CONTENTS. VII

CHAPTER vm.

PACK

Consecration of the Nuncio at St. James’s Palace; his public

Reception.97

The Duke of Somerset.98

Dissolution of the Parliament; Military Offences illegally punished 99Proceedings of the High Commission; the Universities . . 102

Proceedings against the University of Cambridge .... 104

The Earl of Muigrave .......... 105

State of Oxford.108

Magdalene College, Oxford.Ill

Anthony Farmer recommended by the King for President . . 114

Election of the President.115

The Fellows of Magdalene cited before the High Commission;

Parker recommended as President; the Charterhouse . 116

The Royal Progress. 118

The King at Oxford; he reprimands the Fellows of Magdalene . 120

Penn attempts to mediate.121

Special Ecclesiastical Commissioners sent to Oxford ... 123

Protest of Hough; Installation of Parker.124

Ejection of the Fellows. 126

Magdalene College turned into a Popish Seminary ... 127

Resentment of the Clergy.128

Schemes of the Jesuitical Cabal respecting the Succession . . 130

Scheme of James and Tyrconnel for preventing the Princess of

Orange from succeeding to the Kingdom of Ireland . 132

The Queen pregnant; general Incredulity . . . . . 133

Feeling of the Constituent Bodies, and of the Peers . . . 136

James determines to pack a Parliament.137

The Board of Regulators; many Lords Lieutenants dismissed . 139

The Earl of Oxford.140

The Earl of Shrewsbury.141

The Earl of Dorset '.143

Questions put to the Magistrates.146

Their Answers; Failure of the King’s Plans.147

List of Sheriffs; character of the Roman Catholic Country Gen-tlemen ... 151

Feeling of the Dissenters.154

Regulation of Corporations.155