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 66 Terre-Filius. NO "his grace. flall undergo the examination of a Re' "gent.mailer. The pcrfon to be xami, ed is obliged; the day le- fore his examinations, to ax a rogramm on fore- n! publick places in the univerfiy, figniyieg nzme, what ege he 1ongs to, and what The tsce apint for th examinmio. f,oot. of t:e phces in the univerfity) the ar frm ine 'till eten in the morning. during all which time tl:e candidate is oblig to flay there i d :gain om in the afternoon. if e examiner thinks t, as long he-pleares. The arts or i%;enet, in which the candidate is to be exam;ld, are thofe in which, acct;rdiog to the fla. tutes of theuni"erfity, le is obliged to hear tubhck leures: befide which, heis to ee oxamin'd in the Claffs, and to return all his anfwe as fluently and properly in Latin, as he could in his mtker tongue. Thele examir, ersate(or ought to l:,c) appointed by the fenorpro8or, who adminifters anontb to them to this effi:q. "That they' will either examine, or hear exami- "ned, all candidate, that fall to their lot in tho�e "arts and fciences, and in thch manner a, the tta- ' tute requires. "Likewife, that they will not he prevail d upon "by intreatlea or bribe: or hatred or friendChip, or "hopeor fear, to grant any one a teflimonium, who "does not deftrye it, or to deny i to any one that Now this, again, looks all very air and fitisfac- . tory: but let us examine the praeqtce, not the theory  he execution of the fiaut, and not the ttatute.; them/Ives. The meaning of'the fla:ute n ordering the candi- datea to be examined in tlao�� art md .itnes, in whi

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