ABSTRACT
Parker and the bishops were angling for some acknowledgment from the Court and the Council of a common interest with the clergy in resisting the new subversion. But with few exceptions, privy councillors and courtiers took a complacent view of their embarrassment. The archbishop has left a revealing memorandum of an afternoon which he and the bishop of London spent in attendance on the Council in the Star Chamber in late May 1573, when Dering, Wibum, Johnson and Browne were examined for their parts in dispersing the Replye or maintaining its doctrines. The queen and most of the Council were absent on progress and the presbyterians still held the initiative. In July a so-called ‘friendly caveat’ which attacked the bishop in the most offensive terms circulated freely in the streets. Cartwright spent some weeks in hiding and then escaped to the Continent at the end of the year.
