'No. 1. That curates should administer baptism at all times of need, as well week days as holy days. '2. That their children might be confirmed by the Bishop. '3. That mass might be celebrated, no man communicating with the priest. '4. That they might have reservation of the Lord's body in churches. '5. That they might have holy bread and water in remembrance of Christ's body and blood. '6. That priests might not be married. '7. That the six articles set forth by King Henry VIII. might be continued at least till the King came of age. 'Now these six articles were invented by Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester (who was the bastard son of Lionel Woodvill, Bishop of Salisbury, by his concubine, Elizabeth Gardiner; the which Lionel was fifth son of Richard Woodvill, Earl Rivers, 1470), and therefore called his creed, viz.: '1. That the body of Christ is really present in the sacrament after consecration. '2. That the sacrament cannot truly be administered under both kinds. '3. That priests entered into holy orders might not marry. '4. That vows of chastity entered into upon mature deliberation, were to be kept. '5. That private masses were not to be omitted. '6. That auricular confession was necessary in the Church of God. 'To these demands of the Cornish rebels the King so far condescended as to send an answer in writing to every article, and also a general pardon to every one of them, if they would lay down arms. (See Fox's "Acts and Monuments," Book IX. p. 668). But, alas! those overtures of the King were not only rejected by the rebels, but made them the more bold and desperate; especially finding themselves unable longer to subsist upon their own estates and money, or the bounty of the country, which hitherto they had done. The General therefore resolved, as the fox who seldom chucks at home, to prey upon other men's goods and estates farther off for his army's better subsistence. Whereupon he dislodged from Bodmin, and marched with his soldiers into Devon, where Sir Peter Carew, Knight, was ready to obstruct their passage with his posse comitatus. But when they saw the order and discipline of the rebels, and that their army consisted of above 6,000 fighting-men, desperate, well armed, and prepared for battle, the Sheriff and his troops permitted them quietly to pass through the heart of that country to Exeter, where the citizens, upon notice of their approaches (as formerly done), shut the gates, and put themselves in a posture of defence.