.. 66 6 SİR, "I had rather you understood a truth by my report in fuche matters wherein I am a doer, "than by the uncertain fpeech of the Court. I "have travailed much by myself, alone, for the "want of other Commiffioners, to trie out a "Poffeffion which was very erneftlie beleeved and "fet forth, and by printe recondict and spredd "without lycenfe. The two printers whereof, "with others that fold thefe pamphlets, were "commytted to prifon. And if I had my will, "I would commytt fome of the principal actreffes 66 to pryfon, to learn them hereafter not to abufe "the Queen's Majeftie's people fo bafely, falfely, "and impudently. After I had by divers exami"nations tryed out the falfehood, I required Sir "Rowland Hayward and Mr. Recorder of the · 66 City to be affistant with me, who heard the "wench examined and confeffed, and plaied her pranks before them. We had the father and "the mother, by which mother this wench was "counfelled and fupported; and yet would fhe "not confefs any thing. Whose stubbornesse "we confidering, fent her to close prison at "Westminster Gate; where fhe remaineth, "until her daughter and another maid of Loth"burie have openlie done their penance at Paul's "Croffe, as it is ordered. . "I am fo greeved with fuch diffemblers, that "I cannot be quiett with myself. I doo intend, "because their bookes are so fpredd abroade and "believed, to fet out a confutation of the fare "falfehood. The tragedie is fo large that I might spend much time to trouble your Honor withal; "but brieflie I have fent to your Lordship a copie "of the vaine book, printed, and a copie of their "confeffions at length. And thus knowing that your Lordship is at the Court, I thought good "to fend to you, wishing his Majestie and all you wayting upon him, a profperous retorne. From my houfe at Lambeth, this Frydaie the 13th of August, 66 "Your L. loving friend, "MATTHEW CANTUAR." "To the Right Honnble my "verie good Lord, the L. "Treafurer of England." 66 SIR, "I retorne to your Honor agayn your letters, by wch may be understanded that ye have them 66 ready to execute your orders of the best fort, "and of the most part excepting a fewe Catylyns, "who bi fufferance will infect the whole Coll. "Whereupon, when King Edward's ftatutes "stablished by his Counfell, delivered them bi his "Visitors, "Vifitors, the fame nowe bi the Queen's Majef"tie's Vifitours retorned to them, your orders "of late, with consent of the body of the Uni versity, the Queene's Highness pleasure sent to "them by my letter; you, the Chancellor, of "the Privy Councill, and in fuch place and cre dyt as ye be, would ye fuffer fo much authority "to be borne under foote by a bragging braynles "head or two? In my opinion, your confcience "fhall never be excufable (I praye your charitie "pardon my plainnes) ex intimo corde ex purâ confcientia coram Deo et Chrifto ejus I speke, we "mar our religion; our circumfpection fo va"riable (as though it was not God's cause which "we would defend) maketh cowards thus to "cocke over us. I do not like that the Com"miffioners letters fhould go to private Colleges, especially after fo much paffed. I must faye 66 as Demofthenes answered, what was the chief part in rhetorick, the fecond and the third; "Pronunciation, fayd he; fo faye I, Execution, "execution, execution of lawes and orders must "be the first and the laft part of governance; although I yet admit moderators for tymes, places, multitudes, &c. and hereafter, for God's "love never ftyr any alterations, except it be fairly meant to have them established. For "or ellis we should hold us in no certaintye, "but be ridiculous to our adverfaries, and con"temned ઃઃ "temned of our own, and gyve the adventure "of more dangers. And thus ye must párdon my boldnes. For my own part, I repofe my"felf in filentio et in fpe, et fortitudo mea eft "Dominus, howfoever the world fawneth or "frowneth. "Your, in Christ our Lord, ARCHBISHOP WHITGIFT. THERE is a very pretty little book in French, called "Great Events from Little Caufes," by M. Richer. He fuppofes the Peace of Utrecht to have arifen from the Duchefs of Marlborough's fpilling fome water upon Queen Anne's gown. In that very entertaining piece of biography "Sir George Paul's Life of Archbishop Whitgift," there is a trifling circumstance mentioned, which, in the opinion of a very acute and intelligent Lady, perhaps gave rife to the fect of the Diffenters in England. The The circumftance is this:-" The firft difcon"tentment of Mafter Cartwright (a Fellow of "Trinity College, Cambridge, and a celebrated disputant) grew at a publick Act in that Uni"verfity before Queen Elizabeth, because Master "Preston, (then of King's College, and after"wards Master of Trinity Hall,) for his comely "gefture and pleafing pronunciation, was both "liked and rewarded by her Majesty, and him"felf received neither reward nor commenda❝tion, prefuming on his own good scholarship. "This his no fmall grief he uttered unto divers "of his friends in Trinity College, who were "alfo much discontented, because the honour "of the difputation did not redound unto their "College. Mafter Cartwright, immediately "after her Majefty's neglect of him, began to "trade into divers opinions, as that of the dif"cipline, and to kick against her Ecclefiaftical "Government; and that he might the better "feed his mind with novelties, he travelled to "Geneva, where he was fo.far carried away "with an affection of their new-devised dif cipline, as that he thought all Churches and Congregations for Governments Ecclefiaftical "were to be measured and fquared by the prac"tice of Geneva. Therefore, when he returned "home he took many exceptions against the "established Government of the Church of England, 5 |