"Badby bluntly maintained that when Christ sat at supper with his disciples he had not his body in his hand to distribute, and that \u201Cif every host consecrated at the altar were the Lord\u2019s body, then there be 20,000 Gods in England.\u201D A further court in St Paul\u2019s, London, presided over by Archbishop Thomas Arundel, condemned him to be burned at Smithfield, the tournament ground just outside the city walls. Narration in Foxe's Book of Martyrs :"@en . . . . . . "John Badby"@en . "Badby bluntly maintained that when Christ sat at supper with his disciples he had not his body in his hand to distribute, and that \u201Cif every host consecrated at the altar were the Lord\u2019s body, then there be 20,000 Gods in England.\u201D A further court in St Paul\u2019s, London, presided over by Archbishop Thomas Arundel, condemned him to be burned at Smithfield, the tournament ground just outside the city walls. It is said that the prince of Wales (afterwards Henry V) witnessed the execution and offered the sufferer both life and a pension if he would recant; but in Walsingham\u2019s words, \u201Cthe abandoned villain declined the prince\u2019s advice, and chose rather to be burned than to give reverence to the life-giving sacrament. So it befell that this mischievous fellow was burnt to ashes, and died miserably in his sin.\u201D Narration in Foxe's Book of Martyrs :"@en . . .