Complex sentence: At the time, as the king had been wiping out and seizing church lands from abbeys and monasteries, and the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, being full of clerics and quite rich, fully expected to be next in line.
Split into simpler sentences: At the time, the king had been wiping out and seizing church lands from abbeys and monasteries. The universities of Oxford and Cambridge, being both full of clerics and quite rich, expected to be next in line.