ruled the College vigorously and wisely, though, very early in his Presidentship, there are signs of dissensions among the Fellows, due, possibly, to differences between the rival factions of Presbyterians and Independents. Any way, he knew how to maintain his authority. In the record of punishments, made in the handwriting of the culprits themselves, we find that, in 1651, four of the scholars were put out of commons “usque ad dignam emendationem,” “till they had learnt to mend their ways,” for sitting in the President’s presence with their caps on. The discipline appears to have been almost exceptionally stringent at this time. Amongst other curious entries, we find that Edward Fowler, one of the clerks (subsequently Bishop of Gloucester), was similarly deprived of his commons for throwing bread at the opposite windows of the students of Ch. Ch. (“eo quod alumnos Aedis Christi pane projecto in tumultum provocavit”). Two scholars who had been found walking in the town, without their gowns, about ten o’clock at night, were put out of commons for a week, and ordered one to write out, in Greek, all the more notable parts of Aristotle’s Ethics, the other to write out, and commit to memory, all the definitions and divisions of Burgersdyk’s Logic. Another scholar, for having in his room some out-college men without leave and then joining with them in creating a disturbance, was sentenced to be kept hard at work in the library, from morning to evening prayers, for a month, a severe form of punishment which seems not to have been uncommon at this time. Under the Puritan _régime_ there was certainly no danger of the retrogression of discipline.