Payd by Pole after 12^{d} a head every weeke for all of the Coll. towards the fortifications in _Xst Church_ Meade from the 17^{th} of _June_ to the end of _July_ 02 : 11 : 00 More towards the same in _Aug._ & _Sept._ 02 : 7 : 00 For a little Peece of Plate of another man’s, which was in my Study, and by mistake taken out with the Coll. Plate,[297] and lent to his Ma^{tie}, which weighed some what more than 8 ounces 02 : 00 : 00 Pay’d uppon his Maj^{ties} Motion towards the Maintenance of his Foote Souldiers for one Monthe after fower Pounds by the Weeke 16 : 00 : 00 The Totall of Receipts 95 : 2 : 5 The Totall of Disbursments 341 : 6 : 3 And so the Disbursments doe exceede the Receipts by the Summe of 246 : 3 : 10 Which I the Principall have lay’d out of the Coll. Money remayninge in my hands, mine owne, or what I borrowed of others. And I disbursed the money lent by Common Consent to his Ma^{tie} 100 : 00 : 00” In the interval between Dr. Mansell’s ejection in 1648 by the Parliamentary Visitors and his restoration in 1660 by Charles II.’s Commissioners, two Principals ruled the College. Of the first of these, Michael Roberts, Sir Leoline Jenkins uses the words “infamous and corrupt.” Perhaps the words are not to be taken literally; but nothing of the kind is said of his successor, Francis Howell, though he also was a Puritan. It is also on record that in 1656 the Fellows deposed Roberts on charges of embezzling the College funds and corrupt dealing in elections; and that although for the time the Parliamentary Visitors refused to endorse the action of the Fellows, he did vacate his Principalship that year or the next, presumably to avoid expulsion. Afterwards he “lived obscurely” in Oxford, dying on 3rd May, 1670, “with a girdle[298] lined with broad gold pieces about him (100£ they say),” and was buried in St. Peter’s in the East churchyard. The appointment in his place of Francis Howell, Fellow of Exeter, on 24th October, 1657, marks the ascendancy of the Independents over the Presbyterians in Puritan Oxford. The Fellows of the College had elected Seth Ward (afterwards Bishop of Salisbury), but the Independents persuaded Oliverus Protector to appoint Howell, after the fashion already set in Oxford by Elizabetha Regina, and afterwards followed by Jacobus Rex.