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B - The Trinity Seniority

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2010

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The eleventh chapter of the Elizabethan statutes of Trinity prescribes the mode of election into the Seniority of the College.

“Statuimus porro et decernimus”, it set out, “ut Seniorum electio intra novem dies ad summum post locum vacantem fiat: sitque ista horum eligendorum forma. Cum Senioris alicujus vacet locus, Magister, vel eo absente, Vicemagister, convocatis in Sacello, ut dictum est, illis Senioribus qui reliqui sunt, cooptet in eum ccetum Socium ilium qui sit proxime Senior, nisi gravis causa, per Magistrum el majorem partem praedictorum Seniorum approbanda, obstiterit. Sin autem ea de causa minus idoneum censuerint; Socius senior proximus ordine eligatur; et ita deinceps…. Quod si post tria scrutinia aperta, de uno eligendo non convenerint, is in numerum eum cooptatus esto, quern Magister, si domi sit, vel si absit, certior de ea re per literas Vicemagistri factus, solus nominaverit; qui postero die quo electus fuerit, det coram Magistro, vel eo absente, Vicemagistro ac septem reliquis Senioribus jusjurandum, se munus illud fideliter et omnino secundum legem de eo sanciiam obiturum.”

The third chapter of the same statutes enjoined that a Senior, on absenting himself from college, should appoint a vicarius or deputy.

It is therefore clear that the Fellow next in order of succession to the Seniority ought to be elected, unless the Master and four of the Seniors agreed that he was disqualified by a “gravis causa”; but in the nineteenth century the exact connotation of this phrase was in doubt.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2009
First published in: 1940

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