1803.] 
IX.—BAKER’S MANUSCRIPTS. 
Baker’s manufcripts relate almoft en- 
tirely to the Univerfity of Cambridge. 
Nineteen volumes of them are now in the 
Univerfity-library ; twenty-three he left. to 
that great collector, the Earl of Oxford, 
who died June, 1741. Thefe, 
. part of the Hasleian Collection of Manu- 
ieripts, purchafed by authority of Parlia- 
ment. for the ufe of the public; are of 
courfe preferved in the Britith Mufenm. 
The deed. of bargain and fale of manu- 
{cripts to the Earl of Oxford, written in 
Baker’s own hand, was executed Dec. 6, 
1716. 
ave 
Making 
X.—-A SERIOUS JOKE. 
Every body knows how high difputes 
were carried between the Epifcopalians 
and Puritans, in the time of Queen Eliza- 
beth. James Peirce wrote, in Latin, one 
of the beft defences of the Puritan-fide of 
the queftion, in three parts, entitled Viz- 
dicte Non-conformiffarum. The firkt part, 
among other articles, contains a full ac- 
count of the controverfy between Whit- 
gift, Mafter of Trinity College, and Cart- 
wright, Lady Margaret’s Profeffor, and 
Fellow of Trinity. The following ex- 
tract from the VinDIcEZz is a quotation 
from Whitgift’s Addrefs to Cartwright: 
—‘* What commodities you want that I 
have, I cannot conjecture. Your meat and 
drink are provided with lefs trouble and 
expence to you, and in more dainty and de- 
licate manner, than mine are. You do 
what you lift, fpeak what you lift: what 
would you have more? I know not wh 
you complain, except you be of the fame 
difpofition as the Francifcan Friars, who, 
when they have filled their bellies “at other 
people’s tables, were wont to cry out, and 
fay—How many things do we endure!” 
This paflage may be read as a joke; for 
Whitgift was Mafter of Trinity College 
at the time, and, being alfo Vice chancel- 
lor that year, had deprived Whitgift of 
his Profeflorfhip and Fellowfhip. Whit- 
gift afterwards became Archbifhop of 
Canterbury ; and Cartwright, old and in- 
firm, was then thrown into the Fleet. 
Cartwright was aman of great learn- 
ing, a much admired preacher, and a 
fhrewd difputant. He has been called, 
Malleus Epifcopalium; as Richard Hooker, 
the author of the Ecclefiaftical Polity, was 
afterwards Malleus Non-conformiftarum. 
‘But that is the true Malleus, that knocks 
a man down, exclaiming, at the fame 
time, What commodities, Sc. 
_ This is mentioned merely as anecdote, 
Cantabrigiana. 
495 
not as matter of controverfy ; for with con- 
troverfies this work does not intermeddle. 
XI1.—-QUEEN ELIZABETH’S LITTLE 
BLACK HUSBAND. 
It is Bihhop Burnet, if. I. miftake not, 
who tells us, that Queen Elizabeth ufed 
to call Whitgift, ber Litiie Black Hujland; 
and no doubt juftly ; for, without intend- 
ing any reflection on her Majelty, if we 
fay, Church and King, why not, Church 
and Queen? 
X1I.—BOOKS relating to CAMBRIDGE: 
It has often been mentioned, as a mat- 
ter of furprife and regret, that Cambridge 
has never produced a work fimilar tothe 
Athena Oxonienfes. ‘The furprife may 
perhaps increafe, on confidering what _ 
abundance of materials is actually pre- 
pared for the work. Among the Englifh 
hiftorical manufcripts in the public-hbra- 
ry, are various documents relative to the 
Furifdiion, the Cufioms, and the Hiffory of 
the Univerfity, together with public papers, 
and many curious /Retches, that. would af- - 
fit fuch a defirable work. ‘There have 
alfo been publithed feveral Hiftories of the 
Univerfity, with lifts of its eminent men, 
one of which, at leaf, is a good one, as 
far as it goes; and there are fome Hiftories 
of private Colleges, either publithed og in 
manufcript. The account of the manu- 
{cripts alfo in the Univerfity-library, and 
in the private colleges, may be traced in 
catalosues either publifhed, as Catal. MSS. 
Angl. or in manufcripts poffefled by indi- 
viduals. Dr. Richard{fon, late Mafter of 
Emanuel College, had, it feems, got together 
many materials for fuch a work; and, from 
his editionof Godwin De Prafulious Anglia- 
cum Annotationibus, 174.7, and his Litt of 
Graduates in the Univerfity, it is probable, 
that he would have been, at leait, an exact 
compiler. But Thomas Baker, the great 
colleétor, already mentioned, was at once 
induftrious and ingenious, minute and 
learned, -acute and liberal. He was the 
man for an Athene Cantabrigienfes. 
X11.—The Way to initiate BOxS into 
the LaTIN LANGUAGE. 
Roger Afcham’s moft celebrated work 
is, ‘‘the SCHOOLMASTER, Or, aPlainWay 
of Teaching Children to underitand, 
fpeak, and write the Latin Tongue.” 
This book, though left unfinifhed, and 
now and then fomewhat too prattling, 
pofffles great merit. It was printed anno 
1579. Afcham proceeds nearly on the 
faine 
