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XXI. Item, We further article and object to you, the said Dr. Richard Bentley, that by the last mentioned statute it is further appointed and provided, that on every Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, there shall be disputations held in the hall of the said college, in rhetoric and logic, by the senior Sophists and others; and that the head lecturer and the other lecturer shall preside thereat in their turns. And by the 9th statute of the said Queen, it is likewise ordained and provided, that the head lecturer shall take care, that the sub-lecturers under him perform their respective duties diligently and faithfully, and by the same statute it is further appointed, that the said lecturer shall go, at least once in every week to each class, and examine each of the Scholars of the said college, to know what proficiency they have respectively made from time to time, as by the said several statutes, to which the party proponent refers, will appear. Et ut supra.

XXII. Item, We article and object to you, the said Dr. Bentley, that at the time appointed for the election of Lecturers and other officers of the said college in the year 1727, you the said Dr. Bentley proposed one of the Fellows to be Head Lecturer, and one other of the Fellows to be Latin Lecturer for the succeeding year; and although one of the senior Fellows of the said college then objected thereto, on account that both the said Fellows so proposed by you had totally neglected the duty of their respective offices in the preceding year, you replied, as you had frequently done, that such objection concerned the time past only and then you asked if they, meaning the aforesaid Fellows so proposed by you to those offices, were not to take the oath, meaning the oath required by the statutes for the due discharge of their respective offices; and thereupon you the said Dr. Bentley, immediately, with your own hand, wrote down the names of the said two Fellows whom you had so proposed, as appointed to such offices. And that neither of the said Fellows, so as aforesaid appointed to those offices, did, during that whole year, perform any part of [226] the duty in cumbent upon them, nor have they at any time been censured or punished by you for such their neglect. Hocque, etc. Et objicimus & articulamur de quolibet alio tempore, etc. Et ut supra.

XXIII. Item, We article and object to you, the said Dr. Richard Bentley, that by the 31st of the said statutes it is ordered and appointed, that the several gates of the college shall be opened and shut by the porter at certain hours therein mentioned and that at night, when all the gates are shut, the keys shall be carried to the Master, and in his absence to the vice-master, and deposited with him; and the porter is obliged personally to perform that duty, as by the said statute, to which the party proponent refers, will appear. Et ut supra.

XXIV. Item, We article and object to you, the said Dr. Richard Bentley, that in violation of the said statute, and contrary to the true intent and meaning thereof, the keys of the college have not, at any time during these twenty years past, been brought by the porter, and deposited with you the Master, as by the said statute they ought to be; by which means, all manner of persons, as well members of the said college as others, are at liberty to, and frequently do go in and out of the college gates at all hours of the night. And the college porter doth not officiate in that duty himself, but is with your privity and consent allowed to act by a deputy, who hath no salary or other consideration for doing that duty, but only the money given by such persons as make a practice of going in and out of the college gates at such unstatutable and unseasonable hours; of all which you have been informed, and have had notice. Hocque, etc. Et objicimus & articulamur de quolibet alio numero annorum, etc. Et ut supra.

XXV. Item, We article and object to you, the said Dr. Richard Bentley, that by the third of the statutes it is ordained and provided, that when any one of the eight senior Fellows goes out of the said college, he shall substitute the Fellow who is next in seniority to the eight, and not before deputed by another, to act for him in his absence, and shall enter such deputed Fellow's name in the registry of the said college. Et ut supra.

XXVI. Item, We article and object to you, the said Dr. Richard Bentley, that you the said Dr. Bentley, in breach of your said oath, and in violation of the said last mentioned statute, have all along suffered such of the eight seniors as had occasion to be absent from the said college, to depart from thence without appointing any substitute, or entering the name of any substitute upon the register book; and you