"--_Carwithen's
History of the Church of England_, i. 527. 2nd edit.
Lest this should not suffice to convict Mr. Cunningham of error, I
will adduce two extracts from _The Life of Master Thomas Cartwright_,
written by the Presbyterian Sa. Clarke, in 1651, and appended to his
_Martyrologie_.
"About the same time [viz. 1580], the Earl of Leicester
preferred him [Cartwright] to be master of his hospital
at Warwick, which place was worth to him about one hundred
pounds."--Clarke, p. 370.
"For riches, he sought them not; yea, he rejected many
opportunities whereby he might have enriched himself. His
usual manner was, when he had good sums of gold sent him,
to take only one piece, lest he should seem to slight his
friend's kindness, and to send back the rest with a thankful
acknowledgement of their love and his acceptance of it;
_professing that, for that condition wherein God had set him,
he was as well furnished as they for their high and great
places_."--Ib. p. 372.
So much for the "poverty," the "wretchedness," of Cartwright, and the
"inflexible animosity" of Whitgift. The very reverse of all this is
the truth.
J.K.
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INEDITED LETTER OF THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH.
Several notices of the Duke of Monmouth having appeared in "NOTES AND
QUERIES," you may be glad to have the following letter, which I copied
_literatim_ some years ago in the State Paper Office from the domestic
papers of the year 1672.
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