Therfore when by no meanes nor waies he could be driuen from the truth of that professiō which he maintained, the bishop vsing a strāge but a cruell practise, determined to begyn the matter another way, that although he coulde not teache hym by argumentes, yet he myghte ouerthrow hym by a certain fore feelyng and horror of death. For expressyng vnto vs as it were the old ymage of king Porsenna, 

he commaunded a burnyng candle to bee brought forth before hym, whych beyng spedelye done by hys seruauntes: Come on (quod he) noughty knaue: if thou lykest the torment of the fire so well, I wyll make thee feele in this flame, what it is to bee burned, and then if thou bee wyse thou wylt chaunge thy mynde: MarginaliaThe ryght hande of Tomkyns burned.and so saying, commaunded hys ryghte hande to be put into the burnyng flame, supposyng that beyng made afrayde by the great payne and greefe, he woulde leaue of the defence of the doctrine that he had receyued.

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But contrarywise he through the great courage of his mynde, & burning inwardly with greater heate, dyd so despise, abyde, & endure that burninge, 

that we haue lesse cause hereafter to meruayle at the manfulnes of that Roman Scæuola.  MarginaliaTomkyns cōpared to Scæuola. I would to God the other as well folowed the example of that Hetruscan Tiraunt. MarginaliaBonner more cruell then Porsena the Hetruscan.For he after the lefte hande of Scæuola was halfe burned, eyther satysfiyed with his punishment, or ouercom by his manhode, or dryuen away by feare, sent him home safe vnto his people. Where as this Bonner hetherto not contented, with þ^e burning of his hande, neuer rested vntyll he had consumed his whole body into ashes, at Londō in Smith field. But before we com to his suffering, we wil fyrst entreate of som part of his examination and articles, with his answere and confession therunto annexed, as it is credibly in register recorded.  Thys faythfull and valyaunt souldiour of God, Thomas Tomkyns, after he had remayned a certaine space in prison, about the eyghte daye of February, was brought with certayne other before Bonner, sitting in his consistory, to be examined. To whom first was brought fourth a certayne bil or schedule subscribed, as it apeared with his owne hand, the fyfte day of the same moneth last before, cōteining these words following.

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Thomas Tomkins of Shordich, and of the diocesse of London, hath beleued, and doth beleue, that in the Sacrament of the aultar, vnder the forme of bread and wine, there is not the very body and bloud of our sauiour Iesus Christ in substaunce, but onely a token and a remembraunce thereof, the verye bodye and bloud of Christ onely being in heauen and no where els. By me Thomas Tomkins.

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WHereupon he was asked: whether he did acknowledge the same subscription, to

be of his owne hand. To the which he graunted, confessing it so to be. This being don, the Byshop went about to perswade hym, (with words, rather thē with reasons) to relinquish his opinions, and to return agayne to the vnity of the Catholicke church, promysing if he would so do, to remytt all that was past. But he constantly denyed so to do. When the Byshop sawe he could not so peruince hym, he brought forth and red to him another writing contayning articles & interrogatories, whervnto he shoulde come the next day & answer. In the meane tyme he should deliberate with him selfe what to do, and so the next day, being the. ix. day of March, at eyght of the clocke in the mornynge, to bee present in the same place agayn, to geue hys determinate answer what he would do therein, and then eyther to reuoke and reclayme hym selfe, or els in the after noone the same daye to come agayne and haue iustice (as hee called it) ministred vnto him, the copy of which articles here foloweth

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THou dooste beleue that in the Sacrament of the aulter vnder the formes of breade and wyne there is not, by the omnipotent power of almightye God, and his holy woorde, reallye, truely and in very deede the very true and naturall bodye of oure sauyoure Iesus Christ, as touchynge the substaunce thereof whyche was conceyued in the wombe of the virgin Mary, and hanged vpon the crosse, suffringe passion and deathe there for the life of the worlde.

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I do so beleue.

Thou doest beleue that after the consecration of the breade and wine, prepared for the vse of the sacrament of the altar there dothe remayne the verye substaunce of materiall breade and material wyne, not changed nor altered in substaunce by the power of almightye God, but remayninge as it did before.

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I do so beleue.

Thou doest beleue that it is an vntrewe doctrine and a fals belefe to thinke or say that in the sacramente of the aultar there is after the consecration of the breade and wyne the substaūce of Christes natural body and blood by the omnypotent power of allmightye God and his holye woorde.

I do so beleue.

Thou doest beleue that thy parentes, kinsfolkes, frendes, and acquaintaunce, and also thy Godfathers and Godmothers, and al people did erre, and were deceyued, if they did beleue that in the sacrament of the altar, there was after the consecration the bodye & bloude of Christ, and that there did not remayne the

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