The HISTORY of the PuRITANs .. Vot. II x. Charles I. cc· to put this ordinance in execution ; and do alfo take effetl:ual courfe that ~" the ~ithes, pr~fits, &c. be for th~ future duly yaid to thofe minill:ers. · '' put m by parltament, &c. And tf any fuch dtfturbance lhould here– •• after .be given, the offender was to fuffer for every fuch difturbance one. " month's imprifonmen t." R ufhw:p. fl3 1, 937• 948, 9 ss. However fome fmall favour was Jbewn, about this time, to thofe bi– jhops and others, who had lived peaceably, and been little more than fpetl:ators of the diftra{ling miferies of their country; the commit~ee was. ordered to make payment of the hundred pounds per year granted to the biihop 0f Durham ; the real eftate of the pi0us bilhop H'a!l, who had lately publifhed his hard meajitre, was difcharged; archbilhop Ujher had an allowance of four hundred pounds per.annum, tilt he could be other– wife provided fur; and was foon after allowed to be preacher at Linco!n's– Inn, only upon taking the negative oath. But the bilhops were not much con lidered in thefe donations. The commiffioners of thegreatfeal were ordered to fill up the vacant livings in the gift of the crown, without ob– liging the incumbents to take the covenant; but the new difturban.ces which arofe in favour of the captive king, brought down new feve– r,ities upen the epifcopal clergy, befOre the end of the following year. C H A . P~ IX. The vijitation of the univerjity of 0 x F o· R D. religion at the end of the year, State oj c;: 011 dithn 0 r s A D a~~- depl?rable was· the condition of. the univerlity of Oxford. the univeJty when 1t fell Into the hands of the parliament ; the colleges and: o/ Oxford. halls were gone to-ruin; five of them perfeCtly deferted, and the reil in a very £battered condition. The public acts had been difcon tinued for fome years, the fchools were turned into magazines for the king's army, and thechambers filled with officers and foldiers, or let out to townfmen; there. was little or no in fh utl:ion for youth, nor hardly the face cf an univerfi– ty ; poverty, defolation, and plunder, the fad· effetts of war, were to be feen in eve~y corner; the burfaries were emptied of the public money; abe. P.late melted down for the king's fervice,_and the colleg_es involved.in' . . ~~
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