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4.3 Virtue Universities

 10 Aug. 1819. Is not this superseded by "Swear Not"?

In regard to oaths and perjury the matter stands as follows

[...?]. Statute. Tet. II. p 4

On the registration of his name /On his matriculation/ in the University booter[?] Previously to his matriculation (this is the name given to the operation of entering and[?] p[...?] his name upon the University Register Book. "As many (says the Statute) as apply to have their names entered upon the University Register Book (Matriculation) if they have attained the age of sixteen (which is almost always the case) let them subscribe to the Articles of Faith and Religion (the 39 Articles): and for the acknowledgement of the Royal supremacy as also for fidelity towards the University, and keeping observance of its Statutes, Privileges and Customs, according to the form beheld[?] to /to this time/ is use, let them take their corporal oaths." There follows partial exemptions for two lower degrees in the scale of age.

Respecting the observance of the University laws as above, so far as concerns the description of the course of conduct promised to be observed is no additional form given, but the purport of it if not the very [...?] may be sufficiently collected from what is above. [...?] yet, of the ceremonial part, [...?] of the combination of the words by the pronunciation of which and the gestures by the exhibition of which, the power of the Almighty is supposed to be pledged for to the punishing of transgressions which otherwise he would not have punished, or in some manner in which he would not otherwise have punished them.