By Walter Mildmay, Frank Stubbings

The unique Tudor Latin statutes of Emmanuel collage, Cambridge, are right here translated for the 1st time via Frank Stubbings, lifestyles Fellow and previous Librarian of the varsity. the school used to be based in 1584 via Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer to Queen Elizabeth I. Its top item used to be the educational of Puritan ministers, and its graduates have been sought after within the non secular concept and job of the 17th century. within the 1630s many (like John Harvard) emigrated for moral sense sake and have become a powerfully formative point in early New England. the nature of the varsity is as a result traditionally very important, and the elemental rfile for it's those statutes. Dr Stubbings offers not just explanatory reviews, yet an advent which elucidates the Founder's objective by way of outlining the background of the collage in the course of the non secular and social ups and downs of his lifetime. The statutes themselves aren't any mere dry bones: they let us know not just of dons and undergraduates, yet of the Manciple, the chefs, the launderer and the Master's servant. The booklet comprises additionally the varsity orders of 1588, supplementary rules on such daily concerns as mealtimes and pupil behaviour. the unique Latin statutes are published on the finish of the quantity.

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A College order of 11 March 1623 records that on 3 October 1622 the Fellows agreed with the new Master, John Preston, before he took his oath, that the phrase vioknta detentione (forcible detention) in this statute referred 'aswell to a morall as a natural violence, and that the service of the Kinge or Prince (to whom he was then a sworne servaunt) was to be esteemed as a morall violence'. , COL. ) THE STATUTES 3I CHAPTER 3 Of the mode of punishment But lest too great severity of the head should tend to the hurt of the members, we desire and decree that the Master moderate his action in all such correction as is to be administered by him by calling in the Dean and the senior Fellow (whose duties we will describe below) to hear and see whatsoever he performs in these matters, so that (whenever it may be necessary) they may be cited as suitable witnesses of the whole transaction between the Master and the person to be punished.

There can be no doubt that this was the Founder's own copy of the Statutes, inherited directly by the Earl of Westmorland. ) For the present edition the Master's Book and the Founder's copy have been compared with each other and with the text printed in Documents, in, pp. 483-523, from the British Museum MS Sloane 1739. There are no significant variants in the three manuscripts, and where they differ in spelling or punctuation the Master's Book is the one that has been followed. A few of the longer statutes have been divided into shorter paragraphs for the reader's comfort.

The Emmanuel statute is concerned with principles, not with procedure, which is covered in the next chapter. THE STATUTES 41 CHAPTER I I Of the method andform of election of the Master Now that this body may not for longer than is proper be without its principal member, we desire and decree that during our lifetime that person or persons shall be Master, Fellows and Scholars of the aforesaid College whom we shall designate and admit. But after we shall have departed out of this life, we ordain that election be made according to the following form.

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