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vi books have not been made use of in the following pages, as they gave no information as to Degrees.

V. ; two series of these books are kept. They contain the names of all members of the College, and are written out at certain short intervals. The Senior Book contains the names of the Fellows, Doctors, Masters, and the higher classes of Undergraduates in standing and rank; the Junior Book contains the Junior Undergraduates and students of inferior rank. In these books are recorded the punishments imposed on such students as have incurred the censure of the Deans for any neglect of duty or misconduct. They commence from about 1673. The following Junior Books are unfortunately missing: from 31st December, 1687, to 18th September, 1691; from March, 1717, to January, 1718; from 1724 to 1726; from 1728 to 1734. The loss of these books renders it impossible to determine what students were sizars, during the period to which they relate.

The troublous times in the reign of Charles I., the irregularities of the Commonwealth, and the great poverty of the College at that period, to say nothing of its internal dissensions, and want of government, lead us naturally to expect considerable