midnight
Honest Tusher , his governor , had found my young gentleman quite ungovernable . My lord worried his life away with tricks ; and broke out , as home-bred lads will , into a hundred youthful extravagances , so that Dr. Bentley , the new master of Trinity , thought fit to write to the Viscountess Castlewood , my lord 's mother , and beg her to remove the young nobleman from a college where he declined to learn , and where he only did harm by his riotous example . Indeed , I believe he nearly set fire to Nevil 's Court , that beautiful new quadrangle of our college , which Sir Christopher Wren had lately built . He knocked down a proctor 's man that wanted to arrest him in a midnight prank ; he gave a dinner-party on the Prince of Wales 's birthday , which was within a fortnight of his own , and the twenty young gentlemen then present sallied out after their wine , having toasted King James 's health with open windows , and sung cavalier songs , and shouted `` God save the King ! '' in the great court , so that the master came out of his lodge at midnight , and dissipated the riotous assembly . This was my lord 's crowning freak , and the Rev. Thomas Tusher , domestic chaplain to the Right Honorable the Lord Viscount Castlewood , finding his prayers and sermons of no earthly avail to his lordship , gave up his duties of governor ; went and married his brewer 's widow at Southampton , and took her and her money to his parsonage house at Castlewood . My lady could not be angry with her son for drinking King James 's health , being herself a loyal Tory , as all the Castlewood family were , and acquiesced with a sigh , knowing , perhaps , that her refusal would be of no avail to the young lord 's desire for a military life .