1565 Parliament of Christ

Printed: London

Measures: 14 x 6 x 2.5

This rare English work is The Parliament of Chryste Avouching and Declaring the Enacted and Received Truth of the Presence of His Body and Blood in the Blessed Sacrament, and of other articles concerning the same, impugned in a wicked sermon by M. Juell. Collected and set-forth by Thomas Heskyns Doctor of divinity. Wherein the reader shall find all the scriptures commonly alleged out of the New Testament, touching the Sacrament, and some of the Old Testament, plainly and truly expounded by a number of holy learned fathers and doctors. HESKYNS was a Roman Catholic Divine, was a native of Heskin, England. After studying for twelve years at Oxford, he removed to Cambridge, where he commenced M.A. in 1540, being then a priest and a fellow of Clare Hall. He graduated B.D. at Cambridge in 1548. When it was proposed in 1549 to suppress Clare Hall in order to unite it to Trinity Hall, Heskyns signed a paper stating that as an obedient subject to the king he consented to the dissolution, though it was done contrary to his oath to the college.