For the great love & frr that the Queens most excellent Majesty beareth towards her Highness Universities of Oxford & Cambridge & for the great zeal & care that the Lords & Commons of this present Parliament have for the maintenance of good & godly literature & the vertuous education of youth within either of the said Universities & to yethe intent that the ancient Privileges liberties & franchises of either of the said Universities heretofore printed ratified & confirmed by the Queens Highness & her most noble Progenitors may be had in greater estimation & be of greater force and strength for the better encrease of learning & the further suppressing of vice, Be it therefore enacted by the authority of this present Parliament that the Right honourable Robert Earl of Leicester now Chancellour of the said University of Oxford & his successors for ever & the masters & scholars of the saidme University of Oxford for the time being shall be incorporated & have a perpetuall succession in fact deed & name by the name of the Chancellour Masters & fellows Scholars of the University of Oxford & that the same Chancellour Masters & Scholars of the same University of Oxford for yethe time being from henceforth by the name of Chancellour Master & Scolars & by of the University of Oxford & by none other name or or names shall be called & named for evermore, & that they shall have a common seal to serve for their necessary causes touching & concerning the said Chancellour Masters & Scholars of yethe said University of Oxford & their succession. And likewise that yethe Right honourable SrSir William Cecil Knight Baron of Burghley now Chancellour of yethe said University of Cambridge & his successors for ever & yethe Masters & Scholars of yethe same University of Cambridge for yethe time being shall be incorporated & have a perpetuall succession in fact deed & name by yethe name of yethe Chancellour Masters & scholars of yethe University of Cambridge. And that the same Chancellour Masters & Scholars of yethe said University of Cambridge for yethe time being from henceforth by the name of Chancellour Masters & Scholars of yethe said University of Cambridge & by none other name or names shall be called & named for evermore. And that they shall have a common seal to serve for their neceesary causes touching & concerning the said Chancellour Masters & Scholars of yethe said University of Cambridge & their successors. And further that as well yethe Chancellour Masters & Scholars of yethe said University of Oxford & their successors by yethe name of Chancellour Masters & scholars of yethe said University of Cambridge & their successors by the name of Chancellour Masters & scholars of yethe University of Cambridge may severally implead & be impleaded & sue & be sued for all manner of causes quarrells actions real personall & mixed of whatsoever kind quality or nature they be, & shall & may chalenge & demand all manner of liberties & franchises & also answer & defend themselves under & by yethe name aforesaid in yethe same causes quarrels & actions for every thing & things whatsoever for yethe profit & right of either of yethe aforesaid Universities to be done before any manner of of judge either spirituall or Temporall in any Courts & places within the Queens Highness Dominions whatsoever they be. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the letters Patents of yethe Queens Highness most noble ffather King Henry yethe eighth made & granted to yethe Chancellour & scholars of yethe said University of Oxford bearing date the first day of April in yethe fourteenth year of his reign. And the letters Patents of the Queens Majesty that now is made & granted unto yethe Chancellour Master & scholars of yethe University of Oxford, bearing date yethe six & twentithtwentieth day of April in yethe third year of her Highness most gratious reign & also all other letters Patents by any of yethe Progenitors or Predecessors of yethe said sovereign being made to either of yethe said corporated bodies severally or to any of their Predecessors in either of the said Universities by whatsoever name or names the said Chancellour Masters & scholars of either of yethe said Universities have been or yet are named shal from henceforth be in the law to all intents & purposes instructions & purposes. And yethe aforesaid now Chancellour Masters & scholars of either of yethe said Universities & their successors for evermore after according to yethe same words sentences & true meaning of every of the saidme Letters Patents as amply fully & largely as if the same Letters Patents were recited verbatim in this present Act of Parliament any thing to yethe contrary in any wise notwithstanding. And furthermore be it enacted by the authority aforesaid that the Chancellour Master & Scholars of either of yethe said Universities severally & their successors for ever by the same name of Chancellour Masters & fellows Scholars of of either of yethe said Universities of Oxford & Cambridge shall & may severally have hold possesse enjoy & use to them & to their successors for ever more all manner of MannorsMannours Lordships Rectories Parsonages Lands Tenements Rents Services, Annuities Advousens of Churches Possessions Pensions Portions & Hereditaments & all manner of liberties franchises immunities quietances & priviledges, view of ffrank pledge, Law days & all other things whatsoever they be wchwhich either of yethe said corporated bodies of either of yethe said Universities had held occupied or enjoyed or of right ought to have had used occupied & enjoyed at any time or times before yethe making of this Act of Parliament according to yethe true intent and meaning as well of yethe said Letter Patents made by yethe said noble Prince King Henry yethe eighth made & granted to yethe Chancellour & Scholars of yethe University of Oxford bearing date as is aforesaid as of the Letters Patents of yethe Queens Majesty made & granted unto yethe Chancellour Masters & Scholars of yethe University of Cambridge bearing date as aforesaid and as according to the true intent & meaning of all the other foresaid Letters Patents whatsoever any Statute or other thing or things whatsoever heretofore made or done to the contrary in any manner of wise notwithstanding And be it further enacted by yethe authority aforesaid that all manner of instruments Indentures Obligations Writings Obligatory & recognisances made & knowledged by any person or persons or body corporate to either of the said corporate bodies of either of the said Universities by what name or names soever the said Chancellour Masters & Scholars of either of yethe said Universities have been heretofore called in any of yethe said Instrumentsments Indentures Obligations Writings obligatory or recognizances shall be from henceforth available stand & continue of good perfect & full force & strength to the now Chancellour Masters & Scholars of either of the said Universities & th to their successors to all intents constructions & purposes althô they or their predecessors or any of them in any of the said Instruments Indentures Obligations, writings obligatory or recognisances be named in any name contrary or divers to the name of the now Chancellour Masters & scholars of either of the said Universities. And be it also enacted by the authority aforesaid that as well the said Letters Patents of the Queens Highness said ffather King Henry the eighth bearing date as is before express'd made & granted to the said corporate body of yethe said University of Oxford as the Letters Patents of yethe Queens Majesty aforesaid granted to yethe Chancellour Masters & scholars of yethe University of Cambridg bearing date as aforesaid & all other Letters Patents by any of her Progenitors or Predecessors of her Highness & manner of liberties ffranchises immunities quietances & privileges Leets Lew days & other things whatsoever therein express'd given or granted to yethe said Chancellour Masters & shcolars of either of yethe said Universities or to either any of their Predecessors of either of the said Universities in any of the said letters Patents be named be & by vertue of this prsentpresent Act shall be from henceforth ratified stablished & conform confirmed unto the said Chancellour Masters & Scholars of either of the said Universities & to their successors successors for ever any Statute Law usage custome construction or other thing to yethe contrary in any wise notwithstanding saving to all & every person & persons & bodies politiqꝫque & incorporate their heirs & successors & the heirs & successors of every of them other then to yethe Queens Majesty her heirs & successors all such rights tithes Interests Leases entries conditions charges & demands wchwhich they & every of them had might or should have had of in or to any of the ManorsManours Lordships Rectories Parsonages Lands Tenements Rents Services Annuities Advowsons of Churches Pensions Portions Hereditaments & all other things in the said Letters patents or in any of them mentioned or comprised by reason of any right title charge interest or condition to them or any of them or to the ancestors or predecessors of them or any of them devolute or grown before the several dates of the same letters Patents or by reason of any gift grant demise or other Act or Acts at any time made or done between the said Chancellour Masters & scholars of either of the said Universities of Oxford & Cambridge & Oxford or any of them & others by what name or names so ever the same were made or done. in like manner & form as they & every of them had or might have had the same before the making of this Act any thing to yethe contrary therein conteined to yethe contrary to yethe contrary notwithstanding. Provided always & be it enacted by the authority aforesaid That this Act or any thing therein conteined shall not extend to yethe prejudice or hurt of the liberties & privileges of right belonging to the Majors Bayliffs and and Burgesses of the town of Cambridg & City of Oxford but that they yethe said Majors Bayliffs & Burgesses & every of them & their successors shall be & continue free in such sort & degree & enjoy such liberties freedoms & immunities as they or any of them lawfully may or might have done before the making of this present Act any thing contained in this present Act to yethe contrary notwithstanding.