This translation of the original statutes of Emmanuel College was first made twenty years ago, with no clear intention of publication, though with the conscious thought that the contents would be interesting to others beside the translator, including those who had not the time, the patience, nor the knowledge, to read the original Latin. This I still believe, even though few readers have ferreted out the typescript laid up in the College Library unless directed to it by the translator (who happens for most of the time to have been the Librarian). Those few have included several serious historians of the sixteenth century, who doubtless would themselves have been.
