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OXFORD UNIVERSITY STATUTES.
Sin—" Z." says in his rejoinder to my letter—" He complains that I have not read page 2 of the Report, in which he says there is a statement that the Commissioners have caused to be published the statutes of thirteen -Colleges. I have that page of the report before me, and am unable to find such a statement; nor is there anything elsewhere (so far as I can find) to -that effect. The Commissioners express a desire that they shall be pub- - lisped, and add, that the most important have come into their hands."
The words of the Report are these—" In the inquiries addressed to the Col- leges we expressed a wish to be furnished with the statutes of each society. It appeared to us desirable that these documents should be published, not -only because of their historical value, but also because of their direct bearing on the present inquiry. Some of the codes we have obtained from the Col- leges : for others we are indebted to the courtesy of the officers of the British Museum, the Bodleian Library at Oxford, the Lambeth Library, and the Re- cord Office. In this part of our undertaking we have also derived great as- sistance from Mr. Heywood, who has liberally furnished the Commission, not only with copies of the translations of the various statutes published by him, but with several manuscripts which he had caused to be transcribed at his own cost. To the collection thus made six codes of statutes are still wanting. But the most important of the series have come into our hands ; and for practical purposes these will be found sufficient." Let me also refer " Z." to pages 188, 192, 201, 206, 212, 215, 221, 224, 229, 232, 240, 247, and 252 of the Report, and to page 23 of the Minutes.
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