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Rh the month of November, 1558. This was the only person in whose persecution Bishop Turbervill did appear, in matters of religion, during the time he sat in that see, (consecrated Sept. 8, 1555, deprived in January 1560,) and, as Dr. Fuller saith, her death was procured more by the violence of Blackston, the Chancellor, than by any persecution of the Bishop.

And here it may not be impertinent to show, that our ancestors the Britons of Cornwall received and took the blessed Sacrament in the same sense as this martyr Agnes Prest did receive it; that is by faith only, contrary to the doctrine of Transubstantiation: as is evident from Mount Calvary, a manuscript in verse in the Cornish tongue, written about five hundred years since, a copy of which is now in my own custody, which containeth the history of the Incarnation and Passion of Christ, according to St. John's Gospel; wherein, amongst others, verse the 79th containeth these words:

Du benegas an bara, therag ay ys abestlye, An gorfe ay ma, eshenna, yumeth Chrest, sur rag rye why Kemeras a berth, en bysma, dispersys henna nos avyth Dybbery tho gans cregyans, thu da gober teck hag gevyth Hay gwynsa wor an foys, ef a ranas in tretha Yn meth Chrest, henna ys goyse ow, evough why pur Cherity.

Which sounds thus in English:

God blessed the bread in presence (or among) his Apostles (or Disciples); The body of me in this, saith Christ, certainly given for you; Taken secretly, and in this world despised, this night shall be. Eat it with faith, thy good, fair reward, and remission. And the wine on the wall he divided amongst them: Says Christ, this is my blood; drink you in pure charity,