and Bread up by a young man[293] of his College that he had chosen for that employment.” Here he suffered many persecutions and indignities, “for the Doctor’s very Grave and Pious aspect, which should have been a protection to him among Salvages, was no other than a Temptation to those (who reputed themselves Saints) to Act their Insolencies upon him.” At last, driven from his retirement, he returned to Oxford, where, “when our Principall came first to Towne, he took up at Mr. Newmans,[294] a Baker in Holy-well; but the good Offices he dayly rendered to the College disposed the then Society so farr to comply with his Inclinations (which had been allway to live and dye in the College) as to invite him to accept of one Chamber for accommodating himself, where he built severall faire ones for the Benefitt of the College. This motion was accepted, and he Lived in the College, near the stoney staires near the Gate, for eight years where he had Leisure to observe many Changes and Revolutions within those Walls, as without them till that happy one of his majestie’s Restauration by God’s infinite Mercy to the College as well as to the Nation happily came on.” He was restored to his Headship on the 1st of August 1660, but owing to “the decayes of Age, especially dimness of Sight,” he resolved to resign once more. His first wish was that Dr. William Bassett, Fellow of All Souls, should succeed him, “who would have added to the Reputation of the College by his Government, and to the Revenew of it in all Probability, by his generous minde and ample Fortune; But Dr. Bassett’s want of health not allowing him to accept of the Burthen, it was (by the Unanimous Consent of all the Fellowes at a ffree-election the first of March, 1660,[295] and with the good Liking of Our Common Father) devolved upon Dr. Jenkins.[296] This being done he had no other thought but for Heaven, nor Leasure but for Prayer; he came by degrees to be confined to his chamber and at last to his Bed and upon the first day of May 1665 he changed this Life for a better of Blisse and Immortality.” The following items from the _Book of Receipts and Disbursements_, in Dr. Mansell’s own handwriting, are of interest as showing some of the charges to which a College was put during the Civil War-- “Other various and Extraordinary Expenses, most of them peculiar to the time. Put uppon Domus by M^{r} _Evans_ for Bread and Beere to the Kinges Souldiers at their first Cominge to _Oxon_ from _Edgehill_ 01 : 02 : 6 Payd by him the Taxe layd uppon the Coll: towards the works from the beginninge of it to the 28^{th} of _Jan:_ ’43 03 : 16 : 6 More by him for Musquets, Pikes and the like 03 : 14 : 3 Given by him to the Prince his Trumpetters 00 : 10 : 00