"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 credyt 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 "shall never be excufablé (I praye your charitie "pardon my plainnes) ex intimo corde ex purâ confcientiâ coram Deo et Chrifto ejus I fpeke, we mar our religion; our circumfpection so va"riable (as though it was not God's cause which 66 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 દદ as Demofthenes anfwered, 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 last part of governance; "although I yet admit moderators for tymes, દ 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 fhould 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 pardon my boldnes. For my own part, I repose my"felf in filentio et in fpe, et fortitudo mea eft "Dominus, howfoever the world fawneth or " frowneth. "Your, in Christ our Lord, "To the Right Honnble "Mr. Secretary. ARCHBISHOP WHITGIFT. THERE is a very pretty little book in French, called "Great Events from Little Caufes," by M. Richer. He fupposes the Peace of Utrecht to have arisen from the Duchefs of Marlborough's fpilling fome water upon Queen Anne's gown. re In that very entertaining piece of biography "Sir George Paul's Life of Archbishop Whit gift," there is a trifling circumftance 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 difputant) 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 66 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 cc 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-devifed dif"cipline, as that he thought all Churches and "Congregations for Governments Ecclefiaftical were to be measured and squared 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 England, and the obfervation of its rites and "ceremonies, and the administration of its Holy "Sacraments, and buzzed these conceits into "the heads of divers young Preachers and "Scholars of the University of Cambridge, and ❝ drew after him a great number of disciples and "followers. Cartwright afterwards disturbs the "state of the University; is recommended to "be quiet, but to no purpose; and is at last ex"pelled, after having refused to affist at a con"ference which Archbishop Whitgift offered ❝ him. Cartwright afterwards published, in 1591, a book of New Difcipline, for which " he was proceeded against in the Star Cham"ber." Hooker, fpeaking of Archbishop Whitgift, fays, "he always governed with that moderation "which useth by patience to suppress boldness, "and to make them conquer that fuffer." The Archbishop was anxious that the Curates' stipends fhould be raised. His Biographer fays of him, "In letting leafes of his impropriations, if he "found his Curates' wages fmall, he would "abate much of his fine to increase their pen"fions, fome ten pounds by the year, as Maid"stone, &c." "Queen Elizabeth," continues the Archbishop's Biographer, "told his Grace, that "the "she would have the difcipline of the Church "of England of all men duly to be observed "without alteration of the least ceremony; "conceiving that these Novelifts might have "wrought the fame mischief in her kingdom "which the turbulent Orators of Sparta did in "that Commonwealth, fo wifely settled by Ly"curgus's Laws, which, whilft they took upon "themselves to amend, they miferably defaced "and deformed; the inconvenience of which "kind of reasoning the Queen had taken out of "the Greek Poet Aratus, who, when one asked " him how he might have Homer's Poems free "from faults and corruptions, replied, Get an "old copy not reformed; for curious wits, "labouring to amend things well done, com"monly either quite mar them, or at least make "them worse." HENRY EARL OF ARUNDEL. "THIS Nobleman," fays Puttenham, " paff ing from England towards Italie, by her Majestie Queen Elizabeth's licence, was very "honourably entertained at the Court of Bruf"fells by the Lady Duchess of Parma, Regent "there. And fitting at a banquet with her, (where VOL. I. 66 |