Sentence of deposition of Cambridge Vice-Chancellor John Peachell

Author: Unknown

Source: Keynes Ms. 123, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Published online: January 2008

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By his Majestys Commissioners for Ecclesiasticall Causes, & for the Visitation of the Vniversities, & of all & every Collegiate Churches, Colleges, Grammer Schooles, Hospitalls & other the like Incorporations, or ffoundations, & Societies.

Whereas Iohn Pechell D^r of Divinity Vice Chancellor of Cambridge & Master of S^t. Mary Magdalen College in the said Vniversity hath been convened before us for his disobedience to his Majestys Royall Letters Mandatory, and other his contempts, & the said D^r Iohn Peachell having been fully heard thereupon: Wee haue thought fit after mature Consideration of that matter, to declare, decree & pronounce, that the said D^r Iohn Peachell shall for the said disobedience & contempt, be deprived from being Vice Chancellor of the said Vniversitie & from all power of Acting in the same, & also that he shall be suspended ab Officio, & Beneficio of his Mastership of the said College, during his Majestys pleasure, & accordingly we do by these presents deprive him the said D^r Iohn Pechell from being Vice Chancellor of the said Vniversity & from all power of acting in the same, & also suspend him ab Officio & Beneficio of the said College peremptorily admonishing him, & requiring him hereby to abstain from the Function & Execution of the Office of Vice Chancellor & from Acting in the Vniversity & also from his Function as Master of the said College, during the said Suspension under pain of Deprivation from his said Mastership. And we do further Order & Decree that the profitts & perquisits belonging to his said Mastership shall during the said Suspension be applyed to the Vse and benefit of the said College. Given under our Seal the 7^th of May 1687