Chap, XI. Th H TSTO.RY" of the ptJAITANS. 783. min/ier. The parliatnent'provoked with this behaviour of the univerfity, lì. Charles L threatened to quarter Cone of their own regiments upon them, which r64z frightened away half the fcholars, and put the refit into fuch a terrible wv' pannic, that the vice-chancellor thought proper to write the following fubrnißìve letter to the earl of Pembroke their chancellor. Right honourable I " M A Y it pleafe your lordfhip to know, that this univerfity is now in rice-chanee7 tt extreme danger of fuffering all the calamities that warlike for- 1er't letter fl". " cesmay bring upon it. Such forces we hear for certain are foreof them a / for univer tt already on their march, and others are railing to affault us ; a. nd if Rufhw.y " they may have their wills, to deftroy us! My lord, you have been fol- Part 34. . "licitous whom to appoint your chancellor for next year, but if there P' Ix' " forces come forward, and do that execution upon us that we fear " they intend, there will be no ufe at all for a vice-chancellor, for what " will be here for -him to do, where there will be no fcholars for him " to govern ? Or what fhould fcholars do here, having no libraries left " them to Lindy in, no fchools to difpute in, chapels to ferve God in, " colleges or halls to live or lodge in, but have all there ranfacked, de- " faced, demolifhed, fo as pofterity may have to fay,.. fee! here was " for a long time, and till fuch a year, an univerfity of great renown " and eminence in all manner of learning and virtue, but now laid ut- " terly wafte, and buried in her own ruins. And then the queftion will " be, what ! had we no lord-chancellor? Or was not he able to protect "° us ? -- We are all confident, that if your lordfhip would interpole " for us to the honourable houfes of parliament for our fafety and fe- " curity, all would be well with us. The delinquents that were fent " for are not one of them here at this time. Sir 7shn Byron,, " with his regiment of troopers, we (hall Coon prevail with to withdraw' " from us, if he may with fafety march back to the king, who of his ""own gracious care of us fent him hither. And if your lordfhip fhall be ".fecured, that no other forces (ball be here impofed upon us, that will " take the liberty to exercife that barbarous infolence with which the " illiteratelyrude and ruffianly rabble of the vulgar threaten us ; againft . fuch only our young men have lately taken in hand the arms we have " (a very few God knows, and in weak hands enough) to fave them- " felves and us from having our libraries fired, our colleges pillaged, and " our throats cut by them, if they fhould fuddenly break in upon us. " And this, my lord, is all the finful intent we have had in permitting " them to train in a voluntary and peaceable manner fo as they have- " done. Good, my lord, that which. I molt earneftly, beg;,of your ho- 11011
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