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But is it not clear, that if a strong Supralapsarian had, under Whitgift's primacy, left a large estate at the disposal of the bishops for ecclesiastical purposes, in the hope that the rulers of the Church would abide by Whitgift's theology, he would really have been giving his substance for the support of doctrines which he detested?
Examples will be found in the act-books cited supra. Hale, Crim. Hale, op. cit., 182 . Cf. Whitgift's Articles for Sarum diocese in 1588, art. viii: "Whether your ministers used to pray for the quenes majestie ... by the title and style due to her majestie." Cardwell, Doc. Ann., ii, 14. Dean of York's Visit., 320 . Hale, op. cit., 159 . 3 Rep. Hist.
To pass from politics to poetry; little as Archbishop Whitgift's proceedings in the High Commission endear his name to posterity, I am inclined to think he may be forgiven for cleansing Stationers' Hall by fire, in 1599, of certain works purporting to be poetical; such works, namely, as Marlowe's Elegies of Ovid, which appeared in company with Davies's Epigrammes, Marston's Metamorphosis of Pigmalion's Image, Hall's Satires, and Cutwode's Caltha Poetarum; or, The Bumble Bee.
Grindal's Inj. at York, 1571, Remains of Grindal, Parker Soc., 129. Or judge acting by delegation from the ordinary. Cf. Queen's Inj. of 1559, Art. xiv. Hale; Crim. Prec., 193. Cf. Also Whitgift's Articles of 1583, Cardwell, Doc. Canterbury Visit., xxv, 36. Cf. Canons of 1597: "De recusantibus et aliis excommunicatis publice denunciandis." Cardwell, Syn., i, 156. Also Croke's Eliz.
The Archbishop's duties, as general superintendent of literature and the press, constituted, indeed, no sinecure. For ever since the year 1585, the Star Chamber regulations, passed at Archbishop Whitgift's instigation, had been in force; and, with unimportant exceptions, no book could be printed without being first seen, perused, and allowed by the Archbishop of Canterbury or Bishop of London.
Whitgift, succeeding Grindal at Canterbury in 1583, opened the campaign against Puritanism not indeed with the favour either of parliament or of the leading statesmen, whose personal sympathies were with the advanced party, but manifestly with encouragement from the Queen. Whitgift's own attitude was that of the Disciplinarian rather than of the theologian.
See also Whitgift's note to his bishops in 1583, Cardwell, Doc. Bancroft writes, March, 1605, that he will use his "uttermost endeavour" to aid his suffragans in procuring the writ, and in having it faithfully and speedily served. Cardwell, Doc. Ann., ii, 80.
"Poor Curates, Lecturers and Schoolmasters ... that have been willing to officiate their places without licences" are also his special prey. Sponge admits that he has made many a fat fee by Hunter's procurement. For more serious documents in corroboration see Whitgift's circular to his suffragans in May, 1601, and also his address to his bishops a few months later in Strype, Whitgift, ii, 447 ff.
He was occupied much in furthering Whitgift's endeavour to improve the condition of the Church in England by urging conformity to the newly ordered methods of ecclesiastical government and procedure. The records of his visitations ask some pertinent questions, which show how the Cathedral Church itself was being served.
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