386 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. persisting in this wantonness, as he was pleased to call his nonconformity ;* and we may suppose he was as good as his word. The deficiency of information is, however, sup- plied by another author, who observes, that on account of his puritanism, he was expelled from his college; when he took lodgings in the town, and procured a support by the delivery of public lectures.+ Dr. Fulke having gained a most distinguished reputation, so early as the year 1569, he was upon the point of being chosen master of St. John's college, by a very considerable party, who had the highest value for him. This greatly offended Archbishop Parker, who, seasonably interposing, put a stop to his election.# The jealous archbishop could not bear that 4, Fulke's head should be thus stroken," as he expressed it; and he knew it was best to crush puritanism in the bud. About the same time, the Earl of Leicester, a constant friend and patron of such men, received him under his hospitable roof, and made him his domestic chaplain. Also, duringthe above year, hewas charged with being concerned in certain unlawful marriages ; but upon his examination by the Bishop of Ely, he was acquitted, and the charge proved to be altogether a calumny. He presently recovered his reputation. Though while he remained under the public odium, he voluntarily resigned his fellowship ; yet his innocency was no sooner proved, than he was re-elected by the college.§ In the year 1571, the Earl of Essex presented Dr. Fulke to the rectory of Warley in Essex, and, soon after, to the rectory of Kedington in Suffolk. About this time, he took his doctor's degree at Cambridge, and was incorporated in the same at Oxford. The year following, he accompanied the Earl of Lincoln, then lord high admiral, as ambassador to the court of France.II Upon his return, he was chosen master of Pembroke hall, and Margaret professor of divinity, in the universityof Cambridge. He was succeeded in his mastership by Dr. Andrews, chaplain to Queen Elizabeth, and afterwards successively Bishop of Chichester and Winchesterit Dr. Fulke was particularly intimate with Mr. Thornas Strype's Parker, p. 197. Appen. p. 72. 1* Middleton's Biograptiia Evaugelica, vol. ii. p. 262. Edit. 17S0. ' Strype's Parker, p. 280. II Strype's Annals, vol. p. 240. It Baker's MS. Collet. vol. vi. p. 295.
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