Webster says he never could get any account of this collection of
papers. Can Colchester now produce any information about them?

Can any of your readers give any information about those papers of
the second Duke of Albemarle, and of Grenville, Earl of Bath, to which
Skinner had access? Lord Bath's papers were probably afterwards in the
hands of his nephew Lord Lansdowne, who vindicated Monk in answer to
Burnet.

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