x SCHOOLS, STUDEX/S. 



superior to his own within the precincts of the University. Often sum- 

 moned to the King's Council, he took rank with the Bishop of Paris and 

 with the Parliament at all public ceremonials. He gave to all the students, 



Fig. 18. Swiss Courier. After a Statue preserved in the Town Hall at Bale 

 (Fifteenth Century). 



and also to the tutors, the letters or diplomas which conferred upon them 

 the privileges of their grade, and he received from them their oath of passive 

 obedience, " no matter to what dignity they might attain " an oath the 



