[508] the
position of which cannot now be identified; and there he remained for
several weeks, unsuspected by the university authorities, till orders were
sent by Wolsey to the Dean of Christchurch, for his arrest. Precise
information was furnished at the same time respecting himself, his mission
in Oxford, and his place of concealment.[509]

The proctors were put upon the scent, and directed to take him; but one of
them, Arthur Cole, of Magdalen, by name, not from any sympathy with
Garret's objects, as the sequel proved, but probably from old acquaintance,
for they were fellows at the same college, gave him information of his
danger, and warned him to escape.

His young friends, more alarmed for their companion than for themselves,
held a meeting instantly to decide what should be done; and at this meeting
was Anthony Dalaber, an undergraduate of Alban Hall, and one of Clark's
pupils, who will now tell the story of what followed.

"The Christmas before that time, I, Anthony Dalaber, the scholar of Alban
Hall, who had books of Master Garret, had been in my country, at
Dorsetshire, at Stalbridge, where I had a brother, parson of this parish,
who was very desirous to have a curate out of Oxford, and willed me in any
wise to get him one there, if I could. This just occasion offered, it was
thought good among the brethren (for so we did not only call one another,
but were indeed one to another), that Master Garret, changing his name,
should be sent forth with my letters into Dorsetshire, to my brother, to
serve him there for a time, until he might secretly convey himself from
thence some whither over the sea. According hereunto I wrote my letters in
all haste possible unto my brother, for Master Garret to be his curate; but
not declaring what he was indeed, for my brother was a rank papist, and
afterwards was the most mortal enemy that ever I had, for the Gospel's
sake.

"So on Wednesday (Feb. 18), in the morning before Shrovetide, Master Garret
departed out of Oxford towards Dorsetshire, with my letter, for his new
service."

The most important person being thus, as was supposed, safe from immediate
danger, Dalaber was at leisure to think a little about himself; and
supposing, naturally, that the matter would not end there, and that some
change of residence might be of advantage for his own security, he moved
off from Alban Hall (as undergraduates it seems were then at liberty to do)
to Gloucester College,[510] under