It was questioned whether the power of deprivation for not reading the common prayer, granted to the high commissioners, were legal; the Act of Uniformity having annexed a much smaller penalty. But it was held by the judges in the case of Cawdrey (5 Coke Reports), that the act did not take away the ecclesiastical jurisdiction and supremacy which had ever appertained to the crown, and by virtue of which it might erect courts with as full spiritual jurisdiction as the archbishops and bishops exercised.
[320] Strype's Whitgift, 135; and Appendix, 49.
[321] Id. 157, 160.
[322] Id. 163, 166 et alibi; Birch's Memoirs, i. 62. There was said to be a scheme on foot, about 1590, to make all persons in office subscribe a declaration that episcopacy was lawful by the word of God, which Burleigh prevented.
[323] Neal, 325, 385.
[324] Id. 290; Strype's Life of Aylmer, p. 59, etc. His biographer is here, as in all his writings, too partial to condemn, but too honest to conceal.
[325] Neal, 294.
[326] Strype's Aylmer, 71. When he grew old, and reflected that a large sum of money would be due from his family, for dilapidations of the palace at Fulham, etc., he literally proposed to sell his bishopric to Bancroft. Id. 169. The other, however, waited for his death, and had above £4000 awarded to him; but the crafty old man having laid out his money in land, this sum was never paid. Bancroft tried to get an act of parliament in order to render the real estate liable, but without success. P. 194.
[327] Somers' Tracts, i. 166.
[328] Bacon's Works, i. 532.