The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

In the other part of my life / after he had thrust me out of the College: he accuseth me for going up and down doing no good, and living ¹at other mens tables. that I was not idle / I suppose he knoweth to well: Whether well occupied or no / let it be judged. I lived in deed / at other mens tables, having no house nor wife of mine own: but not without their desire / and with small delight of mine / for fear of evil tongues. And although I were not able / to requite it: yet towards some I went about it / instructing their children partly in the principles off religion / partly in other learning. His other accusations / beside the cause: are off my manner off writing. The matter is blamed: for that (as he saith) ^ait consisteth wholly of other mens notes and collections, and that I have ^bscarce red one off the authors which I have alleged: yea and that I also ^ccontemn them, namely master; Nowels Catechism. And for the form. It is blamed as undutiful towards the ^dArchbishops, bishops, &c. namely the ^eBishop of Salisbury, and himself especially. That off contempt off M. Nowels / and other mens works: I detest as intolerable arrogance. The other / wherein the question is off great reading: I let pas. For if he be learned / and I not / have read them all and I scarce one: it will easily appear to the learned: beside that (as I have said) it toucheth not the cause. Only I admonish / that he do it hereafter / with better ground. For notwithstanding (it is like he hunteth me with moe hounds / then I him: yet beside those places I confess my self to have received / he noteth not many / and (that excepted off Jerome mistaken for Musculus) not one truly.

In the other part of my life / after he had thrust me out of the Colledge: he accuseth me for going vp and downe doing no good, and liuing ¹