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doctori_fw-la vicario_n nostro_fw-la in_o spiritualibus_fw-la generali_fw-la &_o commissario_fw-la nostro_fw-la legitime_fw-la constituto_fw-la salutem_fw-la gratiam_fw-la &_o benedictionem_fw-la cum_fw-la ex_fw-la parte_fw-la jacobi_n colmer_n collegii_fw-la exon_n praedicti_fw-la artium_fw-la magistri_fw-la nobis_fw-la monstratum_fw-la extitit_fw-la quod_fw-la licet_fw-la inter_fw-la caetera_fw-la in_o statutis_fw-la collegii_fw-la exon_n praedicti_fw-la specialiter_fw-la statutum_n ordinatum_fw-la &_o provisum_fw-la est_fw-la in_o rubrica_fw-la de_fw-la causis_fw-la propter_fw-la quas_fw-la scholar_n privari_fw-la debeant_fw-la in_o hac_fw-la quae_fw-la sequitur_fw-la verborum_fw-la forma_fw-la aut_fw-la consimili_fw-la in_o effectum_fw-la viz._n quod_fw-la si_fw-la quis_fw-la scholarium_fw-la vel_fw-la electorum_fw-la adulterii_fw-la incontinentiae_fw-la haeresis_fw-la pertinacis_fw-la homicidii_fw-la voluntarii_fw-la perjurii_fw-la manifesti_fw-la crebrae_fw-la ebrietatis_fw-la alteriusve_fw-la publicae_fw-la turpitudinis_fw-la coram_fw-la rectore_fw-la subrectore_fw-la decano_fw-la &_o quinque_fw-la aliis_fw-la scholaribus_fw-la maxim_n senioribus_fw-la vel_fw-la majore_fw-la parte_fw-la eorundem_fw-la cum_fw-la dicti_fw-la rectoris_fw-la consensu_fw-la legitime_fw-la covictus_fw-la fuerit_fw-la ipsum_fw-la perpetuo_fw-la exclusum_fw-la &_o privatum_fw-la ipso_fw-la facto_fw-la à _fw-la dicto_fw-la collegio_fw-la nulla_fw-la alia_fw-la monitione_n praemissa_fw-la virtute_fw-la praesentis_fw-la statuti_fw-la decernimus_fw-la etc._n etc._n