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xviii INTRODUCTION. Fc4lows, to elect, create, nominate, and ordain the University officers, such as the Vice-Chancellor, Proctors, &c. ; whilst tho election of a Chancellor (after the first) Avas confided to the Provost and major part of the Fellows. In order to sustain this contention, he sets out in a note (p. xxii., d) what he describes as " tho whole passage of the Charter." But in the text of the same page of this Introduction it will be found that the sentence with which his extract begins is said to be imme- diately connected with a clause that is before set forth (p. xx.) He gives a sufficient reason for omitting from his extract the clause that intervenes, inasmuch as it merely defines the dura- tion of a Fellowship, and is not relevant to the question as to the studiosi. But I cannot find any reason for the omission of the preceding clause which is relevant, and with which the clause he places at the beginning of his extract is (as he has admitted and pointed out) " connected." In fact, the omission of this clause made it necessary for him to insert the word [studiosi] in brackets in the first clause of his extract. This word is taken from this omitted clause. In order to prevent any misconception or mistake from unauthorised punctuation or otherwise, I have extracted the whole passage as it stands in the original Charter, from which I have had it copied, and with which the copy has been carefully collated. It is as follows : — " Et cum gradus quosdam in artibus et facultatibus constitui Uteris fuisse adjumento compertum sit, ordinamus per prsesentes ut studiosi in hoc Collegio sanctse et individuse Trinitatis Eliza- bethse Peginas juxta Dublin libertatem et faeultatem habeant gradus tum Baccalaureatus Magisterii et Doctoratus juxta tem- pus idoneum in omnibus artibus et facultatibus obtinendi. Hoc semper interim proviso, ut cum hujus Collegii Socii septem in- tegros annos post gradum Magisterii ibi assumptum adimple- verint, tum e Sociorum numero amoveantur, ut alii in eorum locum suffecti pro hujus Regni et Ecclesioe beneficio emolu- mentum habeant. Et ut intra se pro hujusmodi gradibus assequendis habeant libertatem omnia acta et scholastica exer-