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INTliODUCTION. xix citia adimplendi, quemadmodum Prseposito et majori parti Soci- orum visum fuerit. Ac ut omnes personas pro hujusmodi rebus melius promovendis eligere, ereare, nominare, et ordinare pos- sint, sive sit Procancellarius, Procurator, aut Procuratores (nam Cancellarii dignitatem honoratissimo et fidelissimo Consiliario nostro Gruilelmo Cecillio Domino Baroni de Burghley totius Anglise Thesaurario delegatam approbamus) et ut postbac ido- neam hujusmodi personam cum defuerit pro bujus Oollegii Can- cellario Propositus et major pars Sociorum eligant ordinamus." Tbe second sentence, ' Hoc semper . . . babeant,' may be put in a parenthesis, or omitted altogether, as suggested by Dr. Todd. The remainder may then be divided into two parts ; the one part governed by the ' ordinamus ' at the open- ing ; the same word at the close governing the other. The point of separation of the two parts is at ' Ac ut.' The sub- ordinate clauses dependent on the same 'ordinamus' are, in each case, connected together by ' et ut,' while ' ac ' is used to connect the two main sentences. The words 'ut omnes per- sonas ordinare possint ' are naturally connected with the second 'ordinamus,' not with the first. 'Prnepositus et major pars Sociorum' may properly be taken as the nomina- tive to 'possint,' as well as to 'eligant.' Dr. Todd's more limited extract does not contain the first 'ordinamus,' and therefore ' et ut . . . . visum fuerit ' appears in it to be con- nected with the second 'ordinamus.' His view that the sfic- diosi were to elect the Vice-Chancellor, Proctors, &c., was never acted on. In the Introduction to the University Calendar, A.D. 1869, to which he specially refers as "containing a clear and concise history of the different Charters," this power of election is stated to have been given by the Charter of Queen Elizabeth to the Provost and major part of the Fellows. No instance has been shown in which the studiosi claimed or were allowed to exercise this power, to which if they had a right, they could not have been deprived of it, without their consent, by the Charter of King Charles I. We have the record of the appointment of Ussher to the office of Vice-Chancellor, a. u. VOL. II.