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    tiness and roughness , seemed to spoil tha force of his arguments , " and incurred the Ko \ al neglect , which bore hard upon his | jfoud spirit . That Carl wri ^ ht ' s independent manners miaht wound her Majesty's

    supremacy , is far from being improbable , but ihe accusation is discredited by the testimony of Strype and Fuller ; and his journev to Geneva , which has been attributed to his disgust on this occasion , does not appear to have taken place for several years .

    In the sear 1750 , Mr . Cartwright was-elected . to the Margaret Professorship , and his lectures in that capacity were much admired for their acuteness aiui solidity . When he preached in rotation at St . Mary ' s , the church could not accommodate

    the multitudes who flocked to hear him . Dr . Whitgift , then Master of Trinity College , was in the habit of answering Cartwright s sermons on the disputed points . concerning church

    discipline , upon which Fuller candidly remarks , " The result of the difference between them is this , that ( leaving the controversy itself to tlie judgment of others if Cartwright had the better of it in his learning ,

    Whitgift had the ^ advantage his temper ; and , which is the main , he had more power to hack , if fewer people to follow him . " Archbishop Griiulal ( who was supposed by many to be in his heart favourable to the Puritans ) wrote to Sir Win . Cecil , Chancellor

    Of the University , urging him to take dome course with Cartwright , who constantly spake against the external policy of the Established Church , in cfonsequence of which , the youth of

    the University described as , " at that time , very toward in learning , * ' frequented his lectures , and were in danger of being poisoned by his doctriwes- Mr . Cartwright vindicated his conduct in a letter to the Chan *

    ceHor , and was supported by numerous friends in his assertion of the moderation and caution with which he treated the disputed topics . In spite , Jiowever , of the Chancellor ' s wish to

    shield him from severe animadversion , l ^ jr , Cartwright was firs t deprived of \ m stipend , and after wards , 3 wring Wbitgift ' s Yice ^ chancellorshipy was wholly rewwed from Ws profegswjftlg *? and , not content with this fcneasure of degradation , Whitgfft s&ot *

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    procured his expulsion frorp the Unfcr versity . That the credit and fame which the deprived Professor enjoyed at Cambridge , did not desert him in

    general society , appears from the insulting language addressed to him by his persecutor . * " What commodities \ ou want that I have i catinot

    conjecture : your meat and drink is provided with less trouble and charges unto you , and in more delicate and dainty manner than mine is ; your ease and pleasure ten times more ; you do what you list , go where yo «

    list , come when you list , speak when you list , at your pleasure . What would you have more ? 1 know not why you should complain , except you be of the same disposition with the Franciscan Friars ; who , when they had filled their bellies at other men ' s

    tables , were wont to cry out and say * How many things are we forced ta endure ! Some men are delighted to be fed at other men ' s tables , and prefer popular fame before gold and silver . " Mr . Cartwright being thus prevented from usefulness in bis native

    country , visited the Continent , and established an intimacy with several of the most distinguished Protestant divines * and particularly with the celebrated Beza , who bestowed on him this lofty commendation , that ' * lie thought the sun did not see a more learned man . * ' He also officiated

    in the capacity of minister to the English merchants at Antwerp artd Middieburgh , with great acceptance , and returned to England after an absence of two years , upon the pressing entreaties of Fulk . e and others of his friends . About this time an " Admonition to Parliament" was

    publish ed , on the subject of Church Disci pline , which was answered by Or . Wftitgift ' s pen , aided by the imprisonment of its . supposed authors . O # this occasion Cartwright much ^ Jistiuguished himself by two replies to Whitgift , who , however , gained more substantial advancement , beinp * ron . substantial advancementbeing conof

    , s ^ rated Archbishop Canterbury , oti the dpth of G riiidaL The Big £ Commissioner having' issued ah tfrcfeir fpr his Hpprehpnsioi ^ C ^ rtwrighjt tpoh refuge in ttye islands of Jprpey and Guernsey , and af ^ i * wardp revisited tfep i— - * j-i ^ . LMAJ « r . _ i . j ¦ - i . Ltr . i ' -i . ! - ¦ ¦ -H . l it i i ' -. l in i ¦ ¦ - ' * Fenced Vindic&tioM , p % ! TO . ¦

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    ^ $ Cause Nonconformity 9 as connected with Literature .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1819, page 28, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1768/page/28/