Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 by Various
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ways_;' and in this opinion he died."
I find it stated, moreover, on the authority of Sir G. Paul's _Life of Whitgift_, that Cartwright acknowledged the generosity of Whitgift, and admitted "his bond of duty to the Archbishop to be so much the straiter, as it was without any desert of his own."--_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 |
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