PEGASUS, OR THE FLYING HORSE from Oxford.  
Bringing the Proceedings of the visitors and other Bedlamites there, by Command of the Earl of Mongomery.  
ACADEMIA OXONIENSIS  
SAPIENTIA ET FELICITATE  
PRINTED, At Mongomery, heretofore called Oxford.   

TUESDAY April the eleventh, The long-legged piece of impertinency which they miscall Chancellor) was to be brought with State into Oxon: To this end, these few inconsiderable, and ill faced Saints hired all the hackneys in town (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 he swore at them, and they said grace at him; how many zealous faces and ill legs 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 meets them at Friar-bacons' study, where you might have seen the Presbyterian and Independent agreed against the poor Christians of Oxon: In the mean time Tho. Smith of Magdalen college had an excellent design; he would ride in with them too, and that he might have suitable accommodation, would needs borrow an ass, nay an ass he would have, and ride in next before the Chancellor, and when they told him it was a mad trick, he told them no, for he knew there would be many Asses besides his. Now they come, they come! And indeed it was such a miserable Pageant as I never saw. Had you seen tall Pembroke in the midst of those little inspired Levites, you would have sworn you had seen 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 frowns and curses; and 'twas a wonder (but that the soldiers guarded them) if they had not welcomed them with old Eggs and Apples. Aaron Rogers, Langley, and squint eyed Greenwood, were the chief men (what the worst were when these were best, you may judge) and with them about some ten or twelve scholars more, freshmen and all, only they were interlarded with some few country Parsons who brought their sons for Fellowships, and so worshipped the Beast for their profit.  
All that saw these Dragooners in Divinity, upon those miserable hackneys, with suitable looks and gestures, imagined that some ill-faced Major of some beggarly town had been brought in by the mechanical clowns of the place. They are now almost at Merton college gate, where Master Cheynel begins an Oration in English (they cannot speak Latin 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 seal (a counterfeit one, for the true ones are safe enough.) Thirdly, a Bible; and when he came to that, he was inspired and spoke fast, and much of it; and you may easily believe that he would not quickly have done with the Bible, who will hold out three hours on one poor Text. He 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 calf which they had set up.  
He told his Lordship that they were very Malignant, and their staves stained with a double Guilt (witty Master Cheynel I) Well, think what you will, I am sure that was intended for a jest. Dixit, Master Chaynel has done; my Lord bows his body, but wisely said nothing. Then down comes my Lord, goes into the college; at the entrance their designed Proctor Button makes a Latin speech to his Lordship, which he understood as much, as his horse Master Cheynels English one. This done my Lord for his Chamber, and those Levites who on hackneys manned him down the street ride back again through the highstreete, where they were hissed and houted at.  
Next morning they are for Execution, and to Christchurch they go; the Visitors and Chancellor (Falsely so called) enter the Hall, call for the buttery-book, dash out the Dean and all the Cannons, put in their own new named things, and subscribe their names to the fact; then Mistress Fell (a gallant woman) her children and servants are turned out, and the possession given to Reynolds.  
Afternoon a Convocation is called by a (fellow they call Beedle, he came into our college, with his hands in his pockets (Staff he had none) in the middle of the Quadrangle, pulls out a paper, puts on his spectacles, and read the form in Latin, (though 'tis certain he understands no good English (Langley was the man, a tailor) and instead of per sidem, per sidem, per sidem; called it provided; provided, provided. afternoon they advance towards the schools, there marched before his Lordship, four fellows in gowns, ill-faced, 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 thirteen or fourteen who had votes (Doctor Pellam, and Master Williamson were two, Zouch and Paul Hood have appeared too,) yet the House was full of people, bachelors, Freshmen, townsmen, serving-men, 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 vicechancellor, Button and cross Proctors, Reynolds, Harris, Rogers, Corbet (who as university Orator made a Speech to the Chancellor in the passage by the divinity-schools) Garbrand of New-Iun, Palmer (the designed Warden of All-souls) are Created Doctors, Langley, Cornish, Cheynel. bachelors, of Divinity, and Masters, and bachelors, God knows how many! The most that was spoken there was English, and all that was done was irregular cap-à-pie pe no Statute observed, or regarded,  
Thursday April 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 fellows, &c. to meet them in the Hall, but none did heed or obey, (only Master Dayle Junior was there) there they sat, and by and by bonny Thom. Smith comes into the Hall up to my Lord, confidently asked him, by what authority he sat there? My Lord was troubled at this, till Cheynell told my Lord, that the man was mad, (Clodius accusat Maechos) but Smith heard him, and told him that he was no so mad as he— &c. Then they call for the buttery-book, dash out Doctor Oliver, put in John Wilkinson, go to the Lodgings, violently break open the doors, imprison Doctor Oliver's man, give Doctor John and Kate possession; she presently lays in a barrel of beer, and the Doctor sends to the cook and commands him to dress no Supper, but he obeys not but dresses Supper, and some very honest men eat it in their own defence.  
After dinner my Lord (now grown skilful at breaking open doors) marches to All-souls, and all the rabble with him; they had summoned the fellows to meet them in the Hall but not one man would appear; there they fret, but to no purpose, send for Doctor Sheldon (the honour of our town, and his coat) he quietly asked by what authority they summoned him; the Authority was shown, and read; Doctor Sheldon told them it concerned 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 he 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 puzzled them all, nor was there any answer, my Lord asks Pryn (who was there) what he said to it, but (at present) William said nothing. The Doctor leaves them, they consult almost an hour; Pryn confesses they had no power by their Commission to do it, but the Parliament must not be baffled, and that they might do many things exofficio, agreeable to the mind of the Parliament; though not in their Commission. Oraculous William! Well to it again they go, break open his doors; 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 read it, telling him, that his Lordship was pleased two or three times to say that his answer and carriage were very civil, and desired to know whether that language was fit to be given to one who had so demeaned himself.  
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 replied who ever drew it, it had very hard language in it; In the carriage and debate of the business, my Lord asked Doctor Sheldon pardon three or four times, and told him openly, that what he had done in breaking open doors he knew not, let the Lawyers look to that, so Doctor Sheldon is for prison, and they for Wadam where they summoned the fellows, none appear, go to the Buttery book, put out the Warden, put Willkins of Magdalen-Hall (the Prince Electors chaplain) in his place; then to Trinity, break open all, put old Harris in possession. Then for Saint John's and because there were little children had Agues they give him time to remove, who never will remove till compelled by violence. Then to Brasen-Nose summon the fellows, none appear, call for the Buttery book, raise out the principals name, put in Greenwood. Friday morning to Christ-Church again, for they heard the new Deane, and Cannons names were torn out, they put them in again. They have sorely whipped a mad woman for calling them Roundheads, and rebels, (should all mad men be whipped it would go hard with some) and Thom. Smith of Magdalen's is last night carried to Bridewell, and Master webbirly 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 we may keep our places, but our courage and conscience; If this world go on, 'twill be a shame to be out of prison, or in a fellowship. What I have writ is true whether sense or no, I know not, what ever it be, accept of my willingness to serve thee, and pardon the faults, of  
Oxford April. 18 1648. Thine &c.   

A LETTER from Oxford.  
SIR,  
I Have been 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 kind of restitution, and hasten to tell you, that the first entrance was on this manner. Some few weeks before Easter, the Visitation, which had been for some time the sleeping Lion, began to rouse itself up again, and as the passion week grew on, designed this university to that honour of Conformity with the Image of our Saviour (I mean 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 the die in diem (as their Commission, and the manner of all Courts requires) were sufficient, according to their own Principles, to pronounce all Null which they have done since this last Session of theirs: But such niceties 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 unkindness and ingratitude in them; and such as the Jews would not be 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 soldiers there, and so be made uncapable by Moses' law, of receiving the Passover approaching; It being most unreasonable and inconsistent with their Principles to crucify the true law 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 undertook to be so zealously. But these are men who are to make laws for others, and not to be ruled by any themselves: And therefore I do 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 follows, which can have no greater validity in it, than what this null foundation can help it to. But it is in vain to wound a Carcase, and to take pains to let out life from the trunk that never had the honour to have any: And therefore let that pass. When they came down to this new and strange work, the Persons which entered were five in appearance, though the truth is, but one soul to animate them all; that Spirit that was once in chains at Salisbury (you know whose Periphrasis that is.)  
The first of the five was Sir Nat. Brent, that known old visitor, that took such care in my Lord of Canterbury's days to have the Ceremonies observed, the Table railed in, &c. and now can lie in curtains fetched out of his college-chapel formerly thought fit to adorn the East end of that, but now found more commodious for his bedchamber.  
The second was Dr. John Wilkinson, that illiterate, testy old Creature, that for forty years together hath been the sport of the boys, most constantly yoked with ●●ctor Kettle) which in this age of idolising of Sermons, is sufficiently known never to have preached above once in forty years, and having now outlived all the little learning he had, and his every thing but sugared drink, and Possets; is thought fit to be 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 years since he ventured to be a Preacher, and attempted to imitate that sound (which he might often have heard) of {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman}, which 'tis supposed he thought compounded of the Greek {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman}, (if he ever knew so much of that Language) and the Latin Lapsus, which yet he 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 four hundred pounds. Hanborough, toward three hundred pounds. Beriton and Petersfield, in Hampshire, not above five hundred or six hundred pounds more; beside the four shillings a day for the Assembly Membership; and ten shillings for Apostleship in Oxford) but assured us in his late Visitation-Sermon, last June; that he had not the Pro-fits of them (quite contrary to Master Greenewood the new principal of Brasen-nose, who being accused of the like Plurality, professed 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 four 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 college, and, for aught any man can take cognizance, three fives or sixes more might be a-sitting in three other places of this town, and Decreeing the quite contrary (varied in three several shapes) to what these five did in that one place. And so if nullities in their Proceedings would do 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 four of these five uncapable. For though as we see them four, and Master Reynolds, and Master Corbet, &c. named in the Ordinance, we could not say there were any Divines (contrary to the Act) invested with power of Oier and Terminer, because those names might signify some other non-Divines, which we knew not; yet when we see them sitting at Merton college in gowns, we cannot mistake, or distrust our eyes, but are forced to resolve that either Presbyterian-Divines are no Divines, or that these four are excluded by Act of Parliament; and then Sir Nathaniel, and Brem, and Warden of Merton, and vicar-general, and judge of the prerogative must make up the five (and some of them if not Divines, are Ecelesiastick Persons also) or else we cannot possibly rear a Committee.  
And again if there be any sense in that old maxim, that Parties must not be Judges, and that 'tis only the hangman's fee to have the dead man's clothes to wear after him (and it hath not been often seen that the Judge hath seized upon them for his own body, and appeared in them all the rest of his Circuit) then sure these five will not be able to make up one tolerable Commissioner, or piece of a legal-judge, for this one Cause, if there were no other nullity in it; for 'tis notorious that old Wilkinson was then Voted, and now thrust into Doctor Oliver's Presidentship of Magdalens; old Rogers into Doctor gardeners Prebendary of Christchurch; Harris into Doctor potter's Presidentship of Trinity, and one living more, that of Gazington annexed to that place; Chaynel into Doctor Raylies of Saint John's; And Sir Nat's son Corbet (the old Gentleman being full and uncapable of more spiritual Preferment) into Doctor Hammond's Prebendary of Christchurch, and Oratorship of the university, which are both very reconcilable with Hasely, of toward four hundred pounds per annum, which he deprived Doctor Soame of, a year and half since; poor modest Gentleman, how the wealth of the world crowds in upon him, and he cannot look any man in the face he is so bashful at it. These five men have had the honour of going through all the last part of the work, as far as it was acted here.  
Their first business was to summon Dr. Sheldon, and Dr. Hammond, which had not before come into their fangs, 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 precedents 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 privileges of the university; 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 satisfied 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 university, and helped not to frame and pass those Reasons presented in Convocation, June 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 he did not conceive that he was obleiged to answer those questions thus proposed to him; I am told by some that have talked with that Dr. that the reason of his giving his answer in those wary restrained terms, 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 justified, 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 himself, or to answer any question which may be to his own prejudice; as 'twas clear it would be, if he answered that he could not submit to their visitation, which his oaths bound him to answer, (if he answered at all) if he took the Parliament in their sense for the two houses (and this was the very thing for which the oaths ex Officio were by them formerly so complained of as unlawful) to omit that first question, or rather snare. I say; the second contained in it an absolute falsity, which he must have granted a truth, if he 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 June the first against the power of the two houses, or Parliament to visit, with those reasons which were then presented, is sufficiently known in the publishing of them; namely the scruples of rational 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 anybody's power of visiting? especially when now 'tis confessed by these men that they do not mean in their visitation to press the Covenant.  
The truth is these reasons have not been answered by any, though instead of answering them, there was by an anonymas (Master Cheynell the spirit bespeaks the Author) a promise made long since, that it should be taken in pieces, & the theological part answered by the Assembly, the Law part by able Lawyers, and the prudential part by prudent men, but now it seems by this question, that the far easier course is to put the honest Christian in a wild beasts skin, and then to tear him to pieces; I mean to entitle these reasons a new, Reasons against the power of Parliament to visit, and then to turn out all who had to do in the composing them; and that should be full as profitable to those who meant to succeed them in their places, as if they had answered all their scruples. Mean 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 obliged to answer it being thus proposed. For the third he was able to make this Dilemma to himself, If he should answer that he had not published those orders against his brethren, he had confessed himself guilty of a Contempt of those who made those Orders; if that he had published it, he had confessed himself 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 he was not bound either to acknowledge himself a fool, or a devil; A fool by confessing those omissions, which must be his rheum under such Judges; a devil in having acted under such bloody censors. Well to hold you no longer in these discourses (when reasons is become so useless 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 speed came back again, that they brought down that very week from London against Doctor Sheldon, Doctor Hammond, Doctor Wall, and Doctor pain 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 modern 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 be improved into Treason; So now among us the contempt of authority of Parliament is the only mortal Crime, but then the giving a wary answer or such as Master Cheynell himself could pick no hole in, must be the contempt of that authority; which I confess it was in one of those Doctors in some sense; The Committee having long since voted that one Master Palmer of the house of Commons should succeed in the Wardenship of All-souls, when he should be guilty of contempt; whereupon his not throwing himself into that crime, which they decreed he should be guilty of, was an affront to the voters, a denial of their prophetic faculty, and sure a contempt of their authority, who had so absolutely decreed, ante lapsum, that he should contemn, & perish for it. Well the fury of these impatient teazers was such, that they could not celebrate Christ's Resurrection in any Charity, till they had Executed their joyous sentence upon some of these Doctors & therefore the next minuit after the arrival of the carrier, and the votes on Easter Eve, they ran presently to Christ-Church Hall with a full guard of Musquetiers, send their mandatary and soldier for Doctor Hammond; and would hear no reason but he must upon utmost peril come to the hall to them and hear himself pronounced neither Orator nor Praebend before Easter; that so if it were possible he might want Charity to fit him for the next day's duties; but the honest Doctor had better learned and taught the duties of the fifth of Matthew, then to be in the power of such provokers. The same sentence was soon after on Easter Monday affixed on Doctor sheldon's walls, and his subwarden required to be his Executioner, and woe be to him that he hath not thought that act of parricide his duty. But; Sir, all these have been yet but umbratiles pugnae, the real fury of the impression is reserved for nobler hands. The Earl of Pembroke must be fetched from Ramsbury to break open the doors and to that purpose, according to an Order procured in the Lord's 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 week after Easter week he would serve them.  
Then all care is taken to get in Beedles Staves, and the in●●gnia of the university, to prepare for his lordship's coming, the Dean of Christ-Church the vice-chancellor his doors are broken open by assistance of soldiers, but nothing found there, the precedents of Corpus-Christi the pro-Vice-Chancellor his in like manner, but nothing there: At last when the Earl comes most pitifully fetched in with a few visitors and a forty Company of expectant boys, Master Cheynell entertains 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 be had to attend him: only exhorts him to believe and to be confident, that the more vigerous he should be in that designed execution, the more acceptable it would be in the sight of God, and if he would not take his word for it, he should take God's 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 employment that now they set this Earl, when they had him amongst them, 'twould even grieve you to think of; That honourable office of a petty Constable general from college to college is bestowed on him, first to break open the hall-door of Christ-Church, Then to carry out Mistress Fell and all her children and family (some fourteen, women and children) in chairs and set them in the Quadrangle, that Master Reynolds might have quiet possession of that lodging; which assuredly he will never enjoy one quiet hour, as long as he lives, if he were in earnest when he wrote the sinfulness of sin; and believe any of the aggravations of sin, which he laboured there to teach others. Then Magdalen's hath the next part of the impression, the precedents lodgings are broken open, the Servants sent to the jail for not betraying their Master, Doctor John bid to be precedent and he presently commands the whole society to be sterved, that is, commands no more Commons to be dressed for his new family, who must be brought up now, like Scholasticus his horse, to live without eating.  
Then up to All-souls, and Doctor Sheldon being in his garden and refusing to give up the keys of his house, and pleading that the vote for his ejection was twenty two days after that Order of the Lords, that the Earl &c. should execute their (then past but not future) Votes, his doors were used as the rest of his friends; but himself far worse, for that crime of urging reason for himself, lest, as some of them confessed, they should be affronted, or baffled by him. Pray Sir warn your friends to brware of this dangerous thing, called speaking of sense, or as the Earl styles it, being scholars, or witty men: for it is a fault can never be allowed impunity. That worthy Doctor is committed to the marshal for that only crime, and there like to continue, till he lose or allay the reputation of being rational or honest, by delivering up the keys and books, which is, to be perjured; and that the only condition yet talked 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 college, nor entered by taking any oath to be 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 colleges, where these invaders are placed: the whole body of legal rights of governors and Corporations being by this una litura abolished, and turned into most perfect arbitrary Government, under a Mufty vicechancellor, and two janisary proctors in the university; (which therefore walk with swords and pistols instead of civil hoods) and a Bashaw in every college; A signification of the new model for the whole kingdom.  
From All-souls they run with full speed to Wadam-college and there the Warden's doors are by his Lordship forced again, and one Wilkins the writer of the man in the Moon dropped thence into his place. Then Trinity college is laid open, by the same noble violence, to Master Harris; and Saint John's to Master Cheynel, though there they acknowledged some civility, and for a reward of not putting the Constable to do his duty, the president is permitted to live in his lodgings for a month longer. The same fate befell the old principal of Brazen-Nose, and Master Greenwood that well looked Gentleman can swallow the Profits of that also: and so now well nigh all the godly are possessed of the good things of this life, and presently mistake possession for propriety, and so Master Cheynel can pray very confidently at Saint Mary's, that every man may enjoy his own. What was done in the Convocation house would be too long to relate particularly, many speeches addressed by the new Orator, Proctor, vicechancellor, to their golden idol, and upon his giving to the Library the great Bible lately printed in France, the whole fabric new christened by Master Corbet, from Bodleiana to Pembrokiana, upon the same depth of reason, that their mock Proctor, goody Buttons son, had told him, that he was literatissimus omnium qui Accademiam unquam intrarunt. Then to Creating of Doctors and bachelors of Divinity, and for three days 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, unless such creations purè ex nihilo were thus allowed them, for we hear but of three compliers present in their Convocation in the whole university, old Rouse the Rimmonist, as he hath named himself, old Williamson that hath drank out all but his telling of lies and love of moneys to provide for more drink, and Pelham the mock-speakers brother, which confesseth he can do any thing but deny the Trinity, rather than lose a fellowship; and some add Doctor Zouch also, who, they say, is told by the Earl, that it is too late; his place being otherwise designed already; and so 'tis certain that Doctor Wall having made some civil motions towards compliance, was as civilly treated; only his Prebendary voted from him and Cornish one of the Apostles put into it, who will not be put out again by such a trick, I warrant you.  
Thus having erected a strange Chimaera called the new model of the university, and removed as many heads of colleges as was thought necessary for their present business, the Earl hath an honourable Exit, and is dismissed from his constable's Office under Justice Cheynel, until the stubbornness of some Pretenders to thence of reasonable Souls (who shall thereupon refuse to throw their doors open to the spoilers) require him to be recalled to the execution of his Office again. Mean while we have not yet discovered the reason,, why the execution of his godson Doctor Hammond, and his old acquaintance Doctor Morley, and the rest of the Prebends of Christchurch is deferred, so far as belongs to the possession of their lodgings; for they say their names are struck out of the buttery-book, and successors put in instead of seven of them, and only Doctor Sanderson respited by occasion of his not being in town at the sending the last summons for him: But if they have any man so venturous as to dare to approach a divinity-chair and Latin he is sure enough to survive a very little time. And so farewell Honesty, Civility, Learning, Piety, Christianity; and welcome Bedlam, and barbarism, and oppression, and Hell, the only jewels we are to receive in Exchange for a flourishing university. These things are too sad to be enlarged on, but will appear 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 ancestor set out in a full immortal shape, his Memory as sure not to die, as Erestrarus' was, that burned a Temple, on purpose to perpetuate it. And when that Picture is drawn at length, you need not fear but his Encourager and Director Olsworth, will find some room (though it be but as a Negro, or Zany, or Sancho) in the Table.  
Oxford April. 17. Your mournful but Christian Servant. BASILIUS PHILOMUSUS.  
Fiat voluntas Domini.