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 at the Governors of the univerity and city of Oxford were notoriouly guilty of practices, highly direpectful to his majesty's royal family, and tending to.

I will mention but one thing more upon this head, beides what is farther alledged in the following volumes, which is the treatment that the Conitution-club received from the Magitrates and Rulers, as well as the inferior part of the univerity; a Club, which deerves immortal honour, and the highet encouragement, for thier zeal and ervices to the preent happy ettlement, in the mot critical eaon; for which they were repaid at Oxford with perecution and digrace, with injuries and hardhips, and with the mot partial and cruel treatment. Were witnees wanting to the truth of this, I could appeal to everal Gentlemen of great ditinction, and hining ornaments of their country, who were formerly members of that ociety and at preent make a coniderable figure in the Houe of Commons.

It mut be confes'd, indeed, that this editious pirit, and thee treaonable practices have, of late years, o much abated, if not entirely ceaed there, that it induced his Majety, out of his royal goodnes, to ditinguih his ubjects at Oxford with everal valuable Donations, and marks of his affection: Neither ought it to be diembled, what a loyal, dutiful, and grateful ene they