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<HEAD>An In&s;tance of Queen <HI>Elizabeth's</HI> Power of Di&s;pen&s;ing with <HI>Acts of Parliament:</HI> Offer'd to the Con&s;ideration of the Gentlemen of the Univer&s;ity of <HI>Cambridge.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Together with &s;ome Queries thereupon.</HEAD>
<P>QUeen <HI>Elizabeth</HI> by Letters Patents dated 6^o <HI>Aprilis,</HI> 2^o of Her Reign, reciting an Act of Parliament of the Fir&s;t of Her &s;aid Reign, and that the Common-Prayer was thereby En|acted to be u&s;ed, <HI>Lingu&acirc; vulgari, &amp; vernacul&acirc; pa&s;s&igrave;m in Eccle&s;i&acirc; Anglican&acirc;, In the Vulgar and Mother-tongue throughout the Church of England,</HI> declares <HI REND="blackletterType">it to be lawful and permitted, by <HI>Her Authority</HI> and <HI>Prero|gative Royal,</HI> as well to the Dean and Society of <HI>Chri&s;t-Church</HI> in Her Vniver&s;ity of <HI>Oxford,</HI> as to the Pre&s;idents, Wardens, Rectors, Ma&s;ters, and Societies of All and Every one of the Colleges of <HI>Cambridge, Oxford, Winche&s;ter,</HI> and <HI>Eaton,</HI></HI> [<HI>Licitum e&s;&s;e &amp; permi&s;&s;um, <HI>no&s;tr&acirc; Autoritate &amp; Privilegio Regali,</HI> t&agrave;m Decano &amp; Sodali|tio Eccle&s;iae Chri&s;ti in Academi&acirc; no&s;tr&acirc; Oxoniae, qu&agrave;m Prae&s;idibus, Cu&s;todibus, Re|ctoribus, Magi&s;tris, &amp; Sodalitatibus, omnium &amp; &s;ingulorum Collegiorum Cantabri|giae, Oxoniae, Wintoniae, &amp; Etoniae</HI>] <HI REND="blackletterType">to u&s;e publickly in their Churches and Chappels that Form of Prayer in Latin, appointed to be printed by Her Printer, and agreeing with the Engli&s;h Book of Common Prayers then u&s;ed all over the Kingdom, with the Form of Burial of the Dead; the afore&s;aid Statute concerning the manner of Publick Prayers (whereof She had made mention) publi&s;hed in the Fir&s;t Year of Her Reign, to the contrary notwith&s;tanding.</HI> [<HI>Statuto illo praedicto, de ritu Publicarum Precum (cujus &s;upr&agrave; mentionem fecimus) anno primo Regni no&s;tri promulgato, in contrarium non ob&s;tante.</HI>]</P>
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<HEAD>QUERIES.</HEAD>
<ITEM>I. WHether the King's Prerogative be not a part (and the mo&s;t principal one) of the Laws of the Kingdom?</ITEM>
<ITEM>II. Whether tho&s;e who are bound by Oath to ob&s;erve the Laws of the Kingdom, are not con&s;equently bound by the &s;ame Oath (as well as by that of Allegiance) to ob&s;erve the Royal Prerogative, by obeying whatever is commanded in vertue of it?</ITEM>
<ITEM>III. Con&s;equently, Whether a Law di&s;pen&s;ed with by the King, can be of any force to oblige the Con&s;cience of one who hath &s;worn to ob&s;erve the Laws of the Kingdom, &s;o far as to ju&s;tifie his Di&s;obedience to any Command of His Maje&s;ty, only for its being contrary to that Law which is &s;o di&s;pen&s;ed with?</ITEM>
<ITEM>IV. Whether if Queen <HI>Elizabeth</HI> had Power to di&s;pen&s;e with Acts of Parliament, for the permitting the Colleges to u&s;e a Latin Common-Prayer Book, His pre&s;ent Maje&s;ty hath not likewi&s;e a Power to di&s;pen&s;e with Acts requiring &s;uch Per&s;ons as are made <HI>Ma&s;ters of Arts</HI> to take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy?</ITEM>
<ITEM>V. Whether His Maje&s;ty have not rea&s;on to take it ill, that the Gentlemen of the Univer&s;ity que&s;tion His Power of Di&s;pen&s;ing in &s;o trivial a Matter as the making a Ma&s;ter of Arts, when they neither que&s;tioned heretofore, nor do yet que&s;tion a like Prerogative in Queen <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> and this in favour of &s;o Popi&s;h a thing as <HI>Praying in Latin?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>VI. Whether the Univer&s;ity of <HI>Cambridge</HI> di&s;owning the inalienable Prerogative of Di&s;pen&s;ation in the King, and yet <HI>Praying in Latin</HI> by vertue of Queen <HI>Elizabeths</HI> Letters Patents, contrary to an expre&s;s Act of Parliament, and having, even without any Letters Patents, made &s;everal <HI>Ma&s;ters of Art</HI> without this Ceremony of Swear|ing, do not challenge to them&s;elves that Prerogative of Di&s;pen&s;ation which they will not allow to the King?</ITEM>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>Henry Hills,</HI> Printer to the King's Mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty for His Hou&s;hold and Chappel. 1687.</P>
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