[407] Rogers b. 1509 at Birmingham. Burned at Smithfield Feb. 1555.
[408] It was Cromwell who, as chancellor, began to wean the university from the pope; and he removed its papal script—bulls, briefs, and dispensations—which was not returned till such time as he judged the substitution of the king for the pope to be complete.
[409] Falkland, b. 1610. Chillingworth born and educated in Oxford. Taylor born and educated in Cambridge. Stillingfleet, b. 1635, fellow of S. John’s, bishop of Worcester.
[410] ob. 1648.
[411] Cf. Peterhouse pp. 58-9, and Emmanuel p. 145. For religion in Cambridge at the present day, see iv. pp. 246-7.
[412] Burnet, the historian of the movement, writes: “They loved the constitution of the church, and the liturgy, and could well live under them; but they did not think it unlawful to live under another form.... They continued to keep a good correspondence with those who differed from them in opinion, and allowed a great freedom both in philosophy and in divinity; from whence they were called men of latitude. And upon this, men of narrower thoughts and fiercer tempers fastened upon them the name of Latitudinarians.”
[413] “Within the bosom of Protestantism they kindled for the first time the love of this nobler speculation.” (Tulloch, vol. 2. p. 24.)
[414] Cf. Tulloch, Rational Theology in England in the xvii century (1872) vol. 2. p. 13, to whose able and interesting account of the movement I am very much indebted. “They sought,” writes Tulloch, “to confirm the union of philosophy and religion on the indestructible basis of reason and the essential elements of our higher humanity”: and again: “It is the glory of the Cambridge divines that they welcomed this new spirit of speculation” and “gave it frank entertainment in their halls of learning.” “Their liberalism takes a higher flight” than that of Hales and Chillingworth.
[415] His True Intellectual System of the Universe was published in 1678.
[416] Afterwards fellow of Queens’, Hebrew lecturer and Greek praelector.