INTRODUCTION. xliii " 3. The Earle of Ossory's supplicat is to be made by my Lord of Meath in such forme as his Lordship shall conceive fit, and then to be, after the Placets are gathered, presented by my Lord of Meath, and after lead him [_sic] to the Pro- Vice-Chancellor who admits him ; and then the Bedel leads him to an empty chair which stands beside the Proctors. Then the Bedel by direction shall speak thus. Pone manum in manu Magistri, which done, the Bedel shall say, respondebis qucestioni in aiwe Magistri sedendo ; this hee must do, have his capp sett on by the Proctor, and after he shall be led by the Bedel to his first seate. "4. Then Mr. Bishopp*" reads all the supplicates for Doctors of Divinity, and by the Vice-Chancellour's direction, the Bedel is to cry, A d scruliniiim primo : after a pause, by a second direc- tion, hee cries Ad scrutinium secundo : then the Proctors gather Placets on both sides the house, and meetinge at the end consult, and the Seniour Proctor answers Placet or Non placet, as they find it ; {{Placet^ the Bedel goes down and brings upp the candidates, and leading them round about the Regent-house, sahites all the
- The Earl of Ossory, here men- after the present Commeucements.
tioned, must have been Thomas, Earl ^ The Mr. Bishop, here mentioned, of Ossory, eldest son of James, first was probably James Bishop, who was Duke of Ormonde, and father of elected a Fellow in 1637, the first James, second Duke ; who was Chan- election under the new Statutes. He cellor of the University in 1688. The seems to have left College, probably Bishop of Meath who presented the on a living, but in 1644 was admitted Earl of Ossory for his Degree, was Senior Fellow by Mandamus of the probably Henry Jones, who was Lord Deputy. It does not appear Bishop of that see from 1661 to his that he was a Senior Fellow in 1662. death, in 168 1, and Vice-Chancellor But he may have been present at of the University from 1651. It is these Commencements, where he strange that the only Earl of Ossory seems to have acted as Professor of mentioned in our Books as having Divinity. We do not find, however, taken any Degree here, is James, se- that he ever rose to the degree of cond Duke of Ormonde, who was ad- D.D. in this University. {Vid. infra, mitted A. M. ad eund. from Cam- p. 46, line 9.) But all things in those bridge, 1680, and took the degrees of revolutionary times were so out of LL.B., andLL. D.,in 1681, Seeinfra, joint, that we can draw no certain p. 83, line 22. Butthis was some years conclusion from irregularities.
