Ontario Public School History of England : Authorized by the Minister of Education for Ontario for Use in Forms IV and V of the Public Schools . the Univer-sities of Oxford and Cambridge, and still further antagonizedthe established church. The vice-chancellor of Cambridgewas deprived of his office; a Roman Catholic was ap-pointed to the headship of Magdalen College, Oxford; themembers of Oxford University who refused to submit tothe mandates of the king were dismissed. It was feared 1688] THE HOUSE OF STUART 191 that both universities would soon be entirely under thecontrol of the Roman Catho
Ontario Public School History of England : Authorized by the Minister of Education for Ontario for Use in Forms IV and V of the Public Schools . the Univer-sities of Oxford and Cambridge, and still further antagonizedthe established church. The vice-chancellor of Cambridgewas deprived of his office; a Roman Catholic was ap-pointed to the headship of Magdalen College, Oxford; themembers of Oxford University who refused to submit tothe mandates of the king were dismissed. It was feared 1688] THE HOUSE OF STUART 191 that both universities would soon be entirely under thecontrol of the Roman Catholics. To his great disappointment, James had found that theProtestant dissenters were not giving him the support thathe expected. In the hope of gaining over those who stillheld out, he issued in April, 1688, a second Declaration ofIndulgence. In this he renewed the grant of freedom ofworship, and further promised to caU a Parliament not laterthan November, at the same time urging that men whowere favourable to religious freedom should be returnedas members. The Declaration was ordered to be read inall churches on two successive Medal Struck in Honour of the Bishops Before the appointed Sunday on which the Declarationwas to be read for the first time, six bishops presentedprivately to the king a petition, signed by themselves andby Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, asking that theorder be withdrawn. In the petition, they set forth theirloyalty to the crown and their desire for religious toleration,but held that, as Parliament had frequently declared thatthe king had no power to dispense with the laws, the Declara-tion was illegal, and that, as such, they could not con-scientiously assist in its publication. The king was furiouslyangry. God has given me the dispensing power, he said,and I will maintain it. The bishops could not prevailon him to withdraw the order, and they retired The 192 HISTORY OP ENGLAND [1688 Declaration, however, was read in very few of the chur
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