Whereas all Ʋndergraduates, and Minors whatsoever, are strictly accomptable in all their matters of Bargaine, and expence, to their respective Tutors, and Governours, and ought not by the Lawes, and Ancient Usages of this Place to be Trusted, or Dealt with for any Summ, or Thing exceeding Five Shillings in Value, without the approbation of the said Tutors and Governours: And that notwithstand­ing, severall Persons have of late presumed to Trust, and Deal with Young Scholars for very great Values, to the utter debauching of many of them, and the unsufferable affront to publique Discipline. These are straightly to Charge and Require all manner of Persons, as Mercers, Book-sellers, and all others, Priviledged, or not Priviledged, of what Quality, Trade, or Oc­cupation, soever, that from the day of the Date hereof, they doe not Buy, Sell, Trust, or Bargain with any Undergraduate, or Minor whatsoever, that hath his Residence, or Name in any Colledge, or Hall, within this University, for any Summe, or Thing above the said Value of Five Shillings, without the knowledge, and expresse approbation of his Tutor, or Governour respe­ctively, under the pain of being proceeded against (by Dispriviledging, Discommoning, Imprisonment, &c. according to the Quality of the Person, and Nature of the Offence) as a Perturber of the Peace, and Good Govern­ment of this Place.

We likewise further require and command all such as have trusted, or dealt with Undergraduates, without the knowledge of their respective Tutors, beyond the Value of Five Shillings aforesaid, that they bring in true Bills of all such Credits and Demands as are yet unpaid them, to the respective Tutors, or Governours concerned, at, or before the Twentieth Day of February next after the Date hereof, under the Pains and Penalties aforesaid, to be Inflicted upon all such as shall neglect, or refuse.

Given under the Seal of the Office of the Chancellor-ship of the Univer­sity of Oxford the Twenty Sixth Day of January, in the Year of our Lord, 1663.