Page "Book of Common Prayer" Paragraph 34

: Christmas Day 1657.

I went to London with my wife to celebrate Christmas Day ... Sermon ended, as minister was giving us the holy sacrament, the chapel was surrounded with soldiers, and all the communicants and assembly surprised and kept prisoners by them, some in the house, others carried away ...

These wretched miscreants held their muskets against us as we came up to receive the sacred elements, as if they would have shot us at the altar.