betwixt those honourable persons and the proctours deputye, Parishe was fownd oute on the backeside of a house nere unto the round churche by one Mr. Nowell, a fellowe of the Kings Colledge, and from thence caried by him, with the aid and assistance of one Mr. Tomson of Trynity Colledge, and a greate number of other scholers, unto the vicechauncellours lodgeinge, who there committed him unto the custodye of the proctours deputye untill the next daye at one of the clocke, who had not longe before lefte the lord Northe withoute anie intelligence of this which had happened; and so receavinge Parishe into his chardge, did firste carry him to Trynity Colledge, and from thence to the Touleboothe, there to be kepte untill the next daye, withoute anie blowe given ether to hym or to anie man in the companie that ever I could heare of by anie of ether parte.

The next daye beinge Frydaye and ouer ordynarye court daye, Parishe was broughte before Mr. vice-chauncellour into the consistorye, ouer ordinary place of justice, where, with the assistaunce of Mr. Dr. Binge and Mr. Dr. Legge, and with there consentes, the said vice-chauncellour firste requeared of him securitye for his good behaviour in the summe of two hundreth powndes; and after that the said Parishe had an accion entred againste him by one. Walter Hawksworthe, a scholer of Trynity Colledge, for the deadlie woundinge of hym, which injury he valued at fyve hundreth poundes; and had afterwards another accion entred againste him by one Hughe Holland, a scholer of the same house, who valued his injury at a hundreth powndes; and, lastlye, a third accion by a scholer of the Queenes Colledge, who valued his injurye at twentye powndes; which beinge done, for that he could nether put in security for his good behaviour nor for his appearaunce to answere those accions, he was from thence committed to pryson, where he still remayneth, as I thincke.

As toucheinge the speciall growndes and occasions

firste causinge this arrest, it were longe to troble your lordships with all the particulers thereof; but the cheefe pointes are these, that, upon Wednesdaye, beinge the fiftenth daye of September last, manie scholers having to passe over the ryver by the ferrye from Chesterton to Sturbridge faire, and some of them beinge in the boate with Parishe, so it pleased him to dislike of there companies, as it seemed, for other cause there cannot be justlie alledged by hym selfe as I heare, that sodenlye, withoute anie thinge ether in word or deede offered him, he caught Hawksworthe before mencioned by the bosome, and first contendinge with the strengthe of his arme to have put him into the ryver, did after with his dagger thruste him in under the lefte papp, which stabb had suerly proved deadlie unto him, had not the same, by Gods providence, lighte upon a ribb in his side, as is to be justyfied by a chirurgion, who presentlie had the same wounde in cure.

This done, for that Hawkesworth then presentlie complayned that he had slaine him, there were some in the boate desirous to lay hould upon Parishe, whereupon he firste turned him to one and wounded him with his dagger in the hedd to the very scalp, and afterwardes cutt another in the hed and in the hand; and beinge at the lengthe laied hould of by some that were in the boate to be caried to thother side of the ryver, he so cryed oute to be ayded with helpe oute of Chesterton, that manie comeinge fast towards the ryver with weapons, the scholers that remayned upon the bancke side, some of them for feare gott into a lighter not farr off upon the ryver, and some other waded quite thoroughe the ryver, yet so as by Parishes most lowd and unjuste cryeing oute of the scholers purpose to spoile there boothes in the faire, there were manie of them driven backe into the ryver with poales by such as had staules or boothes not farr of the bancke side. Which reporte I do sett downe upon Mr. Fremans avowinge

thereof, who is one of the fellowes of Trynity Colledge, an auncient master of arte, and the man who firste laied hould of Parishe upon his comeinge oute of the boate, as of one that had wounded a man to deathe, and therefore to be brought before the magistrate, whereunto Parishe was compelled to yeld himself, and went forward with Mr. Freeman and two or three others accordinglye, untill he was rescoued from them by the prentises in the faire. This beinge given oute by Parishe and one other of his fellowes, as he passed throughe the faire, that he had bene some tyme an apprentise, and now in the hands of scholers to be wronged by them, unlesse he might be releived by there meanes; which was presentlie taken in hand, and the scholers from whome he was rescoued by the apprentises not a little indaungered by this there practise and violence.

Righte honorable, wee meane not by this reporte to justyfye everye mans particular speeche then assembled ; for we cannot but knowe that in such an assemblie there will ever be some very unadvised; but ouer meaninge is by that which is said most truly to manifest the intent and manner of ouer proceedinge in that accion wherewithall wee are chardged; nether do wee thincke it meete to troble your most honorable lordships with thansweringe of those presumpcions whereupon wee are so grevouslie chardged with so vile and monstrous an intent as is the murtheringe of so honorable a person, very well knoweinge how sone your lordships will loke into the weaknes of those collections, upon the report only of that which is here sett downe to be justyfyed. No, my good lords, be it farr from us so to forget ouer selves, ouer callings, that place and that God whome wee live there to knowe, that others may the better know him by us. Nether would we in the leaste manner chalendge those honorable speaches of his lordships good favour towards us, whome wee honor, and whose honorable favour wee desire, were it not that by ouer silence wee

hereafter feared to heare that wee had heretofore withoute cause trobled your lordships, and cheiflye ouer most lovinge and honourable chauncellour, with unjust complaintes. But be yt sufficyent for us, under your honourable favours, to have dissented onelye from that his lordships opynion; for I cannot but see that the tediousnes of these matters calleth to an end; and one thinge yet remayneth, viz. your honourable lordships satisfyeinge as toucheinge ouer wante in makinge his lordship firste acquainted with that which was purposed toward Parishe, wherein wee doe fyrste, for ouer selves, alledge that, albeit my lord Northe had desyred the contrarye, yet, in respect of some one or other attendinge upon his lordship, it had bene the waye, as we verylye thinke, quite to have missed of him. Then, that the purpose was not knowne unto Mr. vice-chauncellour before his lordships sittinge at the castle the same daye, in the afternone. And, lastlye, that by the sequeale of this accion we take it that we have greate reason to thincke that, thoughe Parishe be in truthe so badd in every mans opinion that hardlie did we thincke the lord Northe would have owned him, yet that, by puttinge that pointe in tryall, we should suerly have found at his lordships handes no otherwise then nowe we do; wherein we do most humblie crave that wee may appeale unto everye of your honors most honorable and secret thoughtes.

A breife of such particuler matter as the lord North did latelye by complainte object against the Universy tie of Cambridge before the lords of her majesties most honourable pry vye counsell, besides his lordships former complainte by letter.

1. FYRSTE, that by a plott or order therein taken they had before hand devyded there forces into fyve bandes, or companies, under the leadeinge of severall persons, who yssued oute of diverse partes of the towne nere unto that place

where the arrest was done upon Parishe, with purpose ether to murder or dishonour the lord Northe.

2. That the last of those companies, under the leadeinge of one Mr. Shaxton, pressed his lordship for the deliverye of Parishe with there weapons held unto his lordships breiste, signyfyeinge, with very vehement speaches, that ether his lordship must then deliver Parishe, or yeld them his lordships lyfe.

3. As toucheinge the persons that did the arest upon Parishe, thone of them, to wit Gifford, was a man perjured, and that thother had bene expelled oute of the colledge, where he now remayneth, for his deadly woundinge of one of the same house with a short clubb, whereunto the keies of the colledge-gates were tied, being now kept in the colledge under Mr. Dr. Stills name onely as his man.

4. That sir Nowell came in upon his lordship with a sword and target, verye furiously demandinge Parishe at his lordshipes handes, greatly bravinge and faceinge his lordship with very greate and unsemelye wordes. And that the same Nowell had bene for disorder expelled the colledge whereof he now is.

5. That in committinge of Parishe, the vice-chauncellour hath tyrannised over him, as well in respect of the securytie which he requeared in the summe of two hundreth powndes for his good behaviour and answeringe of those accions wherewithall he was chardged, as of his stricte and rigorouse usage since the time of his committinge.

The answere of the Universy tie thereunto made.

1. They do utterly deny that his lordships allegacion, referringe themselves therein unto that which hath bene alredy delivered unto your lordships in the second particuler of his lordships letter, by them denyed.

2. They do likewise deny that his lordships allegacion, and do most humbly crave that it would please your most