& oppidò elegantes reddidit. Quin & hanc Warwi∣censem perenni sex librarum reditu (ut & hospitium quod est Lemingtoniae sesquilibrali) auxit. Mag∣na haec in censu non magno, quippe centum annulas non superante, & quatuor filiolis futuro patrimonio coelitibus, maturè sibi praematurè suis, septuagena∣rius accessit Aprilis xxviii. Anno Domini, M. DC. XXXIX.
Divers other persons of note doe lye here inter∣red, whose Monuments have been long since defa∣ced, as the severall Marbles yet remaining, where∣upon their Portraitures and Epitaphs in brass were fix••, doe manifest. Of these, (as Leland testifieth) were William Berkswell Dean of this Collegiate Church, and one of the Executors to Richard Beau∣champ Earl of Warwick, who saw the building of our Lady Chapell, and the structure of those buil∣dings (at the East end of the Church-yard), called the Colledge, begun by the same Earl Richard, fini∣shed. As also Dean Alestre, who translated the body of Earl Richard into that Chapell; And Dean Haseley, sometime School-master to King Henry the 7. And moreover our heretofore eminent Anti∣quary Iohn Rous, of whom I have spoke in Guy-Cliffe, who built a Library over the South porch of this Church, and dyed 14. Ian. Anno 1491. 6 H. 7.
And lastly, the no less famous, in his kinde, Thomas Cartwright, whom Mr. Cambden calls in∣ter Puritanos ante signanus; and whom the Earl of Leicester, (who bore such a sway in those days,) thought it no small policy to court, his party in this Realme being so considerable; insomuch as he made him Master of the Hospitall, then newly by him here founded.
But before I further proceed with my Monu∣mentall matters in this Church, give me leave to digress a little in relating briefly the occasion that moved this Cartwright to broach those Tenets so much tending to the disturbance of the Churches peace, as from credible tradition I have heard.
Being of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, where Doctor Whitgift was Master, he made suit to be one of the disputants before Queen Elizabeth at her entertainment in that University, and was ad∣mitted so to be; but missing of such applause and ad∣vancement which he thereupon expected, and ap∣prehending that the Doctor had been his back∣friend, he quitted the Colledge, and, going be∣yond Sea, wrote against him in a Schismaticall man∣ner. Of which writings I shall say no more than what the learned Whitaker in few words expresseth —Quem Cartwrightus (saith he, speaking of his second Reply) nuper emisit libellum, ejus mag∣num partem perlegi; ne vivam si quid unquam vi∣derim dissolutiùs ac penè pueriliùs. Verborum satis ille quidem lautam, ac novam supellectilem habet, rerum omnino nullam, quantum ego judicare possum. Deinde, non modò perverse de Principis, in rebus sa∣cris at{que} Ecclesiasticis authoritate sentit: Sed in Pa∣pistarum etiam castra transfugit, à quibus tamen videri vult odio capitali dissidere, verùm ne in hac causa ferendus, & aliis etiam in partibus tela à Papistis mutuatur. Deni{que} (ut de Ambrosio dixit Hieronymus) verbis ludit, planè{que} indignus est qui à quopiam docto confutetur.
And I have been told, from good authority, that the reverend Bishop Andrew's observed, that this Cartwright was the first that in the Church of England began the way of praying ex tempore, be∣fore his Sermon (which some call by the spirit.)
From the body of the Church I next come to the Quire.
On the North side of this Quire, towards the upper end, lyeth interred William Parr Marquesse of Northampton, as by his atchievements, viz. coat of Armes, Sword, Shield, Helme and Crest, which I have seen there hanging, appeareth; but forasmuch as there is no Monumentall Inscription, I have here transcribed what Mr. Cambden, in his Annals of Q. Eliz. Anno 1571. hath said of him.
Supremum vitae diem, hoc anno placidè egit Guliemus Parrus, Marchio Northamptoniae, amaenioribus studiis, musicis, amatoriis, & ceterae Aulae jucunditatibus versatissimus; qui ab Henrico octavo primùm ad dignita∣tem Baronis Parr de Kendalia, deinde, ad nup∣tias Annae Bourcheirae, Comitis Essexiae uni∣cae haeredis, & simul ad Comitis Essexiae titu∣lum, cum Rex ejus sorerem duxisset; atque ab Edwardo sexto ad Marchionis Northamp∣toniae stylum & honorem provectus. Sub Ma∣ria, quòd pro Jana Greja Regina subornatae arma sumpserit, Majestatis damnatus, ab eadem tamen mox condonatus, & ad patri∣monium, ut postea ab Elizabetha ad honores restitutus. Liberos genuit nullos, sed Henri∣cum Herbertum Pembrochiae Comitem, ex altera sorore nepotem, reliquit haeredem.