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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64614	A letter to a member of the convocation of the University of Oxford containing the case of a late fellow elect of University-College in that University.	C. U. (Charles Usher), b. 1674 or 5.	1699 (1699)	Wing U146; ESTC R3250	24,440	34

Propose and Answer those Objections the Master urg'd against me before Mr. Vice Chancellor Doctors of Divinity and Proctors to prevent their Approbation of me The Election being over and Mr. Vice-Chancellor Doctors and Proctors being met together the Day following in the Master's Lodgings in order to approve or disapprove the Party Elected Dr. Bouchier the Master's Advocate Read a long and black Indictment against me setting me forth As a notorious neglecter of Prayers a scandalous despiser of the Holy Sacraments and an infamous Noctivagator one who was obstinate and contumacious in his Temper deaf to all Advice and proof against Correction one who had wilfully and deliberately Perjur'd himself in the Face of the University and lasty had utter'd scandalous Words against the Master Words too gross and heinous to be repeated And indeed if they cou'd but once have made out what they so furiously alledg'd Mr. Woods the Master's Second Advocate might then with great Justice have inferr'd That I was neither fit for that Society I was design'd for nor for any Society at all But the Proof it seems which was brought to make good all the Hard Names Dr. Bouchier was pleas'd to call me was such that I have since to my comfort heard several of the Reverend Doctors shou'd say They were notwithstanding very well satisfy'd with my Character and Mr. Smith the only Fellow who oppos'd my Election was so kind as to confess to me that very Morning I took my leave of him That my Friends had bore that Testimony of me in answer to all other Objections except that one relating to the Master that he thought I cou'd not justly be upbraided with them hereafter But because the Master and his Friends have notwithstanding since been very Cruel in their Misrepresentations of me at other Places as well as at Oxon threatning To make all the Bishops in England deny me Holy Orders I ask you pardon if I enlarge a little upon so just and necessary a Defence And here I must readily own and confess to you That in all these Seven Years I have somtimes mist Prayers at one time or other absented myself from Sacraments and sometimes been abroad after Nine a Clock but that I have been so far Peccant in any of these Instances of my Duty as to come short of those who stand the fairest in the Master's favour or to lose at any time the Character of a Regular Student This I hope you will as readily allow me when I have told you that the Reverend Mr. Naylor Mr Hinckley and the Honourable Mr. Bertie did all Three bear ample Testimony before the Delegates to my Regular Observance of these several Duties and if those Gentlemen had pleas'd they might have heard all the rest of the Fellows to the same purpose except Mr. Smith and he which is Testimony sufficient can say nothing to the contrary But I pass on to the Charge of Stubbornness and Contumacy The Instances they bring of this untoward temper of Mind are Two The I. Drawn from the manner of resigning my Scholarship The II. From my not asking off Sconces In answer to the first of these I need only refer you to what I have already set down Pag. 5 6. where you may observe I did not in a bravading manner throw up my Scholarship but with the advice of my Tutor resign it and that too upon a very prudent Consideration in hopes after some proof given there of my Manners and Behaviour I might succeed in a Fellowship at Oriel-College since according to the Usage I met with from the Master I cou'd not expect one in our own But I happen'd to make use of a Word in my Resignation which I understand since gave some offence It seems I call'd my Scholarship Portiuncula exhibitionis and the reason was because that same Benefaction us'd to be held formerly entire and given all to one But the Fellows upon discovery of the Donor's Will saw reason to divide it and gave one Half which was Fifty Shillings a Year to me and I thought I had hit upon a very proper Word to express the half of a Scholarship tho' I am very sorry to find that the propriety of the Word shou'd be misconstru'd resentment 2 dly As to the second Instance of Stubbornness my not asking off Sconces For the first Two Years or more I believe I was never Sconced at all and afterwards as I remember the Master and Dean us'd always to give them out to the Poor lest they shou'd be troubled every time with this and tother Scholar asking off his Penny and Two Pence and so say all my Contemporaries some of whom never ask'd off a Sconce in all their time Of late since the Master has expected it I have for the most part ventur'd to go and ask them off tho' I was sure when ever I went to be very roughly receiv'd Some few times indeed I have forborn to ask them off chusing rather to lose my Sconces than to remind him of them to his and my own uneasiness Since the Master has forgot it I crave leave to remind him of another Instance besides of my Stubbornness and disobedience towards him which is this Soon after I had succeeded in this Scholarship which I a little before mention'd there was another fell Vacant better than the former and the Master fore seeing that I was likely to be Advanc'd to 't sends for Mr. Hinckley whom he suspected wuo'd prove my Friend and tells him There was a Young Gentleman naming him in the College whom he had a great kindness for and ask'd him What he thought of Electing him into this Scholarship My Friend was pleas'd to make kind mention of me at that time saying I was Senior and he thought the Fellows cou'd not well deny me if I shou'd happen to stand sor't But added he to the Master here are several North-Country Fellowships in the House and if you will please to be so kind as to give him any hopes of obtaining your Favour when in time he shall become capable of one I suppose he will for the present be glad to recede and give place to whom you think fit This he agrees to and word was brought me of the fair opportunity I had of engaging the Master under promise hereafter to be kind to me Which you may he sure I was very glad to embrace dreaming of nothing but of the North-Country Fellowship the Master was to help me to and little thinking he wou'd prove the only means to turn me out of one and afterwards Expel me into the bargain But after all this stubborness and contumacy the Master was pleas'd to upbraid me with I hope he cannot say but I carried him readily all the Impositions he ever thought fit to set me and that too when others who were Impos'd at the same time were never call'd upon for theirs and that I waited upon him duely and submissively upon all occasions tho' I have often