An account of the different ceremonies abserved in the Senate house of the University of Cambridge; together with tables of fees, &c

You shall swear, that you shall observe and keep, so far forth as in you lieth, the liberties and customs of this University, as concerning the keeping of the peace, and also the assize of bread, and ale, and other victuals; and that you shall not unduly, nor of malice, impugn the other liberties and due customs of the said University, as far forth as you shall have knowledge thereof.

So God help you, through Christ Jesus.

The Proctor administers the same oath to the four Bailiffs, and receives of them, or of the Treasurer of the Corporation, three shillings and fourpence, for the search of leather, which he pays to the University chest, at the Audit.

Clerum on the Day before Michaelmas Term begins.

On the ninth of October (being the day before the Term begins) the Regius Professor in Divinity, or some person appointed by him, preaches a sermon "ad Clerum," at St. Mary's Church, at ten o'clock.

The bell begins to ring at nine.

If the ninth fall on a Sunday, there is no English sermon at St. Mary's in the morning.

The Professor in his cope is conducted' to the vestry by a Bedell.

The Doctors in Divinity are in their copes; Doctors in the other Faculties, in their robes; the Proctors in their Congregation habit.

Of late years this has been discontinued.

The Professor may appoint a Doctor or a Bachelor in Divinity, or a Candidate for either degree, to preach this Clerum for him, which is allowed as an exercise for the degree.

If a Doctor preach, he comes from his College to the vestry with his cap on, attended by a Bedell.

If the Clerum be preached by a Bachelor of Divinity, he comes, with his cap off and in a Doctor's cope, attended by a BedellR.

If it be preached by a Candidate for the degree of Doctor of Divinity, who is already a Bachelor of the Faculty, he comes in a cope: but if he commence per saltum, he comes in the habit of a Non-Regent: if by a Candidate for the degree of Bachelor of Divinity, he comes with his cap off (attended by a Bedell2) and in the habit of a Non-Regent.

Cycle for the Nomination of Proctors.

Two Colleges are every year to nominate Persons for Proctors, in the order prescribed in a Cycle of fifty-one years;