Pegasus, or, The flying horse from Oxford bringing the proceedings of the visitours and other Bedlamites there, by command of the Earle of Mongomery. Barlow, Thomas, 1607-1691. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A30982 of text R41624 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing B838). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 38 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 11 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. 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Printed, at Montgomery, heretofore called Oxford, [London] : [1648] Place and date of publication suggested by Wing (2nd ed.). Second part, "A letter from Oxford", signed Basilius Philomusus, p. 1-12 at end, has been attributed to Thomas Pierce. Cf. Madan, Falconer, Oxford books. Oxford, 1895-1931, v.2, p. 468, no. 1988. Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library. eng Pembroke, Philip Herbert, -- Earl of, 1584-1650. University of Oxford -- History. A30982 R41624 (Wing B838). civilwar no Pegasus, or The flying horse from Oxford. Bringing the proceedings of the visitours and other Bedlamites there, by command of the Earle of M Barlow, Thomas 1648 6920 3 10 0 0 0 0 19 C The rate of 19 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2003-07 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2003-07 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2003-08 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2003-08 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-10 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion PEGASUS , OR THE FLYING HORSE from Oxford . Bringing the Proceedings of the Visitours and other Bedlamites there , by Command of the Earle of Mongomery . ACADEMIA OXONIENSIS SAPIENTIA ET FELICITATE PRINTED , At Mongomery , heretofore called Oxford . TUESDAY Aprill the eleventh , The long-Legg'd peece of impertinency which they miscall Chancellor ) was to bee brought with State into Oxon : To this end , these few inconsiderable , and ill fac'd Saints hired all the Hackneyes in Towne ( which were basely bad , yet good enough for them ) Out they went and met the Hoghen Moghen I told you of ; What Courtship passed between them at meeting , how hee swore at them , and they said grace at him ; how many zealous faces and ill leggs they made , and at what distance , I know not ; a long time they were about it . At last they come , and the Governor and his Regiment meetes them at Friar-Bacons study , where you might have seene the Presbyterian and Independent agreed against the poore Christians of Oxon : In the meane time Tho. Smith of Magdalen Colledge had an excellent Designe ; Hee would ride in with them too , and that hee might have suteable accomodation , would needs borrow an Asse , nay an Asse hee would have , and ride in next before the Chancellor , and when they told him it was a mad trick , hee told them noe , for hee knew there would bee many Asses besides his . Now they come , they come ! And indeede it was such a miserable Pageant as I never saw . Had you seene tall Pembroke in the midd'st of those little inspired Levites , you would have sworne you had seene Saul , once more amongst the Prophets . Along they come without any respect from those in the Streets ( which were not many ) not a Cap or Knee from them , but frownes and curses ; and 't was a wonder ( but that the Souldiers guarded them ) if they had not welcom'd them with old Eggs and Apples . Aaron Rogers , Langley , and squint eyed Greenwood , were the chiefe men ( what the worst were when these were best , you may judge ) and with them about some ten or twelve Schollars more , freshmen and all , only they were interlarded with some few Countrey Parsons who brought their sonnes for Fellowships , and so worshipped the Beast for their profit . All that saw these Dragooners in Divinity , upon those miserable Hackneyes , with suteable lookes and gestures , imagined that some ill-fac'd Major of some beggerly Towne had beene brought in by the mechanicall Clownes of the place . They are now almost at Merton Colledge gate , where Master Cheynel begins an Oration in English ( they cannot speake Latine by the Spirit ) delivers him , in the name of the University ( a lying Levite , whom the University sent not ) First , a Key of the Convocation . Secondly a Seale ( a counterfeit one , for the true ones are safe enough . ) Thirdly , a Bible ; and when hee came to that , hee was inspired and spoke fast , and much of it ; and you may easily beleeve that hee would not quickly have done with the Bible , who will hold out three houres on one poore Text . Hee sadly complained to his Lordship , of all sorts of People , especially the Beedles , for neglecting their duty , that they came not and bowed their knee to Baal , nor worshipped the Calfe which they had set up . Hee told his Lordship that they were very Malignant , and their staves stained with a double Guilt ( witty Master Cheynel I ) Well , thinke what you will , I am sure that was intended for a jeast . Dixit , Master Chaynel has done ; my Lord bowes his body , but wisely said nothing . Then downe comes my Lord , goes into the Colledge ; at the entrance their designed Proctor Button makes a Latine speech to his Lordship , which hee understood as much , as his horse Master Cheynels English one . This done my Lord for his Chamber , and those Levites who on Hackneyes man'd him down the streete ride back againe through the highstreete , where they were hissed and houted at . Next morning they are for Execution , and to Christchurch they goe ; the Visitors and Chancellor ( falsly so called ) enter the Hall , call for the Buttery-booke , dash out the Deane and all the Cannons , put in their owne new nam'd things , and subscribe their names to the fact ; then Mistresse Fell ( a gallant woman ) her children and servants are turned out , and the possession given to Reynolds . Afternoone a Convocation is called by a ( fellow they call Beedle , hee came into our Colledge , with his hands in his pockets ( staffe hee had none ) in the middle of the Quadrangle , pulls out a paper , puts on his spectacles , and read the forme in Latine , ( though 't is certaine hee understands noe good English ( Langley was the man , a Taylor ) and instead of per sidem , per sidem , per sidem ; call'd it provided ; provided , provided . Afternoone they advance towards the Schooles , there marched before his Lordship , foure fellowes in gownes , ill-fac'd , heads bare , hands in their pockets , these went for Beedles , after these my Lord and the rabble ; to the Convocation they come , where there appeared not above thirteene or fourteene who had votes ( Doctor Pellam , and Master VVilliamson were two , Zouch and Paul Hood have appeared too , ) yet the House was full of people , Batchelours , Freshmen , Townesmen , Servingmen , all came in , and sat where once gallant men did . Never such a Conventicle ( or Confusion rather ) carried the name of a Convocation , there they make Reynolds Vice-Chancellor , Button and Crosse Proctors , Reynolds , Harris , Rogers , Corbet ( who as Vniversity Orator made a Speech to the Chancellor in the passage by the Divinity-Schooles ) Garbrand of New-Iun , Palmer ( the designed Warden of All-Soules ) are Created Doctors , Langley , Cornish , Cheynel . Batchelors , of Divinity , and Masters , and Batchelors , God knowes how many ! The most that was spoken there was English , and all that was done was irregular capa pe pe no Statute observed , or regarded , Thursday Aprill the thirteenth , my Lord and the Visitors and a great guard of Musquetiers ( where ever they went , even at Convocation , they had a great guard still ) are for Magdalens , they had before summoned all the fellowes , &c. to meet them in the Hall , but none did heede or obey , ( only Master Dayle Junior was there ) there they sate , and by and by bonny Thom. Smith comes into the Hall up to my Lord , confidently asked him , by what Authoritie hee sate there ? My Lord was troubled at this , till Cheynell told my Lord , that the man was madde , ( Clodius accusat Maechos ) but Smith heard him , and told him that hee was no so madde as hee — &c. Then they call for the Buttery-booke , dash out Doctor Oliver , put in Iohn Wilkinson , goe to the Lodgings , violently breake open the doores , imprison Doctor Oliver's man , give Doctor Iohn and Kate possession ; Shee presently layes in a Barrell of Beere , and the Doctor sends to the Cooke and commands him to dresse no Supper , but hee obeyes not but dresses Supper , and some very honest men eate it in their owne defence . After dinner my Lord ( now grown skilfull at breaking open doores ) marches to All-soules , and all the rabble with him ; they had summoned the Fellowes to meete them in the Hall but not one man would appeare ; there they fret , but to no purpose , send for Doctor Sheldon ( the honor of our Towne , and his Coate ) hee quietly asked by what authority they summoned him ; the Authority was shewn , and read ; Doctor Sheldon told them it concernd not him at all , for it was Dated March the eighth ( or thereabouts ) and gave the Chancellor and Visitors power to give possession to those which were Voted into the places of those then removed , but Doctor Sheldon told them hee was not then questioned , nor voted out till March the thirtith so that it was manifest they had by that no power to meddle with him . This puzzeld them all , nor was there any answer , my Lord askes Pryn ( who was there ) what hee said to it , but ( at present ) William said nothing . The Doctor leaves them , they consult almost an houre ; Pryn confesses they had no power by their Commission to doe it , but the Parliament must not bee baffled , and that they might doe many things exofficio , agreeable to the minde of the Parliament ; though not in their Commission . Oraculous William ! Well to it againe they goe , breake open his doores ; enter , give Master Palmer possession , write a mittimus to send Doctor Sheldon to prison ; in which they used base , aggravative language against him , the Doctor desired my Lord to reade it , telling him , that his Lordship was pleased two or three times to say that his answer and carriage were very civill , and desired to know whether that language was fit to be given to one who had so demean'd himselfe . My Lord said , they were hard words , and when they told him that the Lawyers drew it ( Pryn and Cheynel were the men ) my Lord replyed who ever drew it , it had very hard language in it ; In the carriage and debate of the businesse , my Lord asked Doctor Sheldon pardon three or foure times , and told him openly , that what hee had done in breaking open doores hee knew not , let the Lawyers looke to that , so Doctor Sheldon is for prison , and they for Wadam where they summoned the Fellowes , none appeare , goe to the Buttery booke , put out the Warden , put Willkins of Magdalen-Hall ( the Prince Electors Chaplaine ) in his place ; then to Trinity , breake open all , put old Harris in possession . Then for Saint Iohns and because there were little children had Agues they give him time to remove , who never will remove till compeld by violence . Then to Brasen-Nose summon the fellowes , none appeare , call for the Buttery booke , raise out the Principalls name , put in Greenwood . Friday morning to Christ-Church again , for they heard the new Deane , and Cannons names were torne out , they put them in again . They have sorely whip't a mad woman for calling them Roundheads , and Rebells , ( should all mad men bee whip't it would goe hard with some ) and Thom. Smith of Magdalens is last night carried to Bridewell , and Master VVebbirly too ; farewell , remember me to all my friends , honest T. T. D. S. the Gentleman with the sword , Mr. F. Mr. LL. Mr. L. & excuse me to Mrs. Ba. I am in her debt for many things besides a letter , pray for us , not that wee may keepe our places , but our courage and conscience ; If this world goe on , 't will bee a shame to bee out of prison , or in a Felloship . What I have writ is true whether sense or no , I know not , what ever it bee , accept of my willingnesse to serve thee , and pardon the faults , of Oxford April . 18 1648. Thine &c. A LETTER from Oxford . SIR , I Have beene unjsut to you , That I have so long deferred to give you an account of this last Act of the Tragedy here in Oxford : I shall now labour to expiate my fault by some kinde of restitution , and hasten to tell you , that the first entrance was on this manner . Some few weekes before Easter , the Visitation , which had beene for some time the sleeping Lion , began to rouze it selfe up againe , and as the passion weeke grew on , designed this Vniversitie to that honour of Conformity with the Image of our Saviour ( I meane in suffering . ) And first let me tell you . that if there were any difference among them , betwixt Legal and Illegal , betwixt Valid and Null ; this Rallying of the Visitors after so long an intermission , and that without so much as formality of Adjourning de die in diem ( as their Commission , and the manner of all Courts requires ) were sufficient , according to their owne Principles , to pronounce all Null which they have done since this last Session of theirs : But such nicities you will not expect they should consider ; though that they , which live by no other Law but that of Ordinance , should despise even that by which they subsist , is a pretty degree of unkindnesse and ingratitude in them ; and such as the Jews would not bee guilty of ; but at the time when they were Crucifying of Christ would not yet enter into the Praetorium , lest they should be defiled by the heathen Souldiers there , and so bee made uncapable by Moses's Lawe , of receiving the Passover approaching ; It being most unreasonable and inconsistent with their Principles to Crucifie the true Lawe of Heaven , on pretence it was contrary to their Ordinances by which they Acted , and at the same time to despise those very Ordinances , whose Advocates they undertooke to bee so zealously . But these are men who are to make Lawes for others , and not to bee ruled by any themselves : And therefore I doe not expect you should at all stand still and gaze or wonder at this , though in all reason it have a great influence on all that followes , which can have no greater validitie in it , then what this null foundation can helpe it to . But it is in vaine to wound a Carcase , and to take paines to let out life from the Trunke that never had the honour to have any : And therefore let that passe . When they came down to this new and strange work , the Persons which entred were five in appearance , though the truth is , but one Soule to animate them all ; that Spirit that was once in Chaynes at Salisbury ( you know whose Periphrasis that is . ) The first of the five was Sir Nat. Brent , that known old visitor , that tooke such care in my Lord of Canterburies dayes to have the Ceremonies observed , the Table rayled in , &c. and now can lye in curtaynes fetcht out of his Colledge-Chappell formerly thought fit to adorn the East end of that , but now found more commodious for his bed-chamber . The second was Dr. Iohn Wilkinson , that illiterate , testy old Creature , that for fourty yeeres together hath beene the sport of the Boyes , most constantly yoaked with ●●ctor Kettle ) which in this age of Idolizing of Sermons , is sufficiently known never to have preach't above once in fourty yeeres , and having now outlived all the little learning hee had , and his every thing but Sugar'd drinke , and Possets ; is thought fit to bee Sir Nathaniel's Second , in being revenged on learning which hath brought them so much reproach . The third is Master Rogers of New-Inn , famous for Adam the Protolaspus , when many yeeres since hee ventured to bee a Preacher , and attempted to imitate that sound ( which hee might often have heard ) of {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , which 't is supposed he thought compounded of the Greeke {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , ( if hee ever knew so much of that Language ) and the Latine Lapsus , which yet hee was not so much Master of , as to give it a more perfect sound then that of Protolaspus which I mentioned . The fourth man was Master Harris , good man , that hath but the possession of so many Benefices ( Hanwell , his old Love , one hundred and sixty pounds per annum , beside grazing , &c. Bishopsgate toward foure hundred pounds . Hanborough , toward three hundred pounds . Beriton and Petersfield , in Hampshire , not above five hundred or six hundred pounds more ; beside the foure shillings a day for the Assembly Membership ; and ten shillings for Apostleship in Oxford ) but assured us in his late Visitation-Sermon , last Iune ; that hee had not the Pro-fits of them ( quite contrary to Master Greenewood the new Principall of Brasen-nose , who being accused of the like Plurality , profest that he had not the Livings but only the Profits of them . ) And in the fift and last place Master Chayn●el , I shall but name him Caetera fama dabit . Well , of the foure and twenty Visitors , any five of which ( none being of the Quorum ) may by the Ordinance make a Court ; These five met together at Merton Colledge , and , for ought any man can take cognizance , three fives or sixes more might bee a sitting in three other places of this Towne , and Decreeing the quite contrary ( varied in three severall shapes ) to what these five did in that one place . And so if nullities in their Proceedings would doe any good , sure there were a sound one in that Commission ; which , by putting none in the Quorum , makes no provision agaisnt this strange absurdity . But beside this , if Acts even of this Parliament are worth heeding , or any thing but the Will and Force of resolved Men , then sure that Act that made Clergy men uncapable of any place of Judicature , would make foure of these five uncapable . For though as wee see them foure , and Master Reynolds , and Master Corbet , &c. named in the Ordinance , wee could not say there were any Divines ( contrary to the Act ) invested with power of Oier and Terminer , because those names might signifie some other non-Divines , which wee knew not ; yet when wee see them sitting at Merton Colledge in Gownes , wee cannot mistake , or distrust our eyes , but are forced to resolve that either Presbyterian-Divines are no Divines , or that these foure are excluded by Act of Parliament ; and then Sir Nathaniel , and Brem , and Warden of Merton , and Vicar-Generall , and Iudge of the Praerogative must make up the five ( and some of them if not Divines , are Ecelesiastick Persons also ) or else wee cannot possibly reare a Committee . And againe if there bee any sence in that old Maxime , that Parties must not be Judges , and that 't is only the Hangmans fee to have the dead man's cloths to weare after him ( and it hath not beene often seene that the Judge hath seized upon them for his owne body , and appeared in them all the rest of his Circuit ) then sure these five will not bee able to make up one tolerable Commissioner , or piece of a legall-Judge , for this one Cause , if there were no other nullity in it ; for 't is notorious that old Wilkinson was then Voted , and now thrust into Doctor Olivers Presidentship of Magdalens ; old Rogers into Doctor Gardners Prebendary of Christchurch ; Harris into Doctor Potters Presidentship of Trinity , and one living more , that of Gazington annexed to that place ; Chaynel into Doctor Raylies of Saint Iohns ; And Sir Nat's sonne Corbet ( the old Gentleman being full and uncapable of more Spirituall Preferment ) into Doctor Hammonds Prebendary of Christchurch , and Oratorship of the Vniversitie , which are both very reconcileable with Hasely , of toward foure hundred pounds per annum , which he deprived Doctor Soame of , a yeere and halfe since ; poore modest Gentleman , how the wealth of the world crowds in upon him , and hee cannot looke any man in the face hee is so bashfull at it . These five men have had the honour of going through all the last part of the worke , as farre as it was acted here . Their first busines was to summon Dr. Sheldon , and Dr. Hammond , which had not before come into their fanges , and all the other Heads who had any way escaped the former impression of their malice ; Their questions to them were the same Engine that the Praesidents of old made use of to dismount Daniel , knowing that they had no crime to lay to their charge , nor other occasion but only that they would not perjure themselves in doing any thing contrary to their allegiance to the King , or the Priviledges of the Vniversity ; And therefore their common Question to them both , and all others was , whether they would submlt to this visitation , and did own the power of Parliament therein . Dr. Sheldon's Answer was , that he was not satisfyed that he ought to submit to this visitation . Dr. Hammond had two other questions added to that , viz. If he were not one of the Delegates of this Vniversity , and helpt not to frame and passe those Reasons presented in Convocation , Iune 1 , against the power of Parliament to visit ? Then whether he as Subdeane of Christ Church had published the Orders sent by the Committee of Lords and Commons to remove some of that Society , according to the said Orders : His answer was that hee did not conceive that hee was obleiged to answere those questions thus proposed to him ; I am told by some that have talkt with that Dr. that the reason of his giving his answer in those wary restreined termes , was to make it impossible for them , proceeding ( as he expected ) according to their own principles , to charge any thing upon him ; For this answer being made to those three questions together , would be justifyed , if any part of any of the three were such , as to which he was not obliged to give answer . And sure many parts there were in the questions confestly of this nature . For not to mention an exception to the first . That sure no man is bound to accuse himselfe , or to answer any question which may bee to his own prejudice ; as 't was cleare it would bee , if hee answered that hee could not submit to their visitation , which his Oathes bound him to answer , ( if hee answered at all ) if hee tooke the Parliament in their sence for the two houses ( and this was the very thing for which the Oathes ex Officio were by them formerly so complained of as unlawfull ) to omit that first question , or rather snare . I say ; the second contein'd in it an absolute falsity , which hee must have granted a truth , if hee had answered to it either affirmatively or negatively . For there was never any such thing in the world , as is there pretended , viz. Reasons presented Iune the first against the power of the two houses , or Parliament to visit , with those reasons which were then presented , is sufficiently knowne in the publishing of them ; namely the scruples of rationall men against the taking of the Covenant and Negative Oath , and submission to the Ordinance for the directory ; and what is this I pray to any bodies power of visiting ? especially when now 't is confest by these men that they doe not meane in their visitation to presse the Covenant . The truth is these reasons have not beene answered by any , though insteed of answering them , there was by an anonymas ( Master Cheynell the spirit bespeakes the Author ) a promise made long since , that it should be taken in peices , & the theologicall part answered by the Assembly , the Law part by able Lawyers , and the prudentiall part by prudent men , but now it seemes by this question , that the farre easier course is to put the honest Christian in a wild beasts skinne , and then to teare him to peices ; I meane to entitle these reasons a new , Reasons against the power of Parliament to visit , and then to turne out all who had to doe in the composing them ; and that should bee full as profitable to those who meant to succeede them in their places , as if they had answered all their scruples . Meane while this makes it not only unreasonable , but impossible for the Doctor to give any positive Answer to that question , which was fallacia plurimum interogationum ; and so , sure , he was not oblieged to answer it being thus proposed . For the third hee was able to make this Dilemma to himselfe , If hee should answer that hee had not published those orders against his brethren , he had confest himself guilty of a Contempt of those who made those Orders ; if that hee had publish'd it , hee had confest himselfe the accuser ( and as much as in him lay , the executioner ) of his brethren : The Accuser of them if they did not obey upon his publishing of them : The Executioner if they did . And sure hee was not bound either to acknowledge himself a foole , or a divill ; A foole by confessing those omissions , which must bee his rume under such Judges ; a devill in having acted under such bloody censors . Well to hold you no longer in these discourses ( when reasons is become so uselesse a solicitor ) the answers of those two , and some other the like , being given on Monday before Easter , made such haste from hence to London , to the obedient Committee there , and from thence with such full speede came back again , that they brought downe that very weeke from London against Doctor Sheldon , Doctor Hammond , Doctor Wall , and Doctor Payne votes of removing them from their places , upon pretence of high contempt of authority of Parliament . Was there ever such a conclusion from such praemisses ? But this will not much amaze you , if you consider the moderne practices , and that , as once there was a law somewhere , that no crime should be punishable but treason , but then by the malice of interpretation care taken , that every thing that any man did , should bee improved into Treason ; So now among us the contempt of authority of Parliament is the only mortall Crime , but then the giving a wary answer or such as Master Cheynell himselfe could pick no hole in , must bee the contempt of that authority ; which I confesse it was in one of those Doctors in some sence ; The Committee having long since voted that one Master Palmer of the house of Commons should succeede in the Wardenship of All-soules , when hee should bee guilty of contempt ; whereupon his not throwing himselfe into that crime , which they decreed hee should bee guilty of , was an affront to the voters , a denyall of their Prophetique faculty , and sure a contempt of their authority , who had so absolutely decreed , ante lapsum , that hee should contemn , & perish for it . Well the fury of these impatient teazers was such , that they could not celebrate Christs Resurrection in any Charity , till they had Executed their joyous sentence upon some of these Doctors & therfore the next minuit after the arrivall of the Carryer , and the votes on Easter Eve , they ran presently to Christ-Church Hall with a full guard of Musquetiers , send their mandatary and souldier for Doctor Hammond ; and would heare no reason but hee must upon utmost perrill come to the hall to them and heare himselfe pronounced neither Orator nor Praebend before Easter ; that so if it were possible hee might want Charity to fit him for the next dayes Dutyes ; but the honest Doctor had better learned and taught the duties of the fifth of Matthew , then to bee in the power of such provokers . The same sentence was soone after on Easter Munday affixt on Doctor Sheldons walls , and his subwarden required to bee his Executioner , and woe bee to him that hee hath not thought that act of parricide his duty . But ; Sir , all these have beene yet but umbratiles pugnae , the reall fury of the impression is reserved for nobler hands . The Earle of Pembroke must bee fetcht from Ramsbury to breake open the doores and to that purpose , according to an Order procured in the Lords hosue , March the eighth , Master Cheynel , which knew the way perfectly into those parts towards Salisbury posts presently to his Lordship to Ramsbury , obteynes a promise that the weeke after Easter weeke hee would serve them . Then all care is taken to get in Beedles Staves , and the in●●gnia of the Vniversity , to prepare for his Lordships comming , the Deane of Christ-Church the Vice-Chauncellor his doores are broken open by assistance of Souldiers , but nothing found there , the Presidents of Corpus-Christi the pro-Vice-Chancellor his in like manner , but nothing there : At last when the Earle comes most pitifully fetcht in with a few visitors and a sorty Company of expectant Boyes , Master Cheynell entertaynes him with an English speech , and tells him that the Beedles staves had a double guilt , ( the wit of the new University ) and therefore could not bee had to attend him : only exhorts him to believe and to bee confident , that the more vigerous hee should bee in that designed execution , the more acceptable it would bee in the sight of God , and if hee would not take his word for it , hee should take Gods word , and so presents to him a great Bible without Liturgy or Apocrypha , which was to supply the place of the Beedles staves to conduct him to his lodging . The imployment that now they set this Earle , when they had him amongst them , 't would even grieve you to thinke of ; That honourable office of a petty Constable generall from Colledge to Colledge is bestowed on him , first to break open the hall-doore of Christ-Church , Then to carry out Mistrisse Fell and all her children and family ( some fourteene , women and children ) in chayres and set them in the Quadrangle , that Master Reynolds might have quiet possession of that lodging ; which assuredly hee will never injoy one quiet houre , as long as hee lives , if he were in earnest when hee wrote the sinfullnesse of sin ; and believe any of the aggravations of sin , which hee laboured there to teach others . Then Magdalens hath the next part of the impression , the Presidents lodgings are broken open , the Servants sent to the Jayle for not betraying their Master , Doctor Iohn bid to be president and he presently commands the whole society to bee sterved , that is , commands no more Commons to be drest for his new family , who must bee brought up now , like Scholasticus his horse , to live without eating . Then up to All-Soules , and Doctor Sheldon being in his garden and refusing to give up the keyes of his house , and pleading that the vote for his ejection was twenty two dayes after that Order of the Lords , that the Earle &c. should execute their ( then past but not future ) Votes , his doores were used as the rest of his friends ; but himselfe farre worse , for that crime of urging reason for himselfe , least , as some of them confest , they should bee affronted , or baffled by him . Pray Sir warne your friends to brware of this dangerous thing , called speaking of sense , or as the Earle stiles it , being Schollars , or witty men : for it is a fault can never bee allowed impunity . That worthy Doctor is committed to the Marshall for that onely crime , and there like to continue , till hee lose or allay the reputation of being rationall or honest , by delivering up the keyes and bookes , which is , to bee perjur'd ; and that the only condition yet talkt of to make him capable of release . In his place is admitted the aforesaid Member Master Palmer , and all required to submit to him as Warden , though neither chosen by the Colledge , nor entred by taking any oath to bee true to it , or to govern by Statute ; any of which omissions make it direct prejury for any Fellow to acknowledge or submit to him , as it doth also in all the other Colledges , where these invaders are placed : the whole body of legall rights of Governours and Corporations being by this una litura abolished , and turned into most perfect arbitrary Government , under a Mufty Vice-Chancellor , and two Janizary proctors in the Vniversity ; ( which therefore walke with swords and pistolls instead of civill hoods ) and a Bashaw in every colledge ; A signification of the new modell for the whole Kingdome . From All-Soules they run with full speede to Wadam-Colledge and there the Warden's doores are by his Lordship fore't again , and one Wilkins the writer of the man in the Moon dropt thence into his place . Then Trinity Colledge is laid open , by the same noble violence , to Master Harris ; and Saint Iohns to Master Cheynel , though there they acknowledged some civility , and for a reward of not putting the Constable to doe his duty , the Praesident is permitted to live in his lodgings for a moneth longer . The same fate befell the old Principall of Brazen-Nose , and Master Greenwood that well lookt Gentleman can swallow the Profits of that also : and so now well nigh all the godly are possest of the good things of this life , and presently mistake possession for propriety , and so Master Cheynel can pray very confidently at Saint Maryes , that every man may injoy his own . What was done in the Convocation house would bee too long to relate particularly , many speeches addrest by the new Orator , Proctor , Vice-Chancellor , to theire golden Idoll , and upon his giving to the Library the great Bible lately printed in France , the whole fabrick new christned by Master Corbet , from Bodleiana to Pembrokiana , upon the same depth of reason , that their mock Proctor , goody Buttons sonne , had told him , that hee was literatissimus omnium qui Accademiam unquam intrarunt . Then to Creating of Doctors and Bachelours of Divinity , and for three dayes together all degrees most liberally distributed among themselves , and their clients , there being no way imaginable to get a sufficient number to make a convocation or an University hereafter , when the subsidiary Country Parsons are gone home again , unlesse such creations purè ex nihilo were thus allowed them , for wee heare but of three complyers present in their Convocation in the whole Vniversity , old Rouse the Rimmonist , as hee hath named himselfe , old Williamson that hath dranke out all but his telling of lyes and love of monyes to provide for more drinke , and Pelham the mock-speakers brother , which confesseth hee can doe any thing but deny the Trinity , rather then loose a fellowship ; and some add Doctor Zouch also , who , they say , is told by the Earle , that it is too late ; his place being otherwise designed already ; and so 't is certayne that Doctor Wall having made some civill motions towards complyance , was as civilly treated ; only his Prebendary voted from him and Cornish one of the Apostles put into it , who will not bee put out again by such a trick , I warrant you . Thus having erected a strange Chimaera called the new Modell of the Vniversitie , and removed as many heads of Colledges as was thought necessary for their present businesse , the Earle hath an honourable Exit , and is dismissed from his Constables Office under Justice Cheynel , untill the stubbornnesse of some Pretenders to thense of reasonable Souls ( who shall thereupon refuse to throw their doores open to the spoylers ) require him to bee recalled to the execution of his Office againe . Meane while wee have not yet discovered the reason , , why the execution of his God-sonne Doctor Hammond , and his old acquaintance Doctor Morley , and the rest of the Prebends of Christchurch is deferred , so farre as belongs to the possession of their lodgings ; for they say their names are struck out of the Buttery-booke , and Successours put in instead of seaven of them , and only Doctor Sanderson respited by occasion of his not being in towne at the sending the last summons for him : But if they have any man so ventrous as to dare to approach a Divinity-Chayre and Latine hee is sure enough to survive a very little time . And so farewell Honesty , Civility , Learning , Piety , Christianity ; and welcome Bedlam , and Barbarisme , and oppression , and Hell , the only Jewells wee are to receive in Exchange for a flourishing Vniversity . These things are too sad to bee enlarged on , but will appeare rarely in a full History of the times . And this is all the revenge which is meditated here against these men , and of that they are sure enough by the peculiarity of their condition who are the sufferers in the Tragedy . And so this Earle's Posterity will be able to see their Ancestour set out in a full immortall shape , his Memory as sure not to die , as Erestrarus's was , that burnt a Temple , on purpose to perpetuate it . And when that Picture is drawne at length , you neede not feare but his Encourager and Director Olsworth , will finde some roome ( though it bee but as a Negro , or Zany , or Sancho ) in the Table . Oxford April . 17. Your Mournfull but Christian Servant . BASILIUS PHILOMUSUS . Fiat voluntas Domini .