THE

STATUTES

OF

DOWNING COLLEGE,

WI

IN THE

University of Cambridge.

HEREAS by His Majesty's Royal Charter for founding and incorporating Downing College in the University of Cambridge, bearing date at Westminster the twenty-second day of September, in the fortieth year of His Majesty's Reign, being the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred, It is, amongst other things, Ordered and Charter, Directed, That the Master, Professors, Fellows, and Scholars P. 15. of the said College, and their Successors, shall be regulated and governed according to Statutes, Rules, and Ordinances, which shall be made and framed by the Heirs at Law of Sir GEORGE DOWNING (the Founder of the said College), by and with the consent and approbation of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Archbishop of York,

and the Masters of Saint John's College and Clare Hall, within the said University, or the major part of them, in writing, as well concerning Divine Service to be celebrated in the said College, as also touching and concerning the good government, regulation, and residence of the Master, Professors, Fellows, and Scholars of the same, and the management, preservation, and disposition of the manors, lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, possessions, and revenues of the said Master, Professors, Fellows, and Scholars, for the better support and maintenance of the same College, and the Master, Profeffors, Fellows, and Scholars thereof, and their Successors; and likewise concerning the salaries, stipends, and other necessaries for the Scholars of the said College, which are not by the said Charter provided for, and for the Chaplains, Officers, Ministers, and other Persons, who shall from time to time dwell and be supported in the said College; and also touching or concerning any such other matter or thing as to them shall seem meet, fit, useful, and agreeable to the said Charter, and to the Will of the said Sir George Downing: Provided nevertheless, that the said Statutes, Laws, Rules, Ordinances, and Constitutions, so, as aforesaid, to be framed, made, and con→ stituted, or any of them, shall not be repugnant to the Laws or Statutes of the Realm.

Now therefore be it known, That We, Francis Annesley, Doctor of Laws; Sir George Cornewall, Baronet, and Dame

Catherine,

Catherine, his Wife; John Ranby, Esquire, and Mary, his Wife; and William Henry Scourfield, Esquire; the present Heirs at Law of the said Sir GEORGE DOWNING, Have, in pursuance of the Orders and Directions contained in the said Charter, by and with the consent and approbation of the major part of the said Archbishops, and the Masters of the said Colleges, testified by their signatures hereto subscribed, made and framed the following Statutes, Rules, and Ordinances, for the regulation and government of the said College, and the Master, Professors, Fellows, and Scholars thereof, and for the other necessary purposes directed by the said Charter. Witness our Hands to the said Statutes and to these Presents respectively subscribed, this twenty-third day of July, one thousand eight hundred and five.

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STATUTE I.

OF PUBLICATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE STATUTES.

WHEREAS it is highly expedient that those who are to live according to the regulations of any code of laws, should have every facility which may enable them to become acquainted with those laws. And whereas the provision in

the Charter of this College, for the alteration of the Statutes may always prevent them from becoming obsolete or impracticable through lapfe of time and change of manners; It is ordained, as a fundamental law of this College, that the Statutes for the time being shall be printed, together with the Charter; and that a Copy of both shall be given to every Member, Officer, and Pupil of the College, on his first admission; and, whenever there shall be any alteration or addition to the Statutes, the same shall be printed and disposed of in like manner.

It is hereby declared, That the word Member in these Statutes shall be understood to apply to the Master, Professors, Fellows, and Scholars only; and that the seniority of such Members shall be taken as follows: first, the Master; then the Professors, according to the date of their admission to their Professorships, and not according to any degree; then the Fellows, in like order and manner; and lastly, the Scholars, in like order and manner. The word Officer

shall

shall apply to the Chaplains, Dean, Tutor, Bursar, Steward, and Librarian. The word Pupil, to all other persons admitted into the College, whether Fellow Commoners, Pensioners, or Sizars, being under the degree of Master of Arts. The word Commoner, to every person in Commons in the College. And the word Servant, to the Butler, Cook, Porter, Barber, and Laundress.

WHEREAS it is provided by the Charter, that the num- Page 11. ber of Scholars shall be agreed on and settled by the Statutes; Now it is hereby ordained, That the number of Scholars within the said College shall be six. The election thereof shall be annually, on the thirty-first day of December, `unless it falls on a Sunday, in which case the day of election shall be on the following day. The persons eligible to Scholarships, shall be such persons admitted of some College or Hall in this University, or the University of Oxford, as have not commenced their actual residence in any College or Hall more than one year and a half before the day of election. Each Candidate, before he is admitted to be examined, shall produce a Certificate in writing to this effect, as well as a Testimonial of his good moral character, from the Master or Tutor of his College, and shall make a

Declaration