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A56225	The Vniversity of Oxfords plea refuted, or, A full answer to a late printed paper intituled, The priviledges of the University of Oxford in point of visitation together with the universities answer to the summons of the visitors ... / by William Prynne, Esq. ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.; Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.; Fell, John, 1625-1686.; Langbaine, Gerard, 1609-1658.; Waring, Robert, 1614-1658.	1647 (1647)	Wing P4121; ESTC R5306	43,159	69

of these it is as cleer as the noon● day Sun that the University of Oxford was under the jurisdiction if not visitation of the Bishops of Lincoln as being their Diocesans First by the very Buls of Pope a Boniface the eight and b Sixtus the fourth cited in the third page of the Priviledges of the Vniversity of Oxford in poynt of Visitation in expresse termes exempting the University ab omni jurisdictione Episcopali a Visitatione which needed no such exemption by two successive Popes from the Bishops jurisdiction and visitation if the University founded many hundred yeers before these Buls were granted had never been subject to but exempted from it by foundation and prescription too as is pretended it being then a meer superfluity for these Popes to grant or the University to embrace as a special priviledge and indulged favor Next by these ensuing cleer Historical passages c Matthew Paris in anno dom 1257. pag. 915 916. writes thus concerning the Bishop of Lincolns and University of Oxford's contest then happening between them about his jurisdiction and the Universities priviledges which he endeavoured to infringe in the generall without specifying the particulars which difference was referred to the Parliament then at hand to determine Eodem tempore videlicet septimo idus Martii venerunt ad sanctum Albanum quidam Magistri Oxoniae circitèr novem Artistle q●i querula voce coram Rege in Capella Sancti Oswini reposuerunt querimoniam de Episcopo Lincolniensi qui contra Statuta Universitatis antiqua approbaca nitebatur libertates Scholarium eneruare statutus est dies responsionis ad instans magnum Parliamentum ut auditis partium rationibus pacificarentur c. a Henry Lexinton was then Bishop of Lincoln What the Parliament here made the proper Judge of the Universities priviledges by the Kings own referēce determined in this cōtroversie or what the priviledges cōtroverted were I find not in any Historian or Record but certain it is they determined nought against the Bishops jurisdiction over the University of Oxford who had the better cause and right as appears by this passage of Matthew Parker in his b Antiqu. Ecclesiae Brit. p. 204. in the life of Iohn Peckam anno 1287. Hoc etiam tempore lis quaedam inter Lincolniensem Episcopum Universitat●m Oxon aliquot innis de jurisdictione Episcopi in Scholares Universitatis agitata est In qua Joannis Cantuariensis cum SCHOLARIVM CAVSAM VACILLARE NEC IVRA STARE POSSE intellexerat Scholaribus rescripsit si in Jure contenderent VINCI EOS ET SVPERARI NECESSE ESSE praesertim cùm his quibus uterentur Privilegiis A IURISDICTIONE EPISCOPALI IVRE COMMVNI STABILITA EXIMI NEQVAQVAM POTVISSENT c Oliver Sutton was then Bishop of Lincoln Upon this advice it seems the University submitted to the Bishop of Lincoln's jurisdiction as their Diocesan so far as to present their Chancellour to him for his approbation and confirmation as is evident by this History recorded in Antiq. Eccles. Brit. p. 268. Anno 1350. Oxoniensis Universitatis Scholares Cancellarium suum quendam Willihelmum de Palmorna elegerunt Qui cùm ad Lincolniensem Episcopum in cujus Diocaesi tunc ste●i● Oxonium confirmandus venisset crebris procrastinationibus in aliud temporis ab Episcopo rejectus est Id tàm Universitas Oxonien●is quàm ipse Cancella●ius electus indignè tulit Qui facti querela coram A●●chiepiscopo Simone Islippe declarata ab eo opem remedium ad tam diutinam voluntariam sine causa tollendam moram petierunt Archiepiscopus edicto Lincolniensi praecepit Ut Cancellarium electum die quodam statuto confirmaret aut coràm se compareret dicturus causam cur admitti confirmari non debeat Interea Archiepiscopus causam Johanni Coulton Cancellario suo Ecclesiae Cathedralis Wellensis Decano commisit Die statuto aderant Cancellarius electus Oxoniensis Universitatis procuratores qui confirmationem consecrationem instanter petierunt Lincolniensis autem Episcopus non comparuit in cujus absentis contumaciam Cantuariensis Cancellarius in negotio electionis legitimè procedens eam legitimè ritèque celebratam ac canonicam esse pronunciavit Quo facto Archiepiscopus Cancellarium confirmavit eundem ad Universitatem Oxoniensem regendam admisit gregique Scholarium scripsit ut ei jam admisso juxta Universitatis jura ac statuta obtemperent atque pareant Ab hac admissione Lincolniensis Episcopus privilegie suo antedictó ut se suosque papali privilegio quod Avinione à Papa Clemente magnis muneribus impetravit ab hujus Archiepiscopi jurisdictione defenderet fretus ad Papam appellavit Archiepiscopus antem rejecta appellatione eum ut suae jurisdictionis Archiepiscopalis authoritatis contemptorem ad sui tribunal vocavit non accedentis proterviam interdictis Ecclesiasticis in ejus terras praediaque latis mulc●avit multa deinceps in hac lite coram Papa agitanda controversa sunt in quibus Lincolniensis revocato suo privilegio a Cantuariensi victus succubuit This great Contest happened in the time of Iohn Synwell Bishop of Lincoln as d Godwin who relates it too informs us adding That the Pope also granted at the same time unto the University that the Chancellour should be onely elected by the Schollers themselves and so presently authorized to govern them without the admission of any other But this I conceive is a cleer mistake for Matthew Parker out of whom he relates it records That this exemption of the University of Oxford from the Bishop of Lincoln's jurisdiction was procured by the intercession of William Wittlesey Archbishop of Canterbury about the yeer 1375. and that from another Pope not Clement but Vrban some 25. yeers after this contestation which he thus expresseth Antiqu. Eccles. Brit. p. 283. Hujus Archiepiscopi intercessione atque gratia Oxoniensis Academia à jurisdictione Lincolniensis Episcopi per Urbanum Papam quintum EXEMPTAEST tàm libera potestas Cancellarium suum eligendi ●acta Scholaribus ut Cancellarius sine admissione quacunque simulatque electus sit magistratum inire atque gerere possit An undeniable evidence that till this Papall exemption procured the University and Chancellour of Oxford were under the Bishops of Lincol●ns jurisdiction as their Diocesans After this Thomas Hyndeman Chancellour of the University of Oxford and Nicholas Faux his Commissary procuring another exemption from the Pope BONIFACE the eighth as some affirm of this University and the Schollers in it both from Archiepiscopal and EPISCOPAL JURISDICTION the Schollers and Doctors of Oxford complained of it to Archbishop Arundel and the whole Convocation at London in the yeer 1396. and there openly renounced it as non mod● in Metropolitani ORDINARII sed ipsius Vniversitatis praejudicium atque gravamen Whereupon it was damned by the whole

and adjudged That the Archbishops of Canterbury should and ought for ever after to visit the Vniversity Chancellour Proctors and all Doctors Schollers and Members of the Vniversity whatsoever and that if the Archbishops were hereafter disturbed in their Visitations of the Vniversity all its Franchises Liberties and Priviledges should be seised into the King's hands till their submission thereunto and they should likewise pay a thousand pound fine to the King for such their disturbance Which resolution and proceedings before the King in this cause being drawn up in writing and presented to the King Lords and Commons in the Parliament of 13. Henry 4. and there read before them were they all ratified and confirmed by them and enacted to be of as great vigor and effect as if they had been done and made in Parliament which is evident by the Parliament Roll it self An. 13. H. 4. num 15. and by Archbishop Parkers Register fol. 269. a true transcript whereof for the full conviction and satisfaction of all our present Opposers I shall here insert Memorandum quod venerabilis in Christo Pater Thomas Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis in praesenti Parliamento nostro exhibuit quandam petitionem una cum quadam schedula eidem annexa in haec verba A Tressovereigne Sr. Nostre Sr. Le Roy Supplie humblement vostre humble chapellein Thomas Archevesque de Canterbiis Que pleise a vous Tressovereign Sr. par assent de Signeurs Esperit aelx Temporells les Comes in cest present Parlement de graunteir approver ratifier confirmer tout cest quest compris en un cedul● a cest bille annexe que meisme ceste cedule puisse se e●tre enrollee enacte in cest presente Parlement selo●e la fourme effecte de mesme le cedule que mesme la cedule tout ceo quest compris e● icelle soient de taunt de force effecte authorite mesme les force effecte auctoritee eient teignent come ils ussent estre faict●● en ceste Parlement per auctoritee de mesme le Parlement Memorandum Quod cum Richardus secundus nuper Rex Angliae propter diversas dissentiones lites et discordias quondam habitas in Vniversitate Oxoniensi super jure titulo visitationis dictae Vniversitatis ac de quadam Bulla exemptionis praetensa ad excludendum Archiepiscopum Cantuariensem tunc existentem Successores ●uos ac quoscunque ali●s Ordinarios infra Vniversitatem praedictam ac quoscunque fundatores dictae Vniversitatis ac Collegiorum ejusdem Vniversitatis a visitatione dictae Vniversitatis ab omni jurisdictione Ordinaria per eosdem Archiepiscopum Ordinarium fundator●s suos successores ac commissarios suos in eadem Vniversitate fa●iond ex●rcend Per breve su●m venire fecerit in Cancellaria sua apud Westmonasterium Bullam Praedictam Cancellarius et Procuratores dictae Universitatis tunc existentes sufficiens Warrentum sigillo commune Universitatis praedictae ●igil latum pro se et Universitate praedicta habentes et secum in Cancellaria praedicta deferentes ad exhibendum publicandum ostendendum et praesentandum coram dicto nuper Rege in Cancellaria praedicta Bullam praedictam necnon ad respondendum ibidem et ulterius faciendum et recipiendum quod per eundem nuper Regem consilium suum ord●natum fuisset definitum prout de recordo in eadem Cancellaria plenius liquet ac postmodum iidem Cancellarii et Procuratores pro se to●a Vniversitate praedicta submiserunt se de materiis praedictis Ordinationi et di●finitioni dicti nuper Regis Q●i quidem nuper Rex habita inde matura pleniori deliberatione cum consilio suo ac clarè considerans Eullam praedictam fore impetratam in praejudicium ●o●onae suae ac legum con●uetudinum Regni sui enervationem in Haereticorum Lollardorum ac homicidiarum aliorum male factorum favorem audaciam dictaeque Vniversitatis verisimil●m destructionem Ordinavit per breve suum praecepit inhibuit dicto Cancellario Magistris Doctoribus et Scholaribus Universitatis praedictae in fide Legeancia dilectione quibus sibi tenebantur ac sub poena amissionis privilegiorum Vniversitatis praedictae sub forisfactura omnium aliorum que sibi forisfacere poterant ne dictam Bullam in aliqua sui part● exiqui seu exercere sue beneficium aliquod exemp●ionis per Bullam illam aliqualiter repor●are seu reciper● praesume●ent sed omnibus exemptionibus privilegiis in ea parte contentis coram tune dil●cto clerico suo notorio Richardo Renhalle quem ad eos ex causa praedicta destinavit palam publicè pro imperpotuò renunciarent ac super renunciationem hujusmodi quandam certificationem sibi sub sigillo dictae Universitatis ac publica instrumenta fieri er sibi per eundem Clericum suum transmitti facerent sub poenis supradictis Postmodum allegantur praefato Cancellario et aliis sibi adhaerentibus nomine Universitatis praedictae VISITATIONEN PRAE●DICTAM AD DICTUM RICHARDUM NUPER REGEM SOLUM ET INSOLIDUM PERTINERE consideransque quod visitatio Vniversitatis praedictae ad praefatum Archiepiscopum successores suos ● ac ad eccles●am su●m Cantuarien●em PERTINUIT ET PERTINERE DEBUIT QUOD QUE IPSE AUT PROGENITORES SUI CANCELLARIUM AC UNIVERSITATEM PRAEDICTAM RETROACTIS TEMPORIBUS MINIME VISITARE CONSUEVERUNT Voluit ex certa scientia sua declaravit quod visitatio Cancellarii ac Procuratorum dictae Vniversitatis qui pro tempore fuerint necnon omnium Doctorum Magistrorum Regentium non Regentium ac Schola●ium ejusdem Vniversitatis quorumcunque eorumque servientum aliarumque personarum cujuscunque status vel conditionis exstiteriat libertatibus aut privilegiis dictae Vniversitatis utentium seu illis gaudere valentium NECNON UNIVERSITATIS PRAEDICTAE ETIAM UT UNIVERSITATIS ad praefa●um Archiepiscopum Successores suos ac ecclesiam suam praedictam PERTINUIT ET PERTINERE DEBUIT AC FUTURIS TEMPORIBUS PERTINERET Postmodumque praedictus ●uper Rex per diversa Brevia sua Cancellario Procuratoribus cunctis Doctoribus Scholaribus Vniversitatis praedictae praeceperat quod ipsi Archiepiscopo praedicto successoribus suis in visitatione sua praedicta in eadem Universitate facienda in omnibus sub poenis praedictis parerent et obedirent Postmodumque sicut datum fuit intelligi Domino nostro Regi Henrico quarto post conquestuw quod visitante Thoma Archiepiscopo Cantuari●nsi jure suo Metropolitico Diocaesi Lincoln Anno Regni dicti Henrici Regis duodecimo venit ad praedictam Vniversitatem Oxonii ad exequendam in forma juris ecclesiastici ibidem visitationem suam Richardus Courtnay ad ●unc Cancellarius Universitatis praedictae ac Benedictus Brent Johannes

be Visitors and what person or person shal be visited and what things inquired of in Visitations in sundry other Acts of Parliament as 31. E. 1. Rastal 304. 2 H. 5. c. 1. 25. H. 8. c. 21. 26. H. 8. c. 21. 26. H. 8. c. 1. 28. H. 8. c. 10. 31. H. 8. c. 13. 14. 2. E. 6. c. 1. 5. E. 6. c. 3. 1. 2. Phil. Mary c. 1. 8. 1. Eliz. c. 1. 2. 14. Eliz. c. 5. 3. I answer it is true That the ancient Priviledges Liberties and Franchises of the respective Vniversities of Oxford and Cambridge heretofore granted ratified and confirmed by the Queens Highness and her most noble Progenitors for the better increase of learning and further suppressing of Vice are confirmed by Act of Parliament An 13. Eliz. rot 36. which incorporates both Vniversities but it neither confirmed the Popes Bulls of exemption nor gave them any Immunity from Archiepiscopal or Episcopal Jurisdiction and Visitation it being no ancient Libertie Priviledg or Franchise ratified or confirmed to them by the Queen or any of her noble Progenitors nor yet once mentioned or intended in the Large Patent of Priviledges of King Henry the 8. bearing date the 10 of April in the 14 year of his R●ign made and granted to the Chancellor and Schollars of Oxford nor in Queen Elizabeths Patent to the Chancellor Masters and Schollars of the University of Cambridge bearing date the 26 of April in the 3 years of her Raign particularly confirmed by this Act. Therefore this Act makes nothing at all to purpose 4. The Objected Commission in 19 Eliz part 12. in dors● pretends no exemption of the Vniversity and Colledges from Archiepiscopoll and Episcopall Visitation and Jurisdiction simply the thing not then in question neither doth it acknowledg or confirm the Vniversities Priviledges and all other Exemptions in the very words of Boniface the 8. and acknowledg they had them by prescription c. as is untruly surmised But first it mentions divers priviledges then claimed by the Chancellor Doctors and Schollars of the Vniversity and some exemptions in causes wholly belonging to the Chancellors conusance and next it only complains of William Wilsons infringing these Priviledges and Exemptions contrary to his Oath in complaining to the Deane of the Arches of Canterbury and to Arch-Bishop Grindal against the Bishop of Lincoln and his Visitors of Lincoln Colledg in Oxford for refusing to admit him to the Rectorship thereof to which he falsly pretended he was really and lawfully elected and presented and for sending Inhabitions and Citations thence to the Bishop and his Visitors who were Members of the Vniversity to appear in the Arches and with taking the final Examination and Determination of this election unto themselves which of right belonged to the Chancellor and University Upon which bare suggestion and complaint the Queen granted a Commission to two Bishops and six others in a summary way without any noise or formal proceedings according to the truth and meer equity of the cause by the best and most effectual means they could De et super VERITATE PRAEMISSORVM et PRIVILEGIORVM et EXEMPTIONVM DICTAE VNIVERSITATIS ac in causa et causis praedictis c. procedere et fine debito omni appellatione et querela nuillitatis et supplicatione quacunque remotis terminare statutis Canonibus et consuetudinibus in contrarium editis litisve pendentibus in aliquo non obstante So as this Commission doth no ways confirm the priviledges nor ratifie the exemptions therein claimed by the Chancellor and Vniversity by Charter statutes and prescription for then it would have remitted this cause of Election from the Deane of the Arches and Arch Bishops Delegates to the Chancellor and Vniversity to whom by ancient Priviledg they alleaged it did belong but only refers the Examination of the truth of the Premises Priviledges Exemptions and Determination of this cause and controversy about this Election to certain Commissioners thus summarily to determine any Statutes Canons Customes or suits depending to the contrary notwithstanding and so rather doubts of and questions the truth of there alleaged Vniversity Priviledges and Exemptions then confirms them though procured by the Chancellors and Universities means and drawn up by their own directions But admit this Commission ratified and confirmed the Priviledges and Exemptions claimed in it by the Vniversity yet the substance of them is no more then this That * all personal contracts suits controversies and offences of Schollars and Priviledged persons arising within the precincts of the Vniversity except maihmes and fellonies are to be tried and determined in the Vniversity before the Chancellor only not before any Arch-Bishops Legates Bishops or Ordinary Judges out of the Vniversity Will it therefore follow Therefore the Vniversity cannot without multiplied perjury acknowledg any Visitor but the King and such as are immediately sent by him and is totally exempted not only from all Archiepiscopal and Episcopal but likewise from the Parliaments and their Delegates Visitation No doubtless the rather because King Charles himself and his Couns●● resolved that neither this Commission nor * any other Charter of Priviledges or Exemptions did free the Universities from the Arch-Bishop of Canterburies Metropolitical Visitation much less then from both Houses Delegates authorized by Ordinances and Commission for to visit it The 4th ground and argument urged for the Universities Exemption from our Visitation is this * That all visitations of the Vniversities except in Queen Maries Raign by Cardinal Pool as Popes Legat were held by the respective Princes authority and the persons visiting were immediatly sent by them only as their Representatives and who ever sate the King visited For which one Visitation by K. Henry the 8. another by King Edward the 6. a third by Queen Elizabeths Visitors Commissions are cited therefore the Universities are exempt from all other Visitors and those now appointed by both Houses but not immediatly by the King To this I answer First That no King of England before Henry the ● did either in Person or by Commission visit the Universities and his once meer Visitation of them by Commissioners if true since I find no such Commission extant after much inquiry was no exemption of them in point of Law from their former Visitors no more then of the particular Colledges which they likewise visited from the Visitors designed them by their Founders Secondly King Edward the 6. his Commission and Commissioners for their Visitation were made by the advice of the Lord Protector and others of his privy Councel He being then an infant but of 11. years of age not made nor nominated personally and immediately by himself as the Commissions themselves attest And for any Commission under the great Seal of Queen Eliz. for the Vniversities Visitation it is to me a meer non liquet which I cannot find upon search after it Thirdly King Charl● himself and his Counsel resolved upon f●l