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374 VORK.
Todd, the incumbent of the new church, preached
in the afternoon, but as in the case of Hooker and
Travers at the Temple, " the forenoon sermon spake
Canterbury, and the afternoon Geneva." The Archbishop
was furious. He considered Mr. Todd's
sermon a direct attack upon the morning preacher,
an affront to his diocesan and to the discipline
of the Church of England, and he suspended the
luckless incumbent at once, on the very day of the
commencement of his ministrations in the new
church.
Constant communications passed between Neile
and Laud on subjects relating to the diocese of York,
and the difficulties which from time to time presented
themselves to its ruler. Amongst these, about the
year 1636, were certain embarrassments connected
with some foreign settlers in Hatfield Chase, a wide
tract of country in the south-eastern part of Yorkshire,
between the Don and the Trent, which comprised
a large extent of morass and fen. often more
or less submerged when the waters of those rivers
overflowed their banks. Cornelius Vermuyden, a
native of the isle of Tholen, near the mouth of the
Scheldt, who had been engaged in the draining of
the great fens of Cambridgeshire, entered into a treaty
with the Crown to reclaim the Chase and the lowlying
district beyond it. Several of Vermuyden's
countrymen were associated with him in his undertaking,
the principal one being a Sir Philibert Vernatti,
and they brought over a number of French and
Flemish workmen to execute their works.
Neile complained bitterly of strangers being thus.