Chap. IX. 7be HIS T 0 RY of the PuRiTANS~ 311 the univedity of Oxford was cleared of the royalifl:s, and the vifitors at K. Charles I. liberty to fill up their vacancies in the befl: rnanl)er they could ; in all ~ which one cannot tell which moll: to admire, the unparallelled patience and ' forbearance of a victorious parliament for almofl: two years, or the fl:ubborn perverfnefs and provoking behaviour of a few academics, againfl: a power that could have battered their colleges about their ears, and buried them in their ruins in a few days. About ten of the old heads of colleges, and profeffors of fciences, fub- Heads ~r mitted to the vifitors, and kept their places, and about nineteen or twen-ficolleg.u that h r b · uhmtttedand . ty were expelled. Thofe w o 1U mttted were, kept lheir Dr. Langbain provqfl of Q!sen's Dr. Hood reelor of Lincoln Dr. Saunders provoj! of Oriel Dr. Hakewell reelor qf Exeter Sir Nath. Brent warden of Merton Dr. Zouch principal of Alban-Hall Dr. Lawrence mafler of Baliol. Dr. Pocock arabick profelfor, Dr. Clayton anatomy profrjfor,. Mr. Philips mujic profeJlor. places~ 1 I ? College~ I j The following charaCters of thefe gentlemen, w'ith thofe of their pre- '!heir cba– deceJTors and fucceffors, I have taken for the mo!l: part from writers not •·attm. to be fufpetled of partiality in favour of the puritans. Dr. Gerard Langbailz provofl: of ff<!feen's-College, was a great ornament Dr. Lang– to his college; he was eleCted keeper of the archives - or records of the bain. . fi b . . I fl t: h' I . d l fl: H Wood's A· _uruver tty, emg 10 genera eneem 10r IS great earnmg an 10ne y. e then was an excellent linguift, an able philofopher and divine, a good corn- Vol. 'n. p, rnon lawyer, a public fpirited man, a lover of learning and learned men, 22o, beloved of archbilhop Ujher, Se/den, and the great Goliabs of literature•. He was alfo an excellent antiquary, indefatigable in his fiudies, and of immenfe undertakings. He died Feb. 1 o. I 657-8. and was buried in . the inner chapel of :?<!feen's-Col!ege. Dr. P~ul Hood reCtor of Linco!n-College, had been many years gover- Dr. Hood: nor of t~1s houfe, and continued in it through all changes till his death; Wo?d's he was vtee,chancellor of the univerfity in the year I 66o. when he con- Fait.. _ formed to the eftabJ.ilhed church, and died in the year I 668. i) . 1 ~7' Dr. John Saunders provofl: of Oriel College, difowned the authority de;;, aun– ef the v!litors at firft, but afterwards complied; for as Dr. Walker ob- Walker, p; ferves, 131 •
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