benefyced men, dyd lyve of themselves in Ostles and Innes be eyther gon awaye or elles fayne to crepe into colleges, and put poore men from bare lyvynges. These bothe be all gon, and a small number of poore godly dylygent studentes nowe remaynynge only in colleges, be not able to tary and contynue theyr studye in the Unyversytye for lacke of exhibicion and healpe. There be dyvers there whych ryse daylie betwixte foure and fyve of the clocke in the mornynge, and from fyve untyll syxe of the clocke use common prayer, wythe an exhortacyon of God's worde in a common chappell; and from sixe unto ten of the clocke use ever eyther pryvate studye or commune lectures; at ten of the clocke they go to dynner, whereat they be contente with a penye pyece of byefe amongst iiii, havyng a fewe porage made of the brothe of the same byefe, wythe salte and otemeal, and nothynge els. "After thys slender dynner they be eyther teachynge or learnynge until v of the clocke in the evenyng, when as they have a supper not muche better than theyr dynner; immedyately after the whyche they go eyther to reasonynge in problemes or unto some other studye untill it be nyne or tenne of the clocke, and there beyng wythout fyre, are fayne to walke or runne up and downe halfe an houre to gette a heate on theyr feete, when they go to bed." From a "Fruitefull Sermon in Paule's Church at London, the seconde daye of February Anno MD and fiftie, by Thomas Lever," Fellow and Master of St. John's College, Cambridge. LOYALTY OF CAMBRIDGE. AT the breaking out of the rebellion, this university sent to their distressed sovereign what money they could raise, and also the plate of the different colleges. Cromwell, however, having got information of the latter design, lay in wait for the booty with a band of his followers. But those who had the care of the supply getting information of this, outwitted that crafty knave, by conveying the plate away through by-roads while Cromwell beset the common road. The Rev. Mr. Barnabas Oley, president of Clare-Hall, conducted the treasure safe to Nottingham, where he laid it at his majesty's feet as a small testimony of the university's loyalty. Life of Dean Barwick. 8vo. 1724. Vol. IX. Churchm. Mag. for Oct. 1805. N n RE REPUBLICAN REVENGE. THE above act so irritated that arch-rebel Cromwell, that he immediately entered the town with his ruffian regiment, whom he quartered upon it; subjecting to the controul of every pitiful common soldier the best and most learned men of the university, even those, venerable persons already sinking beneath the weight of their many years. Being then attended with a company of wretches not unworthy of their leader, he commits the utmost brutalities against the several colleges, breaks open their gates in the dead of the night, and lets in bands of armed ruffians prepared to murder the whole society at one blow, on the least signal that should be given by their brutal commander: they take possession as they please of every private chamber; they pull down the walls, and burn all the wood-work of the libraries, and making plunder of the books, sell them for a tenth part of their value. The groves and arbours, and hedges in the public college walks, they cut down like so many copses designed for no other use; and securing with guards and broken gates all the passages out of the town, they shut up within it, as in a larger prison, all the members of the university, except those (not a few) whom they more closely confined in dungeons, lest they should have any benefit of the open air, infected as it was but too much with the stench and vermin of so many nasty soldiers. All the heads of houses, together with the vicechamberlain, solemnly assembled in consistory, they detained their prisoners till midnight, though most of them above sixty years of age, and that in very cold weather; because they would not give their votes in their favour, but most expressly and unanimously voted against them, resolved rather to perish with hunger and cold, than give the least countenance to their rebellion; and at last, as it were with one blow to destroy the whole university, they banish from its senate, and from their several col leges the venerable professors of divinity and law, famous for their learning all over the world, together with the vice-chancellor and about two hundred more of their most considerable and learned men, and put blockheads for the most part and senseless scoundrels in their places. Not only so, but these infamous reformers, who pretended to be acting for the glory of God, conveyed pri soners to London three of the heads of houses, viz. Dr. Beale Beale, master of St. John's, Dr. Martin, provost of Queen's, and Dr. Sterne, master of Jesus College, who. were kept close confined in the Tower and other prisons, for some years, particularly in the noisome hold of a ship. Querela Cantabrigiensis. p. 3. CROMWELL. AS we have been mentioning some of the early exploits. of this reformer, it may not be amiss to give what Dr. South, a shrewd observer of those times, says of him: "Who that had seen such a bankrupt beggarly fellow, as Cromwell first entering the parliament house, with a thread-bare torn cloke and a greasy hat (and neither of them, perhaps, paid for,) could have supposed in the space of so few years, he should, by the murder of one king, and banishment of another, ascend the throne, be invested in the royal robes, and want nothing of the state of a king, but the changing his hat into a crown?" Sermons, vol. I. p. 334. FORM OF EXAMINATION FOR A DEGREE. WHEN the two universities were purged of profane learning, loyalty, and superstition by the presbyterians, they substituted the following profound form of examination for a degree: Pro quo gradu stas? De qua patria natus es tu? Verte hunc versum in linguam Anglicanam, De qua statione es tu ? Quod sunt vocales in lingua Græca? Tu valde aptus es habere hunc gradum. Wood's Antiq, Oxon. EXTRACTS. 4 LETTER from SIR HENRY SYDNEY to his Son SIR PHILIP SYDNEY, SON PHILIP, HAVE received two letters from you, the one written in Latin, the other in French, which I take in good part; and will you to exercise that practise of learning Nn 2 often, often, for it will stand you in stead in that profession of life, which you are born to live in. And now, since that this is my first letter that ever I did write to you, I will not that it be all empty of some advices, which my natural care of you provoketh me to wish you to follow, as documents to you in this your tender age. 1. Let your first action be, the lifting up of your hands and mind to Almighty God by hearty prayer; and feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer, with conti-` nual meditation and thinking of him to whom you pray; and use this at an ordinary hour, whereby the time itself will put you in remembrance, to do that thing which you are accustomed in that time. 2. Apply your study such hours as your discreet master doth assign you earnestly; and the time I know he will so limit, as shall be both sufficient for your learning, and safe for your health and mark the sense and matter of that you read, as well as the words, so shall you both enrich your tongue with words, and your wit with matter; and judgment will grow as years grow on you. 3. Be humble and obedient to your master: for unless you frame yourself to obey; yea, and to feel in yourself what obedience is, you shall never be able to teach others how to obey you hereafter. 4. Be courteous of gesture, and affable to all men with universality of reverence, according to the dignity of the person: there is nothing that winneth so much with so little cost. 5. Use moderate diet; so as after your meat you may find your wit fresher, and not duller, and your body more lively, and not more heavy. 6. Seldom drink wine, and yet sometimes do, lest being enforced to drink upon the sudden, you should find yourself enflamed. 77. Use exercise of body, but such as is without peril of your bones or joints; it will much encrease your force, and inlarge your breath. 8. Delight to be cleanly, as well in all parts of your body, as in your garments; it shall make you grateful in each company, and otherwise loathsome. 9. Give yourself to be merry: for you degenerate from your father, if you find not yourself most able in wit and body to do any thing when you he most merry: but let your mirth be ever void of all scurrility and biting words to any man; for a wound given by a word is harder to be cured, than that which is given by a sword. 10. Be you rather a hearer, and bearer away of other men's talk, than a beginner or procurer of speech; otherwise you shall be accounted to delight to hear yourself. speak. 11. Be modest in each assembly; and rather be rebuked of light fellows for a maiden-like shame-facedness, than of your sober friends for pert boldness. 12. Think upon every word you will speak before you utter it, and remember how nature hath (as it were) rampired up the tongue with teeth, lips, yea, and hair without the lips; and all betoken reins and bridles to the restraining the use of that member. 13. Above all things tell no untruth, no not in trifles; the custom of it is naught: and let it not satisfy you, that the hearers for a time take it for a truth; for afterward it will be known as it is, to your shame: and there cannot be a greater reproach to a gentleman, than to be accounted a liar. 14. Study and endeavour yourself to be virtuously occupied; so shall you make such a habit of well-doing, as you shall not know how to do evil though you would. 15. Remember (my son) the noble blood you are descended of by your mother's side; and think that only by a virtuous life and good actions, you may be an ornament to your illustrious family; and otherwise through vice and sloth you may be esteemed, labes generis, one of the greatest curses that can happen to a man. Well (my little Philip) this is enough for me, and I fear too much for you at this time: but yet if I find that this light meat of digestion do nourish any thing the weak stomach of your young capacity, I will, as I find the same grow stronger, feed it with tougher food: farewel. Your mother and I send you our blessing; and Almighty God grant you his, nourish you with his fear, guide you with his grace, and make you a good servant to your prince and country, Your loving Father, HENRY SYDNEY. LETTER |