Mass was already said daily in both those colleges.
The tranquil and majestic city, so long the stronghold of monarchical principles, was agitated by passions which it had never before known.
The undergraduates, with the connivance of those who were in authority over them, hooted the members of Walker's congregation, and chanted satirical ditties under his windows.

Some fragments of the serenades which then disturbed the High Street have been preserved.

The burden of one ballad was this: "Old Obadiah Sings Ave Maria." When the actors came down to Oxford, the public feeling was expressed still more strongly.

Howard's Committee was performed.

This play, written soon after the Restoration, exhibited the Puritans in an odious and contemptible light, and had therefore been, during a quarter of a century, a favourite with Oxonian audiences.