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the peoples drawing neere to the Table in the sight thereof when they receive the Lords Supper. With the great unfitnesse of receiving it in Pewes in London for the Novelty of high and close Pewes,’ London, 1641, 4to.  ‘Good Workes, if they be well handled, or Certaine Projects about Maintenance for Parochiall Ministers’ (anon.), London, 1641, 4to.  ‘Noli me Tangere is a thinge to be thovght on, or Vox carnis sacræ clamantis ab Altari ad Aquilam sacrilegam, Noli me tangere ne te perdam’ (anon.), London, 1642, 4to.  ‘The Good of Peace and Ill of Warre,’ London, 1642, 4to.  ‘Directions Propovnded, and humbly presented to … Parliament, concerning the Booke of Common Prayer, and Episcopall Government’ (anon.), Oxford, 1642, 4to. This was also published under the title of ‘The Bishop of Armaghes Direction, concerning the Lyturgy, and Episcopall Government,’ London, 1642, 4to. The treatise was disavowed by Ussher, and the authorship is correctly attributed to Udall.



UDALL or UVEDALE, JOHN (1560?–1592), puritan, has been identified with the fourth and youngest son of Sir [q. v.] of More Crichel (, Dorset, 1868, iii. 147). But as the reputed father died in 1542, probably some eighteen years before the son's birth, the alleged relationship must be rejected. John Udall was doubtless akin to the Uvedale families of Wickham in Hampshire and of More Crichel, but the precise degree is undetermined (cf. Surrey Archæological Collections, iii. 63 seq.) He matriculated as a sizar of Christ's College, Cambridge, on 15 March 1577–8, but soon afterwards migrated to Trinity College, and graduated B.A. in 1580–1, and M.A. in 1584. He was a zealous reader of theology, and developed a strong tendency to puritanism, which was encouraged by his intimacy, while both were undergraduates, with [q. v.]. Udall also obtained at the university a competent knowledge of Hebrew.

Udall has been wrongly identified with John Uvedale, a trusted member of Sir Philip Sidney's household, who was with Sidney in October 1586 at Arnhem during his fatal illness, and witnessed Sidney's will. Uvedale received under its provisions 500l. in consideration of his ‘long and very faithful service,’ and of his voluntary surrender of ‘Ford Place,’ which Sidney had presented to him (, Sydney Papers, i. 111, 112).

Before 1584 Udall took holy orders and became curate of Kingston-upon-Thames under the absentee vicar, Stephen Chatfield. He was soon known there as a convinced puritan who had stern suspicion of the scriptural justification of episcopacy. He preached with eloquence, and three volumes of sermons delivered by him at Kingston were published in 1584. The first volume, called ‘Amendment of Life’ (in three sermons), was dedicated to Charles, lord Howard of Effingham; the second volume was entitled ‘Obedience to the Gospell’ (two sermons); and the third was entitled ‘Peter's Fall: two Sermons upon the Historie of Peter's denying Christ,’ London, 8vo, 1584. A fourth collection of five sermons ‘preached in the time of the dearth in 1586,’ was called ‘The true Remedie against Famine and Warres’ (London, 1586, 12mo). This was dedicated to Ambrose Dudley, earl of Warwick, who was a well-known protector of puritan ministers. Although he was thus influentially supported, Udall's insistence on a literal observance of scriptural precepts was held to infringe Anglican orthodoxy, and in 1586 he was summoned by the bishop of Winchester and the dean of Windsor to appear before the court of high commission at Lambeth. Through the influence of the Countess of Warwick and Sir [q. v.] he was restored to his ministry. This experience of persecution redoubled his ardour. He strongly sympathised with the zealous efforts of his Cambridge friend Penry to stir in the bishops a keener sense of their spiritual duties; and during 1587 Penry seems to have visited him at Kingston. In April 1588 Udall induced Penry's friend, the puritan printer [q. v.], to print at his office in London an anonymous tract in which he trenchantly denounced the church of England from the extreme puritan point of view. The work, which was issued surreptitiously without the license of the Stationers' Company, and bore no name of printer or place of publication on the title-page, was entitled ‘The State of the Church of Englande, laide open in a conference betweene Diotrephes a Byshopp, Tertullus a Papiste, Demetrius an usurer, Pandochus an Inne-keeper, and Paule a preacher of the worde of God.’ Udall developed his argument with much satiric force, and the pamphlet arrested public attention. Archbishop Whitgift and other members of the court of high commission deemed it seditious. It was soon