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 Terrx. Filius. xxx. -its inilitution, the unblameablenefi of-its condu&, and the realohs of its dedenfion i fo that at prefent I will content my fell wih premifing in general, that-this locicry took its rife f}om the iniquity of' e times, and was intended to promote and culti- vate friendfhip between all fuch perfons as favoured our prefent happy conltimtion: they thought them- felves obliged openly and publickly to avow their 1o alt, and manifeit their fineere affe&n to King Y Y. Gzoto� upon all proper and becoming occafions,  to check, as much as in them lay, the vail tor- rent of tr_.Con and clifffie&ion which overflowed the univerfity. They thought it their duty to Lull poffible marks of refl& to thole faithful .cvts, who were feafonably nt to that place, by the fiour of the ,_vovemment, to prote& the quiet Fart of the King s es, and to �uppre the tu- multuary praices the ?rofeti'd enemies to his
 * hIajeft�'s perfort and government; and for conltant-

!y adhering to what they thought their duty in there points; and for no other cau, that they can apprehend, they have been fo unfortunate as to be- come obnoxious to the univerfity, and to feel, ma- y of them, the iivere effe&s of their rffentments. This fnort account of the Confiitutio Club fuffident for our prefent purpo, to which I now t, eeed. On the 9th of May 76. in the evening, the Cmflitution CIub, and feveral officers in colonelHan- d/de', regiment, met together at a tavern. Whilf[ t'y er drinking the King's and other loyal healths, �everal �quibs .were_thrown iii at the win- ow, which burnt rome of thetr doaths, and the room with fire and froink, Betides this, they vre continually infulted with loud peals of hiffe nd conchmations of d0vn voith the Roundheads, from the gownmen, and ther diforderly leople in the /treet i of which they took no notice. They

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