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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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-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

there was never any such thing in the world as is there pretended viz. Reasons presented Iune the first against the power of the two houses or Parliament to visit with those reasons which were then presented is sufficiently knowne in the publishing of them namely the scruples of rationall men against the taking of the Covenant and Negative Oath and submission to the Ordinance for the directory and what is this I pray to any bodies power of visiting especially when now 't is confest by these men that they doe not meane in their visitation to presse the Covenant The truth is these reasons have not beene answered by any though insteed of answering them there was by an anonymas Master Cheynell the spirit bespeakes the Author a promise made long since that it should be taken in peices the theologicall part answered by the Assembly the Law part by able Lawyers and the prudentiall part by prudent men but now it seemes by this question that the farre easier course is to put the honest Christian in a wild beasts skinne and then to teare him to peices I meane to entitle these reasons a new Reasons against the power of Parliament to visit and then to turne out all who had to doe in the composing them and that should bee full as profitable to those who meant to succeede them in their places as if they had answered all their scruples Meane while this makes it not only unreasonable but impossible for the Doctor to give any positive Answer to that question which was fallacia plurimum interogationum and so sure he was not oblieged to answer it being thus proposed For the third hee was able to make this Dilemma to himselfe If hee should answer that hee had not published those orders against his brethren he had confest himself guilty of a Contempt of those who made those Orders if that hee had publish'd it hee had confest himselfe the accuser and as much as in him lay the executioner of his brethren The Accuser of them if they did not obey upon his publishing of them The Executioner if they did And sure hee was not bound either to acknowledge himself a foole or a divill A foole by confessing those omissions which must bee his rume under such Judges a devill in having acted under such bloody censors Well to hold you no longer in these discourses when reasons is become so uselesse a solicitor the answers of those two and some other the like being given on Monday before Easter made such haste from hence to London to the obedient Committee there and from thence with such full speede came back again that they brought downe that very weeke from London against Doctor Sheldon Doctor Hammond Doctor Wall and Doctor Payne votes of removing them from their places upon pretence of high contempt of authority of Parliament Was there ever such a conclusion from such praemisses But this will not much amaze you if you consider the moderne practices and that as once there was a law somewhere that no crime should be punishable but treason but then by the malice of interpretation care taken that every thing that any man did should bee improved into Treason So now among us the contempt of authority of Parliament is the only mortall Crime but then the giving a wary answer or such as Master Cheynell himselfe could pick no hole in must bee the contempt of that authority which I confesse it was in one of those Doctors in some sence The Committee having long since voted that one Master Palmer of the house of Commons should succeede in the Wardenship of All-soules when hee should bee guilty of contempt whereupon his not throwing himselfe into that crime which they decreed hee should bee guilty of was an affront to the voters a denyall of their Prophetique faculty and sure a contempt of their authority who had so absolutely decreed ante lapsum that hee should contemn perish for it Well the fury of these impatient teazers was such that they could not celebrate Christs Resurrection in any Charity till they had Executed their joyous sentence upon some of these Doctors therfore the next minuit after the arrivall of the Carryer and the votes on Easter Eve they ran presently to Christ-Church Hall with a full guard of Musquetiers send their mandatary and souldier for Doctor Hammond and would heare no reason but hee must upon utmost perrill come to the hall to them and heare himselfe pronounced neither Orator nor Praebend before Easter that so if it were possible hee might want Charity to fit him for the next dayes Dutyes but the honest Doctor had better learned and taught the duties of the fifth of Matthew then to bee in the power of such provokers The same sentence was soone after on Easter Munday affixt on Doctor Sheldons walls and his subwarden required to bee his Executioner and woe bee to him that hee hath not thought that act of parricide his duty But Sir all these have beene yet but umbratiles pugnae the reall fury of the impression is reserved for nobler hands The Earle of Pembroke must bee fetcht from Ramsbury to breake open the doores and to that purpose according to an Order procured in the Lords hosue March the eighth Master Cheynel which knew the way perfectly into those parts towards Salisbury posts presently to his Lordship to Ramsbury obteynes a promise that the weeke after Easter weeke hee would serve them Then all care is taken to get in Beedles Staves and the in●●gnia of the Vniversity to prepare for his Lordships comming the Deane of Christ-Church the Vice-Chauncellor his doores are broken open by assistance of Souldiers but nothing found there the Presidents of Corpus-Christi the pro-Vice-Chancellor his in like manner but nothing there At last when the Earle comes most pitifully fetcht in with a few visitors and a sorty Company of expectant Boyes Master Cheynell entertaynes him with an English speech and tells him that the Beedles staves had a double guilt the wit of the new University and therefore could not bee had to attend him only exhorts him to believe and to bee confident that the more vigerous hee should bee in that designed execution the more acceptable it would bee in the sight of God and if hee would not take his word for it hee should take Gods word and so presents to him a great Bible without Liturgy or Apocrypha which was to supply the place of the Beedles staves to conduct him to his lodging The imployment that now they set this Earle when they had him amongst them 't would even grieve you to thinke of That honourable office of a petty Constable generall from Colledge to Colledge is bestowed on him first to break open the hall-doore of Christ-Church Then to carry out Mistrisse Fell and all her children and family some fourteene women and children in chayres and set them in the Quadrangle that Master Reynolds might have quiet possession of that