Storia do Mogor 324: THE THIRTEENTH ARTICLE.

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[135] That the defendant being in a certain place in the company of certain persons, one of them began to talk about the English preacher. The defendant said he was a true priest ordained by their bishops, clothed with that dignity by due succession. On another occasion being with the same person, with whom he had held the above conversation in that company, he repeated the same thing, adding that the said English minister, when giving the Communion to his parishioners, consecrated [the elements] with the same words that we use. He praised the minister for his learning, stating that he had listened to him preaching to his congregation, the sermon being on the subject of the Communion, very well done and most devout.