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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

CHAPTER VIII
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Put him into a dark room.

What does he do without a keeper?
He is under my care as a lunatic.

I wonder that nobody has applied to me for the custody of him." But when this storm had spent its force, and the depositions concerning the moral character of the King's nominee had been read, none of the Commissioners had the front to pronounce that such a man could properly be made the head of a great college.

Obadiah Walker and the other Oxonian Papists who were in attendance to support their proselyte were utterly confounded.

The Commission pronounced Hough's election void, and suspended Fairfax from his fellowship: but about Farmer no more was said; and, in the month of August, arrived a royal letter recommending Parker, Bishop of Oxford, to the Fellows.
Parker was not an avowed Papist.


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