Background
He was the youngest son of Robert Cawdry, and was educated at Sidney Sussex College and Peterhouse, Cambridge.
He was the youngest son of Robert Cawdry, and was educated at Sidney Sussex College and Peterhouse, Cambridge.
Sidney Sussex College.
From about 1617 to 1625 he was rector of Little Ilford. He was instituted to the living of Great Billing, Northamptonshire, in 1625, "in the presentation of the king by wardship of Christopher Hatton, esq." Along with James Cranford and William Castle, he preached often at Northampton. Instead he refused to submit to the Acting of Uniformity 1662, and was ejected.
He retired to Wellingborough, where he died in October 1664 in his seventy-sixth year.
He became one of the leading members of Westminster Assembly from 1643, and was vicar of Street Martin-in-the-Fields in London from 1644 to 1648.