The walks by the river are delightful.

If the Roman Catholics are reasonable they will be satisfied with these." This absurd avowal would alone have made it impossible for Hough and his brethren to yield.

The negotiation was broken off; and the King hastened to make the disobedient know, as he had threatened, what it was to incur his displeasure.
A special commission was directed to Cartwright, Bishop of Chester, to Wright, Chief justice of the King's Bench, and to Sir Thomas Jenner, a Baron of the Exchequer, appointing them to exercise visitatorial jurisdiction over the college.

On the twentieth of October they arrived at Oxford, escorted by three troops of cavalry with drawn swords.

On the following morning the Commissioners took their seats in the hall of Magdalene.