An Answer To The Serious Inquiry Into Some Proceedings Relating To The University Of Ox---D - Softcover

William Lewis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461947889 ISBN 13: 9780461947885

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

An Answer To The Serious Inquiry Into Some Proceedings Relating To The University Of Ox---D by William Lewis. This pamphlet is a polemical rebuttal to a prior inquiry into alleged misconduct at the University of Oxford, offering a detailed defense of the university’s procedures and statutes. The author structures his argument around three aims: first, to set the facts in their true light; second, to show that the way those facts were presented before the chief magistrate was flawed; and third, to defend the legality and propriety of the convocation’s actions, including the use of purgation and compurgation oaths and the Chancellor’s involvement. He discusses Laud-era statutes, Elizabethan reforms, and later changes to argue that purgation by oath remained lawful when voluntary and that convocation acts as an appellate body rather than a trial court. Throughout, Lewis asserts the Vice-Chancellor’s conduct was proper and contends the Inquirer misrepresented events, citing specific incidents such as a Magdalen College boy and the Remonstrance to the university.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461947889
• ISBN 13: 9780461947885
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 58