Of OXFO%T>^SHI%E. iti 
i//7)/y Scholar 0/ this Houfe) to fay at much^ calling thefe Bees, Vi- 
ves his Bees. 
21. In the year 1630. the leads over Vives hr^ fludy beiiig 
pluckc up, [it then being theftiidy of Mr. Gabriel Bridges] their 
Stall vpa6 taken^ and with it an incredible mafs of bony : but the Bees, 
06 frefaging their intended and imminent def ruction C v^hereas they 
were never known to have /warmed before J did that Spring C ^0 pre- 
Jerve their famous kindj fend down a fair fivarm into the Prefidents 
garden^ which in the year 1633. yielded two /warms; one whereof 
•pitched in the garden for the Frefident ; the other they fent up as a 
new Colony to preferve the memory of this melliiiuous Doctor, as the 
Univerfny fliled him in a Letter to the C^rdindl, Thus far Mr. 
Butler. 
22. And there tbey continued, as I am informed by feveral 
ancient Members of th^t Society that knew them, till by the Far- 
Uament Vifitation^ in Anno 1648. for their Loyalty to the Eing^ 
they were all, hut two ^ turned out of their places, at what time 
with the reft of the inhabitants of the College^ they removed 
themfelves, but no further than the Eafi end of the fame Cloy- 
fier^ where as if the feminine fympathized with the mafcidine Mo- 
narchy, they inftantly declined, and came Oiortly to nothing. 
After the expiration of which ancient Race^ there came, 'tis true, 
another Colony to the Ea/I corner of the Cloyfter^ where they con- 
tinued till after the return of his moft Sacred Majefly that now is ; 
bur. i*: not being certain that they were any of the remains of the 
ancient Stocky (though 'tis faid they removed thence to the firft' 
place) nor any of them continuing long there, I have chofe ra- 
ther to fix their period m the year 1648. than to give too much 
credit to uncertainties. 
23. And thus unhappily, after above fix fcorc years conti- 
nuance, ended the famous ftock of Vives his Bees^ whtre 'tis 
pic^-' they had not remained, as Virgil calls them, an Immortale 
Genu6L However, finde they are now irrecoverably loft, it 
would not I think be amifs, if the provided them ano- 
ther Colony ; not that J think that Learned Society M/ants any fuch 
monitor of Indufiry^ but that itfeems but congruous, they (liould 
always have by them the Things whereof their whole Houfe is but 
the metaphor^ the Founder calling it Jlvearium, and the Students, 
y Oeorgic Lib, 4.. 
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