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lefs for rome time under Oliver Crom,a'ell, who pre3 it into the fervice of Round-heads and Fansinks; but king fore againtt the grain, it took the firIt op- .portunity to de�ert them, and has claw'd them off ror it ever fincei it never fpares a whig or a presO- terian, when it gets them into its clutches5 but gripes them to death, or kicks them out of it,: tenitories. Upon a publick night, jult after king came into zg!and �ome ohigs in Oxoun ordcd a bonefire to be made before a tavern door, and windows to be illuminated, defigning to be nnd merry; but iramedia:ely a great mob of fcho- hrs and others came hollowing and roaring ki,g s 'or ever, down with the Usuu,u; they tied all the fagots away, broke the windows, committed teveral other outrages; whereupon the whigs, whofe names could be learnt, were ci:c.d into the vice-chancellor's court, and fi?,ea for comr,.t - ting a riot; it be:ng alledged. that if the), b,;a been there, or made a bonefire, there :ould .been 1o riot; upon which an ingenious gent]crash told them, in a fpeech upon this occalion, that a man was riding ozer Hounflow-Heath as robb'di from hen�:, fiid he, I vodl ar. tb,t

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