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act_n	council_n	parliament_n	privy_a	2,717	5	9.7040	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49526	The answer of the chancellor, masters and scholars of the Vniversity of Oxford, to the petition, articles of grievance, and reasons of the city of Oxon presented to the honorable committee for regulating the University of Oxford the 24. of July, 1649.	University of Oxford.; Langbaine, Gerard, 1656-1692.	1649 (1649)	Wing L363; ESTC R19608	22,313	47

THE ANSWER OF THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS of the Vniversity of OXFORD TO The Petition Articles of Grievance and Reasons of the City of OXON. Presented to the Honorable Committee for Regulating the UNIVERSITY of OXFORD the 24. of Iuly 1649. OXFORD Printed by H. Hall Printer to the University 1649. April 6. 1649. To the Supream Authority of the Nation the Commons in Parliament Assembled The Humble Petition of the Major Aldermen Bayliffs and Commonaltie of the City of Oxon in the County of Oxon. Humbly sheweth THat they taking notice of the late memorable Acts of Parliament made for regulating of the Privy Councel and for taking away of the Court of Star-chamber the high Comission Court and others of the like nature and being thereby made sensible of your worthy intentions to disinslave the free●borne People of this Nation from all manner of Arbitrary Judicature or Power and enable them to live like Freemen under the known Laws of this Land are thereby at this present emboldned to make known unto you the most intollerable sufferings and oppressions which they for a long time past and yet by an Arbitrary and unlimited power exercised over them by the University o●Oxon hav● under-gone and at this time suffer as by particulars hereunto annexed may appear And for redress whereof your distressed Petitioners h●mbly impl●re your gracious assistance And whereas your Petitioners at this present partly through decay of trading and partly through the long and daily payments taxes and quartering of Souldiers are very much impoverished and their City abounding with such multitudes of poor people that they are not able to relieve them without provision of a convenient stock wherewithall to set them on work for the raising whereof there is a certain large piece of ground called Portmeade lying neer the said City wherein your Petitioners have the Inheritāce and the Village of Woolvercot only Common of pasture therein by reason of vicinage which being enclosed leased out for certain years would raise a convenient stock for the relief and setting on work of the said poor The which your Petitioners are very desirous and have much endeavoured to effect but have been and still are hindred in these thei● pious and good intentions by the Inhabitants of Woolvercot aforesaid Albeit your Petitioners have been and are willing to allow them a proportionable quantity of ground to be allotted them out of the said ground in lieu of their said Common Your Petitioners likewise humbly pray that they be enabled by Authority of this present Parliament to enclose and demise for some competent number of years the said ground called Portmeade for the use aforesaid leaving a proportionable quantitie of ground or otherwise allowing some sufficient recompence unto the said Inhabitants of Woolvercot in lieu thereof All which we refer to the wisdom and judgment of this Honorable House humbly desiring your serious and speedy considerations and resolutions herein and to make such order for your Petitioners relief touching the premises as you in your grave wisdoms shall think meet and expedient And we shall ever pray c. A Schedule of the Cities Grievances claimed and at several times put in execution against them by the University 1. THe University claimeth power to determine all controversies whatsoever between any persons whatsoever if one of the parties be a priviledged person except in cases of main felony freehold they claim allowance of their priviledges in all other Courts without pleading of them without fee and to try matters of fact without Jury or without open examination of the witnesses in the case but only in private before a Register and proceed in an Ecclesiasticall way by citation excommunication and the like contrary to the course of the Common Laws and their sentences are not grounded upon any certain Law either Civil Canon Statute or Common Law but secundū equū bonū and meerly Arbitrary at the will of the Vice-chancellor or his Vice-chancellor against whose sentence how unreasonable soever no Writ of Error will be by them allowed or other red●ess admitted but only by appeal before themselves in their Convocation or Congregation in which particular the Citizens finde themselves much grieved being by those proceedings not only delayed but oftentimes defeated of their just debts without any redress at all 2. Without any lawfull power they take upon them to make Proclamations thereby imposing not onely penary mu●cts but also imprisonment upon such persons as shal not obey their matters contained in such Proclamations and this not only upon Citizens but likewise upon all others dwelling within five miles of Oxon. 3. They claim exercise a power over the Citizens to impose 40 ● upon any Citizen being found out of his house after 9 of the clo●k albeit it be in the summer time and albeit they be Constable in their search for Fellons upon persuit of 〈◊〉 cry or Alde●men of the City or Justices of the Peace in conveying of Malefactors to the Goal or the like and for default of present payment of the 40 s. to send them to prison there to continue until satisfaction made to the Proctors 4. They claim the sole power of Licensing of Ale-houses Brewers and Maulsters and usually take for the making of Licences for Brewers to Brew and for Maulsters to make Mault 17 s. 8 d. and take Recognizances of the Ale-house-keepers but never returne any of them to the Quarter Sessions 5. They have challenged to have powers and de facto have exercised a power to pull down the Citizens houses of Habitation and some of the Butchers Shambles within the City 6. They take upon them power to dis-common Citizens at their pleasure and to inhibite all priviledged persons to have any commerce or trading with them which power they have also exercised upon divers Citizens 7 They exact from the Mayor and sixty two Citizens an Oath for the maintenance of the University Priviledges whereas many of their pretended Priviledges are meere Usurpations and Incroachments upon the Liberties of the City which the Citizens by their Oath● are bound to preserve 8. They claim and exercise a power to enforce the Major and sixty two Burgesses of the City to come yearly to Saint Maries Church on the tenth of February called by them Scholastims day to make an Oblation at the High Altar of sixty three pence for the slaughter of sixty three Scholars tempore Ed. 3. to procure a Mas● for the souls of the sixty three slaughtered persons for the non-performance whereof they give forth That they will put a bond in suit● which the City in those dayes entered into to the University 9. They claim a power to make By-laws thereby to bind the Inhabitants of the City which are meere strangers and were never called to the making of them 10. They take upon them power to make new Officers as Tole takers of Corn and the like and they constitute Coroners which Office of