1688.

The High Sheriff, nobility and gentry of the county of Cambridge signed an Address to the Prince of Orange, imploring his protection and aid to rescue the three kingdoms from slavery and Popery, and assuring him that they would contribute their utmost endeavours in perfecting so glorious a work. They also returned his Highness unfeigned thanks for the progress he had made therein with great cost, labour, and hazard both by sea and land.

There was a contest on the election of members to represent the University in the Convention. The candidates were Sir Robert Sawyer Knt. M.A. of Magdalene College, Isaac Newton M.A. fellow of Trinity College, and the Hon. Edward Finch M.A. of Christ's College. The numbers polled were, Sawyer, 125, Newton, 122, Finch, 117. The Town on the 11th of January, elected as members of the Convention the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Chicheley and John Cotton Esq.