OXFORD. 
ceptors in divinity, eleven.in civil law, and fix in phyfic. Of 
ers of arts there were during one year only eighteen, 
another nineteen, eaters twenty-five, and another twenty- 
feven, in the whole univerfity. 
he death ‘of Mary, sie iffue, oH Elizabeth poffef- 
juncture for the 
ni 
effe&ed in the con the univerfity. 
her predeceffors, fhe conducted the change with ie enels 
and moderation. Objectionable individuals were fimply de- 
prived of their places, or induced to > an 
not to be quickly overcome. In the year I ons hove one per- 
fon performed theological peal aad in the {chools, and only 
one In civil law, and three in phyfic. No divine, eit or 
phyfician, ftood that year oe adegree. In 1963 there were 
only three univerfity preachers in Oxford, and two of thefe 
fhortly afterwards hgh sassy the pulpit was frequently 
verner, rae of Oxfor hire, 
is 
, nt Me Matiicenelé evinces that the 
condition of ecclefiaftical literature muft have w in- 
deed, or the Oxonians never could have liftened to fuch 
flagrant abfurdity as the follow « Arriving at the 
mount Mary’s,’’ fays this preacher at the commence- 
ment of ia rmon, ‘in the e where I now ftand 
T have u fom bifcuits baked in the oven o 
ought you fome fine 
eae carefully conferved for the chickens of the church, 
the arro ws of the fpirit, and the {weet {wallows of fal- 
va on 
In she chan es of queen Elizabeth the two univerfities 
of parliament ; and two years fubfe- 
of England began to idly enforced on all who entered 
me the — y- s occafioned conliderable difturbance, 
ere we any each n the univerfity who favoured 
he poancl ce Ane es, and peremptorily refufed their af- 
fent to the propofed articles. The chancellor (the earl of 
Leicefter) was ftrongly tin@tured with Calviniftic fentiments ; 
and fir Francis Walfingham, the queen’s fecretary, was no- 
artifan of the _ tans. Hence fectarian prin- 
a Nichols’ Account of 
In this righ fir Thomas 
proved an 
to ae un erfit ity. 
The re te als of the 
aan for the orivilege i ie eave of fending two 
3 reprefentatives to the national council. In this era, the dif- 
putes between the Papifts, Epifcopalians, and Puritans, were 
carried to a great height, and proved highly i injurious to the 
interefts of folid learning, by inducing too eager a thir 
controverfial inquiry. this account fir Henry Savile 
informs us, * that | oneey was almoft totally unknown and 
abandoned ;”’ ‘and hence we may fairly prefume that many 
of the other {ciences were in a emilar ftate of decay and 
neglect. . 
es I., in the early part of his = conferred fome 
on the univerfity. At the interceffion 
Laud, he 
granted w charter, in which its ancient liberties and 
privileges were explsined and confirmed ; and new ones were 
This charter was fealed with the great feal of 
ngland, and is er ramet it from other grants, it was de- 
nominated the Caroline charter. In 1636, the ftatutes of the 
eae after being corrected and enlarged, and approved 
of b heads of the colleges, received the royal fanction ; 
and ie 16 8 the ftatute, oe the examination of all 
ut in execution. Durin 
FIs 
n 
the re c 
fity saeco an inviolable allegiance to the unfortunate 
monarc en when the parliament maftered the .king- 
rs were deputed to reform the difci- 
ae the erroneous doctrines of the univerfity by 
Clarendon, “ which m emain to the world's end, as a 
monument of the learning, courage, and loyalty of this excel- 
lent it place 
f. . CVse wl L 1 
ing the ee Svaticifn a at this nal poffeffed the 
minds of the predominant. party. ‘The dean and chapter’s 
lands were fold; the Epifcopalian divines were ejected ; the 
libraries were pillaged ; and fome of the more zealous vota- 
ries even proceeded fo far as to deftroy the ornaments and de- 
corations of the feveral colleges, without regard to the cir- 
cumftance whether they bore relation to matters of religion, or 
inftitution of which our country can boatt. who 
was elected chancellor of Oxford in 1650, gave feveral 
proofs of his predilection for learning, but the temper of the 
times is fuppofed to have checked his efforts for its revival 
and encouragement. n the reftoration, however, this fen- 
timent being in a great cee removed, the univerfity was 
again replaced on its former bafis. The lands of the dean 
and chapter were reftored, and moft of the perfons who had 
{uffered expulfion on account of their principles, were re- 
inftated in their re{petive collegiate ftations. Learning once 
more began to flourifh, and fome of thofe who were the 
proudeft boafts of fcience and of literature matured their 
ftudies, or laid the foundation of their future eminence 
here, in the reign of the fecond Charles. 
But this pleafing afpe& of affairs did not continue long ; 
violent party contentions difturbed the peace of the 
ity 
