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wherfore it should be I can not gesse. Yf for restitucon, I am in possession of the 

 Deanery and so taken and reputed at Carliell as Deane, ffor there thei all know my 

 right. And agayne for that mater it is all ridie before the Commissioners in the 

 consistorie and two citacons were sent from my l(ord) of Cant(erbury) and the rest of 

 the Commissioners to the lat usurper therof in his lief tyme t'apere and shew cawse 

 whie he should not be avoided and I restorid, afore whom, if eny man have eny thyng 

 against me, he may obiect it. Yf y e enquire of Sewell's habilitie, both my l(ord) of London 

 and my l(ord) of Worcester and all the rest of the quenes Majesties visitors there 

 knowes hym well enough, a man most unworthie not onely that but eny such rowme. 

 And even in Quene Maries tyme when I had not myche favor as ye knowe, and mater was 

 so right agaynst me, and partlie as the compleyning of Barnaby Kirkbride and hym, 

 we were all callid before the cownscell. And when I was fownd innocent, there aperid 

 such fowle matr agaynst them two for spoilyng of the churche and devidyng the goodes 

 therof amonge them selves, and other wise misusyng of the revenues therof that the 

 were comytted to the Flet. But what hath he to do with the Deanery now except 

 to resigne it ? I still must crave of you, seyng I beg no new thyng, but to enioy myne 

 owen, and desire nothyng so myche as quietnes to contynewe as ye have bene myn 

 earnest freende and help that such one as he be not borne agaynst me to make contro- 

 versie in my right where he hath none. For as I am contente with my pore livyng, 

 so methynks in this world I should not feare that it should be demynisshed. Thus ones 

 agayn and still beyng bolde to treble yow, I comyt yow to God. From Mounthall the 

 xxiii of October, 1560. Y r allwais assuridlie, T. Smith. 1 



It is quite true that Sewell and Kirkbride appeared before the Council 

 on 23 October 1555, in answer to summons, and the charges against 

 them were committed on ro November following to Sir Edward 

 Hastings, master of the horse, and Bourne, one of the secretaries, for 

 examination, with power to send them to prison if they thought good 

 till the matter was further investigated. 2 Though Bishop Sandes selected 

 Sewell to preach at the Penrith session of the visitation in 1559, he can 

 have had little respect for a man who was a zealous papist in Mary's 

 reign and an ardent reformer as soon as Elizabeth came to the throne. 

 Bishop Grindal, the other prelate to whom Sir Thomas Smith referred, 

 informed Cecil three years afterwards that Sewell was ' discreditted by 

 reason of his inconstancie.' 3 The importunity of the worthy knight at 

 last prevailed, for Lancelot Salkeld died on 3 September 1560, and Sir 

 Thomas Smith was installed in the deanery on the twentieth of the same 

 month. 4 



The clergy of the diocese had a little breathing time to reflect on 

 the ordeal through which they had just passed before they were again 

 called upon to renew their allegiance to the religious settlement. Mean- 

 while the see had to be supplied with a bishop. As yet Bishop Ogle- 

 thorpe was the only clergyman of the diocese of Carlisle who suffered 

 by the legislative changes made in the first parliament of the Queen. 

 Though there was no legal impediment in the way of filling up the 

 bishopric rendered vacant by the bishop's deprivation, no appointment 



i S.P. Dom. Eliz. xiv. 27. 



> Acts of the P. C. [new series], v. 1 88, 192. 



a Lansd. MS. (Burghley Papers, 1562-3), vi. 86. Hugh Sewell was appointed canon of the cathedral 

 on 20 August 1547, on the death of William Florence (Rymer, Fcedera, xv. 190). The dean and chapter 

 made him vicar of St. Lawrence, Appleby, in April 1559, and he was instituted to Caldbeck in Decem- 

 ber 1560 (Exch. Cert. Bishops' Inst. Carl., No. i). 



4 Exch. Cert. Bishops' Inst. Carl., No. I. 



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