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Also one civilian, and one decretist, provided that they have not been superstites præassumpti in the said house, and have not attained the degree of doctor, may be elected and appointed fellows in the said house. But no doctor, except in divinity, shall be chosen to the said fellowship, and even he only in a case when there is not another such doctor in the said house.

To such a doctor of divinity something beyond the fixed stipend shall be assigned, according to the resources of the house, by reason of the excellence and honour of his degree. This addition is to be limited at the discretion of the master and the majority of the fellows thereof.

We likewise enact that from among the fellows of the said house three masters of arts, if there are so many there, shall be regents, and whenever one of the fellows shall incept in arts, we will that one of the said regents, who has lectured the longest, shall cease from his lecture (provided however he has completed a year of lecturing). His place shall (as aforesaid) be supplied by him who has lately incepted.

He who shall have thus ceased his lecture, shall forthwith betake himself to the study of another science, in which, considering his bent and aptitude, he will probably make, and is expected to make, the most progress. He shall not however hear civil or canon law, or natural philosophy, nor shall any fellow of the said house hear them, (unless he has previously heard them) without special leave from the master, who shall diligently examine him in the presence of the majority of the fellows, and, having gone through this examination, shall discreetly refuse or grant leave to the same fellow, with and by the consent of the said majority.

Among the said fellows there may be two fellows civilians and one canonist at the same time, and no more: and one of the said fellows who shall be found competent

for the study may hear and incept in physic, having been previously examined by the master, and having received license from him with and by the consent of the majority of the fellows.

We likewise enact that all the fellows of the said

house who are fitted for the purpose, shall prepare themselves to take the degree of bachelor, master, or doctor; and they shall rise to those degrees according to their aptitude, the master's ordinance, and the usages and statutes of the said University, and they shall hear and read at the times appointed by the custom of the University for hearing and reading; they shall study and labour according to the exigency of their degree and station; and they shall dispute in philosophy or divinity at least once a week.

The master of the said house shall not be included in this limitation, on account of the multiplicity of his occupations, and the anxiety for the quiet of others, entailed on him by his office.

(8.) Of increasing the number of fellows.

Also, we desire that the number of fellows of the said house be increased out of its present resources according to the value and sufficiency of its present resources. But their number, (among whom the master shall be reckoned in this particular) shall not be increased to more than fifteen, of whom six shall be chaplains.

But when the immoveable goods or revenues of the said house shall chance to be increased to the annual value of twenty pounds sterling, then the number of scholars above appointed, viz. twenty (including the master) and no more, shall be filled up without delay, and be preserved as before.

But should the resources increase beyond their amount at present, but short of the annual value of twenty pounds,

the number shall be increased, according to the sufficiency of the aforesaid increase of income.

And should the property of the said house increase beyond the said twenty pounds, the number of fellows shall be increased according to such increase. And when they are thus increased, they shall, in the aforesaid form, be chosen and appointed to a fellowship in the said house, and be comprehended under the preceding and following limitations touching the fellows of the said house, in every respect.

We likewise will and enact, in order that greater unity may be preserved among the fellows of the said house, and that each of them may be enabled to repose and study with greater convenience, that all the fellows of the said house (if there is no lawful impediment) shall have each two a separate chamber, appointed by the master. The principal and best room of our house is to be reserved to the master alone.

But the master shall take care, in his assignation of the chambers, to prefer those fellows, in assigning their superior rooms, whom he shall know to be deserving of a preference according to their merits and integrity, and as their degrees demand.

Always provided that in such assignation the master shall prefer the senior, if they are on an equality in other respects.

(9.) Of promotions, spiritual or temporal.

We likewise order that, when any fellow of the said house shall hereafter have obtained peaceable possession of temporal goods to the value of ten marks for the term of his life, or any ecclesiastical benefice involving cure of souls, he shall, after a whole year has elapsed from the time of the peaceable acquisition of such goods or benefice, be ipso facto altogether removed from his fellowship

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in the said house, and from every benefit which he has been previously enjoying. During the aforesaid year he may, if he wish, receive the emoluments of the said fellowship.

Another fit and proper man shall be forthwith appointed in his place, and this shall be done every time that a fellow happens to be removed, by death or otherwise, from the said house and from a fellowship therein.

The master however of the said house may lawfully retain an ecclesiastical benefice, with or without cure of souls, together with the said mastership, in order that he may more effectually bear sway in the college. Provided the annual value of the said benefice exceed not forty pounds sterling, according to the rate of the tithe, and the benefice be not such as to require continual personal residence, which cannot be dispensed with by the diocesan.

(10.) Of the distributions to be given to the master and fellows, and the amount of the commons' allowances.

We likewise enact that the master of the said house shall receive sixty shillings annually, out of the funds of the said house, in addition to whatever else he shall receive from the same, as a recompense for the burden of care which he bears.

Moreover the master and all the fellows of the said house shall have robes with furs of one suit. Provided that besides these robes, the master of the said house and the fellows of the same who are bachelors or masters, shall have bestowed upon them capes, or tabards reaching to the ankles, (taberda talaria) with furs for their capuces according as shall seem to suit them, considering the requirements of their respective stations and degrees. And that such robes and furs be not too fine or expensive withal, or other than are wont to be given for common liveries.

We desire that the usual cloth exceed not sixty shillings, and be provided at the expense of the said house.

The master and fellows of the said house shall go about in vestments of the said suit, on holidays, reading days, (dies legibiles), at processions, and other public ceremonies of the aforesaid University. And besides the above, the said six priests, (inasmuch as they cannot make a profit like the rest, in the schools in abbreviations of schools (in abbreviationibus scholarum), and by other means, on account of their being occupied in divine services) shall receive each of them twenty shillings yearly for their necessary expenses.

We likewise desire that the commons of the said house shall not exceed twelve pence sterling per week for each fellow; except upon the greater festivals, which we take this opportunity of enumerating: All Saints, St. Katherine, Christmas, with the three days immediately following, the Circumcision, Epiphany, the Purification of the blessed Mary, Easter with the two next following days, Our Lord's Ascension, Whitsuntide with the two days immediately following, the Holy Trinity, Corpus Christi, the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, the dedication of the parish church of the aforesaid house, and the Assumption of the glorious Virgin.

We order, however, that on all the aforesaid feasts and days the allowance for the commons of the said house shall be increased twopence for each fellow present.

And we desire the said weekly allowance for commons, and the said augmentation to be made on the said feasts. and days, to be fully observed for ever. No deduction is to be made from the same commons and augmentation, for the expenses of the two servitors of the said house, which we desire to be provided for by the master out of the other common property of the said house, and not out of the said commons and augmentation of twenty pence per week. And let all the fellows of the said house take

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