BANNING BROTHELS, BRAWLS, AND BROKEN WINDOWS
[OXFORD, University of.]
Parecbolae sive excerpta e corpore statutorum Universitatis Oxoniensis. Accedunt articuli religionis XXXIX in Ecclesia Anglicana recepti: nec non juramenta fidelitatis et suprematus. In usum juventutis academicae.
Oxford, e typographeo Clarendoniano, 1771.
8vo, pp. [24], viii, 259, [1 (blank)]; woodcut of the University arms to title; small chip to upper corner of first few leaves; a very good copy in contemporary sheep; upper joint split but holding firm, small split to spine, head- and tailcaps chipped; folded part-printed oath dated 21 April 1784 for Charles Davie of Trinity College and signed by Samuel Dennis, Vice-Chancellor, tipped onto front pastedown.
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Parecbolae sive excerpta e corpore statutorum Universitatis Oxoniensis. Accedunt articuli religionis XXXIX in Ecclesia Anglicana recepti: nec non juramenta fidelitatis et suprematus. In usum juventutis academicae.
Later edition of this essential student guide to the University of Oxford’s statutes, this copy with the signed matriculation oath of Charles Davie, 1784, by which he agreed to the Thirty-nine Articles, the Oath of Supremacy, and the statutes and privileges of the University.
First published in 1670, and regularly reissued thereafter, the Parecbolae covers, inter alia, matriculation, scholarships, lecturers, examinations for BA, MA, and in music, civil law, medicine, and theology, as well as graduation, university governance, office holders (including the University’s printers), and the rules of the Bodleian library. It details numerous prohibitions to keep students on the straight and narrow: against leggings and long hair; against visiting the city’s brothels, pubs, and tobacco shops; and against gambling, hunting, playing football, breaking windows, getting into fights, and keeping weapons.
Provenance: Charles Davie (1765–1836), son of John Davie of Orleigh Court, Devon, who matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford, in 1784, and proceeded BA in 1788, and MA in 1790. He became vicar of Buckland Brewer in 1790, rector of Heanton Punchardon in 1791, and prebendary of Exeter Cathedral from 1803 until his death.
ESTC T58698.
