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even in cxclufion of the king’s, the foie jr.rifdidtion over 
all civil caufes, where a privileged peiTon is a party, ex¬ 
cept in cafes concerning the right of freehold. 2. By an 
high-deward, who is cliofen by the fenate, and holds his 
office by an univerlity-patent. He is to aflift the chancel¬ 
lor and other officers, when required, and to determine 
capital caufes, in conformity to the law of the land, and 
the edablifhed privileges of the univerfity. 3. By a vice- 
chancellor, who is the head of fome college, and is made 
a juffice of the peace after his eleCiion. He is chofen an¬ 
nually by the fedate, and agrees to execute the authority 
of the chancellor, to fee that the magidrates perform their 
office, that courts are duly convened, and that obedience 
to the datutes is enforced. 4. By two proffors, who are 
annually elected by the regents, according to a cycle of 
the colleges, and are obliged to give fecurity, figned by 
the nmfterand fellows of their college, for the perform¬ 
ance of certain articles j the fenior proCtor in a bond of 
8o0l. and the junior in one of 500I. Their duty is to in- 
fpect the behaviour of the {Indents, to keep proper order 
in the univerfity, to read the oaths and graces in the fenate- 
houfe and take the votes of the regents, to aflift at con¬ 
ferring degrees, and to fuperintend the difquilitions in the 
public fchools, which lad is now often performed by their 
deputies the moderators. 5. Bv two taxors, cliofen in the 
fame manner as the proctors. They were originally ap¬ 
pointed to fettle the price of lodging for the Undents ; but 
now regulate the weights and meafures throughout the 
town, and are clerks of the market. There are alfo two 
ferutators, who obferve the votes of the non-regents, and 
read the graces in the Black-hood Houfe, to which they 
always belong. The office of public orator is for life, 
and, though not lucrative, yet is very honourable. His 
duty is to prefent noblemen to their degrees, and write the 
univerfity letters. There are alfo a commiffary, a regif- 
trary, tw'o librarians, a marffial by the vice-chancellor’s 
patent, a yeoman-beadle by the chancellor’s patent, and 
three efquire-beadles : thefe lad attend the vice-chancellor 
and fenate on all public occafions, walking before them 
with maces, which is an office holden for life. There are 
a number of univerfity prizes, fcholarfhips, and exhibi¬ 
tions, open to all dudents ; and twenty profedbrffiips on 
different foundations. There is alfo a provifion made for 
two bachelors, who are to travel, and fend annual accounts 
of their expeditions and difeoveries to the univerfity. 
There are four orders of dudents, viz. Noblemen, fel¬ 
low-commoners, penfioners, and fizars; there are alfo 
fome, called tenmen, who are in full orders ; and, by keep¬ 
ing their names on the boards ten years, and keeping three 
terms, they can be admitted to the degree of A. B. They 
are alfo fometimes called twenty-four-men , becaufe, being 
in full orders, they mud be at lead twenty-four years of 
age. In a ffiort time after admiffion the dudents are ma¬ 
triculated, by which they take the oath of obedience to 
the laws and datutes, and thus become members of the 
univerfity. After having refided the greater part of ten 
terms, befides the admiffion and exil terms, a dudent may 
be admitted to the degree of bachelor of arts, and three 
years from the following commencement, he is entitled to 
the degree of mader of arts; feven years after that, he 
may commence bachelor of divinity, or doCtor of phyfic ; 
and in five more a doctor of divinity. Degree of bache¬ 
lor of laws is given after fix years, if the major part of 
nine terms have been kept; and bachelor of phyfic after 
five years, on the fame condition. Both thefe may be doc¬ 
tors at the expiration of five years more. A licentiate in 
phyfic or furgery is generally a mader of arts, or bachelor 
of phyfic, of two years danding. All univerfity officers 
and candidates for every degree take the oaths of alle¬ 
giance and fupremacy, with the oaths of office or admif¬ 
fion. The following perfonages can claim an honorary 
degree of mader of arts, after two years danding, viz. 
privy-counfellors, biffiops, dukes, marquiffes, and earls ; 
vifeounts, barons, fons of noblemen, perfons related to the 
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king provided they be honourable, elded fons of fitch per¬ 
fons, baronets, and knights. For more particular infor¬ 
mation concerning this celebrated feat of learning, the read¬ 
er is referred to “Cudoms of the Univerfity of Cam¬ 
bridge,” by Adam Wall, M. A. and the “Annual Cam¬ 
bridge Calendar.” 
CAM'BRIDGE MANUSCRIPT, a copy of the Gof- 
pels and Aits of the Apodles in Greek and Latin. Beza 
tound it in tlie monafiery of Ircnceus, at Lyons, in the 
year 1362, and gave it to the univerfity of Cambridge in 
1582. It is a quarto fize, and written on vellum. Beza 
conjectures, that this manufeript might have cxidcd fo 
early as the time of Irenams. Wetdein apprehends, that 
it either returned or was did brought from Egypt into 
I 1 'ranee ; that it is the fame copy w hich Druthmar, an an¬ 
cient expofitor, who lived about tiie year 840, had feen, 
and which, he obferves, was a fori bed to St. Hilary ; and 
that R. Stephens had given a particular account of it in 
his edition of the.New Tedament in 1550. It is ufually 
called Stevens's fecond manufeript. Mill agrees with F. Si¬ 
mon in opinion, that it was written in tiie wedern part of 
the world by a Latin feribe, and that it is to a great de¬ 
gree interpolated and corrupted : he obferves, that it 
agrees fo much with the Latin Vulgate, as to afford rea- 
fon for concluding, that it was corrected or formed upon 
a corrupt and faulty copy of that tranflation. From this, 
and the Clermont copy of St. Paul’s Epidles, Beza pub- 
lilhed Iris larger Annotations in 1582. 
CAM'BRIDGE, a town fit ip of the United States of 
America, in Grafton county, New Hampdiire, ead of An- 
drofeoggin, and fouth of Umbagog Lake. 
CAM'BRIDGE, a town in Wsjdiington county, New 
York. By the cenfus of 1790, it contained 4996 inhabi¬ 
tants, including 41 flaves. By the date cenfus of 1796, 
it appears there are 623 eleCfors. 
CAM'BRIDGE, the half-diire town of Middlefex coun¬ 
ty, Maffachufetts, in America. Its three pari flies, Cam¬ 
bridge, Little Cambridge,’ and Menotomy, contain a num¬ 
ber of very pleafant feats, and 2115 inhabitants. An ele¬ 
gant bridge conneCIs this town with Bodon. The compact 
part of the bridge is pleafantly lituated three miles and a 
half wedward of Bodon, on the north bank of Charles ri¬ 
ver, over which is a bridge leading to Little Cambridge. 
Its public buildings,’ befides the edifices which belong to 
Harvard univerfity, are the epifcopal and congregational 
meeting-houfes, and a hand fome courl-houfe. The col¬ 
lege buildings are four in number, and are of brick, named 
Harvard, Hollis, and Maffachufetts, halls, and Holden 
chapel. They (land on a beautiful green, which fpreads 
to the north-wed, and exhibit a pleafing view. This uni¬ 
verfity, as to its library, philofophical apparatus, and pro- 
fefforfhips, is at prefent the fird literary inditution on this 
continent. It takes its date from the year 1638, feven 
years after the fird fettlement in the townlhip, then called 
Newtown. Since its edablilhment, to July 1794, 3399 flu- 
dents have received honorary degrees from its fucceffivc 
officers. It has generally from 140 to 200 dudents. The 
library contains upwards of 12,000 volumes. The cabinet 
of minerals, in the mufeum, contains the more ufeful pro¬ 
ductions of nature; and, excepting what are called the 
precious dones, there are very few fubdances yet difeo- 
vered in the mineral kingdom, but what may be found 
here. The univerfity owes this noble collection of mine¬ 
rals, and feveral other natural curiofities, to the munifi¬ 
cence of Dr. Lettfom, of London, and to that of the re¬ 
public of France. Lat.42. 23. N. Ion. 71. 7.W. Greenwich. 
CAM'BRIDGE, a town of United America, in South 
Carolina, where the circuit courts are held. It contains a 
court-houfe and a brick gaol. The college by law indi- 
tuted here is no better than a grammar-fchool. It is 80 
miles north-north-wed of Columbia, 140 north-wed of 
Charledown, and 762 fouth-wed of Philadelphia. 
CAM'BRIDGE, a town of United America, in Dor- 
clieder county, in Maryland, fituated on the-fouth fide of 
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