestilent doctrine?"

"I learned the Gospel of Christ Jesus, if that be what you mean by
pestilent doctrine, from Master Trudgeon at the first. He learned me
that the Sacrament, as ye minister it, is an idol, and that no priest
hath power to remit sin."

"Dost thou account of this Trudgeon as a true prophet?"

"Ay, I do."

"What then sayest thou to our Saviour Christ's word to His Apostles,
`Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them'?"

"Marry, I say nought, without you desire it."

"What meanest by that?"

"Why, you are not apostles, nor yet the priests that be now alive. He
said not, `Whosesoever sins Sir Thomas Tye shall remit, they are
remitted unto them.'"

"Thou foolish man, Sir Thomas Tye is successor of the apostles."

"Well, but it sayeth not neither, `Whosesoever sins ye and your
successors do remit.' I'll take the words as they stand, by your leave.
To apostles were they said, and to a