[The town will preserve peace within its borders, will
consider scholars and their messengers neutral in time of war,
will grant them the rights of citizens, and will respect the
legal jurisdiction of the rectors, except in criminal and other
specially mentioned cases.]
Likewise, the town of Vercelli will provide two copyists, through
whom it will undertake to furnish men able to supply to the
scholars copies in both kinds of Law [Civil and Canon] and in
Theology, which shall be satisfactory and accurate both in text
and in glosses, and the students shall pay for their copies [no
extortionate prices but] a rate based on the estimate of the
rectors [of the university].
... Likewise, the scholars or their representatives shall not pay
the tributes in the district of Vercelli which belong and accrue
to the town of Vercelli.... The Podesta [Chief Magistrate] and
the town itself shall be bound to send, throughout the cities of
Italy and elsewhere, (as shall seem expedient to them) notice
that a university has been established at Vercelli, and to invite
scholars to come to the University of Vercelli.[52]
The whole contract was made a part of the city statutes and was to be
in force for eight years.
(g) _The Influence of Mediaeval Privileges on Modern Universities._
There is no question that the long series of privileges granted to
mediaeval universities influences the university life of to-day.
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