BOOK" already made by the dean and chapter, and the assigns "of the patentees reasonably dealt with. I. Anno 1585. Articles of propound ed. "But admit the assurance upon the concealment be "doubtful or unperfect; yet to have that title of conceal"ment reassured to her majesty, and by a lease to be made "to Mr. Fanshaw and Mr. Osborn, doth less prejudice to "the dean and chapter, and their tenants, than to leave it, "as it now standeth, in the hands of the patentees. "Jo. Popham." The next year, (viz. 1587,) there were articles of agreeagreement ment propounded between the dean and chapter and the patentees, and drawn up by the queen's attorney and solicitor. And being offered to the dean, he, in certain words 339 and conditions, accorded: but some exceptions happened; so as it came as yet to no positive agreement. dral church. The state of It will open this cause further, if we take the state of the cathe- this cathedral church, as it was said to be truly set down by one on the side of the patentees: shewing also the effect of a warrant from the queen to the lord treasurer, authorizing him to procure a lease to be drawn up in trust to Fanshaw and Osborn, for making new leases to the tenants. Which paper being somewhat long, and letting in much light into this remarkable suit, I have disposed it in (No. LVII.) the Appendix. The matter was depending till and. 1588. The business still hung for some years after. And the cause thus depending, the queen at length referred the ordering the whole matter to the lord treasurer, and to sir Walter Mildmay, chancellor of the exchequer, as two honourable persons most indifferent. But the business was not at an end, even in the year 1588, when we may hear more of it. CHAP. XXVII. CHAP. XXVII. A motion made by Travers to Hooker, now become master Anno 1585. of the Temple, to stay for a call of the people. His answer. Cartwright returned home. Some university matters. One called before the vice-chancellor of Cambridge, for a sermon ad clerum about keeping the sabbath. A new printing press at Oxford.. A book of Ethics the first book printed there. Contest about the antiquity of the universities. Lord Lumley gives books to Cambridge. The want of an university in Ireland. Slanders raised of the lord treasurer. Some variance between the earl of Leicester and him. Letters between them. Philip earl of Arundel fined. Edward lord Beauchamp. out the north-west passage. His letter to Drake. Davys finds Hooker, first became SOMETHING occurred this year concerning puritans A motion and schismatics. When Hooker was to be master of the made to Temple, Travers, the reader there, and two other gentle- when he men, the evening before he was to preach, came to him: master of the effect of their conference with him was, that he should the Temple. change his purpose of preaching there the next day, and to stay till Travers had given notice of him to the congregation; that so their allowance might seal his [viz. Hooker's] 340 calling. I set down this the rather, to shew how Travers endeavoured to insinuate his own principles slyly upon Hooker; viz. of the people's election of their minister. But that reverend man was aware of it, by the answer he made: “That as in place where such order was, he would not Answer to "break it; so here, where it never was, he would not of his "own head take upon him to begin it. But liking very well p. 470. "the motion of the opinion which he had of his good mean❝ing who made it, he required him not to mislike of this "his answer." But this displeased. Some angry informations were daily sent out intelligences given out, far and wide, what a dangerous enemy was crept in. This occasioned a second conference between Travers and him: when a common friend Travers's Supplicat. Faults Hooker. BOOK had requested him [Travers] to utter those things wherein I. he found himself any way grieved. Then he first renewed Anno 1585. the memory of Hooker's entering into this charge by virtue only of a human creature: for so the want of the formality of popular allowance was then censured. To this was anfound with nexed a catalogue: partly of causeless surmises; as that Hooker had conspired against him, and sought superiority over him and partly of faults; as praying in the entrance of his sermon only, and not in the end; naming bishops in his prayer; [that order being holden by the puritans as antichristian;] and kneeling when he received the communion; and such like. I take this out of Mr. Hooker's Answer to a Supplication made by Travers to the council, full of great supposed crimes laid to that learned man's charge, to note hence the opinions and principles so contested for by men called then the new reformers. I refer the reader to Mr. Hooker's own answers: only I observe by the way, concerning one of the faults laid to his charge, viz. that of praying for bishops, that it was a custom of the puritans many years after to omit the mention of the bishops in their prayers. Thus in the year 1595, the archdeacon of London visited the churches there: and when the churchwardens' answers to the articles concerning the ministers were given in, the churchwardens of Aldermary church informed, concerning the prayer of their minister, one Jolliff, M. A. "That he prayed for the queen's ma"jesty, but left out the title of supremacy; and that he re"fused to pray for archbishops and bishops, nomine.” Cartwright I find Tho. Cartwright, the chief of the puritan sect, (of whom many things have been said before,) was now returned home from beyond sea; whither he had retired, and abode for divers years. For his troubles that he had created in the church, by his writings and readings in the university and elsewhere, made him liable to danger here at home: insomuch that he was informed officers were appointed to apprehend him, as a promoter of sedition. Whereupon, in an elegant Latin epistle to the lord treasurer, apologizing for himself, he prayed that lord to use his interest with the queen for his safety, giving some account of his behaviour returned home. 66 66 XXVII. when abroad. This was writ in April. And he wrote also CHAP. to the privy-council: Quod in me juvandi voluntate animum non omnino adversum et alienum esse confiderem: Anno 1585. i. e. "That he trusted that the lord treasurer's mind was 341 "not so averse, nor alienated from him, but that there was "in him a will to be helpful to him: quinque jam annos peregre a patria agens: i. e. that he had now lived five "years from his own country. And that almost all those years he spent in the ministry of the church of England, "which remained in the parts beyond sea. And in which "time he laboured under a very doubtful disease. And "that by much shaking and agitation [which seemed to be an ague] he fell into a tabes, (perhaps a consumption, or, "as they called it, an hectic,) so that by the physicians he "was advised to leave that air where he was, [Antwerp, I "think,] an enemy to him, and to return to his own country. But that being now come necessarily for the recovery "of his health, that there were such as watched to appre“hend him, that they might cast him into prison, when "he laboured all he could abroad to shew himself peace"able." And the good success Cartwright obtained appears in a letter of thanks, wrote in June following, to the aforesaid nobleman, in representing him favourably to the parliament, as he acknowledged; speaking of his quiet behaviour abroad, in clarissimo regni consessu de me dixisti, whereby his peace was obtained. And how his business was referred to the archbishop of Canterbury, and how friendly and favourably he was dealt with by him, appeared by a letter of the earl of Leicester's to the archbishop, by thankfully acknowledging the same, set down in the Life of Archbishop Whitgift. 66 Book iii. chap. 13. Now something concerning the universities, and matters University relating to learning. matters. profaned; The Sundays, set apart for the public and solemn wor- Sundays ship of God, were nowadays much profaned in riot and reproved in intemperance; chiefly caused by interludes and sports, prac- a clerum. tised on the eves of those days, and the afternoons also. Insomuch that in a sessions of parliament, an. 27. regin. a bill was put up for the better observation of that day. And a Jewish sab BOOK sermon was now preached at Cambridge ad clerum by one I. John Smith, M. A. venting therein a doctrine for keeping Anno 1585. the Christian sabbath according to the law and practice of Asserting the Jews. Which being new to many of the scholars that bath. heard him, he was informed against to the vice-chancellor and heads. And for which the preacher was cited before them: when divers questions concerning that holy day were put to him, and others likewise. But take the whole account thereof from the university register. The preacher the vicechancellor. Regist. Rev. T. Baker. 66 In causa Jo. Smith in artibus mri. acta quædam. Primo die Quadrages. 1585, secundum, &c. præfutus macited before gister concionatus est, &c. "The first day of Lent, 1585, "the foresaid master of arts preached. In whose sermon some things delivered by him gave occasion of offence. "Whereupon, Febr. 21, he appeared before Dr. Perne, deputy vice-chancellor, in the presence of Styll, Bell, Norgate, Legge, and Hatcher, doctors of divinity, and Mr. "Barwel, heads of colleges; and confessed, by the subscrip"tion of his hand, that he had spoke the following words; "viz. Si illud verum sit, quod auditione accepi, istiusmodi 342" certe ludos diris devovco, et actores et spectatores; si cos "metirer pede, arbitrarer, certe, vel quod essent dii nati, "vel Satanæ futuri. O tempora! O mores! O magis. His words. “tratus!" Adding further these words; "That the plays "at Saturday and Sunday at night were breaches of the "Christian sabbath. On Sunday, for that they were at it "before the sun was set. On Saturday, for disabling of "their bodies for the sabbath duties. 2do. For that by the equity of the Jews' sabbath, we are feriari ab occasu pri“diano ab ordinariis vitæ muneribus per 24 horas: in sab"bato feriandum, jure divino. 66 "Febr. 26, ann. Dom. secundum, &c. 1585, in magna camera, &c. The 26th of February, 1585, in the great "chamber of Humphrey Tyndal, S. T. P. vice-chancellor "of the university of Cambridge, in Queen's college. Pre"sent the aforesaid vice-chancellor, doctors Styll, Goad, "Peter Baro, Norgate, and Legge, and masters Chader"ton, Whitacre, and Barwel, S. Th. Bacc. the following |