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
Nemo ex discipulis sine tutore in collegio sit, qui fuerit,
expellatur. Pupilli tutoribus pareant, honorem paternum et
reverentiam exhibeant, quorum cura consumitur in illis informandis
et ad pietatem scientiamque instruendis. Tutores fideliter et
diligenter quae docenda sunt suos doceant, quae agenda instruant et
admoneant. Omnia pupillorum expensa tutores collegio praestent, et
singulis mensibus aes debitum pro se et suis quaestoribus solvant.
Quod ni fecerint, tantisper commeatu priventur dum pecunia
dissolvatur. Pupillus neque a tutore rejiciatur, neque tutorem suum
ubi velit mutet nisi legitima de causa a praeside et senatu
probanda; qui fecerit collegio excludatur.... In discipulis
eligendis praecipua ratio ingenii et inopiae sit, in quibus ut
quisque valet maxime ita ceteris proferatur. Eo adjungatur doctrinae
studium et mediocris jam profectus, et reliqui temporis spes illum
fore ad communem reipublicae posthac idoneum. Horum studium sit ut
vitae innocentiam cum doctrinae veritate conjungant, et in veritate
rerum inquirendi et honestate persequenda laborent.... Sic sint
grammaticis et studiis humanitatis instituti ut inquisitiones aulae
sustinere et domesticas exercitationes suscipere possint....
Pensionarii et studiorum socii in collegium recipiantur ...
provideatur ut neque praesidi plures quam quatuor neque singulis
sociis plures uno pensionario sint.
Grave offences were punishable by expulsion, rustication, etc., and
those who committed only "minor offences" were liable to penalties of
extreme severity. Thus we read:
Quicunque in aliqua parte officii sui negligentior fuerit, et
aliquem e magistratibus bene admonentem non audiverit, aut
insolentem se ostenderit, si ephoebus sit verberibus sin ex ephoebis
excesserit decennali victu careat et uterque praeterea poenitentiam
declamatione tostetur.
The text is corrupt, but the meaning is clear. A marginal note
suggests the obvious correction that decemdiali should be read for
decennali. The deans superintended, even if they did not inflict,
corporal punishment when it was ordered.
Another code of statutes was drawn up in 1554, but was never sealed,
and thus did not become effective. I need not quote the text which, on
tutorial matters, does not differ materially from that of 1560. The
draft contains a clause to the effect that the master of the College
was not to take more than four pensioners as his pupils, a fellow who
was a master of arts or of some superior degree was not to take more
than two, and no one else was to take a pensioner as a pupil. The word
"two" however has been crossed out and "one" substituted. From this it
would seem that the question of how many pensioners it was desirable
to admit was already a matter of debate.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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