"A convocation had been summoned at the same time with the parliament
[~1553]; and the majority here also appeared to be of the court
religion [== Catholics].
An offer was very frankly made by the Romanists, to dispute concerning
the points controverted between the two communions; and as
transubstantiation was the article which of all others they deemed the
clearest, and founded on the most irresistible arguments, they chose
to try their strength by defending it.
The Protestants pushed the dispute as far as the clamor and noise of
their antagonists would permit; and they fondly imagined that they had
obtained some advantage, when, in the course of the debate, they
obliged the Catholics to avow that, according to their doctrine,
Christ had in his last supper held himself in his hand, and had
swallowed and eaten himself."