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 - INTRODUCTION. ix may, therefore, be said that the College was adorned or invested with the privileges of a University. But after the holding of Commencements (which first took place a. d. 1600, juxta tempus idoneum, i.e. seven years after the foundation of the College), the University was brought to the birth, and thenceforth it was distinct from, although dependent on, its mater — the College. As thus constituted, and as it then existed, it was recognised by the Charter of King Charles I. as ' Academia sive Universitas.' The Chancellor, who had been described in the Charter of Eli- zabeth as Chancellor of the College (at a time when the Univer- sity existed only in intendment and consideration of law) is designated in the Charter of King Charles I. as Chancellor " Academise sive Universitatis prEedictre." This Charter creates the distinction of Senior and Junior Fellows, and makes the Provost and Senior Fellows the governing body of the College. It gives to them the power of nominating, electing, and ad- mitting the Chancellor, Proctors, and all other officers ' ad Academiam spectantes,' save the Yice- Chancellor — he is to be appointed by the Chancellor. To them the power is given by the Statutes of King Charles I. (cap. iv.), "ut graduum coUa- tiones definiant et concludant." The leges Academise (as already observed, that had been framed under the Charter of Queen Elizabeth, are recognised in these Statutes, cap. v. (Barrett MSS. 357.) This code, much of which was taken from the Statutes of Trinity College and other Colleges in Cambridge, prescribes (inter alia) a course of discipline and tutorial instruction for undergraduates (cap. xv.), which has since been largely amended and improved. In cap. xxv. the College is again described as 'mater Universitatis.' The Chancellor of the University, or (in his absence) the Vice-Chancellor, together with the Archbishop of Dublin, are made the only Visitors of the College, with large powers of supervision. Where power is given to the Provost and Senior Fellows to make new decrees, 'in casibus omissis,' it is required that they should have the consent of the Visitors. In cases of doubt