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chap, without further delay, and requested the Duke of Ormond, as■ patron of the whole University, and the Bishop of Winchester,

as visitor of Magdalene College, to undertake the office of in-tercessors : but the King was far too angry and too dull tolisten to explanations.

The Fei- Early in June the Fellows were cited to appear before theMasda- High Commission at Whitehall. Five of them, deputed bylcneciicdtho rest, obeyed the summons. Jeffreys treated them afterthe°H? e h his usual fashion. When one of them, a grave Doctor namedsion" 1 ' 8 " Fairfax, hinted some doubt as to the validity of the Commis-sion, the Chancellor began to roar like a wild beast. “Whois this man? What commission has he to be impudent here?Seize him. Put him into a dark room. What does he dowithout a keeper? He is under my care as a lunatic. Iwonder that nobody has applied to me for the custody ofhim.” But when this storm had spent its force, and the de-positions concerning the moral character of the King’s nomi-nee had been read, none of the Commissioners had the frontto pronounce that such a man could properly be made thehead of a great college. Obadiah Walker and the otherOxonian Papists who were in attendance to support their pro-selyte were utterly confounded. The Commission pronouncedHough’s election void, and suspended Fairfax from his fel-lowship: but about Farmer no more was said; and, in themonth of August, arrived a royal letter recommending Parker,Bishop of Oxford, to the Fellows.

Parker Parker was not an avowed Papist. Still there was anwcHSi objection to him which, even if the presidency had beenaspre- vacant, would have been decisive: for he had never been aFellow of either New College or Magdalene. But the presi-dency was not vacant: Hough had been duly elected; and allthe members of the college were bound by oath to supporthim in his office. They therefore, with many expressions ofloyalty and concern, excused themselves from complyingwith the King’s mandate.

The While Oxford was thus opposing a firm resistance to

house"” tyranny, a stand not less resolute was made in another quarter.James had, some time before, commanded the trustees of