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 N O 'err,e-ilius. xz3 rnob and that thel all left the tavern before ain a.clock at night. The reful-t of there examinations and depofition, was this: both the members o[ the club, and th neffohs who hd voluntarily depo�ed.any thing your of thole members, were put into the chancellor's court, and proceeded againf as Rioters. .fcer a troublefome profecution, which lad above a year, and put the confiitutio.dub to more than an hundred pounds exFence, they were found guilty of: king at a tavern on thewenty eighth of May; but were aetuitted of the Riot. A .full and ea& account of the proceedings the uni.verfity in this affair, and of the many dilloyal and treafonabk praCtices, which both the grea gownlinen, and the froall, had been guilty of, fent up * * * * * *. But * * * *. In this part of the hittory of the tonflitufiion. elub, it ought not to be omitted, that whilf the profecu. t. i0n {va ct ing on in the vice-chancellor's court, the clutiful and obfequious grand Jury O f Oxfird]hir, at the affizes for the county, mad a formalpreterit.. ment of the confiitutiomrs. as a let of factious men, "who, fhrouding themfelve under the �peciou ' name ot? the tofiitutio-el, were enemies to "monarhy and allg00dg0vernment, and had been tM "athors of all the tumult, and diforders that hal "happened in the city r county.of Oxrd." ' No'} were the courts of ju!tice the onlr places which the eonflitutioner$ met with unjufl: and fcan dabus ufate: St. Mary's, Golgot, the Theatre, omtio.ho-ul'e, and/cbools, eccho'd with inveves andanathem�sagaint! them. Themoft fcurrilou re- tie&ion, on them were conttantly thrown out in the Lent.n, trfis, �ermons, declamations, andall other pub- lick exercifes. Even thole graver tools, the l-.C -.. tad P.--r,to enliven thdru!lharangues, andgain th aplaufe o the taboruate rabble, neve fl'd, in

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