64 THE LIFE OF 



C II A p. find him as thankful as any that ever received benefit at his 

 hands. And that being so near he might assist the Bishop 

 of London, which peradventure would be some ease to him, 

 and not unprofitable for the ecclesiastical government. 

 He hath the jj u t afterward his eye lay chiefly upon Ely, (the change 

 Ely. with Winchester it seems not being to be expected.) He 



had in the languishing time of Cox, Bishop of that see, 

 made interest with the Lord Treasurer to be invested in it, 

 when the present incumbent should die. And as for this 

 suit which the Treasurer made for our Bishop, the Queen 

 granted it : and so Secretary Walsingham told him. There 

 fore the good Bishop of Ely being dead, two days after his 

 death, that is, July 24, 1581, the Bishop despatched a letter 

 to his before-mentioned friend at Court to promote now his 

 remove, having certain news of Cox s departure. &quot; And he 

 &quot; thought fit now, as he wrote, to remind him, that as by 

 &quot; his Lordship s only means he had at her Majesty s hands 

 &quot; then a yea, so by some sinister working her gracious fa- 

 &quot; vour were not turned into a nay. He added, that he 

 &quot; would not seek the place as he did, but that he found in 

 &quot; himself some imperfection in body and mind, being then 

 &quot; homo sexagenarius : and that he found in himself, that 

 &quot; within a short time he should never answer her Majesty s 

 &quot; expectation, nor his own conscience, in that place of ser- 

 &quot; vice which hitherto had been so tedious, that he hoped 

 &quot; her Majesty even of justice would recompense him, though 

 &quot; not with gain, yet with ease in these his crooked years.&quot; 



It was about this time that the Queen was in the mind to 

 remove him to Worcester, and in his room to have preferred 

 Dr. Richard Bancroft, Archbishop Whitgift s Chaplain, an 

 active man, and made much use of in the ecclesiastical Com 

 mission. But whatever the matter was, this came to no 

 thing. 



Solicits his He continued soliciting this business till April 1582, when 



remove t . j le b e gg e( i O f t j ie aforesaid Lord a remove upon account of 



his age, and the greatness of the business of London, much 



fitter for a younger man than he. The said Nobleman had 



stirred in this business for him ; and now he entreated him 



