Note 1293 — Chapter X · RISE OF CIVIL MARRIAGE
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Cartwright's Reply to the Answer, p. 151, sec. 1, in Whitgift, Works, III, 268. Whitgift (ibid., 269) rebukes Cartwright for his "slanderous and opprobrious speeches." Cf. the further discussion of the question of spiritual jurisdiction in matrimonial causes in Whitgift, loc. cit., 543-46, where Cartwright quotes Beza, Calvin, and Peter Martyr in his favor.
In convocation, 1580, proposals were made to reform the ecclesiastical courts, but nothing was done. Again in 1594 a commission to inquire into abuses was appointed: Hallam, Const. Hist., I, 215 n. 1; Strype's Grindal, 259, App., 97; and Strype's Whitgift, 419.