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VI.

Exonerates members of the university and priveleged persons from Musters in the town or county: forbids any one to take a horse belonging to a member of the university or a priveleged person for the King's use; or any common Purveyor or Poulterer [the royal Purveyors excepted] to take or buy for the royal family victuals of any kind in Cambridge market or coming thereto or within five miles of the town of Cambridge.

VII.

Gives to the Vicechancellor Masters and Scholars the appointment of the Clerk of the Market and of the Fairs; and the cognizance of Forestallers, Regratters, and Ingrossers, and authority by themselves or servants of searching for in house, shop or other place, seizing and destroying unwholsome and corrupt victuals, and of imprisoning any who resist this authority. All seizures fines and forfeitures connected with victuals are given to the University.

VIII.

Gives power to the Vicechancellor Masters and Scholars by themselves ministers or servants to search at any time, day or night, in Cambridge and its suburbs for women of the town and to punish the guilty or de malo suspectas by imprisonment bannishment or otherwise. The Mayor and other officers of the town are forbid to hinder the officers of the university in the execution of their duty and if called upon are commanded to lend their assistance.

IX.

Empowers the university under the common seal to appoint twelve Doctors, Masters, or Graduates, who may without any other licence preach the word of God to clergy and laity throughout England and Ireland.

X.

Empowers the Chancellor or his deputy to claim the body of a member of the university arrested for Felony or murder and contains various directions as to the proceedings in such case.

XI.

Exonerates members of the university and priveleged persons from subsidies and contributions to the crown saving the annual payment of £x for the assize of bread.

XII.

Declares the suburbs of the town or precincts of the University to extend one english mile.

Dated Westminster April 26. Ann. Reg. III.*

* This Charter was confirmed by the Act of Parliament for incorporating the two universities Eliz. 13o. It is printed by Dyer, vol. i. p. 118.

TO THE MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD AND HIS VERY SINGULER LORDE, THE ARCHBISHOPPE OF CANTERBURIE HIS GRACE.

My bounden dewty with all humblenes considered: may it like your grace to understande that upon the receipt of your lettres conteyning the Q. Maties pleasure for uniformitie in doctrine, rites, and apparell, I called all the heades of Colleges together upon consultation with whome after diligent and reverende perusing of the sayde lettre it was thought good that every master sholde upon diligent inquirie made within his owne college advertise me within viii dayes that so I might safely and truly write unto your grace accordingly. Nowe some of them have written, some by mouthe advertised, and some sende me worde, that all thinges towchinge the sayde iii points are in good order, save that one in Christes College and sundry in St. Johns will be very hardly brought to weare surplesses. And ii or iii in Trinity College thinke it very unseeming that Christians sholde playe or be present at any prophane comaedies or tragaedies. But towching the substaunce of Religion nowe generally agreed upon I know none that impugneth any parte therof, unlest it be ii or iii suspected papistes, which yet lurke in one or ii Colleges, and shall I trust be reveled erre it be longe. I do for the maintenance of orderly apparell what I can, but God knoweth I obteyne of some more for fear of punyshment than for love of good ordre. Mr. Fulke preached at St. Maries 25o Febr. of whose sermon, because dissonant reports may be made unto your Grace, I have caused him to wryte his own conteyning the effect of that which he spake, to be weyed and ordered as your Grace thinketh good. The good and greate Shepherde of the shepe long preserve your Grace carefull and vigilant over his deare flocke. From Trinitie College Cambrige this xxviith of February 1564.

Your Graces humble at

commandemente

ROBERT BEAUMONT.

STATUTA REGINA ELIZABETHÆ. AN. XIImo EDITA.

ELIZABETHA Dei Gratia Angliæ, Franciæ et Hiberniæ Regina, Fidei Defensor, &c. dilectis Nobis Cancellario, Magistris, et Scholaribus Universitatis Cantabrigiensis Salutem. Quanta Rerum vestrarum Cura nos perpetùo sollicitat, dum Utilitati Academiæ vestræ studemus non tam Privilegia a nostrâ Benignitate vobis concessa, quam Legum et Statutorum vestrorum nova quædam Dispositio manifestè declarant: quorum altero Injuriis obsistere, quietèque Studiis vestris incumbere, altero Concordiæ, rectæque Reipublicæ vestræ Gubernationi consulere possitis. De illo abundè satis a nobis est prospectum: istud quidèm licet jamdìu a Nobis inchoatum esse non ignoramus, ac Leges intereà exercendas vobis dederimus, Usu tamèn atque Experientiâ, optimâ efficacique Rerum Magistrâ, edocti animadvertimus, in illis aliqua esse Correctione digna. Rursus crescente Hominum Audaciâ, nimiâque Licentiâ, aliquas novas prioribus esse duximus adjiciendas. Negotia etiam quæ de novo emerserunt, novo indigere Auxilio facile cernimus. Nunc vero cum ista omnia accuratè, ut speramus, sunt absoluta et perfecta, ea a vobis omnibus, cum eâ quâ decet Obedientiâ, atque Animi Alacritate recipienda sunt. Leges igitur ac Statuta hoc Libello conscripta, atque summâ nostrâ regiâ Authoritate sancita, vobis in vestrum Commodum mittimus ac promulgamus, diligentèrque atque fidelitèr a vobis observanda proponimus: Quod dum feceritis, illisque ut oportet, ex animo parueritis, non solum a Deo Opt. Max. et a nobis Laudem et Præmium expectabitis, verum etiam unà cum Pietatis atq. optimarum Artium non modico Incremento omnes Gradus in Academiâ in pulcherrimum Ordinem adducetis: illiusque Famæ ac Dignitati optimè prospicientes florentissimam efficietis. Ac tandem (quod apud nos non minimi est Momenti) Exemplo vestro tanquam in omnium Oculis et Monte positi, reliquum Populum nostrum ad consimilem Legum nostrarum Observationem, ac ad Pacem, Concordiam, veramque Obedientiam trahetis, atque perducetis; digni regio Favore, digni Virtutis, ac Literarum Præmio. Sed quoniam Exhortatio liberam excitat

voluntatem, Mandatum Necessitatem facit; nec omnes Virtutis Amore, sed plures Pænæ Metu ad Leges custodiendas coguntur : omnibus igitur quibus Jurisdictio in hac Parte competit, maximeque vobis, qui Potestatem publicam Academiæ exercetis, vel singulorum Collegiorum Gubernacula tenetis, mandamus, ut, et vos ipsi Statuta ista quatenùs ad vos pertineant, observetis, et a reliquis omnibus Diligentiam in iisdem observandis exigatis, illorumque Executioni totis viribus incumbatis. Si vero (quod absit) Favore, Gratiâ, Lenitate vel Incuriâ vestrâ ea contemni, negligi, vel non observari aliquando contigerit; vos, quibus illorum Executio demandata est, quique aliorum Gubernationem suscepistis, hujus Transgressionis reos judicabimus; atque a vobis exactam illius Rei Rationem exposcemus. Dominus Jesus et voluntatem in vobis has Leges custodiendi, bonasque Literas, Pietatemque discendi, at Facultatem easdem ad ipsius Gloriam exercendi, et exequendi concedat. Datum apud Manerium nostrum de Reding 25°. Septemb. Anno Regni nostri 12o. et Anno Christi 15700. In cujus Rei Testimonium has Literas nostras, manu nostrâ signatas, magno Sigillo nostro Angliæ muniri fecimus, Die et Anno supradictis.

LEGES SIVE STATUTA CANTABRIGIENSIS ACADEMIÆ.

DEUM timeto, Regem honorato, Virtutem colito, Disciplinis bonis Operam dato. Sed qui Reipublicæ vult Leges et Instituta proponere, non solum Laboris, verum etiam et Otii debet Rationem habere: Interest enim studiosorum Hominum, et literatorum nonnunquàm laxatos habere Animos, ut ad Studia contentiores veniant. Et quanquam literarius Labor re quidem verâ sit suavissimum Otium, tamen et Otium suum habet Negotium, et intermissionem propterea requirit. Itaque Lectionibus et Disputationibus publicis Fines, Terminosque ponamus.

DE TERMINORUM ASSIGNATIONE. CAP. I.

PRIMUS Lectionum et Disputationum Dies erit a decimo Die Octobris usque ad decimum sextum Decembris, secundus Terminus erit a tertio decimo Die Januarii ad decimum ante Pascha Diem.

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