Note 305 — Chapter III · THE UNIVERSITY AS A DEGREE-GIVING BODY

Even if the candidate answer most of the tripos papers the conditions of the aegrotat degree preclude his being placed in any one of the classes. Edmund Spenser the poet and Lancelot Andrewes the scholar-bishop were both on the aegrotat list of Pembroke College—in 1571—before, however, this necessarily implied absence from any of the university “acts.”