XX INTRODUCTION 



Archbisliop Cranmer, which enured to his tem- 

 poral if not to his spiritual interests, as is shown 

 in the following document: " Hee [Edmund Cart- 

 wright] was a scholar and Master of Artes of 

 Jesus College, Cambridge, where hee was inti- 

 mately acquainted with his countryman and fel- 

 low student, Thomas Cranmer, son of Thomas 

 Cranmer, of Aslacton, whose only daughter Cart- 

 wright married: which Cranmer, becoming after- 

 wards Archbishop of Canterbury, tooke his 

 brother Cartwright and sister into his house, and, 

 at the dissolution of the abbeys, provided for him 

 the abbey of Mauling in Kent, Rowney in Bed- 

 fordshire, and Ossington in Nottinghamshire, 

 which are at this day worth three thousand a year, 

 and married his heir, Hugh, to one of the Lord 

 Cobham's daughters." 



The father of our hero, William Cartwright, 

 who married in 1731 his cousin Anne Cartwright, 

 daughter of George Cartwright, was a man of very 

 considerable talent and energy of character. He 

 effected — temporarily it may be added — the 

 abolition of the practice of giving vails ^ to serv- 

 ants, which had become an intolerable abuse, and 

 to his exertions the public are indebted for the 

 execution of the work at Muskham near Newark, 

 where the road for more than a mile was preserved 

 from the effects of flood by being carried over 

 thirteen brick arches. It was once observed of 

 William Cartwright that " he had a genius for 

 encountering difficulties," and it is evident that 



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