rs. Can Colchester now produce any information about them?

Can any of your readers give any information about those papers of
the second Duke of Albemarle, and of Grenville, Earl of Bath, to which
Skinner had access? Lord Bath's papers were probably afterwards in the
hands of his nephew Lord Lansdowne, who vindicated Monk in answer to
Burnet.

W.D. CHRISTIE.

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CUNNINGHAM'S LIVES OF EMINENT ENGLISHMEN.--WHITGIFT AND CARTWRIGHT.

In a modern publication, entitled _Lives of Eminent Englishmen_,
edited by G.G. Cunningham, 8 vols. 8vo. Glasgow, 1840, we meet with
a memoir of Archbishop Whitgift, which contains the following
paragraph:--

"While Whitgift was footing to an archbishopric, poor
Cartwright was consigned to poverty and exile; and at length
died in obscurity and wretchedness. How pleasant would it
have been to say that none of his sufferings were inflicted
by his great antagonist, but that he was treated by him with
a generous magnanimity! Instead of this, Whitgift followed
him through life with inflexible animosity."--_Cunningham's
Lives_, ii. 212.

Mr. Cunningham gives no authority for these statements; but I will
furnish him with my authorities for the contradiction of them.

"After some years (writes Walton, in his _Life of Hooker_),
the Doctor [Whitgift] being preferred to the see, first of
Worcester and then of Canterbury, Mr. Cartwright, after
his share of trouble and imprisonment (for setting up new
presbyteries in divers places against the established order),
having received from the Archbishop many personal favours,
retired himself to a more private living, which was at
Warwick, where he became master of an hospital, and lived
quietly and grew rich;... the Archbishop surviving him but
one year, _each ending his days in perfect charity with the
other_."

To the same effect is the statement in Strype, which I borrow from Dr.
Zouch's second edition of _Walton's Lives_, p. 217.:--

"Thomas Cartwright, the Archbishop's old antagonist, was alive
in 1601, and grew rich at his hospital at Warwick, preaching
at the chapel there, saith my author, very temperately,
according to the promise made by him to the Archbishop;
which mildness of his some ascribed to his old age and more
experience. But the latter end of next year he deceased. And
now, at the end of