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DECRETA PRÆFECTORUM.

Maii 26. 1570.

Maii 8vo.

1571.

1. IT was adjudged & decreed by Mr. Dr. Mey,
V. Chancellor, by the advice & counsell of M'.
D". Hawford, Whitgift, & Ishell, justices of
the peace, that no inhabitant within the town of
Cambridge, being either Scholer or Scholer's
servant, can or may be privileg'd by that title
from the common days works of mending the
high ways but that all & singular shall either
work or find sufficient labourers upon the paine
limited in the Statute, except he be a labourer &
so accounted.

Scholars & their

Servants to do

daies works.

2. Multis et gravibus de causis ordinatum, de- That no one

goe into the

cretum, et statutum fuit et est per Mrum Johan- water.
nem Whitgift, S. T. P. almæ Universitatis Can-
tabrigiæ Procancellarium, Præpositos, Magis-
tros sive Præsidentes Collegiorum in Scholis
publicis 8°. Die Maii 1571, et Reginæ Eliz. 13o.
Si quis Scholarium hujus Universitatis, cujus-
cunq. ordinis aut status fuerit, infra Gradum

A Batch. of
Arts to be set
in the Coll.
Stocks.

A. D.

Bac. Artium rivum, stagnum, aut aliam aquam quamcunq. intra Comitatum Cantabrigiæ, natandi seu lavandi causâ, diurno seu nocturno tempore ingrediatur; et super hoc vel evidentia facti, seu sufficienti probatione convictus fuerit; quod tum omnis hujusmodi sic delinquens pro prima vice acritèr et severè, primò domi in Collegio in quo commoratur verberibus castigetur et puniatur palàm et publicè in communi aulâ, in præsentia omnium et singulorum Sociorum, Scholarium et reliquorum in dicto Collegio commorantium; et consequentèr proximo die palam et publicè in scholis publicis coram Lectore cujus est lectionis, vel esse debuit, auditor, et omnibus auditoribus ejusdem per unum Procuratorum, aut alium assignandum per Dnum Procancellarium severè acritèrq. verberibus itèrum puniatur et castigetur, omni excusatione, supplicatione, petitione aut indulgentiâ omninò cessante: Et secunda vice, quòd omnis sic delinquens et Collegio, cujus est Scholaris, et Universitate privetur, et ipso facto in perpetuum expellatur.

Quod si Baccalaureus Artium existat, tum pro primâ vice quilibet sic delinquens in cippis, pedibus constrictis per unum diem integrum in aula communi ejus collegii, in quo commoratur, plectatur: Et insupèr ante ejus dimissionem é cippis decem solidos legalis monetæ Angliæ persolvere teneatur ad commeatum sive Communes omnium in eodem Collegio existentium: et pro secunda vice idem Collegio et Universitate expulsus recedere teneatur, omni appellatione, querelâ, sive revocatione omnimodò et in omnibus supradictis cessante et remotâ. Quod si sit

A. D.

Jun. 27°.

1571.

Mar. 21°.

1571.

in Artibus Magister, aut Bac. in Jure, Medi-
cina, aut Musicâ, aut superioris Gradûs aut ordi-
nis, tunc eum severè puniendum et castigandum
judicio et arbitrio Præpositi Collegii, in quo idem
delinquens inhabitat, aut eo absente, Præsiden-
tis et unius Decanorum commiserint præfati
constituentes.

gendo in die

V. inf.

3. Decretum fuit per Dnum Doctorem Whitgift, De Patre eli
Procan. et Præfectos Collegiorum, juniorem čin. et Comit.
Procuratorem deinceps habere debere omnem
autoritatem eligendi et assignandi Patrem, Repli-
catores, et Baccalaureum Tripodis in die Cine-
rum, et seniorem Procuratorem similiter habere
debere eandem autoritatem in magnis Comitiis.

the Proctors

4. Whereas upon some controversies M. Proc- Limitation of
tors at the latter Act pronounced all the Ques- power at the
tionists of this Year to have fully determined, & Tripos.
to be actually Batchelors, except the Question-
ists of Trinity College; it was defined, ruled, &
determined by Mr. Roger Kelk, D'. of Divinity,
& V. Chan. of the University of Cambridge, M'.
Dr. Pern, Hawford, Whitgift, Chaderton, Bing,
& Mr. Aldrich, that the said Questionists were
full compleat & actual Batchelors; & that Mr.
Proctors had no authority or power to change,
alter, or prolong the Profession, Examination,
& Determination of the Batchelors, other than
the Statute in that behalf hath provided & de-
termined.

Item, it was then & there by the said Mr.
Doctors & Heads determined, that where in the
Statutes any Mulct or Penalty is specifyed or as-
signed, in that case the Proctors cannot use or

V. inf.

exercise any suspension, but only exact & demand execution of the said Mulct.

5. It was defined & decreed by M'. D'. Kelk, V. Chan. D'. Pern, Hawford, Whitgift, Chaderton, Ishell, Bing, & Sheapheard, that no excuse of wearing hatts should be allowed, either within the Coll. or abroad in the University, unless he that did wear any hatt within any College were non-commons; & without the College within the University, did wear a kercher with his hatt; else to pay the Mulct.

6. Cum mulcta nulla assignatur pro absentiâ Magistrorum in Artibus, et superiorum Graduum, nec non Baccalaureorum in Jure civili et Medicina absentium ab ordinariis lectionibus; sancitum et decretum fuit 8°. Feb. A. D. secundum computum Ecclesiæ Angl. 1573, per Joh. Whitgift, S. T. P. almæ Universitatis Cantebrigiæ Procancellarium, Doctores Hawford, Kelk, Chaderton, et Harvey, Magistros Sheapheard, Legg, Norgate; quemlibet præmissorum absentem a Lectione pro primâ vice mulctandum duobus denariis, pro secundâ, 4, pro tertiâ, 8, pro quartâ, 16 denariis; et pro quinta vice pro judicio Procan. mulctandum, castigandum, ac puniendum. Et prædictæ mulctæ dimidiam partem ad utilitatem ejus Collegii, in quo sic delinquens habitat, applicandam, alteram præconibus cedere.

Item iisdem die et anno sancitum et decretum fuit autoritate prædictâ, Decanos cujuslibet Collegii Magistrorum defectu, aut primarios Lectores mulctandos esse quatuor denariis totiès