132 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book IX. 



examined before the next court day."* On the 22nd 

 of that month he was ag^ain arraio-ned and asfain 

 admonished, "or to be attached;"! and on the 29th 

 he was " respited till the next court day." On the 

 1 2th of November he was again before this tribunal, 

 when a rule was made for "the case to proceed to 

 proof;"! ^^^ o^ ^^ 2Z\\\ of January, 1636 (new 

 style), he appeared "and desired his petition to be 

 read." § As this was his last appearance in the 

 " Powdering Tub," it is probable the case was settled 

 out of court. 



On the 19th of December, 1638, Michael Hudson, 

 M.A., was preferred to the rectory of Uffington, Lin- 

 colnshire ; II and on the loth of March, 1640, he was 

 presented to St. John's Hospital, near Lutterworth, 

 Leicestershire, and diocese of Lincoln, " in his Majesty's 

 gift, pleno jure!' H 



Anthony Wood says the Rev. Dr. Hudson 

 was " a Westmorland man born, became a poor 

 serving child of Queen's Colledge in the year 162 1, 

 in that of his age 16, afterwards Tabarder, and 

 in the year 1630 Fellow of that house, he being 

 then Master of Arts. About that time he took 

 holy Orders, married Capt — Pollard's daughter of 

 Newnham Courtney in Oxfordshire, and was bene- 

 ficed in Lincolnshire. When his Majesty K. Charles L 

 set up his standard, he left his Benefice, adhered to 

 him, and after Edgehill battle, returning to Oxford, 



* Vol. cclxi., fol. 265^., MS., P.R.O. t Ibid., fol. 273^. 



X Ibid., fol. 287. § Ibid., fol. 311- 



II Docquet Book, sub data. II Ibid., MS., P.R.O. 



