Editing John Whitgift (section)

==Links with Cambridge==
Having taken holy orders in 1560, he became chaplain to [[Richard Cox (bishop)|Richard Cox]], Bishop of [[Ely Cathedral|Ely]], who collated (that is, appointed) him to the rectory of [[Teversham]], just to the east of [[Cambridge, England|Cambridge]]. In 1563 he was appointed [[Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity]] at the [[University of Cambridge]], and his lectures gave such satisfaction to the authorities that on 5 July 1566 they considerably augmented his stipend. The following year he was appointed [[Regius Professor of Divinity]], and became master first of Pembroke Hall (1567) and then of [[Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity]] in 1570. He had a principal share in compiling the statutes of the university, which passed the [[Great Seal of the Realm|great seal]] on 25 September 1570, and in the November following he was chosen as [[Chancellor (education)|vice-chancellor]].

While at Cambridge he formed a close relationship with [[Andrew Perne]], sometime vice-chancellor. Perne went on to live with Whitgift in his old age. Puritan satirists would later mock Whitgift as "Perne's boy" who was willing to carry his cloak-bag – thus suggesting that the two had enjoyed a [[homosexual]] relationship.<ref>Patrick Collinson, ''Richard Bancroft and Elizabethan Anti-Puritanism'', University of Cambridge, 2013</ref>