¶ An act that purveyors shall not take victuals, within five miles of cambridge and oxford.  
humbly sue to your majesties, the societees, Colleges, & companies, of your true and faithful subiectes, & daily orators the scholars & students of both your majesties universities, cambridge and oxford, that where it hath been accustomend time out of mind that both the said market towns of Cambridge and Oxford, wherein the said two universities, be set and the circuit of five miles next adjoining, hath ben fre from any charge or molestation of any common takers, or purueyers for victual, whereby the said markets, were more plentifully served with victual, and the poor estate of a great multitude of schollers, having very bare and small sustentation thereby relieved, and now by the means that contrary to the same laudable custom, diverse purveyors, and takers haue of late excessyuely frequented the said marketes, and thereby given occasion to make the victelles both more scant and much derer, to a notorious decay of schollers, which also daily in this great dearth, is like to increase and be more lamentable, to the hindrance of gods service, the dishonour of the realm, the discomfort of all good and holy men, loving learning and virtue. It may therefore please your majesties of your great pity and abundant favor and love towards your said two universities, being the very two onely norses of good learning in this realm, with the assent of the lords spiritual & temporal, and the commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, to enact, ordain and establish, that from henceforth no maner of purueyor, taker bager, looder, or other minister, may or shall take or bargain for any kind of victual or grain, in any of the said markets or towns, of cambridge, and the city of oxford, nor shall take or bargain for any victual, within the compass of five miles, thereto adjoining, without the consent agreement or good will of the owner or owners, nether shall attempt to carry take away, or bargain for any maner of grain, or other victual, bought or provided within the said space of five miles by any common minister, of any college, hostell, or hall to be spent within any of the said colleges, hostelles, or walls, vpon pain of the forfeiture of the quadruple value, of any such maner grain, or vyctuall so taken or bargained for in any of the said markets, or within the said space of five miles, against the will of the owners, as is abovesaid, or attempted to be taken carried away, or bargained for, being provided as is abovesaid, for to be spent in any the colleges, hostels, or walls, And further shal suffer imprisonment, for the space of three Moneths, without bail or maynepryse, and that the chancellor, or vicechauncellor, or his Commyssary for the time being, in either of the said universities, with two Iustices of peace, of the county, wherein the said universities be set, shall haue full power by authority of this act, to inquire by the oaths of. xii. men of and vpon the defaults and offences committed contrary to the tenor thereof, and to see due punishment and reformation thereof in form aforesaid from time to time, the one half of which foresaid forfeitures to be to the common treasure of either the said universities respectyuely to the fault, committed, against this their privilege, the other half to the party that will sue for the same, by action of debt, bill, plaint, or otherwise in any court of record, or before the foresaid chancellor, his 'vice chancellor, or commyssary for the time 〈…〉.