110 THE LIFE OF 



CHAP, he, for his service in accusing Sir John Perrot, expected to 

 1X have been made a Bishop, or to have been raised to some 



high place : which if he had, he said, he would have pulled 

 down the best of them all ; meaning, of the Queen s Privy 

 Council. And because he was not better answered, he told 

 Connock he meant to go to Rome ; and would have had 

 this servant of his to go along with him, saying, that he 

 should have better maintenance for saying of masses, than 

 he had of her Majesty for his said service; and that he stayed 

 only to get a little money together, and then he would set 

 forward : and added, that when he was once at Rome, he 

 would lay such plots as should disquiet the best of them all. 

 And when his said man refused to go over to Rome with 

 him, he threatened he would lay so heavy a burden upon 

 him as he should not be able to bear, and would charge 

 him with such plots as should cost him his life. And what 

 truth there was in his pretence of being a Protestant may 

 appear in this, that he wore next his skin a string whereon 

 hung a little round bag, and divers pieces of twopences and 

 threepences were bowed over the said string, to be offered 

 to saints, or those that kept saints. And this at length was 

 the man that our Bishop was so weary of; and well he 

 might be. 

 Commends His care of the Church, and his respect to his friends, 



thfsee oT suc ^ ^ were tru l^ wortn j) P ut mm on sometimes to recom- 

 Oxford. mend persons to bishoprics that fell void : and in May this 

 year, viz. 1592, the see of Oxon lost its Pastor, Dr. Under- 

 hil. For the supply of this place he had two persons in his 

 eye ; the one was the Bishop of Gloucester, John Bulling- 

 ham, who at that time made suit, that that bishopric might 

 be joined in commendam to his own poor one : the other 

 was Dr. Cole, Head of a College in that University. Con 

 cerning these the Bishop of London wrote to the Lord 

 Treasurer; that as for the Bishop of Gloucester, it was 

 in his opinion very fit for him, for the nearness of the place, 

 and to make some addition to his poor portion : or, if that 

 were not thought convenient, and his Lordship should not 

 like of it, then he prayed him to remember Dr. Cole, who 



