512 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. _ brethren.-And he denounced a woe against him who had lately put out some lights that were used to shine in Cambridge.". RICHARD GARDINER was a puritan divine of considerable repute in the university. of Cambridge ; who, in 1583, united with other learned divines in warmly requesting Mr. Cart- wright to answer the Rhemist Translation of the New Tes- tament. In 1587 he often met with the nonconformists at their private assemblies in London, Cambridge, and other places.+ It does not appear whether he was any relation to Mr. John Gardiner, another puritan divine. MR. KENDAL was a learned and peaceable divine, of a holy life and conversation, and one ofthe public readers in the university of Oxford ; but he could not in conscience sub- scribe and observe the ceremonies, yet he refrained from speaking against them. He was, therefore, suspended by Archbishop Whitgift. The lord treasurer interceded with the archbishop for his restoration, in a letter dated April 21, 1590, in which he speaks of Mr. Kendal in terms of the highest commendation, and earnestly prays his grace to restore him to his ininisterial exercise, at least till he was found guilty of disturbing the peace of the church. " But," our author adds, " I do not find what success he had with the archbishop."# EZEKIEL CULVERWELL, educated in Emanuel college, Cambridge, was some time rector of Stambridge in Essex,i and afterwards vicar of Felsted in the same county. When in the latter situation he was prosecuted for nonconformity. In the year 1583 he was suspended by Bishop Aylmer, for not wearing the surplice.11 He was a man of great piety and excellent ministerial abilities, and instrumental in the conversionof the celebrated Dr. William Gouge, when a boy at school. His sister was the doctor's mother.s He is classed Strype's Annals, vol. iii. p. 489, 490. + MS. Chronology, vol. i. p.419. (1 I 8.) Strype's Whitgift, p. 242. § Newcourt's Repert. Eccl. vol. ii. p. 542. U MS. Register, p.584. it Clark's Lives annexed to Martyrologie, p. 90.
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