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any injury, nor hitherto had done, but when he and two CHAP, 

 of his men had picked out their match to assault one of _ Ix&amp;gt; 

 his men, three against one. And yet, said the Bishop, as he 

 understood, his single man housed them all. But that he, 

 minded to see the peace kept, sent for both him, his men, 

 and his own servant: but Maddocks refused to come to him. 

 The Bishop upon this occasion thought fit moreover to give 

 this Lord a little taste of the good dealing of the man : as 

 1. He made a fray upon his father s man, (as well as upon 

 his,) and wounded him in the head with some peril, and he 

 himself had his head broken for his labour : which blood- 

 shedding was to be examined at the next leet. 2. He 

 charged some belonging to his father with felony; which 

 proved but a rage of humour, and nothing else. 3. He 

 wrangled with the whole town [of Fulham] about a pas 

 sage to a ground of his, [the Bishop s,] wherein he thought 

 in his conscience he did them wrong. 4. He found means 

 in the Court of Requests to cast an honest husbandman of 

 the said town into the Fleet, greatly to his damage and 

 hurt. 5. Upon Easter-day last he came in warlike man 

 ner with rapier and target to Fulham church, when the 

 Bishop and all his men were at the Court ; and there thrust 

 in his mother and his sister into the Bishop s wife s seat, 

 and troubled his daughters, being come to receive the Com 

 munion. The Bishop added, that he bragged that he dis 

 dained to fight with any of his men ; but if he [the Bishop 

 himself] would hold up his finger, he would be with him 

 at host. That his father-in-law was an honest gentleman, 

 but could do nothing with him, and his rash head since he 

 came there troubled all the town. And lastly, as to the late 

 fray, he told his Lordship that he might well consider that 

 if Maddocks abused him behind his back, his men would 

 hardly bear it at his hands. And indeed the Bishop himself, 

 who was a man of metal, and could use his hands well, 

 would perhaps not well have liked it, if they should. 



In fine, Maddocks had so rudely behaved himself to- Maddocks 

 wards the Bishop, that at last it came before the Arch- submits 

 bishop of Canterbury, and some other Bishops assisting; 



