Chap. XL ?7e PIISTORY of the PURITANS. 785 " the good offices I can with the parliament, as I am now lorry you K Charles r. " you have brought upon yourfelvestheft troubles." 642. Sept. 13. 1642. I rill your very true friend, Pembroke and Montgomery. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY followed the example of Oxford, for up- Loyaltyof the on reading his majefty's letter of rune 29. to the vice-chancellor Dr. n eof delger Holdfworth they readily agreed alit) to intruft the king with their pub- They lic money : what the whole fam amounted to does not appear ; but may ; therplate be gueffed at by the particulars of one college, a receipt for which is preferved among the archives, and is as follows: my 2d. 1642. " j Eceived the day and year above-written of William Beale, doc- Dr. Bar- " j in divinity., matter of St. John's- College in the univerfity of Wicks I!/e. " Cambridge, for the king's ufe (according to the intendment and di- P. 22. " re pion of his majefty's letters of the 29th of rune Taft, to the vice- ° chancellor of the Paid univerfity) the fum of one hundred and fifty °` pounds, I fay received from the treafury of the Paid college by me John Poley. This Mr. Poky was fellow of Pembroke-Hall, and one 'of the proc- tors of the univerfity. When the king had fecured their money he lent to borrow their plate, under pretence of preferving it from the parlia- ment ; for this purpofe he writ another letter to the vice-chancellor, with 'directions to take an exa6t account, not only of the weight, but alto of *the form of every piece, together with the names, arms, and motto's, of the refpeétive donors, that if his majefty fhould not preferve it en- tire as it was, he might reftore it hereafter in the fame weight and form and with the fame marks, all which he enfured upon his royal word, . There is no account remaining of what plate the colleges deli- vered up for his majefty's ufe, though many wifhed (lays Mr. Fuller) that every ounce had been a pound for his fake ; but in the treafury of St. John s- College there are the particulars of what plate that college deli- vered in, together with the weight, forms, and names ofthe chiefbene- faétors, which amounts in the whole, according to averdupois weight, VOL.!. 5 H to
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