Chap. IV. the HISTORY of tyre PURITANS. 147 the church for a good confcience, fhould endeavour aftbr a very poor ElgYeen manner to live by the gofpel. 1565. There . was flill one door of entrance into the miniftry left open to the puritans, which the archbifhop ufed all his intereft to (hut, but could not Univerftty of prevail. It was a privilege granted the univerfity of Cambridge by Pope p ambgd fs Alexander VI. to licence twelve minifters yearly, to preach any where licenjng throughout England, without obtaining licences from any of the Whops. preachers de- The bull lays, that, " the chancellor of the univerfity (who was then bated. " Fifher bifhop of Rotheller) and his fucceffors, ¡hall licence twelve " preachers yearly, under the common Peal of the univerfity, who (hall C' have liberty to preach, &c. durante vita naturali." The archbifhop fent to fecretary Cecil their chancellor, praying him to let afide this praEtice. (r,) Becaufe the prefent licences varied from the original bull, being given out by the vice- chancellor, whereas- they ought to be in the name of the chancellor only. (2.) Becaufe it was unreafonable to give licences du- rante vita naturali, i., e. for life; whereas they ought to be only quam diu nobis placuerint, & dum laudabiliter ge/ferint, i. e. During our plea- Life of Par- fure,.or as long as they behave well. (3.) But that which troubled the arch- ker, P. 093. bifhop moft, was the claufe that infringed his own and his brethrens rifdiction, that they might preach without a.licenfe from any of the bops. And yet this claufe is in the letters patent ofqueen Elizabeth, granted to L. ofParker, the univerfity for this purpofe; the words are, Licentia ordinariorum to-App P. 69. corum fuper hoc minime requifita. This was thought infufferable ; the vice-chancellor therefore was fent for to town, to defend the privelege of the univerfity, which he did to the fatisfas Lion of the chancellor; but the archbifhop was fo angry, that he declared he would not admit any of their licences, without the chancellor's name ; nor .could he imagine, that the vice-chancellor, by his pretended experience and ¡kill in the civil law, could inform his honour of any thing, that he was not capable of anfwering. But here his grace met with a difappointment, for the univerfity retained their privilege, and madeufe of it to the relief of the puritans. In the queen's progrefs this year, her majefty vifrted the univerfity ofQueen vjts Cambridge, and continued there five days, being entertained by the fcholars, the univerfity with fpeeches and difputations. On the 3d day of her being there, [Aug.7.] b i gen a philofophy ad was kept by Thomas Byng, of Peter-boufe, on thefe two queftions. (i.) Whether monarchy be not the belt form of government? (2.) Whether frequent alterations of the laws are dangerous? The oppo= nents were Mr. Tho. Cartwright, fellow of Trinity College; Mr. Chadder= ton, of Zueens; Mr. Pron, and Clark, of Kings. College; who performed their parts to the fatisfadion of the queen, and the whole audience ; but it feems Prefton pleafedher majefty heft, and was made her fcholar, with the fettlement of a falary. The divinity queftions were, t. Whether they U 2 authority
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