But the greatest alteration was in their Chapels, most of them being graced with the accession of organs.

And seeing musick is one of the liberal arts, how could it be quarrelled at in an University if they sang with understanding both of the matter and manner thereof.

Yet some took great distaste thereat as attendancie to superstition."[13:1] The chapel at Peterhouse, we read elsewhere, which was built in 1632, and consecrated by Bishop White of Ely, had a beautiful ceiling and a noble east window.

"A grave divine," Fuller tells us, "preaching before the University at St.Mary's, had this smart passage in his Sermon--that as at the Olympian Games he was counted the Conqueror who could drive his chariot wheels nearest the mark yet so as not to hinder his running or to stick thereon, so he who in his Sermons could preach _near Popery_ and yet _no Popery_, _there was your man_.

And indeed it now began to be the general complaint of most moderate men that many in the University, both in the schools and pulpits, approached the opinions of the Church of Rome nearer than ever before." Archbishop Laud, unlike the bishops of Dr.Newman's day, favoured the Catholic revival, and when Mr.Bernard, the lecturer of St.Sepulchre's, London, preached a "No Popery" sermon at St.Mary's, Cambridge, he was dragged into the High Commission Court, and, as the hateful practice then was, a practice dear to the soul of Laud, was bidden to subscribe a formal recantation.