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 30 Terre-Filiu. vx, It is indeed a place which has been �o much noted �ot faion and turbulency of f?ifit, that it became a monkifh proverb Chronica fi pen]}s, cum tugnant Oxonienfes, t'ofi tau�o$ me$, volat ira per Angligincn�ea. You fee, reader, what ,dmbidexters in loyalty thet .boafling [choolmen are i whatever they call the right, s infil!ibly the right i and whatever they call loyalty is undoubtedly fo, though to your ?yes it may look like quite the contrary. Thus, an gnorant fanatick may perhaps call it treafon, and /bdifion, and the Lord 'knows what, for a parfort, at this time of clay, to preach in defence oI' the Pretender. But, fly the reverend gnmen, he is our rightful heredi. tar), King, and therefore it is loyalty to defend his title againit all the wicked powers of this world. fly, Izut, flys the fanatick, why then did you fwear him out of his ellate? Does it become loyal fub- je&s to abjure their hwful rince, and fwear to the Ufurper in poffeflion ? Undoubtedly, flys fither minick, provided perjury is the only method left to reftore him.: it is n& indeed, flys he, juflifiable ad hoe, as t is a vicked oath but it is juftifiable, stuo.d ill#d, as it conduces to a good end. It is plain, therefore, that they are the loyaleft lads alive at Oxrouu for they will take oaths, though never fo bad5 and break oaths, though never fo gooc15 they will lye, fhuffle, evade, prevaricate, and tick at uothing to ?referve their lo'alty.---To make this plain to a demonttvation, I will give ]you a sketch. of their loyalty for a few years pall. What chuld be a greater mark of'loyalty !n the forts of /fis, than their publifhing a decree, m the reign of Charles II. condemning, as unthrifii and darrmabk, all manner of rfianee towards pnnces, even in cafes o the utmol extremity ? What could difcover

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