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<Q>ACADEMIA OXONIENSIS</Q>
<Q>SAPIENTIAE ET FELICITATIS</Q>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>JAN. 9. 1651.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"><HI>By the Vicechancellour and Heads of Hou&s;es of the &V;niver&s;ity of</HI> OXFORD.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas the Right Honourable the Councell of State hath beene informed by &s;ome Inhabitants of this City, concerning a di&s;temper here growne to a very great height, manife&s;ting it &s;elfe in foule Riots and malicious actions a|gain&s;t per&s;ons of peaceable and &s;ober deportment, and of godly conver&s;ation, at, and for their private meetings, for the Wor&s;hip of God according to their con&s;ciences, directed by his Word; &s;uch as are, a&s;&s;aults, Robbings, beatings, cruell whippings, and de&s;perate threatnings; to the &s;o great terrour and af|frighting of the &s;aid per&s;ons, and others like affected, that they dare not adventure them&s;elves forth of their hou&s;es, after day light is down, for feare of their lives. And whereas the &s;aid Councell hath expre&s;&s;ed a tender &s;en&s;e of &s;uch mi&s;demeanours and injuries to the per&s;ons afore|&s;aid, with a re&s;olution for their protection, and have thereupon e&s;pecially recommended it to the care of the Vicechancellour and Heads of Hou&s;es, as to make a through and particular enquiry after all the Contrivers, Actors and Abettors of the &s;aid mi&s;carriages, &s;o to take care to prevent the like violences for the future. The&s;e are therefore to warne and &s;trictly require all Scho|lars, and others under the juri&s;diction of the Vniver&s;ity, that they forbeare all &s;uch mi&s;demea|nours and malicious actions again&s;t the per&s;ons afore&s;aid, as they will an&s;wer the contrary at their exceeding great perils, by undergoing the mo&s;t &s;evere puni&s;hment that (&s;uitably to their demerits) can be inflicted by us, be&s;ides the &s;ecuring of their per&s;ons, and the returning of their names to the <HI>Councell of State,</HI> that thereupon they may be lyable, further, to undergoe the di&s;plea&s;ure of the &s;aid Councell. <HI>And all Scholars and per&s;ons under the Juri&s;diction afore&s;aid, are hereby &s;trictly re|quired to forbeare the wearing or carrying about them of any manner of Armes or Weapons, offen&s;ive or defen&s;ive, according to the Statutes of the Vniver&s;ity in that behalfe.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Tit. 13. &sect;. 11.</NOTE></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Signed in the name and by the con&s;ent of the Heads of Hou&s;es, by DAN: GREENWOOD Vice-can: Oxon.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>OXFORD, Printed by LEONARD LICHFIELD Printer to the Univer&s;ity. 1651.</P>
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