68 THE LIFE OF 



CHAP, went, and is mentioned by Martin Marprelate, and Sir 



VL John Harrington, is false : namely, that Madox should tell 



Brief view, the Bishop, that his name was Elmar, but it might well be 



Mar-elm, for that he had marred all the elms in Fulham. 



For Madox, who dwelt at Fulham, well knew that the 



elms were not felled at all: or perhaps but two or three 



of the decayed ones. Which might give umbrage to the 



clamour. 



CHAP. VII. 



The Bishop celebrates the Ylth of November. Slandered. 

 Papists have mass in prison. Goes his visitation. Sus 

 pends one Huckle. Suit with his predecessor for dilapi 

 dations. Thomas Cartwright taken up. 



.OUT now let us look a little back, and observe some of 

 the Bishop s doings in the dispensation of his office, and in 

 other matters that befell him in the years 1583, 1584, and 

 1585. 



TheQueen s J n the year 1583, the Queen s day, that is, the 17th of 



ntledat m November, fell on a Sunday : which the Bishop resolved to 



Paul s. celebrate with all the becoming solemnity that so great a 



mercy as her access to the crown deserved. Therefore he 



obtained the favour of Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, 



to preach that day at St. Paul s ; and that the great Lords 



of the Court might honour the auditory with their presence, 



he invited them after the sermon to dine with him ; viz. the 



Lord Chancellor, and the Lord Treasurer Burghley, the 



Earl of Leicester, and other great personages. 



His enemies j n the beginning of November divers of the Council de- 

 slander him. . . . , . 



sired to speak with the Bishop, that they might be better 



informed about his matter, (that is, somewhat that his ene 

 mies had accused him of.) And in the issue he found at 

 their Lordships hands great justice with honourable favour: 

 and so came off with i#uch reputation. But, however, this 



