How, when they walked privately to Kings Chappel in the middle of prayers time, they presently broke off prayers in the middle to entertaine them. Every body thinks not this hansome. How our doctors pledged healths to the infanta and the archduchess; and if any left too big a snuffe, Columbo would cry, Supernaculum, supernaculum. How Columbo the Spanish ambassador, Fernando the Bruxells, a lord agent for the archduchesse in ordinary, the king of Spaines privat secretary, and sir Lewis Lewknor, these five took the degree of masters of art in our regent house. How they made sute for one Ogden, a priest of their company (and once of St. Johns Colledg, and borne in this towne), for the like favour, and were denyed as a thing not in our power, unless he would take the oth, which he would not, etc. And how the sayd Ogden outfaced us all in our owne dunghill, and threatened us all openly that the king should know of it, and such like. Fame will tell you of these things; I will not trouble you. 15 March, 1622-3. (Fol. 298.) Dr. Pemberton, last commencement full merry in my chamber, died on Munday last at 3 a clock, of the black jaundies. The king heard our comedie on Wednesday, but expressed no remarkeable mirth thereat; he laught once or twise toward the end. At dinner before the comedy there talke in the presence (as I heare) was most of the prince. One present telles me that he heard the king say he hoped he would bring the lady with him, etc. Dr. Richardson brought before the king a paper of verses in manner of an epigram, which B. Neale read and others. A friend of mine, over the bishops shoulder, gott two of them by heart, which were: Dum petit infantem princeps, Grantamque Jacobus, The other 2, which resolve this doubt, he could not tell me: perhaps I shall send you them hereafter. 22 March, 1622-3. (Fol. 300.) I send our letters of last Saturday, and with them a book. But that I guess I am prevented by others, I would have else sent you the kings sonnet of Jack and Tom, and other such like tricks. Howsoever I will give you the epigramme whole, which our orator made, and Dr. Richardson brought to be read before the king at dinner when he was here, the halfe of which I sent you before: Dum petit infantem princeps, Grantamque Jacobus, Vicit more suo noster, nam millibus infans Non tot abest quot nos regis ab ingenio. The king descended more miles to visit us at Cambridge then the prince is gone to see the infanta. Ergo the kings love is the greater. Rex amore vincit principem. 27 June, 1623. (Fol. 344.) Mr. Lucy, but newly admitted batchelor in divinity, was this week created doctor, as filius nobilis, with such distast of the regents that they hummed when he came in. They say it was a stolne congregation, and yet he gott his grace but by three voices. And the regents have appealed and protested against his creation as against statute, which hath heretofore bene expounded that by filius nobilis is such a one who had either parent honorable. But valebit factum, and all will come to nothing, I thinke. ROYAL MANDATE FOR A DEGREE. [From MS. Sloan. no. 3562, fol. 100 vo.] Fidelibus nostris et dilectis procancellario, doctoribus, procuratoribus, totique academiæ nostræ Cantabrigiensis senatui. JACOBUS R. FIDELIBUS et dilectis nostris, vice-cancellario, doctoribus, procuratoribus, totique academiæ nostræ Cantabrigiensis senatui salutem. Cum Johannes Preston, in sacra theologia baccalaureus et magister Collegii Emmanuelis, cum legato nostro in Germaniam destinato nostro consilio et mandato profecturus sit; cui negotio obeundo a doctorali honore et titulo non parum ornamenti et auctoritatis accedere potest, cum etiam vir sit exploratæ eruditionis et integritatis vitæ probatissimæ, et ab ea tempestate qua factus est magister in artibus justum duodecim annorum spatium in academia vestra impleverit (gradu baccalaureatus in theologia biennio postquam per statuta licuerat ab eo suscepto); volumus et mandamus, ut lectis his literis, sine omni cunctatione propediem in eum conferatis doctoratus gradum, omnibus insignibus, sollennitatibus, titulis, et immunitatibus completum, consuetis exercitiis cæterisque quas instituta vestra exigunt formulis illi prorsus remissis: quarum legum, et si quid aliud obstare videbitur, per hasce nostras literas hac vice intelligatur facta a nobis dispensatio, ne nostrum exequentibus mandatum nostra deesse videatur auctoritas. Nihil igitur dubitantes de promptissimo vestro obsequendi studio, valere vos optamus. Dat. a regia nostra Theobaldina, Julii 15°, 1623. SUBSCRIPTIONS ON TAKING DEGREES. TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. The humble petition of James Tabor, register of the University of Cambridge, sheweth: THAT whereas your majesty did about ten years past command the vice-chancellor and heads of colleges in your said University, that all persons to be admitted to any degree there should first subscribe to the articles of supremacy, liturgy of the church of England, and the articles of religion agreed upon by the archbishops and bishops, and the whole clergy, in the year 1562, for the religious observation of which your majesties command, your supplicant hath always been appointed by the vice-chancellor to attend that service, to his great trouble and hinderance, the profits of his place being very small, and having no allowance given him for any such publick service. May it therefore please your most sacred majesty to give order that the vice-chancellor and heads aforesaid, or the greater part of them (for the continuance and due performance of your majestys pleasure herein) shall decree, as well for the manner and time of every graduates subscription, as for such reasonable allowance as they think fit every person hereafter admitted to any degree in the said University shall pay to the register there, for his diligent and faithfull keeping the book of the said subscriptions, and attendance of that service. And your supplicant shall, etc. At the court at Hampton, 27° Februarii, 1623. His majesty, in his princely care for the good government of the said University, and for the better observance of his highness directions heretofore signified concerning subscription, is graciously pleased that the vice-chancellor, and the greater part of the heads of colleges of the said University, shall take such order and make such decrees concerning the matters desired in this petition as they shall think fit, and cause the same to be entered amongst the other decrees of the said University, and to be duly observed hereafter. SYDNEY MOUNTAGUE. [Decr. Præf. in Univ. Stat. p. 478.] Mar. 15, 1623. We, the vice-chancellor and heads of colleges, whose names are hereunder written, by virtue of the reference and order above written, made and directed to us by the kings most excellent majesty, do order and decree as followeth. First, that the register of this University shall from time to time provide and safely keep the book of subscriptions fairly bound and clasped, or tyed up. Secondly, that two days at the least before the general admissions of inceptors in arts and questionists, the said register shall procure a bill to be set up upon the school gates, subscribed by the vice-chancellor for the time being, or his deputy, therein signifying the day, time, and place, appointed for the said graduates subscription. And after they have all subscribed, he shall truly compare the same with the names which the proctor hath of those which are to be admitted at the next congregation. Thirdly, that the said register shall yearly enter into the said book at the beginning of every year all the articles which every graduate is to subscribe unto, and the names of every college in that order as they are placed in the University statutes, leaving several distances for those which are to subscribe to underwrite their names, and shall also under the name of every college write these words: We whose names are hereunder written do willingly and |