W.D. CHRISTIE.
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CUNNINGHAM'S LIVES OF EMINENT ENGLISHMEN.--WHITGIFT AND CARTWRIGHT.
In a modern publication, entitled _Lives of Eminent Englishmen_,
edited by G.G. Cunningham, 8 vols. 8vo. Glasgow, 1840, we meet with
a memoir of Archbishop Whitgift, which contains the following
paragraph:--
"While Whitgift was footing to an archbishopric, poor
Cartwright was consigned to poverty and exile; and at length
died in obscurity and wretchedness. How pleasant would it
have been to say that none of his sufferings were inflicted
by his great antagonist, but that he was treated by him with
a generous magnanimity! Instead of this, Whitgift followed
him through life with inflexible animosity."--_Cunningham's
Lives_, ii. 212.
Mr. Cunningham gives no authority for these statements; but I will
furnish him with my authorities for the contradiction of them.
"After some years (writes Walton, in his _Life of Hooker_),
the Doctor [Whitgift] being preferred to the see, first of
Worcester and then of Canterbury, Mr. Cartwright, after
his share of trouble and imprisonment (for setting up new
presbyteries in divers places against the established order),
having received from the Archbishop many personal favours,
retired himself to a more private living, which was at
Warwick, where he became master of an hospital, and lived
quietly and grew rich;.
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