Of such fanaticism, in her day of trouble, when this spirit was dominant, nobly and firmly did the University of Oxford show her disdain. - nobly, and proudly, did her faithful members, through "evil report and good report"—with persecution and poverty before them- sustain their dignified parts. "Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; as poor, yet making many rich; as HAVING NOTHING, and yet POSSESSING ALL THINGS.'

The Parliamentary orders were, "take the Covenant, and acknowledge the jurisdiction of the Parliament!" The answer was, "We will TAKE NO PRESBYTERIAN COVENANT, for we belong to the Episcopal Apostolic Church of England! We will acknowledge no authority of Parliament, for we have sworn that the Sovereign is the only legal Visitor!"

Jeremy Taylor, of All Souls -- Hammond, Saunderson, Pocock, of Christ Church — and Chillingworth, of Trinity,* were dismissed to poverty; and CHEYNELL, the insulter of Chillingworth, A. M. of Merton, and his "really pious" brethren, RE

MAINED.

Oxford having been thus "purified" by the expulsion of the most eminent scholars, and singularly, at the same time, of four members the

* Here were also educated Selden, Sommers, and Chatham! Skinner, Bishop of Oxford, was Chillingworth's tutor, who was imprisoned, with the other Bishops, for petitioning the Parliament in 1643.

most learned and eminently pious of any age or nation as if in insult to the manes of the illustrious founders-under the auspices of this immortal Cheynell, Cromwell appeared in Convocation, robed in his gown as LL. D.! It might be almost imagined the shades of the kings and prelates, the illustrious founders of this seat of learning, frowned indignant — when the Regicide-abolishers of her ancient institutions the profoundly-dissembling Cromwell was made Doctor of Laws, the frantic Harrison, and the renowned Cornet Joice, were honoured by the degree of Master of Arts, in the regenerated Convocation! *

I shall merely add, that the Parliament sent their visitors to Oxford in June 1647. The University refused to submit. Monitions and citations were resorted to in vain; the sturdy academicians held them in scorn. The Earl of Pembroke was made Vice-Chancellor by the votes of both Houses of Parliament, armed with authority to expel all the contumacious members, in 1648.

In March 1648, Morley, with his virtuous, learned, and pious friends, were without house or home.

* Sir Hardress Waller, Harrison, Ingoldby, Ireton, Okey, King's Judges; and the learned and redoubtable Cornet Joice, were honoured, in full Convocation, with their Masters of Arts degrees, May 19, 1649. I mention this, because I think it goes some way to confirm the extraordinary testimony of Lilly, that it was Joice who beheaded the King.

In April an order was published, by beat of drum, that if any of those who had been expelled were found within five miles of the city, they should be treated as spies, and PUT TO DEATH!!

Morley did not stay long enough to be subjected to this most humane ordinance, but he was, for contumacy, imprisoned. Soon after his release from imprisonment, he found refuge in Staffordshire.

He sojourned with Walton in his cottage from April 1648 till the first week of May 1649, joining the young nominal King of England, just as he was about to remove from the Hague.

The Son of King Charles the First being obliged to look out for some secure retreat-after a journey to Paris to visit his mother-fixed on the Island of Jersey as the safest place of sojourn during the tempest of the times. Here, as is said in Rapin, he had his "small court." Here, in the language of that exquisite writer, his unfortunate father's favourite, he might have said,

Come, poor remains of friends! rest on this rock and of this small and disconsolate court Morley was now the "melancholy Jaques."

It is said he would not go with the King to Scotland. Doubtless, for the first thing required of the King was to take the "Solemn League and Covenant;" and, if a clergyman of the Church of England had been found among the flock of John Knox,

they would have cried out "A Pope! a Pope!

stone him!"*

He now parted from the young King, and retired to Antwerp, officiating, according to the rites of the persecuted Church, and living in the family, as instructor of the children, of Lady Hyde, whilst her husband, afterwards Lord Chancellor, was in Spain. All the offices of the Church of England were regularly performed, not only in her household, but a congregation was established at Antwerp sacraments administered and the small but faithful flock here gathered in a foreign land.

We have spoken of Morley's generous sympathy towards Charles the First of his expulsion from Oxford- of his sojourn with old Walton- and of his subsequent wanderings with the nominal Court. He returned to England with the restored Monarch, and preached the Restoration Sermon (he says) "in the year of his grand climacteric !" He was immediately nominated Dean of Christ-church, where he remained two months, having had just time to settle those who were restored, all but his friend Hammond, who was dead. After two months residence at Christ-Church, he was made BISHOP OF WORCESTER, and in his Cathedral the pious Kenna, who lived only two years after his elevation, was buried.

* So they cried, when a Minister in a surplice, according to Laud's absurd injunction, was seen in a KIRK! "A Pape! a Pape! stane him!" Rushworth.

From Worcester he was translated, in 1663, to Winchester, where he closed his eyes, surrounded by those who revered him, though he was unmarried and childless. Ken, and young Isaac Waltonand Dr. Hawkins and his wife, Walton's daughter -and their two children, William, the biographer, and Jane, his sister, were his CHILDREN and GRANDCHILDREN; Ken became a Bishop at his death. I shall reserve the picture of the chief character of the party, till I have said something of this great and good man's character:

Morley seemed to have been an exile with the resolution of Mephibosheth: "And Mephibosheth, the son of Saul, came down to meet the King, and had neither dressed his feet nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the King departed until the day he came again in peace." And the language of Morley, I have no doubt, was, "Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my Lord the King is come again in peace unto his own house." Such was his fidelity and loyalty.

Next, we must remark, his inflexible integrity in what he conscientiously felt to be his duty, without hesitation or compromise, it may be added, without attempting to conceal any feeling of his heart. He might, by ever so little management, have retained his preferment—but he abhorred the hypocrite who proposed it, and he took no shall keep

"If you will only agree not to oppose us, you your preferment."