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 xlvi INTRODUCTION. almam nostram Matrem vindicemus, unanimiter declaramus, notumque uni- versis facimus per praesentes, " I. Quod agnosclmus gratoque animo recolimus hujus tam Academlae quam Regni et Ecclesiae salutem et prosperum quo nunc fruuntur statum, necnon ab ingruente Papisino cum tyrannide securitatem, Divino favente Numine, nuperse rerum sub serenissimo nostro et pise memorise Rege,Guilielmo Tertio mutationi omnino deberi, " 2. Quod Deo Opt. Max. gratias referimus ob continuatam nobis auctara- que hanc nostram felicitatem sub imperio Serenissimse nostrse Reginas Annse, quo ut ipsa per multos annos potiatur exoptamus et precamur. " 3. Quod futurse hujus, tam Academise quam Ecclesiae et Regni securi- tatis, spes nostra a coronse horum regnorum successione lege stabilita et ad Reformatse Religionis professores limitata sub Divino favore omnino de- pendent. "Et si quis hujus Academise alumnus (quod absit) huic nostras Declara- tioni se quovis modo, sive verbo sive scriptis opposuerit, eum nos pro seditioso publicse pacis turbatore, Ecclesiseque reformatse oppugnatore habituri sumus ; in eumque juxta laudabiles nostras leges et statuta animadverteraus. " Factaque a nobis hac publica et solenni declaratione, speramus neminem fore adeo iniquum et a charitate destitutum ut palam declaret aut clanculum insinuet Academiam nostram vel minimum favere illis quos aut Famam nuperi nostri Regis Guilielmi Isedere, aut erga serenissimam nostram Reginam Annam, minus fideles esse aut successioni ad coronam Statutis Regni limi- tatse aversari deprehenderit. "In cujus rei testimonium nomina nostra subscripsimus : — " It will be seen that Forbes was first expelled from the College by the Provost and Senior Fellows, and suspended from his De- grees ; afterwards deprived and degraded by the University. It was necessary that he should be first expelled by the College,^ by which expulsion he ceased to be a student, and lost the right to a Degree which the Charter of Elizabeth gave him. The University was therefore free to deal with him as if he had never been a member of the College. Florence Nally, a Master of Arts, was who was then Vice-Chancellor, and expelled for immorality. Here again Vice- Master, or Vice-Provost, the the expulsion was by the unanimous Provost (Temple) being absent, consent of the Fellows then present,
 * On the 29th January, 161 1, one withthe approbation of Dr. Challoner^