Queen's Majefty, or the Counsel, be- John Whitgift, Vice-Chancellour. John Mey. Edward Hawford. William Chadderton. Henry Harvy. Thomas Bing. ET Tego Matthæus Stokis Sarum Dioces, in Artibus Ma▪ gifter publicus Authoritate legitima Notarius, quia interfui deprivationi dicti Cartwright facta undecimo die Decembris, Anno 1570. & tunc ibidem audivi Doctorem Whitgift interrogantem eum Cartwright de præmiffis allegatis, & M. Cartwright eadem confitentem; Ideo, in fidem teftimoni um um præmissorum, nomen meum re- 28. Not long after (at which time her Highness had fummoned a Parliament) fome of principal note amongst thefe Difciplinarians thought that the fittest time either to effect their defires by fome A bettors in that high Affembly, or at least to difperfe their Opinions into all the parts of the Kingdom. To which end they then published a Seditious Treatife, entituled, An Admoni- The Difciplition to the Parliament; being indeed narians publish the very Summary both of their Opini- tion to the ons touching Church matters, and of Parliament. their shameless Slanders against the Governors thereof. An Admoni 29.And albeit Doctor Whitgift confidered that this Libel was unworthy any ferious confutation, yet in regard of the great applause it found among the green Heads of the Univerfity (who were greedy of Novelties) and to ftop the current of fo dangerous Pofitions, he fpared not his pains in writing a learn. Whitgift an ed Answer; therein laying open the first, 1572. weakness of that Caufe,and the ftrength of of their Malice, who fo hotly pursued the fame; which being published upon the Year 1572. won him no lefs reputation with the learneder fort, than the former had with the young and weaker Brains, yea even thofe who had formerly thought the Admonition unanfwerable, found the rafhness of their Cenfures by the foundness of that Refutation. 30. Whereupon Mafter Cartwright, notwithstanding his former refufal to enter into the lift with Doctor Whitgift (as is aforefaid) feeing both the walls and foundation of his new-founded Church-government already fhaken, and tottering, endeavoured to underCartwright prop the fame with a Reply. The weaknefs whereof Doctor Whitgift displayed in his Defence of the Answer to the Admonition, against the Reply. replies. Whitgift defends his AnSmer. 30. But Mafter Cartwright (glorying belike to have the laft word) published Cartwright's a fecond Reply, fraught with no other Second Reply. ftuff, than had been before refuted, yet Doctor Whitgift addreffing himself to answer it, was by the advice of fome (whofe Judgments he much efteemed) diffuaded from troubling himself, in refuting that which he had already ker's Letters concerning ply, and his overthrown. Amongst others who dif fuaded him, the learned Doctor Whitaker was one; against whofe Judgment the Adversary can no way juftly except. His words in his Letter to Doctor Whitgift are thefe; Quem Cartwrightus Mr. Whitanuper emifit libellum ejus magnam partem perlegi. Ne vivam, fi quid unquam vi- Mr. Cartderim diffolutius, ac penè puerilius. Ver- wright's Reborum fatis ille quidem lautam, ac novam censure of him. fupellectilem habet, rerum omnino nullam, quantum ego judicare poffum. Deinde, non modò perverse de Principis in rebus facris, atque Ecclefiafticis authoritate fentit, fed in Papiftarum etiam caftra tranf fugit, à quibus tamen videri vult odio capitali diffidere. Verum nec in hac caufa ferendus, & aliis etiam in partibus tela à Papiftis mutuatur. Denique ut de Ambrofio dixit Hieronimus, verbis ludit, fententiis dormitat, & planè indignus eft, qui à quopiam docto refutetur. I have read over (faith he) a great part of the Book o which Mafter Cartwright hath lately fet forth; Let me not live if I ever faw any thing more loofe, and almoft more childish. As for words, indeed he hath ftore of them, both trim, and fresh enough; but as for matter he hath none at all: Befides this, he hath not only pecvifl peevish Affertions touching the Princes Authority in matters Sacred, and Ecclefiaftical, but he also flatly revolteth from us to the Camp of the Papifts, from whom he would feem to fly with deadly hatred. And not in this Cause only is he unfufferable, but in other Points alfo he borroweth his Weapons and Arguments from the Papifts. And in a word, as Hierome fometime faid of Ambrofe; he is in his words but a trifler, and for his matter but a dreamer, and altogether unworthy to be refuted by any man of Learning. 32. Mafter Cartwright after these Controverfies thus begun, and continued by himself, as you fee, lived fometimes beyond the Seas, now in one place, and then in another, without attaining any eminent or certain Place in the Commonwealth, fave only the Mastership of an Hofpital in Warwick. 33. But Doctor Whitgift having continued Mafter of Trinity College ten years, and being twice Vice-chancellor, was by her Majefty preferred alfo to the Deanry of Lincoln, which he held for made Dean of the fpace of feven years; fo long as he remained in Cambridge. Whitgift Lincoln. |