Volume 1

The history and antiquities of the University of Oxford ... / by Anthony ä Wood. Now first published in English ... by John Gutch.

  • Anthony Wood
Date:
1792-1796
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    This by the way argueth that the Univerfity flood now exempted (as it were) from all Diocefan jurifdidtion or power: for, if in this delegated power of theirs over the Diocefan, they were fo tender, fearing leafl there- by they fhould give him occafion to grow in further upon them, and to intermeddle with the Liberties, Privileges &c. of the Univerfity, how much more would they have fhewed themfelves to be, if the faid Diocefan fhould have called thefe controverfies before him of himfelf, and proceeded therein by his ordinary power, as Diocefan &c. But to proceed; the Bifhop of Lincoln being thus poflponed, and another perfon appointed to compound the matter, the Univerfity in a Congregation of Regents and Non Regents held 26 of the faid month of Jan. did in order to the Compofition give power (i) to Dr. Chaundler the Chancellor, G. Nevyll Bifhop of Exeter, and others ‘ of feeing the Privileges concerning the Servants of the Univer- fity and all fuch who ought to enjoy the Liberties of the Univerfity by virtue of the faid Privileges See.’ So that upon this power, they drawing up heads for a compofition, were, after they»had been confulted by divers perfons, referred to and inferted in an Indenture, witneffed and fealed 23 Febr. following. (2) All this being done, one Stokys, lately Baillive of the Town, was freed from prifon for imprifoning a Scholar againfl the Privileges of th^ Uni- verfity, 27 June going before. For fo it was, that he being fent there by the Chancellor of the Univerfity for that his prefumptuous adl; the Mayor of the Town went forthwith to Woodflock, and befeeched the King and his Council (being there prefent) that they would deliver him from prifon ‘ ad mandatum Domini Regis et non Domini Cancellarii (as one of our Regiflers (3) faith) quafi volens invito D’no Cancellario ipfum deliberari et a carceribus diffolvi. Tamen tunc deliberatum erat per Concilium Regis et ultimate difeuffum, quod quia praedidlus Ballivus Privilegiorum Univer- fitatis prsefumptubfus Tranfgreffor extiterat, ipfum in vinculis permanere ad tempus quo placeret Domino Cancellario, ilium Baillivum fuum prefio- narium ex fua gratia deliberare, 6cc.’ Two days after the faid Compofition was made, the King by his Letters Pat. commanded (4) the Baillives to take care that the Streets fliould be (1) Ibid. fol. 115, b. (3) A a ut fupra, fol. 112, b. (2) Inpyx.LL.nu. 3 et 4 : [exemplif. et con- (4) Harus [de Priv. fol. 144 a.] ex Rot. firm, per Chart. R. Hen. VI, an. 37, Febr. 26 :] Pat. 37 Hen. VI, p. i, m 7. ct in A et B in initio : C fol. 143 : F 106, b, &c. kept