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    Continent : upon his return in con * sequence of ill health , and far the benefit of his native air , he was arrested bv Bishop Ay liner , and cast into prison , from which he w $ s relieved by the intercession of the Earl of Leicester , who made him master

    of the Hospital at Warwick : his brother , the good Earl of Warwick ^ was also his coustautipatron . King James of Scotland , about this time , offered him a professorship in the University of St . Andrews , and the Archbishop of Dublin strongly solicited him to accept preferment in Ireland .

    " R In the sear 158 S was published the Rhemish Translation of the New Testament , " the annotations subjoined to which were generally thought , by t he learned Protestants , to call for a powerful refutation . The Queen herself is reported to have applied to

    Befca , requesting him to undertake the answer ; but he rnodestlv declined , saying , that she had one in her own kingdom far abfer than himself to undertake such a task ; and afterwards intimated that M r . Thomas (" artwright was the man . . ^ ir Francis Walsingham

    ( that distinguished favourer of the Puritans ) , with the Queen ' s concurrence , as is supposed , then solicited Cartwright to undertake the work , and , as an encouragement , sent him a sum of money . This application was seconded b \ Fulke , Whitaker and other

    celebrated < " ambridge divines , and by the ministers of London and Suffolk . Thus encouraged , Cartwright diligently applied himself , and had made considerable progress in the work , when his evil genius , now seated on the arc hi episcopal throne , dispatched

    a haughty messenger , forbidding his further proceeding , and enforced obedience to this tyrannical prohibition . It was not until the year 1618 that the work was published , under the

    double disadvantage of being unfinished in itself , and printed from a mouse-eaten copy , " a book , ** says Fuller , u which , notwithstanding the foresaid defedts > is so complete that the Rhemists durst never return the least answer

    thereunto ;* ' , "ina word , no English champion in that age did with more valour or success charge or rout the Romish eneni v in matters of doctrine . *' This learned advocate of the reformed reiigKiii could opt secure himself by any thing short of complete silence on

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    subjects nearest to his ftearf , or c& § k arm the ) animosity of the ^ rchhish [ op aad his brethren ; and in tiie ypsu * i 3 $ ft a long list of articles were exhibited against him , several of which referred to his conduct as a minister in foreign

    parts . To these he declined making up answer upon oath , and being in consequence committed to the Fleejt prison , with XJdal and many other fjii « nisters , he was , m advanced age , apjj under the pressure of disease , harassed

    by the most irregular attempts to procure his- submission . Upprj this occasion , King James did himself the credit of applying to the Queen 011 t * ehalf of Udal , Cartwright , and ^ certain other ministers of the Evangel , of whose good erudition and fruitful travels in the

    church" he had received ** a very ere * dible commendation . " This interces ? sion , and several other attempts ^ % ci procure their release , were wholly fruitless : but after two years' unwholesome confinement , the Archbishop re ^

    lented in favour of Cartwright , who * was released upon promise of his quiet and peaceable behaviour , and restores to his hospital at Warwick , where lie ended his days in the exemplary di $ «? charge of his duties , continuing to

    preach when he could siearcejy creep into the pulpit . His character is thus pithily summed up by Fuller : ** He was most pious and strict in his cqh * versation , a pure Latinist , an accurate Grecian , an exact Hebrean , an < J , in short , 3 most excellent sclaolar /'*

    # Otmrton , in Iiis Life of Moweli , vehement } y arraigns the taste and judg-mejit of HJr . Caitwrigtat , who i . q a familiar cQri ^ e * spondence had coiupaied prajrer to a bunch of keys , u whereby we g-o to all the tresu sures and storehouses of the Lord , his batteries , his pantries , his cellars- his

    wardrobe j" and triumphantly asks , Was . this the man to ina prove wha £ bad beesi done by Cranmer and his coadjutois- *^ io give us a form of worship lftore pure and edifying- , more dignified und devout P The passage cannot he extolled as a ^ ptci . inen of . gQod taste but it would be a $ utireasonab ) e to pronounce the writer

    incapable of a sublime address to the JG > ei * y as to deny Sha . hspe 8 ire s claims as a poet and philosopher , because his dialogue is acejtv aionally infected with the trivial couceifc which were fashionable in that age «« A more formidable objection Jftigbt he p *^ fened against the good taste of Taverner , anther of iiie learned ^ Ri | rita «« of Queen £ iixa |> etli ^ xeigna ^ » fW , liiMqyng- ' obt ^ itteJI it

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    G 4 u § & of-Nonconformityr 9 &s mw ^ ectedwiih Literature . ^

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1819, page 29, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1768/page/29/