ABSTRACT
D'. s plays, prologues and epilogues had continually satirized the political disloyalty and the private vices of the Londoners, but had been complimentary to the Oxford audiences. In February 1681 Oxford University had returned two Tory Members of Parliament, Dr Charles Perrot and Sir Leoline Jenkins; the latter led the court's opposition to Shaftesbury. The town, however, returned two Whig members, Brome Whorwood and William Wright, due partly to the support of the Duke of Buckingham the Members of the Parliament which Charles I summoned at Oxford in January 1644, in defiance of the Long Parliament sitting at Westminster. The Cumaean Sibyl offered to sell nine books of prophecy to Tarquinius Priscus, who refused because the price was too high. She then burned three of the books and offered him the remaining six at the same price. In May 1681 the Borough of Southwark presented a petition to the King thanking him for dissolving Parliament.
