Election of a Chancellor

The following proceedings took place in the year one thousand, eight hundred and eleven, in consequence of the Vacancy of this Office occasioned by the death of his Grace the Duke of Grafton.

The Vice-Chancellor appointed a Congregation on the sixteenth of March, to give notice of the day of Election, which must take place within fourteen days after the vacancy is certainly known. Stat. Eliz. 33. Lib. Stat. p. 241.

At this Congregation the Senior Proctor gave the following notice:

Dominus Pro-Cancellarius certior factus de morte Illustrissimi Augusti Henrici Duels de Grafton, palam notum facit Munus Cancellariatus jam vacare, et assignat horam nonam diei vigesimi sexti instantis Mensis pro Electione Cancellarii hujus Academiæ.

At a Congregation held on the twenty-second of March the following Grace was passed:

Placeat Vobis, ut si qui Scholares, ante Diem Electioni Cancellarii assignatum, Electorum hue commigrantium commodo consulentes, cum Tutorum consensu ex Academia egressi fuerint, præsentem terminum complevisse teneantur.

On the day of Election a Bedell read the 33d Stat. Eliz. De Electione Cancellarii. Lib. Stat. p. 241.

The Vice-Chancellor, the two Proctors, and the Junior Doctor in Divinity present (if there had been no Doctor in Divinity present, then the Junior Doctor of Law or Physic would have supplied his place) stood in Scrutiny, and first gave their votes written in the following form:

A. B. eligit — in Cancellarium hujus Academiæ—.