may be found in "Maddox's Vindication Against Neale," the
advocate for the Puritans, p. 255; and in an admirable
letter of that great politician, Sir Francis Walsingham, who,
with many others of the ministers of Elizabeth, was a favourer
of the Puritans, till he detected their secret object to
subvert the government. This letter is preserved in
"Collier's Eccl. Hist." vol. ii. 607. They had begun to
divide the whole country into _classes_, provincial synods,
&c. They kept registers, which recorded all the heads of their
debates, to be finally transmitted to the secret head of the
_Classis_ of Warwick, where Cartwright governed as _the
perpetual moderator_! _Heylin's Hist. of Presbyt._ p. 277.
These violent advocates for the freedom of the press had,
however, an evident intention to monopolise it; for they
decreed that "no book should be put in print but by consent of
the _Classes_."--Sir G. PAUL'S _Life of Whitgift_, p. 65. The
very Star-Chamber they justly protested against, they were
for raising among themselves!

[410] Under the denomination of _Barrowists_ and _Brownists_. I find
Sir Walter Raleigh declaring, in the House of Commons, on a
motion for reducing disloyal subjects, that "they are worthy
to be rooted out of a Commonwealth." He is alarmed at the
danger, "for it is to be feared that men not guilty will be
included in the law about to be passed. I am sorry for it. I
am afraid there is near twenty thousand of them in England;
and when they be gone (that is, expelled) who shall maintain
their wives and children?"--SIR SIMONDS D'EWES' _Journal_, p.
517.

[411] The controversies of Whitgift and Cartwright were of a nature
which could never close, for toleration was a notion which
never occurred to either. These rivals from early days wrote
with such bitterness against each other, that at length it
produced mutual reproaches. Whitgift complains to Cartwright:
"If you were writing against the veriest Papist, or the
ignorantest dolt, you could not be more spiteful and
malicious." And Cartwright replies: "If peace had been so
precious unto you as you pretend, you would not have brought
so many hard words and bitter reproaches,