Daniel Cawdry

Daniel Cawdry (Cawdrey) (1588–1664) was an English clergyman, member of the Westminster Assembly, and ejected minister of 1662.

He was the youngest son of Robert Cawdry, and was educated at Sidney Sussex College and Peterhouse, Cambridge.

[2] He was instituted to the living of Great Billing, Northamptonshire, in 1625, 'in the presentation of the king by wardship of Christopher Hatton, esq.

[6] He was one of the presbyterian ministers who signed the address to General Fairfax remonstrating against all personal violence against the king Charles I.

[5] He was a voluminous writer of controversial works, both against the Anglicans on the one side and the Independents on the other; and he took on both Henry Hammond and John Owen.