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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

Eliz. visit Cambridge as Chancellour of that Vniversity Position 4 His fourth Position is That most particular Colledges and Halls in both Universities have their particular Visitors appointed by the Founders to whose Visitation they are subject and not to the Kings A most true position and the Vniversity strives not with him in it if he can rest there she onely dislikes his irrationall inference thereupon Ergo the Right of Visiting the Vniversity of Oxford is not onely in the Kings Majesty Much like to this Argument the Lord Maior of London is the proper Governour of that City Ergo the King hath not the sole right of governing the Kingdome contrary to the Statute of the 1. Eliz. and the Oath of Supremacy calling him the onely Supreame Governour According to the lines of proportion and similitude as a City is to a Kingdome so is a particular Colledg to an Vniversity The King sole Governour of the Kingdome the Lord Major with the Aldermen c. sole Governours of the City the King or those whom he immediately appoints which must ever be understood sole Visitors of the Vniversity of Oxford the Bishop of Lincolne sole Visitor of Brazen-nose Colledge when the King comes into the City the Lord Major yeilds up his Sword and his Government is for that time suspended So when the King visits the Vniversity of Oxford the Visitation of the Bishop of Lincolne is then suspended like as in the Metropoliticall Visitation the Episcopall Visitation is suspended And these subordinations are full of Harmony and doe not contradict each other as he thinketh when he thus speaketh How then the King can truly and really be stiled the sole Founder and Visitor of the University of Oxford when there are but three Colledges there of his Foundation and but one of his Visitation I desire the Vniversity at leisure to resolve Truly his once Mother the Vniversity of Oxford hath resolved it already and will take no further time But wisheth him hereafter to be a good Child and leave an old fault of his of mistaking the question For the Vniversity never made it a Question Whether the King was sole Founder or Visitor of a particular Colledge but of an Vniversity they being two distinct things distinct Corporations having distinct Governours distinct Officers distinct Statutes c. But the Conclusion of this fourth Position may not be passed by without reproof where he calls this Right of the Kings sole visiting the Vniversity The Kings pretended Royall Monopoly which being spoken of him a sacred person especially in this his day of affliction by his owne naturall born Subject and by a man professing Religion favours more of a son of Shimei then a servant of Christ Position 5 That the pretended Grants of exemption from Visitation c. now pleaded by the University were not procured from the Kings of England but from Popes by their Bulls and that our Kings themselves and one Parliament have damned them as derogatory to the Kings Prerogative c. This Position he braggingly saith pag. 43. that he hath already substantially proved in every syllable amongst the proofs of his second Position and surceaseth any farther proof But concludes thus bitterly against the Vniversity in this manner The Author of the Universities Priviledges was very ill advised to plead the Popes exploded illegall Antichristian Bulls in Bar against the Jurisdiction of both Houses and the Visitors deputed by them in these anti-papall times of Reformation which might justly induce them to suspect that the Heads and Members of the University have a higher and more reverend esteem of the Popes usurped abandoned authority and illegall Bulls then of both Houses rightfull power and Ordinances A very reproachfull and that though I could say more a most envious and causlesse Censure for the Popes Bulls were leges temporum though not leges scripturarum as they say in schools and custom and time had set them up for Lawes and as they were pleadable then so in the way that the Vniversity hath pleaded those Bulls they may be pleaded at this day without making such a noise and roaring against all the Heads and Members of the Vniversity not a man excepted I will give one instance instead of many divers Parliament-men have Impropriations of Church-livings and some of them perhaps discharg'd from payment of Tythes by reason of the Cisterstian order an Order of Fryars exempted by the Popes Bulls from the payment of Tythes of Lands in their owne possession shall not a Parliament-man therefore in a suite against him for Tythes plead the Popes Bull by way of discharge without being counted a Papist and inclining to Popery there is no doubt but he may Besides the pleading of the Popes Bulls of Exemption by the Vniversity was so far from Popery that nothing could more advance their Princes supremacy and their own Loyalty having this inference in it That if the Pope by an usurped power upon the Crown could visit and exempt from Visitation at his pleasure how much more might the King which hath in himself that auncient true and proper Right of the Crowne And therefore for Conclusion the Vniversity of Oxford out of her Motherly affection to one that pretends to be her son adviseth W. P. to read often that place Deut. 27. v. 16. Cursed be he that setteth light by his Father or his Mother and all the people shall say Amen The same application of it to his Prince the Father of the Country And the Lord give him repentance for the Evill he hath done And thus have I shortly examined all his five Positions and his proofs of them being the substance of his whole Book I will now for Conclusion passe my particular Censure upon it in the words of the Emperour Julian upon a Book brought to him containing a Confession of Faith of the best Church in the world And what he corruptly censured of that Confession I will truly and sincerely censure the same of the script of W. P. in refutation of the Plea of the best Vniversity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I have read it I have considered it and I doe utterly condemne it Et cedo mihi quemvis arbitrum FINIS