364 1vlr. N E A L 'S IId V'o1. of the the whole Society at one Blow, upon the haft Signal that fhould be given them by their mad Commander : they take poffeffion as they pleafe of every private Chamber ; they pull down the Walls, and burn all the Woodwork of the Li- braries, and making Plunder of the Books, fell them for a Tenth part of their Value. The Groves, and Arbours, and Hedges in the publick College-Walks, they cut down like fo many Copfes defigned for no other Ufe ; and fecuring, with Guards and broken Gates, all the Paffages out ofTown, theyPhut up within it, as in a large Prifon, all the Members of the Univerfity, ex- cept thole (not a few) whom they móre clofely confined in Dungeons, left they fhould have any Benefit of the open Air, infelted, as it was but too much, with the Stench and Vermine of fo many natty Soldiers. All the Heads of the Houles, together with the Vice- Chancellor, fo- lemnly affembled in Confiftory, they detain'd their Prifoners till midnight, tho' molt of them above fixty Years ofAge,and that in very cold Weather; becaufe they would not give their Votes in their fì- your, but molt exprefsly and unanimoufly voted a- ' gainft them, refolved rather to perifh with Hunger and Cold, than give the leaft Countenance to their Rebellion : and at laft, as it were with one Blow to deffroy the whole Univerfity, they banifh from its Senate, and from their feveral Colleges, the venerable Profeffors of Divinity and Law, famous for their Learning over all the World, together with the Vice-Chancellor, and about Two hundred more oftheir molt eonfiderable and learned Men, and put Blockheads for the molt part, and fen/elefs Scoundrels, in their pla- ces. They likewife turn out of the Univerfities, many other extraordinary Perfons of the fame Order, whom their cruel Ufage of them had not been
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