promoted from some other quarter to ecclesiastical benefices, the revenues or returns of which amount to thirty marks in value, if their benefices be canonries or prebends; but if not, they must amount to the value of forty marks clear, after making all deductions; and also such persons to whom the greater part of the regents and non-regents, in this part, have by their express consent thought fit to pay deference. We also prohibit, under the above penalties, any bachelor of any faculty from wearing a cap (birretum), hat, or bow-knot (tena), or any other ornament for the head, in lectures or any other scholastic exercise. And for the more strict observance of the above, we will that every one henceforth to be admitted to the degree of bachelor in any faculty, shall on his admission especially swear to all the above.

(CLXXV.) The public library of the University.

It often happens that those things which are provided for advantage, are perceived to be of evil tendency, as experience truly teaches, and as facts evince. For since, according to the permission of former times, it was the custom for all our scholars to have the use of the books in our public library for their advantage, and, as we thought, for the increase of their virtue, and this too, just as freely as our gremials, which we doubt not tends to the great prejudice of our University, we therefore being desirous to provide a remedy for the aforesaid (prejudice), ordain and enact, that henceforth any one who has not graduated shall not presume to enter into our public library aforesaid, unless in company with a graduate, and shall go out again with him. We add, that no graduate who is not a gremial shall enter into the library aforesaid, without the habit suitable to his degree; and that whoever shall be a violator of this statute, and shall be convicted of the same in the presence of the chancellor or his deputy,

shall ipso facto incur perpetual banishment. And we will that public notice of this statute be within eight days served through all the colleges and hostels.

(CLXXVI.) Of the obsequies of the dead.

Also, when a regent dies within the town of Cambridge, the chancellor, together with all the regents in their scholastic habits, shall come to his hostel, in order to bear the body, with a procession of regent masters, to some place within the University, assigned for the obsequies of the same deceased person, and to celebrate the funeral with due devotion, and also to recite their psalters fully, after the ceremony, before they depart; the lectures and disputations are to cease altogether from the time of the death of the regent until the body shall have received burial according to the rites of the church. All the nonregent masters present in the town are bound to attend on the funerals of the non-regent masters, together with the regents in scholastic habits. But the chancellor and the regents shall attend the funerals of the scholars and the bedells, and shall by no means depart before the body is buried; and no disputations are to be held on the day of burial, except in the case of those who only teach or learn the art of grammar, to whose funerals the abovenamed persons need not come, except from a feeling of devotion.

(CLXXVII.) Modification of the statute on obsequies.

We have determined thus to qualify the statute respecting the funerals of masters gremial deceased, first, that at the place where a regent dies, the chancellor or his substitute, together with the rest of the regents in their scholastic habits, shall assemble; but where a non-regent dies, all the regents and non-regents shall assemble according to the form expressed in the ancient statute.

Provided always, however, that if it shall happen that any regent master die, then the body shall be brought to burial in the way directed by the ancient statute, and then, after certain prayers are repeated in the funeral procession, it shall proceed to the church immediately first of all, with the other rites used in the time of burial, and none shall depart until the body receive christian burial. We also enact that whether a regent or a nonregent be deceased, nothing directed in the former statute relating to the saying of prayers shall be omitted. The times of celebrating obsequies, masses, and psalms for the regents, shall be left to the discretion and judgment of the chancellor or his substitute, provided that he does not defer them for more than two days immediately following.

(CLXXVIII.) Of obsequies to be celebrated annually.

Each year, on the 14th of June, in the evening, and on the next day in the morning, all the regents shall meet to celebrate the obsequies of Hugh, formerly bishop of Ely, who founded a hall for scholars in this University, devoutly going through the whole service for the dead. Also, on the eve of the 5th day of November, and on the same day in the morning, all the regents shall meet to sing devoutly, with the whole service for the dead, the obsequies of Sir Hervey de Stanton, who founded St. Michael's house for scholars in this University. Also, on the evening of the 28th of November, and on the morning of the next day, all the regents shall meet in the church of St. Mary, devoutly to celebrate the service and obsequies of the Lady Queen Eleanor, to the observance of which the University is bound by its writing sealed with the common seal of the University, in which the University grants that all who are henceforth about to incept in this University shall take a corporal oath faithfully to observe the above at the proper times; and that the purport of the aforesaid writing shall on

each anniversary of the said queen, and also at every inception, be recited word for word in full, in the presence of the regents. We also enact that every year, on the 22nd day of June, in the evening, and on the next day in the morning, all the regents shall meet in the church of St. Mary, devoutly to celebrate the obsequies and services of the dead, with a solemn mass, for the soul of John de Ely, formerly bishop of Norwich, who gave one hundred marks for the perpetual benefit of University Hall. Also, that each year, on the 5th day of May, in the evening, and on the morning of the next day, all the regents shall meet in St. Mary's church, there religiously to perform the devout obsequies, with the whole service for the dead, for the soul of our lord king Edward of Carnarvon, the founder of King's Hall in this University. Also every year, after the feast of the birth of our Lord, on the day when the masters actually resume their lectures, a mass shall be celebrated for the soul of master Thomas de St. Botolph, at the hour of congregation, which shall begin on the ringing of a bell, the masters attending this congregation. Also each year, on the vigil of St. Matthias the Apostle, all the regents shall assemble in the church of St. Mary, duly to perform the services, and on the next day a mass, for the soul of master William de Blithe, who has given ten marks to a certain chest for the benefit of the scholars. And at the same services a commemoration shall be held for the soul of master Robert Wynwyk, formerly chancellor of this University, with a special collect for the occasion. Also, each year, on the 19th of March, in the evening, and in the morning of the next day, all the regents shall assemble to sing devoutly the services, with a mass, for the soul of sir Gilbert de Ronbury, who formerly founded a chest in this University. Also, on the 13th of the kalends of July, in the evening, and on the next day, all the regents shall meet at the house [or college] of St. Peter, to perform the services and mass for the soul

of Hugh de Balsham. Also, every year, on the feast of St. Katherine. the services shall be performed, and on the morrow a mass, for the benefactors of this University, all the regents assembling for this purpose. Also, every year, on the vigil of the conversion of St. Paul, in the evening, and the morning of the next day, all the regents shall assemble in the church of St. Mary, to celebrate the services and the mass, solemnly and devoutly, for the soul of William (Bateman) formerly bishop of Norwich, who founded two halls and one chest in the University. Also, every year, on the 4th day of February, in the evening, and on the morning of the next day, all the regents shall assemble to celebrate devoutly the services for the soul of master R. Lyng. Also, on the 17th day of April, all the regents shall meet at Pembroke Hall, to celebrate the services for the soul of Sir Aylmer de Valence, earl of Pembroke, and a mass on the next day. Also, every year, within the octave of Trinity, solemn services shall be held for the soul of William, formerly bishop of Norwich, and a mass on the following day, in the assembly of all the regents, and this for the foundation of the Trinity chest. Also, every year, on the first Friday in the advent of our Lord, all the regents shall meet to celebrate devoutly solemn services for the soul of William, formerly bishop of Norwich, and on the next day a mass. Also, every year, on the 22nd of November, all the regents shall meet in the chapel of the University, to sing the services, with a mass, in the University chapel, for the souls of Thomas More, formerly dean of the cathedral church of St. Paul, London, and John Preston, canon of the same church. It is likewise enacted, that in celebrating each annual mass for the souls of the founders of the following chests, viz., Trinity, Lyng's, Neale's, and St. John's, after the principal collect is said, a special collect shall take place for the souls of Thomas and John aforesaid. Also, every year, on the 2nd of March, the

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