he did shelter himself upon doctrine taught by Pareus in his commentaries upon the 13th to the Romans, concerning which positions, as for the avoyding of errors and false opinions in the church, many of the chiefest and most reverend bishops of this kingdome have in writing under their handes declared their judgment upon the same, in that tract of Pareus, or any other booke of the like quality, viz. that the doctrine there delivered is seditious, scandalous, and contrary to the Scriptures, as also to the antient councells and fathers of the church, and most repugnant to the doctrine, canons, and constitutions of the church and realm of England; so we do hold it very requisite, according to the opinion of the said most reverend bishops, and do hereby will and require you and every of you that are trusted with the care and government of that University, being one of the fountains that water the church and commonwealth of this realm, to give warning to the students of divinity there, that they take heed both of Pareus and all other neotericks, who in their writings do bend that way; and that they apply themselves to the reading of the Scriptures, fathers, and councells of the primitive times, adjoyning thereunto those things which are set down by public authority within this kingdome, as namely, the articles of religion, homilies, catechisms, etc. approved by convocation, and the writings of many grave bishops and other learned men, which have written with great commendation in this church, and out of whome a more exact knowledge of divinity and truth is to be had then out of the books of any late authors who live in churches and states which are not so setled as it hath pleased God these are within this kingdome.

And we do further authorize and require you, for the better suppression of these dangerous and false assertions of Pareus, to cause present and diligent search to be made, as well in all libraries and studies both public and private

in your University, as also amongst the stationers there, for his foresaid books and so many of them as shall be found, to see publickly burned in some fit place, in detestation of that doctrine. And so, expecting a due performance of these directions, tending so much to the good of the church and the preventing of such errors as may otherwise disturb the quiet of the same, we bid you heartily farewell.

From Whitehall, the last of May, 1622.

Your very lovinge friends,

ALL the books which you shall finde in your college of this kinde, by virtue hereof I require you to cause to be brought unto me to the consistory upon Wednesday next, at one of the clock.

LEON. MAWE, procan.

[Transcript. ex Registro Liter. Coll. Joh. Cant., fol. 220, 221.]

MR. MEADE TO SIR MARTIN STUTEVILE.

[From MS. Harl. no. 389, fol. 206.]

22 June, 1622.

YESTERDAY was Paræus his commentaries burnt in the Regent walk. We are a choosing a fellow, and cannot agree; this is the 3d day, and the last in our power.

GRACE OF THE SENATE.

June 25, 1622.

CUM serenissima regis majestas pro singulari quo academiam nostram favore atque benevolentia complectitur, typographorum Londinensium insolentiam, non ita pridem qui et academiam magistratusque vestros dicteriis incessere et antiqua privilegia vestra acriter oppugnare non verentur, eousque compescuerit ut typographo vestro omnia Lillianæ grammaticæ exemplaria (typis ipsis excusa) vendendi gratiam fecerit, illi vero contra, in quibus coryphæi sunt Johannes Bill, Bonhamus Norton, Gulielmus Barrett, et Clemens Knights, ea jam inter se consilia ceperint ut opulentiores ex iis præfatas grammaticas justissimo utcunque pretio venales omnino non coemant, reliqui vero bibliopola minis ipsorum deterriti coemere etiam reformident, qua se techna effecturos non dubitant quin et frustra vobis sit clementissima regis indulgentia, et typographo vestro brevi res ad restim redeat, et privilegia vestra aut subvertantur funditus aut omnino subnerventur:

Placeat itaque reverentiis vestris grassanti huic pesti (quantum in vobis est) tempestive occurrere, eaque pro vestra auctoritate decernere atque statuere quibus tam nefarii contra vos artificii aciem possitis ex aliqua parte retundere, viz.

1o. Quod nulli bibliopolæ sive librarii in hac academia ullos libros aut auctores in posterum directe per se aut indirecte per alios a præfatis Bill, Norton, Barrett, et Knights, aliove aliquo Londinensi qui cum illis societatum bonorum inierit, emant aliquando vendantve iis aliquos aut quicquam cum iis omnino contrahant, nisi concessa prius venia sub manu domini procancellarii et majoris partis præfectorum : qui secus fecerit, primo decem minis mulctetur, secundo 20 minis, tertio privilegiis vestris ita exuatur ut illius com

mercio contractibusque interdictum sit scholaribus atque academicis omnibus ad tres menses, nisi vos tam aliter velitis jubeatis.

2o. Quod quilibet bibliopola sive librarius Cantabrigiensis sub consimili omnino pœna teneatur catalogum verum omnium omnino librorum atque auctorum quos Londini alibive coemerit, et nomina eorum omnium quibuscum vel in quorum usum contraxerit, exhibere domino procancellario quater in unoquoque anno, ad festa sc. nativitatis Christi, annunciationis, Sti Baptistæ, et St Michalis, aut intra quatuor dies eadem festa proxime sequentes.

3o. Cum antiquo quodam statuto vestro cautum sit sub pœna, ne quis bibliopola aut librarius per se aut per suos cum pupillis vestris ullum ineat contractum sine expresso consensu curatoris, neu librum aliquem emere ausit, nisi a vero domino, quod sub ejusdem statuti pœna quilibet eorum teneatur justum cujusque libri pretium ita per se aut per suos coempti, nomina etiam tam auctorum quam vendentium, diem denique et annum ejusdem contractus libro fideliter descripta custodire atque exhibere quoties procancellarius jusserit.

4°. Quod jus ipsum excudendi omnes libros atque etiam exemplaria omnium librorum jure academico hactenus excusorum aut excudendorum in posterum post mortem aut resignationem aut quamcunque cessionem alicujus typographi vestri, ad illius vel hæredes vel assignatos ulterius non transferantur, quam eorum quilibet et apud vos commoratus et privilegio vestro typographico gavisus fuerit, quodque istiusmodi cautio et conditio expresse inseratur cuilibet indulto vestro privilegio sive instrumento typographico sub literis vestris patentibus unquam exituro sub pœna nullitatis ejusdem privilegii.

5o. Quod quemcunque auctorem typographus vester aliquando excuderit bibliothecæ vestræ infra mensem con

ferat eundem probe sciteque connexum atque colligatum sub pœna quadruplicis pœnæ ejusdem.

6o. Quod quilibet bibliopola, librarius, atque typographus, degens intra limites hujus academiæ, intra biduum si jam domi adsit atque bene valeat, aut intra biduum postquam redierit vel convaluerit, juramentum sollenne præstet coram domino procancellario de fidelissima observatione omnium jurium, privilegiorum, statutorum, atque decretorum hujus academiæ. Qui renuerit privilegio suo omnino excidat.

7°. Quod quicunque bonis literis in academia hac vel jam incumbit vel incumbet aliquando, privilegiove academico aut gradu aliquo fruitur, præsentiarum aut in posterum fruetur, si auctorem aliquem quocunque idiomate aut librum a se aliisve compositum typis mandatum velit, ubicunque in Anglia vixerit, exemplaria ejusdem academiæ typographis primo vel saltem domino procancellario offerat sub justo pretio et quantum alii typographi bona fide præstituri erant ex arbitrio domini procancellarii et quatuor seniorum academiæ doctorum vel majoris partis eorundem.

8°. Quod quilibet qui hic gradum aliquem susceperit in posterum expressam fidem det in admissione sua, tum de observatione proxime citati articuli, tum quod si ludimagister alicubi vel sit vel aliquando fuerit, librosque aliquos qui et hic in academia imprimuntur pueris suis commode prælegere possit, eosdem non aliis typis quam academicis excusos in scholam suam introduci sinat, modo et æquo pretio iidem libri hic veneant et imprimantur ex auctoritate regia.

Placeat igitur reverentiis vestris ut octo hi articuli, auctoritate vestra firmissime communiti atque ter promulgati, in libros procuratorum fidelissime inscribantur, virtutemque et vim statutorum ad omnem juris effectum per præsentem vestram concessionem obtineant.