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 which reflected upon the memory of King Henry the Eighth; but, if the Reader will give himelf the trouble to look into it, the true reaon will oon appear; and he will find that the author might have been as free as he pleaed with the King's Highnes, had he not offended, ome of their more powerful Highnees the Heads of Houes, by obtruding upon them ome unreaonable advice againt drinking, gaming, and luxurious living, which the immortal Queen Elizabeth gave to their predeceors in her time; for which, at their intigation, he was o cruelly harraed by the then Vice-Chancellor, Doctor, in his Court, that had that Magitrate continued much longer in his office, or had not Mr. Hearne been well upported by the munificence of ome great men at London, that learned and laborious Antiquary would have been torn to pieces; or, at leat, intirely diabled to proceed in his tudies. The Reader may expect a farther account of this, when I come to conider the cae of Academical Prohibitions, and the nature of the Vice-Chancellor's court more ditinctly in ome future eays.