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 Whether the censors have power, for the causes alledged in their bar, to fine and imprison the plaintiff. 2. Admitting that they have power to do it, if they had pursued their power. But the Chief Justice, before he argued the points in law, because much was said in commendation of the doctors of physic of the college in London, and somewhat (as he conceived) in derogation of the dignity of the doctors of the universities, he first attributed much to the doctors of the said college in London, and confessed that nothing was spoke in their commendation which was not due to their merits: but yet that no comparison was to be made between that private college, and either of the universities of Cambridge and Oxford, no more than between the father and his children, or between the fountain and the small rivers which descend from it; the university is alma mater, from whose breasts those of that private college have sucked all their science and knowledge (which I acknowledge to be great and profound) but the law saith, erubescit lex filios castigare parentes: the university is the fountain, and that and the like private colleges are tanquam rivuli, which flow from the mountain, et melius est petere fontes quam sectari rivulos. Briefly, Academiæ Cantabrigiæ & Oxoniæ sunt Athenæ nostræ nobilissimæ, regni soles, oculi & animæ regni, unde religio, humanitas, et doctrina in omnes regni partes uberrimè diffunduntur: but it is true, nunquam sufficiet copia laudatoris, quia nunquam deficiet materia laudis; and therefore these universities exceed and excel all private colleges, quantum inter virburna cupressus. And it was observed that K. H. 8. in his said letters patent and the K. and the Parliam. in the act of 14 H. 8. in making of a law concern. physicians, for the more safety and health of men, therein follow the order of a good physician (Rex enim omn' artes censetur habere in scrinio pect' sui) for, medicina est duplex, removens, & promovens; removens morbum, & promovens ad salutem: and therefore five manner