46 THE LIFE OF 



CHAP. &quot; worshipful men there groweth sundry discourse by em- 



&quot; bezzeling and stealing away the escutcheons of arms and 



Khneri Re- other ornaments to funerals belonging ; with such other 

 &quot; rudeness and misdemeanor ; we have upon good consider- 

 &quot; ation hereunto moved, permitted and licensed Nicolas 

 &quot; Manering, servant to the Right Honourable the Countess 

 &quot; of Darby, to have the keeping of the said hearses within 

 &quot; our diocese of London, for the avoiding of the said incon- 

 &quot; veniences and disorders ; and this his licence to endure 

 &quot; the natural life of the said Nicolas Manering, not abridg- 

 &quot; ing but aiding the heralds in their office. Yeoven under 

 &quot; our hand and seal at Harnsey, September 25th, the 20th 

 &quot; of the Queen. 



JOHN LONDON.&quot; 



Commis- By a commission dated May 1579, he constituted Ro 

 bert King, clerk, to exercise the office of Commissary in 

 partibus within the archdeaconry of Essex and Colchester, 

 and other places. 



And about four years after, anno 1583, December 26th, 

 he preferred a very remarkable man, (famous afterward for 

 his faithful and able management of great places of trust 

 Sir Julius pertaining to the civil law,) Julius, afterwards Sir Julius 

 Caesar, LL. D. to whom he gave the office of Commissary 

 and Sequestrator General in the archdeaconry of Essex and 

 Colchester, and the deanery of Braughing, Harlow, Dun- 

 mow, and other places. 



Troubled But now let me proceed to a matter that created the Bi- 

 hig U hi s eH ~ sn P some passion and disturbance. He had made a good 

 woods. f a ll of his woods ; and that in so large a proportion, and (as 

 it was pretended) so unlawfully, that an information was 

 brought to the Lord Treasurer and Council against him for 

 it, as though he had made a great spoil of the timber and 

 woods, and wasted the revenues of the bishopric. It was 

 informed, that he had felled and sold three hundred timber 

 trees at one time, and an hundred at another, and some 

 more besides at another : also that a great number of acres 

 of wood were sold at divers times, allowing to every acre 



