292 The HISTORY ojthe PuRITANS. VoL. II. K. Charles l.bers of people, fome of whom were prevailed with to renounce the Ox– ~Jfl~d oath, an.d othe.rs to take theJolemn league and covenant. They met wnh fome httle ddl:urbance from one Erbury, a turbulent antinomian, Minfi. acand chaplain in the garrifon; but upon the whole, when the minifle 1 , 5 count, p. 52. returned to London they declared, that the citizens !hawed them a great deal of refpeet, although the univerlity poured all the contempt upon them imaginable, fo that they apprehended themfelves to have the f1me lot as St. Paul had at Athens, ACts xvii. 32, 34· Some mocked them, others jlighted them, but certain clave to thi!m, and believed. Parliament There being no profpeCl: of 1 eforming the univerfity by thefe methods :'/:~V:, 1' upon the two honfes refolved to proceed upon a vijitation, which they ap11re~ ' Ru'1k~v~'';~· hended they might undertake without the king, by virtue of the fourteenth 283_. article of their recapi:ulation, which fays, " that the chancellor, maflers " and fcholars of the univerfity, and all heads, governors, mafiers, fel– " lows, and fcholars of the colleges, halls, bodies corporate, and focieties "of the faid univerfity, and the public profeffors, readers, and orators " thereof, and all other perfons belonging to the fa id univerfity, i11all and " may, according to their flatutes, charters, and cufl:oms, enjoy their an. "cient form of government, SUBORDINATE TO THE lMMEDiil.TE " AUTHORITY AND POWER OF PARLIAME!~T, and that all the rights·, " privileges, franchifes, lands, tenements, houfes, rents, revenues, ]i. " braries, debts, goods and chattles, &c. belonging to the faid univert!– " ty, fl1all be enjoyed by them refpeCtively as aforefaid, free fmm fequefl:• " rdtions, fines, taxes, and all other molefiations wlutfoever, under eo· " lour of any thing relating to the prefent war. And if any rcmcvaljha/1 b-e '' made by the parliammt qf any head, or other members qf"the univnjity, that " they Jhall enjoy their prqfits for.fix months after theJitrrendering qf Oxon; " and}hall ha7Je cowvenient time allowed them for the removal qf themfelve~ " and their gocds; provided that this }ball 110t extend to retard (lny re• "formation there intended by t!.·e parliament, or give them any liberty to Fuller's. Ap- " int-ermeddle 7vith the go·venzment." But the heads- of colleges did not .real, P· 7°· think themfelves obliged by this capitulation, nor any thing contained in it, becaufe they were not made parties, nor.called upon to give their fepa. rate confent to the articles, though they took advantage of every thing that was fiipulated in their favour. Ordinance May I. 1647. an ordinance pafied both houfes for. viliting the univer– jor tbat pur- fity, and nominating the following gentlemen, lawy.ers, and divines, for pofe h 1: • • Se~bel's Col-t at 1ervJce, VIZ., leCl:. part I. I'· 116. Suff. Cler, p. 12.6. Sir Nath. Brent, Sir William Cobb, 2 William Prynne qf Lin– coln's-Jnn E_(q.; John
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