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- 4 August 1537
Further that Will. Yngram, parish clerk of Rotheram was present in the church on Friday, 4 May, hearing mass when Thos. Pylley, priest, said mass for the soul of Henry Carnbull, and finished by sprinkling water upon his tomb as the custom is. On which the said Will. Sennes ridiculed the act, and when Yngram said he believed as his father had done, replied "Thy father was a liar and is in Hell, and so is my father in Hell also; my father never knew Scripture and now it is come forth." Moreover on Sunday before St. John Baptist's day, viz., 10 [17?] June, Yngram had a conversation with him in the church, in which Senes asked him "When didst thou see God?" Yngram replied, every day at mass in the priest's hands. To which Senes rejoined, "Thou sawest but bread." He also, 24 June, told Ric. Wade, who along with Katharine Bretton was reading a Life of Christ in the said church of Rotheram that the Blessed Mary was not the mother of God, and that prayer to her could do no good, and that the sacrament upon the altar was not the body of Christ; for "God is here upon my hand, in my body, in this stulpe and everywhere." He also used similar language to one Cutler of Rotheram, on St. Thomas the Martyr's day, 6 July.
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