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ment-men that were not liberally provided for before 1653. Yet we conceive that Sir Arthur Hasilrig remembered himself pretty well before that time; however, if the parliament adjudged 300001. per annum not sufficient for him, let him have more.

This report was taken into consideration accordingly, being of great import.

Thereupon the house resolved into a grand committee, to debate the proportioning of the said lands, to the particular members, according to their wants.

Lenthall. Gentlemen, Can you think that I, that I your Speaker, your everlasting Speaker, who am resolved to live and die with you at 51. per diem, can live to maintain myself and family at that great rate I now live at, and support the grandeur that should attend the Speaker to so noble persons with 130001. per annum, and not above 800001. in personal estate?

Skippon. I have enough of 10001. per annum, and desire no thore to live as well as Mr. Speaker.

Hasilrig. You say well, but 1000001. per annum is better; and upon my credit I want Daniel Collingwood's estate to make me up 300001. per annum; I pray consider it.

Scot. Gentlemen, My father-in-law, Plush-Bacon, is dead, and hath cheated me of 50001. besides, it will take 100001. per annum to make me honest.

Martin. If I have not enough to pay my debts at present, and to maintain as many whores as the Earl of Middlesex, Lord Mon. son (my fellow-boarder in Southwark) or the late Earl of War. wick; I'll leave the house, and go to prison again: What! do you think I'll help to cheat the people for nothing?

Vane. Come, Gentlemen, if you will be a little religious, you may make shift with 150001. per annum as I do.

Darly. My oldest son wishes me hanged that I served so long in this trade, and am like to leave him no better estate. Pray think on itz St. John. I have built me a little house lately, and want some ground to lay to it. If you'll grant me a forest, I'll remove my house thither, for the law is as clear as it was in the Earl of Straf ford's case: That I may remove it by habeas corpus.

Weavour. Come, Gentlemen, you are a little too busy; take heed the army prevent not the design; I am a good willer to the mathematicks myself; but let's make them sure, for upon my credit Lambert is no fool: Thereupon the house adjourned till June the first.

From June the 1st to the 4th. This day the house took into consideration that seasonable motion of Mr. Weavour, and have ordered as follows:

Ordered, that the army-officers be fooled out of their old com. missions, by vertue of which they were our masters; and that they take new ones from us, by vertue of which we are their masters.

Ordered likewise, that we juggle with some of the stoutest and soberest colonels in the army, to go snips with us underhand, that they may curb the rest, and keep them in awe.

Ordered, that Hacker and Okey be two of them; and that there be but two besides listed into this confederacy, lest it be discovered, or lest we give too much from ourselves.

Ordered lastly, that this present parliament sit till May next (if Lambert be not too cunning for them before that time) and that, in the interim, parliament-men be valued at a penny a-piece; and that the former value of twelve a penny, set upon them in 1653, be made void.

June the 4th.-This day the house took into consideration the business between Harry Nevill and Stroud, sheriffs in Berkshire, which is referred to a committee to report, If it be not all the reason in the world, that one of the council of state should have fifteen hundred pounds, whether it belongs to him, or no? And that Stroud should pay it, for not returning him to that parliament, which Nevill had a hundred times sworn to be no parliament.

Ordered by the house, that Mr. St. John be assistant to that committee, to inform how the same stands; and whether Magna Charta doth not warrant that, as well as the dark lanthorn.

Monday, June the 6th.-This day came an express from Ireland, that the noble and valiant deputy will, before long, learn Fleetwood more wit, and Lambert more honesty; and that he will turn these jugglers out of their box, as his father did.

Ordered thereupon, that he forthwith repair to England, if he be such a fool; and that we catch him in our clutches, if we can, lest he obstruct our religious designs.

June the 7th.-This day the house considered of Mr. Harrington's proposals concerning a free state; and thereupon

Resolved, that he is a fool to busy his noddle about that which the house never thinks on; for, when they have made all even, they will break up school.

June the 8th.-Ordered, that Mr. Harrington be forthwith dispatched to Jamaica, that famous island, and form his commonwealth there; and that he hath all the golden mines for his pains.

June the 9th.-Resolved, that all papists and jesuits be tolerated in England; and that anabaptists and quakers be inserted into the army; that, by that time the parliament have gotten into their hands the residue of what is left, the army may make mutinies among themselves, and discharge us, and set the people against them, and we go scot-free.

June the 10th.-The house, this day, upon consideration that the High and Mighty Prince Vane is to marry with the illustrious infant of Wimbleton-house, ordered, that Richard Cromwell depart from thence forthwith, to make way for their Highnesses; and that the Banqueting-house be prepared with a pair of bagpipes and a north-country jig, to entertain the nobles, that shall attend the solemnisation of those nuptials.

June the 11th, to June the 18th.-Ordered, that Hacker and Okey have a strict eye of Lambert, when he goes to Whitehall, lest he steps into the chair.

The house called Mr. Canne in, and ordered him to publish only

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what was agreeable to their former proceedings; and, if it fell out, at any time, that they should do otherwise than the people expect, that he should conceal the same: Whereto Canne, their news-maker, agreed, and was sworn.

SUNDRY THINGS FROM SEVERAL HANDS CONCERNING THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, viz.

I. A Petition from some well-affected therein.

II. A Model for a College-Reformation.

III. Queries concerning the said University, and several Persons therein. London: Printed by Thomas Creake. 1659. Quarto, containing twelve Pages.

To the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England,

The humble Petition of the Remnant of well-affected Persons within the University of Oxford,

SHEWETH, THAT your petitioners are infinitely rejoiced at the good providence of God, which hath once more restored you to those seats, and that station, of which you were by undoubted right possessed, and in which you did so demean yourselves, that the Lord blessed you in your councils extraordinarily, and the hands of the poor people of this nation were much strengthened under you, through a certain hope to see themselves established upon sure foundations; and a commonwealth erected after such a model as would secure us all in our liberties, civil and spiritual, without the ha zard of being overthrown by every or any ambitious spirit. We hope that you yourselves are sensible, as we are, upon that late usurpation upon you and us, being the basest and unworthiest attempt that hath happened among the sons of men; and that you will neither give daring spirits any encouragement, for the future, to act the like, by permitting their predecessor an honourable memorial, or providing ample revenues for his posterity (a thing without example in the best commonwealths) nor omit those things which are essential to our being a well-framed republick.

In reference hereunto we humbly pray, that you would have a special care of the magistracy of this nation, that it may be intrusted with such as fear God, hate covetousness, are and have been, under the late accursed apostasy, promoters and abettors of a commonwealth's interest, and have owned the like principles in others; and that the armies of our lands may be garbled, and put in such men's hands as are faithful, and able for the discharge of so great a work.

And for so much as the education of persons to serve in church and state, is a thing necessarily to be considered for the subsistence

and continuance of a republick, that the youth may be thoroughly acquainted and prepossessed with the principles thereof, as well as instructed in all other useful learning: We humbly beseech you, that you would take into your care the two universities, which are the standing seminaries of a ministry, good or bad, useful or useless, according as they are there educated, and places whither the gentry and others resort for instruction, and whence they return, or may do, well-affected, and capable of sundry employments in their generations; or else ignorant, rude, oppressive, debauched, and debauching others, to the great detriment and overthrow of a commonwealth.

We also desire that you would enact a freedom for opinions there, and constitute professors and libraries, endowed according ly; that so all that are members of this commonwealth, and are ready to sacrifice all that is near and dear to them for the publick service, that so considerable a part of this nation, so faithful, so well-affected, may not continue deprived of all advantageous breeding of their posterity: Through defect whereof they become incapable of reaping any profit from that posture of affairs into which they have principally stated us.

And that degrees may not be conferred, but on such as deserve them, and after a more strict way of exercise, suited to the preserving and upholding us as a republick; and not as hath been for many years past amongst us practised, when creations, and dispensations for time, absence, and exercise, have so been granted for the capacitating of favourites to preferments and trusts, whereunto they were no way fit; that we must make it our earnest humble request, that all degrees which have been conferred on any person or persons, since the surrender of Oxford, may be cassated and nulled by some solemn act, as being no longer characters of merit, but cheats wherewith to amuse the ignorant: And that such as are now graduates in arts unnecessary, and which they ignore (so as intituling them thereto is a lye) may commence in philosophy and other useful studies, whereof they cannot be ignorant without prejudice to themselves in their fortunes, and the commonwealth in its disservice.

That whatever is monarchical, superstitious, or oppressive, in the university to the good people, may be abrogated.

That none be heads of houses but such as are intirely affected for a republick, and who will be active in seasoning those under their charge with principles resembling: And that, in case you find yourselves not provided with a sufficient number of persons for the managing of so many colleges and halls, we pray, you would reduce them, rather than suffer any to become nurseries for such as may hereafter be as thorns in your sides.

That the power of the university may not be in the hands of f any one as chancellor, nor of any clergymen (who have been so notoriously corrupt, negligent, and malignant) as visitors (the miscarriage of inferiors being personal, whilst theirs influence the publick) no nor as heads of colleges, governing with fellows, unless there be a kind of censor residing amongst them who shall be im

powered to punish (with appeal only to the council of state) alt misdemeanors or neglects in exercise or discipline that may be prejudicial to the commonwealth, and influence all elections for the advantage of such as are actively obedient and deserving.

That all such ceremonies and reverence as tends to enervating the minds of the people, and begetting a pride in the ministry, may be put down; since the appointment of so extraordinary respects to men of low extraction renders them insolent, and either averse from going out to preach the gospel, or scandalous in the performance thereof.

That there may be sundry acts in each year, at which a select number (yet varying each year to prevent collusion) of patriots or senators may be present to judge of the abilities, and inclinations of the several students towards the publick good, and accordingly dispose of them into places, so as they may be serviceable to the nation, and not grow old in their colleges, which thereby become as it were hospitals and monasteries.

These things we thought it a duty incumbent on us to propose unto you, being ready to supply by our activeness whatever prejudice our paucity might create unto the commonwealth: We have no self-ends, nor do we labour to promote particular interests, being ready to comply with any of your commands, and in the mean while, As your Petitioners, shall ever pray, &c.

A slight Model of a College to be erected and supplied from Westminster School.

SINCE the students of Christ-Church finding their condition, as to discipline and other emoluments, intolerable under their present governors, neither the foundation-men, nor ancestoral gentry being educated, so as to be serviceable to the publick in any trusts or employments; they have drawn up a petition, that the revenues of the college may be enquired into, and that they may be regulated by statutes (though good statutes in the hands of remiss and negligent persons become ineffectual) and since the canons of the said college (the dean is so dissatisfied with the posture thereof, that he hath professed himself ready to desert his station) do very little, and ought not at all to intermeddle with the government of that house (they should have been sold as cathedral, and that according to the covenant, as the university in convocation declared, but were, I know not how, preserved, possibly as a support to the then designed monarchy) nor do they, by reason of their frauds, dilapidations, male-administration of discipline, disaffection, and ge neral worthlessness, deserve to have any new right conferred on them. It is humbly queried, whether some such model as the ensuing (which shall be more fully represented, with the reasons of each particular circumstance, when there shall be any appointed to receive proposals) than either they, or the whole university at pre

sent is.

Let the places of the dean and canons be abolished, and the incomes thereof sequestered for the carrying on of the intended model, which may be perfected without any further expence, than

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