Consecration of the Nuncio at Saint James's Palace; his public Reception--The Duke of Somerset--Dissolution of the Parliament; Military Offences illegally punished--Proceedings of the High Commission; the Universities--Proceedings against the University of Cambridge--The Earl of Mulgrave--State of Oxford--Magdalene College, Oxford--Anthony Farmer recommended by the King for President--Election of the President--The Fellows of Magdalene cited before the High Commission--Parker recommended as President; the Charterhouse--The Royal Progress--The King at Oxford; he reprimands the Fellows of Magdalene--Penn attempts to mediate--Special Ecclesiastical Commissioners sent to Oxford--Protest of Hough--Parker--Ejection of the Fellows--Magdalene College turned into a Popish Seminary--Resentment of the Clergy--Schemes of the Jesuitical Cabal respecting the Succession--Scheme of James and Tyrconnel for preventing the Princess of Orange from succeeding to the Kingdom of Ireland--The Queen pregnant; general Incredulity--Feeling of the Constituent Bodies, and of the Peers--James determines to pack a Parliament--The Board of Regulators--Many Lords Lieutenants dismissed; the Earl of Oxford--The Earl of Shrewsbury--The Earl of Dorset--Questions put to the Magistrates--Their Answers; Failure of the King's Plans--List of Sheriffs--Character of the Roman Catholic Country Gentlemen--Feeling of the Dissenters; Regulation of Corporations--Inquisition in all the Public Departments--Dismission of Sawyer--Williams Solicitor General--Second Declaration of Indulgence; the Clergy ordered to read it--They hesitate; Patriotism of the Protestant Nonconformists of London--Consultation of the London Clergy--Consultation at Lambeth Palace--Petition of the Seven Bishops presented to the King--The London Clergy disobey the Royal Order--Hesitation of the Government--It is determined to prosecute the Bishops for a Libel--They are examined by the Privy Council--They are committed to the Tower--Birth of the Pretender--He is generally believed to be supposititious--The Bishops brought before the King's Bench and bailed--Agitation of the public Mind--Uneasiness of Sunderland--He professes himself a Roman Catholic--Trial of the Bishops--The Verdict; Joy of the People--Peculiar State of Public Feeling at this Time