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UNIVERSITY TRANSACTIONS

DURING THE

PURITAN CONTROVERSIES

OF THE

16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES.

COLLECTED BY

JAMES HEYWOOD, M.P. F.R.S. F.S.A.

OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE;

AND

THOMAS WRIGHT, M.A. F.S.A. HON. M.R.S.L.

CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

1854.

OTHER

CONTENTS

1590. THE University to Lord Burghley, on behalf of the Uni-

versity press, against the claims of the London booksellers .

Dr. Whitaker to Lord Burghley, against a visitation of the

University, as being more likely to root out those who speak

against disorders than to remove the disorders themselves.

The vice-chancellor to Lord Burghley, stating various disorders

which had arisen in the University; giving a full account

of the disputes in the case of Mr. Johnson, and of the com-

bination which had been formed to resist all graces in the

schools, mentioning the extraordinary license of certain ser-

mons; and referring the cause of all these difficulties to

Mr. Johnson

The University to Lord Burghley, complaining of the towns-
people, and forwarding to him a brief respecting the licensing
and ordering of victuallers in the town and precincts of Cam-
bridge, to prove that the bond for the due observance of the
orders about meat in Lent was to be entered into before the
vice-chancellor of the University, and not before the mayor.

The Privy-Council to the vice-chancellor, requiring him to see

that the orders for the killing and eating of flesh in Lent

be duly observed.

Dr. Whitaker to Lord Burghley, denying that he had for-

bidden, as had been reported of him, that an oration should

be delivered in St. John's College in praise of her Majesty's

government.

The University to Lord Burghley, exonerating Dr. Whitaker

and the fellows of St. John's

Testimonial from the fellows of St. John's, declaring that there

is no presbytery in their college

Dr. Whitaker to Lord Burghley, requesting his lordship to

examine the charges which had been made against him

R. Clerk and J. Powell to Lord Burghley, stating certain

disputes which had arisen in Christ's College, and com-

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The vice-chancellor to Lord Burghley, informing him that
Mr. Hickman had been restored to his fellowship

The heads to Lord Burghley, on behalf of the University printer,

who was accused by the London printers of having unlaw-

fully printed certain copies of the Bible and New Testament 25

From the same to the same, on the same subject
From the same to the same, begging him to check the spread
of papistical doctrines, and praying that he will always up-
hold the true religion of the Gospel

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