The disdainfid answers of haughty dons, and the
flippant contumacy of impudent students, stirred
the resentment of the beloved saints, and strength-
ened them in their determination to purge the
colleges of every principal, fellow, and undergra-
duate, who should decline to conform to the new

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order of things ; and no one can deny the merit
of thoroughness to the manner in which they ac-
complished their work, when after many hesita^
tiona and delays they proceeded to carry out the
instructions of Parliament

When Philip Herbert, Earl of Pembroke — whom
the Cavaliers ejected from the Chancellor's office in
1643, to make room for William Seymour, Marquis
of Hertford — re-entered Oxford in the character of
supreme governor of the imiversity, he was attended
by his 'sons James and John, his grandson, the Earl
of Carnarvon, a numerous retinue of gentlemen of high
quality, and an imposing cavalcade of horsemen, who
had ridden out from Oxford and met him at Abing-
don. Troo^ accompanied him in such numbers that
Wood, whilst ridiculing the pageant as contemptible,
mean, and unworthy of an Oxford Chancellor, allows
that the concourse of soldiers and civilians was mis-
taken for an ' army ' by the country people between
Abingdon and Oxford, who certainly woidd not have
made such a blunder so soon after the civil war if
the procession had been the insignificant gather-
ing of country parsons, place-seekers, and officials
which the Chancellor's detractors declared that it
was. 'The visitors of the imiversity went forth,'
says Wood, ' to meet the Chancellor as far as Abin-
don. Sir Nathaniel Brent, Dr. John Wilkinson of
Magdalen Hall, Mr. Reynolds, and Mr. Corbet, rode



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