Collectanea. First series / edited by C.R.L. Fletcher.

Date:
1885
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Credit: Collectanea. First series / edited by C.R.L. Fletcher. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    perform was the natural result of its jealous retention in its own hands of all judicial functions. Appeals were numerous and oppressive. From the University tribunals the appeal to the Pope was made1; no intermediate authority was allowed in spiritual causes; in all temporal causes the ultimate appeal lay to the King. The University made many attempts to restrain this abuse of appeals. The University to Robert de Stratford. (Royal MS. 12. D. xi. fol. 26. B. M.) Nov.-Dee. 1337. Domino episcopo Cicestr’ Cancellario per Universitatem Oxon’ pro eodem negotio expediendo. Venerabili in Christo patri ac domino domino R. Dei gratia Cicestr’ episcopo, etc., suus si placet commissarius Cetusque unanimis, etc. Cum recommendacione sui status humillima reverenciam et honorem debitos tanto patri. Cum a vestre dominacionis patrocinio singulari vigor et valor noster omnino dependeat, et ad ipsum subjeccionis vestre gremium2 pertineamus potissime nusquam tucius reperimus refugium quam ad vestram recurrere reverenciam quociens quavis indigencia coartamur. Vestris igitur auribus reverendis presencium tenore simul suggerimus, paucos apud nos jam esse notarios, et illos nimium sumptuosos, et in cotidianis negociis in quibus notarii requir- untur difficultates assiduas patimur et expensas apponimus nimis graves. Quocirca vestram dominacionem obnixius deprecamur, qua- tinus penes dominos cardinales efficaciter agere placeat et instare quod R. de A. noster serviens communis vobis notus creetur notarius publicus, quo celerius fieri poterit ad nostrum commune solacium et commodum multiforme. Ad regimen ecclesie anglicane vestra rever- enda paternitas in Domino diutine prosperetur. THE ‘ REX NATALICIUS/ In the Middle Ages the Season of Christmas was the Festival of Festivals. The Church supplied to it both the permanent interest of a Commemoration and the pervading consecration of a Religious Festival. While all sections of 1 Vid. Mun. Acad., Anstey’s Preface, pp. 101-104. Also for legal machinery, &c. vid. passim. 2 g'mm.