Same day.—Mr. Marshall, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Herle, Dr. Staunton, Mr. Nye, Mr. Witaire (?), and Mr. Strong, were appointed to the morning lecture constantly to be performed every day of the week.
July 13th.—Mr. John Bond, preacher at the Savoy in the Strand, was appointed one of the seven morning lecturers for the Abbey on the week day.
[604] Commons' Journals, December 2nd, 1643.
[605] Annals of Windsor, ii. 205.
[606] Hist. of the University of Cambridge, 233. "The Colleges have already sent to the King £6,000, and are now about to send their plate to make shrines for Diane's temple. Magdalene College plate, beginning the march, was seized on by Parliament authority, and is deposited in the Mayor's custody. St. John's College conceived a better secrecy by water, and that way conveyed their plate; but having intelligence of discovery, they landed it in the night into a dung-cart, and returned it to the College. It is said now they expect a convoy of horse. King's College refused to send plate, the Master affirming that it is directly against their oath, binding them in express words, not to alienate the plate of the College. If he be not deceived in his judgment, it will be a problem for the rest of the masters."—Tanner MSS. 63, p. 116. Sanford's Illustrations, 514.
[607] Husband's Collections, 415, 416.
"The Masters of Queen's, Jesus, and St. John's, were sent up to London, and led through the midst of Bartholomew Fair in a leisurely manner, to the endangering of their lives, up as far as Temple Bar, and so back through the City to the Tower, on purpose that they might be hooted at and stoned by the rabble."—Coles' MSS., vol. vii., quoted in Akerman's Hist. of University, i. 260.
The Master of Queen's, and some others, are said to have been put on board a ship at Wapping, where they suffered much, and were then sent to prison. It is impossible to determine the exact truth amidst the exaggerated statements by Walker. Hot-headed party men always overshoot the mark, and bring discredit even on the truths they tell.
[608] Hist. of Cambridge, 236. Sancroft did not take the Covenant. The following extract from a letter of his to Dr. Holdsworth, Master of Emmanuel, is very curious:—"Ah! Sir, I know our Emmanuel College is now an object of pity and commiseration. They have left us like John Baptist's trunk when his head was lopped off, because of a vow or oath (or Covenant, if you will) that went before, or like Pompey's carcase upon the shore; so stat magni nominis umbra. For my part, tædet me vivere hanc mortem. A small matter would prevail with me to take up the resolution to go forth any whither where I might not hear nec nomen, nec facta Pelopidarum. Nor need we voluntarily give up our stations. I fear we cannot long maintain them. And what then? Shall I lift up my hand? I will cut it off first. Shall I subscribe my name? I will forget it as soon. I can at least look up through this mist and see the hand of my God holding the scourge that lashes; and with this thought I am able to silence all the mutinies of boisterous passions, and to charm them into a perfect calm. Sir, you will pardon this disjointed piece: it is the production of a disquieted mind; and no wonder if the child resembles its parent. My sorrow, as yet, breaks forth only in abrupt sighs and broken sobs."—D'Oyley's Life of Archbishop Sancroft, i. 32.
[609] Strype's Life of Parker, i. 390.