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 appeals to the world, and epecially to those who were his contemporaries there, excepting only ome, who would think it very hard to be oblig'd to peak the Truth.

As to my charge of a treaonable pirit reigning in the univerity at that time, I think it generally known, that I need not ue any arguments, or produce any vouchers, to prove to be jut; it was o far from being diowned by the perons poes'd of that pirit, that was boated of, in mot of their ermons and publick peeches, tho' under another name as the chief ornament and glory of the place. They labour'd to convince the world how trenuous they were in the caue of High church and the Pretender, by publick drinking his health, defending his right, praying for his retoration, and careing his mot open and declar'd adherents. This is uficiently confirmed by the prudent teps which the Government took, at that time, to prevent their farther deigns, by ending a regiment of Dragoons into the univerity; a thing which is never done, but in caes of the utmot extremity. To this we may add the Reolutions which afterwards paed, in the House of Lords, on a complaint of a Riot at Oxford by which Reolutions it appears, according to the judgement of the Lords, both piritual and temporal, after the tricket examination