Career
Hodson fell foul of post-Jacobean Parliamentary hostility to the established church and was impeached, but remained chancellor of York until his death. Hodson was a doctor of divinity. From 1579 to 1615 he held the advowson — the right to present a benefice — of Normanby parish in north Yorkshire.
Hodson was close to King James VI of Scotland (of England), and was one of three English divines to preach at an assembly James held at Glasgow in 1610.
After James"s death he preached the last sermon over the king"s body, during its lying in state at Denmark House, before James"s funeral in May 1625. Hodson"s association with the Stuart monarchy made his position difficult when the Long Parliament was called.
On March 16, 1641, Hodson and two other English clerics were impeached in the case of one James Smart, a nonconformist minister, whom the three were judged to have unjustly fined for seditious activities. Hodson was bailed in the case on March 20, 1641.
