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<P>Two ORDINANCES OF THE LORDS and COMMONS A&s;&s;embled in PARLIAMENT: The one, For exempting the UNIVERSITY of Cambridge From TAXATIONS.</P>
<P>The other, For the Regulating of the &s;aid Univer&s;ity by the Earle of <HI>Manche&s;ter,</HI> and to remove &s;can|dalous Mini&s;ters; providing a fifth part of their E&s;tates for their wives and children.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Die Veneris 12. April 1645.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>ORdered by the Lords a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, That the&s;e Ordinances be forthwith printed and publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Joh. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>LONDON, Printed for <HI>John Wright</HI> in the old Bayley, 14. April. 1645.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="Parliamentary ordinance">
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Die Jovis 11. April. 1645.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>VVHereas humble repre&s;entation hath beene made to the Lords and Com|mons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament on the behalfe of the Vniver&s;itie of <HI>Cambridge,</HI> that the &s;aid Vniver&s;ity and the &s;everall Colledges therein are brought to &s;uch nece&s;&s;ity, by rea&s;on of the failing of their Rents (a great part where|of cannot be received in the&s;e times of Trou|bles and Di&s;tractions) as they &s;hall be altoge|ther unable to &s;upport any longer the Students of the &s;aid Societies, unle&s;&s;e they may be freed and exempted (according to their Charter and the indulgence of former Parliaments) from all Military Taxes and other contributions to the publike &s;ervice, which are impo&s;ed by Ordinance of Parliament&punc;</P>
<P>The &s;aid Lords and Commons taking the premi&s;es into con&s;ideration, and to the end they may give as much ea&s;e and reliefe as the times will beare to the&s;e eminent Schooles and Se|minaries of Learning, for their better encourage|ment to continue their Studies with diligence for the publike benefit both of Church and Com|mon&punc;wealth, thinke fit and Ordaine, and be it
<PB N="2" REF="3"> Ordained, That nothing contained in any Or|dinance or Ordinances of Parliament for and concerning the impo&s;ing, leavying, or paying of any A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ements, Tares, and charges what&s;o|ever, as well already made and charged as here|after to be made and charged by vertue of any of the &s;aid Ordinances, &s;hall be&punc; extended to charge the &s;aid Vniver&s;ity of <HI>Cambridge,</HI> or any of the Colledges or Halls within the &s;aid Vniver&s;ity, nor any the Rents and Revenues belonging to the &s;aid Vniver&s;ity or Colledges, or any of them; nor to charge any Ma&s;ter, Fellow, or Scholler of any the &s;aid Colledges, nor any Rea|der, Officer, or Mini&s;ter of the &s;aid Vniver&s;ity or Colledges, or any of them, for and in regard of any Stipend, Wages, or Profit what&s;oever ari|&s;ing or growing due to them or any of them in re&s;pect of their &s;aid &s;everall places and imploy|ments in the &s;aid Vniver&s;ity, any thing in the &s;aid Ordinances, or any of them, to the contrary in any wi&s;e notwith&s;tanding.</P>
<P>And all A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors, Collectors, and others whom this may concerne, are hereby required to take notice of this Ordinance.</P>
<P>Provided that the Tenants who enioy Lea|&s;es from the &s;aid Vniver&s;ity and Colledges re|&s;pectively doe claime no freedome, exception, or advantage by this Ordinance.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Ioh. Browne Cler. Parliamentorum.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>An Ordinance for Regulating the Univer|&s;ity of CAMBRIDGE, and for removing of Scandalous Mini&s;ters in the &s;even A&s;&s;ociated Counties.</HEAD>
<P>VVHereas many complaints are made by the well affected Inhabitants of the A&s;&s;ociated Counties of <HI>E&s;&s;ex, Norfolke, Suffolk, Hertford, Cambridge, Hunting|ton&punc;</HI> and <HI>Lincolne,</HI> That the &s;ervice of the Par|liament is retarded, the Enemy &s;trengthned, the peoples &s;ouls &s;tarved, and their minds diver|ted from any care of Gods Cau&s;e, by their idle, ill affected, and &s;candalous Clergy of the Vni|ver&s;ity of <HI>Cambridge,</HI> and the A&s;&s;ociated Coun|ties; And that many that would give Evidence again&s;t &s;uch &s;candalous Mini&s;ters, are not able to travell to <HI>London,</HI> nor beare the charges of &s;uch a Iourney: It is Ordained by the Lords &amp; Com|mons A&s;&s;embled in Parliament, That the Earle of <HI>Manche&s;ter</HI> &s;hall appoint one or more Com|mittees in every County, con&s;i&s;ting of &s;uch as have beene nominated Deputy Lieutenants, or
<PB N="4" REF="4"> Committees by any former Ordinance of Par|liament, in any of the &s;aid A&s;&s;ociated Counties, every Committee to con&s;i&s;t of ten, whereof any five or more of them, to &s;it in any place or places within any the &s;aid A&s;&s;ociated Counties where the &s;aid Earle &s;hall appoint&punc; with power to put in execution the&s;e In&s;tructions following, and in pur&s;uance thereof, to give a&s;&s;i&s;tance to the &s;aid Committees.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, They &s;hall have power to call before them, all Provo&s;ts, Ma&s;ters, and Fellowes of Colledges, all Students, and Members of the Vniver&s;ity, and all Mini&s;ters in any County of the A&s;&s;ociation, and all Schoole-ma&s;ters that are &s;candalous in their lives, or ill-affected to the Parliament, or Fomentors of this unnaturall Warre, or that &s;hall wilfully refu&s;e obedience to the Ordinances of Parliament, or that have de|&s;erted their ordinary places of re&s;idence, not being imployed in the &s;ervice of the King and Parlia|ment. And they &s;hall have power to &s;end for any Witne&s;&s;es, and examine any complaint or te&s;ti|mony again&s;t them, upon Oathes of &s;uch per|&s;ons as &s;hall and may be produced to give Evidence again&s;t them, and &s;hall certifie their Names with the Charge and Proofes again&s;t them, to the &s;aid Earle of <HI>Manche&s;ter,</HI> and
<PB N="5" REF="4"> he &s;hall have power to eject &s;uch as he &s;hall judge unfit for their Places, and to &s;eque&s;ter their E&s;tates, Meanes, and Revenues, and to di&s;po&s;e of them as he &s;hall think fitting, and to place other fitting per&s;ons in their Roome, &s;uch as &s;hall be approved of by the A&s;&s;embly of Di|vines &s;itting at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter.</HI></P>
<P>The Earle of <HI>Manche&s;ter,</HI> or the &s;aid Com|mitte&eacute; or Committees &s;hall have power to ad|mini&s;ter the late Covenant taken and to be taken of all the thre&eacute; Kingdoms, of <HI>England, Scotland,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> to all per&s;ons in any of the &s;aid A&s;&s;ociated Counties, and the I&s;le of <HI>Ely,</HI> upon &s;uch Penalties as are or &s;hall be a&s;&s;igned by the Parliament in this behalfe.</P>
<P>And be it ordained, That the &s;aid Earle of <HI>Manche&s;ter</HI> &s;hall have power to di&s;po&s;e of a fifth part of all &s;uch E&s;tates as they &s;hall &s;eque&s;ter, for the benefit of the Wives and Children of a|ny of the afore&s;aid per&s;ons.</P>
<P>The &s;aid Committee or Committees &s;hall imploy a Clerke for the regi&s;tring of all War|rants, Orders, Summons, and Ejectments made by them: And that they choo&s;e &s;ome con|venient place for the pre&s;erving of the Writings of this Committee.</P>
<P>That the &s;aid Earle of <HI>Manche&s;ter</HI> &s;hall have
<PB N="6" REF="5"> power to examine and inhibite all &s;uch as doe ob&s;truct the Reformation now endeavoured by the Parliament and A&s;&s;embly of Divines.</P>
<P>And be it further declared, That all &s;uch as &s;hall doe any thing in execution of this Ordi|nance, &s;hall be kept indempnified by the Autho|ritie and power of both Hou&s;es of Parlia|ment.</P>
<P>And further be it ordained, That the Earle of <HI>Manche&s;ter</HI> &s;hall have power to appoint a con|venient number, con&s;i&s;ting of one or more out of everie Countie, one out of the Citie of <HI>Norwich,</HI> and one out of the Countie and Citie of <HI>Lin|colne:</HI> Provided, that three of the&s;e be Deputie-Lieutenants to &s;it at <HI>Cambridge,</HI> for the better ordering of all Bu&s;ine&s;&s;es of the A&s;&s;ociation, according to Ordinances and Orders of Par|liament, and according to his Commi&s;&s;ion granted by his Excellencie the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex;</HI> And that the pre&s;ent Committee for the A&s;&s;oci|ation &s;itting at <HI>Cambridge,</HI> &s;hall cea&s;e, when the Earle of <HI>Manche&s;ter</HI> &s;hall have appointed ano|ther under his hand and &s;eale.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Joh. Browne Cler. Parliament.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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