[619] They are far too numerous and varied for me to classify or indicate. See historical account of all material transactions relating to University.—Laud's Works, vol. v., part I.
The following scrap of a newspaper shews the care taken by the Parliament for the support of the University, and also the feeling existing at Oxford against the Parliament:—
"Ordered that the Committee for the Ordinances of regulating the University shall consider of a fitting maintenance for the masters and heads of houses in both Universities. They also ordered that a committee should sit constantly for giving a competent maintenance to the late bishops until they had despatched that business.
"The House being informed that there were monuments standing in Christ Church, in Oxford, on which were epitaphs engraven abusive to the Parliament, and giving just cause of distaste to many good men well affected to it, as particulary on the monument of Sir Henry Gage and Sir William Penniman, it was ordered that the epitaphs on the said monuments should be razed and effaced."—Weekly Intelligencer, April 15th, 1647.
[620] In the autobiography of Arthur Wilson, an Oxford student, in 1631, this passage occurs relative to the moral state of the University:—
"That which was most burdensome to me in this my retirement was the debauchery of the University. For the most eminent scholars of the town, especially of St. John's College, being of my acquaintance, did work upon me by such endearments as took the name of civilities, (yet day and night could witness our madness), and I must confess, the whole time of my life besides did never so much transport me with drinking as that short time I lived at Oxford, and that with some of the gravest bachelors of divinity there."—Peck's Desiderata Curiosa, ii. 470.
[621] Walker, part i. 127; Neal, iii. 446-453.
[622] Walton's Lives, 388. Morley wrote in the following dignified manner to Whitelocke, acknowledging friendly interposition on his behalf: "Pray God he, whosoever he be that succeeds me in it, may part with it at his death as cheerfully as I do now, and that my judges may not have cause to be more sorry for their sentence than I am. It is glory enough for me that Mr. Selden and Mr. Whitelocke were of another opinion, for being absolved by you two, and mine own conscience, I shall still think myself in a capacity of a better condition."—Whitelocke's Memorials, 250.
[623] Wood's Ath., ii. 215.
Walton, so called (though he wrote his name Wauton), married Cromwell's sister Margaret, and was one of the Commissioners of the High Court of Justice.—Noble's Protectorate House, ii. 224.