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city_n	great_a	sir_n	william_n	5,591	4	8.8072	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A24241	The Account examined, or, A vindication of Dr. Arthur Bury, Rector of Exeter College, from the calumnies of a late pamphlet, entituled, An account of the proceedings of the Right Reverend Father in God, Jonathan, Lord Bishop of Exon, in his late visitation of Exeter College in Oxon		1690 (1690)	Wing A171; ESTC R6590	18,655	38

promised that when he had done this good office he should not be long left in the place He was therefore constrained to submit to be elected upon the King's Mandate This made him lookt upon as an enemy to the priviledges not of this Colledge only but of the whole University And though in the One by his Conversation and Conduct he overcame this prejudice yet he findeth himself not pardoned by the Other Thus in recompence for having been banished out of his Colledge for Loyalty he was banished into it for Generosity obliged to add three pence of his own to every penny he received for his maintenance in that Station wherein notwithstanding he sat down contented without the least endeavour for advancement And as for his behaviour in that costly place this is the sum of his Socinianism and Arbitrary Government He publickly in the Chappel told the whole Colledg that by the Canons of the Church they were obliged to bow at the Name of Jesus and whereas formerly there had been only annual Communions at Easter he made them monthly himself always Consecrating Whereas they used in rustick manner to sit when Psalms were reading he assumed not Arbitrary Power to Command but Perswading some of the best enclined to joyn with him by his own and their example he shamed the rest and so brought all to stand up Whereas there had used to be a Psalm in rhythm sung after the Chapter he caused the Hymns regularly to be read And hoping to get them sung as they are in some Colledges in Cambridge at his own cost set up an Organ in the Chappel But this design failed partly for want of maintenance for an Organist partly because the company joyn not their voices when there is one This is the true account of his indifference to Orders in the Chappel objected by the Libeller Then for Discipline in point of Manners Whereas Tutors had long neglected to bring their Pupils to Prayer in their Chambers or take any other account of them at night by which neglect they had free liberty to be drunk To supply this defect he proposed to the Society and had their consent to have Prayers in the Chappel at nine of the Clock where by having a view of every one that was present and a Note of every one that was absent and by exacting an account of the reason for which the absent were so he immediately effected a visible change in point of Sobriety which continued till this Visitation did not only Slacken but quite Break the reins of Government and then the young men took liberty to be more debauched than ever and in gratitude joined together against the Ruler and other Officers For oeconomy he found the Colledg plunged in debt but had now not only freed it from debt but stocked it with some Money to defray the Expences which our Patron doth now necessitate us to undergo His own Lodging was so unhabitable that he was fain to hire the House which his Predecessor Dr. Prideaux built designing to leave it to his Successors but necessitated to leave it to a Daughter He so altered and enlarged it as to double his Lodging and make it suitable at least to the quality of the Inhabitant Colledg Chambers were so scarce and bad that a Fellow must have six or seven Juniors before he could have one free to himself as every one now hath by raising a Pile of Building upon a disgraceful waste corner This was done partly by Contributions of Gentlemen that had formerly been of the Colledg partly by Entrance-money of Fellow-Commoners with consent of the Society partly by the Rector's own And for a further reception of young Gentlemen and augmentation of the Rector's Maintenance by the Rents out of his own Purse he added an equal Pile of Buildings adjoining thereto Thus hath this unhappy Man spent and been spent about five and twenty years to the impoverishment of himself as well during the whole course of his Government as at his first entrance upon it and his love to his Colledg is so unalterable that however grievous it may seem to leave those advantages to a Competitor which he purchased for his lawful Successors yet he would rather do it than be an occasion of damnifying his beloved Colledg by an expensive defence of his right were it not a greater damage to it to be spoiled of its Priviledges than to spend its Money Depositions and Certificates The Deposition of Grace Weeks Spinster taken before Sir William Walker Knight one of their Majesties Justices of the Peace for the City of Oxford September 13. 1690. THis Deponent saith that while she was lying in Bed with Mary Smith in the Rector's Lodgings at Exeter Colledg in Oxford she the said Mary did tell her the said Grace after her awaking in the night that some person had come into the Bed where they lay but she the said Grace did neither see nor feel nor hear any such person and she then told the said Mary so who then said to her perhaps it was Richard meaning the Rector's Servant of that name and if so said she we shall know to morrow And she doth further Depose That Dr. Bury did never shew any uncivil or unbecoming behaviour towards her the said Grace And this Deponent doth further say That when she was Summon'd by the Bishop of Exeter in the late Visitation at the said Colledg and Examined by his Lordship whether she knew any lewdness by the Rector she the said Grace replied That she never did and she did then offer to swear so much but his Lordship said being a Gentlewoman she should be dismissed And she doth moreover Depose That she having blamed the said Mary Smith at the time of the said Visitation for her Information against Dr. Bury as being false she the said Mary replied to her Malice shall have revenge Grace Weeks Die Anno praedict ' supra scripta Gratia Weeks Juramentum prestitit tactis per eam deosculatis S. S. Christi Evangeliis coram prefato Venel ' Viro Gulielmo Walker milite de veritate permissorum Ita testor Ben. Cooper Not. Publicus The Deposition of Mary Wells Wife of Thomas Wells Cook taken before Sir William Walker one of their Majesties Justices of the Peace for the City of Oxford upon Oath Octob. 8. 1690. THIS Deponent saith That she lived as Servant about seven years in the Family of Dr. Bury Rector of Exeter Colledg and has much frequented his House for about twelve years since she left his Service and in all that time she never knew any dishonesty by the said Rector or that he had ever shewed the least indecent behaviour towards her nor did she observe him to be rude to his Servants or to use any immodest words but that he was of a sober and regular Conversation and took great care that his Servants should frequent the Church and Prayers And this Deponent further saith That when Katherine Wakeham being a

to be true Dated under my hand September 22. 1690. Ann Wiggins The day and year abovesaid the said Katherine Wiggins came before me and did voluntarily depose that the aforesaid Certificate is Truth Richard Hawkins Mayor ANn Hale of the Parish of St. Peter in the East in Oxon Spinster the day and year abovesaid deposeth that the said Mary Smith acknowledged that she and her Confederates stole a vessel with strong beer from the house of the said Catherine Wiggins Ann Hale Jurat die anno super dict coram me Richard Hawkins Mayor I Anne Harper the wife of William Harper of the City of Oxford Maltman do hereby certifie all whom it may concern that I never had any acquaintance with Dr. Bury the Rector of Exeter Colledge neither did I ever see him unless it were in the Streets Nor did I ever know any harm of him in all my life Nor did I tell any ill thing of him to Thomasin Smith All this was owned to be true in presence of us October 9th 1690 Frances Guise Ben. Archer Elizabeth Wykes Octob. 9. 1690 THese are to Certify all whom it may concern that I Elizabeth Terry lived as a servant in Dr. Arthur Bury's lodgings at Exeter Colledge a whole year and in all that time did see no indecent or immodest behaviour of the said Dr. Bury towards me or any other body which I am ready to testify upon Oath when I am thereunto lawfully called The mark of Elizabeth Terry I Elizabeth Austin wife of William Austin Butcher of the Town of Cumner in the County of Berks do certify whom it may concern that Jean Richardson Sister of Elizabeth Terry told me that Thomasin Smith came to her Mother and her to enquire where the said Betty Terry lived and askt if they thought she could say any thing against Dr. Bury the Rector of Exeter Colledge which if she did do she should be well rewarded But the said Joan did say that she would not tell me what they were offered Witness my hand The mark c. Octob. 11. 1690. The Deposition of Elizabeth Roberts Widow taken before Sir William Walker Knight one of their Majesties Justices of the Peace for the City of Oxford upon Oath October the 9 1690. THis Deponent saith that she did never use any means for perswading Ann Sparrow to lay her Child to Mr. Colmer or any other man and she farther saith that when she was sent for by the Lord Bishop of Exeter at the time of his late Visitation in Exeter Colledg there was nothing objected against her concerning Ann Sparrow nor any question put about her But that this Deponent was then asked whither she knew any harm or words to that effect of the Rectors house to which this Deponent answered that she did not and was thereupon dismist And this Deponent saith further that when Ann Sparrow was in Oxford she asked her the said Ann Sparow if ever she had perswaded her to lay her Child to Mr. Colmer to which she answered that she never did nor did she ever say so The Mark of Elizabeth Roberts The Certificate of Richard Hedges Cook October 9th 1690. I Richard Hedges Cook of Exeter Colledge do dedeclare that in the presentment which I delivered into the Bishop of Exeter at his late visitation of Exeter Colledge I did say that I gave Mr. Rector fifty pounds for my place which he told me was to be laid out upon the new buildings of the Colledg these are the words as near as I remember but that this is the substance of them I am ready to make Oath when I am thereunto lawfully called Witness my hand Richard Hedges I William Newe Butler of Exeter Colledge do hereby certify that at my admission into the said Office I paid to Mr. Rector one hundred and seventy Pounds And he said it should be laid out on building in the Colledge William Newe WE whose names are underwritten having viewed the new Buildings in Exeter Colledge Erected by Dr. Arthur Bury Rector of the said Coll. at his own cost namely the Building at the West end of the Chappel the Addition made to the Rector's Lodings and the new Stable according to our best Estimation judg the charges of all the said Buildings to be as followeth The Building at the West end of the Chappel four hundred sixty nine pounds four shillings and two pence The Addition to the Rectors Lodgings two hundred and sixty pounds The Stable and Sadle house fifty pounds The whole sum seven hundred seventy nine pounds four shillings and two pence The Valuation of the charges of the Buildings above mentioned was given in upon the respective Oaths of the Persons whose names are under written before Sir William Walker one of their Majesties Justices of the Peace for the City of Oxford September 13. 1690. John Townsend Mason William Collisson Capenter John Wiggins Plaisterer Ita Testor Ben. Cooper Not. Publicus FINIS