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INTEODUCTION. xxxi the determination as to what kind of officers should be appointed, in the studiosi. Moreover, the studiosi were a perfectly undefined body, consisting, at first, mainly of undergraduates, and quite unfit to exer- cise such powers, according to the notions which prevailed in Eliza- beth's time, as now, in the English Universities. The reason given for excepting the Chancellorship from the offices to be filled in the first instance would be illogical and insufficient, if the subsequent nomina- tion was to be conferred upon a different body, the Provost and Fel- lows, instead of the studiosi. VOL. II.
