NEVVES From PEMBROKE and MONGOMERY.
OR OXFORD MANCHESTERD BY Michael Oldsworth and his Lord, who swore He was Chancellour of Oxford, and proved it in a Speech made to the new VISITOURS in their New Convocation, Aprill 11. 1648.
As here it follows word for word and oath for oath.
Printed at MONGOMERY. 1648.
The SPEECH it self.
I Am glad to see this day, I hope it will never end, for I am your Chancellour: Some say I am not your Chancellour, but Dam me they lie, for my Brother was so before me, and none but Rascals would rob me of my Birth-right: They think Marquesse of Hertford is Cancellor of Oxford, because (forsooth) the Vniversity chose him; 's Death I sit here by Ordinance of Parliament, and judge ye Gentlemen, wherher He or I look liker a Chancellour: I'le prove He is a Party, for he himself is a Scholar, he ha's Greek and Latin; but all the world knows I can scarce write or read, 'dam me this writing and reading hath caus'd all this Bloud.
Some say, I love not the Vniversity, but I say they lie; I love her, I count her my Mother, for I had four Sons there. You know what a coyle I had e're I could get hither, Sleden did so vex us with his Law and his Reasons we could get nothing passe; you saw I was fain to swear him down, and Mr. Rous, Gurdon, Mildmay, Wentworth, [Page 2] Prideaux, Scot, and other friends voted bravely, else Seldon had carried it. 's Death, that fellow is but Burgesse for Oxford, and I am Chancellour, and yet he would have the Parliament hear his law and reasons against their own Chancellour. I thank God, and I thank you; I thank God I am come at last, and I thank you for giving me a gilded Bible; you could not give me a better book ('Dam me I think) I love the Bible though I seldome use it; I say I love it, and a Mans [...]ffection is the best Member about him; I can love it, though I cannot read it, as you Dr. Wilkinson love preaching though you never preach; what? cannot a man be Doctor of Divinity but he must preach? I hope you'l confesse I have gotten you good Places, if I had not stuck to you how could you have thrown out Bayly, Seldon, Foll, Potter, Oliver, Ha [...]mond, Morley, and the rest? and then to what end had you been Visitours if ye got not their places? you know Hammond is my owne God son, and they say he is a Scholar? 's Death I love You, what care I for deep Scholars? Mr. Cheynell (I thank you) you have been kind to me, you have broke your brains againe for me, and I have given you another Head, for J have made you Head of St. Iohns, and for you sake have thrust out Bayly, his wife, and nine pretty child [...]en. Master Reynolds I fear'd you would have left us, for your pretended to take no mans place from him, but I thank God you are of another mind; for you have both a Mans place and a Womans place, you have all that belong'd to Fell and his Wife and all his Children. Mr. Wilkinson you love me, and J am glad of it, for they say you hate yor enemies to the Bottomlesse pit, I have given you my owne Chaplains Prebend, and Dam me while he serv'd Me he was an excellent Scholar. Mr. Corbe [...] I [Page 3] love you too, I have made you Oratour of the Vniversity, 'twas my God-son Hammond's place, I hope none will blame me for displacing my own God-son, you are now my God-son, for you are Oratour; I hope you'l speak for me, I cannot speak for my self; you have a Tongue now though you want Eyes, what cannot a man be a Visitour without eyes? Mr. Langley I love you also, I have made you Dr. of Divinity, Malignants say it's impossible to make you Doctour, but hang'em they lie, for you were Created Doctour, and nothing can Create but God and a Chancellour; Nay I have made you Head of Pembroke Colledge, I cannot make you Governour, for a Rogue (they call him Poyer) is Governour of Pembroke, and Dam me I think the King will make Poyer to be Earle of Pembrooke. Mr Harris you are an old man, I have made you Head of Trinity Colledge, I love an old Head, Dr. Kettle was an old Head before, but he loved us not, I love an old Head new made. Sir Nathaniel Brent I know you love me, for you are Iudge of the Prerogative Court, the Parliament gave it you, you are a good man, and that's a good place, they say you have no Civill Law, what's that toth purpose: you have an Ordinance of Parliament, a man may be a Civilian by an Ordinance of Parliament, else why the Devil have we sate seven yeats? My Father said, that a Parliament could do any thing but make a Man a Woman, and a Woman a Man. Mr. Rogers you look as if you loved me, and I have made you Doctor, they call you Aaron, I hate'em for it, for I hate Aaron, he was a Priest, and I would have all Priests and Iesuits hang'd. Mr. Cornish I love you though your wife plaies tricks with you, they say she gads abroad because you are a sicky wea [...]se man, but I have given you Dr. Walls place, for the weakest [Page 4] goes to the wall (you must give me leave to clinch, for those that have no wit must be content with clinches.) Mr. Palmer I have made you head of All-Soules, and have turn'd out Sheldon, I hope you love me, for you are a Physitian, and never any Physitian was Head of All-Soules, they say their Statutes do keep you out, hang their Statutes, I'le keep you in, you are a Member of the House of Commons, and a Member of Parliament may be Head of any House, what? must the Parliament be tied to Oaths and Statutes? I have for your sake clapt Sheldon in Prison, was it not high time? Dam me he hath more brains then all we together, you saw to day what tricks he put upon me: I could not speake to him but he made it Non-sense, so as I was forc'd to cry him mercy four severall times; But I have Sheldon'd him by the hee's, and he Deserves it, 's Death, is he not Clerke of the Closet, I love no Clerks of the Closet, J am not one my selfe, Dam me if I be: There's a young rogue one Palmer (I hope Mr. Palmer he is not your Name-sake) this little knave lookt at me as if he cared not two pence for me; But I have Sheldon'd him too, and I'le justifié it, for he is at least twelve years old, and the Parliament hath imprison'd one not nine years old, I mean Inchiquin's Son, a Plague upon him, for now Iachiquin is turn'd Imbiking. Gentlemen, love one another, for there's twenty thousand do hate you, they say you are all either Dunces, Knaves, or Mad-men, 's Death they'l say so of me if they durst. But do you serve GOD and love your CHANCELLOVR, you have all the good Places the Vniversity can yeild; you desired us to make you Visitours, and you have made your selves Heads of Colledges. J love you all, Dam me do, I command you (Register) to wri [...]e it down that J love them all, your name is French, and [Page 5] my [...]ame may be French, for I cannot spell English. God blesse you all, and God blesse me, and doe as I doe, for I feare God and obey the Parliament; I will live and die with you, and God confound me if I leave the Town these two daies.