[439] Soon afterwards a living which was in the gift of Magdalene College, Oxford, became vacant.

Hough and his ejected brethren assembled and presented a clerk; and the Bishop of Gloucester, in whose diocese the living lay, instituted their presentee without hesitation.

[440] The gentry were not less refractory than the clergy.

The assizes of that summer wore all over the country an aspect never before known.

The Judges, before they set out on their circuits, had been summoned into the King's presence, and had been directed by him to impress on the grand jurors and magistrates, throughout the kingdom, the duty of electing such members of Parliament as would support his policy.