Caption: Booklet - UI Charter of Freedom (1942)
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51 of Oxl I em! Cambridge. Ambitious iMona; hs 01 ic: IIIII^ ministers might for a HUM- I du< them to vi it roles, only to gee them rise triumphant ami expand In eonatantly widening areas of r p » < < . ami pow as th«- relentleae finger of < rienced wism pointed to the wasting blight of royal or ministerial int rvention. AH W<- h.-ivc pointed out, it is no m<i coincidence that the University of Iiiinoi is rested a m i endow i w i t h p o w e r s in the very words B bK U with which the English Parliament In 1571, In the L3tl y of lis.-ih'-t.h, f.'hapttjr 2ft, ratified and confirmed th ano nt charters of these famed Institutions of learning, providing that each "shall be Incorpoi ted," and empowering ach to "implead and be impleaded and sue and be sued" as e poratione enjoying ex< ended privileges of self-government and freedom fron y sort, of capricious interfi rence. It if i :ord< I t h a t in 124.'', Henry IIf SOUght th. Ivice and help of Oxford masters learned in the law That is to say, the position of Oxford, its colleges and its m a s t e r s wan fully established at this early date. The Attorney General, as the law officer of thi Crown, developed in his own direction without eni rot Ing On th< charter privileges Of these corporator, f] item Rolls, 28 Hen. Ill, m. 10 d., p. 438.) In L3 li/abeth 29, "Act Cone ming the sev al > 01 •]> rations of the Univ* reifies of Oxford and Camdg< ; and the confirmation of tint charters, liberties, privileges granted to either of them/' we find th allowing statement: "Be It further enacted, by the authority of this present Parliament that the Right Honors!] Robert, Earl of Leicester, now Chancellor oi the said University of Oxford, and his •UCCeSBOrS for* ver and the Masters and Scholars of the same University foi the t i m i being, shall DC mcoi
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