within a year of his lecture, he shall carry the sign of the crucifix, or shall cause it to be borne by some fit scholar, to be admitted at the discretion of the proctors.

(CXVII.) Of the vespers in grammar.

We likewise enact, that henceforth vespers in grammar shall always take place in the same public grammar school, where grammar has been used to be taught in this University up to this time.

(CXVIII) of those about to incept in medicine.

We also enact, that no one be admitted to incept in medicine unless he has first been regent in arts, and has attended medical lectures for five years at least, here or elsewhere, in a University, so that he has once heard the books of medicine not commented upon, viz., the book of Johennicius, the book of Philaretus on pulses, the book of Theophilus on urines, ad every book of Isaac, viz., the Liber Urinarum Isaac and the Liber Viatici. He shall likewise hear the Antidotarium of Nicholaus. He shall likewise twice hear the books commented upon, viz. Galen's book of . . . . (librum teg.) the book of prognostics, the book of aphorisms, the book de regimine acutorum, and he must have read cursorily at least one book of theory and one of practice, and he must have publicly and principally been opponent and respondent in the schools of his faculty, and he must have been exercised in practice, so that his knowledge, together with his standing, morals, and learning, both theoretical and practical, may be deservedly approved by all the masters of that faculty, according to their deposition of what they know, after the manner aforesaid; and then shall he be admitted, when he shall have sworn that he has acted up to the aforesaid form. We likewise enact that no one be admitted to incept in medicine unless he has for two years been exercised in the practice.

(cxIx.) Rubric concerning those incepting in civil law.

We likewise enact, that no one be admitted to incept in civil law, unless he has heard civil law for at least eight years, if he has been regent in arts; otherwise for ten years; so that he has heard the ordinary books twice at least, and the extraordinary once, that is to say, the Digestum Novum and the Infortiatum. Also that he has read cursorily the Digestum Novum and the Infortiatum, together with the books of the Institutes, and that he has entered for a master of his faculty, and also that he has been an opponent publicly in the schools of his faculty, and has been respondent to all the masters of his faculty, or has offered to respond to them. But if there be no master of his faculty present in the town, he must have publicly been opponent in the schools of the decrees, and must have been respondent to all the regent decretists, or effectually offered to respond to them so that his knowledge, together with his standing, morals, and learning, shall have been duly approved, and so that all the doctors of civil law may depose concerning his learning after the above-mentioned form; and then at length shall he be admitted, when he shall have sworn that he has completed this form.

(cxx.) Again of the same.

It is also enacted, that any one about to incept in civil law shall first have read in the Infortiatum for one year, and then in the Novum Digestum for another year; and in the third year, in some part of the Corpus Juris Civilis, where it shall seem expedient for the advantage of the scholars and of himself, together with the book of the Institutes; and it shall be allowed to the readers in the same volumes to read on the first hour of the day, except on the days on which it shall chance that the doctors of canon law are disputing; yet shall it be reserved for the doctors of canon

law to read their ordinary lectures in the schools of the doctors of civil law who have the chief place in the same, on the first hour of the day if they choose.

(cxxI.) Rubric, concerning those incepting in canon law.

We likewise enact, that none be admitted to incept in canon law, unless he has heard lectures in civil law for five years, and in the decrees for three other years, and the tracts on simony, matrimony, penitence, and consecration twice, and also he must have heard the Bible for two years cursorily. Also, he must have read cursorily in this University one of the aforesaid tracts, and one book of the decretals, which must not be the first. Also he must have entered with all the masters of his faculty, or effectually offered himself to enter with them, and he must have been publicly an opponent in the schools of the same faculty, and have responded to all the regent masters in the same faculty, or effectually offered to do so so that his knowledge, standing, morals, and learning, may be rightly approved, and so that all doctors in canon law may testify of it according to their certain knowledge, in the abovementioned form: and then at last he shall be admitted, when he shall have sworn that he has completed this form.

(CXXII.) That any doctor in divinity, when absent, may cause his acts to be kept by another.

We enact, that any one to be admitted to incept in divinity shall, before he incepts, place a real caution in the hands of the proctors, of the value of four marks, in order that if he shall have a dispensation in the necessary administration of his regency, or shall receive the benefit of the statute, he shall nevertheless keep all his acts, by disputing, preaching, and determining by himself or by means of another doctor or other doctors in the University, for the whole time

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during which he remains in his said regency, under the pain of forfeiting this caution.

(CXXIII.) Of those about to incept in divinity.

We likewise enact, that no one be admitted to incept in divinity, unless he has first been regent in arts, unless he has also attended lectures in divinity for ten years at least in the University: also he must have heard the Bible biblically for two years before he incepts: also he must have read cursorily some book or in some book of the canon of the Bible for a year, at least for ten days in each term; nor shall it be allowed to any one to begin the reading of the Bible before the second year after finishing the book of the Sentences: and he must have read all the books of the Sentences in this University, and he must pass three years at least in the University, after reading the Sentences, before he is licensed: also he must have. publicly preached to the clergy, and have been opponent and respondent publicly in all the schools of his faculty after reading the Sentences: so that his reputation in standing, morals, and learning, may be deservedly approved of, according to the deposition made by the masters of that faculty, from their certain knowledge, in the method above stated, and then at last he shall be admitted, when he has sworn that he has completed this form.

(CXXIV.) Declaration.

By the unanimous consent of the regents and non-regents it is decreed that the above statute shall be thus qualified, that it may be allowed to a bachelor in divinity to be licensed in the third term of the third year after the reading of the Sentences, immediately after the feast of St. Barnabas, provided that the requisite form in opposing, responding, reading, and preaching, be first observed by him.

(cxxv.) Of the mode of presenting a bachelor in any faculty.

Also, every master presenting a bachelor shall present him in the following form: My lord chancellor and all the University, I present to you this bachelor, or these bachelors, to incept in such a faculty, whom I know to be, in science and morals, worthy to be a regent, or regents.

(CXXVI.) Within what time licentiates shall incept, and of the caution.

We also enact, that every bachelor in every faculty, who is about to ask in the presence of the University for licence to incept, or is called upon to incept, shall before he obtain the licence simply swear that he will incept here, if it happen that he incept; and, besides this, every one who is about to ask for a licence, shall give a sufficient caution, which the University shall think fit to accept, according to the quality and the faculty of the person, viz., that he will effectually incept in this University within in a year from the time of his being licenced. And the chancellor shall assign to a bachelor a day on which disputations are held, for his inception, within that year, whichever day he shall choose, and that day, for a sufficient cause, may also be put off, provided that the inception take place within that year. And lest the bachelors licensed in this way should have an excuse for wandering, it is enacted, that these bachelors shall dwell in this University for the greater part of that same year in which this licence shall remain in force, and shall go through the scholastic exercises as they ought, unless they are compelled by some necessary cause to absent themselves, which cause is to be approved of by the University. Also, those who are about to incept in any faculty shall swear that they will not spend more than three thousand of Tournois money, (tria millia Turonensium argentorum) or their value, to be used in the solemnity attending the taking their doctor's or master's degree.