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 XXX LXTPiODUCTIOxX. Note C, Pagk xx. " Mem"". That Mar. 2, 1614, Doctor Ussher was chosen Vico-Chan- cellor by the Provost and Fellows, and the next day ho was contirmed and approved touching this choice by the whole Senate of the Univer- sity." The form seems to have been the same as was used in the elec- tion of the Chancellor (Archbishop Abbot). In the same Register it is stated that he was chosen by the Provost and Fellows on 27th August, 16 1 2, and that this choice was published and notified in a solemn congregation of Regents and Xon- Regents, called to that end and purpose. There is another entry in this Register in which the re-appointment of Ussher is stated. " Memorand. That July 3, 1617, Dr. Ussher was again chosen Vice-Chancellor by the Provost and Fel- lows." Each of these entries is signed W. Temple, Prov. "With reference to the grammatical construction of the passage in the Charter of Elizabeth (p. xviii.), under which these elections took place, it has been suggested by more than one competent classical authority, that the ' contemporanea expositio ' is preferable to that of Dr. Todd. By one of these it is said that, according to Dr. Todd's view, a new sentence, completely separate from the preceding, and in which the principal verb has a different nominative, begins at ' et ut posthac,' &c. The parenthesis, then explaining why the office of Chancellor is not specified with, the others to be elected by the studiosi, is connected with the preceding sentence ; but the parenthetical explanation would be quite irrelevant and unmeaning in such a place, if it was never in- tended that the Chancellor should be elected by the studiosi, as the next sentence shows to be the case. The parenthetical explanation (differently worded perhaps) would naturally come in after the ' post- hac' or ' defuerit,' but would be altogether inappropriate where we now find it. The structure of the whole paragraph, on the other hand, is plain and natural, if there is no full stop at the end of the paren- thesis, and if the principal verbs in both clauses, ' possint,' ' eligant,' have the same subject, ' Praepositus et major pars Sociorum.' Another observes that it would have been a strange distribution of power to have given to the Provost and Fellows the power to make regulations as to Degrees, and at the same time to vest the appoint- ment of the officers who were to carry out these regulations, and even