gtz The HISTORY of the PURITANS. Chap. VII. neen bi(hop, he behaved with that modefty and refped, as foftened the heart of Elizabeth, his great adverfary, who upon promife of his peaceable and quiet be te, haviour, (-offered him to go at large; for which the earl of Leicefier, and Mr. Cartwright returned his grace thanks ; but all their intereft could not procure him a licence to preach. " Mr. Cartwright (lays " the archbifhop to the earl) (hall be welcome to me at all times, but " to grant him a licence to preach till I ám better fatisfied of his con- " formity, is not confiftent with my duty or confcience." However Andfettles the earl made him governor of an hofpital in Warwick, where he was atWarwick. connived at for a time, and preached without a licence; his falary was an houle, and tool. per ann. Subfiription Mr. Fenner and Wood, two other fufpended minifters, were releafed to be modera- after twelve months imprifonment, 'upon a general fubfcription to the arti a ht oho Iles, asfar as the law required, and a promife to ufe the book of Com- hp mon Prayer, and no other ; but fuch was the clamour on all hands, by reafon of the three articles to be fubfcribed by all who had livings already, as well as thofe that fhould hereafter take orders, that fecretary Wal- fingham went over to Lambeth, and told his grace, that it would fop in a great meafure the complaints which were brought to court, if he would require fubfcription only of fuch, as were hereafter to enter into holy or- L. of Whit ders, and fuffer thofe already in plates, to proceed in the difcharge of their gift, p. 222. duty, upon condition of their giving bond to read the Common Prayer, according to the ufages and laws prefcribing the fame ; which the arch- bifhop promifed to comply with. School-ma- But the nonfubfcribing divines who were unpreferred, might not fo fiers re- much as teach fchool for a livelihood, for the archbifhop would grant no Jlrained. licence without /ubfcribing ; and from this time his licences to teach grammar, and even reading and writing, were granted only from year Ibid. p.ä46. to year: The fchool- niafters were to be full conformifts; they were li- mited to a particular diocefe, and were not authorized to teach elfe where ; they were to inftruët their fcholars in nothing but what was agreeable to the laws and ftatutes of the realm ; and all this only during the bifhop's pleafure. Such was the rigor of the times ! Mr. Tra- Mr. Travers had been leéturer at the Temple with Mr. Hooker the d fufpend- new ma/er about two years, but with very little harmony or agreement; one being a liria Calvini/i, the other a perfon of larger principles; the fermon in the morning was very often confuted in the afternoon, and vindicated again the next Lord's day. The writer of Hooker's life reports, that the morning fermon fpoke the language of Canterbury, the afternoon that of Geneva. Hooker complaining of this ufage, the archbifhop took the opportunity to fufpend Mr. Traversat once, without any warning; for as he was going up into the pulpit to preach on the Lord's day afternoon, _the
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