Mr. Vice-Chancellors speech to His Maiestie, at Christ-Church in Oxford, on New Yeares Day when in the name of the whole vniversitie, he presented His Majestie with a faire guilt cup, and two hundred pounds of gold in it. Tolson, John, 1575 or 6-1644. 1643 Approx. 10 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2011-12 (EEBO-TCP Phase 2). A94723 Wing T1778 ESTC R19055 38875754 ocm 38875754 152447

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Mr. Vice-Chancellors SPEECH TO HIS MAIESTIE, AT Chriſt-Church in Oxford, ON New Yeares Day: When in the name of the whole Vniverſitie, he preſented his Majeſtie with a faire Guilt Cup, and two hundred pounds of Gold in it.

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Printed at Oxford by Leon ard Lichfield. 1643.

DOCTRINA PARIT VIRTVTEM device with an open book, sword, scepter, and surrounding motto, often used for official publications by the King's printers
Maſter Vice-Chancellors Speech to His ſacred Majeſtie at his entertainment at Chriſt Church in Oxfo d on Newyeers day. MAy it pleaſe your ſacred Majeſty,

that I in the name of this Univerſity, may ſalute your Highneſſe with the ſame words and wiſhes that the Noble Poet Horace once of old uſed to that great favourite of Auguſtus, and Patron of deſert, Maecenas, according to that Poets teſtinmony atavis edite regibus; namely, ſpectaum ſatis eſt & donatum cum rude quaeris.

Maecenaes iterum antiquo me includere ludo, Non eadem eſt aetas.

Never any words ever ſuited our purpoſe with a more efficacious aptitude: for now wee may juſtly ſay in this Univerſity, non eadem eſt aetas, the face of times are ſo wrinckled on the ſudden, that they who not long ſince beheld them young, faire and flouriſhing, looke upon them now, as if thy were quite baniſhed their memory, they appeare ſo decayed, aged and uncomely, as if the Chaos were re urned againe, and the fabricke of our Engliſh world ſhaken into a rude and undigeſted maſſe of confuſion.

And not without reaſon, when that all illuſtrating Sunne of your Majeſties Royall preſence hath, as it were, ſuffered a long and hideous eclipſe, been obvolved and ſurrounded with cloudes and darkneſſe, in reſpect of the diminution of that light of obedience which was refulgent in the boſomes of all your Subjects, darkned are the beames too of your Royall countenance in regard of the abſence of your deare Conſort the Queen her Majeſty, who hath bleſſed your Majeſty with ſo many faire and hopefull pledges of your loves; ſo many ſweet and gracious Princes of both ſexes, that they doe as thoſe in the Pſalmiſt, ſit like Olive branches round about your table; darkned they are alſo in regard of the ſtill increaſing and over-flowing troubles and diſtractions that ſo riot in your Majeſties Dominions, a ſtreame of blood which hath iſſued from the bodies of your wounded and ſlaughtered Subjects, like a purple cloud, ſhadowing the accuſtomed rayes that uſed ſo cheerfully to iſſue out from your Majeſties eyes, which now ſeeme all to be transformed into the very Ideas of penſiveneſſe and ſadneſſe; ſo that we may with much griefe of heart ſay of your Grace, O quantum mutatus ab illa; How much are you altered from that King you were, when you uſed before theſe civill warres to grace our Univerſitie with your Royall preſence, when nought was heard in our Colledges, Halls and Houſes, nay, in this whole City, but the voyce of joy and gladneſſe; but now, non eadem eſt aetas, the gallant and learned Orations made here in entertainment of your Majeſtie, are now reduced to this poore unworthy Speech of mine, the meaneſt of your Highneſſe Subjects, inſtead of thoſe pregnant iſſues of wit and fancie which the nimble brains of our Poets have invented to fill the Scene of your welcome hither. Nothing is heard here at this great Feſtivall of our Redeemers nativity, but the tongue of mourning, the Univerſitie being a very theatre of ſilence, though wee muſt confeſſe our ſelves more obliged to the bounty of the Almighty then any Citie in your Majeſties Kingdomes, in that he hath bleſſed us thus long with being eſteemed worthy to injoy your Majeſties preſence; and ſo that never forgotten benefit hath a little revived and refreſhed our drooping ſoules; yet the ſenſe of our neighbours ſufferings comes like the ill Gemi into our imaginations to affright them with the horror of their ghoſtly and hideous countenances; Non nobis ſolum nati ſumus, wee were not worthy the Religion wee profeſſe, if wee ſhould not have a fellow-feeling of the afflictions of our Country and its inhabitants, who groane as the Iſraelites did under the Egyptians, under the oppreſſive weight of their burthens, ſo inſupportable, that they would cracke the ſhoulders of another Atlas to ſuſtaine them; their burthens which comprehend the contracted weight of all miſeries incident to mortality; ſince all of them are charactered in this civil warre. This civill warre that hath robbed the Kingdome of the ancient tranquillitie, the Church of its ſo deſpiſed ornaments, the Subjects of their eſtates quite, nay, lives, and many of them undone paſt all reparation or recovery by theſe military tumults, your facred Majeſtie will be pleaſed to afford mee an indulgent pardon for my expatiating ſo much on this point of the Subjects calamity, it is not that I dare be ſo diſloyall, to believe any fault of it reſts in your Majeſty, but out of the tender compaſſion and hearty conſideration of their afflictions, which wee all hope your Majeſties paternall and pious care will in good time rectifie, for this particular City, but eſpecially for the body of this Univerſity, which this yeere is under my government, unworthy as I am of that charge, had not your Majeſties comfortable and all-quickning ſight removed away the clouds that ſhadowed us; certamly ere this darkneſſe had encompaſſed us round about: here would have beene no need of a Vice-chancellor, when there would have been no Students to governe; no need of Schooles, when there would have been none to have been taught in them. No Science Liberall practiſed in the Colledges, whence all the Practiſers were fled for feare of perſecution, of being plundered of their ſubſtances; nay, deprived (as it was probable enough) of their lives, for being loyally affected to Your Moſt Excellent Majeſtie.

In that great deſection of the Iſraelites from the Tribe of Indah and Family of David, the Tribe of Levi ſtuck cloſe to their rightfull King, ſo hath it in England to your Highneſſe, in all theſe domeſtick broyles, not one of the Clergie (but ſome of factious ſpirits) deſerting your cauſe: The two Univerſities, this and that of Cambridge, declaring themſelves in your Majeſties behalfe; and ſurely wee in Oxford had been juſtly branded with the title of ingratitude, if we ſhould have relinquiſhed your Grace, who have formerly, and at this preſent time, heaped upon us ſo many evident teſtimonies of your Royall Benignity to us, and your deare affection to the advancement of good literature, which as I before related, was here reduced to the laſt gaſp, labouring as it were for life, till your Goodneſſe, by tranſferring your Perſon and Preſence hither, making this your winter reſidence, infus'd new life into the languiſhing Academy. The Fellows of Houſes now returne to their chambers, ſecur'd by your Majeſtie from any feare of dangers. The young Students, that for their ſafeties were retired home to their fathers houſes, haſte back to the Colledges, proud that they ſhall have the happineſſe to reſide where they may ſee the light and favour of your Royall Countetenance; So that (thanks be to God and and your Majeſtie) decayed learning begins here againe to reſpire and reflouriſh.

The Romans in a noble gratitude to that great Camillus, who reſcued them from the tyranny and ruine of the Galls under the conduct of Brennus brought upon them, would needs have conferr'd upon him the title of the ſecond Romulus, the Founder of the Citie, and allowed him equall honour with him. The ſame muſt wee, inſpir'd with no leſſe a gratefulneſſe, tender to your Majeſtie, you are our ſecond Alured, the ſecond Founder of our Univerſitie; and if to ſave when loſt, in ſome opinion, was as great an action of the Almightie, as to create man-kind out of nothing; Surely our reaſon muſt enforce us to acknowledge our ſelves as much indebted to your Highneſſe, for our preſervation and reſtitution, as to Alured for our foundarion and inſtitution. And ſo with the generall votes of the whole Univerſitie, this new yeere I preſent your Majeſtie in their names, with theſe wiſhes; Grace and Peace this yeare be multiplyed upon Your Selfe, your abſent Queene, and Royall Progenie. May the dew fall upon you all, and the bleſſings of Iacob be in your inheritance. May all theſe tumultuous and civill diſtractions end with the beginning of this yeere, and the reſt of it be ſpent in imbalming and curing the many wounds of our Engliſh Iſrael. And to conclude, may Heavens beſt bountie be ſhowred downe on you, its mightie and out-ſtretched Arme protect you. And as an humble and zealous teſtimony of the Univerſities deſires to ſerve Your Sacred Majeſtie in their names, and as the beſt expreſſion, they for the preſent can make of their loyaltie, I here beſeech Your Highneſſe, to accept this widdows mite, caſt as this New Yeares Oblation into Your Treaſurie, this Cup with two hundred pounds in gold, which is contained within it. 'Tis all, Royall Sir, our Univerſities decay'd debilitie hath to tender as an offering to Your Gracious Hands; our wiſhes deſire it were an unexhauſtible Indies: And ſo wee hope the intention of the gift will make us win favour in Your Eyes, ſo that Your Majeſtie will vouchſafe to accept it as graciouſly, as we preſent it humbly.

FINIS.