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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28983	A short censure of the book of W.P. entituled, The University of Oxfords plea, refuted	Bagshaw, Edward, d. 1662.	1648 (1648)	Wing B398; ESTC R7753	6,912	16

A SHORT CENSURE OF THE BOOK OF W. P. ENTITULED The Vniversity of Oxfords Plea Refuted SAPIENTIA FELICITATE ACADEMIA OXONIENSIS Printed in the Yeare 1648. A short Censure of the Booke of VV. P. ENTITULED The Vniversity of Oxfords Plea refuted I May not in respect of the place where I am LONDON wherein it is perillous if not capitall to write Law nor I cannot in respect of my occasions which will not permit me too I have not leisure to write much make any large refutation of that Book But shall only content my self with an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the work of one day A briefe Censure of the Book First in generall next in particular In this and other of his Writings I find the Author to professe much diligence as if he were an industrious and a voluminous Compiler of the Acts and Speeches of other men many of them are very truly quoted some mis-reported most mis-understood The man may be thought perhaps to be one of a large and vast memory but certainly of a narrow and slender judgement which by an infelicity in the braine in the opinions of Aristotle in his Problemes and the Author of The Tryall of Wits doe often meet together Whence it commonly comes to passe that at the end and close of his labours he leaves his adversaries with more truth or at least more evidence on his side then he first found about him as in this Book against his once Mother the Vniversity of Oxford shall more appeare 2. And therefore I come in the second place to a more particular discussing of this his last piece The University Plea which in his Book he vaunts to have fully refuted he makes to be this Pag. 2. That the right of Visiting the University of Oxon is onely in the Kings Majestie and that it is exempt from all other Jurisdiction both by Foundation Prescription and severall Grants of Exemption Whether this be the Vniversities Plea by their Delegates in totidem verbis which he againe repeats pag. 7 8. calling it A false Plea I am not able to say having now forgotten it But because he often mentions it in his Script in the very same words I will beleeve he hath not committed that fault of mis-recitall here But I am confident he hath mis-understood it quite throughout And therefore in my duty and love to my deare Mother the Vniversity of Oxford I will be bold to render her sense and meaning of her Plea in these words a little more enlarged meaning ●●e Plea That the Supreame and Primitive Right of Visiting the University of Oxford as it is an University not of a particular Colledge in it which hath a speciall kind of endowment of another consideration is onely in the Kings Majesty as an ancient inseparable jurisdiction annexed to his Crowne And that it is exempt from all other jurisdiction but what is immediately derived from him both by Foundation Prescription and severall Grants of Exemption are legally to be understood especially at this day since the dissolution of Papall Supremacy by the Statutes of 24 H. 8. c. 12. 25 H. 8. c. 19. 20. 21. 26 H. 8. c. 1. 1 Eliz. c. 1. c. Against this Plea thus explained he hath alledged not one materiall thing in all his Book which I shall make appeare by assayling his five men of straw which he hath drawne forth against this Plea which he calls his five Positions which I shall thus endeavour to shake if not bring down to that Nothing on which they seeme founded 1. His first Position is this That the University of Oxford was anciently of right for many Ages under the Jurisdiction if not Visitation of the Bishop of Lincolne as he was their Diocesan Wherein he saith just nothing for before Oxford was made a Bishoprick 't was never denyed but the Bishop of Lincolne was Diocesan over the Parochiall Churches nor the Clergie there be within his jurisdiction quatenus Ordinarius loci but what is that to the Visitation of the Vniversity being quite another thing and belonging of right to the King or to such as are immediately sent by him as W. P. truly alledgeth their saying pag. 54. and maketh it a doubt himselfe whether the Vniversity was anciently of right under the Visitation of the Bishop of Lincolne because he saith if not Visitation whereby he maketh his Position not positive contrary to all Logick And the proofes he brings for his first Position makes the truth of it more suspitious for he hath them all out of History as Matthew Paris B. Goodwin Arch-Bishop Barker p. 4 5 6 7. and not out of any authority of Law And a most learned Lawyer adviseth Students to take heed of Chronicle-Law as false and erroneous Sir Edw 〈◊〉 Pref. to th● Rep. And all his Historicall proofes doe not affirme that the Bishops of Lincolne did visit out of right but onely they did it de facto Et à facto ad jus non valet argumentum His second Position being the Body-horse of his Teame Position 2 and that which beareth the stresse of his whole Book is verbatim thus pag. 3. Secondly that it was aunciently of Right and so continued till this Parliament under the visitation and jurisdiction of the Arch-bishops of Canterbury as Metropolitans who have frequently visited this University and Cambridge too as being within their Province and have been acknowledged and adjudged by K. Richard 2. K. Henry 4. and an whole Parliament in his Raigne and by K. Charles himselfe upon solemne Debate to be lawfull Visitors of it de Jure And that these three Kings and the Parliament of 13 Hen. 4. have by their Charters and Votes absolutely disclamed the Kings sole Right of visiting the Universities and alwayes resolved the contrary when the Universities for their own ends have set it on foot and laid Claime unto it No King of England before Hen. 8. ever visiting either of the Universities for ought appears by any Authentique Records This Position is not doubtfull and uncertain as the former but yet it wants not that fault which is usual with him of contradiction to his former position for if it was Aunciently of Right and so continued till this Parliament for the Arch-bishop of Canterbury to visit the Universities de Jure as he speaks and so adjudged by three Kings and one Parliament then it could not Anciently and of right be visited by the Bishops of Lincolne which he avers in his first position But this second nor the proofes and records he brings in it doth give any jot of satisfaction to the Vniversity Plea but that the Right of Visitation is still in the Crowne and ever was an undoubted Right of the Crowne And that these Visitations of the Arch-Bishops unlesse they had Commission so to doe under the Kings owne proper Broad Seale were meere usurpations upon the Crowne which I shall make thus shortly and plainly to appeare It is very well