to the honourable the lords and commons now assembled in the high court of parliament the humble petition of the university of cambridge. university of cambridge. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a32577 of text r37460 in the english short title catalog (wing c350). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 3 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a32577 wing c350 estc r37460 16959434 ocm 16959434 105470 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a32577) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 105470) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1611:7) to the honourable the lords and commons now assembled in the high court of parliament the humble petition of the university of cambridge. university of cambridge. 1 broadside. s.n., [s.l. : 1643] date of publication suggested by wing. text begins: humbly presented to your honourable consideration the sad dejected state of the said university. reproduction of original in the bodleian library. eng university of cambridge. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649. a32577 r37460 (wing c350). civilwar no to the honourable the lords and commons now assembled in the high court of parliament. the humble petition of the university of cambridge. h university of cambridge 1643 406 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-06 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-07 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2008-07 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion to the honourable the lords and commons now assembled in the high court of parliament . the humble petition of the vniversity of cambridge humbly presenteth to your honourable consideration the sad dejected estate of the said university : how our schools daily grow desolate , mourning the absence of their professours and the wonted auditories : how in our colledges our numbers grow thinne , and our revenues short , and that subsistence we have abroad is for the most : part involved in the common miseries : how frighted by the neighbour noise of war , our students either quit their gowns or abandon their studies : how our degrees lie disesteemed , and all hopes of our publick commencement are blasted in the bud besides sundry other pressing inconveniences which we forbear to mention . we cannot but conceive your honourable piety ( out of a noble zeal to learning ) will cordially pity our sad condition , and ( as the present generall calamities give way ) afford us some succour and encouragement . your wisdomes best : know what priviledges and immunities have been in all good times afforded to the seats of learning , and the professors of it ; and even in the fury and heat of war , places of religion and devotion have usually not onely ( on both sides ) been spared from ruine , but supported , and esteemed as sanctuaries . hence is it that the members of our university ( by charter confirmed by act of parliament , ) stand expressely freed from all preparations and contributions to war : hence is it , that in neighbour territories , where the excise is most : in use , the universities with all their students are exempt . may it not therefore be displeasing to your pious wisdomes , if in al humility we crave at your hands a tender commiseration of our case , that you will be pleased to exempt our poore estates from all such rates and impositions ; to vouchsafe such freedome to our persons ( not giving just offence ) as may enable us the better to keep together and daily to offer up our joynt prayers to god for a blessed union betwixt our gracious soveraigne and you , and the blessing of peace upon the land . this came forth about ye beginnings of march 1643. to the honourable the lords and commons now assembled in the high court of parliament the humble petition of the university of cambridge. humbly presenteth to your honourable consideration the sad dejected estate of the said university: how our schools daily grow desolate, mourning the absence of their professours and the wonted auditories: ... university of cambridge. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a79377 of text r37460 in the english short title catalog (thomason 669.f.8[11]). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 3 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a79377 wing c358 thomason 669.f.8[11] estc r37460 99872480 99872480 161062 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a79377) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 161062) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; 245:669f8[11]) to the honourable the lords and commons now assembled in the high court of parliament the humble petition of the university of cambridge. humbly presenteth to your honourable consideration the sad dejected estate of the said university: how our schools daily grow desolate, mourning the absence of their professours and the wonted auditories: ... university of cambridge. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [london? : 1643] title from caption and first lines of text. date of publication from by wing. praying for exemption "from all preparations and contributions to war". annotation on thomason copy: "june 8. 1643". reproductions of the originals in the bodleian library (early english books), and the british library (thomason tracts). eng university of cambridge -early works to 1800. great britain -history -civil war, 1642-1649 -early works to 1800. a79377 r37460 (thomason 669.f.8[11]). civilwar no to the honourable the lords and commons now assembled in the high court of parliament. the humble petition of the university of cambridge. h university of cambridge 1643 398 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a this text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-10 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-11 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2007-11 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion to the honourable the lords and commons now assembled in the high court of parliament . the humble petition of the vniversity of cambridge humbly presenteth to your honourable consideration the sad dejected estate of the said university : how our schools daily grow desolate , mourning the absence of their professours and the wonted auditories : how in our colledges our numbers grow thinne , and our revenues short , and that subsistence we have abroad is for the most part involved in the common miseries : how frighted by the neighbour noise of war , our students either quit their gowns , or abandon their studies : how our degrees lie disesteemed , and all hopes of our publick commencement are blasted in the bud , besides sundry other pressing inconveniences which we forbear to mention . we cannot but conceive your honourable piety ( out of a noble zeal to learning ) will cordially pity our sad condition , and ( as the present generall calamities give way ) afford us some succour and encouragement . your wisdomes best know what priviledges and immunities have been in all good times afforded to the seats of learning , and the professors of it ; and even in the fury and heat of war , places of religion and devotion have usually not onely ( on both sides ) been spared from ruine , but supported , and esteemed as sanctuaries . hence is it that the members of our university ( by charter confirmed by act of parliament ) stand expressely freed from all preparations and contributions to war : hence is it , that in neighbour territories , where the excise is most in use , the universities with all their students are exempt . may it not therefore be displeasing to your pious wisdomes , if in al humility we crave at your hands a tender commiseration of our case , that you will be pleased to exempt our poore estates from all such rates and impositions ; to vouchsafe such freedome to our persons ( not giving just offence ) as may enable us the better to keep together , and daily to offer up our joynt prayers to god for a blessed union betwixt our gracious soveraigne and you , and the blessing of peace upon the land . june 8. 1643 london, anno dom. 1647. the subscriptions of the trustees themselves for the better encouragement of this work. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a74094 of text r210752 in the english short title catalog (thomason 669.f.11[117]). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 5 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a74094 thomason 669.f.11[117] estc r210752 99869510 99869510 162768 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a74094) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 162768) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; 246:669f11[117]) london, anno dom. 1647. the subscriptions of the trustees themselves for the better encouragement of this work. wollaston, john, sir. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [s.l. : 1647] imprint date from accompanying item. cf. madan. a form of subscription to the trust for maintaining poor scholars at the universities -cf. thomason catalogue and note to madan, oxford books 2, 1919. annotation on thomason copy: "presented to ye common councell january 1647". reproduction of the original in the british library. eng university of cambridge -early works to 1800. university of oxford -early works to 1800. a74094 r210752 (thomason 669.f.11[117]). civilwar no london, anno dom. 1647. forasmuch as the right worshipful sir john wollaston kt. ... wollaston, john, sir 1647 618 2 0 0 0 0 0 32 c the rate of 32 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the c category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-06 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-08 john pas sampled and proofread 2008-08 john pas text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion london , anno dom. 1647. forasmuch as the right worshipful sir john wollaston kt. tho. adams , john warner , john langham , james bunce , tho. foot , john kendrick , john byde , george witham , and thomas vyner , aldermen of the city of london ; mr. step. marshal , mr. edm. calamy , mr. jer. whitaker , mr. obad. sedgwick , mr. sim. ash , mr. tho. case , mr. laz. seaman , mr. sam. clark , mr. fran. roberts , and mr. william jenkin , ministers of the gospel within the cities of london and westminster ; colonel fran. west lieuten. of the tower , mr. rich. turner sen . deputy , mr. christopher pack dep. mr. walter boothby dep. mr. tho. arnold dep. colonel rob. manwaring , col. edw. hooker , col. john bellamy , lieu. col . lawr. broomfield , mr. alexander jones , mr. andrew kendrick , captain rich. vennour , major l●●●● . vanghan , mr. stephen white , master james martin , mr. william kendal , mr. dan. andrews , mr. tho. bewley , mr. tempest milner , and mr. lawrence brinley , citizens of london : have accepted the trust of receiving and distributing such summes of money as well-affected persons shall be pleased to give towards the maintaining of hopefull young students at both the universities , whose parents and friends are not able to maintain them there ; for the more speedy replenishing of the church of god in this kingdome , with godly , able , and orthodox ministers . we whose names are under-written , greatly approving the said pious and commendable work , and being well satisfied with the forenamed trustees ; doe , to the said end , voluntarily subscribe these severall summes of money , yearly to be continued during pleasure , and to be paid by equall portions every quarter , to such treasurers as they shall from time to time nominate and appoint , or to such collector or collectors as the said treasurers shall imploy , ( receipts for all such payments being given under the treasurers hands ; ) the first payment to begin the next quarter-day after every of our severall and respective subscriptions , as followeth . the subscriptions of the trustees themselves for the better encouragement of this work . sir jo. wollaston alder . — li. thomas adams alder . — li. john warner alder . — li. john langham alder . — li. james bunce alder . — li. thomas foote alder . — li. john kendrick alder . — li. john byde alder . — li. george witham alder . — li. tho. vyner alder . — li. mr. steph. marshal — li. mr. edm. calamy — li. mr. jer. whitaker — li. mr. obad. sedgwick — li. mr. sim. ash — li. mr. tho. case — li. mr. laz. seaman — li. mr. sam. clark — li. mr. fran. roberts — li. mr. will. jenkyn — li. col. fran. west — li. mr. rich. turner dep. — li. mr. christoph . pack dep. — li. mr. walt. boothby dep. — li. mr. tho. arnold dep. — li. col. rob. manwaring — li. col. edw. hooker — li. col. joh. bellamy — li. l. col . lawr. broomfield — li. mr. alex. jones — li. mr. andr. kendrick — li. capt. rich. vennour — li. major l●●●● vaughan — li. mr. steph. white — li. mr. james martin — li. mr. will. kendal — li. mr. dan. andrewes — livre. mr. tho. bewley — li. mr. temp. milner — li. mr. lawr. brinley — li. whereas it appears by experience that many inconveniences have arisen both to tutors and pupils for want of due payment of quarterly bills and by reason of pupils trading with unlicensed persons, and without order of their tutors; for the remedying these inconveniences, it is hereby thought fit by us whose names are hereunto subscribed, tutors in the university, to offer unto the consideration of mr vicechancellor and heads of colleges our humble request as followeth, ... university of cambridge. 1697 approx. 4 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2008-09 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a79380 wing c358aa estc r232674 99898032 99898032 171038 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a79380) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 171038) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2551:14) whereas it appears by experience that many inconveniences have arisen both to tutors and pupils for want of due payment of quarterly bills and by reason of pupils trading with unlicensed persons, and without order of their tutors; for the remedying these inconveniences, it is hereby thought fit by us whose names are hereunto subscribed, tutors in the university, to offer unto the consideration of mr vicechancellor and heads of colleges our humble request as followeth, ... university of cambridge. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [cambridge? : 1697] with 22 names in two columns. dated: octobris anno dom. 1697. title from opening words of text. notarized by jacobus halman. reproduction of original in the bodleian library, oxford, england. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng university of cambridge -regulations -early works to 1800. debt -england -cambridge -early works to 1800. broadsides 2007-10 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-11 emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread 2007-11 emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion whereas it appears by experience that many inconveniences have arisen both to tutors and pupils for want of due payment of quarterly bills , and by reason of pupils trading with unlicensed persons , and without order of their tutors ; for the remedying these inconveniences , it is hereby thought fit by . us whose names are hereunto subscribed , tutors in the university , to offer unto the consideration of m r vicechancellor and heads of colleges our humble request as followeth , i. that every fellow commoner before he is admitted into commons , shall put in a caution of — 15 l. 0 0. every pensioner — 10 l. 0 0. every sizar — 6 l. 0 0. this caution to be deposited into such hands as shall be agreed upon by the college . this caution to remain in such hands 'till the said fellow-commoner , pensioner and sizar leave the college , and discharge all debts to the college and tutor , and then to be returned . ii. that every person in statu pupillari shall fully discharge every quarters bill , before the end of the next succeeding quarter , or sooner , if the statute , decree or locall custome of any particular college require it , and unless the tutor do own such discharge before the master of the college or his locum-tenens , such person shall immediately be sent out of the college . iii. that no person be admitted to have his grace pass in any college for any degree , untill he bring a discharge under his tutors hand of all debts for which his tutor is responsible , to the end of the foregoing quarter ( to the master and those that are concerned to pass his grace . ) all persons concerned are hereby required to take notice , that no tutor is responsible for any debts of his pupils , but what are contracted by his express order , and if any person adventure to trust any such pupil , besides the loss of the debt , he is liable to such further punishment as the laws of this vniversity direct . thomas browne s. t. b. coll. d. joh. thomas walker s. t. b. coll. sidn . william smith s. t. b. coll. regin . charles kidman s. t. b. coll. c. c. thomas littell s. t. b. coll. emman . henry williams s. t. b. coll. c. c. robert moss s. t. b. coll. c. c. john ellys a. m coll. caii . thomas waterhouse a. m. coll. chr. john lightwin a. m. coll. caii . robert herne a. m. aul. clar. daniel hopkins a. m. coll. trin. samuel barker a. m. coll. magd. stephen cressar a m. coll. trin. william banckes a. m. aul. pembr . john leng a. m. aul. cath. richard laughton a. m. aul. clar. robert marsden a. m. coll. jesus thomas harrison a. m. coll. sidn . daniel duckfield a. m. coll. christi samuel brearey a. m. coll. jesus . francis hare a. m. coll. regal . 1 o die mensis octobris anno dom. 1697. dominus procancellarius , ex consensu praefectorum , & ad petitionem tutorum praedictorum , decrevit in consistorio , ut suprà . ita testor jacobus halman notar. publ. & almae universitatis cantabr . regist . orders to be observ'd by all students in the university at the approach and during the continuance of their majesties here, upon the utmost penalty of the statutes to be inflicted upon the transgressors, as the disobedience and insolence of the offenders shall merit. unversity of cambridge. 1681 approx. 4 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-10 (eebo-tcp phase 1). b02124 wing c348c estc r175639 53298980 ocm 53298980 179758 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. b02124) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 179758) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2802:2) orders to be observ'd by all students in the university at the approach and during the continuance of their majesties here, upon the utmost penalty of the statutes to be inflicted upon the transgressors, as the disobedience and insolence of the offenders shall merit. unversity of cambridge. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [cambridge? : 1681] caption title. initial letter. place and date of publication suggested by wing (2nd ed.). reproduction of original in: national library of scotland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng university of cambridge -history -17th century -sources. broadsides -england -17th century. 2008-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-09 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2008-09 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion orders to be observ'd by all students in the vniversity at the approach and during the continuance of their majesties here , upon the utmost penalty of the statutes to be inflicted upon the transgressors , as the disobedience and insolence of the offenders shall merit . whereas their majesties have declared their gracious pleasure to honour this university with their royal presence upon tuesday next the twenty seventh of this month ; it is injoin'd to all students , that they stand orderly to wait upon the approach of their majesties in one rank or row from emmanuel college , through the petti cury by the south-side of s t maries church to the schools , according to the order of colleges following ; that is to say , emmanuel , sidney , christ , jesus , s t mary magdalen , corpus christi , pembroke hall , s t peters , queens , katherine hall , clare hall , trinity hall , catus , s t johns , trinity and kings colleges . that the undergraduates be in their gowns and caps , and after them the batchelors of arts , according to the same order of colleges , in their gowns , caps , and hoods ; the fellow-commoners in their gowns ; then the regents in their gowns , caps , hoods and habits ; then the non regents and batchelors of divinity in their gowns , caps , and hoods ; then the doctors of physick , law , and divinity in their robes and caps . that as their majesties pass by , they all kneel down , and say with loud and audible voices , vivat rex , vivat regina . that the deans or head-lecturers , according to the direction of the masters of the several colleges , see that all the students of those their respective colleges keep their places hereby allotted , and stir not out of them till the whole train attending their majesties be passed by . that all under the degree of masters of arts , do then repair to their own colleges , and be there in readiness to attend their majesties with the masters and fellows of such colleges as their majesties shall be pleas'd to honor with their presence . that none be seen in any college or in the town , but in his gown and cap , the graduates in their hoods also ; and that all demean themselves with such modesty , civility and decency as may be to the honor of the university . that no student or graduate , under the degree of master of arts , enter into s t johns college , except the students of the same college , and that the masters of arts press not into the rooms of entertainment , or stay longer there then they shall be permitted by the vice-chancellor . that at the congregation the regents and non-regents be present in their caps , hoods , and habits as the statute requires . that they place themselves within the inward part of the benches , if that will contein them , if not , in the lower part of the outward , leaving the upper for such persons of quality as may be present . that both regents and non regents keep their places , that they stand not upon the benches or seats , or look over the partition of the houses , or gather together in companies , but deport themselves with such gravity as becomes so great and venerable a senate , and that august presence they will then be in , especially considering that acting contrary to this injunction will deprive their majesties of what they chiefly propose in coming thither , the sight of the customs and formalities of the universiy in conferring degrees . septemb. 20. 1681. humf. gower , procan . two speeches spoken by sir simonds d'ewes the first touching the antiquity of cambridge lately published by iohn thomas, with many ignorant and foolish mistakes which are here rectified : the other concerning the priviledge of parliament in causes civill and criminall. speeches. selections d'ewes, simonds, sir, 1602-1650. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a67881 of text r13948 in the english short title catalog (wing d1256). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 6 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a67881 wing d1256 estc r13948 13023436 ocm 13023436 96648 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a67881) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 96648) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 259:e196, no 24 or 259:e196, no 25) two speeches spoken by sir simonds d'ewes the first touching the antiquity of cambridge lately published by iohn thomas, with many ignorant and foolish mistakes which are here rectified : the other concerning the priviledge of parliament in causes civill and criminall. speeches. selections d'ewes, simonds, sir, 1602-1650. [2], 6 p. printed for thomas paybody ..., london : 1642. reproduction of original in thomason collection, british library. eng university of cambridge -history -early works to 1800. university of oxford -history -early works to 1800. england and wales. -parliament -jurisdiction. a67881 r13948 (wing d1256). civilwar no two speeches spoken by sir simonds d'ewes. the first touching the antiquity of cambridge, lately published by iohn thomas, with many ignoran d'ewes, simonds, sir 1642 974 5 0 0 0 0 0 51 d the rate of 51 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the d category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2000-00 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2001-12 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2002-01 tcp staff (michigan) sampled and proofread 2002-01 tcp staff (michigan) text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a speech spoken by sir simonds d'ewes , ( so neare as it could be collected together ) touching the priviledge of parliament in causes criminall and civill . at a committee of the house of commons in the guild-hall in london on the sixt day of ianuary 1641. sir ; i perceive that the maine doubt upon the late questioning of some of the members of the house of commons as whither or no there be any priviledge of parliament in matter of * treason or other capitall offences , in which i cannot deny but that there is a common saying ( and yet not more common then erroneous ) that priviledge of parliament doth not extend to felony and treason ; for there is a double priviledge of parliament , the one finall , and the other temporarie . our finall priviledge extends to all civill causes and suites in law , and that continues during the parliament . the other priviledge that is temporary extends to all capitall causes , as treason or the like , in which the persons and goods of the members of both houses are freed from seizure till the said houses be first satisfied of their crimes , and so doe deliver their bodies up to be committed to safe custody ; and the reason of it is evident because their crime must either be committed , within the same houses or without them ; as for example if any member of the house of commons be accused for treasonable actions or words committed or spoken within the walls of the same house then there is a necessitie that not only the matter of fact , but the matter of crime also , must bee adjudged by that house ; for it can appeare to no other court what was there done in respect that it were the highest treachery and breach of priviledge for any member of that house , to witnes or reueale what was there done or spoken without the leave and direction of the same house . and if it be for treason committed out of the house , yet still the house must bee fi●st satisfied with the matter of fact ; before they part with their members , for else all priviledge of parliament must of necessitie bee destroyed , and by the same reason that they accuse one of the said members they may accuse fortie , or fiftie , upon imaginary and false treasons , and so commit them to custody and deprive the house of their members ; whereas on the contra●y side the house of commons hath ever beene so just as to part with such members when they have beene discovered . as in the parliament de anno 27. of queene elizabeth . doctor parry being a member of the house of commons , had no articles of treason preferred against him till the house had discomposed him from being one of their members , and that the chiefe heads and branches of his said treason had beene made knowne unto the house partly by his owne confession , and partly by other proofes ; and yet if ever treason required a speedy tryall that did , for it concerned no lesse then the murder and assassination of the queene her selfe , [ see the origininall journall booke of the house of commons , de anno 27. regin . eliz. pag. 85 & pag. 103. ] and so likewise in master copleys case in the parliament in the last yeare of queene mary , who spake very dangerous words against the said queene ; yet it was tried in the house of commons as apeeares in the originall journall booke of the same house , and the said queene at their intreaty did afterwards remit it . but for the case of these gentlemen that are now in question it doth not yet appeare to us whether it bee for a crime done within the walles of the house of commons or without , so as for ought wee know the whole judicature thereof must first passe with us , for the lords did make an act declaratory in the parliament , roll de an. 4. e. 3. num. 6. that the judgments of peeres only did properly belong to them , so as i hold it somewhat cleere , that these gentlemen cannot bee condemned but by such a judgement onely as wherein the lords may joyne with the commons , and that must bee by bill ; and the same priviledge is to the members of the lords house , for wee must not thinke that if a private person should come there and accuse any of them of treason that they will at all part with that member , or commit him to safe custody till the matter of fact be first proved before them . t is true indeed that upon the empeachment of the house of commons for treason or other capitall crimes , they doe immediately commit their members to safe custody , because it is first admitted that we accuse not till wee are satisfied in the matter of fact , and secondly , it is also supposed in law that such an aggregate body as the house of commons is will doe nothing , ex livore , vel ex odio , seeing they are entrusted by the whole commons of england with their estates and fortunes . so as upon the whole matter , i conclude that the proceedings against these five gentlemen have beene hitherto illegall and against the priviledge of parliament . finis . notes, typically marginal, from the original text notes for div a67881e-30 * vide rot. ●ar . de an ●1 . & 32. ● . 6. n. 27. orders and rules agreed upon by the syndics for the better securing the publick library. june 20. 1684 orders university of cambridge. 1684 approx. 5 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a79346) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 171031) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2551:7) orders and rules agreed upon by the syndics for the better securing the publick library. june 20. 1684 orders university of cambridge. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [cambridge : 1684] caption title. above caption title: i christopher duke of albemarle, [...] cellour of the university of cambridge, having perused these following orders and rules, (for the more effectual securing of the publick library there) ... . new-hall, june 26. 1684. albemarle. place of publication from wing cd-rom, 1996. reproduction of original in the bodleian library, oxford, england. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng university of cambridge -early works to 1800. libraries -early works to 1800. broadsides 2008-03 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-09 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-11 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2008-11 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion i christopher duke of albemarle , 〈…〉 〈…〉 cellour of the university of cambridge , having perused these following orders and rules , ( for the more effectual securing of the publick library there ) drawn up and agreed upon by certain persons chosen by the senate to deliberate and determine in that affair ; do approve of them , and think it very reasonable they be strictly observ'd by all , and particularly i am of opinion that no person be permitted the use of the said library untill he first take the oath mentioned amongst these orders . new-hall , june 26. 1684. albemarle . orders and rules agreed upon by the syndics for the better securing the publick library . june 20. 1684. i. that all persons ( except foreigners ) be prohibited the use of the publick library unless they first take the following oath . jurabis quod in bibliothecam publicam admissus nihil quod ad ipsam pertinuerit sciens volens corrumpes , aut imminues , nullum librum per mutabis , auferèsve , aut ipse per te , aut per alium quemvis , nisi eo modo , iìsque conditionibus , quae per vniversitatis decreta requiruntur : quòdque sis jure isto tuo sincerè , & bona fide usurus , atque omnino ita ut ( quantum in te est ) nihil inde accrescat bibliothecae damni , ita te deus adjuvet & haec sancta dei evangelia . ii. that no person ( except such as are at present members of the senate , or shall be at the next commencement , or except such as are actually batchelours of law or physick , or shall be at the next commencement ) be admitted to the said oath , unless a grace first pass the house for his admittance to the library . iii. that none under the degree of masters of arts , batchelours of law or physick be permitted to put up such grace . iv. that no foreigner be permitted the use of the library without such a sponsor as the vice-chancellour for the time being shall allow of . v. that no one shall borrow any book without express le●●● 〈…〉 w vice-chancellour for the time being , or his lawfull deputy , and a note under his own 〈…〉 ing the name of the book or books so borrowed . the books so lent to be return'd within 〈◊〉 month ; the under library-keeper or some other person to bring the note to the vice-chancellour for that purpose . vi. that the library-keepers shall have a book wherein they shall set down the names of what books are lent out , and to whom , and for how long . vii . that the vice-chancellour , or his deputy with others that he shall call to his assistance , do every year ( or oftner if he shall think fit ) in the long vacation visit and survey all the books in the library , by the classical catalogue : and in case they find any to be wanting , to deduct so much out of the library-keepers salary as will be sufficient to purchase the like again for the library : according to a decree of the university made in the year 1667. viii . that every one who in the opinion of the library-keeper shall return any book considerably soil'd , blotted or defac'd , stand oblig'd to buy a new book of the same kind , or else to pay double the value of such book , and if he refuse to do so , that he be ipso facto depriv'd of the use of the library for ever , by the vice-chancellour's declaring him so to be at the next congregation . hen. james , procan . jsph beaumont . ra. cudworth . john copleston . jo. spencer . humf. gower . nath. coga . s. blithe . j. peachell . joh. balderston . rob. brady . r. widdrington . humf. babington . tho. smoult . j. gostlin . jo. billers . ben. pulleyn . joan. ekins . ja. johnson . jo. richardson . joh. wotton . charles beaumont . june 27. 1684. lect. & publicat . in frequenti congregatione regentium & non regentium , per venerab . virum johannem ekins , sen. p●ocuratorem . jta testor jac. holman , not. publ. ac almae vniversitatis cantabr . registrarius principalis . the speech of doctor gower, vice-chancellor of the university of cambridge: to his sacred majesty gower, humphrey, 1638-1711. 1681 approx. 6 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a41727) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 30190) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1794:5) the speech of doctor gower, vice-chancellor of the university of cambridge: to his sacred majesty gower, humphrey, 1638-1711. university of cambridge. 1 sheet ([1] p.) [s.n.], edinburgh : re-printed in the year, 1681. caption title. reproduction of the original in the harvard university library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng charles -ii, -king of england, 1630-1685 -early works to 1800. university of cambridge -early works to 1800. great britain -history -restoration, 1660-1688 -early works to 1800. 2007-09 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-11 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-12 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2007-12 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the speech of doctor gower , vice-chancellor of the university of cambridge : to his sacred majesty . newmarket , sept. 18. dr. gower , master of st. johns colledge , vice-chancellor of the university of cambridge , in the name of himself and the said university , on the 11th instant , desired to know his majesties pleasure , what time would be most acceptable for the university to attend his majesty here , and his majesty being pleased to appoint this day : the said doctor gower , vice-chancellor with the heads of the houses , doctors , officers , and othe● members of the university , attended his majesty accordingly ; at which time the vice-chancellor in the name of the university made this follow●ng speech . sacred sir , we your majesties most faithful and obedient subjects , of the university of cambridge , have long , with the greatest and sincerest joy , beheld , what we hope is in some measure an effect of our own prayers ; the generous emulation of our fellow-subjects contending who should first and best express their duty and gratitude to their sovereign at this time especially , when the seditious endeavours of unreasonable men have made it necessary to assert the antient loyalty of the english nation , and make the world sensible , that we do not degenerate from those prime glories of our ancestors , love and allegiance to our prince . that we were not seen in those loyal crowds , but chose rather to stand by and applaud their honest and religious zeal ; we humbly presume will not be imputed to the want to it in our selves , either by your majesty or your people . for , sir , it is ( at present ) the great honour of this your university , not only to be steadfast and constant in our duty , but to be eminently so , and to suffer for it , as much as the calumnies and reproaches of factious and malicious men can inflict upon us : and that they have been hitherto able to do no more then vent the venom of their tongues ; that they have not proceeded to plunder and sequestration ; to violate our chappels , rifle our liberaries , and empty our colledges , as once they did ; next to the over-ruling providence of almighty god , is only due to the royal care and prudence of your most sacred majesty , who gave so seasonable a check to the aabitrary and insolent undertakings . but no earthly power we hope , no menacies or misery shal ever be able to make us renounce , or forget our duty . we will still believe and maintain , that our kings derive not their titles from the people , but from god ; that to him only they are accountable ; that it belongs not to subjects , either to create or censure , but to honour and obey their sovereign , who comes to be so , by a fundamental hereditary right of succession , which no religion , no law , no fault or forfeiture can alter or diminish . nor will we ever abate of our well-instructed zeal for our most holy religion , as it is professed , and by law established in the church of england ; that church which hath so long stood , and still is the envy and terror of her adversaries , as well as the beauty and strength of the reformation . it is thus , dread sir , that we have learned our own , and thus we teach others their duty to g●● and to the king ; in the conscientious discharge● both , which we have been so long protected a●● encouraged by your majesties most just an● gracious government ; that we neither need no● desire any other declaration , then that experience for our assurance and security for the future . in all which grace and goodness , great sir , we have nothing to return ; we bring 〈◊〉 names and seals , no lives and fortunes , 〈◊〉 capable of your majesties service , or at all 〈◊〉 thy of your acceptance ; nothing but hearts 〈◊〉 prayers , vows of a zealous and lasting loy 〈…〉 our selves and studies , all that we can , or 〈◊〉 shall be able to perform , which we here n●● sincerely promise , and most humbly tende● 〈◊〉 your majesties feet ; a mean and a worth● present ; but such an one as we hope will not disdained by the most gracious and indulg● prince , that heaven ever bestowed upon a pe●ple . to which his majesty was pleased to answ●● that he was fully satisfied of the loyalty of 〈◊〉 university , and that he did not at all doub● they would always act according to w 〈…〉 they there declared . his majesty likewise 〈◊〉 them . that he would constantly own and 〈◊〉 send the church of england , as established law ; this he bid them be assured of , for would be as good as his word , whatever 〈◊〉 presentation , either had or should be made of 〈◊〉 to the contrary . being farther pleased to a 〈…〉 that there was no other church in the world t●●● taught and practised loyalty so conscientiously 〈…〉 that did . edinburgh , re-printed in the year , 1681. a brief answer unto the cambridge moddel which is to go to the two universities to be read by all the doctors and students, vice-chancellor, and fellows, as they will answer it to god : and likewise this is to go to all those they call gentlemen to the countreys to whom this moddel is directed, from the doctors, for money to maintaine the students : and is to go amongst all the priests that are, and have been heretofore made ministers by the same doctors of colledges, now planted themselves in the countreys, and this is to go amongst all the country-men, that they may see the fruits of the learning from the doctors, which fruits is persecution ... / by e.m. e. m. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a50441 of text r22561 in the english short title catalog (wing m15). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 36 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 9 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a50441 wing m15 estc r22561 12743408 ocm 12743408 93174 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a50441) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 93174) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 696:23) a brief answer unto the cambridge moddel which is to go to the two universities to be read by all the doctors and students, vice-chancellor, and fellows, as they will answer it to god : and likewise this is to go to all those they call gentlemen to the countreys to whom this moddel is directed, from the doctors, for money to maintaine the students : and is to go amongst all the priests that are, and have been heretofore made ministers by the same doctors of colledges, now planted themselves in the countreys, and this is to go amongst all the country-men, that they may see the fruits of the learning from the doctors, which fruits is persecution ... / by e.m. e. m. worthington, john, 1618-1671. [2], 14 p. printed for thomas simmons ..., london : 1658. addressed to john worthington and others. reproduction of original in huntington library. eng church of england -controversial literature. university of cambridge. university of oxford. a50441 r22561 (wing m15). civilwar no a brief ansvver unto the cambridge moddel. vvhich is to go to the two universities to be read by all the doctors and students, vice-chancell e. m 1658 7221 6 0 0 0 0 0 8 b the rate of 8 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the b category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words. 2004-08 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2004-08 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2004-09 emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread 2004-09 emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited 2004-10 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a brief answer unto the cambridge moddel . vvhich is to go to the two universities to be read by all the doctors and students , vice-chancellor , and fellows , as they will answer it to god . and likewise this is to go to all those they call gentlemen of the countreys to whom this moddel is directed , from the doctors , for money to maintaine the students . and is to go amongst all the priests that are , and have been heretofore made ministers by the same doctors of colledges , now planted themselves in the countreys . and this is to go amongst all the country-men , that they may see the fruits of the learning from these doctors , which fruits is persecution . and also that they and all people might come to learn of christ the prophet , which is raised up , which doth enlighten every man which comes into the world , high and low , rich and poor , bond and free , male and female , that all through him might believe , who is the covenant of god , the leader of the people , whom they should hear , who reconciles in one , things in heaven , and things on earth , who brings into unity , which is in the light which every man which comes into the world is lightned withal , which is christ , that abraham and the prophets , and moses spake of , he being enjoyed , the end is seen . by e. m. london , printed for thomas simmons , at the bull and mouth neer aldersgate , 1658. john worthington , john arrowsmith , anthony tuckney , benjamin wichcot , ralph cudworth , william dillingham , priest baxter , and matthew poole . some of their principles , as followeth in a moddel for the maintaining of students , for the making of ministers , and is presented to the gentlemen of the countrey , whereby these ministers when they are made , may be sent out into ireland and wales , and into the dark places of england . oh shame ! cover your faces , you chief doctors and teachers ; was this the work of the apostles ? and is this the end of your so many thousands of pounds a a year you have out of the nation ? and hundred pounds a year stipends ? doth not your gold and silver begin to burn in your flesh and your bones ? hath it not cankered your flesh yet ? is it not rusted in your flesh yet ? will you make ministers and young students for money ? did the apostles go begging up and down to gentlemen ( as you call them ) for money to make students , to make ministers ? did christ set forth such a way ? now this is the way to make ministers of the letter , who are persecutors of the ministers of the spirit , for maintenance , & the people of god : and you are more for the maintenance , and they both , when you have made them , then for the glory of god ; and you are quite out of the steps of them that christ sent forth , that what was set before them they might eat : and the foundation of your work lyes in your naturall parts , and in your abilities , buying and selling parishes , and begging parishes , and changing one from another . nay , i know you priests , black-coats , and doctors , would eat up one another , who are the worst of men , and the worst of flesh , which is become as the carrion , fit for nothing but the wilde beasts , and wilde creatures , and fowls , and your fruits in all the gaols in the nation , of the ministers you have made , declares it , in prisoning , and the courts suing and prisoning them , you do no work for ; a shamelesse company of men , they are so ill bred at oxford and cambridge , such a place of ill breeding , that you bring a nation and people into confusion : but praised be the lord god you are all measured , and comprehended , unlike the ministers of the gospel , unlike the church ; but your hearts ( appears ) are seared with a hot iron , when you have made your ministers , both maker , and made destroy people for dishonest gain , who pretend to people that you are ministers of christ , and be not , which comes out of the two drosse houses , oxford and cambridge , and sends forth your ministers you have made , makes a trade of the scriptures , and sells their preaching and praying by the hour-glasse , and tells the people when the glasse is run , the time is spent . doth not all the sober people in the nation behold here your folly ? and you sing davids quaking , and prayers , and praises , and prophecies for money ? for what priest will come in the steeple-house , and sing without money ? away with your abominations , is this your moddell for money ? come sing freely , and praise the lord freely , yea all nations to the free god of heaven and earth : and preach freely , if yee have received freely . but then scrubs the priest , and saith , it hath cost me money , and murmurs ; come pray freely without money for the people to the lord , then he will hear your prayers without your wrath , for your polluted hands is so full of blood and persecution for your bellies , as your courts and gaols may witnesse , and houses of correction , and stocks , and whipping posts , for the servants of the lord god : but i will arise and be eased of mine adversaries saith the lord . and you are far off the mount and sions hill , who are thus choaked up with stipends and augmentations , gleab lands , midsomer dues , and easter reckonings , and tythe pigs and geese , &c. gifts and rewards , and hands so full of blood , persecution , wrath and doubting of ever overcoming sin and imperfection . for what good ( when you have made them ministers by money , and send them forth to preach for money ) what good do they do for it ? you tell your hearers they shall never be made free from the body of sin , nor imperfection , they shall always carry the body of sin about them , while they are upon earth , and that they can never be perfect , so denies the new covenant that blots out sin and transgression , in which men have peace with god . you deny the blood of jesus christ which cleanseth from all sinne . you deny the one offering christ jesus , who hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified : and so in this state you deny christ that died at jerusalem , and so you are in a worse state then the first priest hood , which the comers to it was not made perfect , and the first covenant , and so you are such as are crept into houses , and have the forme of godlinesse , but denies the power , and keeps people alwayes learning , laden with sin and divers lusts , never able to come to the knowledge of truth , like unto jannes and jambres , that would have kept the children of israel in temporal aegypt , and so you keep them in spirituall aegypt , sodome and gomorrah , where christ is crucified , though it be in the land of canaan , and you voluptuous professors and teachers , and called ministers , and makers of them , consider this , for the fire of the jealousie of the almighty is entring into your bones , and your flesh , and the dread of the lord god almighty will finde you out . take counsel never so much together against the lords annointed , & the just , he will break you to pieces like potters vessells : and light will break forth , though you be in never such great houses of darknesse , though you swell like the sea , and rage like the waves , and yell like the lyons , who want their prey , and roar like the bear bereaved of her whelps , and raven like wolves , and carry the lambs and sheep into houses of correction for your prey , because you cannot get meat of them , whom the lord is their shepherd , who follows christ , and hears his voyce ; who hath put his sheep forth from you to whom he hath given eternall life . though you roar in your pulpits , and make the ignorant people like a raging sea , all of a fire against the lambs and little ones , the lord will still the waves and lay the tempests , and hath put the hook in the jaws of the great leviathan in the sea . come ye babes and little ones , and rejoyce over them in the lord , who is causing light to break forth out of darkness . the two places , oxford and cambridge , which makes ministers : the things which is seen concerning them is , they are like two woods , full of black trees , which are blackned with smoke , and a few leaves hangs dropping on the tops of them , like unto trees at the fall of the leaf , and they stand as it were in a quagmire , which is made up with the fat of the nation , and the exacting of poor people , and wringing of them , like a great heap of myery soft earth , and when the wind blows the quagmire puffs at the bottom of it , and there is but little mosse growes on the trees , because of the smoke , and these trees bears no fruit , but a few dropping leaves as it were in the end of summer , so they stand as the shaking off with a great winde , whose leaf fades , and so as they are carried out of that quagmire and wood and banke , undressed , they are planted in the countries like starved trees in the forest , beaten with windes and weathers , dried with bark on , and some mosse on them , and scarce leaves . now these be the fuel for the fire , which cumbers the ground , fruitlesse trees , and the nations and the earth hath layen like a wildernesse , and these trees have not born fruit , and their leaves fades and falls ; and the fruitfull trees of the field begins to clap their hands who beares the fruit , whose leaf never fades nor falls , that is by the river , and the smoak of these two woods before mentioned hath almost smoaked off the barks of them , for they have scarcely the outside of them nor leaves , but they are droping down continually , and they must all drop off and appear bare , for they have not any to cover them , and all your works and the intent of your moddel , is to get money that you might make ministers , are you like the apostles in this ? have you thrust out christ , and denyed the faith , will you let christ have no room , but in your mouths to talk of him ? had ever christ any place but in the manger amongst the professors , & them that lived in lip service , their hearts far off from god ? had not the great professors hebrew , greek and latin in the dayes of old , the great talkers of christ ? and he had no place amongst them but in the manger in the stable , are not you making ministers , and begging money of the gentry , and frighting their evil consciences if they will not give it you ? and the highest when you have made them is but hebrew , greek and latin ; which is but natural , and so is but a natural man , and the natural man receives not the things of god though he hath hebrew , greek and latin , though he can talk of all scripture in those languages , and will put christ in the stable and in the manger , and let him have no room in the synagogues as the jewes would not , but was all full of wrath , and rose up against him , and put him out of the synagogue ; and do not you & your ministers put him out of your synagogues , and put him in prison ? is not this the fruits of your ministers , and your makers of them ? sure people will be wise , and not spend their money for that which is not bread ; where was there such degrees amongst the apostles as is amongst you and the papists , batchelors and masters of arts , and so forth ? and where did the apostle chuse boyes , out of schools , and send them to a place to learn hebrew , greek and latine 7 or 8 years , and that such should be made ministers , is not this by men and of men ? doth not all this come out of your own names ? let the wise in heart judge ; so if one come in his own name , the world receives him , but who comes in the name of the lord the world will not receive him . and whereas you say some have been but four yeares at the university , they are through poverty forced to go away , to enter into the ministry while they are raw , which should have stayed four years more , having been provided for . are you not ashamed , doth money make your ministers ? was it not money that made all the false prophets and the selfish ends ? how are you like ravens , and the lilies , and the grasse , are you not all comprehended here amongst the heathen ? and your rawness both ministers and makers hath sufficiently appeared , and declared it selfe to the whole nation , and when you have made them at 8 yeares standing and 7 and 4 , and has gotten all his learning , hebrew , greek and latine , and other languages which the gentry of the country must maintain them , and poor people besides , when he hath gotten all his carnal weapons , and armed himself with them , and got up into his steeple-house , one of them , the poor dispised people , a woman , a lad , or a girle , come and but look this priest in the face , as he is in his pulpit with all his goliahs weapons , carnal languages , he falls before them , him or her the said quaker , and cryes take them away , they disturb me , to the house of correction with them , to the prison ; and thus the student and minister shames both count●y and gentry , and they are ashamed of him ; have wee given our money , cry they , and hath he had fifteen pounds and 20l . and 30l . a year for 7. or 8. yeares together , and now there comes a poor simple quaker , and bids him fear god , and his mouth is stopped ; he would have them prisoned , surely cryes the gentry and the country , these fellows minde nothing but their bellies , and have made a prey of us , and it is true what quakers sayes , we have spent our money for that which is not bread , and we will even turn to christ who is that bread which comes down from above , and know the ministers that are made by his will , which he and the father sends forth , for these are all below , and are made by men , and by learning , and serve apprentiships like prentise ▪ boys , and we have given our money to them , and now they are not able to stand before such as cannot read letters , but will have them to be prisoned , and we have been partakers with them , and so uphold the priest , which some have smarted for , let others take warning . and you say , your aime is to bring up schollers with parts and learning to supply the church with choice ministers , that they may be pillars of the church . was ever they made pillars of the church that came in their own names ? are not the heathen and papists and jesuites your example in this , and will they not over-wit you in this ? were not they the first authors of it of making ministers by their learning ? and did ever that in all ages do good , to make a minister of christ jesus , to give him the spirit , to give him the gift of god ? was not all the earth of one language before babel ? and did not nimrod the mighty hunter before the lord , who came out of cursed cams stock , begin to build babel whom god did confound into many languages ? and is not that the confounded language your original ? was not all this from the spirit , did god confound his spirit ? and had not pilate which crucified christ hebrew , greek and latine ? did not he set this up a top of christ when he crucified him ? so babel is the beginning of it , a top of christ it stands , pilate set it a top of him , a top of life , a top of truth , and could pilate open the scripture or the jews that had hebrew greek and latine , and not the life ? did not they prison and persecute and kill as you do , and could not open scripture ? no more cannot you without the life of christ : did not the false prophets , antichrist inwardly ravening , who got the sheeps cloathing , that christ said should come , mat. 7. and 24. which john said was come , in his first epistle , chap. 2. & chap. 4. which went forth from them , which in the revelations , all that dwelt upon the earth went after them . which after a while they killed the saints that kept the testimony of jesus the spirit of prophecy . they inwardly ravened from the spirit of god : and when they had killed the saints , power was given unto them , the beast and false prophet over all kindreds , tongues , & nations . now hath the beast power over tongues ? what , the orthodox men ? what , tongues which is the original ? as you may read , rev. 13. and must these open christs words the beast hath power over ? is that the originall which the beast hath power over ? are those the orthodox men the beast hath power over , which hath got the tongues ? oh shame ! you may deceive the nations , but you cannot the elect : and the whore which inwardly ravened from the spirit of god , all nations have drunk the cup of fornication , before they could come to christ the husband ; and she hath corrupted the earth , and made the inhabitants of it drunk : and the kings of the earth hath committed fornication with her , who hath ravened from the spirit of god : so the kings of the earth hath made the nations to bend before ever they could come to the husband , and here nations have had the form from her which ravened from the spirit of god , before ever they could come to the power , with that they have been drunk , and so the whore sits upon the nations , and multitudes , and people , and tongues , and these are waters on whom the whore sits . now what is the whore , or the original , and orthodox men ? and is the original waters ? and the orthodox men waters ? and schools ? is the whore on them ? read the scriptures , rev. 18. 17. ch. and can these waters which are tongues , which the whore is upon , which drinks the blood of the saints , can these open the scriptures that are waters ? is the orthodox men waters ? and is the originall waters ? now if these could have opened scripture , how chance they are no better then waters ? these tongues john calls them waters , and saith , the beast hath power over them , and pilato sets them on top of christ , and babel is the beginning of them . are you pillars of the church , or of antichrist ? of the beast , of the whore , and babylon , and members of fallen babylon ? here begins your originall ; and when they crucified christ , they set your original a top of him which the beast and whore hath power over that sits upon them , and john calls them waters . and you will go make pillars of waters for the church , and you call that the originall , for tongues are waters : oh shamelesse babylon ! who are setting your tongues a top of christ like pilate , and denyes the light ; for the light is risen , and hath discovered you all , and christ is risen , which was before babell was , which pilate set the many languages over him , when he crucified him : he is risen over that which was set over him , and over them that set it over him ; and you that have ravened from the spirit of god which sets up your tongues to be the originall , and by it your orthodox men made at your schools and colledges , came up by the papists since the dayes of the apostles , which tongues the beasts power was given unto him over , and the whore sits upon them , which john in the revelation calls them waters , and these are them which hath established your church , and the pope which hath been your pillar , which he calls waters : so you and the papists , which be your . tongues and originall , have set up your false church , and kild the life , and set up your tongues over it , as pilate did , and so have drunk the blood of the martyrs , and the prophets , and the saints , which are made by the will of god , and then sets your many languages and original over them amongst the ignorant and simple people : but the life is risen , christ jesus the lamb slain from the foundation of the world over you and your original , who will be avenged of you all his enemies , who is the foundation of god , and the originall himselfe , and he will stain your pride , and deface your glory and beauty ; you have had a glory , and a beauty , and a pride , the naturall tongues which john calls waters , which you call your original ; for the life is risen , which was before babel was , and remains when pilate is not , and when babylon is not neither , who is risen to confound it : he who had your originall set over him which makes your orthodox men , which have killed the prophets & saints which had the originall , that you might reign with your false conceptions ; but the prophets , and the saints , and the lamb now reigns over you , and it is in vain now for you to set up your waters , to make pillars of your church , for tongues are waters , saith john , that had the original , and was in it , and so all that be in the original , sees you , & is a top of your waters and tongues , and is come to the rock , and tramples upon all your buildings and tongues , which at the best makes men but naturall men ; for tongues are natural , and not spiritual : and your sending out your lads , after admitted in writing , to wales and ireland , and other places . this is like unto them that jeremiah cries out against , that run when the lord never sent them , that are using their tongues , and speak when the lord never spoke to them , and these are them that runs from you waters ; and them that be friends of christ and of the gospel , and love their countrey , the souls and good of people , will see that you have not the bread to feed the hungry , and you do not bind up , but you make rents , and you do not visit in prison , but you cast into prison them that will not put into your mouths ; and you do not bring people from under the law , but bring people under the law into courts , and sessions , and assizes , and you cast them into prison for tythes , and tenths , and so you are unlike the ministers of the gospel , which brought people out of ninths and tenths both , redeemed out of the earth up to god , but you are gone amongst the papists , inwardly ravenous , into the earth , and there sets up tenths , and keeps people in the ninths of the earth , unlike the ministers of the gospel , which is the power of god , which opens the hearts of the people , whereby they come out of the ninths and tenths both , to christ , who redeems out of the earth to god , whereby they come to reign upon the earth . doth the tenths serve all the widows , fatherlesse , and strangers , and the priest ? doth it give them all enough ? now man transgressing , and being drove from god into the earth , abraham before the law paid the tenths of the spoile to melchisedech king of righteousness , in the law of the lord , required the tenths of the earth , and he made these tenths to serve widows , fatherlesse , strangers , and levi , that there might not be a beggar amongst them . now christ the end of the law , and of wars , the redeemer and the saviour out of the earth , brings from out of the ninths and tenths , and so comes to reign upon the earth , and these are of the royal priesthood , and the family of the faithful , which was of abraham , of which christ came according to the flesh , which lives out of ninths and tenths both of the earth up to god , whose the earth is . now apostatized papists and sects since the dayes of the apostles , & false prophets , and antichrist that had the sheeps cloathing , that ravened from the spirit of god into the earth , drew the world after them , set up ninths and tenths : so they get tenths of the earth , and keep people in the ninths of it . oh! how unlike the ministers of the gospel are you , that brought people out of the ninth and tenth both to god to reign a top of it , glory to the highest : and such brought back that which was driven away ; but you that keeps in the ninths and tenths , keeps people under the curse , there to labour for you in the sweat of their brows , toyling and tugging for you in the transgression : but some are redeemed from you , and cannot put into your mouths , and such you have your dens for , you that be in the transgression , that be under the curse , and keep people under the curse with ninths and tenths of the earth , which now many is coming out of : and woe will be your portion and misery , and all them that be come into the life of the prophets of christ . now it is not their work to put in the mouths of the false prophets , but they that did so was the ignorant and foolish people , and foolish gentry of the countrey , which they were deceived by ; and the saints know that the love of the false prophets was all after money , and themselves and such blinds the eye of the mind of many both great and small , and they are them that cries give , give , and they that will not put into their mouths , they prepare war against them : and you wrest many scriptures which is spoken of for giving to the poor , for your own ends , which poor it is manifest you do not regard , therefore is there so many widows and fatherlesse begging abroad in your streets , and at your steeple-houses , and at your doors , and cast so many widows and poor men into prison that have many children , because they cannot give you tythes , and put into your mouths . and whereas you say in the ninth page , he is likest to god that doth good , you shew your selves the most unlike to god , as the courts , gaols , prisons , and houses of correction witnesse , and death , persecuting till death ; so shews you your selves are reprobate concerning the faith , and the ministers of christ , and hath not learned the lesson of christ , to learn mercy and not sacrifice , for your sacrifice is cains , for you kill and murther , and are in envying your brethren , and so you have forgotten to do good , and so lost the blessing , and lost the savour of rest where the mercy is , which is to shew mercy ; but you will give people sermons , and pray , and sing to them , and tell them letter is light , and matthew , marke , luke , & john is the gospel , and hebrew , greek , and latine is the originall , and letter is the word , and it is the ground of mens faith , and the old mass-house , with the crosse at the end of it is the church ; stop into your mouths , you will give them as much talk as you can speak by the glasse , till the glasse be run , then time is past neighbours . if a quaker comes and look at you , he disturbs me , take him away . now the scripture sayes , the power of god is the gospel , and the power of god the crosse of christ , and christ is the author of faith , who is the original , and the scriptures of truth are the words of god , and christ is the word , before the scriptures was given forth , who comes to fulfill the words , in whom they end . christ , the word , and the church is in god , and your old mass-houses and sacraments , the papists was the author of them , and they gave to them their names , and your schools , as trinity colledge , and christs colledge , and jesus , and emanuel , &c. and st. pauls , and st. peters , & st. johns , and all ▪ souls , and st. gregory , and st. austins the old monk . what jesuits are wiser men then you , fain to name your houses for you ? here is popes marks and names , and most of the old masse-houses of england , there stands the crosse on the end of them , or hath been , which is the popes mark , who sets up all your tythes , and easter reckonings , midsommer dues , and gleab lands , and your bells and glasses , and your naming saints dayes , your christmas , and candlemas , and michaelmas . now if you did not love popery , and hold up popery , you would deny his authority , and deny his doctrine . alack for you poor striplings , catterpillars , crawling frogs ; talk of souldiers of christ ! it is nothing but your bellies you fight for ; for you are casting into prison , you have not christs souldiers weapons , you are made by men ; and so you must acknowledge the pope hath more wit then you , that cannot name your houses and colledges , and days , and sets you out your tythes , easter reckonings , and midsomer dues ▪ and so you are them that destroy the pure understanding of the people , and stops the way whereby the souls of the people might come up , & so are destroyers of the true ministers , and keeping people from the true foundation christ jesus the prophet , which is to be heard . it is not your languages that feeds souls , and keep people from being seduced , nor makes people witty in the things of the spirit of god , as you simple doctors think in the tenth page . your ministry would wear out if you should loose your tongues and sciences : and when do we see a priest dare to venture upon a papist priest without a carnall sword , and confound him , and stop his mouth ; but your and the papists original , are your languages , so easie to be confounded by them that be in the spirit of god , before tongues was . so you who are killing and prisoning one another about your sacrifices , piety is lost and charity amongst you , and you are unfurnished with spiritual weapons ; and the quakers who are of the royal elect seed of god , before the foundation of the world was , hath sounded you allarm , and all your fore-fathers the papists , which your fathers since the days of the apostles , the allarm is gone out , that all the sects and apostates , and heathen which know not god , upon the earth : and the trumpet sounds out of the holy mountain , that you and all the inhabitants of the earth should tremble ; and you , and all you who be in the ninths and tenths of the earth , and the trumpet sounds out to you all , allarm , that you may come to the battel of the great god of heaven and earth . and the lambs war is begun , who will kill with the sword , and slay with the sword , which is the word of his mouth ; and the devill , and beast , and false prophet shall be taken and cast alive into the lake of fire . he that worships the beast shall be tormented day and night ; and the lamb and the saints shall reigne , and the everlasting gospell shall be preached to all kindreds , tongues , and nations , which is the power of god . and you and the papists have been made up by the hereticks , which went forth from the apostles , as you may read in timothy , in jude , and peter , and john , and the rest of the epistles : and you all dry , drossie , dark doctors , who are training up your poor silly ignorant sottish students ; which when they come out from you , will speak a few words for a cock of barley , tythe eggs and pigs . away you poor young students , lay aside all your pretences , and turn to the lord god from your old doctors , for they are never able to make you ministers : for that which they do is but for money , and you are but plain naturalists when they have done the utmost to you , and then you go forth and teach for money , when as you had been better to have kept flocks and herds , and turned husbandmen , that would bring more honour to god . you see the people are prophane , and you do them no good , and you see that you begin to be a shame to the nation ; and what uncharitable lives they have , and hard hearts , and seared consciences , and will cast men into prison , and bring them before courts , and prison them for speaking to them ; and yet you have been learning seven and eight years at oxford and cambridge , and one that hath never been there shall confound 20 of them in the things of god ; and how unlike the apostles are they which was in the power of god , whereby their hearers sold all , and laid at the apostles feet . now you see the apostles would not cumber themselves with it , they might have set up great benefits . and again you may see how you priests and ministers destroy the true church amongst you , and the true authority and comforter & edification and limit the holy one , & dispiseth prophesy , and quencheth the spirit , if any thing be revealed to another that sits by , let the first hold his peace : and this practice you get a law against , take him away he disturbes me ; and so you are the crucifiers in the world , and the world that crucifies , and are not them that are crucified from the world with christ . and the lord hath given many both rich and poor , an unspeakable happiness and freely of his grace , that stands for the glory of his church , which christ is in the midst of , and is the head who are come into the lively faith and the fervent love to the brethren that are persecuted by you , and evilly entreated , and their bodies are offered up sacrifices to the lord , and many have been sacrificed in your prisons , and there died , to whom the love of god hath flowed and abounded , and carried through all their sufferings , with joy unspeakable and love unfaigned , whose souls are in their rest , ( christ ) whose comfort is in christ the hope , the mystery , whose crown of glory fades not , whose love is to the world , whether they will receive it for no ; now you teachers and called ministers have impoverished many in the nation , whom you do no work for , many families , many fatherlesse , many widows , many you keep in prison to this day , many hath died in prison ; you have kept till death ; is it not blood their you drink ? will nothing serve you , but the saints blood , there bodies , and their lives ? you have taken and caused to be taken the very bibs and the childrens clothes , and plough-gear and oxen and horses that men should till their ground with , you have taken the beds away from people , and left them none to lye on ; taken away their corn , sheep and hay , and threshed their corn in their barnes , and carried it away by loads , as witness thomas aldam ; you drive away their fat beasts , provided for their own families against winter ; you take away the cows from the poor people that have half a dozen children to give them milk , and take the men from their wives , and cast them into prison , that they shall not maintain their familes , oh! lamentable cryes is entred into the lord of the sabbath of rest for his people ; and you are speaking of learning , and defending of the truth , and building up the church of christ by your languages ; you six doctors , alas , did not pilate with his learning & languages turne against christ and the church , and the greek , and the hebrew , and the latine both ? and so mahomet and the infidels fruits could not be worse then yours , who will not suffer the saints to live upon the earth , except they live in the ninths to give you the tenths , and bury the seed of god in their ninths , that part pertains to shadows that holds the ninths , that is a mystery , and they that hold you up cannot honour christ ▪ the priests name is cain , the first birth , and that sacrificer offered of the earth , and wrestled with the flesh and blood of abel , and killed him , which did not abel , he wrestled not with the flesh and blood of cain the priests , and the blood of abel cries for vengeance upon cain . the end ▪ the foundation of the universitie of cambridge, with a catalogue of the principall founders and speciall benefactors of all the colledges, and total number of students, magistrates and officers therein being. and how the revenews thereof are and have been increased from time to time, and by whom, with buildings, books and revenues as no universitie in the world can in all points parallel: these are the nurseries of religion, and seminaries of good literature. langbaine, gerard, 1609-1658. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a67887 of text r202707 in the english short title catalog (wing l368). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 43 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 10 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a67887 wing l368 estc r202707 99862904 99862904 115084 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a67887) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 115084) images scanned from microfilm: (thomason tracts ; 96:e628[15]) the foundation of the universitie of cambridge, with a catalogue of the principall founders and speciall benefactors of all the colledges, and total number of students, magistrates and officers therein being. and how the revenews thereof are and have been increased from time to time, and by whom, with buildings, books and revenues as no universitie in the world can in all points parallel: these are the nurseries of religion, and seminaries of good literature. langbaine, gerard, 1609-1658. [2], 17, [1] p. printed by m.s. for thomas jenner, and are to be sold at his shop, at the south-entrance of the royal-exchange, london : 1651. attributed to gerard langbaine. the title page is mostly in the same setting, and the foreword the same text, mutatis mutandis, as wing l370. annotation on thomason copy: "may 14". reproduction of the original in the british library. eng university of cambridge -history -early works to 1800. a67887 r202707 (wing l368). civilwar no the foundation of the universitie of cambridge, with a catalogue of the principall founders and speciall benefactors of all the colledges, a langbaine, gerard 1651 7103 20 0 0 0 0 0 28 c the rate of 28 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the c category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2000-00 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2001-11 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2002-03 tcp staff (oxford) sampled and proofread 2002-03 emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-04 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the foundation of the universitie of cambridge , with a catalogue of the principall founders and speciall benefactors of all the colledges , and total number of students , magistrates and officers therein being . and how the revenews thereof are and have been increased from time to time , and by whom , with buildings , books and revenues as no universitie in the world can in all points parallel : these are the nurseries of religion , and seminaries of good literature . ito & fac similiter . london , printed by m. s. for thomas ienner , and are to be sold at his shop , at the south-entrance of the royal-exchange . 1651. the learned in antiquities have diversly written about the time of the foundation of the vniversity of cambridge : some affirming that it was founded by cantaber a prince of spain , brother to partholinus king of ireland , son in law to gurguntius king of great britain , many yeares before the incarnation of our saviour christ ; of whose name , ( according to the spanish language ) it was first called cantabriga , after of his son grantinus ( who is said to have walled it about ) grantbriga , and grantbrige . others say , that cassivil●nus prince of the troynobantes , king octavius , arthur king of great britaine , and ethelbert king of kent , were each of them founders and restorers of the same . but the chiefest conclude and agree that sigebe●t king of the east angles was the principall founder thereof , about the years 630 and 636 , who assigned divers hostles and houses for students to inhabit in , giving them large priviledges and charters , whereof some are yet extant ; procuring also great immunities from pope honorius the first , which sergius the first confirmed . since which time by reason of many incursions , and continuall warres between the britaines , romans , saxons , the kings of this heptarchie , danes and normans , the light and glory of this academy was not onely of old much eclipsed ; but even since the conquest ( in the barons wars ) also obscured and defaced : and it is most certaine , as the destructions were many , so the restaurations thereof shortly ensued by one prince or other ; so that at length recovering it selfe , it is most worthily reputed one of the most famous vniversities in the world . much honour this place hath received by the sons and nephews of kings , in being earls thereof , viz. william brother to ranulph earl of chester , iohn earl of henault vnkle to philip le beau king of france , whose daughter isabel was wife to king edward the second , and mother to king edward the third : william marquesse of juliars , edmund of langley duke of yorke , edward duke of yorke , richard earl of cambridge , richard duke of yorke , james marquesse hamelton earl of arren , baron hamelton of chattelrault , &c. james marquesse hamelton earle of arren , &c. and howsoever the hostles , hals , innes , schools , and religious houses , whereof the vniversity before and since the conquest did consist , which now are wholly defaced , or in part converted into some of the present colledges , were for their number and number of students in them , much above all that are now extant , many of them being formerly knowne by these names , frater de poenitentia jesu christi , s. johannis zacharii , s. botolphi , divi gerhardi , st. edvardi , s. ed mundi , s. augustini , divi thomae , beatae mariae , s. clementis , hovingi diversorium , divi gregorii , s. margaretae , s. katherinae , hospitium phiswici , t●gularii hospitium , harlstoni diversorium , s. trinitatis domus dei , ruddi hospitium , michaelis domus aulae regiae , s. pauli diversorium , burdeni hospitium , with many others ; yet at this present it consists of sixteen goodly colledges and hals , erected and maintained with the lands and revenus of their severall founders ( one of the chappels thereof , founded by the holy king henry the sixth , and the colledge of the holy and individed trinity founded by king henry the eight , no vniversity in the world can in all points parallel . ) these are the nurseries of gods true religion , and seminaries of good literature . i. st. peters colledge or house , founded , 1280. hvgo de balsham , suprior , and after bishop of ely , began the foundation of this colledge about anno 1257 , in the place where the two hostles of students were ( purchased the one for the friars de poenitentia iesu christi ; the other for the friars hospitalis s. iohannis ) and near to the church of saint peters extra trumpington gates . he setled not the endowment till anno 1284. at which time upon suit of both parties , translating the seculars unto this place , he established one master , and fourteen fellows , and died before all things were finished . after , simon de montucute , simon langham , and iohn fordam bishops of ely , added to their means . in this while saint peters church fell to the ground , and ecclesia beatae mariae de gratia was built where now it stands , from whence the colledge also came to be commonly styled for an hundred years together , col. b. mariae de gratia , which after in processe of time , by the liberality of iohn holbrook doctor of divinity , chancellor of this university , master thomas lane , thomas deynman , iohn warkworth , william burgony , henry hornbie , iohn edmunds , andrew perue deane of ely , all masters of this house it was much increased . since , william martin , robert shorton , edmund handson , robert gilbert , master skelton , mistris elizabeth wolfe , iohn whitgift archbishop of canterbury , edward lord north , master robert smith , master henry wilshaw , the lady mary ramsey , master robert warden , master thomas warren , mistris margaret dean , master william herne , master robert slade , and iohn blith late fellow , have been all good benefactors . to these must be added the late religious founders of the new chapp●l ( dedicated march 17. 1632. ) whose names are in a catalogue there affixed , that have already contributed 1000 pounds towards the same ; and the present master and fellows have not onely finished the said . chappel , with the expence of 1200 pounds ; but also by the helpe of mistris frances matthew widow , &c. who gave 200 pounds doctor richerdson late master , doctor hawkins late of this colledge , who gave each of them a hundred pounds , have builded a new court ; with a faire front and gate next the street . this colledge being the f●rst of all that now are standing in this university , hath at this time in it a master , 19. fol. 29 bible-clarks , 8 poor scholars , besides other students , with officers and common servants , being in all 106. ii. vniversity house or hall , now clare hal , founded , 1326. richard badew chancelor ( and the university then being ) founded this coll. or hall , by the n●me of the university house or hal , in a street called milnstreet near s. iohn zacharies church ; wherin the first 16 years the students lived at the university charges . afterwards walter thaxted master of the same , with the consent of ric. ling then chancellor , & the university resigned the first foundation into the hands of elizabeth countesse of clare , widow , sometimes wife of iohn de burgo , earle of vlster ; which elizabeth had formerly given the perpetuall patronage of litlington , and b●stowed many other favours upon this colledge . she then ( under licence of king edward the third ) altred the first name , and called it after her owne name , collegium , sive aula de clare . in which colledge by the gift of this honorable foundresse , and of thomas stoyle , and edm. naturesse masters thereof , iohn thaxton , edith green , william ducket , vvilliam vvorleigh , vvilliam marshall , ralph scrivener , thomas cave , doctor leeds late master , thomas cecil late earle of excester , and the lady dorothie his wife , who gave a hundred and eight pounds per annum ; william butler sometimes fellow and president of this house , the famous physician , who gave one challice of pure gold , with other plate and bookes , &c. to the value of five hundred pounds , iohn freeman esq. who gave two thousand pounds , doctor scot deane of rochester , &c. late master , who gave in money , plate , and books the summe of three hundred pounds , master george ruggle late fellow , who gave in mony , plate and books , above four hundred pounds , sir robert heath attorny general , &c. master thomas bing , master humfrey hide , robert iohnson of luffenham esquire , master erasmus farrer , master vvilliam briden , master thomas cropley , and divers other benefactors ; there is at this present in the same , a master , eighteen fellows , thirty six scholars , twenty poor scholars , besides officers and servants of the foundation , with other students , the whole number being 106. iii. pembroke hall , founded , 1343. mary de s. paul , countesse of pembroke , baronesse of veisser and mountenac● daughter to guido chastillion earle of st. paul in france , and of marie britannia his wife , after the death of audomarus de valentia earle of pembroke , &c. whose third wife she was ( but for one day as it is thought ) betook her selfe wholly to devotion , bestowing the greatest part of her estate on churches , religious houses , the poor , and her servants , having built dennie abbey , and procured licence from king edward the third , to found this house by the name of the colledge of mary valence , after called pembroke hall , ( within the compasse whereof , as now it stands , are the ancient hostles of the universitie and s. thomas knaptons , b●ultons , and cousing places , with part of the chauntry-house of little s. maries ) endowing the same with div●rs patronages , impropriations , lands , rents , plate , jewels and other ornaments , and established therein one master , six fellows , and two scholars . it hath been since enlarged by the gift of holy king henry the sixth , edward storie bishop of chichester , gerard , and nicholas skipwith , doctor atkinson , sir william hussey knight , charles booth bishop of hereford , sir roger strange knight , doctor vvats , william marshall , william smart and alice his wife , afterwards married to ralph scrivener , iane cox widow ; all these besides iohn langhton bishop of st. davids , lawrance booth , and thomas scot , alias rotheram , both archbishops of yorke , ricard fox bishop of winchester , doctor shorton dean of stoake , edmund grindall , and iohn vvhitgift archbishops of canterbury , vvilliam fulke doctor of divinity , which were all masters of this house , and have by gifts of lands , mony , plate , books , &c. augmented the same ; and lancelot andrews doctor of divinity , late master and bishop of winchester hath given 1000 pounds , and the perpetuall patronage of rawreth in essex , with 374 folio books well bound . wherein there is at this present a master , 19 fellows , one tanquam , 33 scholars of the house , besides officers and servants of the foundation , with other students , the whole number being 100. iv. corpus christi colledge , founded , 1351. henry of monmoth , surnamed torio collo ( son and heire of henry of lanchaster , l. of monmouth and pomfret , earl of lancaster , leicester and darbie , and high steward of england ) succeded his father in all these honours , and was by king edward the third created earl of lincolne , and knight of the most honorable order of the garter , duke of lancaster , and lord high steward of england , &c. of the fraternity or guild of corpus christi , and blessed mary the virgin , neare unto luthborne lane , and the hostle of st. bernard in the east , ( wherof himself was then alderman ) ordained this colledge in the year 1351 , and among other things appropriated unto the same , the perpetuall patronage of s. benedicts church , adjoyning to this colledge . which colledge since hath been much beautified with buildings and increased in revenews , by the liberalities of the lady margaret brotherton dutchesse of norfolke , &c. thomas cambridge esquire , s. iohn cambridge knight ( who gave a place called stonehouse or stonehall , towards the augmentation of the same ) iohn meers esquire bedle , mathew parker fellow and master of this house , doctor of divinity , archbishop of canterbury , s. nic bacon kni. lord keeper of the great seal of england , roger mann●rs late earl of rutland , lord roos of hamlake , belvoir and trousbut , &c. mast. roger mannors his great uncle , m. vvill . benedict , and mast. leonard cawson ( who gave 18 pounds , thirteen shillings four pence for the maintenance of three scholarships ) besides divers other benefactors : so as there is at this present in the same , a master , 12 fellows , 37 scholars , besides officers and servants of the foundation , with other students , the whole number being 126. v. trinity hall , founded , 1353. vvilliam bateman borne in the city of norwich , doct. of the civil law , archdeacon of norwich , after the 18. bishop of that see , for exchange of certaine parsonages , obtained an ancient hostle , near adjoyning to the university house or hall , butting upon milnstreet , and st. iohn zacharies church east , where in former times students lived at their owne charge● , which one iohn de crawden prior of ely had purchased for the monks of that priory to inhabit and reside in , and made thereof a colledge or hall for the students of the law , dedicating the same to the honour of the holy and blessed trinity in the city of norwich , endowing the same with lands and possessions . to this hostle ( before it was by him purchased ) richard ling doctor of divinity , chancellor of this university , archibald of norwich , simon de rekenhal , & vval . elvedon gave 4 tenements , rob. stratton , iohn trunch , vvalter baketon , vvalter de aldersey , and peter de bittering gave two messuages , and seven peeces of ground , one of the messuages being called drakes entrie . this colledge hath since by the bounty of m. simon dalling , and vvalter huke , masters thereof , robert goodnap , iohn maptid , gab. dun , richard nix bishop of norwich , step. gardiner doct. of law , master of this house , bishop of winchester , lord chancellor of england , and chancellor of this university , matthew parker archbishop of canterbury , doct. mowse , doct. harvey , m. busbie , m. hare esq. doct. cowel late master , doct. of law , and kings professor , s. gerrge newman knight , and other benefactors , been much enlarged : so as there is at this present a master , 12 fellows , 14 scholars , besides officers and servants of the foundation , with other students , the whole number being 60. vi . gon. and cai. colledge , founded , 1353. edmund gonvil rector of terrington and rushworth in norfolk , obtained license of king edward the third to erect this colledge ; the first foundation whereof he laid anno 1348. where the orchyard of corpus christi colledge is now situate ; which he dedicated to the honour of the anunciation of blessed mary the virgin , wherein he established a master , and 4 fellows , whom , while he lived , with his owne mony he maintained : but he died untimely , anno 1353 , giving by will a great summe of mony in trust to wil. bateman bishop of norwich , to perfect this his colledge or hall , and to endow it with competent possessions , who in anno 1353 procured the said master and fellows to remove to a place near unto his own colledge then in building , called trinity hall , anciently called hen●y , in the parish of saint michael , where he purchased by exchange divers messuages and tenements , on which he erected the same , by the name of gonvil hall . afterwards iohn caius d. of physick , a learned antiquary in an. 1557 , was made a co-founder by letters patents , who caused it to be called gonvil and caius colledge : he added to the former court being four square , his faire building of free-stone , increased the treasury with new revenews , enriching it with large possessions for the maintenance of three fellowes , twenty scholars , and a porter . since the ladies mary pakenhams and anne scroop , elizabeth cleere , d. ●alie , ste. smith , rich. willison , tho. atkins , pet. hewit , vvil gale , thomas willows , will . sigo , d. knight , iohn whittacre , mat. parker archbishop of canterbury , robert traps and ione his wife , ioyce franklin their daughter , d. windie , doct. bishby , d. harvey , s. vvil . paston kn. vvill . cutting , dr. legge , d. branthwait , and d. gostlin late masters of this house , doct. perse , and d. wels , late fellows of this house , and many other good benefactors , have increased the number of fellows and scholars , books and buildings , &c. of this colledge ; so as there is at this present in the same a master , 25 fellows , one chaplain , 69 scholars , besides officers and servants of the foundation , with other students , the whole number being two hunded and nine . vii . kings colledge , founded , 1441. henry the sixth , called henry of windsor , king of england and france ( son and heir of king henry 5th . and of katherine daughter of charles the 6 k. of france ) began this royal foundation , dedicating the same to the honor of saint nicholas , consisting then of one master , and 12 scholars , in or about the places where the churches of s. nicholas , and s. iohn zacharie , st. augustines hostle , and gods house had formerly been situated : but within 2 years after , he enlarged the first foundation dedicating the same to the honor of our blessed lady mary the virgin & s. nicholas . in which colledg at this present is standing one of the fairest chappels in the world , conformable whereunto he intended to have made this his colledge , which by his untimely death he left onely begun and unperfected , for some of his royall successors to finish . afterwards king henry 7 finished the stone-work ( in part ) of the said chappel , and king henry the 8 caused the same to be glased ; seated , paved , and perfected . to this colledge the founder under his great seale by act of parliament confirmed this coat of arms , which here in the margin they bear , placing in chiefe a flower of france , and a lion of england , that it may appeare to be the worke of a king . since roger goad d. of divinity , late fellow and provost , adam robins , richard day , and d. cowell , late fellows , d. smith late fellow and provost , william henshaw late fellow , also thomas weaver late fellow , ( now fellow and late vice-provost of eton ) hath wainscotted the back of the fellows and scholars seats on both sides of the said chappel , in a decent and comely manner , and divers other benefactors , with bookes and other ornaments have much enriched the same . in which colledge at this present is a provost , 70 fellows and scholars , 3 chaplains , 1 master of the choristers , 6 clarks , 16 choristers , 16 colledge officers of the foundation , besides 12 servitors to the seniour fellows , 6 poor scholars , with other students , the whole number being 140. viii . queens colledge founded , 1448. margaret andegavensis , daughter of reyner duke of aniou ( titularie king of sicilie , naples , and ierusalem ) consort of king henry the 6. obtained licence of the same king ; to build this colledge upon part of the ground belonging to the carmelites or white friers , butting on milnsteet in the parish of s. botolphs , and to purchase land of the value of 200 pounds for the endowment thereof , dedicating the same to s. margaret and s. bernard : but she died and left it unperfect . afterwards q. elizabeth , wife to k. edw. the 4 , obtained licence to finish the same , which she accomplished . this colledge since by the liberalitie of the ladies margaret roos , iane inglethorpe , and iane burrough , george duke of clarence , ciciley , dutchesse of yorke , richard duke of glocester , the lady anne his wife , edward e. of salisbury , maud countesse of oxford , marm. lomley bishop of lincolne chancellor of this university , andrew ducket rector of s. botolphs , sometimes principall of s. bernards hostle , and the first president of this colledge ( who had formerly been a friar , and gathered of well disposed persons much money , and procured the kings mandat , that the maior , bailiffs , and burgesses , of the town of cambridge should sell him a parcel of ground called goose-green , in the parish aforesaid , which is now an island lying between the colledge , and the green called youngs green or banke ) hugh trotter d. of divinity , iohn drewel , and wil weld , canons of s. pauls , s. tho. smith fellow of this colledge , principal secretary to queen elizabeth , henry wilshaw 13 president of this colledge , d. stokeys , iohn chetham , henry hastings e. of huntington , iohn ioslin , george mountague late archbishop of yorke , together with many other noble and well disposed persons , benefactors , it is so increased as at this present there is in the same a president , 19 fellows , 23 scholars , 8 bible-clarks , and three lecturers of hebrew , arithm. . and geomet . besides other officers and servants of the foundation , with other students , the whole number being a hundred and ninety . ix . katherine hall , founded , 1475. robert woodlarke , borne at wakerley in northumberland , d. of divinity , the last fellow that king henry 6 placed in kings colledge , third provost of the same , chancellor of this university , founded this colledge or hall in a place called the milnstreet , over against queens colledge orchard , formerly knowne by the name of the carmelite fryers ; of four tenements which were purchased for that purpose : he dedicating the same to the honour of s. katherine the vingin and martyr , obtained of king edword 4 a licence of mortmain for the endowment thereof ; which was confirmed to him and his successors for ever . wherein he established a master , and three fellows . since it hath been enlarged by the liberaty of isabel canterbury widow , william taylor , katherine myles , robert simpton , hugh penmerton ; the lady elizabeth bernardiston , iohn leach , richard nealson , robert shorton d. of divinity , mr. of st. iohns colledge in this university , dean of stoack , &c. after mr. of pembroke hall ; hugh garret , iohn chester , thomas green d. of divinity , mr. of this house , d. thymblebie , dr. middleton , rosamond payn widow . iohn cholmley , iohn duke , sir iohn claypool knight , iohn gostlyn dr. of physick , late fellow and master of gonvil and caius colledge , vicechancellor 1618 who died vicechancellor octob. 21. 1626. a large and bountifull benefactor : thomas buck late fellow of this house , senior esq. bedle , mr. christopher shirland , mrs. stafford , mr. tho. hobs , master peter phesant , anne lady cocket widow , mistris iurdayn widow , anne lady bernardiston , wil. gouge d. of divinity , mr. coulson , mr. skerne esq. mr. alured , master cradock citizen and merchant of london , the worthy company of the mercers in the city of london , and many other benefactors : so as there is now in the same a master , 6 fellows , 10 scholars , 9 exhibitioners , besides officers and servants of the foundation , with other students , being in all 150. x. iesus colledge , founded , 1496. iohn alcock born at beverley in yorkeshire , dr. of the civill law , &c. being bishop of ely , and lord chancellor of england , procured licence of king henry 7. to convert into a coll. an ancient nunnery ( the nuns whereof all but 2. were dead and dispersed , and the house much wasted ) formerly consecrated to s. radegund , and endowed by sundry benefactors , whereof malcolme 4 king of scotland , and the whole race of the earls of hunt. with their families , were the chiefest who gave the ground whereon it stands , and 10 acres of land adjoyning , as also the mannor house and lands , with the rhadegund tythes , with the appurtenances , &c. in the time of the prioresse and nuns , iohn portois , hervens , the son of thurstace , iohn triplow , rector of hardwick with his sister dionis , nicholas morris , hugo filius absolonis , and others , were liberall benefactors . he also obtained licence under the great seal of england , that all the lands belonging to the said nunnery , should be appropriated to this his colledge , dedicating the same to the honor of the blessed virgin mary , s. iohn the evangelist , and the glorious virgin s. rhadegund , commonly called iesus colledge , wherein he established one master , 6 fellows , and 6 scholars : since by the liberality of the lady willoughby , and the lady bray , who builded the side from the cloyster court to the garden , iames stanley and thomas thirlby , bishops of ely , iohn beauchamp knight , sir rob. read kn. lord chiefe jnstice of the common pleas , iohn andrews , d. royston , d. fuller masters of the same , iohn batemanson , thom. roberts , roger thorney , rich. pigot , godf. fuliam , will . marshal , iane woods , tho. sutton esq. , and other benefactors , it is so increased , that there is at this present in the same , a master , 16 fellows , 24 scholars , besides officers and servants of the foundation , with other students , being in all 110. xi . christ colledge , founded , 1505. margaret countesse of richmond and darbie , daughter and sole heir of iohn beauford , duke of sommerset , widow of edmund of hadham earle of richmond ( son of owen ap-tuder of vvales , kn. and q. katherine his wife , doawger of king hen. 5. halfe brother to k. henry 6. &c. ) mother to k. henry the 7 ; in testimony of her love to learning obtained licence of the same king to erect a colledge without barnewell-gate , in preachers-street , of four mes●uages and gardens belonging to the abbot of tiltie , and prioresse of dennie ( where k. henry 6 had founded a house called gods house , in lieu of that which had been formerly builded by william bingham rector of s. iohn zacharies church in the city of london , which was pulled down by the same king when he founded kings colledge ) dedicating the same to the honour of our saviour christ , which he endowed with lands and revenews for the maintenance of a master , 12 fellows , 47 scholars , besides officers and servants , the number of which hath been since increased by the liberality of iohn fisher president of queens colledge , bishop of rochester and cardinall , &c. k. edward 6 , tho. tompson , and ed. hawford doctors of divinity masters of the same , s. wal. mildmay kt. chancellor and treasurer of the exchequer , ric. risley , d. patison , philip rawlins , m. iennings , nic. colverwell , tho. laughton , m. wentworth . rob. isham , ric. bunting , ric. car , benefactors ; and the revenews for other purposes augmented : so as there is at this present in the same a master , 13 fellows , 60 scholars , besides officers and servants of the foundation , with other students ; the whole number being 166. xii . st. iohns colledge founded , 1508. the abovesaid margaret countesse of richmond and derbie , mother of k. henry 7 , &c. obtained license of her nephew k. henry 8 , to convert an hospitall or house of regular canons ( founded by nigellus the second bi. of ely , in the year , 1134 , afterwards translated to a priory , and dedicated to s. iohn the evangelist in the jury , by hugo de balsham 10 bi. of ely ) into a colledge by the ancient name of s. iohn the evangelist : the perfecting whereof she left to her executors , ri fox bi. of winchester , iohn fisher bi. of rochester , chas sommerset l. herbert , and others ; who did most justly perform the trust she reposed in them . this colledge hath been since enlarged by the liberality of ioh. morton arch bp. of cant. and cardinall , the lady anne rooksby , d. fell , d. keyton , hugh ashton , d. lupton , d. thymblebly , d. downham , iohn constable , rob. simpson , rob. ducket , tho. lane , iohn griggeson , iames berisford , rob. holi●reeholm , iohn replingham , dr. linacre , iohn baily , d. tompson , walt. sawkins , kath. dutchesse of suffolk , iohn thurlston , ste. cardinal , s. ambrose cave k , tho. cunny , d. goodman , wil. cecil , l. burleigh , the l. mildred burleigh , sir hen. billingsley kt. d. gwyn , the la. iermin , henry heblethwait , w. spalding & w. spalding brothers , rob. booth , hen. albey , iohn walton , iohn waller , mary countesse of shrewsby , geo. paylon wil. l. maynard baron of wicklow , &c , rob , lewes , iohn knewstubbs , m●s . cutler , iohn hooper , iohn williams l. keeper of the great seal , bp. of lincolne , s. ralph hare k. of the bath , rob. iohnson of luffenham other good benefactors ; so as there is as this present in the same , a master , 54. fellows , 84 scholars , besides officers and servants of the foundation , with many other students , being in all 282. xiii . magdalene colledge founded , 1519. edward stafford , last d. of buckingham , e. of stafford , hereford , and northampton ( son and heir of hen. stafford , second d. of buckingham , and constable of england , founded this colledge by the name of buckingham colledge , in a place where the priory of s. gyles had formerly been situated ; it was after an hostle or hall , inhabited by divers monks of severall monasteries , to reside and study in , and therefore of old called monks colledge ; ( the backsides whereof at this present retain the name of monks corner . ) afterwards in the year 1542. tho. audley baron of walden l. chancellor of england , obtained licence of k. henry 8. to alter the former name , and call it s. mary magdalene colledge , in the fair university of cambridge , unto which he gave both lands and revenews , the right honorable theoph. howard , e. of suffolk , k. of the garter , being now ( by inheritance ) patron thereof , which colledge by the gift of k. henry 8. the founder and patron , s. chr. wrey l. chief justice of the k. bence , ion. spenliffe of lincollnsh . edm , grindal arch-bp . of cant. thom. parkinson rector of wivelingham , wil. roberts of norfolk , iohn hughes , tho. sutton of balsham esq and also the hon. lady frances , countesse dowager of warwick , wife of rob. rich first earle of warwick , who gave maintenance for 1 fellow 2 scholars , and others who have been benefactors , is much increased : so as at this present there is a mast. 11 fellows , & 22 scholars , besides officers & servants of the foundation , with other students , being in all 140. xiv . trinity colledge , founded , 1546. henry 8 k. of england , france and ireland , defender of the faith , &c. after the suppression 1546. united kings hall , founded by k. edward 3. michael house , founded by hervicus de stanton , chancellor of the exchequer to k. edward 2. and phiswick hostle founded by iohn phiswick , one of the esq. b●dl●s , into a colledge by the name of the holy and undivided trinity , which he endowed with 1640 pounds per an. in or about the places where formerly ( besides these 3 houses ) were anciently situated s. gregories hostle , s. katherines hostle , margaret hostle , s. gerhards hostle , tyl●rs hostle , and owens inne . since q. mary augmented the colledge by a third part in fellows and scholars , besides the whole foundation of the quire : as also thom. allen clark gave 2 fellowships , and lands to other uses : s. ed stanhop k. founded a library keeper , and a servant under him : the l. anne bromley gave five scholarships , geo. palyn girdler , the l. ann weld widow , roger iesson haberdasher , mrs. eli. elwis widow of ief. elwis alderman , have each of them given severall pensions , d. bill , d. beaumont , iob. vvhitgift arch bp. of canterb. all masters of this house , d. cousins , d. barrow , d. skeffington , wil. cooper esq. peter shaw , s. vvil . sidley k. and bar. s. thoms lake k. s. ioh sucklin k. th. nevil d. of div. late master who expended the summ of 3000l . in building the back court , rob. banckworth d. of divin. late fellow , s. ralph hare k. mr silvius elwis , now of this colledge , & k. iam. besides divers other noble and generous benefactors , have so increased the same with buildings , books , and revenews , as at this present it is one of the most goodly and uniforme colledges in europe , wherein is a master , 60 fellows , 67 scholars , 4 conducts , 3 publique professors , 13 poor scholars , a mast. of the choristers , 6 clarks , 10 choristers , 20 almsmen , besides officers and servants of the foundation , with many other students , being in all 440. xv . emanuel colledge , founded , 1584. sir vvalter mildmay k. chancellor and treasurer of the exchequer , privy councellor to our late soveraign l. q. elizabeth , obtained licence of the said q. to found and erect this colledge for the maintenance of a master , 30 fellows and scholars ( nomine plurium ) as the revenews should be ever able to maintain , in the place where in times past inhabited the black-fryars , otherwise called fratres praedicantes , in the street ( of them ) called preachers street , and therein established a master , 3 fellows , and 4 scholars ; for increase of which foundation , the said q. eliz. gave 16l . 13s . 4d . per annum out of the exchequor : since it hath been much augmented by the liberality of henry e. of huntington , s. fran. hastings his brother , s. rob. iermyn , s. fran. walsingham , s. hen. killegrew , s. vvolstan dixy , s. iohn hart , s. sam. leonard , & s. tho. skinner k. alex. noel d. of divin. dean of s. pauls in london , d. leeds , d. harvey , d. branthwait , rob. taylor , customer smith , nich. fuller , rog. snegg , fran. chamberlain , m. ellis , iohn spenliff , vvil . neal , and edm. english esq. alderman radcliff , iohn morley , rich. culverwel , rob. iohnson esq. iohn bernes , the l mary dixy , martha iermin , alice owen , voyce franckland and elizabeth vvaters widows , d. richerson late fellow , mast. of trinity colledge , s. hen mildmay of graces in essex k. mast. rich. knightly of preston in northamptonsh . esq. and divers other benefactors ; which colledge is now enlarged with a fair new building of 4 stories high , containing 140 foot . there is at this present in the same a master , 14 fellows , 50 scholars , 10 poor scholars , besides officers and servants of the foundation , with other students the whole number being 310. xvi . sidney sussex colledge , founded , 1598. frances sidney countesse of sussex ( sister to s. hen. sidney kt. l. deputy of ireland , and president of vvales , aunt to the renowned sir phil. sidney ) widow of tho radcliffe , 3 earl of sussex , founded this colledge by the name of the colledge of the the l. fran. sidney sussex , in a place called the gray fryars , which friary builded by king henry 1. suppressed anno 1546. by k. hen. 8. and given to trinity colledge in cambridge , was since from it by act of parliament conevyed to the executors of the said countesse , hen. grey 5 earl of kent , and iohn l. harrington of exton , in fee-farm : for the building and perfecting of this her colledge , she gave by her last will and testament ( besides her goods unbequeathed ) 5000 pounds , wherewith her executors aforenamed built and endowed it with lands and revenews , for the maintenance of a master , 10 fellows , and ●● scholars , which being increased by the accessary foundation of s. iohn hart kt. leo . smith , citizen of london , peter blundel of tiverton clothier , iohn freeston esq. edw. l. montague of boughton , &c. hath in present a master , 12 fellow , 33 scholars , and for the further enlarging thereof , s. frances clarke k. hath lately built 20 chambers for the students , founded 4 fellowships , with 8 scholarships more , and augmented the scholarships of the foundation . benefactors to the same colledge have been the forementioned executors , iohn l. harrington the younger , the l. lucie countesse of bedford his sister , the l anne harrington his mother , the aforenamed lord mountague , iames mountague his brother , d. of divinity , bishop of vvinchester , the first master , george l goring , s. iohn breerton k. one of the first scholars of this house , a most bountifull benefactor , iohn young d. of divinity , dean of vvinchester , fellow of this colledg , s. vvil . wilmore the first pensioner in it , rob. iohnson of luffenham archdeacon of leicester , iohn harrinton , godf. fuljambe , edw. wrey , and robert hudson esquires . the whole number of students at this present with officers and servants of the foundation are 210. the totall number of students of all degrees in this vniversity , that had names in every particular colledge , with the magistrates and daily officers thereunto belonging , besides divers young scholars that were relieved herein , which had no names in any of the colledges aforesaid , was in anno 1622. 3050. and by reason of the visitation of sicknesse in the yeare 1629. many were then dispersed to oxford , and other places , and no supply came the year following , by which meanes there is now in the same but 2848. finis . the foundation of the universitie of cambridge, vvith a catalogue of the principall founders and speciall benefactours of all the colledges, and totall number of students, magistrates and officers therein being, anno 1634. 1634 approx. 47 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 3 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng university of cambridge -early works to 1800. broadsides -england -london -17th century. 2008-01 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-02 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-03 john pas sampled and proofread 2008-03 john pas text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the foundation of the universitie of cambridge , with a catalogue of the principall founders and speciall benefactours of all the colledges , and totall number of students , magistrates and officers therein being , anno 1634. ¶ to the right honourable thomas earl of arundell and surrey , primier earl of england , and earl marshall of the same kingdome , baron howard , mowbray , segrave , brus , of gower , fitzallen , clun , oswaldstree and mautravers ; knight of the most nobe order of the garter , and one of the lords of his majesties most honourable privie counsell , john scot wisheth all increase of honour and felicitie . anno christi 630. blazon or coat of arms academia cantab . 630. coat of arms of cambridge university the learned in antiquities have diversly written about the time of the foundation of the vniversitie of cambridge : som affirming it was founded by cantaber a prince of spain , brother to partholinus king of ireland , sonne in law to gurguntius king of great britain , many yeares before the incarnation of our saviour christ , of whose name ( according to the spa●ish language ) it was first called cantabriga , after of his sonne grantinus ( who is said to have walled it about ) grantbriga , and grantbrige . others say , that cassivilanus prince of the troynobantes , king octavius , arthur king of great bitain , and ethelbert king of kent , were each of them founders or restorers of the same . but the chiefest conclude and agree , that sigebert king of the east angles was the principall founder thereof , about the yeares 630 and 636 , who assigned dives hostles and houses for students to inhabite in , giving them large priviledges and charters , whereof some are yet extant , procuring also great immunities from pope honorius the first , which sergius the first confirmed . since which time , by reason of mny incursions , and continuall warres between the britains , romanes , saxons , the kings of this heptarchie , danes and normans , the light and glorie of this academie was not onely of old much eclipsed ; but even since the conquest ( in the barons warre . ) also obscured and defaced : and it is most certain , as the destructions were many , so the restaurations thereof shortly ensued by one prince or other ; so that at length recovering it self , it is most worthily reputed one of the famous vniversities in the world . muh honour this place hath received by the soones and nephews of kings , in being earls thereof , viz. william brother to ranulph earl of chester , john earl of henault uncle to philip le beau king of france , whose daughter isabel was wife to king edwar the second , and mother to king edward the third : william marquesse of juliars , edmund of langley duke of york , edward duke of york , richard earl of cambridge , richard duke of york , james marquesse hamleton earl of arren , baron hamleton of chattelrault , &c. and at this present james marquesse hamleton earl of arren , &c. master of the horse to his majestie , &c. and howsoever the hostles , halls , innes , schools , and religious houses , whereof the vniversitie before and sice the conquest did consist , which now are wholly defaced , or in part converted into some of the present colledges , were for their number and number of students in them , much above all that are now extant , many of them being formerly known by these nmes , frater de poenitentia jesu christi , s. johannis zacharii , s. botolphi , divi gerhardi , s. edvardi , s. edmundi , s. augustini , divi thonae , beatae mariae , s. clementis , hovingi diversorium , divi gregorii , s. margaretae , s. katharinae , hospitium phiswici , tegularii hospitium , harlstoni diversorium , s. trinitatis domus dei , ruddi hospitium , michaelis domus aulae regae , s. pauli diversorium , burdeni hospitium , with many others ; yet at this present it consists of sixtee goodly colledges and halls , erected and maintained with the lands and revenews of their severall founders ( one of the chappels thereof , founded by holy king henry the sixth , and the colledge of the holy and undivided trinitie founded by king henry the eighth , no vniversitie in the world can in all points parallell . ) these are the nurseries of gods true religion , and seminaries of good literature , which by the speciall favour and gracious protection of our most deare soveraigne lord charle , by the grace of god of great britain , france , and ireland king , &c. do enjoy all peace and happinesse . s. peters colledge , or house . 1280. coat of arms of st. peter's college, cambridge hvgo de b●lsham , supprior , and after bishop of ely , began the foundation of this colledge about ann . 1257 , in the place where the two hostles of students were ( purchased the one for the friars de poenitentia jesu christi ; the other for the friars hospitalis s. johannis and neare to the church of s. peters extra trumpington gates . he settled not the endowment till anno 1284 , at which time upon six of both prties , translating the seculars unto this place , he established one master , and 14 fellows , and died before all things wee finished . after , sinon de montacute , simon langham , and john fordam bishops of ely , added to their means . in this while s. peters church fell to the ground , and ecclesia beatae mariae de gratia was built where now it stands , from whence the colledge also came to be commonly styld for an hundred years together , coll. b. mariae de gratia , which after in processe of time , by the liberalitie of john holbrook doctour of divinitie , chancellour of his universitie , master thom. lane , thom. deynman , john warkworth , william burgonie , henrie hornbie , john edmund , andrew pern dean of ely , all masters of this house , it was much increased . since , william martin , robert shorton , edmund handson , ro. gilbert , mast . skelon , m t●s elisabeth wolf , john whitgift archbishop of canterburie , edward lord north , master robert smith , mast . henrie wilshaw , the ladie marie ramsey , m. robert warden , m. thomas warren , m t is margaret dean , m. william hern , m. robert slade , and john blithe late felow , have been all good benefactours . to these must be added the late religious founders of the new chappel ( dedicated march 17 1632 ) whose names are in a catalogue there affixed , that have alreadie contributed 1000 pounds towards the same : and the present master and fellow● have not onely finished the said chappel , with the expence of 1200 pounds ; but also by the help of m t is frances matthew widow , &c. who g●ve 200 pounds , doct. richardson late fellow , doctour hawkins late of this colledge , who gave each of them 100 pounds , have builded a new court , with a fair front and gate next the street . this colledge being the first of all that now are standing in this universitie , hath a this time in it a master , 19 fellows , 29 bible-clarks , 8 poore scholars , besides other students , with officers and common servants , being in al 106. matthew wren doct. of divinitie , dean of windsor , and dean of his majesties chappel-royall , &c. now master . universitie house or hall , now clare hall. 1326. coat of arms of clare hall, cambridge richard balew chancellour ( and the universitie then being ) founded this colledge or hall , by the name of the universitie house or hall , in a street called mylne street neare s. john zacharies church ; wherein the first sixteen yeares the students lived at the universitie charges . afterwards walter thaxted master of the same , with the consent of richard ling then chancellour , and the universitie , resigned th first foundation into the hands of elisabeth countesse of clare , widow , sometimes the wife of john de burgo , earl of vlster , which elisabth had formerly given the perpetuall patronage of litlington , and bestowed many other favours upon this colledge . she then ( under the licence of king edward 3 ) altered the first name , and called it after her own name , collegium , sive aula de clare . in which colledge by the gift o● this honourable foundresse , and of thomas stoyl , and edm. naturesse masters thereof ; john thaxton , edith green , william ducket , wil. worleigh , will. marshall , ralph scrivener , thom. cave , doct. leeds late master , thom. cecil late earl of excester , and the ladie dorothe his wife , who gave 108 pounds per annum , william butler sometimes fellow and president of this house , the famous physician , who gave one challice of pure gold , with other plate and books , &c. to the value of 500 pounds , john freeman esquire , who gave 2000 pounds , doct. scot dean of rochester , &c. late master , who gave in money , plate , and books the summe of 300 pounds . mast . george ruggle late fellow , who gave in money , plate , and books , above 400 pounds , sir robert heath atturney-generall , &c. mast . thomas biag , mast . humfrey h●de , robert johnson of luffenham esquire , mast . erasmus farrer , mast . william briden , mast . thom. cropley , and divers other benefactours ; there is at this present in the same a master , 18 fellows , 36 scholars , 20 poore schol . besides officers and servants of the foundation , with other students , the whole number being 106. thomas pask doct. of divinitie , archdeacon of london , &c now master thereof . pembroke hall. 1343. coat of arms of pembroke college, cambridge marie de s. paul , countesse of pembroke , baronesse of veisser and mountenact , daughter to guido chastillion earl of s. paul in france , and of marie britannia his wife , after the death of audomarus de valentia earl of pembroke , &c. whose third wife she was ( but for one day as it is thought ) betook her self wholly to devotion , bestowing the greatest part of her estate on churches , religious houses , the poore , and her servants , having built dennie abbey , & procured licence from king edward 3 , to found this house by the name of the colledge of mary valence , after called pembroke hall , ( within the compasse whereof , as now it stands , are the ancient hostles of the universitie and s. thomas , knaptons , boultons , and cousing places , with part of the chauntrie-house of little s. maries ) endowing ●●e same with divers patronages , impropriations , lands , rents , plate , jewels , and other ornaments , and established therein one master , six fellows , and two scholars it hath been since enlarged by the gift of holy king henry the sixth , edward storie bishop of chichester , gerhard and nich●as skipwith , doct. atkinson , sir william hussey knight , charles booth bishop of hereford , s. roger strange knight , doct. wats , william marshall , will. smart and alice his wife , afterwards married to ralph scrivener , jane cox widow ; all these besides john laughton bishop of s. davids , laurence booth , and thomas scot , aliàs rotheram , both archbishops of york , richard fox bishop of winchester , doct. short●n dean of stoa● , edmund grindall and john whitgift archbishops of canterburie , william fulk doct. of divinitie , which were all mastes of this house , and have by gifts of lands , money , plate , books , &c. augmented the same ; and lancelot andrews doct. of divinitie , late mast●r and bishop of winchester hath given 1000 pounds , and the perpetuall patronage of rawreth in essex with 374 folio books well bou● . wherein there is at this present a master , 19 fellows , one tanquam , 33 scholars of the house , besides officers and servants of the foundati●n , with other students , the whole number being 100. benjamin laney doct. of divinitie , chaplain to the kings majestie , &c. now master . corp . christi colledge . 1351. coat of arms of corpus christi college, cambridge henrie of monmouth , surnamed torto collo ( sonne and heir of henrie of laneaster , lord of monmouth and pomfret , earl of lancaster , leicester , and derbie , and high steward of england ) succeeded his father in all these honours , and was by king edward the 3 created earl of lincoln , and knight of the most honourable order of the garter , duke of lancaster , and lord high steward of england , &c. of the fraternitie or guild of corpus christi , and blessed marie the virgin , neare unto luthborn lane , and the hostle of s. bernard in the east , ( whereof himself was then alderman ) ordained this colledge , in the yeare 1351 , and among other things appropriated unto the same , the perpetuall patronage of s. benedicts church , adjoyning to this colledge . which colledge since hath been much beautified with buildings , and increased in revenews , by the liberalities of the ladie margaret brotherton dutchesse of norfolk , &c. thomas cambridge esquire , s. iohn cambridge knight ( who gave a place called stonehouse or stonehall , towards the augmentation of the same ) iohn ●ee● esquire bedle , matthew parker fellow and master of this house , doctour of divinitie , archbishop of canterburie , s. nicholas bacon knigh● lord keeper of the great seal of england , roger mannors late earl of rutland , lord roos of hamlake , belvoir and trousbut , &c. mast . roger mannors his great uncle , m. william benedict , and m. leonard cawson ( who gave 18 pounds , 13 shillings , 4 pence for the maintenance of three scholarships ) besides divers other benefactours : so as there is at this present in the same , a master , 12 fellows , 37 scholars , besides officers and servants of the foundation , with other students , the whole number being 126. richard love doctour of divinitie , now vicechancellour and master . trinitie hall. 1353. coat of arms of trinity college, cambridge william bateman born in the citie of norwich , doct. of the civil law , archdeacon of norwich , after the 18 bishop of that see , for exchange of certain parsonages , obtained an ancient hostle , neare adjoyning to the vniversitie house or ha●l , butting upon milnstreet , and s. iohn zacharies church east , where in former time students lived at their at their own charges , which one iohn de crawden prior of elie had purchased for the monks of that priorie to inhabite and reside in , and made thereof a colledge or ha●l for the students of the law , dedicating the same to the honour of the 〈◊〉 and blessed trinitie in the citie of norwich , endowing the same with lands and possessions . to this hostle ( before it was by him purchased 〈◊〉 ●ichard ling doctour of divinitie , chancellour of this universitie , archibald of norwich , simon de rekenhall , and walter elvedon g●●● foure tenements ; robert stratton , john trunch , walter baketon , walte● de aldersey , and peter de bittering gave two messuages , and seven pieces of ground , one of the messuages being called drakes entrie . this colledge hath since , by the bountie of m. simon dalling , and walter huke , masters thereof , robert goodnap , john maptid , gabr. dun , richard nix bishop of norwich , steph. gardiner doct. of law , master of this house , bishop of winchester , lord chancellour of england , and chancellour of this universitie , matthew parker archbishop of canterburie , doct. mowse , doct. harvey , m. busbie , m. hare esquire , doct. cowell late master , doct. of law , and kings professour , s. george newman knight , and other benefactours , been much enlarged : so as there is at this present a master , 12 fellows , 14 scholars , besides officers and servants of the foundation , with other students , the whole number being threescore . thomas eden doctour of law , chancellour of ely , &c. now master . gon . & cai . colledge . 1353. coat of arms of gonville and caius college, cambridge edmund gonvil rector of terrington and rushworth in norfolk , obtained licence of king edward 3 to erect this colledge ; the first foundation whereof he laid anno 1348 , where the orchyard of corpus christi colledge is now situate ; which he dedicated to the honour of the annunciation of blessed marie the virgin , wherein he established a master , and 4 fellows , whom , while he lived , with his own money he maintained : but he died untimely , anno 1353 , giving by will a great summe of money in trust to will. bateman bishop of norwich , to perfect this his colledge or hall , and to endow it with competent possessions , who in anno 1353 procured the said master and fellows to remove to a place neare unto his own colledge then in building , called trinitie hall , anciently called henny , in the parish of s. michael , where he purchased by exchange divers messuages and tenements , on which he erected the same , by the name of gonvil hall. afterwards john caius doct. of physick , a learned antiquarie in ann . 1557 , was made a co-founder by letters patents , who caused it to be called gonvil and caius colledge : he added to the former court being foure square , his fair building of free-stone , increased the treasurie with new revenews , enriching it with large possessions for the maintenance of three fellows , 20 scholars , and a porter . since the ladies marie pakenham , and anne scroop , elisabeth cleere , doct. balie , stephen smith , richard willison , thom. atkins , peter hewit , william gale , thom. willows , william sigo , doct. knight , iohn whitacre , matth. parker archbishop of canterburie , robert traps and ione his wife , ioyce franklin their daughter , doct. wendie , doct. bishbie , doct. harvey , s. william paston knight , william cutting , doct. legge , doct. branthwait , and doct. g●stlin late masters of this house , doct. perse , and doct. wells , late fellows of this house , and many other good benefactours , have increased the number of fellows and scholars , books and buildings , &c. of this colledge ; so as there is at this present in the same a master , 25 fellows , one chaplain , 69 scholars , besides officers and servants of the foundation , with other students , the whole number being 209. thomas bacheroft doctour of divinitie , &c. being now master thereof . kings colledge . 1441. coat of arms of king's college, cambridge henry the sixth , called henry of windsor , king of england and france ( sonne and heir of king henry the fifth , and of katharine daughter of charles the sixth king of france ) began this royall foundation , dedicating the same to the honour of s. nicholas , consisting then of one master , and 12 scholars , in or about the places where the churches of s. nicholas , and s. iohn zacharie , s. augustines hostle , and gods house had formerly been situated : but within two yeares after , he enlarged the first foundation , dedicating the same to the honour of our blessed ladie mary the virgin and s. nicholas . in which colledge at this present is standing one of the fairest chappels in the world , conformable whereunto he intended to have made this his colledge , which by his untimely death he left onely begun and unperfected , for some of his royall successours to finish . afterwards king henry the 7 finished the stone-work ( in part ) of the said chappel , and king henry the 8 caused the same to be glased , seated , paved , and perfected . to this colledge the founder under his great seal by act of parliament confirmed this coat of arms , which here in the margin they bear , placing in chief a flower of france , and a lion of england , that it may appeare to be the work of a king. since , roger goad doct. of divinitie , late fellow and provost , adam robins , richard day , and doct. cowell , late fellows , doct. smith late fellow and provost , william henshaw late fellow : also thomas weaver late fellow ( new fellow and late vice-provost of eton ) hath wainscotted the back of the fellows and scholars seats on both sides of the said chappel , in a decent and comely manner , and divers other benefactours , with books and other ornaments have much enriched the same . in which colledge at this present is a provost , 70 fellows and scholars , 3 chaplains , one master of the choristers , 6 clarks , 16 choristers , 16 colledge-officers of the foundation , besides 12 servitours to the seniour fellows , 6 poore scholars , with other students , the whole number being 140. samuel collins doctour of divinitie , and the kings professour , &c. now provost . queens colledge . 1448. coat of arms of queen's college, cambridge margaret a●degavensis , daughter of reyner duke of aniou ( titularie king of sicilie , naples , and jerusalem ) consort of king henry the 6 , obtained licence of the same king , to build this colledge upon part of the ground belonging to the carmelites or white friars , butting on milnstreet in the parish of s. botolphs , and to purchase land of the value of 200 pounds for the endowment thereof , dedicating the same to s. margaret and s. bernard : but she died and left it unperfect . afterwards queen elisabeth , wife to king edward the 4 , obtained licence to finish the same , which she accomplished . this colledge since by the liberalitie of the ladies margaret roos , iane inglethorp , and iane burrough , george duke of clarence , ciciley dutchesse of york , richard duke of glocester , the ladie anne his wife , edward earl of salisburie , maud countesse of oxford , marm. lomly bishop of lincoln chancellour of this universitie , andrew ducket rector of s. botolphs , sometimes principall of s. bernards hostle , and the first president of this colledge ( who had formerly been a friar , and gathered of well disposed persons much money , and procured the kings mandate , that the maior , bailiffes , and burgesses of the town of cambridge should sell him a parcell of ground called goose-green , in the parish aforesaid , which is now an island lying between the colledge , and the green called youngs green or bank ) hugh trotter doct. of divinitie , iohn drewell , and william weld , canons of s. pauls , s. thom. smith fellow of this colledge , principall secretarie to queen elisabeth , henry wilshaw 13 president of this colledge , d. stokys , john chetham , henry hastings earl of huntington , iohn joslin , george mountague late archbishop of york , together with many other noble and well disposed persons , benefactours , it is so increased , as at this present there is in the same a president , 19 fellows , 23 scholars , 8 bible-clarks , and 3 lecturers of hebrew , arithm. and geomet . besides other officers and servants of the foundation , with other students , the whole number being 190. edward martin doctour of divinitie , being now president thereof . katharine hall. 1475. coat of arms of st. catherine's college, cambridge robert woodlark , born at wakerly in northumberland , doct. of divinitie , the last fellow that king henry 6 placed in kings colledge , third provost of the same , chancellour of this universitie , founded this colledge or hall in a place called mylnestreet , over against queens coll. orchard , formerly known by the name of the carmelite fryars , of foure tenements which were purchased for that purpose : he dedicating the same to the honour of s. katharin the virgin and martyr , obtained of king edward 4 a licence of mortmain for the endowment thereof ; which was confirmed to him and his successors for ever . wherein he established a master , and three fellows . since it hath been enlarged by the liberalitie of isabel canterburie widow , william taylor , katharin myles , robert simpton , hugh pemmerton , the lady elisabeth bernardiston , john leach , richard nealson , robert shorton doct. of divinitie , master of s. johns coll. in this universitie , dean of stoak , &c. after master of pembroke hall ; hugh garret , iohn chester , thomas green doct. of divinitie , master of this house , doct. thymblebie , doct. middleton , rosamond payn widow , iohn cholmley , iohn duke , s. iohn claypool knight , iohn gostlya doct. of physick , late fellow and master of gonvil and caius coll. vicehancellour 1618 , who died vicechancellour october 21 , 1626 , a large and bountifull benefactour : thomas buck late fellow of this house , seniour esquire bedle , master christopher shirland , mistris stafford , master thomas hobbs , master peter phesant , anne lady cocket widow , mistris iurdayn widow , anne lady bernardiston , william gouge doct. of divinitie , master coulson , master skerne esquire , mast . alured , master cradock citizen and merchant of london , the worthy company of the nercers in the city of london , and many other benefactours : so as there in now in the same a master , 6 fellows , 10 scholars , 9 exhibitioners , besides officers and servants of the foundation , with other students , being in all 150. richard sibbs doct. of divinitie , &c. being now master thereof . jesus colledge . 1496. coat of arms of jesus college, cambridge iohn alcock born at beverley in yorksh . doct. of the civil law , &c. being bishop of ely , and lord chancellour of england , procured licence of king henry 7. to convert into a coll. an ancient nunnety ( the nuns whereof all but 2. were dead and dispersed , and the house much wasted ) formerly consecrated to s. rhadegund , and endowed by sundry benefactors , whereof malcolme 4 king of scotland , and the whole race of the earls of hunt. with their families , were the chiefest who gave the ground whereon it stands , and 10 acres of land adjoyning , as also the mannor house and lands , with the rhadegund tythes , with the appurtenances , &c. in the time of the prioresse and nuns , iohn portois , hervens the sonne of thurstace , iohn thriplow , rector of hardwick with his sister dionis , nicholas morris , hugo filius absolonis , and others , were liberall benefactors . he also obtained licence under the great seal of england , that all the lands belonging to the said nunnery , should be appropriated to this his coll. dedicating the same unto the honour of the blessed virgin marie , s. iohn the evangelist , and the glorious virgin s. rhadegund , commonly called iesus colledge , wherein he established one master , 6 fellows , and 6 scholars : since by the liberalitie of the lady willoughbie , and the lady bray , who builded the side from the cloyster court to the garden , iames stanley and tho. thirlbie , bishops of ely , iohn beauchamp knight , s. robert read knight , lord chief justice of the common pleas , iohn andrews , doctor royston , doctor fuller masters of the same , iohn batemanson , tho. roberts , roger thorney , rich. pigot godf. fuliam , will. marshall , iane woods , thomas sutton esquier , and other benefactors , it is so increased , that there is at this present in the same , a master , 16 fellows , 24 scholars , besides officers and servants of the foundation : with other students being in all 110. richard stern bachelour of divinitie , &c. being now master thereof . christs colledge . 1505. coat of arms of christ's college, cambridge margaret countesse of richmond and derbie , daughter and sole heir of ionn beaufort , duke of somerset , widow of edmund of hadham earl of richmond ( sonne of owen ap-tuder of wales , knight , and of queen katharine his wife , dowager of king henry 5 , half brother to king henry 6 , &c. ) mother of king henry 7 ; in testimonie of her love to learning obtained licence of the same king to erect a colledge without barnwell-gate , in preachers-street , of foure messuages and gardens belonging to the abbot of tiltie , and prioresse of dennie ( where king henry the 6 had founded a house called gods house , in hew of that which had been formerly builded by william bingham rector of s. iohn zacharies church in the city of london , which was pulled down by the same king when he founded kings colledge ) dedicating the same to the honour of our saviour christ , which she endowed with lands and revenews , for the maintenance of a master , 12 fellows , 47 scholar , besides officers and servants : the number of which hath been since increased by the liberalitie of john fisher president of queens colledge , bishop of rochester and cardinall , &c. king edward the sixth , thomas tompson , and edward hawford doctours of divinitie , masters of the same , s. walter mildemay knight , chancellour and treasurer of the exche●uer , richard risley , doct. patison , philip rawlins , master jennings , nicholas colverwell , thomas laughton , master wentworth , robert ishan , richard bunting , richard car , benefactours ; and the revenews for other purposes augmented : so as there is at this present in the same a master , 13 fellows , 60 scholars , besides officers and servants of the foundation , with other students ; the whole number being one hundred threescore and six . thomas bainbrigg doctour of divinitie , vicechancellour anno 1627 , now master . 〈…〉 coat of arms of st. john's college, cambridge the abovesaid margaret countesse of richmond and derbie , mother of king henry 7 , &c. obtained licence of her nephew king henry the 8 , to convert an hospitall or house of regular canons ( founded by nigellus the second bishop of ely , in the yeare 1134 , afterwards translated to a priory , and dedicated to s. iohn the evangelist in the jury , by hugo de balsham to bishop of ely ) into a colledge by the ancient name of s. iohn the evangelist : the perfecting whereof she left to her executors , richard fox bishop of winchester , iohn fisher bishop of rochester , charles somerset 〈…〉 other●s who did most justly perform the trust she reposed in them . this colledge hath been since enlarged by the liberality of iohn morton , arch-bishop of canterbury and cardinall , the lady anne rooksbie , doct. lan● doct. k●yte● , hugh ashton , doct. lupton , doct. thymblebie , doct. downham , iohn constable , robert simpson , robert ducket , thomas 〈◊〉 , ion griggeson , iames betisford , robert holitrecholm , iohn replingham , doct. linacre , iohn baily , doct. tompson , walter sawkins , kath●ine dutchesse of suffolk , iohn thurlston , stephen cardinall , s. ambrose cave knight , thomas cunny , doct. goodman , william cecil lord ●leigh , the lady mildred burleigh , s. henry billingsley knight , doct. gwyn , the lady iermin , henry heblethwait , william spalding and 〈…〉 iam spalding brothers , robert booth , henry albry , iohn walton , iohn waller , mary countesse of shrewsbury , george paylin , william lo●d maynard , baron of wicklow , &c. robert lews , iohn knewstubbs , mistris cutler , iohn hooper , iohn williams lord keeper of the pr●v●● seal bishop of lincoln , s. ralph hare k. of the bath , robert iohnson of luffenham esquire , and other good benefactours ; so as there is at this present in the same , a master , 54 fellows , 84 scholars , besides officers and servants of the foundation , with many other students , being in all 282. william beal doctour of divinitie , &c. now master thereof . magdalene colledge . 1519. coat of arms of magdalene college, cambridge edward stafford , last duke of buckingham , earle stafford , hereford and northampton , ( sonne and heir of henry stafford , second duke 〈◊〉 buckingham , and constable of england ) founded this colledge by the name of buckingham colledge , in a place where the priory ● . gy●es had formerly been situated ; it was after an hostle or hall , inhabited by divers monks of severall monasteries , to reside and study in , and therefore of old called monks colledge ; ( the backsides whereof at this present retain the name of monks corner ) afterwa●ds in the yeare 1542 , thomas audley , baron of walden , lord chancellour of england , obtained licence of king henry 8 , to alter the former name , and call it s. mary magdalene colledge , in the fair universitie of cambridge , unto which he gave both lands and revenews . the right honourable theophilus howard , earl of suffolk , knight of the garter , being now ( by inheritance ) patron thereof . which colledge , by the gift of king henry 8 the founder and patron , s. christopher wrey , lord chief justice of the kings bench , iohn spenliffe , of lincolnsh . edmond grindall , arch-bishop of canterbury , tho. parkinson , rector of wivelingham , will. roberts of norfolk , iohn hughes , tho. su●ton of balsham esquire , and also the honourable lady frances , countesse dowager of warwick , wife of robert rich , first earl of warwick , who gave maintenance for one fellow , and 2 scholars , and others who have been benefactours , is much increased : so as at this present there is a master , 11 fellows , and 22 scholars , besides officers and servants of the foundation , with other students , being in all 140. henry smith doctour of divinitie , &c. being now master thereof . trinitie colledge . 1546. coat of arms of trinity college, cambridge henry the 8 king of england , france and ireland , defender of the faith , &c. after the suppression 1546. united kings hall , founded by king edward 3. michael house , founded by hervicus de stanton , chancellour of the exchequor to king edward 2. and phiswick hostle , founded by john phiswick , one of the esquire bedles , into a colledge by the name of the holy and undivided trinity , which he endowed with 1640 pounds per ann . in or about the places where formerly ( besides these 3 houses ) were anciently situated s. gregories ho●tle , s. katharines hostle , margaret hostle , s. gerhards hostle , tylers hostle , and owens inne . since queen mary augmented the colledge by a third part in fellows and scholars , besides the whole foundation of the quier : as also thomas allen clark gave two fellowships , and lands to other uses : s. edward stanhop knight founded a library-keeper and a servant under him , the lady anne bromley gave 5 scholarships , george palyn girdler , the lady anne weld widow , roger jesson haberdasher , mistris elis . elwis widow of jeffery elwis alderman , ha●e each of them given severall pensions , doct. bill , doct. beaumont , john whitgift arch-bishop of canterbury , all masters of this house , d●ct . cousins , doct. barrow , doct. skeffington , will. cooper esquire , peter shaw , s. will. sidley knight and baronet , s. tho. lake knight , s john suckling knight , thomas nevill doct. of divin . late master , who expended the summe of 3000 pounds in building the back court , r●●ert banckworth , doct. of divinitie , late fellow , s. raph hare knight , master silvius elwis , now of this colledge , and king iames , besides ●●●ers other noble and generous benefactours , have so increased the same with buildings , books , and revenews , as at this present it is one of the ●st goodly and uniform colledges in europe ; wherein is a master , 60 fellows , 67 scholars , 4 conducts , 3 publique professours , 13 poore s●●olars , a master of the choristers , 6 clarks , 10 choristers , 20 almesmen , besides officers and servants of the foundation , with many other s●●dents , being in all 440. thomas cumber doctour of divinitie , dean of carlile , &c. now master thereof . emmanuel colledge . 1584. coat of arms of emmanuel college, cambridge sir walter mildmay knight , chancellour and treasurer of the exchequour , privie counsellour to our late soveraigne lady queen elisabeth , obtained licence of the said queen to found and erect this colledge for the maintenance of a master , 30 fellows and scholars , ( nomine plurium ) as the revenews should ever be able to maintain , in the place where in times past inhabited the blackfryars , otherwise called fratres praedicantes , in the street ( of them ) called preachers street , and therein established a master , 3 fellows , and 4 scho●ars ; for increase of which foundation , the said queen elisabeth gave 16l l 13s. 4d. per annum out of the exchequor : since it hath been much ●ugmented , by the liberalitie of henry earl of huntington , s. francis hastings his brother , s. robert iermyn , s. francis walsingham , s. henry killegrew , s. wolstan dixy , s. iohn hart , s. samuel leonard , and s. thomas skinner knights , alexander noel , doctour of divinitie , dean of s. pauls in the city of london , doct. leeds , doct. harvey , doct. branthwait , robert taylor , customer smith , nicholas fuller , roger snegg , francis chamberlain , master ellis , iohn spenliff , william neale and edmun. english esquires , aldermon radcliff , iohn morley , richard cul●erwel , robert iohnson esquire , iohn bernes , the lady mary dixy , martha iermin , alice owen , ioyce franckland , and elisabeth walters widows , doct. richardson late fellow , master of trinitie colledge , s. henry mildmay of graces in essex knight , master richard knightly of preston●n ●n northamptonshire esquire , and divers other benefactours : which colledge is now enlarged with a fair new building of 4 stories high , containing 140 foot . there is at this present in the same a master , 14 fellows , 50 scholars , 10 poore scholars , besides officers and servants of the foundation , with other students , the whole number being 310. william sandcroft doctour of divinitie , &c. now master thereof . sidney sussex coll. 1598. coat of arms of sidney sussex college, cambridge frances sidney countesse of sussex ( sister to s. henry sidney knight , lord deputie of ireland , and president of wales , aunt to the renowned , s. philip sidney ) widow of tho. radcliffe , 3 earl of sussex , founded this colledge by the name of the colledge of the lady frances sidney sussex , in a place called the grey fryars , which friary builded by king henry 1. suppressed anno 1546. by king. hen. 8. and given to trinitie colledge in cambridge , was since from it by act of parliament conveyed to the executours of the said countesse , henry grey 5 earl of kent , and iohn lord harrington of exton , in fee-farm : for the building and perfecting of this her colledge , she gave by her last will and testament ( besides her goods unbequeathed ) 5000 pounds , wherewith her executors aforenamed built and endowed it with lands & revenews , for the maintenance of a master , 10 fellows , and 20 scholars : which being increased by the accessarie foundation of s. iohn hart knight , leonard smith , citizen of london , peter blundel of tiverton clothier , iohn freeston esquire , edward lord mountague of boughton , &c. hath in present a master , 12 fellows and 33 scholars , and for the further enlarging thereof , s. francis clark knight hath lately built 20 chambers for students , founded 4 fellowships with 8 scholarships more , and augmented the scholarships of the foundation . benefactours to the same colledge have been the forementioned executours , iohn lord harrington the younger , the lady lucie countesse of bedford his sister , the lady anne harrington his mother , the aforenamed lord mountague , iames mountague his brother , doctor of divinitie , bishop of winchester , the first master , george lord goring , s. iohn breerton knight , his majest . sergeaunt in the kingdome of ireland , one of the first scholars of this house , a most bountifull benefactour , iohn young doctour of divinitie , dean of winchester , fellow of this colledge , s. william wilmore the first pensioner in it , robert iohnson of luffenham archdeacon of leicester , iohn harrington , godf. fuljambe , edward wray , and robert hudson esquiers . the whole number of students at this present with officers and servants of the foundation are 210. samuel ward doctour of divinitie , and the lady margaret professour , &c. now master thereof . the totall number of students of all degrees in this vniversitie , that had names in every particular colled●e , with the magistrates and daily officers thereunto belonging , besides divers young scholars that were relieved herein , which had no names in any of the colledges aforesaid , was in anno 16●● , 3050. and by reason of the visitation of sicknesse in the yeare 1629 , many were then dispersed to oxford , and other places , and no supply came the yeare ●●lowing , by which means there is now in the same but 2848. printed by the printers to the vniversitie of cambridge , for john scot the elder , and to be sold over against holborn conduit , at the house of robert peak , anno 1634. step to stir-bitch-fair with remarks upon the university of cambridge. ward, edward, 1667-1731. 1700 approx. 51 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 9 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2003-07 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a67523 wing w757 estc r13160 13314998 ocm 13314998 99020 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions 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or they may be had both volumes bound together ; and also bound with the rest of the authors writings . 14. the metamorphos'd beau , &c. price six pence . 15. the english nun : or , a comical description of a nunnery . with the lives and intrigues of the priests and nuns . price six pence . 16. laugh and be fat : or , an antidote against melancholy . containing great variety of comical intrigues in town and country . to which is added nine delightful tales . price one shilling . 17. a step to the bath : with a character of the place . price six pence . 18. labour in vain : or , what signifies little or nothing , viz. i. the poor mans petition at court. ii. expectation of benefit from a covetous man in his life-time . iii. the marriage of an old man to a young woman . iv. endeavours to regulate mens manners by preaching or writing . v. being a iacobite . vi. confining an insolvent debtor . vii . promise of secrecy in a conspiracy . viii . an enquiry after a place . 19. the reformer . exposing the vices of the age : in several characters . viz. 1. the vitious courtier . 2. the debauch'd parson . 3. the factious hypocrite . 4. the precise quaker . 5. the covetous miser . 6. the prodigal son. 7. the city letcher . 8. the insatiate wife . 9. the amorous maid . 10. the beau apprentice . 11. the city mob . 12. the country squire . 20. the rambling rakes : or , london libertines . price six pence . 21. the insinuating bawd : and repenting harlot . price six-pence . a step to stir-bitch-fair . having heard much of the fame of stir-bitch-fair , where vice , merchandise , and diversion , draw the cambridge-youth , london-traders , lyn-whores , and abundance of ubiquitarian-strolers , into a promiscuous assembly , all contributing something to either the pleasure or profit of one another ; some coming to spend money , others to get it : the promotion of their interest , or the pleasing of their senses being the two chief ends , i suppose , which collect such numbers of mankind together from their sundry scatter'd habitations : i resolv'd , since the season of the year prov'd dry and pleasant , to make a short visit to cambridge , and withal to take a compleat survey of this its neighbouring and renown'd fair , of which i had often heard many remarkable and pleasant stories . in pursuance of this my design , i gave earnest for a place in the stage-coach , and the next morning having lin'd my pockets , and bundled up a sufficient quantity of linnen to refresh me for the fortnight , i took a hackney wheel-about for expeditions sake to the green-dragon within bishopsgate , where our travelling conveniency stood ready to receive me : but by that time i got thither , the countrey tub-driver began to be impatient , all the company but my self being already come , and had taken up their stations in the dirty , lumbering , wooden hovel , being more in shape like a tobacco-hogshead than a coach , bellying out in the boudge like the stern of a dutch fly-boat ; and was built more for burthen , and the horses ease , than to commode travellers . the rest of the company being most of 'em pretty burly , had made a shift to leave me a nook in the back part of the coach , not much wider than a chair for a jointed baby ; i nessled , and i squeez'd and drew in my sides like a fat man going thro' a narrow stile , till with much ado i had wedg'd in my buttocks between the side of the coach and the hip of a bouncing blowsabella , who sat next me . thus labouring as hard as ever did furious lover to riggle himself in between the knees of a coy mistress . when i had thus by storm and a great deal of fatigue , taken my place , which notwithstanding the troublesome coming at it , i had before paid for , i sat with patience upon force , crowded up like a great plumb in the corner of a minc'd-pye . but before many minutes were spent , our brawny storm-beaten carrion-flogger , whose empty noddle was arm'd against the weather , with a leather-cap as thick as a church-bucket , drew up his flounder-mouth like a hens fundament ; and with a cherrup or two , and an enlivening slash , away scower'd the half dozen of thin gutted titts , with a crowd of sinners at their arses , as if the devil drove 'em : our booted caravan , almost as big as the belly of the trojan-horse , being bound down so strictly to it 's good behaviour , that it had no more sway when we came over a kennel , than st. sepulchers steeple has when the colledge youths are ringing in it : whilst we at every swog , neaded our elbows in one anothers sides , till i had the ill fortune to so raise an old gentlemans spleen , that he grind and snarld like a towzer at a bone when a strange dog is near him , being ready to bite my nose off , having given his corns a jostle i suppose , that put him under an uneasiness beyond the patience of his years , which seem'd to be attended with a peevish temper and many infirmities . in a little time we got oft the stones , and had done cursing of the pavier ; and then began to swim as easily along the road as a graves-end barge in fair weather , tho' wedg'd as close in one by another as a barrel of red-herrings , or wheat-ears in a tunbridge-pye . i now took the liberty to examine into my company , consisting of five women , a sucking child , the old gentleman , and my self . two of our ladies i discover'd by their talk were sempstresses , the third a perfumers widow , the fourth a fatherless parsons daughter , and the fifth i imagin'd , was carrying down an unwelcome fairing , the child , to some unfortunate cantabridgian , who when he was last in london , answer'd the end of his creation a little unadvisedly , and left his image behind ' im . the old gentleman , i understood by his talk , having a son at st. iohn's colledge , whose unruly appetites were a little too powerful for the weak discretion of his junior years to keep under a regular subjection , was going down in order ( by his paternal authothority ) to restrain him , if it were possible , from the vices and debaucheries incident to the fair. i began to consider with my self the inequality of the number of the female sex , was likely to make it a chargeable journey to the old man and i , unless i could handsomly project some passible means to slip my neck out of the chollar , which i did in a great measure after the following method . when a little accidental mirth and frothy prittle-prattle had begun our acquaintance , and begot a little familiarity amongst one another , i began to tell 'em a story , wherein i introduc'd it as a custome in english travelling , that the majority of either sex us'd to treat the lesser number of the other ; but however , being unwilling to put so heavy a task upon such a number of so pritty ladies , tho scarce one was handsome enough to be a concubine to a black-a-moor , i thought it was very reasonable for the old gentleman and i to take one apiece of 'em under our protection ; and that those whom fortune should exclude from enjoying the benefit should have no reason to be angry , they should draw cuts among themselves , to determine who should be entit'led to the advantage , which the wanton titts very merrily consented to ; but the old testy curmudgion having little generosity in his looks , and less in his heart , seem'd to be very much out of humour i had made so expensive a proposal , and very peevishly expressed the following words , viz. marry let them treat 'em that most wanted a return of their favours , as for his part he was grown old and past it : why , sure father , said i , if you were never so old , you might wish a good thing well . but i 'll engage , said i , you are able to do business still , if you would but give your mind to 't . not i , reply'd the surly cuff , shaking his head , but whispering in my ear , says he , i 'd give five hundred pounds i could . however at last we droll'd the old love-penny into a compliance , and the women drew lots ; which , for a shift , the willing creatures made of whale-bone they pluck'd out of their stomachers . upon the decision of the matter , the homeliest pugnancy amongst 'em fell to my lot , and fortune favour'd the old fumbler with the youngest and handsom'st , which infus'd such a juvenal spirit into my grandsire , that he grew as frothy , and as brisk , as a bottle of small-beer at mid-summer ; snapping his middle-finger and thumb at every word , as loud as a pair of castinets , entertaining his mistress with a song in excuse of his age , part of which i remember to recite , viz. song . tho' i am an old man , i have wealth and riches ; and besides money , i 've something in my breeches : and dare to hold a young man , a guinea to a shilling , i can please a young wench , if she be but willing . by this time our diminutive fellow traveller , the swadled infant ; began by his shrill squales , more frightful to a petticoat-sinner , than a sow-gelders horn to a gelt mungril , to show very terrible signes of a lamentable uneasiness ; upon which , the indulging mother , tender of her hopeful progeny ( after she had try'd hush , my dear creature , lull-a-by , and the bubby , but without effect ) guess'd rightly the disaster that attended the poor innocent , and began like a careful nurse , to examine whether any signes of good luck had drop'd from the childs bumfiddle ; and upon strict enquiry found the baby had broke his twatling strings , to the great offence of the nostrils of the whole company , insomuch that i , for want of being accustom'd to the infirmities of children , was more than ordinary squeamish , and to aviod the sight of the gilded double clout , as well as the scent of those odoriferous effluvia's that arose from the sower grounds of the leaky runlet ; i popp'd out my head out of one of the coach windows , for the benefit of the air , and rid for a mile , as if i had sat barrel'd up in a gold-finders caravan ; with my head out of the bung-hole ; so that between the two extreams of age and infancy , we past away the time till we came to ware ; where we put in at the sign of the english champion , who redeem'd the maid from the jaws of the dragon , to give nature the refreshment of a dinner , and to ease our tired limbs from that numbness incident to those cripling postures , the number of our company forc'd us to sit in ; in this inn stands the great bed of ware , talk'd of as much among the citizens , who seldom travel beyond the bounds of the home circuit ; as the gigantick greatness of the herodian colossus , or the magnitude of the trojan horse , are amongst the sober enquirers into lost antiquities . the extravagant largeness of this bed is very much wonder'd at , by all that see it , being wide enough to lodge a troop of soldiers , with the assistance of a trundle-bed ; in the same room hangs a great pair of horns , upon which ( insisting upon an old custom ) they swear all new comers ; the form of the oath being something comical , and withal very antient , i have presented it to the reader , hoping if it be not valuable for its wit , it may be for it's antiquity . take care thou do'st thy self no wrong , drink no small beer when thou hast strong ; and further do thy self this right , eat no brown bread if thou hast white ; and if the mistress thou can'st bed , besure thou do'st not kiss the maid . show not thy wife thy utmost strength , nor let her know thy purses length ; never be bonnd for any friend , but rather far thy money lend ; for thou wilt find 't is better he should break or be undone , than thee ; trust no man that is proud and poor , vnless thou wilt forgive the score ; for he will neither pay nor own , the kindness thou to him hast shown ; be just and grateful to thy friend , 't will make thee happy in the end ; but if thy self and thine thou d'st save , take care thou deal'st not with a knave : trust not thy wife , tho' near so good , with no man but thy self abroad . for if thou do'st , e'er she returns , thy forehead may be deck'd with horns : what i have said do thou retain , so kiss the horns , and say , amen . after this very useful and cautionary oath had been administed ot several of our company , and among the rest my self ; our twelve-pence a piece was exacted , for the benefit of the rest of our fellow-travellers , who had been accustom'd to the road ; which fine we were forc'd to submit to , or undergo the ridicule of the whole house , for the ill-natur'd breach of an old custom . this ceremony being ended , and the usual dues collected , and brought in , in such sundry sorts of liquor as might please every bodies pallat , spur'd on by our appetites , we began to enquire what sorts of provisions they either had in the house , or intended for our dinners ? to which the master answer'd , the only thing that the town was fam'd for , was eels ; in the ordering of which they had so compleat a knowledge , they would undertake to dress 'em as many several ways as ever a french cook did a feast of frogs , or a dutch skipper a dish of pickl'd herrings . and it happening so fortunately , that every one of our company being great lovers of this fish ; we readily united in one opinion , and order'd that our dinner might be all eeles , desiring the cook might serve us up with as great variety of this slippery food , as her utmost skill in the useful art of cookery would give her leave ; without further directing her to any particularities , but left her wholly to her own freedom and discretion in the business ; which indeed she manag'd so well to her masters interest , and to the companies satisfaction , that i believe never was a a parcel of mud-worms serv'd up to the table of an epicure , and render'd more pleasing to the pallat , with such variety of sawces , or made fit for the stomach by such sundry stratagems , as were us'd in the industrious coquination of these our slimy eatables ; besides , the ordinary ways of boyling , frying , baking , stewing , roasting , and toasting ; we had 'em coddl'd , parboil'd , sows'd dows'd , and the devil and all . when we had plentifully feasted on our fish , like so many cormorants , and wound up our dinner as decency requires , with a short thankigiving , we call'd for a bill to inform us what we had to pay ; accordingly one was brought , wherein more particulars were inserted , than ever were found in a taylors debt-book , or a boatswain's catalogue of materials , for the new rigging of a vessel ; which sum'd up , came as exactly to half a crown , a head , and twelve-pence for the cook , as if the master himself , had been well skil'd in arithmetical proportion , and knew well upon expedition how to prevent fractions in a reckoninig ; tho' we told 'em we thought our selves a little unreasonably dealt with ; yet they so very much insisted on the extraordinary trouble we had put 'em to ; that they talkatively prevented any manner of abatements , only the master very politickly presented us with a dram a piece of right french brandy , to wash away the grumbling in our gizards , that we might not report to his prejudice the hardness of our usage . we all now had recourse again to our countrey vehicle , where we restated our selves in our former misery ; and underwent the pennance of being cramm'd as close as potted pdigeons , till we came to puckeridge ; where the coach-man only call'd , to wash the dust out of his mouth , and supply his salival ducts with a little moisture , which might well become drowthy , with his talking to his horses , upon whom he vented as much spleen , passion , and flagellation , as ever did peevish pedagogue upon a dozen of block-heads , who had neither wit nor memory . all that was remarkable here , was an ax which they show'd us , kept as sharp and as bright , as if it were whetted as often as their knives , or scowerd as often as their handirons ; this antiquated weapon , as they tell you , had the honour of cutting off some great mans head , but who , or upon what account , they are at a great loss to inform you . from thence we jog'd on , till we came to our evenings stage , a town call'd barley ; where we put into an inn , distinguished by the name of old pharaoh , which title it acquir'd from a stout elevating malt-liquor under the same name , for which it has long been famous . this inn is kept not only by a female , but according to her own report , and the belief of her neighbours , a maid too ; and of such a herculean proportion , that had she been in the same jeopardy with the virgin of old , she would have been able to have made her party good with the dragon ; and if the english champion had lent his assistance to the weakest side , which i am sure must have been the monster , i am certain she 'd have prov'd strong enough to have beat st. george into the bargain . here our entertainment was very good , tho' not so cheap as to be attended with no fault ; here we heartily enjoy'd the true english pleasure of substantial eating , and supply'd that emptiness , the slippery eels had left in our stomachs , with well-fed mutton , and fat fowles , which we wash'd down with old pharaoh , till we made our selves as merry as bumpkins at a harvest home , till the women like true gossips over their liquor , began to let their tongues run as fast as the quickest division of tollets ground , quarrelling about the uneasiness of one anothers places in the coach , as if their bumfiddles had been gaul'd by the hardness of their seats ; whilst indeed i heartily wish'd their tongues in the same condition . our bouncing maiden-landlady to show a peculiar respect to us the company of the coach , which i suppose , she esteem'd as generally her most profitable guests , oblig'd us with her company , not only to supper , at which according to old custom , she compos'd her dutch-built stern into a sedential posture at the upper end of the table , but also honour'd us after with a great deal of her blunt conversation , which was very pleasant , and consequently acceptable ; entertaining us with a great many merry stories , one of which i thought more particularly diverting , and being manag'd by her self , and transacted in her own house , i think it worth the reciting . about the middle of this last summer , a couple of jolly country parsons were coming up to town , mounted upon roan and sorrel , with their wives behind 'em , and chanc'd in the close of the evening to put into old pharaoh , and inn there for the night ; the house happening to be full of travellers , insomuch that the best rooms were before taken up , had but one chamber to spare , wherein there were two beds , which the parsons rather than to go further and fare worse , consented to accept of ; ordering a couple of fowls to be laid down to the fire , it being difficult for a priest to rest quietly that night he goes to bed without roastmeat for his supper , says our maiden landlady ; they all being hot with riding , and half choak'd with the dust upon the road , call'd plentifully for old pharaoh , which their wives seem'd highly to approve on , complaining greatly they had met with but indifferent liquor thro'-out all their journey , till they had happily arriv'd at barly , upon which , says she , one of the parsons punn'd upon the name of the town , after the following manner : good barly makes good mault , good mault makes this good liquor ; which has no other fault , vnless it 's so strong , 't will fuddle e'er long , both me and my brother vicar . thus they diverted themselves , till their supper was ready , to which they sat down with as chearful looks , and keen appetites , as if it were a parish feast , and what ever they had eat and drank , should have been on free-cost ; when they had about half done , they remembred to invite their hostess to participate , who having a huge spirit , as i found by her telling the story , in proportion to the bulkiness of her body , was so highly disgusted , that after a slighting manner , she refus'd their unmannerly kindness , resolving , as i suppose , to be even with 'em in the reck'ning . when supper was over , and the two parsons had cast up cross or pile who should return thanks for the good creature ; the two good wives after they had drank a grace-cup , were desirous to go to bed ; the parsons at this time having a greater kindness for the liquor , than for their helpmates company , had a mind to sit up a little longer , and considering tobacco to be a good emblem of the world's vanity and instability , were resolved to moralize over one peremptory pipe , and a comfortable cup or two of coroborating old pharaoh : upon which their ladies being equally tir'd with the fatigue of their journey , retir'd to their chamber without their husbands , with a female chamberlain to attend 'em , who put them in their several beds , set the recepticles of the night in order , wish'd them good rest , and bid them farewel till the next morning . our maiden landlady about half an hour after , having an indispensable occasion for something in the same room , went up stairs , open'd the chamber door , intending to excuse her self to the levites bedfellows , but found 'em both refreshing their weary limbs with natures kindest medicament , a sound sleep , which immediately put a project into her head , to draw the two priests into an ignorant breach of the ninth commandment , and make 'em the reciprocal authors of one anothers cuckoldom , without knowing any thing of the matter , till 't was too late for prevention ; in order to effect this design , she changes the places of their garments , putting the cloaths of the one parsons wife , to the bed-side of the other , and shutting the door after her , came down stairs , growing very merry and jocund with her canonical guests , which occasion'd 'em to inflame their bodies with a pot or two extraordinary . when thus their own wills had measur'd out to their appetites a sufficient quantity , they were lighted up to bed , and coming into the chamber , fearing to wake their wives were very hush , ordering the chamberlain to go down stairs , for they needed not his assistance ; the curtains being drawn , and the parsons having an eye on their wives cloaths , chose their beds by the apparrel that lay by 'em , examining no further for a better information , but to bed they went. the landlady lodging herself that night in the next room , which nothing but a thin wainscote parted , on purpose to satisfie her self how her project took , and what event it would produce in the morning . no sooner had the priests laid aside the robes of divinity , and were cumbent in their feathers , but the power of old pharaoh , and the warmth of their wives together , began to operate on both parties , and something was done , says my landlady , which , tho' i 'm a maid , i cannot chuse but guess at : all things going smoothly on till break of day without discovery , about five a clock in the morning one of the parsons opening the curtains to guess at the time of day , happens to espy his neighbours wife instead of his own , and hearing his brother priest ( who had not been marry'd above a month ) very busy in the next bed. hold , hold , neighbour , says he , have a care what you do ; pray g — d send we are not mistaken ; i doubt you have my goods there , however it came about , for i 'm sure i have that by me that 's none of my own . the other who had much the younger and prettier wife : tears open the curtains , and finds it too true to make a jest on , leaps out of bed , which the other did also , and so chang'd into their proper places . the parsons enquiring amongst themselves what could be the meaning of this strange mistakes , could account it to nothing but an agreement of their wives to change bed-fellows ; which the women being innocent deny'd , with all satisfactory : protetestations ; so that what to make on 't they could not imagine , but drest themselves and went down stairs , having no way left but to make the best of a bad market . when they came into the kitchen , my landlady bid 'em good morrow , hop'd they rested well all night , and ask'd if they 'd be pleas'd to have a cup of the old liquor and a toast for their mornings draught , no , no , says one of the heavenly guides very angerly , pharaoh was a good king , but your pharaoh is wicked liquor , it had like to have rais'd a dispute between my friend and i this morning , about pulling one anothers boots on . indeed husband , says the oldest and the wisest of he wives , i vow it was a very pleasant mistake , howsoever it happen'd . hush , ( says the parson ) wife remember this , words are not well , in things that ●are amiss . meeting with nothing further that was remarkable at old pharoah's , when we had refresh'd our bodies with a nights repose ; in the morning , after we had lin'd our carcasses with a good breakfast , to keep the fogs from oftending our stomachs , we set forward on our journey , and proceeded without any thing remarkable , till we came to saffron-walden , so call'd from the great quanties of that most excellent flower that grows there so valu'd by physicians for it's admirable vertues in abundance of distempers , being held to be one of the greatest cordials the whole universe produces , it is said the yellow jaundise is never incident to the inhabitants of this place , against which lazy distemper , this true english medicine is so infallibly efficacious , that let a person but ride thro' the town who is under this disorder , and the effluvias that arise from their saffron-gardens , shall fill the air with such a salubrious quality , that the odoriferous breath you suck into your nostrils , shall prove an effectual cure , for not only the afore-mentioned , but many other distempers ; as for my own part , i found my self so enliven'd with the fumes , which i snush'd up as we pass'd thro' , that a stale maid after the loss of her virginity , or a clear'd culprit , who has just knock'd off his shackles , could not be more frollicksome and gay , than i found my self ; which i may justly ascribe to the great influence of this golden-colour'd product , which is of a nature so good , that physicians themselves allow it can scarce be us'd amiss . from thence we jogg'd on about a mile , at which distance from saffron walden , stood a famous pile of stone building , called audley-end , of which i had often heard , but never till this time had amaz'd my eyes with such a stupendious structure , which seem'd to me to be a great city , with the license of a traveller , almost as big as london within the walls , if you take gardens and all , and for ought i know , i shall not enlarge so much as to need your pardon for it . this magnificent edifice was first rais'd by an ancestor of the earl of suffolk , and sold afterwards to king charles ; the magnitude of this house is reported to be such , that 't is a days work for a running footman to open and shut the windows that appertain thereto ; and that there is one gallery in it , of such a vast length , that if you beat a drum at one end , it shan't be loud enough to fright away a mouse at the other ; nor are we able to distinguish at the same distance a hog from a dog , without a spying glass . it 's a house fit only for a prince , and to be maintain'd and upheld at a national charge , for it 's almost large enough to beggar the country it stands in , to keep it in repair . it is situated in a valley at the bottom of a hill , and has water enough comes down in the winter to drown it , if care by drains and aquaducts , were not taken to prevent it , 't is a useless vanity , sprung up from abundance of riches , rais'd more for wonder than for use ; and serves rather as a monument of the donor's pride and greatness , than his wisdom and liberality ; for to spend one half of an estate in a building , that would ruine the remainder to keep it in repair , either shows that a man knows not well what he does , or that he has more money than he knows well what to do with ; or else that he was mindful to do a vain thing with his treasure , the better to show the world the vanity of riches . from thence we scower'd along an asses gallop , now and then plagu'd with a terrifying lesson from our little humane bagpipes , meeting with nothing remarkable till we came within four mile of cambridge , at which distance the top of kings colledge chappel was discernable , appearing in a figure resembling a cradle , and by travellers is so call'd ; which happen'd to draw into my noddle , the following scrap of poetry . old cambridge brings forth men of learning and parts , dame natures dark laws to unriddle ; and since she 's the midwife of science and arts , 't is fit she be known by a cradle . when from thence we had travel'd about three mile further , we came to a small village call'd trumpington , a mile on this side cambridge . this town is not a little famous for two great conveniences it affords the young scholars of the university , for here the fresh men first learn to be good companions , and afterwards when in orders , practise to be good preachers ; for here they commonly drink their first merry cup with their friends after their initiation , and generally deliver their first sermon when qualified by the bishop for the ministerial function ; as we pass'd thro' trumpington , where the scholars at their leisure hours , are some or other of 'em usually refreshing themselves ; we saw several black gowns pop in and out of the little country-hovels , like so many black rabbits in a warren , bolting out of their coney-burroughs ; i have some reason to be jealous , the name of this place was originally given it for no good , but rather from some wild schollars , who being libidiously given , had usual recourse thither , and kist the wenches till they farted again , from whence , as some sages conjecture , in process of time , it gain'd the name trumping-town . where women , doubtless , are possest , of faculties discerning ; since they ( kind souls ) so oft are blest , with men of parts and learning . one pulpit's common to the gown , for teachers to be seen in ; but they have numbers in the town , where preachers oft have been in . all standing stifly to their text , till clear'd the point most fairly ; whilst those they ' nstruct are never vext , but when they 've done too early . the next place we arriv'd at , was our journeys-end , cambridge ; where black and purple gowns were stroling about town , like parsons in a country metropolis , during the bishops visitation ; some looking with as meagre countenances , as if in search of the philosophers-stone , they had study'd themselves into an hypocondriack melancholly ; other 's seeming so profoundly thoughtful , as if in pursuance of agrippa's notions they were studying how to raise sparagrass from rams-horns , or to produce a homunculus as gardeners do pumpkins , by burying the semen in a dunghil ; some looking as plump and as jolly as a painted bacchus bestriding a canary butt ; smiling as he past by , at his own soliloquies , as if he was muttering over to himself some bacchanalian ode , he had conceiv'd in praise of good clarret ; others seeming as sottishly sorrowful as if they were maudlin fuddl'd , and lamenting the misfortune of poor anacreon , who choak'd himself with a grape-stone ; some strutting along about eighteen years of age , in new gown and cassock , as if they had receiv'd orders about two hours before , and were the next morning to have institution and induction , to become the hopeful guide of a whole parish ; and here and there one appearring so rakishly thoughtless , as if nature , by his empty looks , had design'd him to grind mustard , or pick mushrooms for some noble-mans kitchen ; tho' his parents , in opposition to his destiny , resolv'd to make him a scholar . as for the town it self , it was so abominably dirty , that old-street in the middle of a winters thaw , or bartholomew-fair after a shower of rain , could not have more occasion for a scavenger , than the miry street of this famous corporation ; and most of them so very narrow , that should two wheel-barrows meet in the largest of their thorough-fares , they are enough to make a stop for half an hour before they can well clear themselves of one another , to make room for passengers . after the coach had set me down , and i had taken a fair leave of my fellow-travellers , i walk'd about to take a more compleat survey both of the town and university . the buildings in many parts of the town were so little and so low , that they look'd more like hutts for pigmies , than houses for men ; and their very shop-keepers seem'd to me to be so well-siz'd to their habitations , that they appear'd like so many monkeys in their diminutive shops mimicking the trade of london . amongst the rest of the pomps and vanities of this wicked corporation , there is one very famous inn , distinguish'd by the sign of the devils lap-dog in petty-cury , here i went to refresh my self with a glass or two of canary ; where i found an old grizly curmudgion , corniferously wedded to a plump , young , brisk , black , beautiful , good landlady , who i afterwards heard had so great a kindness for the uniniversity , that she had rather see two or three gown-men come into her house , than a cuckoldly crew of aldermen in all their pontificalibusses ; and indeed i had reason to believe there was no love lost , for the scholars crept in as fast and as slily , for either a kiss , a kind look , or a cup of comfort , as hogs into an orchard after a high-wind , or flys into pigsauce , for the sake of the sugar ; i lik'd my pretty hostess so wonderfully well , and was so greatly delighted with the pleasant conversation i met with in the house , that i determin'd with my self to make this my place of residence during my continuance in the town , so bespeaking a bed , i afterwards took a walk in order to view the university , of which i shall proceed to give you a sober and concise description . the colledges stand without side the town , which in plain terms is a corporation of ignorance , hem'd round with arts and sciences , a nest of fools , that dwell on the superfluities of the learned , an ingrateful soil where the seeds of generosity are daily scatter'd , but produce nothing in return but the wicked weeds of unthankfulness and ingratitude . of learned societies there are in all sixteen , twelve colledges , and four halls ; the most magnificent of which , being that of trinity , whose spacious quadrangle , and commodious library remain without comparison , the scholars of this foundation are distinctly habited , in purple gowns ; the rest of the universitie wearing black , agree in one and the same mode . the next piece of building more particularly remarkable , is kings-colledge chappel , founded by henry the sixth , and is greatly fam'd by all men of judgment , for it 's admirable architecture , much after the manner of henry the seventh's chappel at westminster , if not finer and larger . the rest of the colledges , except st. iohn's ( which has been beautified and enlarg'd of late years ) wear the faces of great antiquity , and tho' they are not so fine as those which have had the advantage of a modern improvement , yet the rust of their aged walls , and obsoleteness of their structure , procure veneration from all spectators , and seem'd to me more noble in their ancient uniformity , than others disagreeable enlarg'd with additional novelties . in short , the colledges are so splendid , the government so regular , the orders so strict , the ceremonies so decorous , and the preferments so honourable , that in all europe it is not excel'd by any university except oxford . having thus feasted my eyes with a general view of the colledges , i retir'd to my inn , where i repos'd my self after a good supper , till the next morning , which proving fine and pleasant , i took a walk to stir-bitch-fair , tho' for the expence of 3 d. i might have been accommodated with the conveniency of a london hackney , who at this season bring passengers from london and ply there for the fortnight , carrying tag , rag , and bobtail , for the aforesaid price , provided they have as many as will fill their coach ; but for eighteen-pence a scholar and his mistress may have a running bawdy-house to themselves , draw up their tin sashes , pink'd like the bottom of a cullender , and hug one another as private as they please , obscur'd from the wandring eyes of all observing passengers . i had not walk'd above half a mile from cambridge towards the fair , but i came to a renown'd village which by all reports very deservedly has gain'd the ignominious epithet of bawdy-barnwel , so call'd from the numerous brothel-houses it contains for the health , ease , and pleasure of the learned vicinity , and has had so ancient a reputation for sacrificing it's female off-spring thro' many ages , to the use and service of the neighbouring societies , that there has not been a maiden-head known in the town at sixteen years of age , since the time of king henry the first , in whose reign cambridge was new model'd into an university . besides the women of this place have such a love for the scholars , and hatred for the townsmen , that a batchelour of arts , shall have more favour for a distick of english verses , in praise of simple fornication , than the best tradesmen thro' out the corporation shall find for an ounce of sterlin . from thence i march'd forward till i came to the fair , where i beheld such a number of wooden edifices , and such a multitude of gentry , scholars , tradesmen , whores , hawkers , pedlars , and pick-pockets , that it seem'd to me like an abstract of all sorts of mankind , drawn into a lesser body , to show the world in epitomy : at first i came to the proctors-booth , wherein he keeps an arbitrary court to punish , as the learned divan shall think fit , all misdemeanors touching the scholars , from whence there can be no appeal ; and near to this is held another wooden court of justice on the behalf of the corporation , where his worshipful bulkiness the mayor , sits to determine all such matters as concern his authority , assisted with the cornuted elders of the town , who are ready to lend a horn upon occasion , to help the head of their superiour in all cases of difficulty . a little beyond these , lay vast quantities of hops , brought in from the adjacent countreys ; which made me at first conceive the cantabrigians to be indefatigable topers of malt liquor , if the town could consume a the in tythe twelve-month of what i beheld in bags , which upon second consideration i imagin'd might be as well bought up by our london merchants , and therefore ought to beg cambridg's pardon for thinking it guilty of such excessive inebriety from thence i turn'd to the left , by the river side , where my nostrils were saluted with such a saline savoury whiff , as if i had been walking in a dry fish-mongers shop in thames-street ; at last i came into a dutch market of red and pickled herrings , salt-fish , oysters , pitch , tar , soap , &c. next these a parcel of wooden trumpery , rang'd in as much order , as a cup-board of plate , where bacchanalian students may furnish themselves with punch-bowles , agreeable to their own bibacity , sot's supply themselves with cans , sizable to their own humours , and beggars accommodate themselves with spoons and porridge-dishes of any dimension , suitable to their own appetites . adjoyning to this place , stand about a dozen of sutlers boozing-kens , distinguished by the name of the lyn-booths ; the good people that keep 'em being inhabitants of that town , and have so fair a reputation for the foul practise of venery , that their sinful hovels have always maintain'd the character of being notorious bawdy-houses ; the scholars , to encourage the old trade of basket-making , have great resort to these up-tail accademi●s , where they are often presented with a lyn fairing , which brings 'em to thin jaws , and a month or two's spare diet , as a pennance for a minutes titilation ; giving many of 'em reason to say with a scholar under the same affliction , who being at chappel whisper'd to his chamber-fellow , chum , chum , tho' i have the word of god in my mouth , to tell thee the truth on 't , i have a lyn devil in my breeches . from these booths i went strait up a hill , and came into a very handsome street call'd garlick-row , where the slit-deal tenements were occupy'd by sempstresses , perfumers , milleners , toy-men , and cabinet-makers ; and is chiefly frequented by powder'd ▪ beau's , bushy wig'd blockeads , country belfa's , and beautiful bury ladies ; the latter of which being as commendable for their good nature , as remarkable for their prettiness , are attended with such crowds of dutchified fops , with their hats under their arms , and their hands in their pockets , bowing and cringing with such flexible submission to each proud enchantress , as if their backs were made of whalebone ; which brought into my mind the following distich of my lord rochesters , in which if i alter one word , for decency's sake , i hope the reader will excuse it . so a proud minx does lead about , of humble curs the am'rous rout. this place terminates in a place call'd originally cooks-row , but now more properly cuckolds-row , from the great number of booksellers that are now crept into possession of their greasinesses division ; this learned part of the fair is the schollars chief rendezvouz , where some that have money come to buy books , whilst othes who want it , take 'em slily up , upon condition to pay if they 're catch'd , and think it a pious piece of generosity , to give st. austin or st. gregory protection in a gown sleeve till they can better provide for ' em . here the most famous auctioneer of all great as well as little britain , sells books by the hammer , and gives the scholars as merry an entertainment , as a mountebank and his andrew . here 's an old author for you , gentlemen , you may iudge his antiquity by the fashion of his leather-iacket ; herein , is contain'd , for the benefit of you scholars , the knowledge of every thing ; written by that famous author , who thro' his prosound wisdom , very luckily discover'd that he knew nothing ? for your encouragement , gentlemen , i 'll put him up at two shillings , advance 3 pence ; two shillings once : what no body bid ? the bidder advances 3 d. two and 3d. once : gentlemen , fye for shame , why sure men of your parts and learning , will never suffer the works of so famous an author to be thus undervallued : if you 'll believe me , gentlemen , he 's worth more to a powder-monkey to make cartridges of , than what 's bid : two and three pence twice ? what no body amongst you gentlemen of the black robe , that has so much respect for the wisdom of our ancestors , as to advance t'other 3d ? well sir , i find you must have him at two and three pence , knock , and now you 've bought him : sir i must tell you , you 'll find learning enough within him , to puzzle both vniversities : and thus much i promise you further sir , when you have read him seven years , if you don 't like him , bring him to me again , in little brittain , and i 'll help you to a man shall give you a shilling for him , to cover band-boxes . at this sort of rate he banters the young studients ; and whatever they purchas'd , gave 'em a jest into the bargain . from thence i pass'd into a great street call'd cheapside , where on one side were a considerable number of wholesale tradesmen , as linnen-drapers , silk-men , iron-mongers , leather-sellers , tobacconists , &c. who swell'd in their shops , and look'd as big above the rest of the petty-dealers as the bluff well-fed senior-fellows of a college do above the lean thin-gutted poor sizers . on the opposite side are suttlers booths , much frequented by the london citizens , who are easily to be known by their thin calves-leather boots , and the bloodiness of their spurs , whose rowels have been often buryed in the sides of their hackneys . their pretence is , coming down to meet their customers ; tho' its plain by their loitering , they have little else to do but to drink , smoke , and whore , and to help support the fair in its ancient custom of debauchery ; couzening themselves of their time , their families of their money , and their dear wives of their company . their whips they wear under their arms , as a beau does his hat ; and tie up the ends of their bob-wigs in black bags , with a ridiculous hope of being thought gentlemen . behind these booths is a place call'd the duddery , incompass'd round with salesmen and people that fell norwich-stuffs , and in the middle , abundance of packs of that deceitful commodity yorkshire-cloth : the sales-men ply at their booth-doores as they do in long-lane ; and lug and tug the poor country folks into their mercinary wardrobes as if they had power to arrest 'em ; who are surely cheated if they buy , and almost worry'd if they dont . in the center of this place stands an old weather-beaten pulpit , where on sunday a sermon is deliver'd , for the edification of the strowling sinners , who give open attention , as in a field-conventicle . here is also great quantities of wooll , put up in bags , which they call pockets , weighing at least a tun weight : an irish gentleman coming by , and staring very hard upon ' em . by my shoul , says he , they are the largest feather-beds dat ever i did shee ; i wonder how they do to turn 'em when they make ' em . on the other side the river there 's a little town , call'd chesterton , in which there is the sign of the black bull , where the country chapmen generally lodg that come to the fair , for the sake of rare strong humming ale , for which 't is famous ; over which they get drunk , quarrel , and make bargains , till the fox brings 'em to sleep , and sleep , by the next morning , to a sober repentance . the chief entertainment of the fair , is stubble-geese and apple-sauce , fat pig and fly-sauce , bad sack and good walnuts ; the last of which the citizens send as fairings to their wives , to divert 'em behind the counter , in their husbands absence . at night , when their booths are shut up , which is only by skewering two hair-cloths together , then all that are freshmen are sought by their acquaintance , in order to be christened : the manner of which is thus , two or three contrive to decoy him , or her into a sutlers booth , under pretence of some body being there to speak with them about business ; and then privately send for an old fellow dignified with the title of lord tap ▪ from his going arm'd all-over with spiggots and fossets , like a porcupine with his quills , or looking rather like a fowl wrapt up in a pound of sausages ; who when he comes , rings his bell over the head of the party , repeating these words with an audible voice : over thy head i ring this bell , because thou art an infidel ; and i have found thee out by th' smell : with a hoxius doxius call upon him , that no vengeance may light on him . then the party christ'ned chuses two out of the company to be his godfathers , who generally give him some very bawdy name ; then they swear him upon the horns , as at highgate , make him give tap six pence , and spend four or five shillings to treat the company , and then for ever after he 's free of stir-bitch-fair ; of which having given my self the satisfaction of a general survey , i went back to cambridge , took a place in the stage coach , and return'd to london . finis . querela cantabrigiensis, or, a remonstrance by way of apologie for the banished members of the late flourishing university of cambridge by some of the said sufferers. barwick, john, 1612-1664. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a26729 of text r13166 in the english short title catalog (wing b1010). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. 88 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 25 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo 2017 a26729 wing b1010 estc r13166 13586104 ocm 13586104 100541 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a26729) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 100541) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 783:3) querela cantabrigiensis, or, a remonstrance by way of apologie for the banished members of the late flourishing university of cambridge by some of the said sufferers. barwick, john, 1612-1664. [12], 28, [8] p. s.n.], [england : 1647. written by john barwick. cf. dnb. "a catalogue of such heads of colledges and other learned, reverend and religious gentlemen of the famous university of cambridge as have been ejected ...": p. [1-7] reproduction of original in cambridge university library. eng university of cambridge -history -early works to 1800. a26729 r13166 (wing b1010). civilwar no querela cantabrigiensis: or, a remonstrance by way of apologie, for the banished members of the late flourishing university of cambridge. by barwick, john 1647 14389 10 5 0 0 0 0 10 c the rate of 10 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the c category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2006-04 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2006-04 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-05 ali jakobson sampled and proofread 2007-05 ali jakobson text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion querela cantabrigiensis : or , a remonstrance by way of apologie , for the banished members of the late flourishing university of cambridge . by some of the said sufferers . s. matth. 10. 17 , 18. beware of men : for they will deliver you up to the councils , and they will scourge you in their synagogues . and yee shall be brought before governours , &c. basil , magn , epist. 79. eustach . episc. sebastiae . {non-roman} {non-roman} {non-roman} {non-roman} {non-roman} . anno dom. 1647. an advertisement to every indifferent reader . christian brethren , and fellow-subjects , it is a memorable saying of an ancient heathen moralist , curae leves loquuntur , ingentes stupent : and the like may be said concerning sorrowes ; when they come once to over-charge the heart , they stupifie it , and obstruct those passages , by which it should ease it selfe of them . this hath been our particular case : our being deprived of our livelyhoods ( for how small a trifle this ensuing remonstrance will manifest ) hath filled our hearts with sorrow : but when wee considered , not onely the hand from whence this oppression cometh , ( even that which pretexdeth to the infallible weild of the sword of justice ) but withall that through our sides such a fatall stroke is given to one of the most famous vniversities of christendome : this sad prospect did so farre surcharge us with griefe , that it cast us for a long time into a fit of musing , till at last ( the fire being kindled ) we spake with our tongue . and now that the string of our tongue is untyed , our earnest desire is , that none of these its sorrowfull expressions may be mis-interpreted by any . and to that end wee have prefixed this advertisement , to prevent three mistakes , which are all we can possibly imagine the malice of our greatest enemies can any way phancy against this our remonstrance . i. the first is , that perhaps it may be groundlesse , because we have not therein set down the expresse words , either of those protections by which we might securely have expected an indempnity , or of those orders by which we suffered . to which wee answer , that the reason hereof was partly to avoid tediousnesse , and therefore we gave onely some short hints in the margent . and partly because ( being dispersed ) wee could not possibly have the true copies of all of them by us . and to publish any thing that was but supposititious , could not consist with our constant endeavour still to maintaine the truth , notwithstanding whatsoever difficulties to the contrary . but yet ( to prevent all mistakes as neere as we can ) wee have here inserted the true copies of such as wee had by us : whereby the indifferent reader will not onely guesse at the rest , but also easily imagine what rigour and malice there was used in the execution of them , which we assure him are as much ( or more ) then he can possibly phancie . for they being to deale with an vniversity , which then had a reverend esteeme over the whole kingdome must counterfeit jacobs voice as much as possibly he could in their orders , though their hands were farre rougher then esaus in the execution of them . and accordingly ( though now it is too apparent it was but onely in mockery ) we had sent us these two following protections . die sabbati 4. mar. 1642. the earle of holland , chancellour of the university of cambridge , having this day represented in the house the present condition of the said university ; the lords in parliament apprehending that through the publique distractions , and by reason of great multitudes of souldiers resorting from severall places to the towne of cambridge , some disturbance might happen to the quiet and studies of the scholars : for preventing therefore of any such mischiefe , have thought fit to declare the esteeme and care they have of that ancient and noble seminary of learning ; and have accordingly ordered , that no person or persons whatsoever , shall presume to offer any outrage or violence either by themselves or others unto any the colledges , chappels , libraries , schooles , or other buildings belonging to the said university , or to any the scholars or publique ministers thereof : nor plunder , purloyne , deface , spoyle , or take away any the bookes , goods , chattels , or houshold-stuffe of or belonging to the said university , or any colledge there , or to any scholar or publique minister thereof , under any colour or pretence whatsoever , as they will answer the contrary to this house at their utmost perils . and that divine service may be quietly performed and executed throughout all the said university according to the settlement of the church of england , without any trouble , let , or disturbance , untill the pleasure of the parliament be further signified . provided neverthelesse that this protection shall not extend to stop any due , course of law , or proceeding of parliament , that may or might have had its course if this protection had not been granted . and herein ready obedience is to be given by all such whom this doth or may concerne , as they will answer the contrary at their perils . jo. browne cleric . parliamentorum . these are to will , require , and command you , and every of you , to forbeare ( under any pretence whatsoever ) to prejudice or offer any dammage to the university of cambridge , or to any the schooles , colledges , halls , libraries , chappels , or other places belonging to the said university , by plundering the same or any part thereof in any kind whatsoever . hereof faile not as you will answer the contrary at your perils . given under my hand and seale the 7. day of march , 1642. essex . to all colonels , lieutenant-colonels , captaines , and all other officers and souldiers of the army under any command . these indeed were our protections , but they were blasted in the bud by this following warrant . these are to authorize you to enter into the houses of all papists , malignants , and other persons whatsoever , that have or shall refuse to appeare at musters , or to contribute according to the propositions of both houses of parliament , or refuse to enter into the association : and to seize upon all such horses , armes , and ammunition , as shall be found in their custodies , and to apprehend their said persons , and them to be brought before mee , or any one of the deputy-lievtenants of the county : and in case of resistance , to force the same , commanding all mayors , sheriffes , captaines , trained-bands , and other inferiour officers whatsoever , to be aiding and assisting to colonel coke herein . dated feb. 23. 1642. gray of wark . to col. coke , lieutenant-col . brildon , or any other of his officers . this warrant was issued out the more suddenly , and prosecuted the more violently , in regard that our protections were then in procuring : but the rigorous prosecution of this , made those to be of little or no use , more then the name , unlesse it was to shut the stable doore after the steed was stolne . for under pretence of papists , malignants , &c. there was scarce a scholar in all the vniversity which escaped examination : and left our colledge-chappels , libraries , or treasuries , or even the privatest cabinet therein , or in any of our chambers or studies , should ( perchance ) have been converted into stables for horses , or magazines for armes and ammunition , they searched them all so strictly , and plandered them all so throughly , that nothing which they liked escaped their fingers , our ancient coynes not excepted . when wee had seen their unparallel'd rigour herein , and how wee were sleighted when wee admitted our just complaints against it , wee did not much regard whether they had any commission or not for whatsoever they did to us afterward . but like christian sufferers , when they took our cloaks , we forbade them not to take our coats also : and when they tooke our goods , wee asked them not againe . for wee did plainly see that wee were destinated to ruine , and that all these were but previous dispositious , to take us downe and fit us for the great stroke , when they should please to lay it upon us . and therefore ( omitting all the rest , though wee could insert some ) wee shall here onely adde two other warrants , mentioned hereafter : the one their generall summons , the other their first forme of their writs of ejection . these are to will and require you upon sight hereof , to give speedy advertisement , viis mediis & modis , to master , fellowes , scholars , and officers of your colledge , to be resident in your said colledge the 10. day of march next ensuing , to give an account wherein they shall be required , and to answer such things as may be demanded by me , or such commissioners as i shall appoint . given under my hand and seale the 26. of feb. 1643. e. manchester . to the president or locum tenens of — colledge . by vertue of an ordinance of parliament , entituled , an ordinance for regulating the university of cambridge , and the removing of scandalous ministers in the seven associated counties ; giving me likewise power to eject such masters of colledges as are scandalous in their lives or doctrines , or doe oppose the proceedings of parliament : i doe eject — from being master of — colledge in cambridge , for opposing the proceedings of parliament , and * other scandalous acts in the university of cambridge . and i require you to sequester the profits of his mastership for one that i shall appoint in his place ; and to cut his name out of the butteries , and to certifie me of this your act within one day . given under my hand and seale the 13. of march 1643. e. manchester . to the president and fellowes of — colledge in cambridge . this , wee hope , will satisfie the indifferent reader concerning the truth and ground of our sufferings . ii. but lest a second mistake should arise , that ( supposing them to be true , yet ) they are not ( perhaps ) so great as we pretend , because that for the most part wee have given but a sleight glance at them ; wee held it very requisite to give this further advertisement : 1. that in matters of this nature , a man ought not to macerate his soule too much by reflecting on his owne misery , lest the devill thereby get an advantage upon him , to tempt him to a melancholy despaire . 2. though wee desire hereby to move every compassionate christian to a fellow-feeling of our miseries ; yet have wee endeavoured ( as much as we could ) to forbeare the long insisting upon particulars , lest wee should offend his eares instead of moving his compassion . for as in musique the harshnesse of a discord may be omitted , if it be not too long produced ; so have wee studied to temper these harsh notes to the tender eare of the christian auditor , by making a speedy transition from one to anotier . 3. we had so many matters of complaint , ( and might have had many more , if wee had been all together to conferre our sufferings ) that this small remonstrance would have swelled to ( an lliada malorum ) a just volumne , if we had not purposely endeavoured to comprise an ilias in a nut-shell , by instancing onely in some , and reducing those to as small a modell as possibly we could . and to this end also wee have used as much plainnesse of speech in our expressions , as ingeniousnesse of the truth of the thing it selfe . and indeed if wee should but a little have indulged our penne the liberty of a rhetoricall flourish , wee should thereby have made our sufferings ( which in themselves are almost beyond beliefe ) to have seemed altogether incredible . iii. but our greatest aur last feare is , least the intollerable weight of those heavy pressures under which wee have so long groaned , have ( perhaps ) extorted from us some expressions which may not seem altogether to become persecuted christians . and in this we submit our selves wholly to the candour of the charitable reader , desiring him to interpret all things in the best sense . for though wee have used our endeavours to avoid all manner of expressions which might seeme to savour of malice , yet carrying about us those passions which accompany flesh and blood , it is impossible but wee should somtimes slip . wee know very well , and acknowledge , that prayers and teares are the onely defensive weapons of a chrstian against persecutions : and if any thing , which is not fully confonant hereunto , hath passed from our pen , wee desire it may be imputed to out many infirmities ; seeing we are still ready to pray for our persecutors , that god would open their eyes , that they may yet see and repent of those many and great wrongs which they have done to him , his true religion and service , to his annointed our gracious soveraigne , as also to us in particular , and other their fellow-subjects . which if it would please him to grant unto them , wee might quickly recover the temporall peace of this distracted kingdome ; and they the possibility of enjoying everlasting peace in the kingdome of heaven . 1 pet. 4. 16. if any man suffer as a christian , let him not be ashamed , but let him glorifie god on this behalfe . act. 5. 41. they departed from the presence of the councill , rejoycing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name . john 16. 33. in the world ye shall have tribulation : but be of good cheere , i have overcome the world . aug. in psal. 93. boni laborant quia flagellantur ut filii : mali exultant quia damnantur ut alieni . idem in psal. 125. sicut qui seminat per hyemem non deterretur ab opere propter hyemem : sie & nos pressura mundi non debemus à bono opere deterreri , quia qui seminant in lachrymis , in gaudio metent . querela cantabrigiensis : or , the universities complaint . though an apology for our long silence might better become us then any other forme of prefacing , yet were there some that thought it better to fit downe in the shade of coole patience , and sweeten the sad prospect of our owne miseries , by reflecting on the great publike woes of this kingdome , then incurre the suspicion of querelous natures , such as are apt to cry out onely at the imagination of being hurt . but seeing our miseries are reall , and our sufferings not so much intended against us , as against that famous university , whereof by right , wee are still actuall members ; and that the adverse party , hath hitherto made so much advantage of our tamenesse , as to steal away our livelyhood from us , and conceale the theft : though our owne mothers mouth be stopped , by violently seizing her presse , and thereby not suffered to speake , but ( like apollo's statue of old ) just as the evill spirit speakes in her , which at this time utters little else but disloyalty and rebellion : yet seeing it hath pleased the hand of providence to give us this happy opportunity freely to bewaile our owne miseries ; we are at length resolved to doe justice to these mens iniquity and our owne innocence , that our fellow-subjects may know , ( and if they leave so much learning as to speak in another language , the whole world may hereafter understand ) how , and by what a●●s the knipperdullings of this age ( who thinke shortly to make themselves kings of this sion ) have reduced a glorious and renowned university , almost to a meere munster , and have done more , in lesse then three yeers , then the apostate julian could effect in all his raigne , viz. broken the heart-strings of learning and learned men , and thereby luxated all the joynts of christianity in this kingdome . the particulars whereof , and the barbarous courses taken to bring these designes to effect , as we shall truly and impartially set them downe , so we feare not to appeale to any impartiall judge , whether if the goths and vandalls , or even the turks themselves , had over-run this nation , they would more inhumanely have abused a flourishing university , then these pretended advancers of religion and learning have done ; it being a constant custome ( if not also the law of nations ) in the fiercest encounters of the most enraged parties , to exempt and priviledge scholars from , if not protect them by their martiall proceedings . to begin therefore with the first occasion , ( as wee conceive ) from whence they pretended any cause of this rage and persecution against us , ( though the meere conscience of so senslesse a rebellion cryed up onely by the illiterate herd , might afford reason enough for them to look asquint upon all scholars quâ tales ) the contribution of a small pittance of money to our soveraignes extream necessity before any warre was thought on by us , is made to be our impardonable crime , ( though not then prohibited by any order or ordinance ) which ( added to the tendernesse of our consciences in refusing their wicked consederacie , commonly called the covenant ) by the help of their legislative engine , has bereaved us of all , and cast us from our livelyhoods , maintenance and colledges , for when his sacred majesty ( whom they made to be the first grand delinquent , and whose crowne-revenues and estate , together with his townes , ships , and magazines , they sequestred and seized on ) daigned ( by his royall letters to acquaint his poore university with his strange wants , even of sustenance for his very houshold : our hearts burned within us , to heare our living founder , whom we expected to be made ( by that time ) a great and glorious king , ( as was promised him ) should almost starve while we had bread on our table . whereupon out of our poverty , a small and inconsiderable summe of money was collected and tendered , as a testimony not onely of our loyalty to him as king , or of our gratitude as our most gracious and bountifull protector and benefactor● but also of our charity to him as a christian , then in extreame want and necessity . wee hope our persecutors will pardon us this expression , seeing our metaphysicks may with lesse danger of treason abstract charles from king , then their bullets ; and this was the first flower out of which they suckt all that venome which shortly after they disgorged upon us . hereupon his sacred majesty ( knowing well how eager that partie was in revenging the least seeming provocation , and being informed of that cloud which was then hanging over us and ours , for that action of humanity , loyalty , and christianity ) out of his care and tendernesse , proffered to secure our colledge plate ( if wee were content to deposit it in his hands ) which their intended revenge , had already swallowed without any grace , so much as of the publick faith : and therefore wrot his most gracious letters to us to take an exact survey of it , not only for the weight , but also of the forme of every piece , together with the names , armes , and mottoes of the respective donors , that if ( perhaps ) his majesty could not preserve it intire as it was , he might restore it hereafter in the same weight and forme , and with the same markes : all which he graciously insured upon his royall word . it behoved not us to refuse protection from that hand to which god ( for that end ) had entrusted a scepter , especially considering the concurrence of actions about that time . it is not unknowne to most part of this kingdome , that not long before this , the zealous brethren of essex and suffolke had packt themselves together in a religious rout , to give the first essay of a popular reformation : how happily this work did thrive in their hands , has been already published to the kingdome , and the ruines of the two magnificent houses of the countesse rivers ( with many other gentlemens houses of quality ) are still dismal i witnesses . so that ( having found the sweat of their labours ) the reformers would in all likelyhood have prosecuted the great work as farre as cambridge , for a lesse prize then our university plate , ( thanks be to god and our good benefactors . ) and we had good reason to fear the increase of their army , if they had come neer us , seeing the inferiour part of the town had provided arms , and yet had no commanders ; and some that durst discharge a musquet , made it their practice to terrifie us , and disturb our studies by shooting in at our windows . and therefore lest our plate should become a bait to have our libraries rifled , our colledges pulled down , and perhaps our throats cut , we thought it our wisest course to secure all , by securing that in his majesties gracious hands . upon these reasons ( which no judicious man will esteem otherwise then weighty ) we endeavoured to convey away some part of our plate about the beginning of august , 1642. ( which by the way was before either his majesties standard was erected , or his proclamation issued out to that end : however many of us , and others have suffered for it , as fomenters of this warre . ) but within a few dayes after , ( see how the just grounds of our feares concentrated ) one master cromwell , burgesse for the towne of cambridge , and then newly turn'd a man of warre , was sent downe by his masters above , at the invitation of his masters below , ( as himselfe confessed ) to gather what strength hee could to stop all passages that no plate might be sent : but his designes being frustrated , and his opinion as of an active subtile man , thereby somewhat shaken and endangered , hee hath ever since bent himselfe to worke what revenge and mischiefe he could against us . in pursuit whereof , before that month was expired , downe he comes againe in a terrible manner with what forces he could draw together , and surrounds divers colledges , while we were at our devotion in our severall chappels , taking away prisoners , severall doctors of divinity , heads of colledges , viz. d. beale master of s. john's colledge , d. martin master of queens col. and d. sterne master of jesus col. men of such eminent worth and abilities , as render them above the reach of our commendation , and these he carryes with him to london in triumph : and though there was an expresse order from the lords house for their imprisonment in the tower , which met them at tottenham-high crosse , ( wherein notwithstanding there was no crime expressed ) yet were they led captive through bartholomew faire , and so as farre as temple-bar , and back through the city to prison in the tower , on purpose that they might be houted at , or stoned by the rabble-rout . since which time , now above three yeares together they have been hurried up and downe from one prison to another at excessive and unreasonable charges , and fees exacted from them , farre beyond their abilities to defray , having all their goods plundered , and their masterships and livings taken from them , which should preserve them from famishing . and though in all this time there was never any accusation brought , much lesse proved against any of them ; yet have they suffered intolerable imprisonment over since , both by land and water , especially that in the ship , where for ten dayes together , they ( with many other gentlemen of great rank ) were kept under deck , without liberty to come to breath in the common aire , or to ease nature , except at the courtesie of the rude saylors , which oftentimes was denyed them . in which condition , they were more like gally-slaves , then free-borne subjects , and men of such quality and condition ; and had been so indeed , might some have had their wills , who were bargaining with the merchants to sell them to argiers , or as bad a place , as hath been since notoriously knowne upon no false or fraudulent information . and now that we are mentioning our reverend and worthy heads of houses , we may not omit , what our long exile from the said university will not suffer us otherwise then by certaine report to be apprehensive of : namely , that a very great number of them are since in the same condition with us , that is , deprived of all , and banished : particularly , the right reverend father in god , the lord bishop of exeter , against whom their malice could invent no more then that he was a bishop , nor pretend any thing , but that , being vice-chancellour , hee did according to his office preach a learned and pious sermon in saint maries , march 27. 1645. being the day of his majesties most happy inauguration . to whom wee may adde that most reverend and learned man , doctor collins , his majesties professor of divinity , whose extraordinary worth and paines had continued him in that place almost thirty yeares , and made his name famous , and his person desirable in every protestant university in christendome : and yet his loyaltie and conscience caused our new pretended reformers to think him unworthy so much as of a countrey cure , ( for they sequestred likewise both his livings ) though since , as wee heare , they have restored him to his professors place , which none of them are able to discharge , and he living in their quarters , durst not deny . thus likewise have doctor comber , d. pask , d. cosin , and d. lany , been deprived of their severall masterships and livings , and some of them also plundered of their goods , though all of them be very eminent for their learning , prudence , judgement and piety , among all that know them , and have no prejudice of them . and for conclusion ( as the epitome of all ) wee adde d. holdsworth , whose universall approbation put him up-the troublesome office of vice-chancellour-ship for three yeares together in the beginning of these troubles ; yet before his trienniall office was expired , his person was seized upon and imprisoned , first in ely-house , then ( because they thought that was not expensive enough , though they had plundered him of all ) they thrust him into the tower onely for his loyaltie in seeing his majesties commands executed for the printing of such declarations at cambridge , as were formerly printed at york ; which though the committees before which he appeared have alwaies objected against him as licensing the kings books , yet hath hee ever denyed it , ( for the manner , though not for the matter ) professing himselfe before them , not to be so sawcy as to offer to license any thing which his majesty commanded to be printed : but yet still enjoyning the printer ( as he would answer the contrary at his perill ) that the thing might be performed according to his majesties command . and that the whole body of the university might fare no better then the heads ; not long after the carrying up of the first three , they gave us an argument of a sad presage . what was like to become of that ancient and famous seminary of learning and religion , when those root-and-branch-men chose that place for the prime garrison and ran●ezvouz of their association ? whereby the subtile enginiers of the great pretended worke of reformation hoped not so much to gaine security to their disloyall actions by any fortifications of that towne , ( which it never was capable of , as now plainly appeares ) as some countenance and authority rather ( which they had more need of ) from the sacred name of an university to be listed theirs . by this meanes instead of carrying us all to london gaoles , ( thanks be to our multitude , not their mercy ) they found a device to convey a prison to us , and under colour of fortification confin'd us onely in a larger inclosure , not suffering any scholars to passe out of the towne , unlesse some townesman of their tribe would promise for him that he was a consider , as they call it . and after this intrenchment for almost two yeares together , ( wee are forced with unsp●akable griefe of mind to think ) what prophanations , violence , outrages and wrongs our chappels , colledges and persons have suffered by the uncontrolled fury of rude souldiers , notwithstanding two severall protections to the contrary , one from the house of peeres , the other from the generalissimo the earle of essex . it is grievous to our memories to recount , how our vice-chancellour and heads of colledges solemnly assembled in consistory , being many of them threescore yeares old and upward , were kept prisoners in the publique schooles in an exceeding cold night till midnight , without any accommodations for food , firing or lodging ; and for no other reason , but onely because they could not in conscience comply or contribute any thing to this detestable warre against his majesty : yet they , notwithstanding all terrours and ill usage the day following this their ●m●r●sonment , did constantly and unanimously avouch and decla●e before the then gonerall of the association , that it was against true religion and good conscience for any to contribute to the parliament in this warre . whereupon our learned and reverend professors , two of divinity , and one of the law , the very junior whereof ( as well as the other two ) had faithfully discharged his place almost so long as that by the imperiall lawes ( his owne profession ) ever since valens the emperour , he might have challenged to have been * comes imperii ; yet all the encouragement any of them could get from these was , perpetually to be harrowed by plundering and tedious imprisonment to betray their loialty , learning , and consciences to the advancement of this present rebellion , till at last that reverend man whom posterity will honour ( henceforth as much for his loyaltie as his learning ) doctor samuel ward ( a man of knowne integrity and universall approbation even amongst those who were his adversaries in this cause ) took the wings of a dove to flye away and be at rest : whose dying words ( as if the cause of his martyrdome had been written in golden letters upon his heart ) were breathed up to heaven with his parting soule , god blesse the king . and though the grave resolutions of all the reverend professors of divinity and law in so famous an university ought to be more sacred and powerfull with them then the noise of their new teachers and obstreperous american lay-lecturers , yet they are not ashamed , after all these ( upon mature deliberation and consultation with the rest of the learned men of that famous university ) have publiquely and unanimously declared their proceedings to be flatly contrary to christian religion and loyalty , ( and have stood therein even to imprisonment and death ) to perswade the silly abused multitude , that all is for the defence of his majesty , and the protestant religion . neither is their wild fury confinable within those banks , it swels yet higher : for as the tyrant wished that rome had but one neck , that hee might cut it off at one stroke ; so these having got the opportunity , imprisoned the whole university , march 23. 1643. which day the whole senate , ( the representative body of it ) being solemnly assembled in the regent house , were there violently invironed with great binds of armed souldiers , who wanted nothing but the word to dispatch us , because wee would not vote in a matter as they would have us , though that matter did not any whit concerne them or their cause , more then the conferring of a degree upon such a man as the whole university in their consciences judged unworthy of it : and one master danes , ( generall of that famous expedition , but formerly a member of that house which he then so abused ) adding perjury to his former sinnes , came in a terrible manner , ( contrary to his oath formerly taken to his mother the university ) and flatly denied the vice-chancellour leave to dissolve the congregation , unlesse hee would first promise that the matter should be voted , as they required : whereupon sundry members of that senate , being observed to make use of that statute-liberty and freedome , which was essentiall to that assemblie , were forrhwith seized on , and imprisoned by the committee , in no better lodgings then the common court of guard . which strange and violent perverting of our universities proceedings , wee wondred at the lesse , for that this captaine had not done more to us , then captaine ven with his raggamuffins had done formerly to the sacred senate of the whole kingdome . and that all academicall exercises might expire , and so the face of an university be quite takenaway , a grave divine ( the lady margarets publique preacher ) going to preach ad clerum , ( according to his office ) pridie termini , was furiously pursued over the market place by a confused number of souldiers , who in a barbarous uncivill manner cryed out , a pope , a pope , and vowed high revenge if he offered to goe into the pulpit ; whereupon the church was straightwayes filled with great multitudes , and when some who accompanyed the preacher , told them , it was an university exercise , and to be by statute performed in latine , they replyed , they knew no reason why all sermons should not be performed in english , that all might be edified , threatning withall to teare the hoods and habits which graduates then wore , according to the university statute . yet all this may perhaps be extenuated as a sudden uproare of undisciplined souldiers , but ( which is the aggravation of all , and makes us beleeve that these petty reformers were but the senslesse instruments of higher agents ) when all this was related to their then generall of the association , no course was taken at all to prevent these growing mischiefes , but the divine appointed by statute to preach ad clerum , was inforced to returne re infectâ , and glad he could escape so : and this is the great protection which learning is like to find from these grand pretenders to advance it . and that religion might fare no better then learning in the university church , ( for perhaps it may be idolatry now to call it saint maries ) in the presence of the then generall our common-prayer-book was torne before our faces , notwithstanding our protection from the house of peeres for the free use of it , some ( now great one ) encouraging them in it , and openly rebuking the university clerk who complained of it before his souldiers . thus those reverend fathers , the compilers of it , who sealed the truth thereof with their dearest bloud , being content to burne at a stake for the light of the gospel , are now this second time martyred and torne in pieces in their liturgie , yet all this under pretence of religion . it will not be strange now to hear how our persons have been abused , seeing religion and learning have suffered so deeply amongst us : how divers of us have been imprisoned without so much as pretending any cause , but snatcht up in the streets , and throwne into prison at the pleasure of a small sneaking captaine , where wee have laine three or foure moneths together , not so much as accused , much lesse heard , but quite and cleane forgotten , as if there had been no such thing in nature . how some of us ( and many others with us ) have been thrust out of bed in the night , that our chambers might forthwith be converted into prison lodgings : how our young scholars with terrour have been commanded to accuse and cut out the names of their owne tutors , and some of them throwne into prison for not being old enough to take their covenant * : but ( to passe higher ) how often have our colledges been beset , and broken open , and guards thrust into them somtimes at midnight , while wee were asleep in our beds ? how often our libraries and treasuries ransackt and rifled , not sparing so much as our auncient * coynes ? which those that know any thing , know to be a great light to the understanding of historie . how often hath that small pit●ance of commons which our founders and benefactors allotted for our sustenance , been taken from off our tables by the wanton soldier ? how often have our rents been extorted from our tenants , or if received , remanded of our bursars and stewards , and by force taken from them ? and all this under the old odious title of plundering , which word though they cannot endure to heare of , since that new terme of sequestration was invented ; yet the thing is the same , and more practised then ever , they having for above two yeares together set themselves upon little else then to seize and take away our goods and furniture belonging to our chambers , prizing and selling away our books at a tenth part of their value , which are our onely tooles and instruments whereby the trade and profession of learning should be holden up . and to this end they have constituted a decay'd hatter , plunder-master generall , who ( together with a conventieling barber and a confiding tayler ) hath full commission , for our propriety sake , to lord over us , and dispose of out goods as they please : so despicable a thing to them is an university , or any that belong unto it . but their malice is unsatiable , and cannot be contained within the line of their fortifications , and therefore to propagate their owne wickednesse , and make us odious and abominable to the whole country , as wee were already ( though most undeservedly ) to some of themselves , they have invented a pretty device to reserve out of their plunder all sorts of pictures , were they but paper prints of the twelve apostles , and every market-day to burne them openly in the market-place , proclaiming them the popish idols of the university , untill wee became so hated by the weaker sort of the deceived people , that a scholar could have small security from being stoned or affronted as he walkt the streets . but why doe wee insist so long upon particular mens plundering , when whole colledges ( wherein not onely the present , but also the future propagation of religion and learning is concerned ) have drunke so deeply the dregs of their malice ? for besides the cutting down of our walks and orchards , ( contrary to their own generalissimo's orders of warre ) they have cut downe the woods and groves belonging to our colledges , and sold them before our eyes to a great value , when by an ordinance they were declared not sequestrable : and ( which was likewise contrary to an order ) they have seized and taken away the materials of our intended buildings , to the worth of three or foure hundred pounds in timber , which our pious and charitable benefactors had out of their devotion conferred towards the re-edifying of an ancient colledge which time had impaired : and , to shew what violent passions they are transported withall , they have pulled down , demolished and defaced five or six faire bridges of stone and timber belonging to severall colledges , and have spoyled a goodly walk with a new gate pertaining to one of our * colledges , upon pretence of keeping our cavaliers , and yet for forty shillings they would faine have been hired to spare it , and cast up a work beyond . and let the world judge whether this was not done to get the countenance of a contribution from a colledge to their fortifications , and consequently to this warre against the king . but ( as if bridges and materials for buildings were nothing ) they have yet proceeded further , even to the very structure it selfe of one of the fairest colledges in our university , which they plundered the true owners of , for above sixteen moneths together , as an especiall argument of their love to learning , and have converted all the old court thereof into a prison for his majesties loyall subjects , ( which before the other was built , has contained above three hundred students at a time ) not suffering any whom it concerned to remove any bedding or other goods , whereof the gaoler could make any use or benefit , but renting them all out together with the chambers at above five hundred pounds per an. and as if spoyling of one colledge were not enough , their malice has since extended it selfe to all the rest , in quartering multitudes of common souldiers in those glorious and ancient structures , which our devout and royall founders designed for sanctuaries of learning and piety , but were made by them meere spittles and bawdy-houses for sick and debauched souldiers , being filled with queans , drabs , fiddlers , and revels night and day . which black deeds of darknesse being divers times complained of by us to their officers , and the particular men thewed them , who had thus lewdly abused our colledges , none of these new reformers were ever punisht , nor the holy sisters removed , nor so much as called before any that then bore rule among us . by which meanes , ( see what religion they fight for , and what a glorious reformation we may expect ) they have dishonoured god , countenanced lewdnesse , scandalized modest and civill men , and driven from us , or poysoned among us , those young students which were left . to this we may adde , how they have torne and defaced those reverend buildings , pull'd down and burned the wainscot of our chambers , our bed-steads , chaires , stools , tables , and shelves for our books , so as they may now have some plea for multiplying of gaoles , if the liberty of the subject shall so require . and when their ragged regiments which had lyen lowzing before crowland nigh a fortnight , were commanded to cambridge , forthwith the colledges are appointed for their kennels , and fourscore were turned loose into one of the least halls in the university , and charged by their officers to shift for themselves ; who without any more ado , broke open the fellowes and scholars chambers , and took their beds from under them . but when the kings prisoners taken at hilsden-house were brought famished and naked in triumph by cambridge to london , some of our scholars were knockt down in the streets , only for offering them a cup of small beere to sustain nature , and the drinke throwne in the keanell , rather then the famished and parched throats of the wicked , as they esteem'd them , should usurp one drop of the creature . and it is much to be feared , they would have starved them in prison there , if a valiant chamber-maid had not relieved them by force , trampling under her feet in the kennell their great persecuter , a lubberly scotch major . what should wee mention moreover , how we have been over-whelmed with insupportable taxes extorted from us by plundering , sessed not by any of our owne body , but ( which is directly contrary to our established priviledges ) by the arbitration of a few confiding aldermen , our professed enemies , who , instead of that gratitude which very nature requires at their hands , now repay us with unsatiable malice and envy ; which property of theirs have since commended and qualified them to be appointed commissioners and judges to strip us of our estates and livelyhoods . and when neither our consciences nor estates could extend any further to defray their imposts for our very chambers ( which their soldiers then possessed and burnt ) besides all excises , weekly paiments , taxes , fift and twentieth part , upon all our revenews , and other such new termes of property and libertie , all the favour we can expect from them , is , quietly to be thrust into prison without further abusings . and although all these are but sad theames to be thus farre inlarged and dilated upon , yet they thinke they can stop the noise of all these just complaints with their usuall grinning objection , that sundry of our students are in the kings army : making that to be their crime , to which if their owne innate loyaltie did not draw them , yet their haughty and heathenish usage would of necessity drive them : for who had not rather fall upon the bed of honour , and assert with his dearest blood , his religion , loyaltie , and liberty , then live a slave under them , to set his surviving foot-steps upon the graves and ashes of expired loyaltie , nobility , gentry , clergie , and civility it selfe ? and now to tell how they have prophaned and abused our severall chappels ; though our pens flowed as fast with vineger and gall , as our eyes doe with teares , yet were it impossible sufficiently to be expressed : when as multitudes of enraged souldiers ( let loose to reforme ) have to me downe all carved worke , not respecting the very monuments of the dead : and have ruined a beautifull carved structure in the universitie church ( though indeed that was not done without direction from a great one , as appeared after upon complaint , made to him ) which stood us in a great summe of money , and had not one jot of imagery or statue worke about it . and when that reverend man the then vice-chancelour told them mildly , that they might be better imployed , they returned him such language , as we are asham'd here to express . nor was it any whit strange to find whole bands of soldiers training and excercising in the royall chappell of king henry the sixth : nay even the commanders themselves ( being commanded to shew their new major generall * how well they understood their trade ) chose that place to trayne in , ( whether in policy to conceale their mysterie , or out of feare to betray their ignorance , or on purpose to shew their soldiers how little gods house was to be regarded , let the world conjecture . ) and one who calls himselfe john dowsing , and by vertue of a pretended commission goes about the country like a bedlam , breaking glosse windowes , having battered and beaten downe all our painted glasse , not only in our chappels , but ( contrary to order ) in our publique schools , colledge halls , libraries , and chambers , mistaking perhaps the liberall artes for saints ( wth they in end in time to pull down too ) and having ( against an order ) defaced and digged up the floors of our chappels , many of which had lien so for two or three hundred yeares together , not regarding the dust of our founders and predecessors , who likely were buried there ; compelled us by armed souldiers to pay forty shillings a colledge for not mending what hee had spoyled and defaced , or forthwith to goe to prison : we shall need to use no more instances then these two , to shew that neither place , person nor thing , hath any reverence , or respect amongst them . * a fellow of one of our colledges was violently pluckt from the communion , as hee was ready to receive that holy sacrament before the solemne election of a master of that colledge , and thrown into gaole , to the great disturbance of the election : and at another * colledge the communion-plate was most sacrilegiously seized upon and taken away from the very communion table , notwithstanding it was ( upon a former plunder ) restored to the said colledge by an order from the close committee of the 18. of september , 1643. under the hands of the earle of pembrooke , earle of denbigh , lord say , lord howard , sir william waller , and master pym . and yet all these actions of theirs were but preparatory pils to dispose our whole body for its finall purge of reformation , when ever they should please to think it sick of us : and that is this last act , which is none of the least arguments of this our sad complaint . for although wee were seldome in any freedome for any time neere these three yeares from some protestation , oath , association , vow and covenant , &c. menaced upon us , yet this last onely brought with it the fatall doome of our finall extirpation : though wee must have leave to wonder that all liberty of conscience should be denied us by them , who lately pleaded nothing else against the established ecclesiasticall lawes , and now pretend partly to fight for the same : but indeed the covenant was not the true cause but the pretence onely for our ejection , ( for that is the word of art , for this newly invented mystery ) as appeares by severall writs issued out under hand and seale without mention of refusing the covenant . the thing was absolutely determined by a perentptory decree , to plant a new university for propagating at least , if not inventing a new religion : and to that end the old one must be removed , at least so much of it , for the present , as might hinder this great designe ; onely some meanes and plausible pretences were yet wanting . the first that was attempted was to summon all those that were absent to return within ten dayes . but then they were so far to seek for reason of ejection , as that after almost halfe ten dayes more study all they could insert in their writ was , for opposing the proceedings of parliament , and other scandalous actions in the university : their tongues thereby testifying their mindes , though perhaps out of incogitancy , which are so furiously set upon their great worke of reformation as to punish the opposing of scandalous actions , with the losse of all a mans livelyhood . whether they were ashamed of the phrase or not , we know not ; but they had very good reason to be ashamed of the act , being so different from all shew of justice , as to enjoyne impossibilities in commanding men to returne within twelve dayes , after issuing the summons , which at that time were above two hundred miles distant , and had two armies to passe through all the waies : or enjoyning them to be resident at cambridge , whom themselves at the same time kept fast prisoners at london : and yet for non appearance , for no man knowes any other cause , these must be ejected . but though this be not so plausible , yet they have a sure reserve , their solemne league and covenant , which comming from their deare brethren of scotland , they thinke no penalty too great for refusall of it : and this , because it carries in its frontispice a pretence of reformation , comes not alone , but ( though without any visible order ) accompanied with a new legislative fangle called an oath of discovery , but indeed was an oath of treachery , a wild unlimited devise to call whom they would before them , and make them accuse their nearest and dearest friends , benefactors , tutors , and masters , and betray the members and acts of their severall societies , manifestly contrary to our peaceable statutes formerly sworne unto by us , which provide against all faction and sedition , which these men only hunt after , [ viz. non revelabis aliquod secretum collegii ; non malum aut damnum inferes collegio aut cuilibet sociorum : ] and apparently reviving the oath ex offishio , ( as their commissioners spell it ) abolished this present parliament , to accuse our selves : for what is it else to accuse our owne societies and corporations , whereof our selves are parts and members ? and though wee would not any whit derogate from the oath ex officio as it is used this day in most christian kingdomes and common-wealths , nay even in scotland and geneva , and may be of excellent use , if not stretched beyond the due limits of law : yet this oath of discovery , all , we thinke , except one or two , refused , perceiving that thereby the designe of a second century was to be promoted ; for they finding no accusation or crime objected against any of us , wherewith to colour their ugly purposes , which they had already plotted in private against us , and yet their covenant must be for reformation , they resolved to shrive us with an auricular confession sanctified to the cause , that so we might help them out with their malice , which was otherwise like to be borne blind , though hitherto it hath been eagle-eyed over our most veniall slips ; and forthwith upon refusall of this oath was their solemne league and covenant urged upon us . we cannot but signifie by the way , that seeing it must be tendered to the university , as their printed instructions told us , we hoped it should have beene to the whole body statuteablie assembled , either to admit of , or otherwise humblie to shew reasons of deniall , but they were wise enough to foresee what entertainment such stuffe was like to find from all the learned men of so famous an universitie , and were not willing it should be blasted with their universall refusall . and therefore contrary to our hopes , a selected number of particular men are cull'd out , partly as the lot fell , for it much resembled a lottery , but cheifly of such whom they most redoubted , & of whom by some pettie information , they had received a black character of loyaltie termed malignancy , and to these , yet severally , was tendered the oath of discovery , and after that the covenant . and though indeed we should , by gods help , as often have refused it , as it should have bin offered , yet after one single deniall , without a second tender , contrary to the eleaventh article of the instructions , a warrant was straightway issued forth under the earl of manchesters hand and seal for our ejection and banishment from the universitie of cambridge for refusing to take the solemn league and covenant , and other misdemenors in the said universitie , which were surely no other then the deniall of the oath of discovery , for not one of us who were there present , had any one accusation brought , much lesse proved against him , when we appeared upon their summons . and without any delay our names are cut out of the colledge tables , and we strictly commanded in three dayes space to quit the universitie and towne under paine of imprisonment and plunder , if any thing was left . and it is here not to be passed by , that whereas by the laws of the land we were ever reputed to have as good an interest in our several fellowships during life , as any of our fellow subjects in his see simple , provided we carried our selves according to those statutes by which our severall colledges were respectively to be governed , yet now we are utterly deprived of them by the meer arbitrary power of one of our fellow subjects without transgressing of any one statute , or being called to answer for any pretended offence whatsoever . nay , so little was propriety valued , that a paire of * camp-chaplains , or one of them , might expunge , eject , and banish whom they pleased , especially such as would not sacrifice their loyalitie and consciences to the nerves and cement of this rebellion , called the covenant . for instance , when a warrant for ejection of certain fellows of saint johns colledge was issued out under hand and seale , and their names expresly mentioned in it , yet m. ash knowes very well who it was that expunged m. henmans name , and put in m. botelers , without so much at writing the warrant over againe . and now ( seeing what courses were taken ) it will not seeme strange to the reader , to heare that no lesse then 29. fellows , ( together with the master ) have been thrust out of the said colledge , the emoluments of whose places have beene ever since swallowed up by not halfe the number , and not content with that neither . and in another they have made a through reformation , root and branch , leaving neither fellow nor scholar . in others indeed they have left perhaps one or two , ( or more as they see good ) like gibeonites , to hew wood and draw water , till such time as they have discovered unto them all the mysteries concerning their colledge revenues , and by that time they will finde enow godly men of their owne tribe , learned enough to pocket the profits of two fellowships apiece , which is the end of all this blessed reformation . thus is their old pretence of regulation vanished , in place whereof their true intention of a totall extirpation of the whole ancient body of the university doth now so plainly appeare , that they which runne may read it ; which though a great many would not beleeve , till by woefull experience they found it , yet was it conspicuous enough from the very beginning to any that was but tollerably provident in matters of this nature . for it was hardly possible that cambridge should be free from these two crying sinnes of sacriledge and rebellion , which the devill hath long endeavoured to make this whole kingdome guilty of ; and to that end ( mis-calling them by the names of religion and liberty ) had masked under the counterfeit vizard of a covenant for reformation : by which means though the simplicity of the vulgar was much abused , to the extreame hazard of this once flourishing church and state ; yet seeing it could not be able to endure the strict search , which in such an universitie of all sorts of learned and conscientious men it was not like to escape ; it could not be otherwise expected , but that those who were his instruments herein , would lay a sure foundation , and ( how moderate soever their pretences were ) reforme root and branch , as they called it , that seeing they could not make the university of cambridge to rebell by taking their covenant , they might at least make a rebellious university at cambridge which should take it . and to this end those new intruders which falsly call themselves masters and fellowes of our severall colledges , instead of those solemne oaths which our pious and prudent founders and legislators enjoyned to be taken , ( and without taking of which , no man can pretend any right to any of their foundations ) onely take their covenant againe , and make a protestation to reforme all our wholsome laws and statutes according to that covenant . a covenant with hell , begot betweene munster and mecha , by the help of a jesuite , the most impious and unchristian confederacie that their grand master the devill could contrive : the cheife end whereof is to dethrone the lords anoynted , and throw down the church and apostolicall government thereof , and to force not only their fellow-subjects , to contradict their oathes of allegiance and supremacie , but even their most gracious soveraigne to perjurie , in violating that this sacred oath which hee solemnly made at his coronation . and to compleat that their most horrid and heinous sin , to joyne in armes with a forraigne nation , to lay desolate their owne native country , to stain this earth with the blood of their own country-men and fellow-subiects , and to expose the treasures of england , the cream of these fruitfull vallies , to the empty and hungry maw of a rebellious scot : and then vow never to have peace , but what shall be written in the bloud of their enemies ( his maiesty and his loyall subiects ) and lastly , most cruelly and wickedly to exhort and solicite all protestants in the christian world to undertake the like course with them by rising in rebellious armes ; thereby exposing the throats and lives of all our brethren the protestants in france and elsewhere to the just iealousy of their severall princes . and yet ( forsooth ) this covenant is made the foundation of the great worke of their glorious reformation , and under pretence of refusing this we must be banisht , and thrust out of all we have . it will not be more then what upon tryall will be found true , if we here mention a mysterie which many ( we conceive ) will not a little wonder at , viz. that this covenant , for which all this persecution hath been , consisted of 6. articles , and those articles of 666. words . this is not the first time that peresecution hath risen in england upon 6. articles , ( witnesse those in the raigne of king hen. the 8. * ) but as for the number of the beast , to answer directly to the words of those six articles , it is a thing , which ( considering gods blessed providence in every particular thing ) hath made many of us and others seriously and often to reflect upon it ; though we were never so superstitiously caballisticall as to ascribe much to numbers . this discovery ( we confesse ) was not made by any of us , but by a very judicious and worthy divine , formerly of our university , and then a prisoner ( for his conscience ) within the precincts of it , and not yet restored to his liberty , but removed to london . and therefore we shall forbeare to insist any farther , either upon it , or the occasion of it . for our owne particulars we shall only adde thus much , that seeing some of our owne reasons with which we had armed our selves against that mysterie of iniquity have since that time been published to the world ( in such humilitie of phrase as well became christian sufferers , though in such distraction as may sufficiently testifie who were the authors and what their condition ) we appeale to any who with judgment and moderation hath or shal read the same ; whether we have causlesly and foolishly triffed away those faire advantages wherewith god by the meanes of our renowned benefactors had endowed us , for the advancement of his glory , and further propagation of learning and true religion ; or whether we had not rather sufter'd an unjust deprivall of all our livelyhoods under the mercilesse hands of cruell tyrants , who neither feare god not respect the just sctuples of tender consciences . for when a member or our vniversitie was brought upon this occasion before the e. of manchester , and being not satisfied in conscience , desired his lop that his chaplaine ( then present ) might resolve him in some scruples about it ; to this motion ( being then thought not unreasonable ot his lop , and much pressed by some that were there present ) his reverend chaplain learnedly replyed before the whole company , that he came not thither to resolve mens consciences , but to preach to his lop. whereupon the gentleman was not long after sent up prisoner to london by the said earle for tendring the reasons of his refusing the covenant , though invited and required thereunto by his lordship : and there without farther hearing committed to prison , where he continued a long time at excessive charges , which is all the satisfaction he could finde ( or any other can expect ) from them , for the scruples of a tender conscience . thus are we imprisoned or banished for our consciences , being not so much as accused of any thing else , only suspected of loyaltie to our king , and fidelity to our mother the church of england ; and not onely so , but quite stript of all our livelyhood , and exposed to beggery , having nothing left us to sustaine the necessities of nature , and many of us no friends to goe to , but destitute and forlorne , not knowing whither to bend one step when we set footing out of cambridge , having one onely companion , which will make us rejoyce in our utmost afflictions , viz. a cleare conscience in a righteous cause : humbly submitting our selves to the chastisement of the almighty , who after he hath tryed us , will at last cast his rods into the fire . as for us , god forbid that we should take up any rayling or cursing , who are commanded onely to blesse : we are so far from that , that we have rather chosen to let the names of our greatest persecutors rot in our ruines , then so much as mention them with our pen , save onely where necessity compelled us unto it . but though we spare their names , we hope we may without offence to any describe their qualities : and therefore if posterity shall ask , who thrust out one of the eyes of this kingdome ? who made eloquence dumbe , phylosophie sottish , widdowed the arts , and drove the muses from their ancient habitation ? who pluckt the reverend and orthodox professors out of their chaires , and silenced them in prison or their graves ? who turned religion into rebellion , and changed the apostolicall chaire into a deske for blasphemy , and tore the garland from off the head of learning , to place it on the dull browes of disloyall ignorance ? if they shall aske , who made those ancient and beautifull chappells , the sweet remembrancers and monuments of our fore-father charitie , and kind fomenters of their childrens devotion , to become ruinous heaps of dust and stones ? or who unhived those numerous swarms of labouring bees , which used to drop honey-dews over all this kingdome , to place in their roomes swarmes of senslesse drones ? t is quickly answered , those they were , who endeavouring to share three crownes , and put them in their owne pockets , have transformed this free kingdome into a large gaole , to keep the liberty of the subject : they who maintaine 100000. robbers and murtherers by sea and land , to protect our lives , and the propriety of our goods : that have gone a king-catching these six yeeres , hunting their most gracious soveraigne like a partridge on the mountaines in his owne defence ; they who have possest themselves of his majesties townes , navie , and magazines , and robbed him of all his revenues , to make him a glorious king : who have multiplyed oathes , protestations , vows , leagues and covenants for the ease of tender consciences : filling all pulpits with jugglets for the cause , canting sedition , atheisme , and rebellion , to root out popery and babylon , and settle the kingdome of christ : who from a trembling guilt of a legalltry all have engaged three flourishing kingdomes , and left them weltring in their owne bloud , they ( lastly ) which when they had glutted themselves with spoyle and rapine , hissed for a forraigne viper to come and care up the bowels of their deare mother : the very same have stopt the mouth of all learning , ( following herein the example of their elder brother the turke ) lest any should be wiser then themselves , or posterity know what a world of wickednesse they have committed . and now seeing they are not content to deprive us of our estates , but ( which is much more grievous unto us ) have also robbed us of our good names , branding all of us in our severall writs of ejectment with a black character of misdemeaners in generall ( and yet not any one particular was alledged against any one of us , which were then there , much lesse offered to be proved by any one single witnesse , although especiall care was taken by an ordinance for appointing a committee to sit at cambridge for that purpose ) we challenge and conjure them as they will one day answer for this slander and oppression , that they declare and prove what those misdemeaners are ; which if they doe , the shame and guilt will be ours : if not ( as we are confident they cannot ) we must appeale herein from these unjust judges to the impartiall tribunall of the righteous judge of heaven and earth , who knowes our integritie , and to whom we submit our selves and cause , humblie beseeching him not to lay this sinne to their charge . for though for our many sinnes against him we may justly receive at his hands , heavier judgments then these : yet our innocence will plead not guiltie , to the face of any man who shall obiect against us any civill misdemeanors , whereby we can more iustly be deprived of our fellow . ships then any free subiect in england of his fee simple , if they please to say he is guilty of misdemeanors . and as it hath pleased our gracious master ( whose ministers we are ) to make us examples ( thogh but of suffering ) to the rest of our brethren : so we hope he will continue unto us his grace of humiliation under his mightie hand , as an earnest of his exalting us in due time : and in the interim , that he will lay no more upon us , then he shall be pleased to strengthen our infirmities to beare : and that he will still preserve unto us a good conscience , that whereas our persecutors speake evill of us as of evill doers , they may be ashamed that falsly accuse our good conversation in christ . finis . a catalogue of such heads and fellowes of colledges , and other learned , reverend , and religious gentlemen , of the famous university of cambridge , as have been ejected , plundred , imprisoned , or banished thence , for their constancie in the protestant religion established by law , and loyalty to their soveraigne . trinity colledge . d. combar , master , and dean of carlile , ejected , and m. hill put in his place , now doctor , and vice-chancellour . d. row , doctor in divin. d. meridith , d. d. master thorndike : master briscoe : master nevile : master jones : master marshall ▪ b. d. master west senior : master salmon . master chamberlaine , sen : master ashton , since dead . master willis , b. d. master barrey . master coake senior . master wyat. master herbert . master shaw. master parrat . master ofley . master crane . master creswell . master arundell . master bourcher . master sherley . master crawley master slater . master cooke junior . master price . master cave . master appleby . master meade . master wheeler . master howard . master trevis . master campian . master cowley . master yeardley . master lister . i could not learne certainly how many of these were bachelors in divinity . master leech . master scarlet . master yates . these three were conducts for the chappel , and all the rest fellowes . saint johns colledge . d. beale , master , ejected , who was some yeeres in prison , and exchanged , and master arrowsmith put into his place . master thornton . bodurda . ridding . terwhit . bletchinden . mason . buckley . ambrose . greenbagh . cooper . potter , since dead . rogers . wrench . lacy. all these and the former were bachelors in div. master cleveland . barwick senior . richardson . whittingham . spooner . bullock . otwey . jones . barwick junior . morgan . neale . hattou . boteler . watts . drake . all these masters in arts . kings colledge . d. collins professor in divinity , and provost , long imprisoned ejected , and master vvhitscot put into his place . master edmonds . mason . barlow . franklin . anstey . m. in arts . queens colledge . d. martin doctor in divinity , in prison , above these 4. yeeres , and master palmer put into his place . d. cox , d. in law . d. capel , d. in div. d. bardsey , d. in div. master chandler . marley . vvicherley . coldham . kemp . master bryan . sparrow . hills . these bachelors in di. master rogers . cox. vvalpole . appleby . freare . natley . vvells . vvhitehead . these masters in arts . christs colledge . d. bambrigg , master , who was not ejected , but dyed , and master bolton chosen into his place . master power , bachelor in divinity , and the lady margarets preacher , ejected . m. norton . m. brearly . bambrigg . vvildnet . tonstall . potts . since dead . huntley . mathews . all masters in arts . jesus colledge . d. sterne , d. in divinity , who hath been in prison above 4. yeeres , and master young put into his place . m. hall , prisoner above 3. yeeres in the comptet in southwarke . master anscell . clerkeson . bussey . bachelors in divinity . master blakeston , robinson , beale , taylor , hanson , lincolne , greene , mason , short , walker , these masters in arts . saint peters colledge . d. cosins , d. in divinity , ejected , and now gone beyond sea , and master seaman put into his place . m. tolley . barrow , maxwell , vvilson , terringham , pennyman , beaumont , bancks , crashaw , sr blackeston , m. collet , vvarr , vvilsford , archer , gowyn , bargrave , symsafe , holder , sandys i could not learne how many of these were bachelors in divinity . emanuel colledge . d. holdsworth , doctor in divinity , master , and long imprisoned , and ejected , and master tuckney put into his place . m. soresby , bachelor in divinity , ejected . pembroke hall . d. laney , doctor in divinity , master , ejected , & is now gone beyond sea , and master vi●es put into his place . m. vaughan . map le tost . franke . bachelors in divinity . m. poley , randall , vveeden , ashton , heath , lenthall , depden , quarles , cacot , hamond , keen senior . felton , who was ejected for refusing the covenant five dayes before he was asked the question whether he would take it or no , as the warrant for his ejectment sheweth . keene junior . may . these masters in arts . bokenham : tanquam socius . magdalen colledge . d. rainbow , doctor in divinity , master , who continueth still not ejected . ejected , doctor greene , doctor of the civill law . m. howorth , pullen , erskin , leech , bachelors in divinity , butler , ma : in arts . gunvile and caius colledge . d. bachcraft , doctor in divinity , master , who was not ejected , but continueth there still . ejected , master loveland , salter , london , buxton , pickarell , colebrand , watson , halliburton , all masters in arts , and all sequestred . m. scarborough , since commenced doctor of physick at oxford . clare-hall . d. paske , d. in divinity , master andejected , and master cudworth put into his place . m. oley , carter , bachelors in divinity . m. gunning , fabian , hickman , bing , havers , masters in arts . sidney , sussex colledge . d. ward , d. in divinity , and professor , master , who was long imprisoned here , & afterwards dyed , and d. minshall chosen into his place . ejected , master bartu , lawson , who dyed afterwards . ward , gibson , pawson , ma : in arts . trinity-hall . d. eden , doctor in law , master , not ejected ▪ but is dead , and d. bond is chosen into his place , & none of all that colledge were ejected . katherine hall . d. brownrigg , doctor in divinity , and bishop of exeter , master , and ejected , and master spurstow put into his place , and none of that colledge ejected besides . corpus christi , alias bennet colledge . d. love , d. in divinity , master , who was not ejected but continueth there still . master tunstall , bachelor in divinity , palgrave , bachelor in divinity , briggs , ejected . eccles. 4. 1. so i returned , and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sunne ; and behold the teares of such as were oppressed , and they had no comforter : and on the side of their oppressours there was power , but they had no comforter . eccles. 5. 8. if thou seest the oppression of the poore , and violent perverting of judgement and justice in a province , marvell not at the matter : for he that is higher then the highest , regardeth ; and there be higher then they . act. 13. 50. but the jewes stirred up the devout and honourable women , and the chiefe men of the city , and raised persecution against paul and barnabas , and expelled them out of their coasts . finis . notes, typically marginal, from the original text notes for div a26729e-160 * mark . it was not for scandalous acts , but for opposing . notes for div a26729e-1150 vid. mercur. rustic . 2. this particular appeareth by a paper delivered into the registers office , under the hands ( if not also upon the oathes ) of master christopher terne , and mr. anthony walker , both of st. johns colledge , who had musquets severall times discharged in at their windowes , as also divers others . alex. rigby the lawyer . vide declar. of the parl. at oxf. march 19. 1643. on good friday , mar. 30. 1643. * imperator valens grammaticos , sophistas , legum professores , qui per viginti annos probe munere docendi functi sunt , annumerari & honorari cum its , qui ex vicaria sint principis dignitate jubet & inter comites . greg. tholossan . syntog . lib. 19. c. 1. §. 8. uvi citat l. uni de professor . qui in urbe constantinop . lib. 12. c. tit. 1. juncta rub . & gl. m. power . lord gray of warke . see the preface . m. cromwell . jordan . so at saint johns coll. * so was joh. bullock of s. johns . * so at saint johns colledge , whence they took in ancient coines to the value of 22. l. according to weight . fortune . parrell . curd . so at jesus coll. clare hali. s. johns , trin. kings , garret hostle , and z. at queenes . * kings coll. s. johns coll. pembr. hall . pembr. hall . mistris cumbers maid . homes . m. cromwell . d. ward . kings coll. * crawford . see the pref. * master pawson of sidney colledge , though since hee hath proved himselfe an arrant honest man , and is rewarded for it with a fellowship in s. johns . * s. johns . see preface . * m. ash , and m. good . queenes colledge . * see m. fox , act. and mon. vol. 2. p. 443. edit. london . 1631. m. geast . m. maldero .