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 A P P E N D I X. ranl ufurpation of Oliver Cromwell, and then ask your con�cience this impartial quefiion; whether you Ao not believe, that many a �ice-chancdlor, in thole wicked Rump-times, would have combined with one of his f anaticalBrethren to opprds an honelt young Roy- al/fl, by refuting himleavetodepartfrom onecolleg-e, where he had been manifeffty ill-re'd, and go to ao. tber, .where he had a ?rofpe& of advancing far.... ..... ctner can I agee wtl you concerning the Rea fins, which a fcholar ought to have, for leaving one foolery, and going to stber. In the fitIt place I muff obierve, contrary.to the whole tenour of your book, that it may not, m ma- ny cafes be troper to declare the motive of defirin . g to remove for I may have jret promffes from my friends in aother college, or private views of my own  the divulging of which might entirely fruflratemy ovon ends, or thed,.figns of my friend?. which I believe will not be thou ht a groundleft ob- . g jec"iion by thole, who know any thng ot the me- thod of canvaillng for Fellowlhips or other Prefer- ments at Oxford. -But.fecondly, as it may not be rol)er to declare the reafons of deriving to go to another college  fo it may be equally imprudent to dccla,e my obiecT;ims againit that, which I dtire to leave. I rr{ay not like my Governour, and perhays for veryg00d reaj3nr: He may be a proud, imperious man, rigidly obfervant of little niceties and tr.fles in difdpline and the z. ernmentof his college He may perhaps be a weft'- meaning man, and a goodfiholar in univerfity-lcarn. ing; but withal a Pedant, an Humoto'ifi, and by hi; affeation of fingularities and adherence to tilJo$ a meet T,ra:t. He may, bSdes, be not only monflroufly him- float with regard to his oun oeceomy and methodo� lt.ng; 'but liewffc fo unrearonaole, its to VOL. IL H

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