193 2he HISTORY of the Pu AV S. Cliap.V, Pen Thus Dr. (Fhitgift routed his adverfary ; he hd already deprived him Eüz.:ceth, of his profeffor's chair, and of his degree of doctor of divinity, P g - , and ,, being now vice chancellor of Cambridge, he got him expelled the uni- VhirgifPa verfity upon the following pretence : Mr. Cartwright being fenior fellow f brs ruiJY- of his college, was only in deacon's orders ; the dolor being informed /au. of this, and that the flatuterequiring fuch to take upon them the order ofprieftbood, might be interpreted to prie/t's orders, concluded he was L. of Whit-; ; upon which he fummoned the heads colleges together, and gift, p. 64, perjured p o s o g g declared, that Mr. Cartwright had broken his oath, and without any fur- ther admonition, .puttied his intereft among the mafters, to rid the col- lege of a man, whole popularity was too great for his ambition, info- -much that he declared he could not eflablith order in the univerfity, while a perfon of his principles was among them ; after this he wrote to the archbifhop, Sept. 21ft, 1572. and begged his grace to watch at court, that Cartwright might get no advantage againft him, for lays he, he is flatly perjured, and it is God's juft judgment that he fhould be fo punned, for not being a full minifler. A very mean and pitiful triumph ! The quern's. The queen alto, and her commiffioners, brandifhed their (words again( Cartwright and his followers; her majefty by proclamation called in the admonition, . commanding all her fubjeéts, who had any in their poffef- fion, to bring them to the bifhop of the diocefe, and not to fell them, upon pain of imprifonment; upon which Mr. Stroud the publifher, brought in thirty four, and. his wife burnt the reft that were unfold : This Mr. Stroud was the fufpended minifler of Cranbrook, an excellent preacher, and univerfally beloved ; but being reduced to poverty, was M.S. p. "195. forced to condefcend to the low offices of correl.ing the profs, and of publifhing books for a livelihood ; when he appeared before the bifhop of London upon this occafon, his lordfhip reproached him for laying down the miniftry, though Parker had aäually deprived him, And forbid him to preach fix years before. rind the hi. The bithops were no lefs careful to crufh the favourers of the admo- ,/hops. nitian; for when Mr. Wake of'Chrift Church, had declared in favour of it, in a fermon at St. Paul's Crofs, the bifhop- of London Pent for him next morning into cuftody; but he made his efcape: Mr. Crick, chaplain to the bifhopof Norwich, having alfo commended the book in a fermon Ott the fame place, the archbifhop fent a fpecial mefi-enger to apprehend him; L. of Whit- and though he efcaped for the prefent, he afterwards fell into thehands gift, 'p. 53. of the commiffioners, and was deprived ; the like misfortune befel Dr. Aldrich, an eminent divine, and dignitary of the church, with many :others ; notwithftanding which, Dr. Sandys bifhop of London, in his let- L. ofParker, ter to the. treafurer, calls for further help; " The city, fays he, will P. 428,, " never be quiet, till thefe authors of fedition, who are now efteemed as gods,
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