quietabo, per me, alium vel alias, seu ab aliis prosequi vel molestari seu inquietari ea de causa quantum in me fuerit permittam; sed sponte simpliciter vel absolute, omni actioni, contra Rectorem aut alios dicti Collegij Scholares quomodo libet appellationi & querela in ea parte faciendis, ac quorumcunque literar' impetrationi precibus principum, prælatorum, procerum, magnatum, & aliorum quorumcunque, quibus post' adjus, titulum & possessionem vindicandum reconciliari, ac quibuscunque juris & facti remediis per quæ me petere possem integrum restitui, quantumcunque alias mihi probitatis & vitæ merita suffragantur, in vim pacti renuncio: To be just and impartial in Election of Scholars, not to reveal the Secrets, &c. not to desert the College to be of another, without License, &c.
The Jury finds, That according to the Statutes there are probationary Scholars, who are to be such for a Year, before they be admitted to be true and perpetual Scholars, and that every one chosen in for a Probationer, shall swear that he cannot certainly expend above four Marks per Annum; to be true to the College, and not to reveal Secrets to its Scandal, Prejudice or Danger; not to make or procure any Conventicles, Conspiracies, or Contracts against the Ordinances and Statutes of the College, or the Honour of the College or the Rector, &c. to promote Peace there; & si contingat me (quod absit) juxta formam & exigentiam Statutor a prædict' Collegio expelli seu amoveri per Rectorem & alias [38] person' in hujusmodi expulsione interesse habentes, &c. in like Manner as the perpetual Scholars swear.
The Statute of Visitation.—Then the Jury find the Statute de Visitatione, reciting how prone Mankind is to Evil, and Time changeth the best Things, and that 'tis impossible to make Laws, but by Mis-construction, Fraud, or other Practise may be dissolved, that he confided in the Bishops of Exeter his Successors (quos dicti Collegij Patronos & visitatores relinquimus) that those who are brought thither through fervent Charity, being inflamed with Christian Faith, might watch to the preserving that Nursery; that the Statutes and Ordinances of the College might be studiously observed, Virtue and Learning be nourished, their Possessions and Goods, spiritual and temporal, may flourish, their Rights, Liberties and Privileges may be defended: Ea de causa liceat Domino Episcopo Exon' qui pro tempore fuerit, & nulli alij nec aliis, quoties per Rectorem dicti Collegij, & in ejus absentia Sub-rectorem & quatuor alios ad minus ex septem maxime senioribus Scholaribus, fuerit, requisitus, necnon absque requisitione ulla de quinquennio in quinquennium semel ad dictum Collegium per se, vel suum Commissar' quem duxerit deputandum, libere accedere; cui quidem Reverendo—He gives full Power upon all Articles in the Statutes contained, and other Articles concerning the Estates, Honours or Profits of the College, to interrogate and examine the Rector, Scholars, and elect, and to compel them by Oath, and Censures if need be, to say the Truth, and all Crimes and Offences of the said College whatsoever, Commissa & in ea visitatione Comperta, according to the Quality of the Offence to punish and reform, and to do all Things requisite quoad eorum correctionem & reformationem, etiamsi ad deprivationem seu amotionem Rectoris, Sub-rectoris aut alterius cujusquam, ab administratione sua vel officio, sive ad amotionem alicujus Scholaris vel Electi ab eodem Collegio, Statut & Ordinationibus id exigentibus, procedere contingat: Stat' insuper, that none in dictis visitationibus in dicto Collegio faciend' contra Rectorem, Sub-rectorem aut aliquem alium ipsius Collegij quemcunque dicat, deponat seu denunciat, nisi quod verum crediderit, seude quo publica vox vel fama laboraverit contra eundem in virtute juramenti ab eo prius Collegij præstiti: Ordinantes præterea ut Dominus Episcopus Exon' cum in persona propria visitare aut præmiss' facere dignatur, Rector & duo Scholares ex præsentibus maxime Senioribus unam in Collegio refectionem quadraginta solidor expensas non excedentem eidem Episcopo humiliter & reverenter offerent. Commissario autem cum præmissa fecerit duas refectiones in Collegio vel viginti solidos per manus Rectoris de bonis Collegij per solvi concedimus pro omnibus laboribus & expensis in hanc Causam tam in itinere quam in Universitate tempore hujus visitationis. Itaque Dominus Episcopus quadragint' solid', Commissarius vero viginti solid', in uno & eodem anno pro actu visitationis ad sumptus Collegij non excedat; nec inceptam aliquam visitationem ultra duos dies proxime sequentes, aut ex causis urgentissimis & rarissimis ultra tres dies prorogari aut continuari ullo pacto volumus, sed lapso & acto illo biduo,
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