as it were sticks
and coals, to double and treble the heat of contention."

After this it is curious, even to those accustomed to such
speculations, to observe some men changing with the times, and
furious rivals converted into brothers. Whitgift, whom
Elizabeth, as a mark of her favour, called "her black
husband," soliciting Cartwright's pardon from the Queen; and
the proud Presbyter Cartwright styling Whitgift his Lord the
Archbishop's Grace of Canterbury, and visiting him!

[412] Sir George Paul, a contemporary, attributes his wealth "to the
benevolence and bounty of his followers." Dr. Sutcliffe, one
of his adversaries, sharply upbraids him, that "in the
persecution he perpetually complained of, he was grown rich."
A Puritan advocate reproves Dr. Sutcliffe for always carping
at Cartwright's purchases:--"Why may not Cartwright sell the
lands he had from his father, and buy others with the money,
as well as some of the bishops, who by bribery, simony,
extortion, racking of rents, wasting of woods, and such like
stratagems, wax rich, and purchase great lordships for their
posterity?"

To this Sutcliffe replied:

"I do not carpe alway, no, nor once, at Master Cartwright's
purchase. I hinder him not; I envy him not. Only thus much I
must tell him, that Thomas Cartwright, a man that hath more
landes of his own in possession than any bishop that I know,
and that fareth daintily every day, and feedeth fayre and
fatte, and lyeth as soft as any tenderling of that brood, and
hath wonne much wealth in short time, and will leave more to
his posterity than any bishop, should not cry out either of
persecution or of excess of bishop's livinges."--SUTCLIFFE'S
_Answer to Certain Calumnious Petitions._

[413] "The author of these libels," says Bishop Cooper, in his
"Admonition to the People of England," 1589, "calleth
himself by a feigned name, _Martin Mar-Prelate_, a very
fit name undoubtedly. But if this outrageous spirit of
boldness be not stopped speedily, I fear he will prove
himself to be, not only _Mar-Prelate_, but Mar-Prince,
Mar-State, Mar-Law, Mar-Magistrate, and altogether, until he
bring it to an Anabaptistical equality and comm