teneatur, se semel ad Crucem Divi Pauli infra annum post gradum susceptum concionaturum; conceditur, ut in majorem cautelam in dicto juramento hæc verba inserantur: Si legitime vocatus fuerit, et justa causa non impediatur.

July 3, 1647. Clausula juramentis acad. annectenda.

Placet vobis, ut in majorem in posterum cautelam jurantium et levamen hæc verba sint annexa juramentis academiæ, matriculationis, admissionis, creationis:

Senatus Cantabrigiensis decrevit et declaravit, eos omnes qui monitionibus, correctionibus, mulctis, et pœnis statutorum, legum, decretorum, ordinationum, injunctionum, et laudabilium consuetudinum hujus academiæ, transgressoribus quovis modo incumbentibus, humiliter se submiserint, nec esse nec habendos esse perjurii reos.

Et ut hæc vestra concessio pro statuto habeatur, et infra decem dies in libris procuratorum inscribatur.

Ex Lib. Gratiar.

THE UNIVERSITY TO THE EARL OF
HOLLAND.

[From MS. Baker. vol. x. xi. p. 130.]

Comiti Hollandiæ cancellario.

HONORATISSIME domine, dignissime cancellarie: cum tu de salute nostra adeo sollicitus sis, indigni penitus perpetuo tuo patrocinio videremur, nisi gratiarum nostrarum testificationem ad notitiam tuam perferri curaremus. Neque enim æquum est ut futura sibi promittant qui præsentium deditione onerantur. Et hoc quidem beneficium tuum eo nobis jucundius accedit, quod constantissimæ bo

nitatis tuæ indicium sit, eoque opportunius quod academiæ præstare possit inter armatos intrepidam, inter bellicos apparatus tranquillam. Et quamvis omnem dubitationem de propensissima tua erga nos voluntate mirifice tuæ pro nobis excubationes sustulerunt, proximam tamen favoris tui collationem ipsa conferendi ratio multo reddidit illustriorem. Parum siquidem tibi visum est desideriis nostris non abnuere, etiam ultro metum nostrum solatus es, et quasi cogitationibus nostris interfuisses. Securitati academiæ prospexisti, neque precibus nostris allectus neque querimoniis provocatus. Huic singulari tuæ vigilantiæ ut aliquo modo respondeamus, commune nostrum omnium votum est, quibus nihil magis fixum ac statutum est quam ut non solum auctoritas sed et benignitas tua summa semper apud nos veneratione habeatur.

Idibus Martiis.

THE EARL OF MANCHESTER'S VISITATION. [From Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, part i. p. 108.]

ON the 4th March, 1642, the earl of Holland, then chancellor of the University of Cambridge, obtained an order from the house of lords:

That no person or persons whatsoever shall presume to offer any outrage or violence unto any the colleges, chapels, libraries, schools, etc. belonging to the University of Cambridge, or to any of the scholars or public ministers thereof, nor plunder, purloin, deface, spoil, or take any of the books, etc.; and that divine service should be quietly performed and exercised, according to the settlement of the church of England, without any trouble, let, or disturbance, until the pleasure of the parliament be further

signified. Which order was followed three days afterwards by another of the same tenor from the earl of Essex, then general for the parliament.

But these protections proved only the shutting of the stable door after the steed was stolen; for to prevent their having any effect, whilst they were in progress, a warrant was suddenly issued and violently prosecuted by the lord Grey of Warke to col. Coke, lieut.-col. Brildon, etc., authorising them to enter into the houses of all papists, malignants, etc. that have, or shall have, refused to appear at musters, or to contribute to the parliament; and to seize upon all such arms, horses, and ammunition, as shall be found in their custody, and to apprehend their said persons, etc.

This warrant was not less effectually than speedily put into execution; and pursuant to it, under pretence of papists, malignants, etc., there was scarce a scholar in all the University, according to the Querela Cantabrigiensis, who escaped examination. And lest our college chapels, libraries, or treasuries, or even the most private cabinet therein, or any of our chambers or studies, should perchance have been converted into stables for horses, or magazines for arms and ammunition, they searched them all so strictly, and plundered them all so thoroughly, that nothing which they liked escaped their fingers, our ancient coins not excepted.

Some few months after these proceedings, his majestys necessities obliged him to acquaint this University, by a letter, of his strange wants, even of sustenance for his very household. Whereupon our hearts burned within us, saith the Querela, to hear that our living founder, whom we expected to be made by that time a great and glorious king, as was promised him, should almost starve, whilst we had bread on our table; and therefore, out of our poverty, a small and inconsiderable sum of money was collected, and

tendered, as a testimony, not only of our loyalty to him as a king, but also of our charity to him as a christian, then in extreme want and necessity. After this his majesty foreseeing that the plate of this University was too great a treasure to be overlookt by those who had given but too much cause to think that they intended to support their rebellion by sacrilege; and well knowing that this act of their loyalty in supporting his majesty would both direct the faction to, and seem to countenance them in such a plunder, proffers to secure it in his own hands; or if any accident, or perhaps his own necessities, should prevent him from restoring the same, engages to return them the same weight, and in the same forms, etc., and for that end writes them another letter to take an exact survey of the form, names, arms, mottos, etc. of each piece. The University were the more inclined to accept of this offer, because the plunders were already begun in their neighbouring counties, where they had rifled the house of the countess of Rivers, and several others. And the rabble being likewise armed in the town of Cambridge, had fired their musquets (which could not but be lookt on as warning pieces) into the chamber-windows of several of the scholars.

Pursuant, therefore, to this proposal, about the beginning of August, 1642, and before his majesty had erected the royal standard at Nottingham, the University sent away part of their plate; whereupon, within a few days after, Cromwell, who served in parliament for the town of Cambridge, and had then newly taken a command in the army, was sent from London to stop all the passages, that no plate might be sent; but his designs being frustrated, and his opinion, as of an active subtil man, thereby somewhat shaken and endangered, he thenceforward bent himself to do what mischief he could to the University; and in pursuit of those wicked purposes, within a month after comes

down from London again in a terrible manner with what forces he could draw together, and surrounds divers colleges while they were at their devotions in their several chapels, taking away prisoners several doctors of divinity heads of colleges, viz. Dr. Beal, master of St. Johns College, Dr. Martin, master of Queens College, and Dr. Sterne, master of Jesus College, whom he hurried prisoners to London, with such circumstances of outrage and abuse as I shall at large relate, when I come to speak of the last of these very learned and worthy men at his own college: only I must add in this place that they likewise seized and imprisoned Dr. Holdsworth the vice-chancellor, 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 only for his loyalty in seeing his majestys commands executed in the printing his declarations.

At length the town of Cambridge was pitched on for the prime garrison and rendezvous of the seven associated counties; after which the miseries which the University underwent were without intermission; for, in the first place, by this means, as the Querela expresses it, instead of carrying us all to London jayls, thanks be to our multitude, not their mercy, they found a device to convey a prison to us, and under colour of fortifications confined us only in a larger inclosure, not suffering any scholars to pass out of the town, unless some townsman of their tribe would proImise for him that he was a confider. And from that time forward, for near two years together, the prophanations, violence, outrages, and wrongs done to their chapels, colleges, and persons, by the uncontrouled fury of rude soldiers, notwithstanding the fore-mentioned protections, were matter of unspeakable grief to any that considered it. At one time particularly the vice-chancellor and heads of colleges solemnly assembled in consistory, being many of them threescore years old and upwards, were kept prisoners in