xlii INTRODUCTION. and caps to the Castle, thence to attend his Lordship ; soe as the Bedel may go first, after him all the candidates bare, the Juniors first, then the Sword and my Lord's personal attendance, after them my Lord himself, then the Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Pro- vost, after them the Lords of the Council, then the Doctors in their Scarlet, then the two Proctors, the Senior carrying his Book;* after them the Bachelors of Divinity, and Masters ac- cording to their Seniority. " 2. As my Lord comes in the Hall, Mr. Boyle^ is to receive him with a short speech, by way of salutation, which done his Lordshipp is to pass thro' the Hall to the Regent-house, there to take his seate ; then to give oath to the Pro-Vice-Chancelloi'^ and after to the Proctors : the Vice-Chancellor, after his oath, is to sitt in a chaire placed below my Lord's towards the right-hand, the Provost towards the left — both with a table and cushion be- fore them ; the Proctors, after their oath, are to take their seates on the two sides of another table, so as their faces must bee towards the Chancellor; this table to stand in the midle of the house, the Register at the farther end of the table. The Candi-. dates are to bee uncovered.
- This mention of the Senior Proc- University CaZe?u7«r (List of Fellows
tor's Book shows that the University at the year 1646). Statutes, which it contains, were not c The Pro- Vice-Chancellor and considered as abrogated by the new the Vice-Chancellor are spoken of as Statutes of Charles I. They are both present, although the latter commonly called Taylor's Statutes, only is sworn. The Chancellor was, but were probably drawn up on the of course, present, as it was to cele- basis of Temple's, by Provost Bedell, brate his re-instation in the office that and corrected perhaps by Jeremy the Commencements were held. It is Taylor. very unusual that a Pro-Vice-Chan- >> This must have been Roger cellor should be present, or, indeed, Boyle, admitted a Fellow by Royal that such an officer should exist, when Letter in 1646, Dean of Cork, 1662, both Chancellor amd Vice-Chancellor D. D., JEst. 1664, Bishop of Down were present. The paper was, pro- and Connor, 1667, Clogher, 1672, bably, drawn up at the Herald's Office died Nov. 26, 1687. Therefore these in the Castle ; and it was reasonable Commencements must have been held that mistakes should be made as to the between 1646 and 1662, or 1663. — See names and dates of University officers.
