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ley to be presented to the living of South Loughnam, or c H A P. 

 Luffenham, in Rutlandshire : where after he had spent six- VIIL 

 teen years, he was convented before the Commission, and 

 in fine deprived by our Bishop : for there was preferred se 

 cretly an information against him for speaking divers words 

 in the pulpit, tending to the depraving of the Book of Com 

 mon Prayer. The Commission gave him his oath, according 

 to the practice of those spiritual courts, to answer interroga 

 tories that should be propounded to him, for the clearing of 

 himself if he could do it. Then he attended ten weeks 

 upon the Commissioners, but proved altogether incompliant; 

 and so being judged a dangerous person, if he should con 

 tinue preaching, by infecting the people with principles dif 

 ferent from the religion established, at length the Bishop The Bishop 

 himself gave the definitive sentence May the 30th, there h^&quot; 8 

 sitting then with him, Dr. Valentine Dale, Sir Owen Hop- 

 ton, Kt., William Fleetwood, Sergeant at Law, William 

 Aubrey and Edward Stanhope, Doctors of Law, his col 

 leagues. In the aforesaid sentence there was added a se 

 cond cause of his deprivation ; namely, for not conforming 

 himself in the celebration of the divine service and admin 

 istration of the Sacraments, but refusing so to do ; though 

 indeed for the most part he did conform himself to the book, 

 only leaving out the cross in baptism, and the ring in mar 

 riage. The Bishop also, besides his deprivation, suspended 

 him from exercising any ministry in Luffenham or else 

 where. 



But Cawdry thought himself hardly and unjustly dealt Cawdry re- 

 withal, and therefore acquiesced not in his sentence, nor^^^e&quot; 

 would submit himself. However the Commissioners had in sentence. 

 March following sent their letters to the Bishop of Peter 

 borough, to send his ordinary process to Luffenham church, 

 and to &quot;give intimation to the Lord Burghley to present an 

 other ; yet he still kept possession and held the living, styl 

 ing himself in his letters, &quot; Minister and Pastor of South 

 &quot; Luffenham/ Upon which disobedience he was also de 

 graded by the Commissioners at Lambeth, as well as he 

 had been deprived before in the consistory of Paul s. And 



