limits of the Queen's Kingdom of Ireland, without her special Licence.[1]
The next clause of the Charter defines the privileges of students, as members of the University, in reference to the right of obtaining Degrees in all Arts and Faculties. The words are important: " Cum gradus quosdam in Artibus et Facultatibus constitui litcris fuisse adjumento compertum sit, ordinamus per præsentes, ut studiosi in hoc Collegio sanctæ et individuæ Trinitatis Elizabethse Reginæ juxta Dublin, libertatem et facultatem habeant, Gradus tam Baccalaureatûs, Magisterii, et Doctoratûs, juxta tenipus idoneum, in omnibus Artibus et Facultatibus obtinendi."
Here it is to be observed, 1. That the Queen, considering the great benefit to letters of Academic degrees, grants, immediately from Herself, without the mention of any subordinate authority, the privilege of obtaining degrees, to the students of the College, and to the students of the College only, including the Fellows, as appears from the next clause, which limits the
- ↑ "Et præsertim ne artes liberales quispiam ullis aliis in locis publice profiteatur, aut edoceat, intra regni nostri Hibernise limites, sine licentia nostri speciali." The object of this clause seems to have been to secure what, as we have seen, was deemed essential to an University—that there should be no public Professors of the liberal arts in more than one place, or except where the University had jurisdiction; and that such instruction should be given only with special licence from the Crown, and therefore not in opposition to the University, or by disloyal persons.
16 Statutes, sanctioned by Laud, left the duty prescribed to the College unfinished., so long as the University Statutes were incomplete. It must signed and corrected by Laud, as Chancellor of the University, are the Statutes of Charles. Carte says that Laud's work was incomplete, although he had sanctioned the College Statutes: but why incomplete? Evidently because the University Statutes had not been similarly sanctioned, although equally enjoined by the Charter. And accordingly Bishop Jeremy Taylor, on succeeding to the Office of Vice -Chancellor, set himself to complete the work which Laud had left unfinished. It is an important fact that Laud, by the King's desire, signed every page of the Statutes of Charles I., proving that the King did not desire to impose upon the College even his own Royal Statutes, without the sanction of the Chancellor of the be borne in mind that the Statutes University.
