84 THE LIFE OF 



CHAP. 4 This book to be shewn quarterly unto a certain grave 



! man appointed to examine how they had profited, and he 



to deliver them to Mr. Archdeacon. 5. The examinants to 

 use these beginners with favour. 6. Every non-preaching 

 Minister to be taxed at four purchased sermons every year ; 

 that is, to procure at his own cost a preacher to preach a 

 sermon in his church once in a quarter. 7. A licensed 

 preacher to preach sixteen times in a year. Within two 

 months after, the diligent Archdeacon summoned the Clergy 

 again, viz. March the 8th ; that is, the preachers and learn- 

 eder sort ; enjoining them, 1. To observe carefully the 

 Book of Common Prayer. . To catechize youth Sundays 

 and holydays. And this was now allowed to Curates to do ; 

 and that in certain questions and answers set forth by the 

 Bishop : as namely, Who made you ? God. Who re 

 deemed you ? Jesus Christ, &c. and so on, as little children 

 are now commonly and commendably taught by their pa 

 rents to this day. 3. Every man to shew his letters of or 

 ders and licence to preach immediately. And lastly, se 

 veral who had taken the degrees of Masters of Art, or Ba 

 chelors of Art, were enjoined to procure the Bishop^s li 

 cence to preach. This and the former call was for this end; 

 to increase the number of preachers, according to a mandate 

 from the Archbishop to all the Bishops. 



CHAP. VIII. 



Cawdrifs case, who zuas deprived and deposed from the 

 ministry. 



Cawdry of IN the year 1587, 1 find the Bishop again sitting in the ec- 



Luffenham , . . J , . . i v i 



cited be- clesiastical Commission ; where he executed a judicial act, 

 fore the t ] iat crea t e d him, and others with him, work for four or five 



Commis 

 sion, years after : and because I shall set it down more distinctly, 



let me obtain excuse for the length of it. There was one 

 Robert Cawdry, that having been a schoolmaster for seven 

 or eight years, afterwards got the favour of the Lord Burgh- 



