UNIVERSITIES, SCHOOLS, STUDENTS. 



breaking of which entailed very serious consequences. He appointed to all 

 the offices of the University ; his accession to, and his resignation of, the 

 post were celebrated by a procession, to which he invited, in addition to all 

 the University officials, the religious communities residing within his juris- 

 diction. In 1412, according to the chronicler Jouvenel des Ursins, when 

 there was a solemn procession from the University to the Abbey of St. Denis 

 to pray that war might be averted, the cortege was so long that the head of 



Fig. 19. University Beadle. Jean Lequeux, Messenger of Guise en Thierache, Diocese of Laon. 

 Miniature of the Manuscript Eegister, No. 11 (1476 83). University Archives. 



the procession entered St. Denis, while the rector was still at the Mathurins 

 Monastery, in the Rue St. Jacques. 



Next to the rector came the syndic, also called proctor, promoter, or procu- 

 rator-fiscal, and it was he who was in reality the general manager of the 

 University, and who could alone, in certain circumstances, counterbalance the 

 preponderance of the rector. 



The treasurer had the control of the revenue and expenditure of the 

 University. The expenses were large, and the revenues comprised, apart 



