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BOOK Grindal, then Byshop of London, to whom it pleased your Honor to referre the ordering of this statute, it was condescended and so ever since it hath been most commonly used. But I pray, that the same statute may remain in force, as touching the number, for the better encouragement of her Majesties scholars; notwithstanding the day of the election be altered: which is the same day of the Commencement in Cambridge. And so most humbly desireth your Honor's advice and ayde.

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Dr. Whitgift to Sir William Cecil, High Chancellor of the University of Cambridge: shewing him some of Mr. Cartwright's tenets; and the drawing up new statutes for the University.

I HAVE received your letters, Right Honorable, and PaperOffice. have signified unto the others, which also writ unto your Honour, your contentation with our doings touching Mr. Cartwright. I think your Honour doth not fully understand Mr. Cartwright's opinions. And therefore I have here set down so many of them as he himself hath uttered to me in 10 private conference: the which he hath also openly taught. I. That there ought not to be in the Church of Christ either Archbishops, Archdeacons, Deans, Chancellors, or any other, whereof mention is not expressly made in the Scriptures. II. That the office of the Bishop and Deacon, as they be now in the Church of England, is not allowable. III. That there ought to be an equality of all Ministers, and every one to be chief in his own cure. IV. That Ministers ought to be chosen by the people, as they were in the Apostles' time. V. That none ought to be a Minister, unless he have a VI. That a man should not preach out of his own VII. That the order of calling and making Ministers, now used in this Church of England, is extraordinary,

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and to be altered. Divers others depend upon these, (as BOOK your Honour may easily conjecture) which would breed a meer confusion, if they should take place.

I told your Honour at my last being with you, of certain things to be reformed in the statutes and orders of this University; and also of some things necessary to be added, for the better government of the same. Your Honour willed me to confer with some others: and to draw a draught, that your Honour might see them, Mr. Vicechancellor, Dr. Perne, Dr. Hawford, Dr. Harvey, Dr. Ithel and I, have laboured therin, and have almost finished the same. Because your Honour is troubled with other busines, so that it would be too much for your self to peruse them, if it would please you to write your letters to my Lord of Canterbury his Grace, or some other whom you think best to take that pains, and make report to your Honour of them, we trust they wil be thought very necessary and profitable for the state of the University, and good government of the

same.

My Lord Zouch is in good health, thanks be unto God, and shal not lack my carefulnes and diligence. For so I am bound to your Honour, if it were in far greater mat

He continueth in his wel-doing: and so, I trust, wil do. Thus with my harty prayers unto God, for the preservation of your Honour, and all yours, (which is the only recompence I can make for your goodnes towards me) I leave off from further troubling your Honour at this time. From Trinity college in Cambridg, the 19th of August, 1570. To your Honour most bound,

Jhon Whitgyfte.

Number IX.

The proceedings of the Heads of the University with Mr. Thomas Cartwright, B. D. Lady Margaret Professor; for his readings.

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THE 11th day of Decemb. 1570, before Mr. Dr. Whit- E Regist.

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BOOK gifte, Vicechancellor, with assistance of Mr. Doctors Perne, Hawford, Kelke, Meye, Chaderton, Doctors of Divinity, and Harvey, Ithel, and Bynge, Doctors of Law, in the great chamber within the Master's lodginge within Trinitie colledge.

At which day and place appeared Mr. Tho. Cartwhryte, Reader of the Divinity lecture, founded by the Lady Margaret, &c. And then and there Mr. Vicechancellor did charge the said Mr. Cartwhryte with certain articles or propositions of doctrine contrarie to religion, receyved and allowed by publicke authoritie in this realme, taught openlie by him in his lecture, and otherwhere; and by him also put in wrytynge, with subscription of his hande; and divulgate by hym, as matter that he wil stand to: and that hereof he hath been before tyme noted by the more part of Doctors of th' Universitie, before Mr. Dr. Meye late Vicechancellor and hath been admonyshed divers tymes by hym, to revoke the same: and, upon his refusal, hath been 11 punished by substraction of his stipend. And therefore the said Mr. Dr. Whitgifte, now Vicechancellor, required his absolute answer, whether he did mynde to teach his auditors otherways, revoking that he hath before tawghte; or wil stil abyde in the mayntenance of the same.

Whereunto the said Mr. Cartwhryte did answere and confess, that after divers communications had with the said Mr. Dr. Meye, late Vicechancellor, and divers charges wherewith he burdened him with his doctrine tawght in hys lecture, contrarie to the religion here receyved and allowed, at length he said, he delyvered unto the said then Vicechancellor, thoes articles in wrytyng, subscribed with his own hande, which Mr. Dr. Whitgifte doth nowe leye unto hym, upon conditions, viz. he woulde know, who shoulde be his adversaries, who shoulde be his judges, and last, that thys thyng shoulde not be prejudicial to such order as Mr. Secretary had taken with hym.

Whereupon Mr. Vicechancellor, omyttinge the private communication betwixte Mr. Dr. Meye, and the said Mr. Cartwright, seynge this doctryne hath been by hym tawght,

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demaunded of hym, whether thoes articles, whereunto his BOOK hande is put, be his owne; and whether he myndeth to defend or revoke theim. Hereunto the said Cartwryght answered, that th' advantage saved unto hym, of his protestation in delyverynge of theim, (as he hath before alledged) confessed, that thoes articles, now shewed unto him, be his own, and subscribed with his own hande; and that he hath openlie tawght, and is fully determined to mayntain and defend them, as trewth.

After this answere, Mr. Vicechancellor required hym better to consider with hymself, and to depart for a space; and at hys return Mr. Vicechancellor perceavynge, that no admonition woulde helpe, but that he did persiste styl in the same mynde, with the consent of al the abovenamed Doctors, did pronounce hym the said Mr. Cartwright to be removed from his said lecture: and by his final decree or sentence, did then and there remove hym; and declare the said lecture to be voyed: and that he mynded, according to the foundation thereof, to proceed to the election of a new Reader. And furder, then and there the said Vicechancellor dyd, by vertue of his office, inhibite the said Mr. Cartwright from preaching within th'Universitie, and the jurisdiction of the same.

The trewe copie of the above mentioned articles or propositions doth hereafter followe worde by worde, as is expressed in the original, subscribed with the hande of the said Mr. Cartwright, and remayning with the said Mr. Vicechancellor.

I. Archiepiscoporum, et Archidiaconorum nomina, simul cum muneribus et officiis suis, sunt abolenda.

II. Legitimorum in Ecclesia Ministrorum nomina, qualia sunt Episcoporum et Diaconorum, separata a suis muneribus, in verbo Dei descriptis, simpliciter sunt improbanda, et ad institutionem apostolicam revocanda. Ut Episcopus in verbo et precibus, Diaconus in pauperibus curandis ver

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BOOK cialibus, &c. regimen Ecclesiæ non est committendum; sed ad idoneum Ministrum et Presbyterum ejusdem Ecclesiæ deferendum.

IV. Non oportet Ministrum esse vagum et liberum; sed quisque debet certo cuidam gregi addici.

V. Nemo debet Ministerium, tanquam candidatus, petere. VI. Episcoporum tantum authoritate et potestate Ministri non sunt creandi, multo minus in Musæo, aut loco quopiam clanculario. Sed ab Ecclesia electio fieri debet.

Hisce reformandis, quisque pro sua vocatione studere debet. Vocationem autem intelligo, ut magistratus authoritate, Minister verbo, omnes precibus, promoveant.

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[Number IX.]

A faculty granted by the University to Dr. Whitgift, to preach throughout the kingdom; constituting him one of the University Preachers.

WILLIELMUS CECILL, &c. Universitatis CantabrigiAcad. Can- ensis Cancellarius, Magistri et Scholares ejusdem; Omnibus tab. fol.277. Christi fidelibus, visuris vel audituris, salutem in Domino sempiternam. Cum nos, nuper ordinem reverendi Archiepiscopi, et Episcoporum hujus regni Angliæ secuti, ut evitaretur (quantum fieri potest) omnis opinionum in doctrina contentio, omnes illas facultates prædicandi ante diem tertium Augusti proximè elapsum, a nobis concessas, revocaverimus; easdem tamen restituturi illis, qui ad hoc munus digni judicarentur, et qui manuum suarum subscriptione testificarentur se assentire tam omnibus et singulis illis Articulis Religionis, de quibus convenit inter Archiepiscopos et Episcopos utriusque provinciæ, et Clerum universum hujus regni Angliæ in Synodo London. anno 1562. quàm aliis omnibus et singulis Ordinationibus et Constitutionibus præscriptis per prædict. Archiepiscopos et Episcopos subscribendis ab omnibus, concionandi auctoritatem obtenturis et consecuturis. Cumque Johannes Whitgifte, S.T.P. ante