[Footnote 16:  Edward Dering, a Puritan Divine, and a native of Kent, educated at Christ College, Cambridge.  He was suspended from his Lectureships on account of his nonconformity, but he is commended as a truly religious man, whose pure and virtuous life was followed by a happy death, in 1576.  He wrote some Sermons, and a Defence of Bishop Jewel’s Apology for the Church.]

[Footnote 17:  A mild and beneficent man burned by the Papists at Smithfield, July 1, 1555.]

[Footnote 18:  Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury, born in 1519, at Hinsingham, in Cumberland, and educated at Cambridge.  In 1552 he became Prebendary of Westminster, but on the death of King Edward he retired to Strasburg.  Here he continued to reside till the accession of Elizabeth, who nominated him in 1559 to the See of London, whence, in 1570, he was translated to York, and in 1575, on the death of Parker, to Canterbury.  His indulgence to the Puritans procured him the Queen’s displeasure, and for some time he was sequestered and confined to his house, but in 1582 he resigned his office, and died July 6th, 1583.]

[Footnote 19:  Thomas Cartwright was born in Hertfordshire in 1535, and was educated at Cambridge.  In 1567 he graduated B.D., and was appointed Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity.  Having vigorously assailed the Church Establishment in his lectures, he was deprived of his professorship; whereupon he went to Geneva, and made the acquaintance of Beza.  In 1572 he revisited England, and entered into a long controversy with Whitgift; in 1573 he went to Heidelberg, and afterwards served as minister to the English congregations at Antwerp and Middleburg.  On returning to England, in 1585, he was imprisoned by order of Bishop Aylmer, but was soon released at the instance of Lord Burghley.  In 1595 he accompanied Lord Zouch to Guernsey, remaining on the island till 1598.  He died at Warwick on 27th December, 1603 (not, as Walton says, 1602).  Among his works are a Latin Harmony of the Gospels, Commentaries on the Colossians, &c.]

[Footnote 20:  Walter Travers, who had been Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, to which Cartwright removed, and he was also his intimate friend, and joint preacher with him in Antwerp.  When Travers came to England, he was made Chaplain to Lord Burghley, whose interest procured him to be Lecturer at the Temple.]

[Footnote 21:  Dr. Richard Rowland, Master of St. John’s College in Cambridge, and the fourth Bishop of Peterborough, died in 1600.  It does not appear that he was the preacher on this occasion, for Gunton, in his “History of the Church of Peterborough,” states that it was Wickham, Bishop of Lincoln.]

[Footnote 22:  In 1588, many satirical libels were published against the Bishops, written principally by a Society of men assuming the name of Martin Mar-Prelate; some of them were entitled, Diotrephes, the Minerals, the Epistle to the Convocation-House, Have you any work for a Cooper? and More work for a Cooper, referring to the Defence of the Church and Bishops of England, written by Cowper, Bishop of Winchester.  The real authors of these tracts, were John Penry, a Welchman, John Udall, and other ministers.]