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with in this tedious suit was, that the aforesaid nobleman CHAP, 

 requested that this man might be restored to his ministry ; 

 which Dr. Lewin and Dr. Aubrey acquainted the Arch 

 bishop with : who answered, he was willing to do it, if he 

 would subscribe to certain Articles, as other Ministers did: 

 which had been offered to him several times before, both by 

 the Archbishop and the Bishop of London. But that Caw- 

 dry would not be brought to do : neither could the advice 

 of his said noble intercessor prevail with him. 



CHAP. IX. 



His contest zvith one Haddocks. Smith, the Preacher at 

 St. Clemenfs, suspended. A visitation. Dyke, of St. 

 Albans, forbid preaching. Cartwright the Puritan. Sir 

 Denys Roghan. The see of Oxford void. 



J. HESE transactions with Cawdry have carried me for 

 ward three or four years, that I might lay my whole narra 

 tive thereof together. I must therefore go back again, 

 having some other things to relate, wherein our Bishop was 

 concerned. 



In April 1588, he happened to have a ruffle with a mad The occa- 

 blade named Haddocks, who had married a gentleman s coyest be- 

 daughter of Fulham. This man was of a turbulent hot head, twee n the 

 and made great stirs in that town : and the same Maddocks, Maddocks. 

 I suppose, of whom Sir John Harrington relates, how that Brief view 

 this Bishop once told him, that his name expressed his na- f the St 

 ture, and that he was one of the madest beasts that ever he Church, 

 talked with. He happened to have a contest with the 

 Bishop about some private matters ; as concerning the right 

 of a pew in Fulham church ; and with the townsmen about 

 a passage to a ground of the Bishop s. Martin Marprelate 

 brings in another cause yet of these dissensions, namely, 

 from the Bishop s taking part with his man, who being 

 executor to the will of somebody dwelling in Fulham, de 

 tained the payment of a legacy given therein to a poor 



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