134 THE LIFE OF 



CHAP, swer, nor she condemn him without his deserts. And when 



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he found his enemies aspersing him liberally, and he not 



called to speak in his own vindication, he would sometimes 

 be a remembrancer to the Treasurer, and say, he did not 

 doubt her Majesty would graciously call to her remem 

 brance what a princely promise she made him more than 

 once at his first coming to that place, that whatsoever should 

 be informed against him, he should come to his answer. 

 The performance whereof he hoped she would honourably 

 grant him. 



Marprc- By the above written it appears, that our Bishop wanted 



ders of this neither enemies nor slanderers. Whereof one was Maddocks, 

 Bishop. wno refrained not from shewing his spite against him, even 

 before the Lord Treasurer himself, telling him, that the 

 Bishop s dealings were under the censures of many, and his 

 lift gained evil speeches of all. But it must be marked 

 that a great part, or most of these his ill-willers, were such 

 as he procured by that which he counted the discharge of 

 his own duty and conscience, namely, the pressing obedience 

 to the established Church and Liturgy. These men of the 

 separation threw loads of reproaches and vilifications upon 

 him. And every one of them Martin Marprelate carefully 

 picked up, and howsoever slenderly vouched, he clapped 

 into his book, the more to expose the Bishop. Some, and 

 the chief whereof, we will here mention. 



Detaining He told a lamentable story of the Bishop for detaining 

 goods. stolen goods, viz. a parcel of cloth found within his manor 

 of Fulham, left there by certain thieves, who had taken it 

 from certain diers living at the Old Swan in Thames-street. 

 But when the diers came to challenge their cloth, the Bi 

 shop said it was his own, because taken within his own 

 lordship: and that if it was theirs, the law should pass 

 upon the thieves, and then he would talk further with 

 them. The thieves were tried and executed, and they con 

 fessed the cloth to be theirs that claimed it. But notwith 

 standing the diers could never get their cloth. With this 

 the scurrilous author made sport, saying, the cloth was 

 good blue, and so might well serve for the liveries of the 



