Now, Query, as these may have been copies of a translation, can any Colchester reader help to settle affirmatively or negatively the question of a Latin _Life of Monk_ by Skinner? I add two other Queries:-- It appears from a passage in the _Life_ (p. 333.), that Skinner appended, or intended to append, a collection of papers:-- "As appears from His Majesty's royal grant or warrant to him (Sir John Grenville), which we have transcribed from the original, and have added in the collection at the end of this history." Webster says he never could get any account of this collection of papers. Can Colchester now produce any information about them? Can any of your readers give any information about those papers of the second Duke of Albemarle, and of Grenville, Earl of Bath, to which Skinner had access? Lord Bath's papers were probably afterwards in the hands of his nephew Lord Lansdowne, who vindicated Monk in answer to Burnet. W.D. CHRISTIE. * * * * * CUNNINGHAM'S LIVES OF EMINENT ENGLISHMEN.--WHITGIFT AND CARTWRIGHT. In a modern publication, entitled _Lives of Eminent Englishmen_, edited by G.G. Cunningham, 8 vols. 8vo. Glasgow, 1840, we meet with a memoir of Archbishop Whitgift, which contains the following paragraph:-- "While Whitgift was footing to an archbishopric, poor Cartwright was consigned to poverty and exile; and at length died in obscurity and wretchedness. How pleasant would it have been to say that none of his sufferings were inflicted by his great antagonist, but that he was treated by him with a generous magnanimity! Instead of this, Whitgift followed him through life with inflexible animosity."--_Cunningham's Lives_, ii. 212. Mr. Cunningham gives no authority for these statements; but I will furnish him with my authorities for the contradiction of them. "After some years (writes Walton, in his _Life of Hooker_), the Doctor [Whitgift] being preferred to the see, first of Worcester and then of Canterbury, Mr. Cartwright, after his share of trouble and imprisonment (for setting up new presbyteries in divers places against the established order), having received from the Archbishop many personal favours, retired himself to a more private living, which was at Warwick, where he became master of an hospital, and lived quietly and grew rich;... the Archbishop surviving him but one year, _each ending his days in perfect charity with the other_." To the same effect is the statement in Strype, which I borrow from Dr. Zouch's second edition of _Walton's Lives_, p. 217.:--