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 INTEODUCTION. xxiii entertain and establish for the government of the College any good and fit law observed in Cambridge" (p. 100). In ano- ther page the Statutes 'pro regimine Collegii' are spoken of as " framed after the best laws in Cambridge." In the Charter of King Charles I., where the power of making or establishing laws for the government of the College is taken away from the governing body, and reserved to the Crown in future, both parts of the clause in the Charter of Queen Elizabeth (the one as to making such laws, and the other as to adopting any of the ' leges constitutas ' in the University of Cambridge or of Oxford) are recited, and then the Charter proceeds to take away ' banc potes- tateni.' If this did not include both, why were both recited? The ' leges Academies ' were not interfered with. By the recent Charter (21 Vict.), the power of altering, amending, or repealing any of these ' leges Academise,' and of making new laws from time to time for the like purpose, is ex- pressly given to the Provost and Senior Fellows ; but, in order that such alterations or additions may be binding upon the Uni- versity, it is required that they shall have received the sanction of the Senate in Congregation lawfully assembled. The result, then, appears to me tb be this : —. 1. That the College has certain University privileges which have been conferred on its studiosi and on its govern- ing body. 2. That the University (properly so called) is a distinct cor- porate body. 3. That the studiosi have not, and never had, the right to elect any of the principal officers of the University. 4. That the governing body of the College had the power of making the ' leges Academias,' with reference to the conferring of Degrees, and were not confined to the adoption of laws of either of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. 5. That the true intent and purpose of the Charters and Statutes is, to deal with the College and the University as integral parts of one educational institution, in which a com-