98 THE LIFE OF 



CHAP, shepherd : whereat Haddocks advised the shepherd to bring 

 . his case into the Court of Requests, where he had some of 



fice, thinking probably thereby to draw some blemish upon 

 the Bishop. And when the matter was indeed moved in 

 that Court, the Bishop wrote to the Masters of the Requests, 

 that they would discharge his man, and he would see agree 

 ment made ; which nevertheless that Court yielded not to : 

 and the Bishop knowing Maddocks, the man that upheld 

 the shepherd, sent for him ; who coming, angry words 

 happened. These matters argued pro and con created 

 more and more difference ; insomuch that divers frays hap 

 pened between Maddocks and the Bishop s servants, who 

 would not hear their master abused. One of these hap- 

 Maddocks pened when he and his wife were walking together. Mad- 

 to the* 10 docks makes the first complaint, and puts up a petition to 

 Council. the Privy Council, (enclosed in a letter to the Lord Trea 

 surer,) therein relating particularly the injuries pretended to 

 be done him by the Bishop and his followers, desiring his 

 case might be heard before his Lordship and the Queen s 

 honourable Council; which, he said, no mean justice w r ould 

 do, because the Bishop was, by her Majesty s advancement, 

 in such dignity: and that in the mean time he might have 

 a warrant from his Lordship to apprehend the Bishop s cut 

 ters, as he called them, until the matter had a hearing. He 

 added, that his wife was with child as he thought, and 

 rested since the last assault (wherein he was wounded) in very 

 hard case : that that assault was in the view of the Bishop : 

 that when he complained thereof to him, he gave him re 

 proachful words : that for his part, he had given no cause 

 to his knowledge. He represented his case as desperate, 

 either to lose his own life, or, by the loss of the life of some 

 of the Bishop s base followers, to hazard his poor estate; 

 which was the thing, he said, the Bishop desired. 

 The Bishop Upon this the good Lord Treasurer sent to the Bishop, 



relates the ,. i i- i - . T- 11 / 



case. P ra J m g mm to order his men to do no injury to Maddocks. 



To whom the Bishop presently sent answer, that he had 

 given warning to his servants not to meddle with Mad- 

 docks : nor needed he to fear that his men should offer him 



