STATUTES OF KING EDWARD VI. FOR CLARE HALL. Approval of the statutes, by the visitors appointed by ... ... Signatures of the royal visitors Complaint of the fellows of Pembroke College, to king Letter to Thomas, earl of Suffolk, chancellor of the DECISION OF THE CONTROVERSY BETWEEN THE SCHOLARS OF CAMBRIDGE AND THE ARCHDEACON OF ELY. A. D. 1276, BY HUGH DE BALSHAM, BISHOP OF ELY. [Translated from the Latin copy in Fuller's History of the University of Cambridge.] To all the faithful in Christ who shall see these letters, Hugh, by the grace of God, bishop of Ely, sends health in the Lord. We wish it to be made known to your University by the tenor of these presents, that we being desirous to promote the tranquillity and peace of our University of Cambridge, and of the regents and scholars, students in the same, and being willing that both our archdeacon of Ely and the chancellor of the said University shall so exercise their jurisdiction separately, the archdeacon over those subordinate to him, and the chancellor over his own scholars, that each being contented with his own power may not usurp that of the other at the petition and instance of the B aforesaid archdeacon, of our chancellor, and of the aforesaid masters of the University (articles on each side having been delivered to us) we ordain thereupon as follows, for the perpetual remembrance of the decision. First, we will and ordain that the master of Glomery at Cambridge for the time being shall hear and decide all the suits of the Glomerelli when they are the defendants, willing that, in this part, the aforesaid master shall enjoy the same privileges as the other masters have with respect to their scholars in deciding their causes: so that whether they be scholars or laymen who will convene the Glomerelli, or make any claim upon them, by means of a legal process, they shall do this before the master of Glomery, to whom we decree that the condition of such suit shall rightfully belong; unless such cause be the cognizance of rents of houses rated by the masters and burgesses, or of the evidence of an enormous crime, which involves the penalty of imprisonment, or of expulsion from the University. For in these cases, and in no others, the Glomerelli shall answer to any plaintiff before the chancellor, who exercises his authority in such cases as is elsewhere observed. But if the master of Glomery take cognizance between a scholar as plaintiff and a Glomerellus as defendant, and appeal be made from his interlocutory or definitive sentence, we will and ordain that the appeal be made to the chancellor, who shall proceed in the cause of the appeal itself, according to the order observed when an appeal is made by another regent master who has taken cognizance of the said suit of his scholar, on either side to the chancellor. But the chancellor shall not interfere in any way in the suits of the Glomerelli amongst themselves, or of laymen and Glomerelli, unless it be a case of the rent of rated houses, or of an enormous offence, as is above expressed. And whereas we have seen it included in the statutes of the University, that two bedells of the University be present, bearing the maces at all the vespers, inceptions (principiis), congregations, funeral rites for the dead, and all other assemblies, no one else being allowed to bear a mace to their prejudice; we order that the bedell of Glomery shall not bear a mace before the chancellor and masters in the aforesaid assemblies and places. But in other places he is licensed to bear a mace freely and undisturbed, when and wherever he please, especially in the execution of his office. And whereas in the statutes of the same University, among other things, it is contained, that the household servants of the scholars, writers, and others who exercise offices that are assigned only to the use of the scholars, shall enjoy the same exemptions and liberties as the scholars, so as not to answer before the archdeacon, which the scholars who are their masters are not liable to. We declare this, by tenor of these presents, with the understanding, that in this case, under the term household servants, we wish to be included only the scholars' servants residing in houses with them, whilst they serve the aforesaid scholars in person. Also by the term the writers, and others who exercise offices assigned only to the use of the scholars,' we mean to include writers, illuminators, and stationers, who serve the scholars only, and who must answer before the chancellor ; but their wives, who are under the charge of adultery, or any other crime, the cognizance and correction of which pertains to the archdeacon, in a similar manner with the other persons under his jurisdiction, and that the rest of their family not especially deputed to the service of the scholars, shall be under the archdeacon's jurisdiction, in all and every thing, just as the other lay-persons of the town of Cambridge, and of all our diocese of Ely. And we have caused to be inserted in these presents that which we ordained verbally only at Barnwell, in the presence of the aforesaid archdeacon, the chancellor and others |