Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 | Page 2

a physician to Monk. Else he would not have required Lord
Bath's letter of introduction to the son. Lord Wharncliffe has, I have no
doubt, hit the mark, when he says that Skinner was probably Monk's
Colchester apothecary. Skinner says himself, in his preface, that "he
had the honour to know Monk only in the last years of his life."
3. The previous account of Monk, which gained Lord Bath's approval,
and led to Monk's son soliciting him to write a life, is probably
Skinner's addition of a third part to Bate's Elenchus Motuum, to which
he also probably refers in the opening of his Preface to the _Life of
Monk_:--
"I have heretofore published something of a like nature with the
following sheets, though in another language, wherein several things,
through want of better information, were imperfectly described."
4. It appears from Skinner's letter, that his original intention was to
write a Life in Latin. Webster edited the Life which we have, from a

copy in English found in the study of Mr. Owen, late curate at Bocking
in Essex, and supposed to be in Skinner's handwriting; and he had seen
another copy, agreeing literally with the former, which had been
transcribed by Shelton, formerly rector of St. James's in Colchester; and
which, after Mr. Shelton's death, became the property of Mr. Great, an
apothecary in Colchester. (Webster published in 1723.)
Now, Query, as these may have been copies of a translation, can any
Colchester reader help to settle affirmatively or negatively the question
of a Latin Life of Monk by Skinner?
I add two other Queries:--
It appears from a passage in the Life (p. 333.), that Skinner appended,
or intended to append, a collection of papers:--
"As appears from His Majesty's royal grant or warrant to him (Sir John
Grenville), which we have transcribed from the original, and have
added in the collection at the end of this history."
Webster says he never could get any account of this collection of
papers. 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 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