aforesaid, and the heads of the several colleges there, do, with joint consent and assent, set down, ratify, and establish this order following, viz. that the senior doctor in divinity being head of a college, shall preach the 5th day of November next in St. Maries church, at 9 of the clock in the forenoon, after solemn prayers and thanksgiving be ended and the next year, viz. 1607, the next doctor in divinity in seniority being likewise an head of a college, shall preach the said 5th of November in the said church: and so all the rest of the doctors and others the heads of houses being divines shall preach successively in their seniority the day and place abovesaid, perpetuis futuris temporibus, either by himself, or (upon just cause to be excused and allowed by the vice-chancellor for the time being) by some other head of a college, by him whose course it is to be procured upon pain and forfeiture of five pounds for every default: the same to be paid to the use of the common chest of the same University: and the vice-chancellor then newly elected, or that shall or may be that day elected, to be chargeable at his account to the University for the said sum of five pounds so forfeited. Further, we do by the like consent and assent, ordain that every such 5th day of November there shall be an oration in King's College chapel in the said University, at such an hour in the afternoon as by the vice-chancellor for the time being shall be thought meet and convenient and in case no vice-chancellor shall be chosen before one of the clock of the said 5th day of November, then the same oration to be immediately after the election of the vice-chancellor in the afternoon of the same day, and in the aforesaid chapel: after the end of which oration it is thought meet that solemn service should presently follow in the same place with joyful singing and hearty thanksgiving. The first oration to be made by the new orator of the University; and the next year and ever after perpetuis futuris tempo ribus by such an one as the vice-chancellor or his deputy, that shall be in place 28 days before the said 5th day of November, shall think meet and sufficient to be appointed for that purpose. In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names. RICH. CLAYTON, vice-chan. ROG. GOAD. ROB. SOAME. BARNABY GOCHE. JO. DUPORT. Against disorders at publick assemblies. Whereas upon the 20th of February, 1606, there was foul and great disorder committed at the time of a comedy in Kings College by most rude and barbarous throwing of many great stones at and thorough the hall windows, with loud outcries and shoutings by multitudes of scholars and others, for the space of about two hours together; there being then assembled the said hall full, not only of the inferior sort, but also of divers young noblemen, doctors, bachelors in divinity, and masters of arts, to their great offence, annoyance, and disturbance; beside the breaking of many other windows about the said college, and a great post of timber violently pulled out of the ground; and therewith divers running at a strong gate, the same was broken open (an outrage in some like sort committed in other colleges before time, yet in that excessive manner the like not known amongst scholars). For exemplary censure upon the present disorder, and for remedy of any like future hereafter in any publick assembly in the University, it is, upon good consideration and resolution, ordered and decreed by Mr. vice-chancellor and the heads of colleges as followeth: that whosoever being nongraduate, or graduate, or privileged person, is or shall be found and convinced in the abovesaid late strange disorder at the said comedy, a thrower of stones against the glass windows (specially against the hall windows), a maker of loud shouts and outcries, or a violent breaker open of doors or gates by a main post pulled up; or shall hereafter be found in any like assembly in the time of any play, shew, comedy, or tragedy, committing the same or like offensive or riotous action; or else a partaker, counsellor, or inciter; shall, if they be convinced to be principal offenders before Mr. vice-chancellor and the more of the heads then at home, be banished the University. If offending in lower degree (then being graduates), beside private satisfaction for the harm done, shall be suspended their degree; so to continue at the discretion of Mr. vice-chancellor, and also to be stayed for one whole year from taking further degree, when his time for the same shall come. But if such offenders shall be non-graduates, or a privileged person, then being non-adulti, they shall be corrected in the schools by the rod; if adulti, they shall make some open confession of their fault in the said schools, in the presence of such as Mr. vice-chancellor shall call; and nevertheless shall both sorts of them be made uncapable for one whole year of their expected degree, when the time cometh. And if any that have or shall have part in the disorders or any of them, not being a scholar, shall be found an offender, then every such person shall be punished by imprisonment, and sitting in the stocks at the bull-ring in the marketplace, so long as to Mr. vice-chancellor shall seem good, according to the quality of the person, and the degree of the offence. SAM. HARSNETT, procan. Joн. Duport. THO. NEVILE. ROG. SOAME. ROG. GOAD. Jo. COWELL. Against night-jetters, keepers of greyhounds, &c. Whereas there hath divers times fallen sundry disorders, specially in the night time, by such scholars as take upon them (being but private persons) to go forth into the town pretending and abusing the proctors authority, and carrying with them divers unfit and unstayed persons, whereby many inconveniences have ensued, to the disquiet of the inhabitants and discredit of the University. And where also divers scholars of this University, specially of late years, have used to shoot in guns, crossbows, and stonebows, both near home and also in the neighbour towns, where they have wandered abroad; and also usually have kept greyhounds, and some of them hunting horses to that end (either by themselves or others in the town) for coursing and hunting, to the destroying of the game and mispending of their time; and (having had often warning heretofore from Mr. vice-chancellor upon his majesties inhibition, also signified in every college) yet still have presumed to continue the said disorder. For remedy therein hereafter, it is likewise by Mr. vice-chancellor and the heads of colleges provided and decreed, that whatsoever scholar or student, or any reteyning to them, shall hereafter be found and convinced, either to take upon him the proctors authority, as is abovesaid, or to accompany any that shall so presume to usurp the said authority; and shall go abroad making the night scrutiny in the street into mens houses or fields adjoining; or shall shoot in guns, crossbows, or stonebows, either within the limits of the University or without; or shall keep by himself or others any greyhound; or shall wander into the fields, either with greyhounds, guns, crossbows, or stonebows; it is by the consent abovesaid decreed, that every scholar so offending, being convicted and adjudged in manner aforesaid, shall incurr respectively (according to the degree of his offence) the several penalties above spe cified for the disturbers of public assemblies. And if any shall be found a keeper of greyhounds in the town for any scholer, student, or scholers servant, every such shall suffer imprisonment, and five shillings mulct for the first time; and after so offending, double punishment, viz. ten shillings mulet, and imprisonment at Mr. vice-chancellors discretion. The said mulcts to go to the use of the University. The bedells fee for attending disses. At the same time and place, the statute, by which the new masters of arts disputing in philosophy ordinarily pay to the bedells every one 5s. 4d. was viewed and considered of by the vice-chancellor and heads, whose names are here subscribed; who by joint assent and consent did resolve, interpret, determine, and conclude, that the said fee of 5s. 44. was and is as well due in Michaelmas term from every such master of arts then disputing in ordinary course, as in either of the other two terms; with the same proviso that is set down in the said statute, viz. that if the number be so small, that it come to any of their turns to dispute the second time before the end of the first year, that then for that second time they and every of them are freed from any such payment of fee or fees, breakfasts only excepted, which are due by another statute. SAM. HARSNET, procan. ED. BARWELL. JOHN DUPORT. ROG. GOAD. |