it be denied And therefore our humble Suit to Your Lordship is That by Your good furtherance we may receive the Opinion of the Honourable Lords of His Majesty's Privy Council what shall be done in the Premisses And whether Mr. Mayor shall be freed of all Danger for not setting a Watch in these troublesom Times or not And so craving Pardon for our so often troubling You we remember our Humble Service to Your Lordship and render many Thanks always remaining Oxon June 24. 1640. Your Lordship 's to be commanded John Smith Mayor William Potter John Nixon Thomas Smith Leo. Bowman John Sare William Charles Humphrey Whistler Henry Southam Martin Wright Roger Griffin Walter Cave Bailiffs William Poole Bailiffs SIR THE Mayor of Oxford hath lately sent these two Letters above written one to the Lords of the Council and the other to the Earl of Berks to shew to the Lords And I here send you the Copies of them both The Letter to the Lords is most concerning Greene and his Inn in which I do desire you to make a clear and distinct Answer to these Particulars following As First Whether this Inn be the Inheritance of Lincoln-College and whether Greene is possessed of it by the Marriage of the Widow in the Right of his Son-in-Law And this the rather because your first Information said That the Town authorized him to keep this Inn. Secondly You may see by this how angry they are about their Victuallers where they directly charge you That amongst others you took a Recognizance of the said Greene but never certified the said Recognizance nor any other to the Sessions according to the Law To which also it will be fit you give Answer Thirdly They say they have only the Name of Mayor and Magistrates and speak in all the rest of their Letter as if all the Town Privileges were invaded by the University And here I would have you answer two things The one That they offer to invade the University Privileges which I conceive is true And the other Whether so many as they mention did refuse the Offices of Mayor and Bailiffs this last Year Their second Letter is only concerning their Night-Watch in which I think there is a manifest invading of the Vniversity Privilege And Proctor Allibond is challenged by Name But they have taken a very cunning rise for their Business for they put it all upon their Care for a Watch by reason of the Seditious Tumult at Farrington There is great reason that Mr. Mayor should be freed from all Danger about setting of a Watch save only such as is his Duty to set but the Lords will not give me their Opinion till they have an Answer from the University how the Mayor's Watch and the University Privileges stand together I pray therefore send a full Answer to this Particular especially But I pray send your whole Answer in such fair Terms as that I may shew it whole and entire to the Lords but let the matter be as full home as you can Lambeth July 3. 1640. W. Cant. Most Reverend IN the Name of the whole University as well as in my own I return Your Grace humble Thanks for the Notice which by Your last Letter You have been pleased to give me of a late Information preferred by this Town unto the Lords of the Council against us To the several Branches whereof I will make bold to return a brief Answer that it may the more fully appear unto Your Grace how false in some and groundless in all Particulars the Complaint is 'T is true That Green's House belongs to Lincoln-College and that he now enjoys it by the Right of his Wife But this makes it not to be an Inn that must be done by License which he must either have from the Town as all other Inns as yet have or else he hath none For confident I am that he hath not any from the Vniversity By Virtue of His Majesty's late gracious Grant unto us we License Ale-House-Keepers and Victuallers Above which Rank until better informed now by the Town we conceived Inn-holders to be and therefore meddled not with them If Greene came in the throng at the beginning of Lent to be bound by me from dressing of Flesh the which I remember not he came not called For by my Warrant I then Summoned none but Privileged Persons and such only of the Town as by the Power given the University by His Majesty had been allowed by us The Recognizance of those 〈◊〉 Licensed I confess I returned not to the Quarter-Sessions and that for this Reason His Majesty by the fore-mention'd Letter was pleased to grant us the same Authority over Ale-Houses and Victuallers which the University of Cambridge hath No Recognizances are returned there whereof I am certain for I sent thither purposely in November last to enquire And therefore none by us The University there keeps them in its own Power and so do we The Town-Clerk who Pen'd the Letter does I grant by this means lose some petty Fees which the Poor Men now save in their Purses he formerly had whilest the power of Licensing was in them But this is a very weak Plea in a Business of such Consequence Nor indeed are those Fees now considerable we having already reduced those Ale-Houses to Five Score which before were Three Hundred A great number And yet not to be marvelled at when one Man this Mayor's Father-in-Law Bosworth a Brewer and Justice of the Town was as I have credibly been informed in a very short time the means of Licensing an Hundred for his part upon Conditions which tied them faster than their Recognizance to the King that they should take all their Beer of him nor did he stand single Others they have who trod after him in the very same steps which makes me wonder with what Face they can complain of the Loss of a Power which they so grosly abused And yet more I marvel at their Complaint against us for invading their Liberties when themselves are so notoriously guilty of daily Attempts upon ours without any colour at all of Right for their so doing Witness their Intrusion into the Office of Clerk of the Market Their Enquiries at their Leets touching the Cleansing and Paving of the Streets Their refusing to be regulated by the Vice-Chancellor as heretofore touching the Price of their Candles Arresting and Suing of Privileged Persons in their City Court Taking of Felons Goods and interrupting our Proctors in their Night Walk Nor can I amongst these Grievances omit their present multiplying of Cottages and Inmates in all Parts of the Town in despight of the Inhibition to the contrary sent unto them by Letters from the Lords of the Council whereof they have in a friendly manner been put in mind by the University both at their Publick Sessions and at other times If the Mayors of Oxford have now as is pretended only the Title not the Authority of the Place they are
if they can learn it how long they have held it Lambeth Novemb. 2. 1638. W. Cant. COncerning the Incorporation of the Guernsey Man mention'd pag. 210. there hath at his humble Suit been a new Consideration taken by the Vice-chancellor and the Heads for the Statutableness thereof And it was found upon this Review that the Statutes consider'd two sorts of Men The first are such as never have been Members of our University or Cambridge Of these treat the Statutes the first de Incorporatione and seem to distinguish them into Aliens and Natives The second sort are such as have been Students sometime in either of the Universities As for the Natives in which Number the Guernsey Man is the Words of the Statutes are Quibus incorporari permittitur Si tempore in Academiâ suâ requisitò praestitis prius Exercitiis gradus susceperint Upon which Words the Question was whether a Native having taken a Degree in a Foreign University might call that Academiam suam which is resolved by the use of the same Word Suos twice in the same Paragraph where it stands indefinitely for any University where either Foreigner or Native hath taken his Degree As in this Form Vt admitatur ad eundem Gradum c. quibus ornatus est apud Suos Whereupon it was judged by the Heads that there was no Bar in Statute to exclude the Guernsey Man he producing first Letters Testimonial of the University where he proceeded That he had spent as much time in his Studies there as is required by the Orders of that University and that he had performed his Exercise from the Benefit of Incorporation Upon the same Ground way was given for the Incorporation of one of the Sons of Sir Henry Vane Comptroller of his Majestie 's Houshold To the most Reverend Father in God the Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury Chancellor of the Vniversity of Oxford The Humble Petition of the Inhabitants of Milton Hasley Petsworth Lewknor c. Humbly sheweth THat the Petitioners have bestowed great Costs and Charges in repairing their High-ways through their several Parishes leading from the University of Oxford towards London That the Carryers of Oxford do carry such unreasonable Carriages viz. sometimes 40 50 or 60 Tun at a Load by which means they do spoil the High-ways that notwithstanding the Petitioners great and extraordinary Charge in continual repairing of them the ways are made almost unpassable The Petitioners most humbly beseech your Grace to give Order that the said Carryers of Oxford may be restrained to such certain stint and reasonable weight of Carriages especially in the Winter-time and foul Weather as in your Grace's Wisdom shall seem 〈◊〉 for the good of Travellers in the High-way and ease of your Petitioners And they as in Duty c. Upon this Petition for redress of this Abuse I writ to the Vice-chancellor SIR I Here inclosed send you a Petition delivered this Week unto me concerning the High-ways towards London and beyond our own Liberties I have been the only Man that have kept up the Carryer to his four-wheeled Carriage for the University sake but if this Petition be true it will force me to take off my Hand and then I know he must take off two of his Wheels and that done let him carry what Weight he can I pray You and the Heads to take this into serious Consideration and to think upon some Remedy That which I ever thought on was not to go by the weight of his Carriage for then he will be continually laying on more and you are not able to watch him but by the number of his Horses which should not exceed five or six at most and then himself will not dare to lay on more load than his Horses can well draw through those bad ways and if the Carriages be so great that he must use more Horses let him use a second Cart and divide his Team If you can think upon a better way than this I shall be glad of it but You must prudently think upon some way for Remedy for if it come to publick scanning at the Council-Table or the Assizes it will be ordered whether you will or no and perhaps in a sourer way and not so agreeable to your Liberties as this way it may be done Lambeth Nov. 23. 1638. W. Cant. I See good effects already of that Statute which hath been most cryed down by those from whom I least expected it the Statute de Examinandis Candidatis and promise my self much more hereafter I was present at one Examination and was glad to hear both the Regents examine so sufficiently and discreetly and the Candidates so ably and readily I cannot believe that the ablest Proceeders in former times if they had been examined upon the sudden could have acquitted themselves better than these Candidates such as I stumbled on by chance did upon expectation of a certain unavoidable Examination The moderation which your Grace prescribed to Mr. Vice-chancellor in the Execution of this Statute hath set it very well on Foot which if it had been pursued roughly at the beginning would never have held or else would have bred great Distempers in the University For the Regents who at the beginning of Term kept out of the way insomuch that the Proctor of thirty of the Junior Regents could scarce meet with three Examiners if they had been held up stiffly at first to the rigour of the Statute and so inforced some of them to lay open their own Infirmities or Disabilities they would either have absented themselves quite or else have made some desperate violent opposition against the Statute and the Authority that should back it But by this Moderation which Mr. Vice-chancellor useth towards them conniving at some defects now and then where they come short of the Statute he hath won the Regents so as that they conform themselves in a good measure to the intent of the Statute For they examine through all the Arts and Sciences in which the Candidates are bound to have been Auditors asking fundamental Questions in every one not propounding studied Subtilties to gravel and discourage young Students And when the Statute hath gotten head which many Men had fore-doomed and therefore did not fit themselves for it against it should take place I doubt not but the Regents will rise to a higher pitch and the Candidates likewise will come prepared for it But that which will set a special Edge upon both is Mr. Vice-chancellor's assiduous Presence at their Examinations which I must confess looking to his former Solitude and Retiredness I could never have expected from him There was Complaint made to me by his Majesty of the great number of Doctors that usually resorted to Woodstock at his being there whereupon to prevent this Abuse for the Future I writ to the Vice-chancellor that they should lessen their Number which was done accordingly and in their Monday Meeting on the 17th of
your Deputy-Governours in either University to VVill and Require them in Our Name to rectifie and reduce all Fees given to Officers Readers Bedels Registers or others for Degrees or any thing else to That quantity which they bore in the said Eleventh year of Queen Elizabeth For the Abuse is great and burdensome unto them which bring up their Sons in Learning And We will remedy it by Our Commission if you according to your Places do not see it remedy'd to our hands And We are the more Careful for Our Universities Because we have not forgotten that Our Royal Father of ever blessed Memory gave Bountiful Gifts to supply divers wants There which We assure Our self were not given but with an intent that when they were possessed the Fees should lessen at least return to that just proportion to which we have limited them in our Commission So We grant your Suit not to break the Liberties of our Universities by sending another Power upon them But withal We require you both to send to our several Universities rsepectively that VVe may have present Redress of this Abuse and that a Table may be made according to the elevene th of Queen Elizabeth and hung up in the Congregation and in some convenient place in every College and Hall that every man may know what Fees he is to pay and no man presume to take beyond the Allowance in that Table as he will answer it at his Peril And we shall look for an Accompt of this from you both respectively Given under our Signet at To Our Right trusty and Right Wellbeloved Cousin and Counsellour Henry Earl of Holland Chancellour of Our University of Cambridg And to the Right Reverend Father in God Our Right Trusty and Welbeloved Counsellour VVilliam Lord Bishop of London Chancellour of our University of OXFORD Reverendissime Cancellarie GRatias agimus periculis quae te reddunt nobis indies chariorem lumen pretiumque adjiciunt tam Vigilis Patroni merito Rem perdifficilem eluctabimur si operâ tuâ non simus foelicissimi In moderandis Academiae fraenis nunquid opus est oculatiori Providentiâ Tu quidem vix emicantia periculorum semina à longinquo praevides eaque aut prudenter caves aut fortiter evellis Nunquid opus est anxietate curâ ubi nusquam occurrit periculum sollicitè circumspicis indagare non desinis quod metuis invenire ac totus quieti nostrae insomnis incubas At nunquid suavi opus est in adducendo militiâ Non sinis imponi nobis vim necessitatis vel in iis etiam quae ad nostrum spectant emolumentum Sed aequè sanandi modo ac ipsi consulens sanitati aut ea imperas quae sponte volumus aut prius velle fias ea quae imperas Ac tum demum ubi voti ardor incaluit eundem Obsequii studio ingeminatum accendis non segniùs quam ventus secundo flamine proni impellit cursum fluenti Liberalium amici Artium sub Feodorum onere graduum venalium caritate jam diu suspirarunt diu tacuerunt Quibus aderat morbi eradicandi animus potestas defuit exequendi ansa donec Medicus Epidemicus hoc ulcus ubique recisurus utpote in Curiis universis grassatum nos itidem quamvis à saeculo seclusos communi tamen peste laborantes communis convolvisset asperitate remedii Exoticae Potestati tradidisset unâ corrigendos Vtilis fuit medicina invisa manus sanari optabile sanari verò à parùm benevolis fuit quaedam Foelicitatis miseria praesertimcum in Extraned Censurâ Exemplum lateret viamque sterneret usurpabili Laicorum tyrannidi Quid ergo dicemus Regi in mentem venisse ut nos dormiscentes solummodo expergefaceret Certè eâ mole fertur Majestas ut semel commota aegrè possit vel ipsa se sistere Expergesecit quidem sed quod nihil tentavit amplius Tui opus Patrocinii agnoscimus Benignitati Augustae Deo cum proximae tum simillimae tribuendum primò quòd nostri causâ excanduit tum posteà quòd nobis domesticam proprii sinûs animadversionem indulsit Sed quod Regem priùs pacatum invenimus quam iratum mente subito compositum quasi rugas ideo tantum induisset ut exueret hoc sagaci tuae Providentiae maturo tribuimus Intercessui O Aulae Academiae vinculum O qui Regem nobis per lenitatem Nos Regi per obsequium attemperas sive plus nostri affectûs sive gratitudinis sive obedientiae velis nequid unquam quod velis desit cape ad summum omnia Nobis dulce erit Prudentiae tuae animum summissè dedere in durissimis Sed levamini commodoque nostro aurem morigeram praebere jussu subire quae ultro expetimus quantâ hilaritatis ecstasi properemus Sub tali jugo incurvari lucnum est Crescit ex imperio libertas dominatur dum paret E. domo nostrae Congregationis July 25. 1631. Honori vestro devinctissima Oxonien Academia July 26 1631. The first Stone of my Building at St. John Baptist's College was laid NOW that this intended Good may come the fuller upon the University a great help must come from you and your Successors from time to time in That Office And first while the awe of this is upon them you must call for the present performance of those things which his Majesty enjoyned especially the present drawing up of the Statutes concerning Appeals and of the standing Delegacy of the Heads of Colledges and Halls to meet every week or every fortnight at least as well in Vacation as Term both to consider of the present businesses of the University and to prepare such things as are fit for Convocation Which Statutes of this Delegacy and the Appeals were they once settled would ease half of the business of the University and repay all the pains that is or can be taken about them Next I pray call the Heads together and give them warning concerning their several Companies That no man of what degree soever and therefore much less Youths be suffered to go in Boots and Spurs together with their Gowns And if any Head of a House permit it in his own College whither my Authority reaches not I shall complain where he will be unwilling to Answer And for your self I pray and require you that if any man be seen abroad with them in Town out of his College you presently proceed against him according to such 〈◊〉 as you have De 〈◊〉 Scholastico c. And the like for haunting of Inns or Taverns or other Drinking-Houses 〈◊〉 Masters of Arts that should give younger Youths better example And that all Bachelours of Arts as well 〈◊〉 as others receive a strict command by their several Governours that while 〈◊〉 any 〈◊〉 they pass along the 〈◊〉 or any publick place they uncover their heads and do that reverence which beseems them to any Doctor Bachelour of Divinity Master of
animitus devoti E. Domo nostra Congregationis Mart. 20. 1635 6. Sanctitatis vestrae Colentissima Oxon. Acad. Reverendissime Cancellarie CVM in corpore Academiae sim ipse Lingua in Oratorum serie membrum illud quod primum degustaverit vestroe munificientioe fructum liceat mihi oceano rivum immensurabili gratiarum acervo peculiarem sementem vestrâ cum veniâ subministrare Dum totum se exerit Gladiator vim ponit in lacerto Qui totus venerationem exhibet genu tantum oslendit Ne succenseat paternitas vestra si Academiae Lingua praesertim in re sua vehementius assici gestiat Ideoque infinito gratiarum ponderi aliquid amplius addere plus toto afferre conetur Simulachri parte interiore nomen suum inscripsit Phidias Mihi non arrogantiae ut illi vertatur sed gratitudini si in maternoe Epistolae visceribus privati Officii tesseram concludam vestrae memor memoriae Curaeque tam longe infra vestram Celsitudinem non possum non esse gratus tametsi gratitudini peccavero Martii 20. 〈◊〉 Sanctitati vestrae humillime devotissimus Guilielm Strode Academiae tuae Orator publicus In this year the Northside of Vniversity College was finisht Upon a Difference betwixt the University and Town of Oxford touching Felons Goods Court-Leets and taking Toll a Hearing was appointed by consent of the most Reverend Father in God William Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury his Grace Chancellour of the University and of the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Berks Steward of the Town aforesaid as likewise by the mutual consent of both Parties divers of the University and Town aforesaid being then present who assumed in the name of the rest that whatsoever should be ordered or directed upon this hearing should be final and binding and that either Party would for ever observe hereafter and stand to it In Witness whereof the Lords above mentioned and others then present have hereunto set their Hands Dated at Lambeth this 28th day of April in the Year of our Lord 1636. W. CANT John Oxon Bryan Duppa William Smith Bryon Twyne Barkshire John Whistler Oliver Smith John Sare Tmothy Carter S. in Christo. NON diu abhinc est quo Literas Patentes Libertates avitas confirmantes conferentes Novas accepistis Munus Regium erat Cura autem mea Nunc Statuta mitto Illa vincula secum ducunt sed accommoda ne Libertates licentiam induerent sed vobis grata Non vellet enim Academia esse sine Fraeno sed in ordinem redacta ne amplius confusione contradictionibus subditos oneraret sed antiquis valdè consona nisi ubi temporum ratio aliud exigit ne quid novi videretur pati celeberrima simul vetustissima Academia Saepius tentatum hoc opus à Viris saeculis suis celeberrimis frustra tamen Nec enim quidquam in hac re ad optatum sinem perduxerunt Sed utrum Operis ipsius difficultas an aliqua alia interventens remora obstiterit planè nescio Quo magis gratulor Academiae 〈◊〉 quibus Miseratione Divinâ datum est opus hoc ad talem saltem perfectionem redactum videre qualem ferre solent Leges Statuta quae de quovis particulari cavere nequeunt Nec Academioe tantum vobis sed mihimetipsi gratulor quod Statuta situ pulvere tantùm non sepulta in lucem redacta suis numeris titulisque distincta video Multò magis tamen quòd placuit Academiae in frequenti Convocatione ne uno refragrante rem totam ad me Curamque meam referre ut sub Incude med Statuta haec limarentur à me Confirmationem acciperent Summa haec vestra Confidentia fuit certê gratias omnibus singulis ago summas ob fidem mihi in re tantâ ac tali jam liberaliter praestitam Quâ in re certe non fidem 〈◊〉 nec spem vestram fefelli Verum enim est ausim dicere me summa cum aequitate cum aequalitate pari omnia transegisses Et potestatem à venerabili Domo mihi commissam it a moderatum ut nihil prae oculis habuerim nisi quod planè in publicum Ecclesiae Academiae bonum cederet Et hoc Deum Testor omnt affectione partialitate privato respectu praesentium temporum personarum locorum officiorum qualiumcunque sepositis Vnum superest non tacendum Transmisi vobis Statuta quae annum probationis suae apud vos complevere jam ex usu illo in nonnullis emendata pro potestate à vobis concessa misi sub sigillis meo vestroque in debitâ Juris formâ confirmata Quum ecce placuit Regi Serenissimo Musisque vestris addictissimo suam etiam superadjicere confirmationem manu propriâ sigillo magno munitam Quod Academiae honorem moribus Disciplinam Statutis reverentiam firmitatem nequit non conferre Ob quam Regiae Majestatis gratiam insignem gratias referre pares nec ipse nec vos potestis Quin Commissionarios misit suos qui ob majorem negotii dignitatem Statuta haec exhiberent Collegiorum Aularum Praefectos Statutis sic exhibitis confirmatis subscribere curarent Reliquum postea erit ut Statutis sic confirmatis Obedientia praestetur qud nihil magis poterit augere Academiae splendorem Et licet primo loco authoritas vestra Legis hasce condendas curavit ea tamen natura legis est ut semel condita promulgata non alios tantum sed condentes liget Huic Obedientiae Reliquisque virtutibus quibus polletis vos semper affines futuros spero ut tales sitis supplicibus precibus se à summo Numine impetratum non dubitat Vestris mihi amicissimis Doctori Pink Vice-Cancel lario reliquisque Doctoribus Procuratoribus nec non singulis in Domo Convocationis intra Almam Universitatem Oxon. Congregatis Datum ex AEdibus nostris Lambethanis Junii 15. 1636. Amicus vester Cancellarius W. CANT These Letters were read in Convocation upon the 22 of June 1636. wherein Mr. Secretary Cook made a weighty Speech fitting the occasion and so likewise did the Vice-Chancellour Mr. Secretary's Speech follow 's in haec verba Reverend Vice-Chancellour Doctors and Masters YOU have heard with due respect and attention the Letters brought by us to his Sacred Majesty you have also heard in Conformity thereunto other Letters sent from your most Reverend Chancellour signifying his Majesty's Grace and Goodness in recommending unto you this Volume of Statutes which we now deliver and you are to receive as the Rules by which you must be governed hereafter You have also seen and heard the Confirmation and Establishment of these Statutes First by his Majesties Royal Signature and under the great Seal of his Kingdom And respectively under the Hand and Seal of the Lord Arch-Bishop both as Primate and Metropolitan of England and as most worthy
to hear so many Soldiers take Oxford in their way but glad withal that you keep the Scholars so well from them that all Disorders may be prevented as you write they have hitherto been Lambeth June 19. 1640. W. Cant. NOtwithstanding the Accident which fell out upon Tuesday June 16th between the Commanders and the Soldiers which was a very mutinous Quarrel in their Drink and cost some Blood Oxford June 22. 1640. A. Frewen ON Friday June 19th a Batchelor of Arts of Magdalen-Hall was found drowned in the River by New-Parks His wide-sleev'd Gown Hat and Band lay on the Bank but the rest of his Cloaths were upon him which makes us much suspect that he wilfully cast away himself The Crowners Inquest hath found him not Mentis compotem And I hear from good Hands that he was much troubled in Mind for which reason at the opening of his Study I mean to observe what Books he used most Oxford June 22. 1640. A. Frewen ON June the 25th 1640. I sent by Dr. Baylie Dean of Sarum and President of St. John Baptist's-College the Conveyances for the perpetual Settling of the Arabick Lecture in Oxford and the Statutes which I made for the due reading of it and desired that those Statutes might by the Vice-Chancellor's care be transcribed into the Original Statute-Book and the Conveyances also according as he finds done with other Lectures given by other Benefactors to the University As also for the transcribing of these Statutes into all other Statute-Books of the University respectively that those which are bound to be Auditors may know both their Times and their Duties These Directions I sent by Dr. Baylie but sent no Letter at this time to the the University because of the hast which I made to have the Business done and to he out of my Hands in these broken Times which gave me no leisure at all from more Publick Affairs to write unto them As for the Evidences which belong to this Land they are all in the Custody of the Town of Redding to which Town I gave all my Land lying in Bray in Berkshire of which this to the Arabick Lecture is not a full fifth part and could not dismember the Evidences and therefore thought it fittest to leave them there where 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 part of the Land was settled to other charitable Uses 〈◊〉 I have made the Vice-Chancellor for the time being with some 〈◊〉 Heads of Colleges perpetual Visitors of that which I have done 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Counterpart whereof remains in the Custody of the 〈◊〉 and Fellows of St. John Baptist's College of all which I gave 〈◊〉 present Vice-Chancellor an Account June 25th 1640. W. Cant. Right Honourable YOUR Letters of the Seventh of this June with all Humility we have received And according to Your Lordships Commands therein we have diligently enquired and informed our selves and do find that some Guests being Recusants do resort to the Inn called the Miter and that Greene named in Your Lordship's Letter was presented at the last Sessions for a Popish Recusant but not many Years since he was one of our Serjeants and did then frequent the Church And we finding that he Marrying the late Inn-holder's Widow of the said Inn became Owner thereof during the Minority of his Son-in-Law and by that means it being an ancient Inn of the Inheritance of Lincoln-College he keepeth the same Inn. And touching the Authority and Licensing the said Greene so to do His Majesty's Letters were lately procured and sent to us that we should not meddle in the Licensing of any Person to keep Ale-Houses or Victualling-Houses but that we should leave the same to the Vice-Chancellor and the Justices that were Members of the University And under pretence of that Letter when we in Obedience to His Majesty's Proclamation and his Highness's Writ directed to us for the observing of Lent at the beginning of the last Lent did by Warrant Summon the Victuallers of our own Body only to become bound to His Majesty according to the said Proclamation the Vice-Chancellor sent his Beadles to the Mayor to tell him that the binding of Victuallers did belong to the Vice-Chancellor and not to the Mayor And thereupon the Vice-Chancellor presently made a Warrant to call all the Victuallers before him at another Place one Hour before the time appointed in the Mayor's Warrant And amongst others did take a Recognizance of the said Greene but never certified the same Recognizance not any other Recognizances to the Sessions according to the Law And we make bold to certifie Your Lordships That we have only the Name of Mayor and Magistrates but the Vice-Chancellor Doctors and Proctors do interpose in the Town Affairs That all our Liberties and Privileges are much lessened that of late we had much ado to get Mayor and Bailiffs there being so many that paid their Fines to refuse that the City was at last forced to refuse their Fines and to compel them to take upon them the same Offices Whereas heretofore when we enjoy'd our Liberties and Privileges the same Places were much desired And so hoping that the Premisses considered Your Lordships will not conceive us so careless therein as in Your Lordships Letters is express'd we humbly take leave resting at Your Lordships Service Oxon 15 Junii 1640. John Smith Mayor William Potter Aldermen John Sare Aldermen Henry Southam Aldermen Thomas Cooper Aldermen May it please Your good Lordship ACcording to the Statute of Winchester in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lord King Edward the First and according to certain Orders and Directions publish'd by the Body of his Highness Privy-Council 1630. A Watch was set by Mr. Mayor and his Brethren with the Consent of the Vice-Chancellor these Rebellious times requiring the same part of which Watch by reason of divers Inrodes and Inlets besides the Gates of the City were appointed by Mr. Mayor to walk about their several Wards and Liberties for the Safety thereof and good Order by which Watch straggling Soldiers and others have been taken and we have been safe But Mr. Proctors question the said Watch and exact of them 40 s. a time for such their walking And for Non-payment thereof threaten to sue them in the Vice-chancellor's Court and send for these Watch-Men very often to their Chambers and make them attend them there and have imprison'd some of the Constables and have laid hold of the Watch-Men and taken some of them to the Prison Gates with an intent to Imprison them and do say that Mr. Mayor cannot give them Power to go from the Gates of the said City And for these Causes Mr. Mayor is forced to discharge the Watch but the Watch in St. Thomas Parish being the Entrance from Farrington where the late Rebellion was he did not discharge and the last Night Proctor Allibond Imprisoned the Constable for setting the same Watch. All this we will prove to be true upon Oath if
Houses most of them poor mean Persons seven or eight in all here a Pistol and there a Sword rusty and elsewhere a Birding-Piece so we are safe enough from them God keep us from the Scots In that View I found two Convicted One here below East-Gate a sorry labouring Mason The other one Mr. Hunt by the Castle a Stranger staying here only a while in a House of his own till he can find some Brewer to take it being fit for that purpose and standing void November ult 1640. Ch. Potter I Thank you for your Pains in your Search for Arms among Recusants and am glad you find all so safe and them so unfurnish'd As for Mr. Hunt if he be a Stranger the sooner the Town is rid of him the better For the Confirmation of your Endowments upon your Professors and Orators you shall do well when the great Businesses are more over for till then it will not be intended to move for Confirmation in Parliament And in the mean time it may be very for you fit to prepare a Bill by some good Council which may contain them all in one if it may be It is true you write that most Colleges have upon Christmas-day a Sermon and a Communion in their private Chapels and by that means cannot come to the publick Sermon of the University at Christ-Church And whereas you write farther that some have wished that in regard of this the Morning Sermon for the University might be put off to the Afternoon as it is upon Easter-day for the like occasion I for my part think the motion very good it being a day of Solemn Observation Yet I would have it proposed to the Heads and then that which you shall do by publick Consent shall very well satisfie me Lambeth Dec. 4. 1640. W. Cant. MR. Wilkinson complained in Parliament against the Vice-Chancellor for Censuring of his Sermon The Vice-Chancellor according to the Command of the Committee for Religion in the House of Commons sent up the Copy of Wilkinson's Sermon and his Exceptions against it upon Tuesday December 8th the time appointed for the Committee But the Carrier's late coming in hindred the delivery for that time but it was deliver'd the next Morning by Dr. Baylie W. Cant. WHereas upon Enquiry made by Dr. Frewen late Vice-Chancellor of Oxford in two several Assemblies of the Heads of Houses there none of them could inform him of any University-Man whom he knew or probably suspected to be a Papist or Popishly affected Notwithstanding which Care of the Governors and clearness of the Vniversity it could not be avoided but some Persons suggestions should be put up to the High Court of Parliament as if Mass were ordinarily said in the University and frequented by Vniversity-Men without any Controll of the Governors there We therefore the present Vice-Chancellor and the Heads of Houses for the better clearing of our University from such foul Imputations have thought fit under our Hands to testifie That we are so far from conniving at the Celebration of Mass here or knowing of any such Matter that we neither know nor can probably suspect any Member of our University to be a Papist or Popishly addicted In witness whereof we have Subscribed Decem. 4. 1640. Christo. Potter Vice-Chancel Oxon. Nat. Brent Praefect Coll. Mert. Ro. Kettle President of Trin. Coll. Jo. Prideaux Rector Coll. Oxon S. T. P. Regius Jo. Wilkinson Aul. Magd. Princ. Samuel Radclif Coll. AEr Nas. Princ. Jo. Tolson Coll. Oriel Praepos Paul Hood Rector Coll. Lincoln A. Frewen Pres. Coll. Magd. Rich. Baylie Praesid S. John Tho. Clayton Coll. Pembr Magr. Med. Prof. Reg. Tho. Lawrence Magist. Coll. Bal. Fran. Mansel Coll. Jesu Princ. Tho Walker Universit Mr. Gilbert Sheldon Ward of All-Souls Coll. Daniel Escott Ward of Wadh. Coll. Guil. Strode Eccl. Christ. Subdec Adam Airay Princip of Edmond-Hall Ro. Newlin Praes Coll. Corp. Christ. Rich. Zouch Aul. All. Princip Philip. Parsons Aul. Cervin Princip John Saunders Aul. Mur. Princ. Degory Wheare Princ. Glouc. Hall P. Allibond Proct. Sen. N. Greaves Proct. Jun. The other Headsof Houses were not in Town when this was Subscribed MY Present Condition is not unknown to the whole World yet by few pitied or deplored The righteous God best knows the Justice of my sufferings on whom both in life and death I will ever depend the last of which shall be unto me most welcome in that my life is now burdensome unto me my mind attended with variety of sad and grievous thoughts my soul continually vexed with anxieties and troubles groaning under the burden of a displeased Parliament my name aspersed and grosly abused by the multiplicity of Libellous Pamphlets and my self debarred from wonted access to the best of Princes and it is Vox Populi that I am Popishly affected How earnest I have been in my Disputations Exhortations and otherwise to quench such sparks lest they should become Coals I hope after my death you will all acknowledge yet in the midst of all my afflictions there is nothing more hath so nearly touched me as the remembrance of your free and joyful acceptance of me to be your Chancellor and that I am now shut up from being able to doe you that Service which you might justly expect from me When I first received this honour I intended to have carried it with me to my Grave neither were my hopes any less since the Parliament called by his Majesties Royal Command committed me to this Royal Prison But sith by reason of matters of greater consequence yet in hand the Parliament is pleased to procrastinate my Tryal I doe hereby as thankfully resign my Office of being Chancellor as ever I received that Dignity entreating you to Elect some Honourable Person who upon all occasions may be ready to serve you and I beseech God send you such an one as may do all things for his glory and the furtherance of your most famous Vniversity This is the continual Prayer of Tower June 28. 1641. Your dejected Friend and Chancellor Being the last time I shall write so W. Cant. FINIS AN ANSWER TO THE SPEECH OF The Right HONOURABLE WILLIAM Lord Viscount Say and Seal c. SPOKEN IN PARLIAMENT Upon the BILL about BISHOPS POWER in CIVIL AFFAIRS AND COURTS of JUDICATURE Anno 1641. By the Most Reverend WILLIAM LAUD Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Then Prisoner in the TOWER Non apposui ultimam manum W. CANT Arch-Bishop LAVD's ANSWER TO THE Lord SAY's SPEECH Against the BISHOPS THIS Speech is said to have done the Bishops their Calling and their present Cause a great deal of harm among the Gentry and divers sober-minded Men and therefore I did much wonder that so many learned Bishops present in the House to hear it should not some of them being free and among their Books so soon as it was printed give it Answer and stop the venom which it spits from poysoning so many at least as it 's said to
rest For out of all doubt their Votes do hurt sometimes and it may be more often and more dangerously than the Bishops Votes And when this Lord shall be pleased to tell us what those other Irregularities are which are as antient and yet redressed I will consider of them and then either grant or deny In the mean time I think it hath been proved that it is no Irregularity for a Bishop that is called to it by Supreme Authority to give Counsel or otherwise to meddle in Civil Affairs so as it take him not quite off from his Calling And for his Lordship 's Close That this is not so antient but that it may be truly said Non fuit sic ab initio his Lordship is much deceived For that Speech of our Saviour's St. Matthew 19. 8. is spoken of Marriage which was instituted in Paradise and therefore ab initio from the beginning must there be taken from the Creation or from the Institution of Marriage soon after it But I hope his Lordship means it not so here to put it off that Bishops had not Votes in the Parliaments of England from the Creation For then no question but it may be truly said Non fuit sic ab initio But if his Lordship or any other will apply this Speech to any thing else which hath not its beginning so high he must then refer his Words and meaning to that time in which that thing he speaks of took its beginning as is this particular to the beginning of Parliaments in this Kingdom And then under Favour of this Lord the voting of Bishops in Parliament is so antient that it cannot be truly said Non fuit sic ab initio For so far as this Kingdom hath any Records to shew Clergy-Men both Bishops and Abbots had free and full Votes in Parliament so full as that in the first Parliament of which we have any certain Records which was in the Forty and ninth Year of Henry the Third there was Summoned by the King to Vote in Parliament One hundred and twenty Bishops Abbots and Priors and but Twenty three lay-Lay-Lords Now there were but Twenty six Bishops in all and the Lords being multiplied to the unspeakable Prejudice of the Crown into above One hundred besides many of their young Sons called by Writ in their Father's Life-time have either found or made a troubled time to cast the Bishops and their Votes out of the House 2. To the Objection for being Established by Law his Lordship says The Law-makers have the same Power and the same Charge to alter old Laws inconvenient as to make new that are necessary The Law-makers have indeed the same Power in them and the same Charge upon them that their Predecessors in former Times had and there 's no question but old Laws may be Abrogated and new ones made But this Lord who seems to be well versed in the Rules and Laws of Government which the poor Bishops understand not cannot but know that it 's a dangerous thing to be often changing of the Laws especially such as have been antient and where the old is not inconvenient nor the new necessary which is the true State of this Business whatever this Lord thinks 3. And for the Third Objection the Privileges of the House this Lord says it can be no Breach of them For either Estate may propose to the other by way of Bill what they conceive to be for publick Good and they have Power respectively of accepting or refusing This is an easie Answer indeed and very true For either Estate in Parliament may propose to the other by way of Bill and they have Power respectively of accepting or refusing and there is no Breach of Privilege in all this But this easie Answer comes not home For how my Lord understands this Objection I know not it seems as if it did reach only to the external Breach of some Privilege but I conceive they which made the Objection meant much more As namely that by this Bill there was an aim in the Commons to weaken the Lords House and by making their Votes fewer to be the better able to work them to their own Ends in future Businesses So the Argument is of equal if not greater strength against the Lord's yielding to the Bill to the Iufringement of their own strength than to the Commons proposing it and there is no doubt but that the Commons might propose their Bill without Breach of Privilege but whether the Lords might grant it without impairing their own strength I leave the future Times which shall see the Success of this Act of Parliament to judge of the Wisdom of it which I shall not presume to do I thought his Lordship had now done but he tells us 4. There are two other Objections which may seem to have more force but they will receive satisfactory Answers The one is that if they may remove Bishops they may as well next time remove Barons and Earls This Lord confesses the two Arguments following are of more force but he says they will receive satisfactory Answers And it may be so But what Answers soever they may receive yet I doubt whether those which that Lord gives be such For to this of taking away of Barons and Earls next his Lordship Answers two things First he says The Reason is not the same the one sitting by an Honour invested in their Blood and Hereditary which though it be in the King alone to grant yet being once granted he cannot take away The other sitting by a Barony depending upon an Office which may be taken away for if they be deprived of their Office they sit not To this there have been enough said before yet that it may fully appear this Reason is not Satisfactory this Lord should do well to know or rather to remember for I think he knows it already that though these great Lords have and hold their Places in Parliament by Blood and Inheritance and the Bishops by Baronies depending upon their Office yet the King which gives alone can no more justly or lawfully alone away their Office without their Demerit and that in a legal way than he can take away Noblemens Honours And therefore for ought is yet said their Cases are not so much alike as his Lordship would have them seem In this indeed they differ somewhat that Bishops may be deprived upon more Crimes than those are for which Earls and Barons may lose their Honours but neither of them can be justly done by the King's Will and Pleasure only But Secondly for farther Answer this Lord tells us The Bishops sitting there is not so essential For Laws have been and may be made they being all excluded but it can never be shewed that ever there were Laws made by the King and them the Lords and Earls excluded This Reason is as little satisfactory to me as the former For certainly according to Law and Prescription of Hundreds of Years the Bishops sitting
but two Objections should Malice it self go to work The one is That I moved His Majesty to command the Change And the other That now when I saw my self challeng'd for it I procured His Majesty's Hand for my security To these I Answer clearly First That I did not move the King directly or indirectly to make this Change And Secondly That I had His Majesty's Hand to the Book not now but then and before ever I caused them to be Printed as now they are And that both these are true I here again freely offer my self to my Oath And yet Fourthly That you may see His Gracious Majesty used not his Power only in commanding this Change but his Wisdom also I shall adventure to give you my Reasons such as they are why this Alteration was most fit if not necessary My first Reason is In the Litany in Henry VIII his time and also under Edward VI. there was this Clause From the Tyranny of the Bishop of Rome and all his detestable Enormities from all false Doctrine c. Good Lord deliver us But in the Litany in Queen Elizabeth's time this Clause about the Pope was left out and it seems of purpose for avoiding of Scandal And yet the Prelates for that not accounted Innovators or Introducers of Popery Now 't is a far greater Scandal to call their Religion Rebellion than 't is to call thir chief Bishop Tyrant And this Reason is drawn from Scandal which must ever be avoided as much as it may My second Reason is That the Learned make but Three Religions to have been of old in the World Paganisns Judaism and Christianity And now they have added a Fourth which is Turcism and is an absurd mixture of the other Three Now if this ground of theirs be true as 't is generally received perhaps it will be of dangerous Consequence sadly to avow that the 〈◊〉 Religion is 〈◊〉 That some Opinions of theirs teach Rebellion that 's apparently true the other would be thought on to say no more And this Reason well weighed is taken from the very Foundations of Religion it self My third Reason is Because if you make their Religion to be Rebellion then you make their Religion and Rebellion to be all one And that is against the ground both of State and the Law For when divers Romish Priests and Jesaits have deservedly suffered Death for Treason is it not the constant and just Profession of the State that they never put any Man to Death for Religion but for Rebellion and Treason only Doth not the State truly affirm That there was never any Law made against the Life of a Papist quatenus a Papist only And is not all this stark false if their very Religion be Rebellion For if their Religion be Rebellion it is not only false but impossible that the same Man in the same Act should suffer for his Rebellion and not for his Religion And this King James of ever blessed Memory understood passing well when in his Premonition to all Christian Monarchs he saith I do constantly 〈◊〉 that no Papist either in my time or in the time of the late 〈◊〉 ever died for his Conscience Therefore he did not think their very Religion was Rebellion Though this Clause passed through Inadvertency in his time And this Reason is grounded both upon the Practice and the Justice of the Law Which of these Reasons or whether any other better were in His Majesty's Thoughts when he commanded the Alteration of this Clause I know not But I took it my Duty to lay it before you that the King had not only Power but Reason to command it 10. The Tenth Innovation is That the Prayer for the Navy is 〈◊〉 out of the late Book for the Fast. To this I say There is great Reason it should For the King had no declared Enemy then nor God be thanked hath he now 〈◊〉 had he then any Navy at Sea For almost all the Ships were come in before the Fast-Book was set out But howsoever an excellent Consequence it is if you mark it The Prayer for the Navy was left out of the Book for the Fast therefore by that and such like Innovations the Prelates intend to bring in Popery Indeed if that were a piece of the Prelates Plots to bring in Popery from beyond Sea then they were mightily overseen that they left out the Prayer for the Navy But else what Reason or Consequence is in it I know not unless perhaps Mr. Burton intended to befriend Dr. Bastwick and in the Navy bring hither the Whore of Babylon to be ready for his Christening as he most prophanely Scoffs Well I pray GOD the time come not upon this Kingdom in which it will be found that no one thing hath advanced or ushered in Popery so fast as the gross Absurdities even in the Worship of God which these Men and their like maintain both in Opinion and Practice 11. The Eleventh Innovation is The Reading of the Second Service at the Communion-Table or the Altar To this First I can truly say That since my own Memory this was in use in very many Places as being most proper for those Prayers are then read which both precede and follow the Communion and by little and little this antient Custom was altered and in those Places first where the Emissaries of this Faction came to Preach And now if any in Authority offer to reduce it this antient Course of the Church is by and by called an Innovation Secondly With this the Rubricks of the Common-Prayer Book agree For the first Rubrick after the Communion tells us that upon Holy-Days though there be no Communion yet all else that 's appointed at the Communion shall be read Shall be read That 's true but where Why the last 〈◊〉 before the Communion tells us That the Priest standing at the North-side of the Holy Table shall say the Lord's Prayer with that which follows So that not only the Communion but the Prayers which accompany the Communion which are commonly called the Second Service are to be read at the Communion Table Therefore if this be an Innovation 't is made by the Rubrick not by the Prelates And Mr. Burton's Scoff that this Second Service must be served in for Dainties savours too much of Belly and Prophanation 12. One think sticks much in their Stomachs and they call it an Innovation too And that is Bowing or doing Reverence at our first coming into the Church or at our nearer Approaches to the Holy Table or the Altar call it whether you will in which they will needs have it That we Worship the Holy Table or God knows what To this I Answer First That God forbid we should Worship any thing but GOD Himself Secondly That if to Worship GOD when we enter into his House or approach his Altar be an Innovation 't is a very old one For Moses did Reverence at the very Door of the
Tabernacle Numb 20. 6. Hezekiah and all that were present with him when they had made an end of offering bowed and worshipped 2 Chron. 29. 29. David calls the People to it with a Venite O come let us Worship and fall down and kneel before the Lord our Maker Psal. 95. 6. And in all these Places I pray mark it 't is bodily Worship Nor can they say That this was Judaical Worship and now not to be 〈◊〉 For long before Judaism began Bethel the House of GOD was a place of Reverence Gen. 28. 17 c. Therefore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Of and To GOD. And after Judaical Worship ended Venite Adoremus as far up wards as there is any track of a Liturgy was the Introitus of the Priest all the Latine Church over And in the daily Prayers of the Church of England this was retain'd at the Reformation and that Psalm in which is Venite Adoremus is commanded to begin the Morning Service every Day And for ought I know the Priest may as well leave out the Venite as the Adoremus the calling the People to their Duty as the Duty it self when they are come Therefore even according to the Service-Book of the Church of England the Priest and the People both are call'd upon for external and bodily Reverence and Worship of GOD in his Church Therefore they which do it do not Innovate And yet the Government is so moderate God grant it be not too loose therewhile that no Man is constrained no Man questioned only religiously called upon Venite Adoremus Come let us Worship For my own part I take my self bound to Worship with Body as well as in Soul when ever I come where God is Worshipped And were this Kingdom such as would allow no Holy Table standing in its proper place and such places some there are yet I would Worship God when I came into His House And were the times such as should beat down Churches and all the curious carved Work thereof with Axes and Hammers as in Psal. 74. 6. and such Times have been yet would I Worship in what place soever I came to Pray tho there were not so much as a Stone laid for Bethel But this is the misery 't is Superstition now adays for any Man to come with more Reverence into a Church than a Tinker and his Bitch come into an Ale-house the Comparison is too homely but my just Indignation at the Prophaneness of the Times makes me speak it And you my Honourable Lords of the Garter in your great Solemnities you do your Reverence and to Almighty God I doubt not but yet it is versus Altare towards his Altar as the greatest place of God's Residence upon Earth I say the greatest yea greater than the Pulpit For there 't is Hoc est Corpus meum This is my Body But in the Pulpit 't is at most but Hoc est Verbum meum This is my Word And a greater Reverence no doubt is due to the Body than to the Word of our Lord. And so in Relation answerably to the Throne where his Body is usually present than to the Seat whence his Word useth to be proclainted And God hold it there at His Word for as too many Men use the matter 't is Hoc est Verbum Diaboli This is the Word of the Devil in too many places Witness Sedition and the like to it And this Reverence ye do when ye enter the Chapel and when you approach nearer to Offer And this is no Innovation for you are bound to it by your Order and that 's not New And Idolatry it is not to Worship God towards His Holy Table For if it had been Idolatry I presume Queen Elizabeth and King James would not have practised it no not in those Solemnities And being not Idolatry but true Divine Worship You will I hope give a poor Priest leave to Worship God as Your selves do For if it be God's Worship I ought to do it as well as You And if it be Idolatry You ought not to do it more than I. I say again I hope a poor Priest may Worship God with as lowly Reverence as you do since you are bound by your Order and by your Oath according to a Constitution of Henry the Fifth as appears to give due Honour and Reverence Domino Deo Altari ejus in modum Virorum Ecclesiasticorum That is to the Lord your God and to his Altar for there is a Reverence due to that too though such as comes far short of Divine Worship and this in the manner as Ecclesiastical Persons both Worship and do Reverence The Story which led in this Decree is this King Henry the Fifth that Noble and Victorious Prince returning gloriously out of France sat at this Solemnity and finding the Knights of the Order scarce bow to God or but slightly and then bow towards Him and His Seat startled at it being a Prince then grown as Religious as he was before Victorious and after asking the Reason for till then the Knights of the Order never bowed toward the King or his Seat the Duke of Bedford answer'd it was setled by a Chapter Act three Years before Hereupon that Great King replied No I 'll none of this till you the Knights do it satis bene well enough and with due performance to Almighty GOD. And hereupon the forenamed Act proceeded that they should do this Duty to Almighty GOD not slightly but ad modum Virorum Ecclesiasticorum as low as well as decently as Clergy-Men use to do it Now if you will turn this off and say it was the Superstition of that Age so to do Bishop Jewell will come in to help me there For where Harding names divers Ceremonies and particularly howing themselves and adoring at the Sacrament I say adoring At the Sacrament not adoring the Sacrament there Bishop Jewell that Learned Painful and Reverend Prelate approves all both the Kneeling and the Bowing and the Standing up at the Gospel which as antient as it is in the Church and a common Custom is yet fondly made another of their Innovations And farther the Bishop adds That they are all commendable Gestures and tokens of Devotion so long as the People understand what they mean and apply them unto GOD. Now with us the People did ever understand them fully and apply them to GOD and to none but GOD till these Factious Spirits and their like to the great disservice of GOD and His Church went about to persuade them that they are Superstitious if not Idolatrous Gestures As they make every thing else to be where GOD is not served slovenly 13. The Thirteenth Innovation is The placing of the Holy Table Altar-wise at the upper end of the Chancel that is the setting of it North and South and placing a Rail before it to keep it from Prophanation which Mr. Burton says is done to advance and usher in Popery To this I Answer That 't is no
about the 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 Thanks from the University about their Fees My Building at S. John's A 〈◊〉 of my Letters to the Vice-chancellour concerning Boots Taverns and the Kings Declaration c. Sept. 23. 1631. This Letter was here placed out of order to the end there might come nothing between the great Business which follows Bachelors of 〈◊〉 to uncover their heads when they meet their Superiours in Degree or be in presence with them Dr. Prideaux and Dr. Fell to read their Lectures according to the Statutes The keeping of his Majestys Declaration urged And to punish Offenders against it The troublesome 〈◊〉 arising in the 〈◊〉 against Government Dr. Duppa's Letters to me concerning the late Disorders in Oxford Dr. Smith Vicechancellor his Petition to the King against Ford's Sermon The Viceehancellors Appeal to his Majesty 〈◊〉 Ford's Case 8. Aug. The great Hearing at Woodstock His Majesties Letter sent to the University after the great Hearing at Woodstock Aug. 24. 1631. Forde Thorne and Hodges banish'd the 〈◊〉 The Proctours Bruche and Doughty to resign their Office Hyde and Hill to be warned at their Return to be in a readiness to answer to their several Charges Every man to give in a true Copy of his Sermon at the Demand of the Vicechancellor and that upon Oath Any man commanded to Prison by the Vicechancellour to submit The Delegates commanded to draw up the first two Statutes concerning Appeals before they Proceed A weekly Meeting every Monday of the Heads of Colleges and Halls Convocatio habita circa Edicta Regis The Proctours Obey and lay down their Offices Procuratores Mag. Erles 〈◊〉 Coll. Merton Mag. Washington Nas. 〈◊〉 Coll. AEn Bannitio Magistrorum praemissorum secundum Edicta Regis The Chappel of Queen's-Coll Wainscotted Mr. Hill's Letter to me how he was mislead by Dr. Prideaux in this business Another Letter of Mr. Hill's to me about Dr. Prideaux Mr. Loyde's Letter to the Vice-Chancel lour Convocatio habita 15 Decemb 1631. circa Statuta quaedam de appellat convent praefectotum De Appellationibus Mr. Hodges his submission Decemb 15. 1631. in Convocation Mr. Hill's submission Decem. 15. 1631. in Convocation Mr. 〈◊〉 submission Mr. Hodges his Letters os Thanks My Letters to the Convocation about the disorders in the Schools the last Lent Procuratores Mr. Chaworth ex AEn Christ. Mr. Meridith e Coll. Omni. Anim. His Majestie 's Letters to me about the Tumults in Lent Disputations Bannitio Mr. Masters 1632. see p. 156. Dr. Duppa Dean of Christ-Church chosen Vice-Chancellour An Order conceived in Oxford touching the Kings Declaration about the five Articles Feb. 9. 1631 2. A passage of my Letters touching the Order the Heads had conceived about the Five Articles My Letters to the Convocation about the Patent for Printing A second Patent procured The Printer not to be confirmed in their places till 〈◊〉 some orders concerning them be 〈◊〉 led Letters of Thanks from the University for getting their Patents of Printing Procuratores Mr. White 〈◊〉 C. C. C. Mr. Page 〈◊〉 Coll. Exon A passage of my Letters to the Vice-Chancellour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Concerning Noble Mens 〈◊〉 their conforming themselves to the Discipline of the University An Order about hastning the New Statutes Phisick Garden Queen's-College Chappel Dr. Duppa continued Vice-Chancellour a second year A Letter to me from the Lords Commissioners for the Navy about the University Privileges for Carriages Certain passages utterd by Dr. 〈◊〉 upon Dr. Heylins Questions at the Vespers on July 6. 1633. Dr. Prideaun's answer to these particulars received August 22 Ex. Act. 20. Dr. 〈◊〉 his Protestation The University submit their Statutes to me and my ordering of them Letters of Thanks concerning their Privileges Thanks from Oxon. for their Mortmain and the Letters from the Counsel about Cottages Procuratores Mr. Pellam e Coll. Magd. Mr. Warren e Coll Wadh. My Proclamation for a Toll-gatherer in Oxford c. May 2. 1634. Christopher Dival chosen Tol-gatherer The Sentence for distutoring of Mr. Oxenbridge of Magd. Hall May 27. An Order about the setling of the Statutes 12. Sep. 1633. University College Dr. Pink appointed Vice-chancellor My Letters to the Convocation about publishing 〈◊〉 Statutes c. The Statutes to be publish'd for a years probation Thanks from the University about their Statutes then sent down and published in Print for a years probation My Letters to the Convocati on concerning the Book of the Statutes delivered to the King and Sir Kenelm Digby's Manuscrspts c. Manuscripts given by Sir 〈◊〉 Digby to the University Two Advertisements of Sir Ken. Digby concerning his Manuscripts to be observed Thanks from the University for the Delivery of their Statutes to the King and for Sir 〈◊〉 Digby's Manuscripts procured by me A Project to set the Poor of Oxford on work Decemb. 28. 1634. Mr. Escots answer to certain of mine concerning the Poor of Oxford Recep March the 10. 1635. My Letters to the University wherein I then gave them certain Manuscripts A Condition to be kept concerning the Manuscripts Thanks from the University for my Manuscripts I gave them Magdalane College Smith-gate Thames brought up to Oxford Henry Birkhead of Trinity Col. seduced by 〈◊〉 Jesuite Dr. Pink continued 〈◊〉 another year A Branch of my Letters to my Lord of Winchester concerning New Coll. in Oxon. Feb. 2. 1635. Concerning the Probationers of New Coll. their reading of Calvin's Institutions too soon My Letters to the University concerning their large Patent procured from his Majesty Letters of Thanks to be sent to his Majesty for their large Patent The Decree of the Lords sent Thanks from the University for their large Patent procnted by 〈◊〉 Thanks for a Prebend procured for the University Orator and his Successors Vniversity Coll. The Agreement between the University and town of Oxford to stand to a final Order upon the hearing of the difference about Felons Goods c. vid. page 199. Procuratores Mr. Brown ex AEd. Chri. Mr. Good e Coll. Novo My Letters to the Convocation when the new Statutes were to be published Commissioners sent by his Majesty about the publishing of the Statutes A Convocation on the 22 of June for the publishing of the new Statutes Mr. Secretary 〈◊〉 Speech in Convocation at the Publication of the new Statutes A Meeting at Dr. Pink's Lodgings about the Protestation of the Provost and Fellows of Queen's Coll. June 22. 1636. A Protestation of the Provost and Fellowes of Queen's-Col about their right of the choice of the Principal of St. Edmund's Hall A Convocation on the 9th of July 1636. wherein my Letters sent to the University were read My Letters to the University when I sent them my second Manuscripts and Coyns The Effigles of King Charles sent to the University Coyns sent Two Idols 〈◊〉 Thanks from the University for perfecting and confirming the Statutes Three Fellowships in Oxford given by King Charles to Scholars of the Isles Jarsey and Garnsey Thanks from the