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Burghley. Beg him not to expose them to robbery; 'quod tum certo eveniet, si aliqui nobis praeficiantur quos passim audimus nominari.' They are laughed to scorn by their enemies 'quasi aut malesani homines aut non multi iudicii; parum idonei, quibus committi tuto possint illa libera suffragia.' Yet 18 of them are B.D. or of a higher degree, some of them elected Whitaker. 'Inique postulamur quasi puritani omnes essemus ... Omnem haeresin, maxime vero quae nunc nostram hanc ecclesiam Anglicanam perturbant, papismum et puritanismum, execramur dirisque devovemus.' Hope that they may at least be allowed to choose some one whom his lordship may approve: 'quales esse speramus magistrum D. Reignolds Oxoniensem, magistrum D. Webster, magistrum D. Clayton, magistrum Knewstub, magistrum Ireton, magistrum Alvey collegii istius praesidem, magistrum Morrell, omnes collegii istius alumnos, et alios complures quos aetas haec nostra tulit, e quibus possit amplissimus honor tuus quos velit nobis offerre.' Signed Art. Johnson, Jo. Allenson, Tho. Bends, Morgan Gaudinge, Rob. Hill, Wm. Peachie, Ste. Thomson, Ra. Woodcocke, Jo. Goodwyn, Jo. Gaudinge, Jo. Hooke, Jas. Crouther, Christ. Foster, Rob. Whitham, Rob. Spaldinge, Reg. Braithwaite, Wm. Crashawe, Hugh Baguly, Wm. Bourne, Ri. Horde, Hen. Briggs, Jo. Cupper, Greg. Newton (pp. 70-72). VII. Same date. Rog. Goade v. c. and 6 heads to the same. By his letter of 12 Dec. he had ordered the election to be delayed. Have not been able to agree upon one candidate, but name two, Dr Webster and Mr Stanton, both named by the fellows consulted, who were equally taken out of both sides. The majority, including the v. c., recommend Stanton (pp. 73, 74). VIII. 14 Dec. 1595. Complaints against Hen. Alvey and his party for non-conformity. 1. General exceptions. 1. In theire prayers at there sermons they never make mention of the quenes supremacye, neyther do they ever pray for archbishopps or bishopps, or the present state of the churche.-2. They have no lycences to preache, nor will take any, because they will not subscribe; and yet the statute of our bowse doth enjoyne all oure preachers to get licences. Cap. 22°.—3. They preache in their private sermons that we ought to choose fellowes and schollers religious and godlye men (as they terme them), that be unlearned, rather then oure greatest schollers; and followinge this principle, they have pestered oure howse with unlearned puritanes picked out of the whole Universitie and scholemasters out of the country, and dryve awaye all the best and towardlye schollers that be of our owne colledge. --4. In our masters absence they suffered a conventicle of Mr Cartwright and his complices to be gathered in oure Colledge, anno 1589; Mr Alvey keepinge our masters lodginge where they then mett.— 5. In all elections of officers and other prefermentes they injurye, disgrace and put by their senioritie, as neere as they coulde, all men that were not of theire humoure.' 2. Particular exceptions. 1. Alvey supported Fras. Johnson the Brownist. 2. When Barnhere's [Tho. Bernher's] fellowship was challenged, because he had only presbyterian orders, Alvey 'defended him that he was as good a minister as any there'. 3. Alvey proposed suppers publicly in hall on Friday nights, 'alledging it was not against any statute in the realme, but some olde

canon whiche he regarded not.-4. Our posteriorums beinge a feast of fleshe was kept this last year on Easter even at night, the bell ringinge to it. And this was donne by expresse commaundement of Mr Alvey to the stewardes uppon their obedience, when they seemed to mislike.' -5. For 7 or 8 years Alvey has plotted for the mastership.-6. Since 5 Alvey's side was strong enough, 'which hathe bene this twelvemonethe,' they have depreciated Whitaker's government.-7. Our master inclined in his latter tyme to do good to our companye in many thinges Whereupon Mr. Alvey of late tooke the prophets wordes to Jehosaphat for his text, 2 Chron. 19, 2: Wilt thou helpe the wicked, and be 10 joyned in frendshippe with those that hate the Lorde? ... applying his speache wholye to our master.-8. Mr. Monsey in his public sermon synce Michaelmas last, perceaving the masters dislike he beganne to have of their companye, prayed God that our master, as he had begunne in the spirit, so he might not ende in the fleshe.'-9. [Art.] Johnson, 15 suspended 1583, has since served Bennet parish 9 or 10 years, neglecting the orders of the church.-10. [Jo.] Harrison continues vicar of Histon after refusing subscription.-11. [Greg.] Newton, late cur. of Barnwell, 'never wore surplice there, nor used the crosse, nor woulde let theme have anye ringe in marriage, nor let the auncient men of his 20 parishe communicate, excepte they came before hym to be examined. Mr Newton also in a common-place speakinge of the afflictions of the godlye, termed the government of the bysshopps, for suspendinge ministers from their ministerie, tyrannicall. And beinge complayned of, he expounded hymself that he meant of antichristian byshopps.' Jo. 25 Allenson, suspended by my lord grace his delegates 1583, when he served at Barnwell, and again 1589, when he served at Horningsey, and neither time absolved, still preached. [Wm.] Bourne, chosen last election from another college, being denied orders by the bps. of Chester (afterwards of Linc.) and of Peterborough, because he refused 30 to subscribe, was at last ordained by the bp. of St. Asaph. Pet. Bindles, Edw. Sparcke, Jas. Crowther, Wm. Peachy, Jo. Cupper, neglect the orders of the church at their cures. 'All that company, when they reade service in our chappell, do usually leave out peeces of the prayers in the communion booke at their pleasure'. Signed Ott. 35 Hyll, Jo. Bois, Wm. Pratt, Geo. Gowldman, Val. Carey, Tho. Turner (pp. 75-78). IX. Cambr. 18 Dec. 1595. Hen. Alvey to ld. Burghley (Lat.). Is grieved to hear of the calumnies of certain fellows. They charge him with being incapable to govern; and yet 'crebris sermonibus suis solent usurpare, quasi plus iusto (uti loquuntur) politicum me 40 putarent et dicerent, idque optimo Whitakero, dum vixit, non semel ad ignominiam ab illis obiectum fuit,...a me non ab illo geri plane quicquid illo tempore quo is nos rexit, quoad regimen collegii, apud nos factum fuit.' Charged as one, 'qui per fas nefasque ruerem contra omne imperium dominationemque, non obstante aliqua cuiuscunque 45 personae praeceptione.' Far from resisting the queen's letters, 'in uno tuo verbo libentissime acquiescerem.' When your lordship's messenger demanded £3. 68. 8d. from the coll., the other party refused to pay him out of the college funds, referring him to those who had occasioned the second message, 'homines nimirum nostros intelligunt, ne 50

forte nescias.' Begs 'ut me homunculum ad pedes tuos humillime prostratum respicias...Ita cuique eveniat, ut de republica, ecclesia, hoc collegio quisque mereatur' (pp. 79—81). X. 19 Dec. Lord Burghley to the heads, in reply to their letter of 15 Dec. Of Webster and Stanton, her maj. likes Stanton best; but has since heard that Ri. Claiton is 'a vearie meete person, the rather bicause he is unmarried, as the other two are not.' The president and an equal number from each party of fellows to have their choice; whether they will elect between Claiton and Stanton, or whether the queen as 'inheritable fundatryce' shall nominate. 'I doe wishe most hartelie to see sum good ende hereof, and that such a master maye be theare as maie bringe seedes of concorde into the howse, beinge the principall band to continewe them in charitie, and thereby to prosper in grace and loving, wherof no on in that societie whosoever shall tak more comfort than my self, estemyng and reverencyng that colledg as my best parent that gave me norriture, to know God truly, and to detest popery; which was above iij yers now past' (pp. 81-83). XI. King's coll. 22 Dec. 1595. Rog. Goade v. c. to lord Burghley. The day before the fellows promised to elect one of the two recommended; and 'this present morning thei having, with generall consent, chosen Mr. Dr. Claiton, did theruppon (according to their statute) bring their sayd master unto me... to take his othe, which he hath done in their presence; the president declaringe first openly unto mee that thei had, with one consent, chosen him to be their master' (pp. 83, 84). XII. 23 Dec. 1595. Rog. Goade, Edm. Barwell and Laur. Chaderton to the same. Recommend Ri. Neale B.D. of S. John's ‘a man partly knowen unto your lordship, and in our opinions not onely religious, learned and of sober and honest conversacion, but also of that temperate moderacion and discreet cariage of himself, as wee thinke him in that respect also the meeter for this small preferrement,' the mastership of Magd., vacated by Claiton (pp. 84, 85). XIII. St John's 25 Dec. 1595. 37 fellows, of both parties, to the same (Lat.) 'Cum...de surrogando...novo magistro vehementer (ut fit) dissentiremus, parumque abesset quin mutuis certaminibus collisi pudendum de nobis spectaculum praeberemus, tua tandem (salutarine dicamus an divina?) prudentia factum est, ut talis vir nobis commendaretur, qui nemini invisus, omnibus carus et iucundus esset. Is est Cleitonus, vir summa integritate, eruditione, morum facilitate praeditus, quo, si libera nobis vota fuissent, vix optassemus quidem meliorem. In eo itaque eligendo communibus studiis atque suffragiis consensimus; neque dubitamus fore quin felicibus auspiciis inchoata concordia in perpetuum permansura sit' (pp. 85, 86). These letters resolve Cole's doubt. 'In Peck's Desid. Cur. Vol. 1. lib. v. p. 9, 10, is a letter from lord Burghley to his son Sir Rob. Cecil, dated 7 Dec. 1595, requesting the queen not to interfere in the election of a master, but to leave the fellows to a free choice according to their statutes. He says, that he has no purpose to prefer any, tho' he has some interest there on account of his and his wive's benefactions to the society. Yet Mr Baker says, that he recommended Dr Clayton and Mr Stanton.' WM. COLE. Lord Burghley says: 'The Bearers herof are two of the Senior Fellows of St Jhons Colledg in Cambrig who

brought me the Letter included (signed by 23 of the Company [see above p. 606 1. 25]) which yow may read, and therby the cawse of ther Wrytyng to me, as beyng the Chancellor of the University, may appeare very reasonable and just; which is,' to procure them freedom of choice. 'My Request is, that if ye shall fynd any Intention 5 in hir Majestie upon any sinister sute, to prefer any other than the Voyces of the company shall frely choose, to besech hir Majestie that, at my Sute (being ther Chancellor, and having bene wholly brought up ther from my Age of xiiij. Yers, and now the only Person lyving of that Tyme and Education) the Statuts of the Colledg (to which all that IO are Electors are sworn) may not be now broken; as I hope hir Majestie will not in hir Honor and Conscience do. I my self have no Purpose to prefer any; and yet I have some Interest herin, being a poore Benefactor of that College, to which I have assured Lands to encress the Commons of the Schollers from vijd. to xiid. a Weke. And so 15 hath your Mother also gyven a Benefit of Perpetuitie. If hir Majestie should, by private Labor, be otherwise moved, I pray yow offer to her the Letter to be redd from the Colledg.'

P. 190 n. I. Alvey disaffected. 'V. Dr Nath. Johnston's King's Visitatorial Power asserted, p. 269'. WM. COLE. See Commun. to Camb. 20 Ant. Soc. 1. 348. Alvey, with 10 other fellows of St. John's, signed the petition in favour of Fras. Johnson 23 Dec. 1589, see above p. 607 1. 46; Heywood and Wright Cambr. Univ. Trans. 1. 564–568.

P. 190 n. 3. Peck Desid. Cur. bk. VIII. p. 43.

P. 191 1. 11. The second court. In the treasury, drawer A, are contained 25 the plans for this court, signed by the contractors. They will appear in Prof. Willis' architectural history of the University.

P. 191 1. 13. P. 191 1. 23. for making the buildings half-story. See a letter of Booth's (ibid. 343—345), Broad-street (lady Shrewsbury's) 6 June 1600 to Ri. 30 Claiton: 'for M' Lucye, yf he have M' Cokes chamb1, all here are well satisfied: & for bestoweing roomes in yo1 new buildinges vppō yong gentlemen, wo by the Foundrs were and are intended to Felowes, yt wilbe much mysliked: & yo' frendes here will not press you in yt kynde; but are desyrous that the Felowes may have the benefite of those roomes: 35 yet vppō speciall occasions they who are ornamento or emolumento* to yo howse must by yo' statute be therin respected. in this rawng now erecting in yo1 new court, & so in the next, it wilbe well yt the tymber be so provyded as yt the thyrd story may be 11. foote high at the least, & yt the second or midle story may notwtstanding be 12. foote 40 high at the least betwene floare & floare. all we (as I think) may fitly be, by thrusting the seeling of the third story high into y roofe, & by raysing y floare of yt third story a foote or more higher then it is in the north rawng: we may be wtout charg to y° workemen, and will greatly bewtifye the chambers......yt is sayd yt yo' new gatehowse 45 is not so large & fayre as the ould one towarges y° streate: we must

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* The following is the statute referred to: 'Ne tamen ex cubiculorum distributione controversia aut invidia oriatur, seniorem secundum suum gradum iuniori tam inter socios quam inter discipulos semper præferendum statuimus...... Proviso semper ut non obstante praesenti statuto liceat magistro et maiori parti seniorum cubicula vacantia illis pensionariis assignare, quos in sociorum commeatum admissos tam collegio quam academiae et ornamentum et emolumentum allaturos esse iudicaverint, modo numerum trium cubiculorum non excedant.'Stat. Eliz. c. 32.

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P. 191 1. 35. a slight and crazy building, which can never live up to the age of the first court. By the influence and direction of Dr. Powell, the late master, who gave £500 to it, the 2d court has a chance of living up to the age of the first: for about 1773, the college having a sum to lay out on the buildings, the foolish scheme was adopted of new casing part of the first court with stone, to the great weakening of the original building, defacing the uniformity of it, and at such an expense as it would be preposterous to go on in the same manner: so only the face of the south side of that court looks elegant, to disgrace the other parts, which now look worse.' WM. COLE. 1777. Aug. 2.

P. 192 1. 12. Mr Rob. Booth's legacy.

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P. 1921. 20. Countess of Shrewsbury. Vid. Letters of Sir Francis Bacon, printed Ao. 1702, p. 68. Eliz. Cavendish, daughter of the famous Eliz. Hardwick, countess of Shrewsbury, married Charles Stuart, earl of Lenox, younger brother to Lord Darnley, king of Scots, and uncle to king James I., by whom he had the lady Arabella Stuart. The Queen of Scots was accused for contriving this match; and the countess was imprisoned for it; as was her daughter for a fault of the same nature. Watson's Historical collections of Ecclesiastick Affairs in Scotland, p. 177.' WM. COLE.

P. 192. L. 24. no mystery. Rob. Booth to Ri. Clayton, 14 Febr. 1598, sending in the name of the earl of Shrewsbury [who had estates at Sheffield] ‘a knyfe, a payre of scissers and 3 penknyves: bycause they are not worth the sending, you must have them as from me. Yf you mention any thankes to his Lordship in any Letter, either lett it be in a note inclosed in your lettre, or els be sure in the same lettre not to mention either the mony receyved, or any other thing concerning your building in hand, bycause his Lordship hath not bene yet prepared as