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duty_n	affection_n	good_a	love_n	1,128	5	5.0684	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44581	The petition and argvment of Mr. Hotham, fellow of Peter-house in Cambridge, before the Committee for Reformation of the Universities, April 10, 1651 against the masters negative voice of that colledge, and for a remedy to be granted the colledge against the usurpations of Doctor Seaman the present master, agreeable to what was granted the colledge against the usurpations of Doctor Seaman the present master, agreeable to what was granted by Parliament to the city of London, an. Dom. 1648 for the better enabling them in case of need to act as a free body without their chief officers concurrence.	Hotham, Charles, 1615-1672?	1651 (1651)	Wing H2897; ESTC R26808	47,840	64

a suter to the Master to confer upon him the Chappel Clerks place then vacant The Master as I was told by a third person who made the motion to him was willing to it if I would have truck'd with him i. e. if I would have received one of his recommendation to be my poor Scholer in his place but I being otherwise engaged could not do it and so could not obtain the Masters consent yet was dismiss'd with this intimation of hopes That there would be ere long more vacancies of these places which fell out accordingly but he whom I had spoke for was never the neerer for still one or other was promoted before him Which observing I took my opportunity upon a vacancy that hapned to represent the case to the President Deans who convinc'd of the poor lads deservings elected him without the Masters concurrence This the Master resented so deeply as at his return he did as I have been certainly informed call the President a man of more standing and worth then himselfe by such a foul name as I am ashamed to mention And in passion would had not I withstood him under pretence of translation have thrust this poor youth out of his place of eight or nine pounds a year into a poor place of three or four pounds a year and has ever since that time born him an implacable malice The poor youth being something elated with this sudden promotion began a little to lay himself open to temptation and as was before related through the seducement of a malignant whom he fell acquainted with was somthing infected and by chance a Rakell of Pembroke-Hall coming into our Butteries and beginning the Kings health 't was his unhappiness as of some other simple lads there present who were no malignants to pledg it yet not upon his knees as was alledged hearing of this I sent for him and finding the original of this distemper to proceed from a chamber-fellow with whom without my privity he had associated himself I commanded him back to his former chamber but he refusing that the example of his misdemeanor and disobedience might not further infect the Colledg by his impunity I corrected him publickly before two or three of the scholers in my chamber and because I conceived a fathers admonitions might be most powerfull with him I sent him down to the Country with letters to his father informing him how the case stood that if a reall reformation should appear in him he should be welcome to me again if not that he must dispose of him some other where for I would own none such as he was in that present condition so after some reasonable stay in the Country his father returned him up to me again as a reformed man of which he gave good evidence by a whole years pious religious conversation And besides better to satisfie my self I enquired concerning him of some honest and religious lads whom I durst trust who professed to me that he had divers times in their hearing testified his great sorrow for his former miscarriages and that to them he then appeared as much as could be of a truly pious disposition Hereupon the youth having taken his degree of Bachelor of Arts I began to look out for some preferment for him and knowing the Masters malice to him was such as 't was impossible without higher contests then I was willing to engage in to prefer him in our own Colledg and hearing of a way open in St. Johns Colledg I made a sute to some of that Colledg in his behalf acquainting them fully with the worst of this which the Master now objects and received from them good encouragement But the day before their sitting I received a note from one of the Fellowes there of a report they had heard of some Arminian tenent which he had maintained in the Schools whereupon I sent for Sr. Conyers and charg'd him with it chid him for that he had contrary to my counsells troubled his head in his unriper years with the study of the contentious part of Divinity yet withall charg'd him with all severity that whatsoever opinion though never so heterodox he was possessed of in his judgment he should not deny it for any wordly preferment but if those things which he was said to have disputed for in the schools were not his judgment he should then expose himself to examination to clear himself of those aspersions his answer to me was that he had not maintain'd any thing that way as his judgment and that he doubted not of giving satisfaction in any reasonable way that could be expected Whereupon I writ to St. Johns Colledg that I wondred any thing uttered by way of dispute in those tumultuary velitations should be esteemed an argument of a mans judgement and that Sir Conyers was ready to give satisfaction to ought could be alledged against him But I was answered that the time of election being now come the suspicion that was conceived of him could not be removed in such an instant and that therefore it was better to forbear sitting which counsel of his was accordingly followed So the poor young man destitute of maintinance was not able to continue longer in the Colledg but retired to a poor employment into Norfolke where he has liv'd neer the space of a whole yeare during which time what his behaviour hath been and what opinion the religious and well affected of that place have of him this testimony of men well known to some members of this Committee which I desire may be rehearsed before you will make it appear Norff. These are to certifie all whom it may concern that Mr Tobias Conyers now resident in Hapton hath during his abode here been blameless in his life and conversation usefull in teaching of children and painfull and industrious in his calling and studies And that from time to time he hath shewed good affections to the present Government and setlement of the Common wealth and hath been desirous after the best things and expressed much longing after communion with God in holy duties and ordinances and hath laboured to promote the cause of God to the utmost of his power as he hath had opportunity declaring much love to the truth preferring the society of the godly and turning from such as are otherwise minded All which things we whose names are underwritten do very freely and heartily testifie this 11th of February 1650. John Reymes Edward Waile Pastor of the Church at Hapton Nathaneel Brewster Minister of Neatshead Michael Whitefoot So you see the man was no original malignant nor was he ever any drunkard or otherwise scandalous person but only for a short time seduced and quickly cured of his distemper as for a scandall which 't was his unhappiness to fall into he received then condigne punishment therefore ought not to be punished again for the same especially his life both before and after being exemplarily vertuous and besides having voluntarily