 This would interfere with Preston's preaching at Lincoln's Inn.His ingenuity found out evasions to which the fellows consented; the statutes condoned absence in case of 'violent detention ' and of 'college business'; a 'moral violence ' was held to satisfy the former condition, and a suit at law about a college living, which lasted some years, formed a colourable pretext for alleging college business.But Preston was inflexible on the point of vacating fellowships.