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 N �ix/. Terre. Filius. had of marrying a rich Wmow, who�e name I have quite forgot. Then we went back to fee the L x u u a u v; but as we re going through the old ffuadrangle, my iend pointed up to the turret over the gate, and told me that there the coegeflok_was kept agn any loWes which jt might fun i but it is generally fufeed. that if any occafion ould oblige them to open the Cuzsz (ofwhich the urfar and fever other have a key) the rims depofited there would fill very ort of what tome perfonsfuppofe to be there. On &.e top of this turret there is a little hole thro' the battlemints, ,,,hich, it is fiid, on of cannon-ot made, when he befieged Oxrd. The LIbRaRY Of St. ]hn s Coeg ls looked u- n as one of th grecurities in the univerfit, and alwa[s ewed to firangers as fuch; it is composed of two long rooms, which are called the inner and outer libraries; the Iatter of which is filled with a great collection of valuable books, particularly, the works of antient writers, such as fathers, commen- tators, casuists, school-divines, controvertists, metaphysicians, and mythologists, besides other less consideta- ble authors, as wits, poets, and historians, who stand at the upper end of the room, in a class by themselves, which is called the LING'RING CLASS; amongst which (having the curiosity to take down several of these trifling volumes) I found the bishop of Peterborough's history of England, with a most impudent insult upon the learned author, written upon a blank leaf at the beginning of the first volume, and continued there for several years, which, out of regard to the president and fellows of that college, who permitted it to stand there, I will not transmit to posterity. We then went into the inner room, which is famous for the manuscripts, archives, and curious trinkets

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