Hiftory ofthe Puritans, examin'd. 3 63 ' Knight of the Shire for Berks, and was admitted an inglorious Member of the Houfe of Com- ' mons." [Kennet, Vol. III. p. 176.] Neal, p. 575_ Cromwell having mifed the Con- voy, (viz, of the Plate fent to the King from Cam- bridge) returned to Cambridge, and took pofSion of the `Town and Univerfity for the Parliament. When he fpeaks of the King's Enemies, how tenderly does he exprefs himfelf ? Cromwell took poffefion of the dawn and Univerfity for the Parlia- ment. Dr. Barwick's Account, whofe Authority he had juft before quoted, is this : * ' Cromwell, inferior to none in watching, and employing all Opportunities to ruin his Country, when he per- ' ceived himfelf over-reach'd by the Sagacity of the Cambridge Gentlemen, began to be extremely exafperated and enraged, and refolved to make the Univerfity pay dearly, for daring to perform this Duty to their diltreifed Sovereign : for out ' of the feven affociated Counties, (as they were . called) which partly by Fraud and fair Words he had enticed, and partly by Terror and Force he had compelled into this wicked Confederacy, he muttered up a Pack of molt infolent Wretches, and quartered them upon Cambridge, as their chief Garrifon and Rendezvous; fubjugating to the Controul of every pitiful common Soldier, all the beft, and moil learned Men in the Univer- fity ; even thofe venerable Perfons already fink- ' ing beneath the Weight of their many Years, as much as under the Oppreffion of this new ' Tyranny. Being thus attended with a Company of hair - brain'd, mad Fellows, not unworthy of ' their Leader, he commits the utmoft Barbarities againft the feveral Colleges, breaks open their Gates in the dead time of the Night, and lets in ' Bands of armed Ruffians, prepared to murder ' Dr. Barwick's Life, p. 29. the
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