Illa Bibliothecam haec Academiam constitutit Hactenus Cura Consilium cui addidisti egregium humanitatis Specimen praesentes Canones tantum anno tenùs Authenticos voluisti ut si quid laxiùs deprehendatur constringatur si quid arctiùs remittatur Singularis quidem Clementia antehac in mandita Leges praescripta ad tempus posuisti ut nostro demum 〈◊〉 arbitrio confirmentur siqua occurrerent errata non statuentis authoritate sed patientis experientiâ corrigantur Quod superest providentiam amorem quâ solâ possumus fide observantia pensabimus obsequium quod juxta mandati candorem Statutis ad annum tantùm vestrae benignitati perpetuum spondemus Dat. in Domo Congregationis Cal. Aug. 9. 1634. Vestrae Amplitudinis Observantissima Acad. Oxon. S. in Christo. AFter my very hearty Commendations c. I have a good while since delivered the Book of your Statutes together with your Letters to his Sacred Majesty who was marvellously well pleased with both and commanded me at some convenient Leisure to let you know how well he takes both the one and the other And because the Letter you sent was very well written after his Majesty had read it I caused it to be fairly written in the spare Vellum at the beginning of the Book Thus much I had signified to your self and the whole Body of the Convocation about a Month since had I not been hindred by two things the one as troublesome to my self as the other will appear beneficial to you That which was troublesome to my self was the great Business of the Term which lay very heavy upon me especially towards the end of it and at the same time the Care which I took to derive the benefit upon you That which I know will be very beneficial to you is a parcel of Manuscripts which I have obtained for your Library from a very Learned and Noble Gentleman Sir Kenelm Digby These Manuscripts many of them being very good he hath been at the Charge to Bind up and put his Arms fair upon them and I think there are very few but so bound With these he hath sent a Catalogue but that as himself tells me is somewhat imperfect his Man being indisposed for health at the time when he made it And whether the method of it will like you or fit the University I know not But after the Books are compared with this it will be very easy to make a perfect one by it For my self I did not think it fit any way to meddle with them but have left them in their several Trunks as they were packed up by himself and so sent them to you Their number is 235. or thereabouts Concerning the Manuscripts I am to give two Advertisements of the Donors Will and Pleasure which I must and do pray you to settle in this present Convocation The one is that he will not subject these Manuscripts to the strictness of Sir Thomas Bodley's Statute but will have Liberty given for any man of worth that will be at the Pains and Charge to Print any of these Books to have them out of the Library upon good Caution given and to that purpose and no other The Second is that he will reserve Liberty to himself during his natural Life to borrow any of these Books out of the Library for his own private use whensoever he shall ask them And both of us desire the Books may be put into the Library with these two Cautions expresly mentioned as the Act of Convocation was for the Books which my Lord Steward gave This is all which I have for the present to trouble you with for I presume I shall not need to put you in mind of writing a Letter of Thanks to Sir Kenelm Digby whose love thus and divers other ways express'd deserves it abundantly so with my Prayers to Almighty God to bless you to the honour of his Sacred Name and the good of his Church I leave you to his gracious Protection To my very loving Friends the Vice-chancellor the Doctors the Proctours and the rest of the Convocation of the University of Oxford Decemb. 19. 1634. Your very loving Friend and Chancellor W. CANT Reverendissime Cancellarie Iteranda narras imo iteranda Codex Statutorum ais unà cum Literis opus absolutum sacrantibus 〈◊〉 simul Regiae Majestatis frontem serenâ Compldcentiâ explicuit Curae gaudioque vobis Diis deputatis populi salus non ultio abunde est exultamus hinc omnes non ut legibus adstricti sed soluti vinculis Hoc ut reliqua soli tribuendum est vestri favoris 〈◊〉 affectui plusquam paterno Cui parum est nos bene moratos vivere nisi etiam faelices gratiâ supremâ irradiatos At leges compositas compositè observare Praelisque viventibus denuo exprimere erit hoc tandem Obedientiae nostrae nec solum obedientiae erit gratitudinis plus enim obligati sumus beneficiis tuis quam legibus Pro uno quem misimus impresso Codice accepimus Manuscripta decies repititis numerosiora characteribus eaque ut decet munus tam exquisitum bis data Quod prius rogando impetratum est non semel 〈◊〉 sed manu alienâ Tuâ Care quidem erit vir Princeps cum rogat At quantae liberalitatis est rogare ut donet seipsum oppignerare ut donet aliena Tu vero eò conniteris eò pergis Mun isic entiae ut tuis aliena conjungas una cum benesiciis ipsos etiam Benefactorcs cumulatissimè largiaris conciliato hinc nobis Rege lucraris illinc subditos haec opera haec tua vis O! orbium nobis influentium utrinque circumagens Motor Nimio nos 〈◊〉 studio inopem te facis procum humilem ac similem Nobis ut reddas Nos quodammodo Amplitudini Tuae similes Sic proprii splendoris periculo vapores aliunde exhalat sol ut eisdem instillet arvis Sic fonte longinquo aquam deducit hortulanus ut riget seminarium Sic marmor fodinis eruit Tuus 〈◊〉 ut augustioribus columnis basilicam suffulciat Dum tu succos gemmaque Musarum undequaque Nobis attrahis Tu sol es Tu Cultor extructor Academiae Siste liberalitalem hanc tuam siste acquiescamus Te uno contenti Quid novos tantopere accersis patronos Pluris est nimio acclinare Te otio quam nos erlgi quam maximis Literarum auxiliis Siste ne simus nimiae faelicitate miseri infra gratitudini positi nos enim nil ultra possumus quam quod volumus dona Nobilissimi Digbeii Tua mirari colere Thesaurare loculis in Registro nominatim conscribere Conditiones impositas quas etiam Convocationis Decretum sancivit Catalogo praefigere grates illi pro Libris pro illo Tibi conceptissimas referre Mandatis tuis religiosè obsequi ex Nutu praecurrere animitus perstare E domo nostrae Congregationis
the Delegacy for the Statutes that there may be a setled and a Known Body of them My ever honoured Predecessour began That work with Care I know you will give me leave to pursue it to your good and His honour In the next long Vacation it were happy if that Body of Statutes might be finish'd But whether it can or not I heartily pray you against Michaelmas Term look the Register and provide such Tables as were wont to be published upon S. Mary's doors for observance of the known Statutes and that then you proceed to the execution of them accordingly I know you and the Governours There will pardon me this Care when you shall know what lies upon me here and what begins already to be expected from me by a most Gracious Prince who is very Zelous of the honour of That Place And this yet I shall promise and perform I will not be sudden upon you nor 〈◊〉 with you in any your businesses Neither will I proceed in any thing but that which shall promote the honour and good of your selves and That famous University And in this way he that gives me best assistance shall be most welcome to me So for this time I take my leave Commending you All to God's gracious Protection and shall rest May 28. 1630. Your very Loving Friend GVIL London S. in Christo. AFter my hearty Commendations c. This is the first Occasion which I have had to trouble the Convocation And before I begin with the Business I think it very fit to give you all very hearty thanks for the great Love and undeserved Favour which you would needs bestow upon me quite beyond my Expectation and cross to my desires Yet since it hath pleased God so to dispose both of you and me in this business I shall endeavour to the utmost of my power to answer your expectation and to discharge the burden of this Honour to as much advantage of That Venerable Mother of my self and you as the best understanding I have can lead me to And whensoever any thing shall come to your knowledge in which I may do That Body service I hope you will not fail to acquaint me with it and in such time as the opportunity of doing what is fit may not be lost Else I may be disenabled to serve you by your own default But these are but Verbal Thanks and I have desired to be as real as I might and therefore shall trouble you with no more of this The Business I am to acquaint you with is to let you know that his Majesty did very graciously accept your Letter of Thanks for the 〈◊〉 bestowed upon the Hebrew = Reader Whose Patent I caused to be sent and approved by you before I would suffer the Seal to pass And now it is pass't and That Place so both enriched and honoured I hope you will take care that the Reader thereof as well as the rest do the Duty of his Place For the study of That Language is too much neglected and not without the great prejudice both of That University and the Church Since this I have received from you the Book of Verses in honour of the Prince which I have likewise delivered to his Majesty with a full representation of your humble and dutiful Respects to his Majesty and of your hearty Prayers both for himself and his Royal Posterity Which he with all Grace and Favour accepted I could heartily have wish'd the Book had been here any time of the last week that it might have prevented the Christning But howsoever 't is very welcome Now. It is not long since I writ to Mr. Vicechancellour about some care to be taken for Formalities both against the Act and so after to continue at Michaelmas Term. And I make no doubt but all men will be willing to continue the honour of That Place and in That kind It is the Hedg and the Fence of those things which are of far greater consequence In those Letters I omitted one thing which I think fit now to be remember'd It is a great Abuse and long continued against the Degree of a Master of Arts. I know 't is very fit that That Degree upon which the Orders of the University do so much rely both in Convocations Congregations and elsewhere should be had in more esteem than it is But this can no ways so well be done as by their due Obedience to Governours in their several Places and by their own Valuing and Esteeming themselves above all Inferiours And for my part I shall do my best to keep up the price they set upon themselves For 't is a great dishonour to That Place that in all Publick Assemblies yea and when they meet in open street Bachelours of Art nay Boys will not know their places I hope the Delegacy will so order the Statutes which they have in hand to the lasting honour of my most Worthy and Honourable Predecessour as that the Degree of a Master of Arts shall hereafter be better esteemed in That Place which is the only way to recover the ancient Credit of it Abroad The last thing which I have at this time to recommend unto you is that you would All be careful that the University may stand right in his Majesties Good Opinion for not spoiling His Game There was very lately a Complaint made to me about it and I fearing the worst writ to the Vicechancellour But he gave me so discreet and so sufficient an Answer that I not only did but had cause to think all was well Since this I find that Complaint or some other hath gone farther I heartily pray you therefore to take the best care you can especially You that are Governours and in Office to look to the Abuses tho and then with Gods assistance I will take care that no man's sinister Report shall do you prejudice Here. Thus not doubting of the Love and Affection the Care and the Moderation of any man for the Good and the Honour of That most noble Body I leave you all to the Grace of God and shall ever rest To my very Loving Friends the Vicechancellour the Doctors the Proctours and the rest of the Convocation of the Vnivsierty of Oxford Your very loving Friend and Chancellour GVIL London S. in Christo. AFter my hearty Commendations c. The time now draws on for the Nomination of a New Vicechancellour according to the Course held by my Honourable Predecessours in That famous University In this little time in which by your Favours I have had the Honour to Govern I have found the present Vicechancellour Dr. Frewen so Careful and so Discrect in That buisy Place that I should though it were to his great pains put him to the trouble of another year were it not that I consider how full of able and sufficient men the University is for the Discharge of That Office Besides I have ever thought it most for the
Doctori Bancroft Dom. Doctori Zouch de aliis negotiis ut videbatur brevi Londinum profecturis commendare ut hujusmodi Commissionis copiam impetrarent quâ obtentâ meliùs consulere cum Honoratissimo Cancellario nostro valeamus ne quid gravius patiatur Vniversitas nostra Oxon. per Commissionem praedictam contra Consuetudines Privilegia antiquitùs indulta Vniversitati praedictae Acta habita gesta fuerunt suprascripta die anno praedictis in praesentiâ mei JOHANNIS FRENCH Registrarii Universitatis OXON EA est Beneficiorum tuorum amplitudo Honoratissime Cancellarie quibus Academiam nostram indies cumulare satagis ut conturbare nobis necesse sit ac ne verbis quidem quorum interim apud nos vilem parabilem esse oportet annonam paria cum meritis Tuis facere liceat Te tamen quae est Benificentiae tuae indolet ne ingrati quidem debitores nedum tarda vel cassa nomina deterrent quo minus beneficia tua beneficiis ne perpluant porro pertegere eaque ultrò auctum ire pertendas Veluti quod nuper Academiae nec huic tantùm sed saeculo imputasti cum Tuâ unius operâ habitus est Musis is honos ut honoratissimus Senatus Regius legem quam aliis dare consueverat à nobis acciperet Hancque 〈◊〉 sibi legem in posterum dixerit ut si quid in suis Edictis scriptum fuerit quod per Privilegia Academica jus non sit juberi ejus iis Edictis nihilum jubeatur Circumcisum scilicet abrasum est hac Cautione 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quodcunque cujus obtentu antehà c Villani jura ac privilegia Vniversitatis invadere involare solebant Honoratissimi Senatùs jussa capessere simulantes reverà juris sui pomaeria ultrà quà m jus fas est proferentes Et hujus quidem Benesicii gratiam Tibi Honoratissime 〈◊〉 in solidum 〈◊〉 agnoscimus Quo adnitente factum est ut Honorissimus Senatus Jussa sua in antecessum simul ac semel interpretari consultiùs duxerit quam Villanis dubiam ancipitem eorum Syntaxin permittere qui ea interpretari quam exequi malunt Plus tamen est quod Honoratissimis Viris hoc nomine debetur quà m cui solvendo unquam pares esse possumus Quamvis igitur in tali obligationum genere nulla praestatio functionem recipiat aut in solutum imputetur nisi ab ipso reo siat numeratio Quia tamen Veneratio Honotarissimo Senatui debita majorem à nobis exigit reverentiam quam ut Scholasticis inanibus Literularum formulis ipsorum tempora morari audeamus de quibus nihil deliberari potest sine publico dispendio Nostri officii partes optimo quidem nomini sed tamen vicario Tibi Honoratissime Cancellarie delegamus Tu Illis pro nobis nos Tibi pro Te pro Illis gratias agemus Deus O. M. Te quam diutissime Ecclesiae Academiae huic nostrae sospitem incolumem praestet Sic vovent To the Right Honourable and Right Reverend Father in God the Lord Bp. of London Chancellour of the University of OXFORD Honori Tuo addictissimi Clientes Magistri Scholares Universit Oxon. Mr. BRUCH è Coll. AEn Nas. Procurat Mr. DOUGHTY è Coll. Merton Procurat S. in Christo. Sir THese are to Pray and Require you in his Majesties name that a Book lately Printed at Oxford and made by Mr. Page of All Souls-College be presently put to sale and published It is as I am inform'd in defence of the Canon of the Church about Bowing at the name of JESUS and modestly and well written And his Majesty likes not that a Book boldly and ignorantly written by Mr. Prinne against the Church should take place as the Churches Opinion against her self or as unable to be answered by the Church If Mr. Page stick at your Commands shew this Letter for your Warrant and his So I leave you to the Grace of God and shall ever rest Fulham June 22. Your Loving Friend GVIL London The occasion of this Letter was that Mr. Baker Secretary to my Predecessour who no doubt was privy to the business had written to Mr. Page touching the contrary whose Letter here follows Good Mr. Page MY Lord of Canterbury is inform'd that you are publishing a Treatise touching the Question of Bowing at the Name of JESUS an Argument wherein Mr. Widdowes foolishly and Mr. Prinne scurrilously have already to the scandal and disquiet of the Church exercised their Pens His Grace hath formerly shew'd his dislike of them both and hearing that you take up the Bucklers in a Theme of so small necessity and of so great heat and distemper which will draw on new Replies for Prinne will not sit down as an idle Spectatour and beget bitterness and intestine contestations at home amongst our selves he is much offended that you do stickle and keep on foot such questions which may better be spoiled and silenced than maintain'd and draw into sideings and partakings And therefore I am wish'd to advise you to withdraw your self from these or the like domestick broils and if your Treatise be at the Press to give it a stop and check and by no means to suffer the same to be divulged For if you do notwithstanding this Admonition proceed in the same intention of publishing it you will repent you and perhaps draw more on your self of trouble and discontent than you will reap Credit or Advantage by the pursuance of so useless an Argument If you were out of your Cell and saw the World abroad you would not meddle with things of this nature wherein the Governours and chief Pilots of the Church discern more harm and tempest to the Church than you that are unacquainted with Ecclesiastical Estate and the well ordering of it can any way by Speculation attain unto no more than a Scholar that can read a Lecture of Theorical Musick is able to play on a Lute or a Viol by his Bookish Rules and proportions of Sounds which are there taught I pray you to look hereunto and say that a Friend advised you And put not your self on a Business whereof you see but the Beginning So with my Love remembred unto you I rest Lambeth May. 31. 1631. Your very loving Friend Will. Baker S. in Christo. AFter my hearty Commendations c. The year is now at an end of my Vice-Chancellour's Government And when I look back upon it I must needs acknowledge he hath taken a great deal of pains and shew'd himself a very discreet able and worthy Governour And in all the passages of this year I do not find but that he hath given you all great satisfaction especially in his Care for Order and Formalities which I hope you will so far like as that you will make it away to recover the Ancient Honour of that famous University in things of greater Consequence And though the University be full
the honour of the University and God hath blessed his Endeavours with very great success in those things which have fallen under his Charge both at home and abroad And I dare be bold to affirm it to you in his behalf and yet give him but the Testimony which he deserves that he hath merited exceeding much both from my self and from you Nevertheless I am not willing either to overload him 〈◊〉 to pass by so many able and worthy Men as that University God be thanked now hath for the supply of that place and who I doubt not will in their several turns follow the good example of those who have gone worthily before them At this time I have thought fit to name Dr. Pink Warden of New Coll. to be Vicechancellor for this year ensuing of whose Wisdom Judgment and Integrity and all other Abilities fit to fill that place I have particular knowledge and assurance for these divers years and am very desirous to make him as well known to you as he is to my self These are therefore to pray and require you to allow of this my nomination and choice of Dr. Pink to the Vice-chancellorship and to give him your best advice and assistance in all such things as may any ways concern the Honour and good Government of the University So I bid you all heartily farewell and rest your loving Friend and Chancellor To my loving Friends the Vice-chancellor the Doctors the Proctors and the rest of the Convocation of the University of Oxford W. CANT Lambeth July 12. 1634. AFter my hearty Commendations c. The Statutes of the University so often and by so many undertaken and left again are now by God's blessing and the great pains of them to whom that Care was committed brought to perfection This work I hope God will so bless as that it may much improve the Honour and good Government of that Place a thing very necessary in this Age both for Church and Common Wealth since so many young Gentlemen and others of all Ranks and Conditions have their first breeding for the publick in that Seminary To save the Purse of the University and to gain time it was thought fit rather to Print than to transcribe so many Copies as might serve for the present necessary use of the University and the several Colleges and Halls respectively And for my part I thought it expedient that in every House they might have the Rule of the publick Government by them and so see the way to their Duty which being as much for their particular good as the advance of the publick service every man I hope will be most willing and ready to conform himself to that which is required of him There is to be a great Ledger Book written out fair which is to be the Authentick Copie under Seal and to rest in Archivis to be the future Judge of all Statutes which may hereafter be corruptly either printed or transcribed But before this be written I hold it very expedient to put these Statutes as they are now corrected and set in order into practice and execution for the space of one whole year to the end it may better appear if any necessary thing have slipt the Care of my self and those whom the University trusted with me For then if any such thing be discovered it may easily be amended in the Margent or otherwise of these printed Books And after this experience made the Authentick Copy may be written fair without any Interlining or other Blemish and so be a Rule to Posterity of greater Credit These are therefore according to the power given unto me by an Act with full Consent in Convocation bearing Date in August 1633. to declare and publish to the University and every Member thereof that the Statutes now printed are and shall be the Statutes by which that University shall be governed for this year ensuing that is until the Feast of St. Michael the Arch-Angel which shall be in the year of our Lord God 1635. reserving to my self Power according to the Decree before mentioned to add or alter that which shall be fit and take away from these Statutes or any of them that which shall be found by this intervening Practice to be either unnecessary or incommodious for that Government And then God willing at or before that time I will discharge the Trust which the University hath commended to me and absolutely make a settlement of the Statutes for future times even as long as it shall please God to bless them with use and continuance And I account it not the least of God's Blessings upon my self that he hath given me strength and ability to do this Service for my ancient Mother the University whom I have ever so much Honoured and am still ready to serve And thus much Comfort I can already give you that his Majesty being made acquainted by me that the work was finisht exprest extraordinary contentment in it and commanded me to let you know so much and withal that he doubts not of your ready Obedience to them Than which nothing can from 〈◊〉 be more acceptable to him Thus assuring my self that you will all strive to yeild full Obedience to these your Statutes which will be your own Honour as well as the Universities I leave you to God's blessed Protection and rest To my very Loving Friends the Vice-Chancellour the Doctors the Proctors and the rest of the Convocation of the University of OXFORD July 18. 1634. Your very loving Friend and Chancellour W. CANT Reverendissime Cancellarie NOstri Juris Corpusculum exhibitum pervolvisti expectatum reddidisti nec raptim quidem ut Prudentiam Consilium agnoscamus nec tamen tardè ut vigilantiae studio gratulemur Quid proposuimus quod non effecit industria vestra Quid desideravimus quod non concessit liberalitas Quid ambivimus quod non impetravit gratia Quemadmodum prius immunitates comparasti ut liberè ut ingenuè ita nunc Statuta ut piè compositè vivamus In utroque genere honestati Academiae adeò praeclarè consuluisti ut neque hinc Servilis audiat nec illint Barbara Statuta quidem dudum habuimus sedqualia crederes à Sphinge condita adeò perplexa ambigua sibique 〈◊〉 ut gravius supplicium lueret legis Interpres quà m Violator Jam vero emersit nova rerum facies Succurrunt Nobis Statuta alia dirigentia ali a punientia alia quae stringunt alia quae cohibent ensem eaque omnia adeo perspicua clara quod est optimum integritatis Argumentum prioribus adeo dissimilia ut neque prudenti relinquatur imperitiae praetextus nec parenti contumaciae patrocinium adeo ut non dubitemus planè asserere Nos vestrae Amplitudini magis obstrictos ob hanc Epitomen quà m Bodeleio ob tot Volumina Illa enim Artes Scientias suggerunt haec aliquod divinius ordinem bene institutae politiae salutem
Distemper from Proctor to Proctor which must needs do a great deal of harm considering how much they must be trusted with the Execution of the Statutes Therefore I pray deal seriously with both the Proctors but especially with Proctor Brown and let him know that he can give me no Content if for the remainder of his time he be not careful of the Statutes and their due performance And at Easter when the new Procters are chosen I must desire you to look to them if they do not look carefully to the Duty of their places and in this particular especially Besides I hear a whispering from thence that during your short abode at Sarum in this Term-time the Schools were scarce ever called so much as once I pray God it may be found they have called the Schools at all since the Publication of the new Statutes You shall do well to examin this and by the answer which the Proctors give you you will be able to discover something both of their diligence and intentions besides it cannot be but that Mr. Belle's death and a new and unexperienced Successor must needs give some hindrance to the Statutes which pertain to Service But I hope this will be but a temporary inconvenience and soon blown over by the diligence of Mr. Gayton and tell him I expect it Besides you shall do well to have a care of Noctivagation and other disorders else you will quickly have the Distempers of the Night break out in the Day and now the Spring comes on if your self do not take some pains that way I doubt the Proctors will be negligent enough though of their negligence I can give no reason unless it be because by the new Statutes the University is made half sharer in the Mulcts which how small they are will appear by their accounts With a special Caution for the observation of the Statute for speaking Latin Lambeth Feb. 24. 1636 7. W. Cant. SIR I Had almost forgotten a business to you of greater consequence than this and I cannot well tell whether Mr. Vice-chancellor hath acquainted you with it or no for I writ not unto him very expresly in the business but now recalling it I thought fit to write thus much to your self You know that Mr. Chillingworth is answering of a Book that much concerns the Church of England and I am very sorry that the young Man hath given cause why a more watchful eye should be held over him and his Writings But since it is so I would willingly desire this favour from you in the Church's Name that you would be at the pains to read over this Tract and see that it be put home in all Points against the Church of Rome as the Cause requires And I am confident Mr. Chillingworth will not be against your altering of any thing that shall be found reasonable And to the end that all things may go on to the Honour of the Church of England I have desired Dr. Potter who is particularly concern'd in this business so soon as ever he is returned from London to speak with you about it And when all these Tryals are over I would be content that both this Book and all others that shall be hereafter licensed in the University have such an Imprimatur of the Licencer before it as we use here above which I shall leave to the Wisdom of the Vice-chancellor and the Heads Lambeth March 3. 1636 7 W. Cant. A Passage out of a Letter of the Vice-chancellor's THE University do now generally resent that your Grace obtained and the King confirmed unto us the greatest Benefit that ever came to the Publick and God willing no Man shall disturb it while I sit Vice-chancellor My Answer to it IT is a hard thing in this Age to bring Men to understand the good that is done them and therefore I am the more glad that the University doth it that so great a Benefit given them by such a King may not only be received but acknowledged by them and the Memory of it delivered to Succession And I shall hope that your Successors after you will keep it in that way into which it is now put unless they can find a better and more useful for the Learned Press April 10. 1637. W. Cant. Mr. Vice-chancellor THERE was an English Translation of a Book of Devotion Written by Sales Bishop of Geneva and Entitl'd Praxis Spiritualis sive Introductio ad vitam devotam Licensed by Dr. Haywood then my Chaplain about the latter end of November last but before it passed his hands he first struck out divers things wherein it varied from the Doctrin of our Church and so passed it But by the Practice of one Burrowes who is now found to be a Roman-Catholick those Passages struck out by Dr. Haywood were interlined afterwards as appears upon Examination before Mr. Attorney-General and by the Manuscript Copy and were printed according to Burrows's Falsifications The Book being thus Printed gave great and just offence especially to my self who upon the first hearing of it gave present Order to Seize upon all the Copies and to Burn them publickly in Smithfield Eleven or Twelve Hundred Copies were Seized and Burnt accordingly buut it seems Two or Three Hundred of the Impression were dispersed before the Seizure Now my desire is that if any Copies of this Translation be or shall be sent to Oxford you would call them in and take such Order for the Suppressing of them there as is here already taken And so I commend you to God's Grace and rest Lambeth May 4. 1637. Your Loving Friend W. Cant. SIR YOU are now upon a very good way toward the setting up of a Learned Press and I like your Proposal well to keep your Matrices and your Letters you have gotten safe and in the mean time to provide all other necessaries that so you may be ready for that work For since it hath pleased God so to bless me as that I have procured you both Privilege and means for that work I should be very glad to see it begun in my own Life-time if it raight be And because the beginning of such a work will be very difficult as also the procuring of a sussicient Composer and Corrector for the Eastern Languages you have done exceeding well to think of him at Leyden and to get him over upon as good Terms as you can and to give him an Annual Pension in the mean time that he may not be tempted from your Service So God speed you I have sent you down by this Carrier my Book of the University Statutes which I give that the Library-keepers may read their own Duties in it for having none I doubt they keep neither old Statutes nor new so well as they should And it may be if you and the rest of the Curators would look well to it you might find many things there out of order and sit to be amended And
while I am upon this Argument of placing the Statute-Book in the publick Library I pray acquaint the Heads at the next meeting that I am informed that the Statute-Book in some private Colleges is kept up too close from them whom it concerns which is a great hindrance to the due Publication of the Statutes and ministers occasion to many Men to pretend Ignorance instead of shewing Obedience I pray therefore commend my love to the Heads and let them know that I expect every Head of College and Hall where there is a Library to take care that the Book of Statutes be placed and chain'd in it that it may be of free access to the Students in each Society And that in such Halls as have no Library the Statute-Book be placed as safely and yet as publickly as it can be And further I must and do require of every of the Heads that all the Additions and Alterations made upon the Review of the Statutes be put into all and every Statute-Book which is kept within their several Governments And I do require of you Mr. Vice-chancellor to see it done and to give me an account of it For it will be no great Labour to you at some convenient times to send for the statute-Statute-Book of every College and Hall and see whether it be done or no and if the Additions should not be writ into every Book it would cause one College to be otherwise informed concerning their particular Statutes than others are and so cause more frequent recourse to the Leidger-Book than would otherwise be necessary and perhaps breed other disserences also I find that the Proctors of the last Year and I doubt their Predecessors also have been too negligent in Collecting the Mulcts and it may be those that are new come in will be negligent also if you call not upon them betimes I pray therefore commend me to them and tell them that I will expect their Performance in this particular as well as their diligence in all things else and that I hold it a very unworthy thing that out of a plausible popular humour to decline the Envy of any private Man they should so far neglect their Duty to the Statutes and the Publick And certainly if the Proctors go on in this way and either wholly neglect it or thrust it upon the Vice-chancellor I shall not only take it very ill from them but at the end of their Year either I shall cause the Delegates not to pass their Accompts till they have paid it themselves or else sue both them and the Delinquents in the Vice-chancellor's Court for such Mulcts as are left by them uncollected And I pray let the Heads know what I have Written in this Particular also I have some more Manuscripts almost ready for you but I would willingly have some larger place made and assign'd for them either in the old Library or in the new Additions to it for I saw the last Summer that the place where they now are would not hold all which I have sent already And the sooner this place is provided the better for to prevent Casualties I could be content they were out of my Hands Lambeth May 5. 1637. W. Cant. SIR I Would have you send for Mr. Brevin and let him know not only the difference of a Master of Art at Oxford and Samure but the ill consequences also which may follow upon it in case he should have his Degree confirmed and that I advise him to go the other way and to stay half a Year and so to be created Master and that in the mean time I will speak with his Friends here but certainly for ought appears to me yet or is like to appear I will never give way to the confirming of his Degree things being at Samure as you have reported them I like your Proposal very well for Mr. Cartwright and am glad to hear that he is so Passing sit for the Greek and every way else so well deserving for this or a better Place I have not leisure to write a Letter to the Heads which may lie Leidger against that time but I am very heartily willing to give my consent that when the Voydance shall come Mr. Cartwright may be the Successor and to that end I give you free and full Power to move the Heads or to do any other Act fitting or conducent to the good success of this business And so much I pray let Mr. Cartwright know and withal give him thanks for his fair and respective Letter to me One thing is considerable I take it the Statute requires that somewhat should be done with the Bedel of Law in relation to the Learned Press but my Memory does not hold it perfectly what it is And therefore you shall do well to consider it And now upon a suddain considering Gaytons sufficiency t is come into my head to ask this Question Why may not all three Esq Bedels joyn in the Learned Press tho' perhaps but one of them need be the chief Manager For ought I know this may be very well worth your considering I am very desirous to prevent Perjury by all means possible and therefore if you can tell how to order it that so much of the Statute Book may be Printed as may direct the younger sort in matter of Manners and Exercise You shall do very well to take it into full Consideration with the Heads and then put it in practise accordingly But I would have the Collection made to be Printed in a little Volume for the daily use of the Students that may desire it In your last Passage I think you are mistaken for certainly the great Leidger-Book of the Statutes is to be placed in Archivis among the University Charters and not in any Cubb of the Library nor to be come at without more 〈◊〉 than one And for this as I remember there is a particular Statute But howsoever I will not have that Book trusted under any Library-Keeper's Key and for the Statute-Book which I sent down You did well to leave it in the Cubbs where it must remain unless you can sind some other way to prevent the endeavour of the Dutch to transcribe it Lambeth May 19 1637. W. Cant. SIR I Am very glad I put that to the question concerning the joyning of the other two Bedells with the Law Bedel to assist at the Learned Press considering that it jumps so well with your Care and Thoughts in the same kind And yet tho' I think their assistance may be very useful to that Work it will certainly be necessary that the Statute be observed and the main Trust be lest upon the Law Bedel For else you know between many Stools what 's like to go to Ground But indeed if the University would set sadly to it and bring in some Batchelors of Art to be Yeomen-Bedels which are well grounded and towardly to serve that Press as Composers or
should please God to make me able to do it I pray do this with as much convenient speed as you can and privately without noise So to God's Blessing and Protection c. Lambeth F. omnium Sanctorum 1639. W. Cant. THE University of Oxford in the time of King Edw. III. had the sole keeping of the Assize of Bread and Drink in Oxford and the Government and Correction of all manner of Victuallers and Victualling and Tippling-Houses there This Power continued in the University for about 200 Years without Interruption until the Statute of 5 6 Edw. 6. which gave power to two Justices of Peace in every Shire or City to License Ale-Houses and ordained That none should keep any Ale-House but such as should be so Licensed By colour of this Statute in regard there was therein no express saving of the Privileges of the University the Mayor and Aldermen of Oxford being Justices there have Licensed Ale-Houses The Chancellor of the University and his Vice-Chancellor Commissary and Deputy at the time of the making of the said Statutes were Justices of Peace within the City And the Privileges of both Universities were afterwards in 13 Eliz. confirmed by Act of Parliament and in all Acts of Parliament since made touching Ale-Houses the Correction and Punishment of all Ale-House-keepers and Tipplers in Ale-Houses in the University is reserved solely to the Governor of the University The University of Cambridge in the Fifth Year of King Richard II. had their Privileges by Parliament granted to them such as the University of Oxford had and no other Yet when the Officers of the Town in the Sixth Year of Queen Elizabeth attempted to License Ale-House they were restrain'd by the Queen's Letter and that University hath ever since quietly enjoy'd the Privileges of the sole Licensing of Ale-Houses In the Book of Directions touching Ale-Houses set forth 1608. His late Majesty declared that the Officers of both Universities should have the Power of Licensing and ordering of Ale-Houses and not the Officers or Justices of the Town And His Majesty in his Charter of Confirmation of the Liberties of the University of Oxford in the Eleventh Year of his Reign hath been graciously pleased to grant that no License shall be made to any Victualler or Ale-House-keeper without the special assent of the Chancellor There are now 300 Ale-Houses Licensed in Oxford which occasion great Disorder in the University It is therefore most humbly desired on the behalf of the said University That his Majesty would be pleased by his gracious Letters to be directed to the Mayor and Commonalty of Oxford to command them not to intermeddle in the Licensing of any Person to keep Ale-House or Tap-House within the Jurisdiction or Liberty of the said University or City of Oxford TRusty and Well-beloved we Greet you well We are informed that our University of Oxford had heretofore the Government Correction of all manner of Ale-House-keepers Ale-Houses and Tippling-Houses within the Liberties thereof And we were graciously pleased lately by our Letters Patents to grant to our said University That no Ale-Houses without the special consent of the Chancellor or Vice-Chancellor should be Licensed there It seems strange to us which we hear that there should be now Three hundred Ale-Houses in Oxford And we believe they would not have risen to that number had the power of Licensing them rested only with the Vice-Chancellor and other Governors of our said University as it doth in our University of Cambridge We do therefore charge and require you as you tender our Pleasure and mean to enjoy the Liberties which you use under our Favour and Goodness that you henceforth meddle not in the Licensing of any Person to keep Ale-Houses Tap-Houses or Victualling-Houses within the Jurisdiction or Liberty of the said University and City of Oxford but that you leave the same to the Vice-Chancellor and other Justices of Peace there who are Members of the said University Given at Westminster the 27th of October 1639. To our Trusty and Well-beloved the Mayor Bailiffs and Commonalty of our City of Oxford I sent away these Letters to the Vice-Chancellor upon Friday November 8th W. Cant. UPON pretence that it was not in me alone to absolve the Chandlers on Monday last I brought them to the Meeting of the Heads Where having in the first Place pleaded Ignorance in excuse of their Contumacy they then confessed openly That it belonged to the Vice-Chancellor to regulate them in their Trade and humbly besought me to raise their Price This done I dismissed them caused the Register to make an Act of what had passed and four days after viz. on the first of November granted their Request so that I hope the University's Right in this particular is now settled for ever hereafter Novemb. 4. 1639. A. Frewen I Am informed by Mr. Lenthall That for the Physick-Garden the Earl of Danby intends to put his Heir the Vice-Chancellor the Dean of Christ-Church and the President of St. Mary Magdalen-College in trust to see his promised 100 l. per Annum for ever hereafter imployed as he shall direct A. Frewen To this my Answer was as followeth I Like the Earl of Danby's Business worse and worse and the joining of his Heir to those Heads you mention worst of all For if he may not ever do and have what he list you shall have greater Imputations of Ingratitude thrown upon you than the thing is worth And now I begin to believe you will have nothing settled till his Death Lambeth Novemb. 7. 1639. W. Cant. EVery Body speaks well of the Examinations And tho' I would not put any such Burthen upon the Heads of Houses yet you should do very well if you could handsomly insinuate it to them what an Advance it would be to the University in that Business if now and then at their leisure some one or other of them would come thither and sit with the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors to hear the Examinations But this I leave free to you and them Lambeth November 7. 1639. W. Cant. AT this time the Vice-Chancellor sent me word that after they had visited Sir Thomas Bodley's great Library they went to see my Books and Coins and that having compared them with their Catalogue they found all well and safe But yet the Library-keepers had a great charge given them to look carefully to them being they stood unchained and the place where they stand almost hourly frequented by Strangers who come to see them Novemb. 11. 1639. A. Frewen My Answer to this was as followeth SIR I Thank you heartily for your Care of my Books And I beseech you that the Library-keeper may be very watchful to look to them since they stand unchain'd And I would to God the Place in the Library for them were once ready that they might be set up safe and and chained as the other Books are and yet then if there be not care
1639. A. Frewen IN the interim hearing that Wilkinson had under-hand gotten a Recommendation from my Lord the Earl of Holland Chancellor of Cambridge and having occasion one day to meet with my Lord I spake to his Lordship about it but my Lord remembred no such thing Yet told me he would speak to his Secretary about the Business and then give me a farther Account Which the very next day he did and confessed unto me that he had given him a Recommendation but thought Wilkinson had come attested from the University And withal his Lordship said that the Reason which he gave him why he went to Cambridge for his Degree was because the Fees were greater in Oxford Upon this his Lordship promised me that he would write to Cambridge that the University should be very careful to keep the Agreement made with Oxford concorning Degrees Lambeth Dec. 26. 1639. W. Cant. CHristmas-day falling upon a Wednesday this Year the Mayor of Oxford stept in before the University Clerks and proclaim'd no Market This he did grounding himself as 't is conceived upon the strength of Justice Jones his Arbitration In the which tho' altogether beside the Question he told the Vice-Chancellor That he thought the Market belong'd to the City tho' the Government of it to the University The Vice-Chancellor doubted not but that he should be able to right the University in this particular Dec. 23. 1639. A. Frewen THE Violence of the Storm on St. John's Night threw down the Battlements over the Room where Your Grace's Manuscripts are billited but did no more hurt Fearing that the Leads might be bruised and a passage through them for the Rain made by the fall I caused it to be throughly search'd and presently repair'd so that now the Books are out of all danger Oxford Jan. 6. 〈◊〉 A. Frewen One John George Deputy-Register to old Mr. Jones petitioned me for a Reversion of the Registership it self of the Vice-Chancellor's Court But I refused him and writ to the Vice-Chancellor to know the Conditions of the Man who sent me word as follows HEartily glad I am that your Grace hath refused this John George for having a Reversion of Mr. Jones's Office For he is a sawcy insolent Companion And should he once come to enjoy the Place in his own Right 't is likely would prove insufferable What yearly Rent he pays for his Deputation or what he is to give for the Resignation I cannot tell Yet thus much I know through the greediness of the Register and Proctors the Court begins to hear ill nor am I able to redress it so fully as I would there being no Table of Fees whereby to regulate them Oxford Jan. 13. 〈◊〉 A. Frewen UPON the Vice-Chancellor's mentioning to me the having no Table of Fees for the regulating of that Court I writ to him to draw me up one and send it me And that then I would consult with the Doctors of the Arches and some well experienced Proctors what Fees might be fittest for such a Court and send it him back perfected to be confirmed in Convocation if it be thought fit Lambeth Jan. 17. 〈◊〉 W. Cant. ON Saturday Jan. 25. died Mr. Robert Burton of Christ-Church who hath given 5 l. per Annum for ever to the University-Library besides a considerable Number of Books to be taken out of his Study And because a Benefactor to the University I was present at his Funeral At our last Examinations we repulsed a Dunce of New-Inn who was not able so much as to give us a difference betwixt Quisquis and Quisque though a Candidate to be Master of Arts. To put an end to the Town 's snarling at us for taking from them the power of Licensing Ale-Houses I last Week cast them out a Bone which hath set them at odds amongst themselves Understanding that some sold Ale without my leave I sent out a Warrant to the Officers in every Parish They finding by it that their Poor should reap the Fruit of their Pains readily obey make a strict search inform and press to have the Penalty exacted which hath bred a strange Distemper amongst them and a strange one it must be that can disjoin them as this hath done in their feud against the University Here follows the Copy of the Vice-Chancellor's Warrant THESE are to require you and every of you immediately upon Receipt hereof to make diligent Inquiry in your Parish after all and every Person and Persons that do take upon them to sell Ale or Beer within your said Parish besides them whose Names are under-written And that you do certifie me who they are and he ready to prove and justifie their selling without License that I may exact thereupon the Penalty of 20s for the use of the Poor of your Parish from each of them so offending Also I require you to make diligent search taking with you a Constable what quantity of Ale or Beer the said Persons have in their several Houses and to inform me what Brewer or Brewers have served the same That I may punish them according to the Law Hereof fail you not as you will answer the contrary at your Perils Given c. Our University Coroner being last Week to sit upon the Body of a Privileged Person drowned near Christ-Church sends his Warrant according as the Statute directs him to the Constable of St. Olave's to warn a Jury He presently consults the Mayor and the Mayor the Town-Clerk the City Oracle and both instruct him to disobey because by their Charter they are exempted from all Service without their Liberties as this Place was though yet within the Parish of St. Olave's which forced us for the present to send into the Country for a Jury which lost time and cost trouble Of the Legality of this their Plea we here are not able to judge yet much suspect that no Exemption in any Charter reaches to Service of this Nature But admit it to be legal yet was it withal uncivil and were not the Times as they are I should e'er long make some of them smart for it And on Friday last I brought one of their Bailists almost upon his Knees for furnishing an unlicensed Tippling-House with Beer And easie 't will be for a Vice-Chancellor if he intend to correct them at any time invenire baculum Oxford Jan. 27. 〈◊〉 A. Frewen AT this time I writ to the Vice-Chancellor to speak to the Heads before Lent begin and to desire them that they would be very careful of their several Companies that the publick Disputations then may be quick and Scholar-like and yet without Tumult And this I left principally upon his Care to look to calling the Proctors to his Assistance I received a Letter this last Week from a Reverend Bishop in this Kingdom in which he complains that Amesius and Festus Hommius though I think before your time have been Reprinted in the University They
howsoever they may be of another Nature if you look upon their Entity yet in their Relative Nature as Type and Antitype Shadow and Substance they are of the same Nature and have mutual dependence either upon other and give Rules mutually either to other and a Proof one of another For a Man may take the measure of the Body by the Shadow and of the Shadow by the Body And so it is between the Law and the Gospel the Sacrifices in the One and Christ in the other For the Law had but the Shadow of good things to come and not the very Image of the things themselves and therefore with those Sacrifices could make nothing perfect Heb. 10. 1. But Christ is the Body it self Col. 2. 17. And when he came into the World he saith Sacrifice and burnt Offering thou wouldest not have but a Body hast thou given me Heb. 10. 4. How shall this appear How Why by the very Rules given in the Law For so the Prophet tells us in the Person of Christ. In the volume of the Book it is written of me Psal. 40. 7. Nay so says Christ himself St. Joh. 5. 46. Had ye believed Moses ye would have believed me for he wrote of me And to bring all home close to the present business Christ as God of another Nature quite from Melchisedek yet in Relation to the Priesthood as Type and Antitype not so for Christ was Man also and the one gave a kind of Rule to the other For Christ was made a Priest after the order of Milchisedek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or as Mont. reads in the Margin Secundum Morem according to the Form Manner or Rule of Melchisedek's Priesthood And as Melchisedek and Christ are Type and Antitype in their Priesthood so the Priesthood of Aaron under the Law was but a shadow of the Priesthood of Christ under the Gospel And therefore the Priestood which is now ought in all Privileges to exceed that under the Law in as much as the Antitype and the Body is of more worth than the Type and the Shadow I say in all Privileges which are not appropiated by God himself to the Priesthood of the Law 2. Secondly It may be considered too whether this be universally true that among things which are of another Nature one cannot give a Rule to another For my own part I doubt there is not Truth in the Rule but instead of Truth a great deal of danger And surely if this be generally true that that which was before being of another Nature can give no Rule to this that is if that which was both before and under the Law concerning Priesthood can give no Rule none at all to the Ministery under the Gospel then can it give no Rule in any thing else Because the Law is as much of another Nature in regard of other things as of this Nay this very thing the Priesthood makes the Law to be of another Nature more than any thing else And so the Apostle plainly Heb. 7. 12. For the Priesthood being changed made of Necessity a change also of the Law But be this change this other Nature what it will if the Law can give no Rule at all in this which again is directly contrary to the Apostle 1. Cor. 9. 9 13. then can it no give Rule in any thing else pertaining to the Gospel For the Reason if it be good holds alike 't is of another Nature Nay yet farther if this Reason be true universally true as 't is here given then it reaches to and thorough the whole Law No part of it can give any Rule to Men or things under the Gopsel For if no Rule to things then none to Men who must do or leave undone and if so then the Moral Law can give no Rule to Men under the Gospel more than the Ceremonial or the Judicial Law For the whole Law was before the Gospel and here said without any distinction to be of another Nature and so unable to give a Rule And for ought I know this zealous Lord may be of this Opinion For this lewd Doctrine hath been somewhat common of late among his Favourites that Moral Honesty is an Enemy to the Grace of Christ that Harlots and debauched Persons are nearer to the Kingdom of God than they which labor to shew themselves Moral Men and the like As if they went to teach the People to live lewdly and to do evil that good may come thereof whose Damnation the Apostle tells us is just Rom. 3. 8. Whereas Christ came not to take away the Law but to fulfill it for us Mat. 5. 17. and in some measure to enable us to keep it also And in the Gospel when the Scribe told our Saviour that to love God with all the Heart and his Neighbour as himself upon which Commandments hang the whole Law S. Mat. 22. 40. was more than all burnt Sacrifices our Saviour did not tell him that Harlots were nearer the Kingdom of God than he or that this Law being of another Nature could give him no Rule for his Life But quite contrary he told him for his Comfort and the Comfort of Obedience that he was not far from the Kingdom of God S. Mar. 12. 34. And though this be bad enough and will prove a fruitful Mother of all Libertinism and Prophaness yet there is a greater danger behind For if the Grace of Christ under the Gospel be a discharge of the Moral Law and disenable it to give a Rule as being of another Nature what shall become of God the Law-giver himself in all kinds For he is quite of another Nature eminently and infinitely exceeding us and whatsoever is or can be naturally in us yea or supernaturally either And what now Shall not God himself being of another Nature give us any Rule in this or any thing else I know this Lord will say this is not his meaning No truly I hope it is not But then this Lord if he will needs be writing and printing should so express himself as that he may not expose his words to such unsavory Consequences as for ought I know may justly be gathered from them And let me tell him in the mean time 't is a dangerous thing to be so busie with the Law of God and so without distinction as he is lest he intrench upon the Law-giver before he be aware Howsoever in this Proposition of his that that which is before being of another Nature can give no Rule to this leaves him at a loss which way soever to turn himself For since 't is manifest by the Apostle in the places before cited that the Law of Moses which was before doth give a Rule to divers things under the Gospel this Lord of the Separation is at a loss every way For if the Law and that which was before be not of another Nature from this then his Reason is false which says it can give no Rule because 't is
Popery to set a Rail to keep Prophanation from that Holy Table nor is it any Innovation to place it at the upper end of the Chancel as the Altar stood And this appears both by the Practice and by the Command and Canon of the Church of England First By the Practice of the Church of England For in the King 's Royal Chapels and divers Cathedrals the Holy Table hath ever since the Reformation stood at the upper end of the Quire with the large or full side towards the People And though it stood in most Parish Churches the other way yet whether there be not more reason the Parish Churches should be made conformable to the Cathedral and Mother Churches than the Cathedrals to them 〈◊〉 leave to any reasonable Man to judge And yet here is nothing done either by violence or command to take off the Indifferency of the standing of the Holy Table either way but only by laying it fairly before Men how fit it is there should be Order and Vniformity I say still reserving the Indifferency of the standing But howsoever I would fain know how any discreet moderate Man dares say that the placing of the Holy Table Altar-wise since they will 〈◊〉 call it so is done either to advance to usher in Popery For did Queen Elizabeth banish Popery and yet did she all along her Reign from first to last leave the Communion Table so standing in her own Chapel Royal in St. Paul's and Westmidster and other places and all this of 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 on usher in that Popery which she had driven out 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 since her Death have two Gracious Kings kept out Popery all their 〈◊〉 and yet 〈◊〉 the Holy Table standing as it did in the Queen's time and all of purpose to advance or usher in Popery which they kept out 〈◊〉 what 's the matter May the Holy Table stand this way in the 〈◊〉 Chapel or Cathedrals or Bishops Chapels and not elsewhere 〈◊〉 if it be decent and fit for God's Service it may stand so if 〈◊〉 please in any Church But if it advance or usher in any 〈◊〉 and Popery it ought to stand so in none Not hath any King's Chapel any Prerogative if that may be call'd one above any ordinary Church to dis-serve God in by any Superstitious 〈◊〉 Where give me leave to tell you that the King and his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 most 〈◊〉 and with Scorn abused in the last Leaf of Mr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Appeal for such it is 〈◊〉 This appears by the Canon or Rule of the Church of 〈◊〉 too for 't is plain in the last Injunction of the Queen That the Holy Table ought to stand at the upper end of the Quire North and South or Altar-wise For the words of the Queen's Injunctions are these The Holy Table in every Church mark it I pray not in the Royal 〈◊〉 or Cathedrals only but in every Church shall be decently made and set in the place where the Altar stood Now the Altar stood at the upper end of the Quire North and South as appears before by the 〈◊〉 of the Church And there to set it otherwise is to set it cross the place not In the place where the Altar stood and so Stulti dum vit ant vitia weak Men as these Libellers are run into one Superstition while they would avoid another For they run upon the Superstition of the Cross. while they seek to avoid the Superstition of the Altar So you see here 's neither Popery nor Innovation in all the Practice of Queen Elizabeth or since These words of the Injunction are so plain as that they can admit of no shift And give me leave to tell you That a very learned Prelate of this Church and one whom I think these Men will not accuse as a Man like to advance or usher in Popery is of the same Opinion 'T is my Lord the Bishop of Salisbury Some difference was lately rising about placing the Communion-Table in a Parish Church of his Diocese The Bishop careful to prevent all Disorder sends his Injunction under his Hand and Seal to the Curate and Church-Wardens to settle that business In which he hath these two Passages remarkable I have seen and read the Order The first Passage is this By the Injunction of Queen Elizabeth saith he and by Can. 82. under King James the Communion Tables should ordinarily be set and stand with the side to the East Wall of the Chancel Therefore this is 〈◊〉 since there is Injunction and Canon for it The other 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this 'T is Ignorance saith that learned Bishop to think that the 〈◊〉 of the Holy Table there relishes of Popery Therefore if it do not to much as relish of Popery it can neither advance it nor usher it in 〈◊〉 therefore this is a most odious Slander and Scandal cast upon 〈◊〉 So here 's enough 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Rule of the Church of England since the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that time both in this and other Churches of 〈◊〉 in the 〈◊〉 and West ordinarily the Holy Table or Altar stood so 〈◊〉 this Mr. Burton says little But the Lincolnshire Minister comes in to play the Puritan for that Concerning which Book 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in my way and the Nameless Author of it I shall only 〈◊〉 these two things The one is that the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the first word to the 〈◊〉 in the Book for he 〈◊〉 on him both for the Name and for the placing of the Holy Table and the like to prove that Generally and Vniversally and Ordinarily in the whole Catholick Church both East and West the Holy Table did not stand at the upper end of the Quire or Chancel And this he must prove or he doth nothing Now when he comes to make his Proofs they are almost all of them particular few or none general and concludent for he neither brings Testimonies out of the General and received Rituals of the Easteru and Western Churches nor of Fathers and Histories of the Church which speak in General terms of all but where they speak of particular Churches only So that suppose the most that can be that is suppose his Quotations be all truly alledged and true too in the sense that the Minister takes them though in very truth the 〈◊〉 most of them are neither truly alledged nor sensed yet they 〈◊〉 but exceptions of and exemptions from the general Practice And you know both in Law and Reason Exceptio firmat Regulam in non 〈◊〉 So that upon the sudden I am not able to resolve whether this Minister hath done more wrong to himself or his Readers for he hath abused both The other is that in the Judgment of very many learned Men which have perused this Book the Author is clearly conceived to want a great deal of that learning to which he pretends or 〈◊〉 to have written this Book wholly and resolvedly against both his Science and his Conscience And for my own part I am 〈◊〉 of
the malicious cunning of that Opposite Faction And though I shall spare dead Men's Names where I have not certainty Yet if you be pleased to look back and consider who they were that Governed businesses in 1571 and rid the Church almost at their pleasure And how potent the Ancestors these Libellers began then to grow you will think it no hard matter to have the Articles Printed and this Clause left out And yet 't is plain That after the stir about Subscription in the Year 1571 the Articles were setled and subscribed unto at last as in the Year 1562 with this Clause in them for the Church For looking farther into the Records which are in mine own Hands I have found the Book of 1563 subscribed by all the Lower House of Convocation in this very Year of Contradiction 1571 Dr. John Elmar who was after Lord Bishop of London being there Prolocutor Alexander Nowel Dean of St. Paul's having been Prolocutor in 1563 and yet living and present and subscribing in 1571. Therefore I do here openly in the Star-Chamber charge upon that pure Sect this foul Corruption of falsifying the Articles of the Church of England let them take it off as they can I have now done and 't is time I should with the Innovations charged upon the Prelates and fit to be answered here Some few more there are but they belong to matter of Doctrine which shall presently be answered Justo Volumine at large to satisfie all Well-Minded People But when Mr. Burton's Book which is the Main one is answered I mean his Book no this Railing neither Prynn nor Bastwick nor any Attendants upon Rabshakeh shall by me or my care be answered If this Court find not a way to stop these Libellers Mouths and Pens for me they shall rail on till they be weary Yet one thing more I beseech you give me leave to add 'T is Mr. Burton's Charge upon the Prelates That the Censures formerly laid upon Malefactors are now put upon God's Ministers for their Vertue and Piety A heavy charge this too But if he or any Man else can shew that any Man hath been punished in the High Commission or elsewhere by the Prelates for Vertue and Piety there is all the Reason in the World we should be severely punished our selves But the Truth is the Vertue and Piety for which these Ministers are punished is for Preaching Schism and Sedition many of their Sermons being as bad as their Libels As Burton's Libell was one of his Sermons first But whether this stuff have any Affinity with Vertue and Piety I submit to any Christian Reader And yet Mr. Burton is so confident of his Innocency even in this Cause wherein he hath so fouly carryed himself that he breaks forth into these words I never so much as once dreamed that Impiety and Impudency it self in such a Christian State as this is and under such a gracious Prince durst ever thus publickly have called me in Question and that upon the open Stage c. You see the boldness of the Man and in as bad a Cause as I think in this kind ever any Man had I shall end all with a passage out of S. Cyprian when he then Bishop of Carthage was bitterly railed upon by a pack of Schismaticks his answer was and 't is now mine They have railed both bitterly and falsly upon me and yet non oportet me paria cum illis facere it becomes not me to answer them with the like either Levities or Revilings but to speak and write that only which becomes Sacerdotem Dei a Priest of God Neither shall I in this give way though I have been extremely vilified to either Grief or Passion to speak remembring that of the Psalmist Psal. 37. 8. Fret not thy self else shalt thou be moved to do Evil. Neither yet by God's Grace shall the Reproaches of such Men as these make me faint or start aside either from the Right-way in matter of practice they are S. Cyprian's words again or a certa Regula from the certain Rule of Faith And since in former times some spared not to call the Master of the House Beelzebub how much more will they be bold with them of his Houshould as it is in St. Matthew 10. 25. And so bold have these Men been but the next words of our Saviour are Fear them not I humbly crave Pardon of your Lordships for this my necessary length and give you all hearty thanks for your Noble Patience and your Just and Honowable Censure upon these Men and your unanimous dislike of them and defence of the Church But because the business hath some Reflexion upon my self I shall forbear to censure them and leave them to God's Mercy and the King's Justice FINIS Dr. Frewen Vicechancellour The Election of the R. R. Father William Laud Bp. of London to be Chancellour Convocation At London-House for Admission of their Chancellour Elect. The Letters Patents of the University Dr. Frewen continued Vicechancellour The Chancelor's Speech Order taken for weekly Letters from the Vicechancellour Concerning the making and settling the Statutes To Dr. Tolson the Vicechancellour's Deputy about two disorderly Sermons To Dr. Frewin Vicechancellor about observing Formalities My first Letters to the Convocation A 〈◊〉 in Christ Church given to the Hebrew Reader for ever The observing of Formalities The not spolling of his Majesty's Game Dr. Smith Warden of Wadham College apopinted Vicechancellour Dr. Smith A Letter of Thanks from the Vniversity for my Letters to Them Dr. 〈◊〉 the Hebrew Reader 's Thanks for the Prebend of Christchurch procured by me Certain Advertisements given the Vicechancellour at Michaelmas 〈◊〉 Octob 6 1630. An Order De accumulandis Gradibus Octob. 11. 1630. Dr. Prideaux his Letter De Accumulandis Gradibus My Answer to Dr. Prideaux his Letter de accumulandis gradibus Concerning Act Questions A Clause of my Letters to the Vicechancellour de susceptione Gradûs Baccalur in SS Theologiâ Octob. 15. 1630. De gradibus accumulandis Dr. Prideaux his Thanks and an Answer to my former Letters 〈◊〉 The Act Question Dr. Prideaux his Thanks and Acknowledgement of the Justness of my Proceedings The Proctors of the University their Thanks concerning Reformation Concerning the Principal of St. Edmund's Hall To the Vice-Chancellour concerning the Choice of a Principal of St. Edmund's-Hall An Act concerning the Commission for Fees Thanks from the University for my Care of their Liberties My Letters to the Vicechancellour about the publishing of Mr. Page's Book concerning Bowing at the Name of Jesus The occasion of the next foregoing Letter Mr. Baker's Letter to Mr. Page about the not publishing of his Book c. In my Predecessour's time Annus Cancellarii Secundus Dr. Smith continued Vice-Chancellour a Second year My Letters sent with his Majesties to the University about Fees July 4. 1631. His Majesties Letters to be Register'd The Delegates to settle presently the Business of Fees His Majesties Letters to me
about the 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 Thanks from the University about their Fees My Building at S. John's A 〈◊〉 of my Letters to the Vice-chancellour concerning Boots Taverns and the Kings Declaration c. Sept. 23. 1631. This Letter was here placed out of order to the end there might come nothing between the great Business which follows Bachelors of 〈◊〉 to uncover their heads when they meet their Superiours in Degree or be in presence with them Dr. Prideaux and Dr. Fell to read their Lectures according to the Statutes The keeping of his Majestys Declaration urged And to punish Offenders against it The troublesome 〈◊〉 arising in the 〈◊〉 against Government Dr. Duppa's Letters to me concerning the late Disorders in Oxford Dr. Smith Vicechancellor his Petition to the King against Ford's Sermon The Viceehancellors Appeal to his Majesty 〈◊〉 Ford's Case 8. Aug. The great Hearing at Woodstock His Majesties Letter sent to the University after the great Hearing at Woodstock Aug. 24. 1631. Forde Thorne and Hodges banish'd the 〈◊〉 The Proctours Bruche and Doughty to resign their Office Hyde and Hill to be warned at their Return to be in a readiness to answer to their several Charges Every man to give in a true Copy of his Sermon at the Demand of the Vicechancellor and that upon Oath Any man commanded to Prison by the Vicechancellour to submit The Delegates commanded to draw up the first two Statutes concerning Appeals before they Proceed A weekly Meeting every Monday of the Heads of Colleges and Halls Convocatio habita circa Edicta Regis The Proctours Obey and lay down their Offices Procuratores Mag. Erles 〈◊〉 Coll. Merton Mag. Washington Nas. 〈◊〉 Coll. AEn Bannitio Magistrorum praemissorum secundum Edicta Regis The Chappel of Queen's-Coll Wainscotted Mr. Hill's Letter to me how he was mislead by Dr. Prideaux in this business Another Letter of Mr. Hill's to me about Dr. Prideaux Mr. Loyde's Letter to the Vice-Chancel lour Convocatio habita 15 Decemb 1631. circa Statuta quaedam de appellat convent praefectotum De Appellationibus Mr. Hodges his submission Decemb 15. 1631. in Convocation Mr. Hill's submission Decem. 15. 1631. in Convocation Mr. 〈◊〉 submission Mr. Hodges his Letters os Thanks My Letters to the Convocation about the disorders in the Schools the last Lent Procuratores Mr. Chaworth ex AEn Christ. Mr. Meridith e Coll. Omni. Anim. His Majestie 's Letters to me about the Tumults in Lent Disputations Bannitio Mr. Masters 1632. see p. 156. Dr. Duppa Dean of Christ-Church chosen Vice-Chancellour An Order conceived in Oxford touching the Kings Declaration about the five Articles Feb. 9. 1631 2. A passage of my Letters touching the Order the Heads had conceived about the Five Articles My Letters to the Convocation about the Patent for Printing A second Patent procured The Printer not to be confirmed in their places till 〈◊〉 some orders concerning them be 〈◊〉 led Letters of Thanks from the University for getting their Patents of Printing Procuratores Mr. White 〈◊〉 C. C. C. Mr. Page 〈◊〉 Coll. Exon A passage of my Letters to the Vice-Chancellour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Concerning Noble Mens 〈◊〉 their conforming themselves to the Discipline of the University An Order about hastning the New Statutes Phisick Garden Queen's-College Chappel Dr. Duppa continued Vice-Chancellour a second year A Letter to me from the Lords Commissioners for the Navy about the University Privileges for Carriages Certain passages utterd by Dr. 〈◊〉 upon Dr. Heylins Questions at the Vespers on July 6. 1633. Dr. Prideaun's answer to these particulars received August 22 Ex. Act. 20. Dr. 〈◊〉 his Protestation The University submit their Statutes to me and my ordering of them Letters of Thanks concerning their Privileges Thanks from Oxon. for their Mortmain and the Letters from the Counsel about Cottages Procuratores Mr. Pellam e Coll. Magd. Mr. Warren e Coll Wadh. My Proclamation for a Toll-gatherer in Oxford c. May 2. 1634. Christopher Dival chosen Tol-gatherer The Sentence for distutoring of Mr. Oxenbridge of Magd. Hall May 27. An Order about the setling of the Statutes 12. Sep. 1633. University College Dr. Pink appointed Vice-chancellor My Letters to the Convocation about publishing 〈◊〉 Statutes c. The Statutes to be publish'd for a years probation Thanks from the University about their Statutes then sent down and published in Print for a years probation My Letters to the Convocati on concerning the Book of the Statutes delivered to the King and Sir Kenelm Digby's Manuscrspts c. Manuscripts given by Sir 〈◊〉 Digby to the University Two Advertisements of Sir Ken. Digby concerning his Manuscripts to be observed Thanks from the University for the Delivery of their Statutes to the King and for Sir 〈◊〉 Digby's Manuscripts procured by me A Project to set the Poor of Oxford on work Decemb. 28. 1634. Mr. Escots answer to certain of mine concerning the Poor of Oxford Recep March the 10. 1635. My Letters to the University wherein I then gave them certain Manuscripts A Condition to be kept concerning the Manuscripts Thanks from the University for my Manuscripts I gave them Magdalane College Smith-gate Thames brought up to Oxford Henry Birkhead of Trinity Col. seduced by 〈◊〉 Jesuite Dr. Pink continued 〈◊〉 another year A Branch of my Letters to my Lord of Winchester concerning New Coll. in Oxon. Feb. 2. 1635. Concerning the Probationers of New Coll. their reading of Calvin's Institutions too soon My Letters to the University concerning their large Patent procured from his Majesty Letters of Thanks to be sent to his Majesty for their large Patent The Decree of the Lords sent Thanks from the University for their large Patent procnted by 〈◊〉 Thanks for a Prebend procured for the University Orator and his Successors Vniversity Coll. The Agreement between the University and town of Oxford to stand to a final Order upon the hearing of the difference about Felons Goods c. vid. page 199. Procuratores Mr. Brown ex AEd. Chri. Mr. Good e Coll. Novo My Letters to the Convocation when the new Statutes were to be published Commissioners sent by his Majesty about the publishing of the Statutes A Convocation on the 22 of June for the publishing of the new Statutes Mr. Secretary 〈◊〉 Speech in Convocation at the Publication of the new Statutes A Meeting at Dr. Pink's Lodgings about the Protestation of the Provost and Fellows of Queen's Coll. June 22. 1636. A Protestation of the Provost and Fellowes of Queen's-Col about their right of the choice of the Principal of St. Edmund's Hall A Convocation on the 9th of July 1636. wherein my Letters sent to the University were read My Letters to the University when I sent them my second Manuscripts and Coyns The Effigles of King Charles sent to the University Coyns sent Two Idols 〈◊〉 Thanks from the University for perfecting and confirming the Statutes Three Fellowships in Oxford given by King Charles to Scholars of the Isles Jarsey and Garnsey Thanks from the
University for my second Manuscriprs Coyns and the Effigies of King Charles in Brass St. John's Buildings finishit The new ConvocationHouse The Windows of Queen's Col. Chappel Dr. Baylie President of St. John's chosen Vice-Chancel lour My Letters to the Vice-Chancellour about the settlement of the Plays in Oxford against his Majesties coming The University to contribute to the Plays at Christ-Church The materials of the Plays to be safely laid up and kept My Letters concerning the business of the Plays to be registred Four experienced men to be appointed to look to the rates of the Materia's for the Plays Thanks from the University for setting up the Arabick Lecture which I founded for my own time having not means to make it perpetual in hope that by Charity it may grow into perpetuity I appointed Mr Edw. 〈◊〉 of C. C. C. my Reader and the Supend I allow is 〈◊〉 Per Annum Concerning my Entertainment of the King at Oxford I came into Oxford to make things ready for this entertainment upon Thursday August 25. I came in privately at Dinner hour having sent most of my Servants thither the night before and my self lay that night at my Ld. of Oxford's August 〈◊〉 The two Princes names entred in St. John's College The 2 Princes and other Honorable Persons made Masters of Art The King and Queen Prince Elector and Prince Rupert with other Honorable Persons feasted by me at 〈◊〉 John's The latter Play at Christ Church acted over again by the Queen's Players at Hampton Court Novem. 26. My Letters to the Vice-chancellor about the Service to be in Latin at the beginning of Terms c. The Communion to be Celebrated in the Chancel The Vice-chancellor and he that 〈◊〉 with him at the Communion to wear the Surplice The Singing Men to answer in 〈◊〉 My Letters to them concerning business of Importance to be Registred 〈◊〉 from the 〈◊〉 versity for my delivery of their Letters to the Queen about their Play 〈◊〉 of Agreement between the University of Oxon and the Company of Mationers Feb. 16. 〈◊〉 * The Books are specified in the Order from the Council to the Company of Stationers The Copy of a part of my Letters to the 〈◊〉 about the Stationers agreement and the reserving of the 200 l. Per Ann. for the settling of the Learned Press Feb. 24. The Doctors made at his Majesties late being at Oxford either to pay 20 l. a Man or to do their Exercise And this to be Published in Convocation About Concerning the strict observation 〈◊〉 the new 〈◊〉 A care to be had of Noctivagation c. Speaking of Latin urged To Dr. Prideaux concerning his review of Mr. Chillingworths Answer c. March 3. Books Licensed to the Press to have a form of Approbation annexed The Benefit from the Charter of Printing and the Agreement with the Stationers upon it turned to the Learned Press April 10. 〈◊〉 Mr. 〈◊〉 Coll. Oriel Mr. Glisson Coll. Trin. Concerning the calling in of the last English Translation of Bishop Sales his Book of Devotion May 5. Mar 5. A Branch of my Letters to the 〈◊〉 concerning the Matrices Letters and Composer for the 〈◊〉 ss My Book of 〈◊〉 sent for the Library 〈◊〉 to see their Daties Concerning the keeping 〈◊〉 the Statutes too close Additions to be inserted inthe Statute-book of every Col. and Hall Concerning the Proctors collecting the Mulcts 〈◊〉 A Branch of a Letter to the 〈◊〉 concerning Mr. 〈◊〉 his Degree of Master May 19. 〈◊〉 Mr. 〈◊〉 So much of the Statutes as con cern manners or exercise to be contracted into a little Volume and Printed for the Use of the Younger 〈◊〉 The 〈◊〉 Book of Statutes to be 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 Part of a Letter to the Vice-chancellor concerning the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bedells their assistance at the learned Press May 26. To bring in some Batchelors of Art to be Yeomen-Bedels to serve the Press Divinity Disputations Speaking of Latin urged again The Clerkship of St. Mary's and the be stowing of it The Clerk of St. Mary's not to be Clock-keeper A 〈◊〉 to the Vice-chancellor concerning Answerers in the 〈◊〉 and Phisick Act. June 16. The proceeders in either Faculty toprovide his Answererhimself A Passage of a Letter to the Vice-chancellor for Mr. Crofts and his great Horses to depart Oxford Hereupon Mr. Crofts presently left Oxsord Dr. Baylie continued Vice-chancellor a second Year To the Vice-chancellor concerning the Act in the dangerous time of infection June 30. My Letters to the Vicechancelor in the behalf of William Ball for a Yeoman Bedel's Place July 14 1637. He had the Place Mr. Greaves Deputy Arabick-Reader in Mr. Pocock's absence A Passage of a Letter to the Vice-chancellor concerning Mr. Brown and the Stationers July 28. Dr. Fell's Letter to me concerning the too great Number of Victualling-Houses in Oxford Ale-Houses 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 94. August 26. My 〈◊〉 to Dr. 〈◊〉 Letter concerning a Number of Ale-Hoases unlicenced in Oxford Letters from Oxford to Mr. Fish of Clarkenwell to convey two Youths beyond Sea Mr. Fish brought me this Letter August 29. 1637. My Letters to the Vice-chancellor August 29. 1637. sent presently away for care to be had of this Business September 1. 1637. A Passage of a Letter to the Vice-chancellor concerning Mr. Greenwood of Brazen-nose and the formet business concerning the Letter sent to Mr. Fish An Account from the Vice-chancellor about the business concerning Pullin of St. Johns Received Sept. 5. in answer to my Letters on the Wednesday before I left him to the Vice-chancellors disposal but withal to look well to him and what Letters came to him To the Vice-chancellor concerning the Addition to the new Library Sept. 8. The Act taken away by reason of the Sickness To the Vice-chancellor Sept. 15. concerning Knot 's having Mr. Chillingworth's Book from the Press sheet by sheet A Passage of my Letters to the Vice-chancellor Sept. 22. about Mr. Chillingworth's answering the second Part of Knott's Book Letters to Dr. Shelden about Dr. Fell's resignation of the Marg. Lecture and Dr. Lawrence succeeding him Novemb. 3. 1637. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 out of my Letters to the Vice-chancellor Nov. 3. concerning Mr. Brevin of 〈◊〉 his incorporation Samure Concerning the Care of the Proproctors and Masters of Schools for Exercise in Divinity Novemb. 〈◊〉 To the Vice-chancellor concerning Prayers before Sermons according to Canon The Degradation of five men for neglecting to appearat the Act should have been kept Received Nov. 18. December 1. To the Vice-chancellor their 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 within a 〈◊〉 Compass of 〈◊〉 To the Vice-chancellor 〈◊〉 Mr. Chudley's Dispensation for a term to be made Master Mr. Kilby censured for breach of the Five Articles Feb. 12. 〈◊〉 Out of a Letter of the Vice-chancellor concerning some disorders between Christ-Church and Exeter Coll. Men in the Schools in the second Week of 〈◊〉 this Year 〈◊〉 Letters from the University for the taking down of the Conduit at Carfax for a 〈◊〉 My Answer to
the University-Letters concerning the 〈◊〉 Dr. Lawrence chosen to be the Lady Margaret's Reader Mar. 20. To the Vice-chancellor concerning the Non-Incorporation of Masters of 〈◊〉 c. 〈◊〉 ult 〈◊〉 Masters and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Restored Two Passages of my Letter to the Vice-chancellor April 13. about strengthening the Schools About Martin Wescombe to be Master this next All. Notice of some disorders of the Youth this Week against the Proctor with my Answer 〈◊〉 Mr. 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 Coll. Mr. 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 Coll. April 27. 1638. Concerning Gilpin's Expulsion from Magdalen Hall Concerning the Riotous Disorder against Proctor Lawford May 4. My dislike of the Punishment resolved on by the Heads for the late Disorder Upon this the in his 〈◊〉 May 7. 〈◊〉 that he could not make full 〈◊〉 against any else he would have been more Severe May 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cafe in Residing in the University and having two 〈◊〉 with Cure He hath obeyed and is 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 upon one of his 〈◊〉 An 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in liturgia 〈◊〉 â justam 〈◊〉 Scandali Materiam Hereupon the Respoadent and 〈◊〉 were changed 〈◊〉 upon the Receipt of these Letters The Suppressing of the Act or 〈◊〉 it only left to the choice of the Heads The Sickness encreasing in all these neighbouring Parts the Act was supprest in Convocatition on Thursday the 28th of June 1638. Dr. Frewen chosen my Vice-chancellor Aug. 3. 1638. To the Vice-chancellor to look to Scholars for Taverns c. Aug. 10. For Care about Ale-houses To look to the Scholars at his Majesty's coming to Woodstock by reason of my Absence which was never before since I was Chancellor Aug. 17.1638 To the Vice-chancellor about Gowns The fault appeared to be the Taylors only and so I gave order for Punishment From the Vice-chancellor Aug. 27.1638 To the Vice-chancellor Sept. 20. concerning the placing at St. Maries the Sons of Earl's Daughters marryed to Knights Passages out of the Vice-chancellor's Letters with Answers to them 1. Concerning Examinations in Term time It needs not the one being in Statute the other being by Statute put into the Hands of the Proctors 2. Concerning Proctor Corbet of Merton-College about his assisting at the Communion at the begining of Term. Proctor Corbet's Petition Notwithstanding this to your 〈◊〉 you shall give the Proctor no Answer at all from me 〈◊〉 Every 〈◊〉 to have a distinct Bell tolled to his Lecture This is since ordered by the Heads and settled The New Convocation-House in use Octob. 10. Examination for Degrees Out of the Vice-chancellor's Letter Octob. 15. The Manner of Proctor 〈◊〉 Conformity To the Vice-chancellor Octob. 18. to send away Mr. Little and Mr. Verier to reside upon their several Benefices It was time to take this 〈◊〉 for the Vice-chancellor sent me word Octob. 22. that there is much declaiming at St. Maries against Non-Presidents in general Of which these give too just Cause Woodruff's Non-Resistence To the Vice-chancellor Octob. 31. My Resolution about Non-Residents in general A Note to be brought in of all the Beneficed Men in every College and Hall Which was done accordingly The Guernsey Man's Incorporation Mr. Vane incorporated Master A Petition against the 〈◊〉 of Oxford for spoyling the High-ways by their too great Carriages My Answer for redress of this abuse directed to the Vice-chan cellor Out of Dr. Turner's Letter to me of Merton-College of the good Success of the new Statute de Examinandis Candidat sent about 〈◊〉 time The Care and Moderation of the Vice-chancellor herein No more than 15 Doctors to attend His Majesty at Woodstock The King's Letters to Christ-Church for suppressing their Westminster Supper dated about the 20. of December Out of my Letters to the Vice-chancellor for Privileged Men to provide Arms January 17th 20 Priviledged Men charged with Corslets and 30 with Musquets To the Vice-chanceller Feb. 7. for watchfulness against the Jesuites * His Name is Weale To the Vice-chancellor concerning the Masters wearing their Hats and Lawyers Gowns and for him to look to them Feb. 20. 〈◊〉 I approve their sitting bare so long as they go along the Streets in their Caps and keep Form which the Vice-chancellor assures me they do To the Vice-chancellor Feb. ult the forbidding of Set Coursing betwixt Colleges in Lent From the Vice-chancellor March 4. Circuiting for Degrees to begin from the Schools Batchelors Disputations in Lent The Vice-chancellor concerning the Towns requiring Contributions of the Priviledged Persons towards their 15 Soldiers out of his Letters April 15. Procuratores Mr. Fulbamex AEd. Christi Mr. Heywood E. Coll. AEr Nas. An Information how divers Discontinuers from Oxford resort to Cambridge for their Degrees to elude the Statutes of their own University A Branch of my Letter of April 25. to the Vice-chancellor upon this Information The Vice-chancellor of Cambridge his Answer to Dr. Frewen's Letter touching the Business aforesaid To Dr. Fell Dean of Christ-Church concerning his private Examinations after the publick Dr. Fell hath assured that there shall be no Examination in the College hereafter but it shall preceed Examinations of the University To the Vice-chancellor concerning Adamus Francius Both the Vice-chancellors sent me word that they could hear of no such Man for the present but that they would enquire further after him The Difference between Proctor Fulham and Dr. Fell Dean of Christ-Church in the case of Moore My Letters to Dr. Fell about the aforesaid Business My Letters to the Convocation the third time when I sent them my Manuscripts and Coins with the Book belonging to them Entituled Elenchus Numismatum Thanks from the University for my 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Volumina quae misi de proprio fuere Mille 〈◊〉 duo July 10. Two ignorant Batchelors repelled by the Vice-chancellor from their Admission They were of Glocester-Hall 831 l. brought into the University Chest for this Year Annuity of 8 l. per Ann. bought in The University stock at present Dr. Frewen continued Vice-chancellor a second year Warning given that the Masters keep their Seats whilest either any publick Letters are read or solemnSpeeches made in Convocation No Man to enter the Convocation-House upon pain of Imprisonment that is not a Member of that Body The Vice-chancellor sent his Warrant for three Scholars who had shewn College-plate in Town which 〈◊〉 had batter'd together Fixt Seats for the Examiners and the Candidates A Branch of my Letters of Octob. 4. to the Vice-chancellor about the observing of Formalities Elzy the Attorney The Chandlers about the Price of Candles A Passage out of the Vice-Chancellor's Letters touching the Seats for the Examinations A Passage of my Letters to Dr. Fell D. of Christ Church concerning a 〈◊〉 made to him by the Students there for the change of their hour of Vespers from four to five Sir H. 〈◊〉 Greek Letters in Turner the 〈◊〉 hands On Thursday 〈◊〉 13. the Greek Letters and deliver'd them by weight as 〈◊〉 receiv'd them there were 〈◊〉 any wanting He came very unwillingly 〈◊〉 To Mr. Thomas