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 $8 Teme. Filius. xv, Several gentlemen, well affe&ed to the King, and his adminiaration, who were prefent at the delivery of it, and took down an abftra& of it in. writing. waited for Come time in expe&ation that the zice. cbcellor, or Come of' the do&or or governors of the univeffity, would take notice of fo impudent an infult upon the government, whole creatures the ? are; but finding that nothing of this nature womd be done, the reverend Mr. Meadocaurt, Fellow ?denon college, waited upoi the and comp',ained of a ]3ditious xSrmon preaeh'd b Mr. Wh. on upon the day ufored,d, defii':ng that his notes might be demanded, and that he might be puniff. ed according as the Statutes dire&ed. To this the vice.ckaneellor anfwered, that he was at church himtlf, and that he did not obferve any thing j.litious in the �ermon, nor had any do&er or Hea:t of a dollege complained that there was; and therefore he bad him particularize any lva,ge, in which he apprehended thefid#ion was couch d. But Mr. Meadorcourt reply'd, that he would not char . . any particular paffige, ,becaufe f he dd not do exa&ly in the preacher s words, he might deny it to be his do&fine, and �ape jullice; and therefore he charged the tenor of the whole rmon with ,li- tio, and deftred that his notes might be examined, and that then the fiditious paffiges would appear. Th:s complaint and requ was the more reafona- b!e, l:ecaufe, but a few months before the vite-than- ee.'lor had demanded Mr. MauriWs notes, upon a corn- Ynt made inlt'afermon which he reach'd, that it contained �omcthmg contrary to one of the Arti- de of the church oflgland, without any particu- hr allegation; and he was prohibited to preac'h with- in the ?in&s of the univerfity upon that account. Yet in the prefent care, the vic.tIsantellr abfo. iute. l� refu.fed to demand the preacher's notes with- out a pamax charge i though the.flatute in this

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