to the restriction that the Degrees of Bachelor, Master, and
Doctor be taken juxta tempiis idoneum, i. e., according to the
rules of time or standing, fixed by the usages of other Universi-
ties, and particularly Cambridge,[1] which had been especially
followed in the times and rules for taking Degrees.
Then follows in the ordinary printed copies of Elizabeth's Charter a clause (which ought to have been in a parenthesis), defining the duration of Fellowships.[2] With this we have no concern at present ; but the words that immediately follow are connected with the clause quoted p. xx, ending with the words, "in omnibus artibus et facultatibus obtinendi." The real mean- ing of the passage has been generally misunderstood.[3] It enacts that the students spoken of as entitled to take Degrees, or who have taken Degrees, are to have the power of electing and creating the necessary University officers, with the excep- tion of the Chancellor, the first Chancellor having been nomi- nated in the Charter, and the Provost and Fellows empowered to elect on all subsequent vacancies.[4]
- ↑ See Regulæ seu Consuetudines Universitatis, c.iv. — "Apud Cantabri- gienses .... qui eadem statu ta ha- bent, idemque tempus nobiscum ob- servant in gradibus capessendis." — Mac Donnell's edit., p. i66.
- ↑ Subsequently repealed by the Charter of Charles T. (Mac Donnell's edit., p. 14.)
- ↑ It seems to have been misunder- stood even in the Charter of Charles I. (Mac DonneWs edit., ]). 14); for it is there passed over without notice, as if it had been consistent with the new enactments of the Caroline Sta- tutes.
- ↑ The whole passage is as follows: — "Et ut intra se [Studiosi] -pro hu- jusmodi gradibus assequendis, ha- beant libertatem, omnia acta et scho- lastica exercitia adimplendi, quemad- modum Præposito et majori parti Sociorum visum fuerit; ac ut omnes
probable that the word "Scholars" in the Corporate title of Trin. Coll. Dublin was meant to have the same signification that it has in the Corpo- rate title of Cambridge and Oxford. They were, however, from the earliest time distinguished as " Scholares sumptibus Collegii sustentandi," and were regarded as possessing many corporate privileges which were de- nied to ordinary Studiosi. The Scho- lars who are members of the College Corporation are called Discipuli or Discipuli Scholares in the Statutes of Charles I., because the Junior Fellows, as members of the corporation, were considered as Scholares also.
