To satisfy your expectation, good people, this was my first examination in the year of our Lord, 1545, and in the month of March. First, Christopher Dare examined me at Sadler's hall, being one of the quest, and asked if I did not believe that the sacrament hanging over the altar, was the very body of Christ really. Then I demanded this question of him, Wherefore St. Stephen was stoned to death? and he said he could not tell. Then I answered, that no more would I assoil his vain question. Secondly, he said that there was a woman which did testify that I should read, how God was not in temples made with hands. Then I showed him the seventh and seventeenth chapters of the Acts of the Apostles, what Stephen and Paul had said therein. Whereupon he asked me how I took those sentences. I answered, that I would not throw pearls among swine, for acorns were good enough. Thirdly, he asked me, wherefore I said that I had rather read five lines in the Bible, than hear five masses in the temple? I confessed that I said no less, not for the dispraise of either the epistle or gospel, but because the one did greatly edify me, and the other nothing at all.

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