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 APPENDIX. fdf to fo much trouble to prevent the bad confe- ?nees of a thing, which, according to your confeffion, is never likely to h?pen again !-- How- ever, Sir, fince you think it a point of fuch impor- tance, not only5 to the II advancemet of'learning, and the v/edit of. the unierfit),, but to the benefit of all mankind, to have this 1t&ute amended, I will con- rider your arguments upon that head !omewhat mor largely. It �eem$ then, that in * ./lea-Term, '!'-. Mr. lrilliam Seaman (by. you called t'Mlliam Seaman) of Bart-flail, having m vain applied t.o your t'elh as l'rinei.l, and afterwards to the !/ice chancellor for a 'dilet, he was, inMihaelmas-Term following, ad- mitted commoner in Oriel College by Mr. owles, in contravention to the thtute aforefiid. . What reafon Mr.. Seama might have to &fire ha difet, or how the matter impartially Rood be- tween you, I cannot tell, being perreedy unacquaint- ed with the Gentleman, or the 1tate of his ate, any farther than by hear-/iy  but, taking it to be exa&!lr as you have reprefentcd it, I do not fee any gr. ound lr fo grievous a complaint as you have made about it  for whatever his reafon might be for deftring to remove, it appears, by your own conceffion, that he took the regular method appoint by fiatme, to ob- tain leave br �o doing  firit, by applying to you as hi Governor i and when that failed of fuccdi, he ltruck hi name, it feems, out of your toodeftly withdrew into the country, (feemingly un- willing to difoblige you, by going direttly to ano- ther college)and returning f�me a.f'rerwards to Ox]3rd, he applied to the !,e.chancello, as the cute farther direcqed i but bein fo unhap y as to �g P meet with a repulfe from hm too, and the caufeof his deftring to remove Rill rubtilting, Mr. lovles mitred

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