Catholic Wisdom

"But, is this not your signature and seal, my lord of Rochester?"

"Not so, sir, for you indeed desired that I should sign it, as the other of my lords [the other Bishops of England] have done, but I said to you then that I would never consent to such an act [making the king supreme head and declaring the pope to have no power of dispensation], for it were much against my conscience."

"Yea, but we agreed that I should sign and seal on your behalf."

"In all those words and account, my lord, there is no thing more untrue."

—Saint John Fisher, Bishop and Martyr