and commit to you their protection and custody, and in addition
thereto the restraint of those persons who, to the prejudice of
our protection and guardianship, inflict upon the above-mentioned
Masters or Scholars unjust violence, injury or loss, either
within the limits of your prefecture or in other places of our
kingdom, wheresoever the aforesaid wrongs are committed.

This present arrangement is to be in force for a period of two
years only.[36]

4. The personal property of Masters and Scholars is protected.

The privilege of Philip Augustus for Paris, 1200.

Also our judges [of the secular courts] shall not lay hands on
the chattels of the students at Paris for any crime whatever. But
if it seem that these ought to be sequestrated, they shall be
sequestrated and guarded after sequestration by the
ecclesiastical judge, in order that whatever is judged legal by
the ecclesiastical judge may be done.[37]

More comprehensive protection is given by the charter of Philip IV,
1340/41, concerning Masters and Scholars at Paris. The king decrees--

Likewise, that their goods and means of support, whereon they
have and will have to live in pursuing their studies as
aforesaid, in consideration of their status, shall not be taken
for our use or that of our subjects or be in any way whatever
interfered with under cover of wars or any other pretext
whatever, by any persons whatever, of whatever condition, status,