Chap. IX. 7be HIS T 0 R Y rf the PuRITANS. 309 to give their anfwer in writing, and according to it were confirmed or K. Charles I. difplaced. Great numbers were abfent from the univ~rfHy, and did not~ nppear; others who difowned the power of the parltament at firfl:, af- Li fe·of Mr· terwards fubmitted, but the main body fl:ood it out to the lafl:: Dr. Phtl. Henry• Waiker fays, that one hundred and eighty withdrew; .that of about fix s,uff. Clcr.' hundred feventy- fix who appeared, five hundred forty-etght refufed at firfl: l art I. to ow'n the authority of the vilitation, but that afterwards many fubmitted lb. \J~;t IT. and made their peace. In another pl ace be fuppofes one fourth fubmit- p. 138, 139. ted; and makes the whole number of fellows. and fcholars deprived three hundred feventy . five; and then by a lifl: of new elections in fome following years, reduces them to three hundred fifty-fix; but confidering that fome may have been omitted, he gueffes the whole to be about four' hundred. The Oxford hiltorian Mr. Wood fays, the number of them· who refufed to fubmit was about t!1ree hundred thirty.four, but that· they were not prefently expelled; for though the vifitors were obliged to· return their names to the committee, and were empowered to expel· them, yet they deferred the execution of their power, in hopes that time might bring them to a compliance; which it is very likely it did; becaufe it appears by the regi!l:er, that in the eight fucceeding years; i. e. between the years 1648 and I 656. there were no more than three hundred ninety-fix new eletl:ions, which allowing for deaths and removals, mull: infer the deprivatiom at this time could not be very con-· fiderable; however had their numbers been much greater than they really were, the parliament were obliged in their own defence, to difpoffefs· them. The few fcholars that rem ained in the univerfity treated the vifitorslnfalence of with infufferable rudenefs; fcurrilous and invective fatyrs, equal if not tbe fcbolars, fuperior in raillery and ill language to Martin-Mar-Prelate, . and the rdl: of the b.rowmjtical pamphlets in the reign of queen Elizabeth, were. cl ifperfeel in the mofi public places of the city every week; as Mercurius fb • Academicus; Pegafus, or the flying hor:Ji! }l"om Oxon; Pegafus taught to · P• 13 n dance the tune oj Lachrymre; News from Pembroke and Montgomery, ar Oxford Manche!l:ered. 'The 01vl at Athens; or the entrance oj' the· earl if Pembroke into Oxf0rd, April I r. 'Ihe Oxford 'Tragi-comedy, in heroic Iatin verfe. Lord have mercy upon us; which is the in[cription put. upon honfes that have the plague; and many others; which the vifitors' took no further notice. of, than to forbid the bookfellers to print or fell the_ like for the future. If the puritans had publia1ed fuch plD1phlets agam!l: the exorbitances of the high-commiffion court in the late times, the authors or publilhers mull: have lofi their ears, as the brownifls did· their lives towards the latter end of queen Elizabeth; and furely the. univerfity might have evin~d their loyalty without offering fuch unmannerly
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