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xxii to the restriction that the Degrees of Bachelor, Master, and Doctor be taken juxta tempiis idoneum, i. e., according to the rules of time or standing, fixed by the usages of other Universi- ties, and particularly Cambridge, which had been especially followed in the times and rules for taking Degrees.

Then follows in the ordinary printed copies of Elizabeth's Charter a clause (which ought to have been in a parenthesis), defining the duration of Fellowships. With this we have no concern at present ; but the words that immediately follow are connected with the clause quoted p. xx, ending with the words, "in omnibus artibus et facultatibus obtinendi." The real mean- ing of the passage has been generally misunderstood. It enacts that the students spoken of as entitled to take Degrees, or who have taken Degrees, are to have the power of electing and creating the necessary University officers, with the excep- tion of the Chancellor, the first Chancellor having been nomi- nated in the Charter, and the Provost and Fellows empowered to elect on all subsequent vacancies.