Note 618 — Chapter XXII
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[619] They are far too numerous and varied for me to classify or indicate. See historical account of all material transactions relating to University.—Laud's Works, vol. v., part I.
The following scrap of a newspaper shews the care taken by the Parliament for the support of the University, and also the feeling existing at Oxford against the Parliament:—
"Ordered that the Committee for the Ordinances of regulating the University shall consider of a fitting maintenance for the masters and heads of houses in both Universities. They also ordered that a committee should sit constantly for giving a competent maintenance to the late bishops until they had despatched that business.
"The House being informed that there were monuments standing in Christ Church, in Oxford, on which were epitaphs engraven abusive to the Parliament, and giving just cause of distaste to many good men well affected to it, as particulary on the monument of Sir Henry Gage and Sir William Penniman, it was ordered that the epitaphs on the said monuments should be razed and effaced."—Weekly Intelligencer, April 15th, 1647.