mention of my brother, whom they hate as much as mee' (Heywood P. 182 n. 4. To what purpose so much sideling to save this great man, P. 183 L. 4. decency. 'I should be glad to be informed what Dr. Stapleton thought of his adversary's lenity of temper and forbearance.' WM. 20 COLE. P. 183 1. 13. no enemies to overcome. 'How should he, if Alvey governed under him, and they were all united in opinions?' WM. COLE. Whitaker wrote to Burghley 14 May 1590 in consequence of a rumour 'how that I on the Queenes day last [17 Nov.] did forbidd in our 25 College an Oration to bee made in praise of her majesties government. I thinke I am not without some bothe enemies and back-frendes; but that such a thinge should to such, and in such a place bee reported of mee, being soe utterly untrue, . . I cannot but marvell much.... I never forbadd nor hindred any such Oration, and wee had an Oration in our 30 College hall on that night, pronounced by one whom I appointed my selfe for that purpose, whose name is Heblethwaite, now a felow of the College; at which oration I was present, and our whole company, and divers of other Colleges, whom I sawe and can name, if neede require. The action was solemne, with bone fiers in both the courtes 35 of the College, as also it hath bene ever since I came to this College : and the report hath proceeded from some envious body, God knoweth whoe.' (Heywood and Wright, II. 12, 13; Ellis, Orig. Letters, ser. ii. III. 160.) P. 183 l. 14 seq. P. 183 l. 33. P. 184 1. 9. See p. 453 1. 34. Therefore it is most 45 WM. COLE. 5 ΙΟ 15 20 25 30 35 P. 184 l. 17. his learning. One of the greatest proofs of his learning and scholarship to me is, from an exclamation of Joseph Scaliger, a contemner of every person's abilities but his own, who from downright conviction of his great erudition, on reading some of his works then put into his hands, broke forth in these words-Wittakerus! Oh! qu'il estoit bien docte! Scaligerana secunda. Vol. 2. p. 621. An exclamation worth an 100 studied panegyrics'. WM. COLE. P. 184 1. 29. Bp. Morton. See p. 507 1. 47. P. 184 L. 33. Dr Fuller. 'Dr Fuller tells the story in his Hist. of Cam bridge p. 97, in an ingenious manner, without quaintness or punning: but there being an allusion to Alvey's government, I suppose, chiefly offended Mr. Baker. This censure of Dr. Fuller is unworthy of Mr. Baker's candour and good-nature. Dr. Fuller with wit and pleasantry has enlivened every subject he took in hand: and the lovers of history and anecdotes can never sufficiently return him their thanks for a 1000 circumstances, which would have been lost but for his industry: and I take this opportunity of returning him my own.' WM. COLE, Aug. 1. 1777. Milton near Cambridge. Fuller's story (191, 192, ed. Prickett) of the senior fellow who decided that a learned rakehell was to be chosen fellow before a religious dunce, reminds one of a college tradition respecting Ant. Tuckney (Salter's preface to Eight Letters of Ant. Tuckney and Benj. Whichcote, 1753, p. xv.): 'In his elections at St. John's, when the President, according to the Cant of the times, wou'd call upon him to have regard to the Godly; the Master answer'd, No one should have a greater regard to the truely Godly, than himself; but he was determined to choose none but Scholars: adding, very wisely; They may deceive me, in their Godliness; they can not, in their Scholarship. This Story of Him, so much to his Honor, is still upon record in the College; and was told me by the present worthy master,' i.c. Jo. Newcome. P. 185 1. 32. his journey to London. He writes to Lord Burghley from dean Nowell's house, 19 Nov. 1595, sending a sermon preached by him ad clerum at the beginning of the term, in order to maintain the doctrine of the church against innovations. Begs to be relieved of his professorship, that he may have time to set forth his readings and studies against the enemies of the truth, and apply himself otherwise to the occasions of the church. This place doth in a maner occupy me wholly, of great toile and small profite.' (Heywood and Wright, II. 62, 63). 40 P. 185 l. 32. the Lambeth articles. See Fuller's Ch. Hist. v. 219–227, with Brewer's notes; Heylyn's Laud 194; Hickman's Historia Quinquarticularis exarticulata, 511, 512; Strype's Whitgift, bk. IV. c. 17. 45 P. 185 n. 4. Whitaker's funeral. MS. Baker XXXIII. 241, 242; Cooper's Ann. II. 541, 542. Heywood and Wright Cambr. Univ. Trans. II. 612, 613 from Baker (MS. Harl. 7038): 'Cygnea cantio Gul. Whitakeri, i.e. ultima illius concio ad clerum, habita fuit Cant. in templo acad. paulo ante mortem Oct. 9, 1595, in hunc scripturae locum, 1 Thes. 5. 21. Postquam munere reg. prof. annos circiter 16 functus fuisset, et Col. S. Jo. evang. vixisset [magister omitted] annis fere novem, aetatis suae 47 et salutis hum. 1595 Dec. 4, cum paulo ante spirasset haec verba (ut Dr. Goad tunc temporis procan. auditoribus fidem fecit), Gaudeo equidem si quid feci in rem usumque ecclesiae Dei. Rursus, Vitam non cupio, nisi ut ecclesiae Christi inserviam. Item, Mors mihi 5 in lucro est. Placide expiravit, et inaudita in academico pompa ac celebritate sepultus est.' P. 186 1. 5. P. 186 1. 9. Jo. Bois made the funeral oration. Peck l. c. a letter. Partly printed in Strype's Whitgift, bk. IV. c. 19. P. 186 1. 17. He left a wife and eight children. See some account of his 10 family, his son Alex. 'the apostle of Virginia' etc. in Churton's Life of Nowell, pp. 330-334, where is a portrait. Dean Nowell, 12 Jan. 1599, wrote to Burghley, ibid. 430, 431: 'His death was above all to the extreme sorrowe, losse and lacke of his poore wiffe, lying in travell of chylde, when her husband dyed, and thereby, 15 and with inward sorrowe of hart, not vnlyke to dye herselfe, and now is verie hardly recovered to a weake healthe and to manie great difficulties, by the vtter destitution and desolation of herselfe, and of a great multitude of their yonge and helplesse children. ffor he being wholly given vnto his studie, and to contynuall reading of her Maties 20 divinitye lecture, and to incessant wryting against the adversaries of trewe religion, had never any leysure, or care, for the providing of more, then was necessarie for verie meane and scholerlyke dyet and clothing; as being in the shaddowe of the Vniversitie, and far from the light and frendly aspect of the Court. wherby he hath left to his 25 poore wife and children for their mayntenance, being manie and verie yonge, the onely riches of his books, most dearly bought by hym, and little worthe to be solde agayne, for the buying of necessaries, to the mayntenance of lyfe.' The queen has been moved to help her by the earl of Essex 'who hearing D. Whytaker's good and godly instruction 30 in Cambrige in the tyme of his youth, was his honorable and verie good Lord all his lyfe tyme'. Asks for 'some little Lease' from the queen. It is pleasant to find that the college granted Mrs Whitaker a lease. See p. 441 l. 24. There is a life of Whitaker by Gataker in Fuller's Abel Redivivus. 'There is an elegy on him by Mr Jos. Hall, 35 afterwards Bp. of Norwich, in the 2nd vol. of Mr Nichols' Select Collection of Poems, p. 148. Lond. 8vo. 1780.' WM. COLE. P. 186 1. 23. He kept his wife in town, according to a laudable injunction of queen Elizabeth generally observed till towards the times of usurpation, when all things run into confusion and wives with their dependances 40 were brought in to the disturbance of scholars. See p. 563 l. 13. In 1576 the fellows of King's 'complained of his [Dr. Goad, the provost's] Wife; that she came within the Quadrant of the Colledge: (though she came never twice within the Quadrant, but kept within the Lodgings). That their Statutes did forbid the Provost to marry. Though the 45 Statute, as the Provost in his Answer shewed, did not forbid the Provost's Marriage. And that the Visitor's Statutes in the Beginning of the Queen's Reign, and the University Statutes lately made, allowed 5 ΙΟ 15 Heads of Colleges to Marry' (Strype's Annals, II. bk. II. c. 2. p. 420). 'How would Mr. Baker have been astonished at the proposal, which originated from this college, and countenanced, as it was said, by the master and president, both ingenious, singular, and unmarrying men, brought into the senate house about 1765 or 6, for leave for fellows of colleges to marry. Their greatest enemy could not have proposed a more destructive scheme.' WM. COLE. P. 186 1. 29. Pet. Baro. Cooper's Ath. Cant. II. 274, 551; add MS. Baker XXIX. 184-188. Five fellows of St. John's, Jo. Allenson, Wm. Nelson, Abd. Ashton, Jas. Crouther, and Jo. Hooke signed the articles against Baro, Heywood and Wright II. 92. P. 186 1. 31. Wm. Barrett's case. Cooper ibid. 236, 549. See Strype's Whitgift Records bk. IV. n. 23: ‘A copy of Mr Barret's propositions,...... as given out and dispersed by some of St. John's college;' and n. 25: 'Dr Whitaker to the Archbishop; in favour of the proceedings of the Vice-Chancellor and Heads against Mr. Barret'. Both from Trin. Coll. MSS. P. 187 n. 3. the original. See above p. 600 l. 37. P. 187 1. 16. 20 P. 187 n. 5. 1. 5. 30 P. 187 1. 21. P. 188 L. 6. P. 188 1. 23. the queen presented Wm. Crashaw, p. 291 1. 25. Dr. Morton. See on this gift pp. 493 1.6, 510 1. 48, 511 Ric. Cox, p. 290 1. 21. There are other examples. A treatise among our MSS. H. 8. at Blunsham, p. 439 l. 15. 25 P. 188 L. 27. some reproach. 'Surely there can be no great reason of reproach! a prebend of Canterbury, prebend of Norwich, Mastership of St. John's, Regius professor, fellow of Eton, if such, and probably 2 livings, might have contented a reasonable man. More may be complained of in respect to the other, who being sent for by Cranmer out of Germany to instruct the English in divinity, ought not to have been starved when they brought him here. Observe that Dr. Whittaker was only 47 years at his death, and had a promise of the provostship of Eton college when vacant. Let his learned deserts be ever so extensive, the rewards seem to have been equally large.' WM. COLE. It is certain, from Whitaker's and dean Nowell's letters, that Whitaker was by no means wealthy. He sought the mastership of Trinity after Still's promotion, MS. Baker XXIX. 357. 35 40 45 P. 188 1. 30. Bucer forced to beg money with his latest breath. MS. C. C. C. C. CXIX. art. 23 p. 68, 'scriptum novissimum omnium quod scripsit D. Bucerus paulo ante mortem eius' (Parker's note). Addressed to Parker: 'S. D. Oro D. T. clarissime D. Doctor, ut des mihi X. coronatos mutuo, uno tamen mense reddam, bona fide. Opt. vale. D. T. deditiss. in Domino, MARTINUS BUCERUS, tamen perægre scripsi' (Parker Correspondence, 42). See Sir John Cheke's letter on the poverty of Bucer's widow, ibid. 43, 44. P. 189 n. 1. For 539 read 339. P. 190 1. 2. The next thing the college had to think of was a new master. In Heywood and Wright II. may be found. I. A letter to ld. Burghley, no date: 'It hath pleased God to take unto hym self the master of our colledge, a man renowned for his learninge throughout 5 all Christendome, and a great pillar of oure churche, who, geving hym self over wholye to his studye, and beinge by nature quyett and tractable, and puttinge in trust some others who, contrarye to hys mynde, suffered conventicles in oure colledge of Cartwrighte and his associates, and have chosen into the colledge, as neere as they coulde, no other IO men but suche, rejectinge the learned, and so have altered the state of this colledge since the lord bysshoppe of Peterboroughe went from us, as is incredible to be tolde. And if oure master had lyved, he would, as he often professed, synce he made an ende of writinge agaynst Stapleton, have reformed all thinges; but now dyinge before, the colledge is so 15 full of suche like men, as they are the greater nomber of the societie: and so if the newe master be chosen by them, we must needes greetly feare what they will doe.' Desire 'your honour to have that care of us, that our master may not be freely chosen whome they please, but rather one whome youre honour shall thincke good by her majestie to 20 preferre.' Signed by Ott. Hyll, Wm. Pratt, Wm. Billingsley, Ow. Gwyn, Geo. Buddle, Christ. Powell, Wm. Mottershedd, Val. Carey, Edw. Abney, Pet. Bindlesse, Val. Wood, Geo. Gowldman (pp. 64, 65). II. Latin letter to the same, no date. Lament 'e vivis excessisse religionis nostrae alterum Achillem, lumen academiae carissimum, et 25 huius nostri collegii sapientissimum dignissimumque praefectum.' Entreat 'ne mandato principis libertas suffragiorum...nobis eripiatur.' Assure him 'quo minores sunt fortunae collegii nostri, ... non nisi initiatum et paulo diligentius exercitatum difficilem provinciam posse cum laude sustinere.' Signed by Hen. Briggs, Greg. Newton, Rog. 30 Morrell, Art. Johnson, Jo. Harrison, Jo. Allenson, Tho. Bends, Abd. Assheton, Jo. Hooke, Jas. Crowther, Ste. Thomson, Christ. Foster, Rob. Spaldinge, Hugh Baguley, Jo. Goodwyn, Reg. Brathwaite, Rob. Whitham, Ri. Hord, Wm. Crashawe, Randolph Woodcocke, Jo. Gaudinge, Wm. Bourne; and by 'D. Robson, D. Harris, D. Placey', 35 where D. probably stands for Dominus, i. e. B.A. (pp. 65-67). III. Cambr. 12 Dec. 1595. Humphr. Tyndall and Tho. Nevile to Rog. Maners at the Savoy. Urge him to move lord Burghley in favour of Lawr. Stanton. 'If his lordship were thoroughly and truly made acquainted with the state of that house at this daye, he would 40 not dislike to have theire private plottinge there disapointed' (pp. 67, 68). IV. Cambr. 13 Dec. 1595. Rog. Goade v. c. and six heads to ld. Burghley. Being asked their opinion about the mastership, leave that consideration to his lordship's own wisdom (pp. 68, 69). V. 15 Dec. 1595. Lord Burghley to the coll. Repeats her majesty's com- 45 mand, conveyed in a former letter, 'charging yowe, uppon paine of your deprivacion and hir majesties indignacion, to forbeare to proceede to anie eleccion, untill hir majesties further roiall pleisure shall be signified' (pp. 69, 70). VI. St John's same date. 'Latin letter to lord |
