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statutes of Queen Elizabeth, to be taken by every Master at and before his admission into such mastership, and that you then swore (inter alia) in the words following; viz. Ego Richardus Bentley, â regiâ majestate magister hujus collegij sanctæ & individuæ Trinitati dedicati designatus, juro & Deo teste promitto ac spondeo, primo me veram Christi religionem omni animo amplexurum, etc. Deinde, me omnia dicti collegij sacerdotia, fundos, prædia, possessiones, dominia, reditus, proventus, jura, libertates, privilegia, omnia denique bona sine imminutione aut vastatione (quantum in me situm erit) conservaturum, statuta collegij in omnibus servaturum & eadem verè sincerè & omnia secundum sensus grammaticales interpretaturum, omnes [223] singulos socios & discipulos, pensionarios, visatores & subsisatores, etc. Collegij membra ex eisdem statutis ac legibus sine ullius generis aut conditionis aut personarum respectu, gratia, odious recturum & defensurum, atque ut officiarij omnes socijac discipuli ceteraque collegij abiero, vel jure ac legitime abdicatus fuero, me omnia collegij bona quæ in meâ potestate custodiâve sunt, aut esse debent, vice-magistro decanis & thesaurarijs collegij, vel statim, si id commodè fieri poterit, vel intra quindecim dies, sine controversiâ tergiversatione aut aliquâ eorundem diminutione redditurum et si quam pecuniæ summam id temporis collegio debuero, obsides sufficientes daturum vice-magistro & ceteris collegij socijs & scholaribus de eâdem pecuniâ penitùs ante finem trium mensium proxime sequentium dissolvenda: nullum litem, actionemve collegio aut his qui me legitimè abdicaverunt eâ de causâ unquam in posterum intentaturum. Hæc omnia in me recipio, Deoque teste me pro virili facturum polliceor, sicut me Deus adjuret & hæc sacrosancta Dei evangelia. Et hoc fuit & est verum, etc. et objicimus & articulamur ut supra.

V. Item, We article and object to you, the said Dr. Richard Bentley, that you have, ever since such your admission to the mastership, lived and acted in open violation of many of the said rules and constitutions or statutes, so made and provided for the good government of the said college, and in breach of the oath so as aforesaid by you taken. Et objicimus & articulamur ut supra.

VI. Item, We article and object to you, the said Dr. Richard Bentley, that by the second chapter of the said statutes it is (inter alia) ordained and provided, that the Master of the said college, for the time being, shall be a person no less eminent above other members of the said college for his piety and integrity of life, than he is superior to them by the dignity of his place. Notwithstanding which, you the said Dr. Bentley have, for more than twenty years past, in violation of the said statute, and in breach of your said oath, lived a very irreligious life, and notoriously neglected the public worship of God; and more particularly, by constantly and habitually absenting yourself from divine service in the chapel of the said college, at the usual hours of morning and evening prayers, and suffered or permitted the officers of the said college in the like manner to neglect the same. Et objicimus & articulamur de quolibet alio temporis spatio, etc. Et ut supra.

VII. Item, We article and object to you, the said Dr. Richard Bentley, that you have for several years successively elected, and by arbitrary methods procured several persons to be elected, Vice-masters of the said college, notwithstanding that such Vice-masters did not at any time, in the first year of their being Vice-master, nor in any of the following years, attend the public worship of God in the chapel of the said college, at the usual hours of prayers in the morning, as by the statute they ought to have done and that you the said Dr. Bentley have, from time to time, and at all times, suffered such open neglect of duty in the said Vice-masters, to pass without censure and unpunished, in violation of the said statutes of the said college, and of the oath so as aforesaid by you taken. Et hoc fuit de est verum, etc. Et objicimus et articulamur, etc. Et ut supra.

VIII. Item, We article and object to you, the said Dr. Richard Bentley, that by the first of the said statutes it is provided, that there shall be four persons in orders of priesthood, to serve as Chaplains daily in the chapel of the said college; as by the said statute, reference being thereunto had, will more fully appear. Et objicimus & articulamur ut supra.

IX. Item, We article and object to you, the said Dr. Richard Bentley, that ever since you have been Master of the said college, the persons appointed to be Chaplains thereof, have been allowed by you to be non-resident and absent from the said college, and to enjoy and reside upon livings and other benefices, in places very distant and