ADDENDA. they might be profitably employed in reclaiming the people from ignorance and popery. This he recommended, not because he liked them, but because he wished,to get rid of them.. RALPH LEVER, A. M. was educated in King's college, Cambridge, and afterwards archdeacon of Northumberland, but he resigned this preferment in 1575, when he was suc- ceeded by Mr. Francis Bunney.t In 1577 he succeeded his brother, the celebrated Mr. Thomas Lever, as master of Sherborn hospital, near Durham. Hewas one of the canons in the church of Durham, and deeply concerned in drawing tip the articles against Mr. Whittmgham, whom he most probably succeeded in the office of dean.t He is, notwith- standing this, denominated a puritan. His assertions con- cerning the canon law, the English papists, and the eccle- siastical affairs of this realm , are still -preserved.ss One of the same name was rector of Snatterton in Norfolk, in 1588, where his remains were interred, June 3, 1605 ; but whether this was the same person is perhaps doubtfuldi WILLIAM DREWET was committed to Newgate by the bishops, in 1580, for not consenting, it is said, to the traditions and filthy ceremonies of antichrist. He was of opinion, that men could not worship God in spirit and in truth, so long as they maintained human traditions, worldly ordinances, and popish ceremonies. How long he remained in prison we are not 'able to learn.if JOHN NASH, a zealous puritan minister, was committed prisoner to the Marshalsea for nonconformity. From the prison he wrote a bold letter, dated January, 1580, to the bishops and clergy in convocation. In this letter, a copy of which is still preserved, he styles himself The Lord's Pri- soner, and boldly exposes the manifold errors and corruptions of the established church... Strype's Aylmer, p. 55, 56. , + Wood's Athena, vol. i. p. 356, 671. Strype's Parker, p. 275. Strype's Annals, vol. i. p. 315. ii. 514. Blomefield's Hist. of Norfolk, vol. i. p.285. ¶ MS. Register, p. 289. Ibid. p. 291-298.
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