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But within two days after it was sent up the bill concerning probates of Testaments, at the which the Archbishop of Canterbury in especial, and all other bishops in general both frowned and grunted, for that touched their profits, in so much as Doctor John Fisher bishop of Rochester, said openly in the Parliament chamber these words,’ my Lords, you see daily what bills come hither from the common house and all is to the destruction of the church, for God’s sake see what a Realm the kingdom of Bohemia was, and when the Churches went down, then fell the glory of the kingdom, now with the Commons is nothing but down with the Church, and all this me seems is for lack of faith only.’
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