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 xxxx. 7'erra. Filitts. .x living man in the world, who will make oath .that ]ae .was, at a certain time, and at a certain place,. in .company with the af'oreid certain per, n, together With ccrtain'/-/ead of' colleges, whenfuch an health �went round. N.B. I do not undertake to Iorodue this living man, Of fuchexcellent uf and eonvenlence'to the uni- -oerfity, and h.er friend is this nightfefiial, xi, hich appears to be mttituted for divers great and worthy parpot}s, and particularly, belide_tliol' a/ready inenti- oned, for the initiation of young $cur..s into the my.- !teries of'their buffneff in the government of' their �ollegesl of which the hiltory of poor Dr. DurBosz will furniih us with a. late remarkable .inltane. e. Dodot DuruoN�s is buta young Scu,.x., though an old man, being. but lately advane'd to the govern- ment of a college m OxFORu: he fpent _the greateli part of his lifein'a vimridge in Sometflx'f hire, which s the 1tatmn he feems clefign d for by nature, butby great Imrfimoy, and living fingO, he grew  rich, that the Fellows of the college,to which he former- ly belonged,.thought it.worth ;the!r while, upon tho death of their hte H-au, to mwte Dr. Duuos out of the eou_ntry to, come to oxford, and �ucceed Nm i which the dodot thankfully acCepted and he was accordingly elec';ted their Hv. su, . In this office he behaved very well for rome time, and aCted like a man in his fenfesi but being admitted into the Oanmss he loon altered couri:, and began to tyrannize like his brethren, whole example and advice he would kequently urge to his Fallows in anfwex to their remonflrances and implaints, tellifig them that the He,Ds of houfes d, lie might do what ht pleafed in his own to!lege. It, dying upon which, th.e. poor old creature exercifed an abfo'lute authority:in hs college,. in contempt of all fiatutes which were no more than dead ltter$ in hi.'s eyei trampling Under hi, feet the will of his I t Irons.

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