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  "legislation": "aep/Eliz1/13/29",
  "legislation_title": "Oxford and Cambridge Act 1571",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Acte for Thincorporation of bothe Thunyversities.\nFor confirming the Priviledges of the Two Universities;\nFor the greate Love and Favor that the Queenes most excellent Majestie beareth towardes her Highnes Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and for the greate Zeale and Care that the Lords and Commons of this present Parliament have for the Mayntenaunce of good and Godly Literature and the vertuouse Education of Youth within either of the same Universities; And to thentent that the auncient Priveleges Liberties and Fraunchises of either of the said Universities here before graunted ratified and confirmed by the Queenes Highnes and her most noble Progenitors may be had in greater Estymation and be of greater Force and Strengthe, for the better Increase of Larning and the further suppressing of Vice:",
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      "text": "Short title given by Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), Sch. 2"
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act amended by Universities of Oxford and Cambridge Act 1859 (c. 19), s. 1"
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      "label": "X1",
      "text": "Abbreviations or contractions in the original form of this Act have been expanded with modern lettering in the text set out below."
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      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: heretofore"
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