Orders concerning the Rates, and Demands of Carriers, and their Porters, for Goods brought, and conveyed betwixt the University of OXFORD, and City of LONDON. WHereas the Carriers between the University of OXON: and the City of LONDON, to the great prejudice of the Members of the said University, & others have for these late years, contrary to the Charters, and ancient Practice of the said University exacted what rates they pleased for the Carriage of Goods, and Letters; For the prevention of the like Abuse for the future, It is therefore now ordered by me JOHN FELL Dr Divinity, and ViceChancellour of the said University, That henceforth They, their Servants, and Porters shall demand, or receive no other rates then 1 Imprimis, For the carriage of one hundred weight in the time between the two Feasts of All-Saints, and the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary three shillings four pence, and for the rest of the year three shillings. 2 Item, for the carriage of the greatest parcel (all being to be esteemed parcels under a quarter of an hundred weight) ten-pences, and so ratably for those that are less. 3 Item, For the carriage of any burden, not exceeding one hundred weight, nor less than a quarter of an hundred weight, from the Shop or Warehouse, where the Goods were unladed unto the owner's Habitation or Shop, threepences, and for a parcel one penny. 4 Item, That all Letters directed to Scholars shall be left at the Butteries of their respective Colleges or Halls, and for the delivery of every such Letter only one halfpenny loaf, as was accustomed, but if any carriage comes with a letter, nothing shall be paid for the bringing of the said letter. Given the 1. day of September An. Dom. 1666. JOHN FELL ViceCan.