The Honourable Visitours appointed by both ●ouses of Parliament for the regulating and reforming of the University of Oxford.  
Petition of your Friends and Servants in the said University.  
●●mbly Sheweth,  
THat divers learned and civil men have been much importuned, and some of them seduced (under pretence of maintaining the old Prelacy and Liturgy) to enter into a kind of Confederacy 〈◊〉 Doctor Fell, and his Delegates, to oppose all Reformers, both the parliament, and Visitours, and hinder a just and necessary Reforma●●●. We do not deny that some of us are exercised with doubts, but 〈◊〉 desire to communicate our special scruples to you in an humble and private way; We will not conspire together to excuse the errors, and outages of other men, who are as yet (to the great dishonour and prejudice of our Common-Mother the University) of the same body with us. We consider that to oppose you our much honoured Visitours, is to rebel against the Houses: to maintain Prelacy is to uphold Tyranny: and to contend for the common-prayer-book is to contend for a false Translation of the Canonical Scriptures, to magnify those books that are not Canonical, and justify the Court of Rome, not only in admitting dangerous Ceremonies to corrupt the purity, but in submitting to the Roman Order, which would overthrow the piety of our Common and public service.  
We are bold therefore to remonstrate that whatever is propounded and delivered by the pretended Delegates aforesaid, as the sense of the whole University contrary to this Petition, is contrary both to our sense and consciences; And our humble request is, that you judge not of this University by the rage and confederacy of some Malignants in it, who would endanger the whole body to save themselves, and have therefore conspired to set up this Delegacy to seduce and corrupt the unsettled, to oppose the Visitation, and hinder the Reformation of this place. Be pleased to command every man to plead his own cause, and speak for himself, only punish the Heads and Ringleaders of this Rebellious conspiracy, and pardon all seduced Scholars, who upon better information, and more mature deliberation, show that they have erred out of mere simplicity, and do not hate to be reform.  
And we shall pray, etc. june 2. 1647.   

The Protestation of the Well-affected against the Dis-affected Delegacy.  
We the Masters, Scholars, and other Officers of the University of Oxford (understanding that there is a Delegacy set up here in Oxford without any Right authori●● for the upholding of the old English Prelacy and Liturgy in 〈◊〉 position to the Parliament) do by these presents solemnly pr●●test against the said Delegacy and their pretended Vicechancellor Doctor Fell, because he is neither deputed by our lawfulness Chancellor the Earl of Pembroke, nor elected by this University for to govern it for this year, and therefore is no way authorized to call or hold a Convocation as Vicechancellor 〈◊〉 Oxford. And the Delegacy chosen by the Assembly of Doctor and Masters upon the first of june last, is not to be reputed a st●●tuable Delegacy, they being not orderly called or legally enable to plead as Delegates in the behalf of the whole University: 〈◊〉 witness whereof we subscribe our names this third day of june, 1647.   

MARCH 31. 1648. At the Committee of the Lords and Commons for th●● Reformation of the University of Oxford.  
Ordered,  
THat for an Effectual Remedy none of those that have been shall be convicted to have denied or resisted the Power and Authority of Parliament in the Visitation of the University of Oxford, shall be admitted to vote, or to give voice in the Convocation Congregation of that University.  
Francis Rou●