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.

Whereas the Petitioners claime by their Charters the same Liberties and Customes with London. We answer.

1. The Petitioners have not made it appeare, nor so much as asserted, that London has any such Liberty or Custome, whereby They may not sue & be sued out of their own Courts.

2. That supposing They have such a Liberty or Custome as present, yet the Petitioners have not made it appeare, or so much as asserted that Lon∣don had any such Liberty at or before the time of the Grant of those surmised Charters to the Cit∣ty of Oxford.

3. That divers other Citties and Boroughs in England have by their respective Charters like Grants of the same Libe••••ies with London and Oxon, who yet are not exempted from suing and being sued out of their own Courts.

4. That it will appeare that the most ancien•• Charter which the Citty of Oxon can pretend to, in r••lation to the liberti••s of London, is u••t••••ly re∣pugnant

to it selfe as to the principall of those Liberties.

5. That Custome is the work of time, and grow•• without Charter, and therefore can not be gran∣ted by Charter.

6. That the Customes of London are of great va∣riety to some of which (notwithstanding their Charter be generall for all) the Cittizens of Oxon doe not pretend; and to other some when they have laid claime by suits at common Law, by pe∣tition to the Lord Major and Aldermen of Lon∣don, by petition in Parliament, and by pleadings in Eyre, their claime ha's not been allowed.