With one voice they declared that they would never ask pardon for being in the right, or admit that the visitation of their college and the deprivation of their President had been legal.
Then the King, as he had threatened, laid on them the whole weight of his hand.

They were by one sweeping edict condemned to expulsion.
Yet this punishment was not deemed sufficient.

It was known that many noblemen and gentlemen who possessed church patronage would be disposed to provide for men who had suffered so much for the laws of England or men and for the Protestant religion.

The High Commission therefore pronounced the ejected Fellows incapable of ever holding any church preferment.

Such of them as were not yet in holy orders were pronounced incapable of receiving the clerical character.