TRAVERS. 329 would suffer, practised by the first nonconformists in the days of Queen Elizabeth, found in the study of that most accomplished divine, THOMAS CA RTWRIGHT, after his decease, and reserved to be published for such a time as this." About the time that Mr. Travers was silenced at the Temple, he was invited, together with Mr. Cartwright, to become divinityprofessor in the university of St. Andrews; which he modestly refused, but returned his humble and thankful acknowledgments for sodignified an offer.. His celebrity was universally known, both in England and in other countries ; therefore, Dr. Loftus, archbishop of Dublin and chancellor of Ireland, who had been his col- league at Cambridge, and who knew his great worth, invited him to accept the provostship of Trinity college, Dublin. Mr. Travers having no prospect of a restoration to his beloved ministry, or any further public usefulness in his native country, accepted the invitation. He was greatly admired in his new situation, and had for one ofhis pupils Mr. James Usher, afterwards the famous archbishop of Armagh, who entertained the highest esteem for him. Nor did this esteem wear out by time, or decline by a change of circumstances; for after Usher was preferred to a bishopric, and Travers was grown old and poor, the pious and learned prelate paid him several visits, offering him presents of money, which the good old man thankfully declined to accept.+ Mr. Travers continued provost of the above college several years ; but upon the commencement of the wars in Ireland, he was constrained to quit his station, when he re- turned to England, and spent the remainder of his days in silence, poverty, and obscurity. He was living in the year 1624, as appears from the following curious fact : Mr. John Swan, of Cannock in Staffordshire, a religious man, left in his last will and testament the sum of fifty pounds, to be given, by direction of Mr. Hildersham, to ministers silenced for nonconformity. From a manuscripereceipt now before me, it appears that Mr. Travers partook of the bounty. It is in these words : March 5, 1624, received of Mr. Arthur Hildersham, five pounds, being part of a legacy of John Swan. I say, received byme, " WALTER TRAVERS."t o Fuller's Church Mist. b. ix. p. 215, 216. + Ibid. p. 218. MS. Chronology, vol. ii. p. 431. (12.)
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