[90] To the Nuncio the King said that what had been done at Oxford should very soon be done at Cambridge.

[91] Yet even this was a small evil compared with that which Protestants had good ground to apprehend.

It seemed but too probable that the whole government of the Anglican Church would shortly pass into the hands of her deadly enemies.

Three important sees had lately become vacant, that of York, that of Chester, and that of Oxford.

The Bishopric of Oxford was given to Samuel Parker, a parasite, whose religion, if he had any religion, was that of Rome, and who called himself a Protestant only because he was encumbered with a wife.