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term of such lease, defalcate and abate out of the proportion of rent to be paid in money, according to the market price of corn on the market days next before such rent should become due and payable, so much money as the price of wheat should exceed 13s. 4d. the quarter, which is after the rate of 20d. per bushel, and not more; and as the price of malt should exceed 10s. per quarter, which is after the rate of 15d. the bushel, and not more. Hocque, etc. Objicimus et articulamur de quibuslibet aliis tempore, pretio, valore vel summâ, etc. Et ut supra.

XLVIII. Item, We further article and object to you, the said Dr. Richard Bentley, that by settling and ascertaining the price of corn at certain and fixed rates, in manner as in the preceding articles is mentioned, you have greatly wasted, impaired, and diminished the yearly revenues of the said college, and alienated so much of those revenues, as the common and ordinary market price of corn shall exceed the rates by you so set as aforesaid, and particularly by fixing the price of the corn rent for the leases of Kirby Kendal and Aisgarth, at the rates in the two next precedent articles mentioned, you have thereby lessened the yearly revenues of the said college to the amount or value of £160 per ann. or thereabouts, and thereby violated the 35th of the said statutes of Queen Elizabeth, and incurred the horrid guilt of wilful perjury. Et hoc fuit & est cerum, etc. Et objicimus & articulamur de quâlibel aliâ summâ, etc. Et ut supra.

XLIX. Item, We article and object to you, the said Dr. Richard Bentley, that on the 28th day of September 1717, being the market day in Cambridge, on which the price of corn to be paid to the colleges for rent for the preceding half year was to be settled, you the said Dr. Bentley did order and cause your bailiff, John Kent, to bring from St. Ives & quarter, or some other quantity of wheat, into the market of Cambridge that day, and did likewise fraudulently invite and procure one Bule, a farmer, then living at Rampton, in the county of Cambridge, to bring the same day into the said market a like parcel of wheat, and promised the said Rule, that the said wheat should be bought of him at the rate of 5s. the bushel; and you the said Dr. Bentley did oblige and compel one William Porter, the college butler, to buy, and the said William Porter did accordingly on that day buy of them the said Kent and Rule, for the use of the said college, all the wheat so by them brought into Cambridge market that day, at the aforesaid price of 5s. the bushel, although the current and common price of the best wheat in the said market on that day was but 4s. 4d. and the best and highest price thereof was but 4s. 7d. and not more. Hocque, etc. Et objicimus & articulamur de quolibet alio tempore, pretio, valore vel summâ, etc. Et ut supra.

L. Item, We likewise article and object to you, the said Dr. Richard Bentley, that you did on the said 28th day of September 1717, cause the said John Kent, your bailiff, to bring a load of malt into Cambridge, and carry it to the college brewhouse without going into the market, and did oblige one Barant, the then college brewer. to take the same off his hands, and to take it at the rate or price of £1 6s. per quarter, although the highest price of malt sold in the said market that day was but £1 2s. per quarter, and not more. Hocque, etc. Et objicimus & articulamur de quolibet alio pretio, etc. Et ut supra.

LI. Item, We article and object to you, the said Dr. Richard Bentley, that you having, by the articles aforesaid, raised the price of wheat and malt so much above the real value as in the next preceding article is mentioned, did, soon after Michaelmas 1717, and before the Lady day following, cause great quantities of your own tythe wheat and barley malted to be sold at the college bake-house and brew-house, at the extravagant price of 40s. a quarter for wheat, and 26s. a quarter for malt; and did oblige all the college tenants to pay their wheat rent due for the preceding half year, according to such prices of 40s. a quarter, and did, in the succeeding years 1718 and 1719, oblige the college officers to take off about one hundred quarters of your own damaged malt, and great quantities of your own tythe wheat, at prices far exceeding the market price upon the respective market days. Hocque, etc. Et ut supra.

[231] LII. Item, We article and object to you, the said Dr. Richard Bentley, that you have frequently, since your being admitted Master of the said college, in breach of your said oath, and in violation of several of the statutes of the said college, unnecessarily and profusely wasted and expended several great and excessive sums of money, part of the common stock of the said college; and particularly, in some few years after