The answer of the chancellor, masters and scholars of the Vniversity of Oxford, to the petition, articles of grievance, and reasons of the city of Oxon presented to the honorable committee for regulating the University of Oxford the 24. of July, 1649.

1. To the Reasons of their first Grievance.

1. TO the first Reason of their first Grievance We answer, and deny it to be true that they have any such Charter allowed in ••yre, or any such Custome as is pretended, viz. Not to be sued out of their own Court; Nor ought to have for the reasons following.

• 1. For that the Vniversity Court and the juris∣diction thereof, is of a higher antiquity then any Charter of the Cittizens legally confirmed con∣cerning their Court.
• 2. For that in the most and principall Charters of the Citty, as also in such Acts of Parliament as tend to the confirmation of them, there is an ex∣presse saving of all the Rights and Priviledges of the University.
• 3. For that it appears by common practice that the Cittizens mutually sue one another in the Courts at Westminster and elsewhere, both by o∣riginall Suits commenced in those Courts, and

• by removing their Suits out of their own Court by Writs of Habeas Corpus, Certiorari, and Writt•• of Error.
• 4. For that they are ordinarily sued by Stran∣gers both in the Courts at Westminster, and in o∣ther Courts; and we cannot ••ind that ever they pleaded any such Charters of Exemption; or if they did, that any such Plea was ever allowed to them; Whereas the Vniversities Priviledge hath been frequently pleaded and in all ages allowed.