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138. No wonder that thereby were generated "The Sweating Sickness" and other plagues of the Tudor period.

The students of Magdalen, like the students of sister colleges, were not subject to much discipline; and they resented rather roughly any discipline meted out to them, or to any one of them. One young man was caught, in 1586, killing a deer in the Forest of Shotover, and he was imprisoned. The next time the convicting judge appeared in Oxford the whole University appeared, violently, against him; and Magdalen's appearance was particularly vindictive. The students betook themselves to the top of the Tower; and waiting until Lord Norreys should pass by, they sent down a shower of stones upon him and upon his retinue, wounding some, and endangering the lives of others. It is said that "upon the foresight of this storm divers had got boards, others tables, on their heads, to keep them from it, and that if my Lord had not been in his coach he would certainly have been killed."

William Tyndale, the Translator of the Bible, was one of the first of the great sons of Magdalen. He was at Magdalen Hall as early as 1510, when, according to Wood, "he sucked in the doctrines of Luther." According to Foxe, Tyndale, while at Oxford, besides improving himself in the