Cartwright's life, to take our leave of
him with a fairer character, it is remarkable what a noble
and learned man, Sir H. Yelverton, writes of some of his last
words--'_that he seriously lamented the unnecessary troubles
he had caused in the Church, by the schism he had been the
great fomenter of, and wished to begin his life again, that
he might testify to the world the dislike he had of his former
ways_;' and in this opinion he died."

I find it stated, moreover, on the authority of Sir G. Paul's _Life
of Whitgift_, that Cartwright acknowledged the generosity of Whitgift,
and admitted "his bond of duty to the Archbishop to be so much the
straiter, as it was without any desert of his own."--_Carwithen's
History of the Church of England_, i. 527. 2nd edit.

Lest this should not suffice to convict Mr. Cunningham of error, I
will adduce two extracts from _The Life of Master Thomas Cartwright_,
written by the Presbyterian Sa. Clarke, in 1651, and appended to his
_Martyrologie_.

"About the same time [viz. 1580], the Earl of Leicester
preferred him [Cartwright] to be master of his hospital
at Warwick, which place was worth to him about one hundred
pounds."--Clarke, p. 370.

"For riches, he sought them not; yea, he rejected many
opportunities whereby he might have enriched himself. His
usual manner was, when he had good sums of gold sent him,
to take only one piece, lest he should seem to slight his
friend's kindness, and to send back the rest with a thankful
acknowledgement of their love and his acceptance of it;
_professing that, for that condition wherein God had set him,
he was as well furnished as they for their high and great
places_."--Ib. p. 372.

So much for the "poverty," the "wretchedness," of Cartwright, and the
"inflexible animosity" of Whitgift. The very reverse of all this is
the truth.

J.K.

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INEDITED LETTER OF THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH.

Several notices of the Duke of Monmouth having appeared in "NOTES AND
QUERIES," you may be glad to have the following letter, which I copied
_literatim_ some years ago in the State Paper Office from the domestic
papers of the year 1672. The letter was written to Lord Arlington,
then Secretary of State. Monmouth was at the time commanding the
English force serving under Louis XIV. against the Dutch, and was in
his twenty-third year. Mr. Ross had