Excerpt from An Index to Wills Proved in the Court of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and to Such of the Records and Other Instruments and Papers of That Court: As Relate to Matters or Causes Testamentary It appears then that in the middle of the fourteenth cen tury the Chancellor's jurisdiction in testamentary matters applied to all Members of the University, and to all who were engaged in their service. In process of time it extended to all persons who partook of the privileges of the University in other respects: or perhaps it may be more correct to say, that in process of time persons of several other descriptions became entitled to partake of the privileges of the University, and that all who had the privileges were necessarily liable to the jurisdiction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.