James might enjoy the thought that he had reduced many of them from a situation in which they were surrounded by comforts, and had before them the fairest professional prospects, to hopeless indigence.
But all these severities produced an effect directly the opposite of that which he had anticipated.

The spirit of Englishmen, that sturdy spirit which no King of the House of Stuart could ever be taught by experience to understand, swelled up high and strong against injustice.
Oxford, the quiet scat of learning and loyalty, was in a state resembling that of the City of London on the morning after the attempt of Charles the First to seize the five members.

The Vicechancellor had been asked to dine with the Commissioners on the day of the expulsion.
He refused.

"My taste," he said, "differs from that of Colonel Kirke.

I cannot eat my meals with appetite under a gallows." The scholars refused to pull off their caps to the new rulers of Magdalene College.