INTRODUCTION. xxi in possession of all power, and of scholars, as merely subject members of the little state, no mention is made." In another part of the same volume of his learned work (p. 348) he contro- verts an opinion of Buloeus, that besides the assemblies of regent masters and of regents and non-regents, there was another as- sembly which included the students ; but Savigny says that Bulseus could not point out a case in which such an assembly had been held, and that the grounds for the opinion appear to be, first, an incidental statement in a manuscript treatise of un- known date and origin ; second, the very usual official phrase,
- ' Uuiversitas Magistrorum et Scholarium." " But this " (he
adds) "proves nothing, as in any case the students belonged to the University as dependent members, even if they had no voices in it, but were only represented by the Professors. This explanation is confirmed by a resolution, a.d. 1250 (Bui. vol. iii. p. 356), the preamble of which has the formula 'Eector et Universitas Magistrorum et Scholarium,' but the conclusion of which is, ' Datum Parisiis, in nostra congregatione generali Magistrorum, tum regentium quum non regentium.' " With reference to the election of the Eector, Savigny says : " The Doctors of the three Faculties could neither themselves become Hector nor take part in the election ; both were reserved for the Masters of the artists." The earliest Statutes of Oxford are supposed to have been nearly a wholesale adoption of those of Paris. A regulation, attributed to the date a.d. 1250, requires that every scholar shall have his own master, on whose roll (matricula) his name must be entered, and of whom he shall hear one lecture daily.* Amongst the Statutes of Cambridge, there i-s one said to be "ante annum 1276," by which a scholar was required, within fifteen days, to inscribe himself in the matricula of some Master of Arts, t I do not find that in either of these Universities
- Munimenta Academica Oxon., yersity and Colleges of Cambridge,
p. 17- vol. i. p. ^s^. t Documents relating to the Uni-
