Chap.. IX. The HIS T 0 RY of tbe PuRITANS• 333 hat as he paffed by faid, how do ye, gmtlemen, 'tis pafl eleven o'clock. K. Charles!. But ti:e vifitors we,nt forwa.rd, and having co~fulted .abou~ an hour upon ~ the VJCe-chancellor s behaviour refolved to adJOUrn tJ!l Mtchaelmas, and Univerjity · return to London, in order to obtain further powers from the parliament. ufethe .vi- . In the mean time Dr. Fell fummoned a committee of the beads qfthe five- fz'~1'1 '' t!lfz, abnd h h fi ll , r. I . w1 not u -· ral colleges, w o came to t e o owmg reto utlons. mit, 1. That no man iliould appear before the vifitors unlefs the fummons ·had five names. 2. That no one lhould appear upon an holy day. 3· That he lhould demand by what authority, he was fummoned; and: if denied an anfwer !hould prefcntly depart. 4· That if they declared their authority, he lhould anfwer with aJalvis – juribus regni, ocadrmiae & collegii, &c. 5· That he {hould demand his accufation in writing, as alfo time to · put in his anfwer, and lhould return it in writing, and no other wife. Lafl!y, that he lhould utterly refufe to anfwer on oath, becaufe that would be to accufe himfelf, and would plainly revive the oath ex rdftcio. Svch was the flout behaviour of thefe few academics, " who (accord- Suff. cle~~ " ing to Dr. Walker) poured upon the vifitors all manner of contempt P· 122, 1 23•· " and fcorn, though they knew their very lives and fortunes were at their 128 • &c. " difpofal. The univedity (fays he) held out a fiege of more than a '· year and half; the convocation houfe proved al citadel, and each " fingle college a fort not eafy to be reduced;" a clear evidence of the humanity of the vifitors, and an unanfwerable demonftration of the ncceffity of the parliament's acting with greater vigor. The two houfes having refolved to fupport their vifitors, and enable Parliament · them to go through their work; paired an ordinance Augujt 26. em- rejolvet~fup~- . h d · '11 h d h · l portt!Jt'lr powenng t em "to a mmmer t e covenant, an t e negatzve oat!J; to vijiton. " demand the perufal of the Jlatutes, regi/lers, accompts, &c. and of all -lb. p. 1?.-8; " other papers of the univcrfity, and of the refpective colleges and halls; " and to feize and detain in cuilody any perfon, who after a perfonal ci- ,, tation refufed to appear, and produce their books and papers after a " fecond citation ; a jury was alfo to be impanelled, of members of the " univer!ity, above the age of twenty-one, to enquire by oath on the ar- " tides contained in the ordinance of vifitation ;" and a new commiffion was drawn up by Mr. attorney general St• .John, with the great feal affixed to it (Septemb. 27.) authorifing the perfons above-named, to vi!it the· univerfity without any further warrant; the commiflion began in the ufual form, Charles, by the grace qf·God, &c. to our trufly and 11.!ell-beloved Sir Nath.Brent, &c. knowye, that we intending the regulation and. J. reformatio7JI
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