BE it knowen to all faithful people, that as touchinge the blessed sacrament of the altare, I do firmlye and vndoubtedly beleue, that after the words of consecratyon be spoken by the priest accordinge to the common vsuage of this church of England there is present really the body and bloud of our sauiour Iesu Christ, whether the minister which doth cōsecrate, be a good mā or a bad man, and that also when so euer the saide Sacramente is receiuved, whether the receiuer be a good man or a bad man he doth receiue it really and corporallye. And moreouer I do beleue, that whether the saide sacrament be then receiued of the minister, or els reserued to be put into the pixe, or to be brought to anye personne that is impotent that is sicke, yet there is the very body and bloud of our said sauior, so that whether the minyster or the receiuer be good or bad, yea, whether the sacramente be receiued or reserued, alwayes there is the blessed body of Christ really.

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And this thing with al other thinges touching the sacrament and other sacramentes of the churche, and all thinges els touchinge the christen belefe, whyche are taught and declared in the kinges maiesties boke lately setforth, for the erudition of the christen people, I Anne Askew, otherwise called Anne Kyme, doo trulye and perfectly beleue, and so here presently confesse & knowledge. And here I do promise that henceforth I shal neuer say or do any thing against the premises, or against any of them. In witnesse wherof I the saide Anne haue subscribed my name vnto these presentes, wrytten the xx. day of March in the yeare of our Lord God. 1544.

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By me Anne Askew, otherwise called
Anne Kime.

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VVyth diuers other mo being then present.

MarginaliaBoner and his regester reproued wyth an vntruth.Here maist thou note gentle reader in thys confessyon bothe in the bishop and his regester a double sleight of false conueyaunce. For although the cōfession purporteth þ^e words of the bishops wryting. Whervnto she did set to her hand: yet by the title prefixed before maist thou see that both she was araigned and cōdemned before this was registred, and also that she is falsly reported to haue put to her hand whyche in dede by this her owne booke appeareth not so to be, but after this manner and condition. I Anne Askew do beleue al manner thinges contained in the faith of the Catholike church, and not otherwise  

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Then because I did adde vnto it, the Catholike churche, he flonge into his Chambre in a great fury. With that my cosen Bryttaine folowed him: desiring him for Goddes sake to be good Lord vnto me. He answeared that I was a woman, and that he was nothinge deceiued in me. Then my cosen Bryttaine desired him to take me as a woman, and not to sette my weake womans wit, to his Lordshippes verye greate wisdome. Then went in vnto him Doctor Weston, and saide, that the cause whye I did wryte there, the Catholicke churche, was, that I vnderstode not the church wryttē afore. So with much a do, they perswaded my Lorde to come out againe, and to take my name with the names of my sureties, which were my cosen Brittayne and master Spilman of Graies Inne. This being doone, we thoughte that I shuld haue bene put to Bayle immediatlye, according to the order of the lawe. Howe be it he woulde not suffer it, but committed me from thence to prison again vntil the next morowe. And than he willed me to appeare in the guild Hall, and so I did  

. Notwithstāding they wold not put me to Bayle there neither, but red the bishops wryting vnto me as before, and so cōmaunded me again to prison. Then were my sureties appoynted to come before them on the next morow in Paules church, which did so in dede. Notwithstanding they would once again haue broken of with them, because they wolde not be bound also for an other woman at theyr pleasure, whome they knew not, nor yet what matter was layed vnto her charge. Notwythstanding at the last, after much a do and reasoning to and fro, they toke a bond of them of recognisance for my forthe comming. And thus I was at the laste deliuered   . Wrytten by me Anne Askewe.

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Marginalia1546.J Do perceiue (dere frend in the Lord) þ^t thou art not yet perswaded throughly in þ^e truth concerning the Lords supper, because Christe said vnto his Apostles. Take eat this is my bo:dy which is geuen for you. In geuing forth the bread as an outward signe or token to be receiued at the mouth, he minded them in perfect beleue to receiue þ^e body of his whiche should dye for the people, or to thinke the death therof, the only health and saluation of their soules. The bread and the wine were left vs, for a sacramental cōmunion, or a mutual participation, of the inestimable benefites of hys mooste precious death and bloud sheding, and that we should in the end therof be thanckfull together for that most necessary grace of our redemptiō. For in the closing vp therof, he said thus, thys do ye, in remembraunce of me. Yea, so oft as ye shal eat it or drinke it. Luk. xi. &. i. Corinth. xi. Els shuld we haue bene forgetfull of that we oughte to haue in dailye remembraunce, and also bene altogether vnthankful for it. Therfore it is mete, that in our prayers we cal vnto god to graft in our forheads, the true mening of the holy ghost concerninge this cōmunyon,

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