" SIR, "I had rather you understood a truth by my report in fuche matters wherein I am a doer, "than by the uncertain speech 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 fpredd "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 actresses "to pryfon, to learn them hereafter not to abuse "the Queen's Majeftie's people fo bafely, falfely, "and impudently. After I had by divers exami"nations tryed out the falsehood, I required Sir "Rowland Hayward and Mr. Recorder of the City to be affiftant 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. Whofe ftubborneffe we confidering, fent her to close prifon at West"minster Gate; where the remaineth, until her daughter and another maid of Lothburie 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 myfelf. I doo intend, " because their bookes are so spredd abroade and << believed, to fet out a confutation of the fare "falfehood. The tragedie is fo large that I might fpend 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, wifhing his Majestie and all you "wayting upon him, a profperous retorne. From my house at Lambeth, this Frydaie the 13th of Auguft, "I retorne to your Honor agayn your letters, by we may be understanded that ye have theni 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 "ftablished by his Counfell, delivered them bi his "Visitors, "Vifitors, the fame nowe bi the Queen's Majef"tie's Vifitors retorned to them, your orders " of late, with consent of the body of the Uni"verfity, the Queene's Highness pleasure fent 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 fhall "never be excufable (I praye your charitie par"don my plainnes) ex intimo corde ex purâ con fcientiâ coram Deo et Chrifto ejus I fpeke, we mar "our religion; our circumfpection fo variable (as "though it was not God's caufe which we would "defend) maketh cowards thus to cocke over us. "I do not like that the Commiffioners letters "fhould go to private Colleges, especially after "fo much paffed. I muft faye 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 contemned of our own, and "" gyve gyve the adventure of more dangers. And thus ye must pardon my boldnes. For my own "part, I repofe myself in filentio et in fpe, et for"titudo mea eft Dominus, howfoever the world "fawneth or frowneth. "Your, in Christ our Lord, "To the Right Honnble "Mr. Secretary. « October 8, 1565.” 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 spilling 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 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 circumftance is this:-" The first discon"tentment of Mafter Cartwright (a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a celebrated difputant) ་་ . ་་ difputant) grew at a publick Act in that University before Queen Elizabeth, because Master Prefton, (then of King's College, and after"wards Master of Trinity Hall,) for his comely gefture and pleasing 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 " also 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 discipline, "and to kick against her Ecclefiaftical Govern"ment; and that he might the better feed his mind with novelties, he travelled to Geneva, "where he was so far carried away with an affec"tion of their new-devifed difcipline, as that he "thought all Churches and Congregations for "Governments Ecclefiaftical were to be measured "and fquared by the practice of Geneva. There fore, when he returned home he took many exceptions against the established Government of "the Church of England, and the observation of "its rites and ceremonies, and the administration "of its Holy Sacraments, and buzzed these con"ceits into the heads of divers young Preachers " and |