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 Teme.�iliu.. TERRaE~FiLIU$. N o L. D,: vo;iam Coryis, vexat te55ra Columbas. H ^ T I may keep he promil' whicI ! rome time ago made to my readers, I dcfign, in this taft paper, to give them art account of the rife, prngret, and final difl'olmion of the co]tituticn-cluJ a club, which ought always to be rememred with honour, both on account of the number of perfore of the greateft quality, merit, .and reputation, who were members ot: it, and of tl/eglorious oppofition which they made againft the tyrannical and difloyal powers of the univerfity of' Oxford. During the latter part of the Qeen's reign, the W!3igs and Tories in Oxford conver,'d indifferenrhr and pe._ceabt7, together.-DifFutes about politick were then tiidom heard of names of reproach and dillinC'ion were generally laid aft.de; and the heat of party zeal feem'd to be near exunguifl'd. The Totlet were delighted and fatisfied in enj6ying wh.at the/' .wanted i and the Whigs were not very uneafy m wan.ng what they ought to have enjoy'& As the formerof the�� were fo civilas not to talk much of xhe t'rtender; fo the latter, with no Iefs civility laid but little about the Ele&or of

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