[249] See Baxter's Life and Times, i. 70.
[250] Oxoniana, iv. 206.
[251] With respect to regulations of this sort in 1650, before Owen's Vice-Chancellorship, it is said, Oxoniana iv. 210, "Gowns also had now lost their usual fashion, by others introduced by the Cantabrigians, especially that belonging to a bachelor of arts, the sleeves of which were wider than those of surplices, and so continued in fashion not only till the Restoration of Charles II., but the Vice-Chancellorship of Dr. John Fell."
[252] Athen. Oxon., ii. 738.
[253] See Grainger's Biographical History, iii. 302.
[254] Owen was the other.
[255] Howe became minister of Torrington about the year 1650. Goodwin was appointed President of Magdalen in the January of that year. We know that Howe was a Fellow after Goodwin's appointment, from the circumstance of his joining the religious society which the President established in the College. At first Howe objected to unite, because he thought too much stress was laid upon indifferent things. Afterwards he joined upon "Catholic terms."
[256] Preface to De Divinia Justitia, Works, ix., 339. It contains a defence of what he called "his darling university." Burnet, in the History of his own Time, (i. 192.) says, learning was then high at Oxford, chiefly the study of the Oriental tongues, much raised by the study of the Polyglott Bible. They read the Fathers; and mathematics, and the new philosophy, were in great esteem.
[257] Ath. Ox., ii. 562.
[258] "July 11, 1654, Oxford:—After dinner I visited that miracle of a youth, Mr. Christopher Wren."—Evelyn's Diary, i. 306.