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 Ivi INTRODUCTION. no longer any such question as that raised by Dr. Miller in re- ference to the validity of those Statutes, or in regard to the distinct existence of the College and the University. A very clear and concise history of the different Char- ters and Statutes, in chronological order, will be found in the Introduction to the University Calendar of 1 869, including the Letters Patent of Queen Victoria, January 31, 1855 (18 Vict.), amending the Statutes of Charles I., those of July 24, 1857, (21 Vict.), incorporating the Senate; the Letter of December, 1858 (22 Vict.), for foundation of Studentships, and other de- tails; the Decree of nth December, 1858, containing Amend- ments of the University Statutes, made by the Provost and Senior Fellows, with consent of the Senate, in pursuance of Letters Pa- tent, 21 Vict. : with supplemental enactments, Dec. 10, 1859, and July 18, i860. These later Charters and Decrees, from 1855 to i860, exhibit the present state of the University Sta- tutes, with the manner and conditions upon which Degrees are conferred.* Allusions have been made in the foregoing pages^ to the existence, for a short time, of Colleges or Halls, in the Univer- sity, and some have supposed that the phrase " Mater Universi- tatis," in the Charter of Elizabeth, indicated the establishment of Halls or Colleges as necessary to complete the idea of an University.'^ This, I trust, has been shown not to be the true signification of the phrase in question. There is, however, a difficulty as to the mention in the Sta- tutes of Temple of these new foundations, inasmuch as they were not in existence (with the exception of the unfinished Bridewell, " All othei' particulars, Terms tatis as not inconsistent with a single and Exercises, Standing required, College. " Quod ad Prasposituram and Fees payable for Degrees, will CoUegii attinet ; Cum Collegium hoc be found in the University Calendar. sit Mater Universitatis et unicum ^ See p. XXXV, note b. istius regni." This is given as the " The following words of the Sta- reason why the Crown reserves in tutes of Charles I. (cap. 25), seem to future the nomination of the Provost speak of the words Mater Universi- to itself.