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 9o, Terrat. Filius. N � v, Im(l ther rue$ of the college; all which he de- dared I had done regularly, and without exception. B::t all this did ,'rot �atidy the reven�l prefi- elect, and tile abandoned proftirutes, his creature.'-; they thought it refle&ed upon them that I had fo good a tettimony on my fide, and were refol. red to revenge themfelves on thoik per�ons who in fome meafure, jufiified my charaCter, though they could not preferve my fello,flip. Within half a year after my exclulion, one of the belt livid6 which belon s to that colle e, dropt, g . g and according to 19niority, which uld to be the' ru!e in there cai%'de�cen'ded to one of' there o_entle- rnen but to {het that they were refolvecl t keep, their word, they ave it to a reputed ohig (who tld not appear for me) rther than to hem; fo m placable is the malice of thef.e men, that to grati- fy i, they will 1tick at nothing, not even the pre- letting of a Wi/g to a Tory. Tk, e other vo have been both refuid the tefli- rnardum o the college to recommend them for holy ordr, though they deferve it infinitely' more than multitude (whom I could name)to whom they have lately granted it; indeed they refuth it to no b_.ody (though ever fo ignorant or immoral) who idolizes tkem; one of there gentlemen has fince obtained it, but the other is 1till deprived of it, and ih/fi:rs, beEdes, fevetal oppreflions of amther' nature. It is, Sir, in defence of th-.�e tinhappy gentleme., and to expo�e fuch arbitrary and inhuman mea- fures as h_a,_ve been taken again.q: them, that I give you this tr, ouSle; you will eafily te the hardfldt o� their care, and dittinguifl txtween me ((vho perhap may e guilty of every thing laid to my clmrge) nd ;hqe who voted 'or me, Cupporing me to be i, CC ftt c Whcre-

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