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In 1545, Anne was examined by church leaders concerning her beliefs. Her answers were full of wisdom and quotes from the Holy Scriptures, and she often out-maneuvered the inquisitors pointing out the contradictions in their own position. This only served to enrage them more. Lord Bonner was determined to see her burned for heresy. After failing to prove any heresy, he resorted to insinuating that she was immoral.

That is the usual trajectory.

On 28 June, she was taken to Guild Hall to be examined again by the council. She was taunted with being a heretic. She responded that she had done nothing for which the Law of God required her death. When asked directly if she denied the doctrine of Transubstantiation, that the sacrament of the Eucharist was the actual body and blood of Christ, Anne responded: "God is a spirit, not a wafer cake. He is to be worshipped in spirit and in truth" John 4:24 "and not by the impious superstitious homage paid to a wafer converted, by popish jugglery, into a god." That very day, 28 June, the council condemned Anne Askew to be burned to death at the stake.

That response was (in term of effect) worse than killing a sacred cow in India, for while God metaphorically states,

But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee, (Ezekiel 2:8)

Catholicism insisted the she "eat" what they feed her. That of her contrived Catholic Eucharistic theology , in which (only by the words of a Catholic priest) non-existent bread and wine - which according to appearance and material tests is just bread and wine - is "really" the "true body and blood" of Christ. Until that is, the non-existent bread or wine (respectively) begins to manifestly (for here appearance is critical) undergo corruption/decomposition,at which point Christ is also non-existent under that form.

Such is Catholic faith in their church ("by God's grace"), and thus is this source of security so compulsively defended when its lack of clothes is exposed, as if it were God.