He had been a constant frequenter of noted haunts of libertines.

At length he had turned pandar, had exceeded even the ordinary vileness of his vile calling, and had received money from dissolute young gentlemen commoners for services such as it is not good that history should record.

This wretch, however, had pretended to turn Papist.

His apostasy atoned for all his vices; and, though still a youth, he was selected to rule a grave and religious society in which the scandal given by his depravity was still fresh.
As a Roman Catholic he was disqualified for academical office by the general law of the land.

Never having been a Fellow of Magdalene College or of New College, he was disqualified for the vacant presidency by a special ordinance of William of Waynflete.