362 Mr. NE A L'S lid Vol . oftha This is the Caufe, and thefe the Times, of which . our learned Advocate undertakes the Defence. Neal, p. 57o. T'he Parliament, provoked with this Behaviour of the Univerfity, threatened to quarter force of their own Regiments upon them ; which frightned away half the Scholars, and put the refit into fuch a terrible Pannick, that the Dice- Chancellor thought proper to write the following fubmiffive Let- ter to the Earl of Pembroke, their Chancellor. And this Letter is, according to Mr. Neal's common Pra6tice, miferably mangled and cur- tail'd, as may appear, by comparing it with Ruf- worth. Neal, p. 573. this Letter being writ two Months after the Univerfity had fens away their Plate and Money to the King; after they had refufed to fendup fuch Managers of that Affair as the Parliament had demanded, after theybad took up Arms, and received 4 Regiment of his Majefty's Forces into Garrifön, the Earl of Pembroke only return'd the following angry Anfwer. It was anAnfwer well becoming fuch a Chancel- lor ; for ' this very Earl, at the Treaty of Ux- bridge, according to his ufual Language, (fays * Echdrd) freely called the Parliament Leaders, a Pack ofKnaves and Villains, and acknowledged his notorious Mifmanagement to Sir Edward Hyde ; and join'd with others, in a Romantic Propofal, That-theKing fhould grant all that was demanded of him, and by thofe Conceffions dif- ' appoint his Enemies, recover all, and become a greater Monarch than ever.' t This Earl got Pofefiion of Durham- Houle, and had it fecured to him, by an Ordinance of the two Houfes. Nay, this famous Earl, ' the Haufe ofLords being Mal- ' ved and abolifhed,humbly fubmitted to bechofen * Eckard, Vol. II. p. 520. f Scaóel's Colle&Sans, p. lot. Knight
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