"As for you," said Jeffreys to the delegates, "most of you are divines.

I will therefore send you home with a text of scripture, 'Go your way and sin no more, lest a worse thing happen to you.'" [286] These proceedings might seem sufficiently unjust and violent.

But the King had already begun to treat Oxford with such rigour that the rigour shown towards Cambridge might, by comparison, be called lenity.

Already University College had been turned by Obadiah Walker into a Roman Catholic seminary.

Already Christ Church was governed by a Roman Catholic Dean.