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A30982	Pegasus, or, The flying horse from Oxford bringing the proceedings of the visitours and other Bedlamites there, by command of the Earle of Mongomery.	Barlow, Thomas, 1607-1691.; Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691. Letter from Oxford.	1648 (1648)	Wing B838; ESTC R41624	12,138	21

in the Hall but not one man would appeare there they fret but to no purpose send for Doctor Sheldon the honor of our Towne and his Coate hee quietly asked by what authority they summoned him the Authority was shewn and read Doctor Sheldon told them it concernd not him at all for it was Dated March the eighth or thereabouts and gave the Chancellor and Visitors power to give possession to those which were Voted into the places of those then removed but Doctor Sheldon told them hee was not then questioned nor voted out till March the thirtith so that it was manifest they had by that no power to meddle with him This puzzeld them all nor was there any answer my Lord askes Pryn who was there what hee said to it but at present William said nothing The Doctor leaves them they consult almost an houre Pryn confesses they had no power by their Commission to doe it but the Parliament must not bee baffled and that they might doe many things exofficio agreeable to the minde of the Parliament though not in their Commission Oraculous William Well to it againe they goe breake open his doores enter give Master Palmer possession write a mittimus to send Doctor Sheldon to prison in which they used base aggravative language against him the Doctor desired my Lord to reade it telling him that his Lordship was pleased two or three times to say that his answer and carriage were very civill and desired to know whether that language was fit to be given to one who had so demean'd himselfe My Lord said they were hard words and when they told him that the Lawyers drew it Pryn and Cheynel were the men my Lord replyed who ever drew it it had very hard language in it In the carriage and debate of the businesse my Lord asked Doctor Sheldon pardon three or foure times and told him openly that what hee had done in breaking open doores hee knew not let the Lawyers looke to that so Doctor Sheldon is for prison and they for Wadam where they summoned the Fellowes none appeare goe to the Buttery booke put out the Warden put Willkins of Magdalen-Hall the Prince Electors Chaplaine in his place then to Trinity breake open all put old Harris in possession Then for Saint Iohns and because there were little children had Agues they give him time to remove who never will remove till compeld by violence Then to Brasen-Nose summon the fellowes none appeare call for the Buttery booke raise out the Principalls name put in Greenwood Friday morning to christ-Christ-Church again for they heard the new Deane and Cannons names were torne out they put them in again They have sorely whip't a mad woman for calling them Roundheads and Rebells should all mad men bee whip't it would goe hard with some and Thom. Smith of Magdalens is last night carried to Bridewell and Master VVebbirly too farewell remember me to all my friends honest T. T. D. S. the Gentleman with the sword Mr. F. Mr. LL. Mr. L. excuse me to Mrs. Ba. I am in her debt for many things besides a letter pray for us not that wee may keepe our places but our courage and conscience If this world goe on 't will bee a shame to bee out of prison or in a Felloship What I have writ is true whether sense or no I know not what ever it bee accept of my willingnesse to serve thee and pardon the faults of Oxford April 18 1648. Thine c. A LETTER from Oxford SIR I Have beene unjsut to you That I have so long deferred to give you an account of this last Act of the Tragedy here in Oxford I shall now labour to expiate my fault by some kinde of restitution and hasten to tell you that the first entrance was on this manner Some few weekes before Easter the Visitation which had beene for some time the sleeping Lion began to rouze it selfe up againe and as the passion weeke grew on designed this Vniversitie to that honour of Conformity with the Image of our Saviour I meane in suffering And first let me tell you that if there were any difference among them betwixt Legal and Illegal betwixt Valid and Null this Rallying of the Visitors after so long an intermission and that without so much as formality of Adjourning de die in diem as their Commission and the manner of all Courts requires were sufficient according to their owne Principles to pronounce all Null which they have done since this last Session of theirs But such nicities you will not expect they should consider though that they which live by no other Law but that of Ordinance should despise even that by which they subsist is a pretty degree of unkindnesse and ingratitude in them and such as the Jews would not bee guilty of but at the time when they were Crucifying of Christ would not yet enter into the Praetorium lest they should be defiled by the heathen Souldiers there and so bee made uncapable by Moses's Lawe of receiving the Passover approaching It being most unreasonable and inconsistent with their Principles to Crucifie the true Lawe of Heaven on pretence it was contrary to their Ordinances by which they Acted and at the same time to despise those very Ordinances whose Advocates they undertooke to bee so zealously But these are men who are to make Lawes for others and not to bee ruled by any themselves And therefore I doe not expect you should at all stand still and gaze or wonder at this though in all reason it have a great influence on all that followes which can have no greater validitie in it then what this null foundation can helpe it to But it is in vaine to wound a Carcase and to take paines to let out life from the Trunke that never had the honour to have any And therefore let that passe When they came down to this new and strange work the Persons which entred were five in appearance though the truth is but one Soule to animate them all that Spirit that was once in Chaynes at Salisbury you know whose Periphrasis that is The first of the five was Sir Nat. Brent that known old visitor that tooke such care in my Lord of Canterburies dayes to have the Ceremonies observed the Table rayled in c. and now can lye in curtaynes fetcht out of his Colledge-Chappell formerly thought fit to adorn the East end of that but now found more commodious for his bed-chamber The second was Dr. Iohn Wilkinson that illiterate testy old Creature that for fourty yeeres together hath beene the sport of the Boyes most constantly yoaked with ●●ctor Kettle which in this age of Idolizing of Sermons is sufficiently known never to have preach't above once in fourty yeeres and having now outlived all the little learning hee had and his every thing but Sugar'd drinke and Possets is thought fit to bee Sir Nathaniel's Second in being revenged on learning which hath brought them so

PEGASUS OR THE FLYING HORSE from Oxford Bringing the Proceedings of the Visitours and other Bedlamites there by Command of the Earle of Mongomery ACADEMIA OXONIENSIS SAPIENTIA ET FELICITATE PRINTED At Mongomery heretofore called Oxford TUESDAY Aprill the eleventh The long-Legg'd peece of impertinency which they miscall Chancellor was to bee brought with State into Oxon To this end these few inconsiderable and ill fac'd Saints hired all the Hackneyes in Towne which were basely bad yet good enough for them Out they went and met the Hoghen Moghen I told you of What Courtship passed between them at meeting how hee swore at them and they said grace at him how many zealous faces and ill leggs they made and at what distance I know not a long time they were about it At last they come and the Governor and his Regiment meetes them at Friar-Bacons study where you might have seene the Presbyterian and Independent agreed against the poore Christians of Oxon In the meane time Tho. Smith of Magdalen Colledge had an excellent Designe Hee would ride in with them too and that hee might have suteable accomodation would needs borrow an Asse nay an Asse hee would have and ride in next before the Chancellor and when they told him it was a mad trick hee told them noe for hee knew there would bee many Asses besides his Now they come they come And indeede it was such a miserable Pageant as I never saw Had you seene tall Pembroke in the midd'st of those little inspired Levites you would have sworne you had seene Saul once more amongst the Prophets Along they come without any respect from those in the Streets which were not many not a Cap or Knee from them but frownes and curses and 't was a wonder but that the Souldiers guarded them if they had not welcom'd them with old Eggs and Apples Aaron Rogers Langley and squint eyed Greenwood were the chiefe men what the worst were when these were best you may judge and with them about some ten or twelve Schollars more freshmen and all only they were interlarded with some few Countrey Parsons who brought their sonnes for Fellowships and so worshipped the Beast for their profit All that saw these Dragooners in Divinity upon those miserable Hackneyes with suteable lookes and gestures imagined that some ill-fac'd Major of some beggerly Towne had beene brought in by the mechanicall Clownes of the place They are now almost at Merton Colledge gate where Master Cheynel begins an Oration in English they cannot speake Latine by the Spirit delivers him in the name of the University a lying Levite whom the University sent not First a Key of the Convocation Secondly a Seale a counterfeit one for the true ones are safe enough Thirdly a Bible and when hee came to that hee was inspired and spoke fast and much of it and you may easily beleeve that hee would not quickly have done with the Bible who will hold out three houres on one poore Text Hee sadly complained to his Lordship of all sorts of People especially the Beedles for neglecting their duty that they came not and bowed their knee to Baal nor worshipped the Calfe which they had set up Hee told his Lordship that they were very Malignant and their staves stained with a double Guilt witty Master Cheynel I Well thinke what you will I am sure that was intended for a jeast Dixit Master Chaynel has done my Lord bowes his body but wisely said nothing Then downe comes my Lord goes into the Colledge at the entrance their designed Proctor Button makes a Latine speech to his Lordship which hee understood as much as his horse Master Cheynels English one This done my Lord for his Chamber and those Levites who on Hackneyes man'd him down the streete ride back againe through the highstreete where they were hissed and houted at Next morning they are for Execution and to Christchurch they goe the Visitors and Chancellor falsly so called enter the Hall call for the buttery-Buttery-booke dash out the Deane and all the Cannons put in their owne new nam'd things and subscribe their names to the fact then Mistresse Fell a gallant woman her children and servants are turned out and the possession given to Reynolds Afternoone a Convocation is called by a fellow they call Beedle hee came into our Colledge with his hands in his pockets staffe hee had none in the middle of the Quadrangle pulls out a paper puts on his spectacles and read the forme in Latine though 't is certaine hee understands noe good English Langley was the man a Taylor and instead of per sidem per sidem per sidem call'd it provided provided provided Afternoone they advance towards the Schooles there marched before his Lordship foure fellowes in gownes ill-fac'd heads bare hands in their pockets these went for Beedles after these my Lord and the rabble to the Convocation they come where there appeared not above thirteene or fourteene who had votes Doctor Pellam and Master VVilliamson were two Zouch and Paul Hood have appeared too yet the House was full of people Batchelours Freshmen Townesmen Servingmen all came in and sat where once gallant men did Never such a Conventicle or Confusion rather carried the name of a Convocation there they make Reynolds Vice-Chancellor Button and Crosse Proctors Reynolds Harris Rogers Corbet who as Vniversity Orator made a Speech to the Chancellor in the passage by the Divinity-Schooles Garbrand of New-Iun Palmer the designed Warden of All-Soules are Created Doctors Langley Cornish Cheynel Batchelors of Divinity and Masters and Batchelors God knowes how many The most that was spoken there was English and all that was done was irregular capa pe pe no Statute observed or regarded Thursday Aprill the thirteenth my Lord and the Visitors and a great guard of Musquetiers where ever they went even at Convocation they had a great guard still are for Magdalens they had before summoned all the fellowes c. to meet them in the Hall but none did heede or obey only Master Dayle Junior was there there they sate and by and by bonny Thom. Smith comes into the Hall up to my Lord confidently asked him by what Authoritie hee sate there My Lord was troubled at this till Cheynell told my Lord that the man was madde Clodius accusat Maechos but Smith heard him and told him that hee was no so madde as hee c. Then they call for the buttery-Buttery-booke dash out Doctor Oliver put in Iohn Wilkinson goe to the Lodgings violently breake open the doores imprison Doctor Oliver's man give Doctor Iohn and Kate possession Shee presently layes in a Barrell of Beere and the Doctor sends to the Cooke and commands him to dresse no Supper but hee obeyes not but dresses Supper and some very honest men eate it in their owne defence After dinner my Lord now grown skilfull at breaking open doores marches to All-soules and all the rabble with him they had summoned the Fellowes to meete them