Chap. III. The HISTORY of the P'uRlTANS. 79 their forc<ts, that they might have a lucceffion of clergymen ttaining up in K. Charles r. the principles they had efpoufed. . · ~' The town of Cambridge was in the inte(eft of the parhament, but the Behaviour oj' colleges were fo many little gntrifons for the king, and fanetuaries of dif- the univerjity affeCtion; the. oni.vttt!it~ prew ~as at ,his maje!l:y's difpo(al, _and their fer- tr;~;;lmons filled with ihveCttv~s agamft the tWo houfes. Frequent quarrels Suit: Clergy,, happened between the townCr:lltm and fcholars, ~hich Wou~d have en:led p. r68. in the ruin of the univerfity, had not the parl!atnent forbtd !he offenng any violence to the cetlleges, chapels, libraries and foheols, under fevere penalties. Indeed th~ committee enjoyned the proper officers of the parifh, to put in execution the ordinance for defiroying the relicks of fuperllition, wheteby the paintings in windows, itnages of the deity, and a great deal of carved work vias 9en1olifhed, at which the mail:~r§ and fellows Suff. CJer•. were fo inoenfed, that when they were ordered to repatr the damages, p. 111 • they peremptorily tefufed, and wete fined forty {billings a college, as the ordinance direCted. The heads of the univerfify raifed a great clamoU(, at this pretended invafion of their rights, as if the parliammt intended to feize all their revenues, and dellroy the very fountaiilS of learning; whereupon the houfes publifhed the following ordinance, Jan. 6, 1643-4· declaring " that none of the eilate's, rents, and revenues of the univerlity, ot of Hu!b. <l:ol.\. '' the colleges and halls te.fpeCl:ively, fi1all be fequeil:ered or feized upon, P· 4°9· '' or in any wife dif.pofed of, by virtue of the ordinance for fequeil:ring " the ellates, rents, and rev~nues of delinquents, but !ball remain to the '' univerfi:y, and the refpeefive halls and colleges, tb all intents and pur- " pofes as if the faid ordinance had not been made; and the rents and re- " venueo, &c. are ordered to be approved of by the earl of Manchifter, " and to be applied to their proper ufes as heretofore. But if any uf the " heads, fellows, fcholars, or other officers, were convicted 6f delin"-· "quency, the receiver was to pay their dividend into the hands of the _ " committee of fequeil:rations." This committee was founded upon an ordinance of 'Jan. 22 •. for regu- Cambrido-~ lating the univerfity of Cambridge, and removing fcandalous minillers in vijit~tion~ the feven affociated counties; the preamble fets forth, "that the fervice of Ordmanc2" :: the parliament was retarded, the people's ~ouls il:arved, b~. the idle, ill- {;,~::.e if'Je: affeCted, and fcandalous clergy of the umverfity of Cambndge, and the quejlration. '' affociated counties; and that many who were willing to give evi- Hufb. Col. "' dence againtl them, not being able to bear the charges of a journey to-P· 4I5• "' London, the earl of Manchtjier was therefore empowered to appoint " ~ommittees in all the affociated counties, to confill: of ten perfons, be- " lllg deputy-lieutenants, or fuch as had been nominated to committees, " by lome former ordinance of parliament ; jive of thefe were a quorum, . " and>
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