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 APPENDIX. "notion of themlves and others, which they had, "in a good meafure, learned bette they came to "the UvtRSmr." Once more you fly:" # A Governor, therefore, "in the exectio of the fiatutes. can neither "dentlt nor iufily make any ,litrenee, between "thor6 who-are flyled Gentlemn. commoners, and "thole who are call'd timply CommonerJ, who are "not unfrequently of the/arne family with thole "of the fi,prior order, very often of as god, and "rometimes better. A Gentleman-commoner hath "a foul to be rived as well a jir'itor, and is under "fame obligations to religion and irte. A Gentle- "man-commoner owes a duty to his country, and "hath no more title to be u.l 0 to r, than anl "other per13n, to whom he would thiff off" the "licence, and the qualilqcation to rve it." I}' any one can deny'that this is an indirdt ban- ter, exactly in .the Newtoninn manner upon the method of treating Gentlemen-commoners at Oxford, as well as upon thbli Gntkrnrn thmfelv�, I muff confefs that I have no judgme. nt in hnguage, and will rather gi,e up my atI'ertaon, than endeav9 to prove it. I have now gone through my obmratiom upon this extraordinary TreatiIe and, though I could produce divers other paffiges out of it to the time effe& yet, 1. believe, th0fe already cited will thought fuffiaent to demonffrate that you have, in almo!t every particular, covertly efpOufed m caufe, and fought under my banners. Na� in rome point, you have exceeded the rodd which I laid down, and urged your refentment .frther than i can juffifyl particularly with _rehuon to the Gentlemen of Oriel and Btdid Colleges, in which I 4. you

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