shall in future be inscribed in a register-book to be prepared and bought at the expense of the University, and remain for ever with the vice-chancellor for the time being for the perpetual remembrance of the acts done in this University, and for the no small assistance and instruction, as well of the whole University, as of those who in future will have to compose letters on the business of the University. At the present time there are but few copies remaining in the public chest, and those so worn and worm-eaten that they can scarcely be read. Moreover, if it please you, the present vice-chancellor, the proctors, and master Daye, shall draw up a statute providing for the faithful custody of this book, and also for the faithful delivery of the same whenever the vice-chancellor shall vacate his office.

(28.) 1532. [In English.]

It is granted that the vice-chancellor with the masters and presidents of colleges and principals of hostels may have your authority to make a statute, that no scholar nor scholar's servant shall buy their victual or other things necessary within the town of any freeman, from the feast of Saint Bartholomew the Apostle next coming, but of such persons as shall be appointed by the said masters, presidents, and principals, or the greater part of them, so that this statute may be made before the said feast of Saint Bartholomew.

(29.) 1532. Statute concerning victuallers. [In English.]

That whatsoever baker or brewer, butcher or chandeler or other retailer occupier, belonging to the liberties and jurisdiction of the University, shall be from henceforth for his misorder and demerits suspended and forbidden to occupy by the judicial sentence of the chancellor, vice-chancellor, or their deputy, or else for his misorder intermit and cease his occupying and give up his craft without convenient

warning and special licence of the chancellor, vice-chancellor, or their deputy, and if the proctors and taxors, to whose office they appertain,.... and thereupon a cause alleged and approved by them, he shall never after occupy more again any such craft or occupation within the precinct of the University's liberties, so that it shall not be in the power of any chancellor, vice-chancellor, proctors, taxors, or their deputies, or successors, to restore any such person so suspended and forbidden to their old liberties, nor to reverse any such suspension by the judicial sentence before given.

(30.) 1533, [In English.]

It is granted that the resignation of excommunication in personal causes to be devised by the vice-chancellor, doctor Rokesbye, doctor Mey, and Mr. Clifton, may be sealed with the common seal.

(31.) 1535.

It is granted that the vice-chancellor, doctors Metcalfe, Buckmaster, Lockwood, Craferd, Elmer, and masters Swynborne of Pembroke Hall, Wyat, Baynbrygg, Daye, Wylks, Every, Ayre, and Madew, together with the proctors, may have your authority to define and determine how the ten pounds to be paid annually to our lord the king for the assise of bread, &c. ought to be paid, so that the assise of bread, beer, and other victuals, may by no means be lost for default of payment, seeing that for these last two years that sum, owing to the malice of the townsmen, cannot be made up in amercements: also to settle the amount of stipend which the chancellor's bedell is to receive for his labour: so that the decision of the majority of them on this point shall be accounted as done in your name, and shall stand for your act.

(32.) 1537. [In English.]

It is granted that the money which Mr. vice-chancellor hath laid out in the exchequer for the contentation of the king's fee-farm for the leet for one year, may by your consents be taken forth of the common hutch and repaid unto Mr. vice-chancellor, unto such time as by your advice and councel some way may be taken and provision made for restoring the same.

(33.) 9th Feb. 1537. Of prolonging the regency for two years. Our ancestors were diligently anxious, and confirmed their wishes by laws and institutions, that those who aspired to the degree of master of arts shall be bound by oath so to maintain their degree when acquired, as to employ themselves diligently for their first year in disputations and acts in the schools, and not to lay aside the labour of either till that year was completed: for they thought that in each year there would be a sufficient number of masters to keep up almost by themselves the course of disputations, and who ought in their turn to relieve others from this trouble and expense. But now, since the state of things is such that on account of the annual course of disputations all are pressed with expense, the number of regents is diminished, the office of the bedells is more laborious and less lucrative, the pressure of the trouble and expense falls on a few, and a great and atrocious error frequently occurs in the voting through the inexperience of the new regents; with a view to meet these difficulties and to endeavour to remove them, it was enacted and decreed by consent of all the regents and nonregents, that all and every, of whatever order and condition they be, who shall from this time proceed to the degree of master, shall be bound by an oath publicly administered by the proctors or one of them, on the day of their admission, that they will retain their regency for two years, and will

not lay it aside till the period of two years after their admission and inauguration in that regency shall be brought to a close with the provision that they shall hold a necessary regency for the first year only: nor shall they by this statute be deprived of that liberty which is denied to necessary regents, this statute remaining always inviolate as to the retention of the regency throughout the two years: which condition unless they faithfully and bonâ fide fulfil they shall be liable to the same penalty as that prescribed in the statutes against those who refuse to give and fulfil their oath to the University.

(34.) Of appeals from the delegates.

In the name of God, amen. We, doctor Buckmaister, inceptor Dakyns, masters Myddylton, Longforthe, and Pomell, by authority entrusted to us from the University, do decree and determine as a firm resolution, that it shall be lawful for any one to appeal in his own cause, from the judges delegated by the University, to the University itself, provided it be done according to the rules of law, that is, if he have not appealed twice before on the same case. But if he shall have appealed twice before, he shall not have the power of appealing a third time, since that is altogether forbidden by both the civil and canon law. But every one whether plaintiff or defendant shall have full liberty to appeal a second time in his own cause, even from the judges delegated by the University, in the manner above mentioned and prescribed.

(35.) 1540.

It is granted that master vice-chancellor, doctors Balthroppe, Henyson, Glyn, and Sandyforthe, masters Swynborne, Stynmyn, Standyshe, Brassey, Seton, Rayner, and Chele, shall have authority to devise and decree the way and means whereby the royal tribute, which we call

the leet, payable yearly to the king's majesty for the assize of bread and wine, and for the controul over those who sell provisions, together with all other charges relating to the same, may be paid during each future year, without any diminution of the money to be kept in the public chest ; and also to annul and abolish the office of the taxors, if by such abolition the said tribute may be more conveniently paid, and it shall appear to the men before-named expedient for your commonwealth with the provision that any resolution to which the majority of them shall come, shall be counted as done and ratified in your name, and shall be by the same reduced into a statute, the charters and privileges of our University remaining always unimpaired, so that any decree or enactment of these men shall in no wise tend to the weakening of them.

(36.) 1540.

It is granted that twenty pounds from the money of doctor Wolman may be taken out of the common chest, to be paid to the king's majesty for the leet which has been for some time unpaid; and that ten pounds besides shall be taken out of the chest of Fen, for which the candelabra of the University shall be security; so that the aforesaid money shall be restored to them at the first convenient opportunity.

(37.) 1541. Statute for the payment of the king's leet by the proctors. As a sailor in the midst of the waves, so every good member of a community ought to look out and SO handle the helm of the public weal, that the community may receive no damage, and, when it cannot hold on in a straight course, may find some new way, and thus as it were leave the storm behind. Wherefore, since the royal tribute which they call the leet, which ought to be to us a great source of protection and profit, has, through