Graduation under the Medical and Scottish Universities Acts : with some account of the origin of universities and degrees / by Robert Christison.

  • Robert Christison
Date:
1861
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    King’s grace. The students, commiserating the prisoners, implored the king that the whole criminals should he let off with a school-whipping at the university. But Philip declined to abate from the dignity of the crown by trans- ferring to others the punishment of his own malefactors. Accordingly the Prefect remained in prison; whence, in dread of the king’s vengeance, he endeavoured to make his escape. But, as he was descending a lofty wall by a rope, the rope broke, he fell down headlong, and was killed on the spot. On this occasion Philip granted by edict to the univer- sity that the scholars should not be taken before the secular authorities of the city for delinquencies—“ Quod nullus Clericus trahatur ad seculare examen propter aliquod delictum quod fecerit. Sed si Clericus de- liquerit, tradatur Episcopo, et secundum judicium Cleri tractetur. . . . Quicumque fuerit Propositus Parisius, juret quod fidem servabit clericis, salva fidelitate Eegis. Pro- terea idem Bex dedit scholaribus firmam pacem suam, et earn eis charta sua confirmavit.” Du Boulay quotes the edict from the university archives, and the narrative from the writings of an English authority, Roger Houeden, who lived in the reign of King John. [Bulcei, Hist. Univ. Paris, iii. 1.] Kote F. P. 46. Du Boulay, who seems to have gone very minutely into these old legends, observes that some old English