aken possession. Men said that his heart was broken by
remorse and shame. He lies in the beautiful antechapel of the college:
but no monument marks his grave.

Then the King's whole plan was carried into full effect. The college was
turned into a Popish seminary. Bonaventure Giffard, the Roman Catholic
Bishop of Madura, was appointed President. The Roman Catholic service
was performed in the chapel. In one day twelve Roman Catholics were
admitted Fellows. Some servile Protestants applied for fellowships, but
met with refusals. Smith, an enthusiast in loyalty, but still a sincere
member of the Anglican Church, could not bear to see the altered
aspect of the house. He absented himself; he was ordered to return into
residence: he disobeyed: he was expelled; and the work of spoliation was
complete. [298]

The nature of the academical system of England is such that no event
which seriously affects the interests and honour of either University
can fail to excite a strong feeling throughout the country. Every
successive blow, therefore, which fell on Magdalene College, was felt
to the extremities of the kingdom. In the coffeehouses of London, in the
Inns of Court, in the closes of all the Cathedral towns, in parsonages
and manor houses scattered over the remotest shires, pity for the
sufferers and indignation against the government went on growing. The
protest of Hough was everywhere applauded: the forcing of his door was
everywhere mentioned with abhorrence: and at length the sentence of
deprivation fulminated against the Fellows dissolved those ties, once
so close and dear, which had bound the Church of England to the House of
Stuart. Bitter resentment and cruel apprehension took the place of love
and confidence. There was no prebendary, no rector, no vicar, whose mind
was not haunted by the thought that, however quiet his temper, however
obscure his situation, he might, in a few months, be driven from his
dwelling by an arbitrary edict to beg in a ragged cassock with his wife
and children, while his freehold, secured to him by laws of immemorial
antiquity and by the royal word, was occupied by some apostate. This
then was the reward of that heroic loyalty never once found wanting
through the vicissitudes of fifty tempestuous years. It was for this
that the clergy had endured spoliation and persecution in the cause of
Charles the First. It was for this that they had supported Charles the
Second in his hard contest with the