92 THE LIFE OF 



CHAP. Upon this sentence the Bishop of Peterburgh, his dio- 

 __ cesan, sequestered him from his benefice, who hitherto had 



Bishop of enjoyed it, and supplied it with his Chaplain. To which 



Peterburgh , , T -i if ^ J i 



sequesters Bishop the Lord Burghley, compassionating Cawdry s case 

 his living. an( j poverty, wrote, that he would, in consideration of his 

 desolate state and great charge, allow him some yearly pen 

 sion out of the living. Whereupon the Bishop made this 

 offer to Cawdry, that if he would disclaim his title to the 

 living, and resign it unto his hand to the use of his Chap 

 lain, he would then consider of him. But Cawdry stopping 

 upon terms, and requiring to know how and in what man- 

 Cawdrysuesner the Bishop would do it, they brake off. Cawdry de- 



chamber! ar &quot; s ^ ste( ^ not &amp;gt; ^ut to ^ ^ s course m tne Star-chamber, and 

 served subprenas upon the Chaplain, and some others, upon 

 pretence that they had committed a riot, in taking away by 

 violence the corn that grew upon the glebe ; and again de 

 sired the said Lord s favour in that court. On the other 

 hand, the Chaplain laboured to bring him before the Com 

 missioners ; and got an order to be set down there against 

 him, either to answer more fully, or to be committed to pri 

 son within eight days. 



The Lord The next year, viz. May 1591, upon Cawdry s suit again 

 re&quot;oni- ey to tne Lord Burghley, he bade him consult with his coun- 

 mends his se ] ? by what course he might be relieved. Accordingly he 

 Bishop of did so : and they told him the way was, either that the Corn- 

 London, missioners should revoke their sentence of deprivation, and 

 so to restore him to his ministry ; or, by his Lordship s means, 

 to have a mandate procured for that end from the Queen ; 

 or else to be restored to the possession of his living, and so 

 to follow his suit in forma pauperis, depending in the 

 King s Bench, for the trial of his cause. But the moderate 

 course the said Lord thought fittest to take was, to desire 

 the Commissioners to consider the exceptions taken against 

 their proceedings, and to review and reexamine this man s 

 case ; and so he prayed the Bishop of London to do, spe 

 cially considering several particulars urged by Cawdry on 

 his own behalf : but in truth misrepresented to that Lord 

 against the Commissioners. Whereupon the Bishop of Lon- 



