Cambridge PapersBall, W. W. Rouse (Walter William Rouse)
History
Cambridge Papers
Ball, W. W. Rouse (Walter William Rouse)
Trinity College (University of Cambridge); University of Cambridge -- History
In every community regard should be paid to correctness of morals
and general probity of life, accordingly there shall be two deans to
give their sedulous attention to these objects; at least one of such
deans shall be a bachelor of divinity and chosen from the eight
senior fellows, and the other, a master of arts or a bachelor of
divinity.
The deans shall provide for the fitting performance of public
worship; see that all fellows, scholars, pensioners, sizars, and
subsizars attend on Saints' days and Sundays at morning and evening
prayers, the litany, the communion, and sermons; and see that the
same persons are on other days regularly present at prayers between
five and six o'clock in the morning. Every fellow who is absent
shall be fined three half-pence, and if he comes in late or goes out
early, one half-penny. The fine for a bachelor scholar who is absent
shall be one penny, and for one who comes in late or goes out early,
one half-penny. Every undergraduate scholar, and every pensioner,
sizar, and subsizar who is absent shall, if his age exceeds eighteen
years be fined one half-penny, and if he comes in late or goes out
early, one farthing; but if such student has not attained this age,
he shall be chastised with rods in the hall on the following
Friday. Those are to be deemed as coming late who at evening prayers
arrive after the first psalm; at morning prayers, after the
_Venite_; at the Litany, after the words _O Holy Blessed and
Glorious Trinity_; and at the communion service after the recital of
the commandments: anyone who, during service, remains in the
antechapel is to be punished as if he had been absent.
Each week on Friday, at seven o'clock in the evening, the deans
shall chastise non-adult offenders. All scholars (bachelors
excepted), pensioners, sizars, and subsizars shall be present during
the infliction of such corporal punishment, and anyone who does not
answer to his name when called, and does not stay until all the
punishments are finished, shall, if an adult, be fined one penny,
and if non-adult be flogged on the next day.
Each week on Thursday, the deans shall appoint two monitors from
among the bachelor scholars for noting offences of bachelors; and
six monitors [from among the undergraduate scholars], two for noting
offences of undergraduates at public worship, and four for noting
those who fail to speak Latin: the monitors shall prepare lists of
all who offend in these particulars. The deans shall also appoint
each week six scholars and four sizars for service at the fellows'
table, and one sizar for the organ.
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