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 Tcrrte-Filius. N O XLII'L _any one his grace the third time, (which he mull do, 'if he would exclude him from his degree,) without .giving a teafort: bur to whom, and in what man- ner does he give this rcafon ? Not in a fair, �rid judicial manner, before the perfon accutM; but in a private chamber, or a cloft, to the vice-than. tellor and the-two pro,ors, who are to acquaint the next eongrega. tlon with it- Mean while, the accu- tint is not known, nor has the party acculM the liberty to difpro,e what is charged upnn himi bt if the zic.-chacellor flys that a man of veraci; .zir fide digress) alledges fuch or �uch a crime againR him, the congregation do not examine ther it be true, or nor  but put it to the vote, whe- ther, taking it to be true, the candidate ought to be fufpended from his degree, upon thi: account. The vice.chancellor and pracYar$ are noe o much .=s oblig'd to demand the ob,]ecr's oath; but Jf they pleafe, may take a man s bare word (provided he be a man f veracity) for any accufition that is lrought before them; they are fworn ,lot to difco ver the accufer, nor can he be difcover'd in the coT. thregation, becaufe an perfons are obliged to vahifl)er eir votes �ofdy in the proliar's ear, who goes round from one to another, and is fworn nifo not difcover any body's vote. From hence it appear that the vice-chancel/or arid ti:e Droc7or$ have it very much in their powtr to keep any man from his degree, however inn0- cent and deferring, out of pertonal ill-will or par- Dr re/ntmem$1 there ]dom being wanting rome little kandal or oher current upon every one in the univerfity, which, duly managed, will ferve the turn. We have at ?relent indeed fo good a vice- a:hancellor, and fuch good proors, that I am lure they xvould fcorn to do any fuch thing  but we have 'had wicked men in thole offices, (particularly in the mp-times) and may, perhaps, one time or other, have

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