Their
office was such an important one for the well-being of
the scholars that it was found convenient to extend to
them the privileges and protection of the University, and
in return to exact an oath of fairdealing from them.[2]
[1] O. H. S., 27, Boase, xxxvi.
[2] Cf. Grace B.
ix, xiii, xliii.; O. H. S., 29, Madan,
Early Oxf. Press, 266; Mun. Acad., 532, 544, 579.
Before the end of the thirteenth century the University's
privileges had been extended to servientes known
as parchment-makers, scribes, and illuminators; in 1290
the privileges were confirmed.[1] Certain stationers were
then undoubtedly within the University as servientes, but
in 1356 they are recorded positively as being so with
parchmenters, illuminators, and writers: and again in 1459 "alle
stacioners" and "alle bokebynders" enjoyed the privileges
of the University, with "lympners, wryters, and pergemeners."[2]
These privileges took them out of the jurisdiction
of the city, although they still had to pay taxes, which
were collected by the University and paid over to the city
treasurer.
[1] Mun. Acad., 52.
[2] Ibid., 174, 346.
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