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 36 erra-Flius. lumes which have been written upon this �ubje, de[, ing any per{on to falfify my account in any redial point. In thof volumes he will find a full relation of their dix effe quarrels between the city and the uni- vofity; erween one part of the univcrfity and ano- ther, covcening de&ions, private rights and privi- leges, or onl,, upon piques a,,d unreafonable grudgesl of quarrels btween the chancelto: and the fchoiars; between the clerical and lay 1tudents: between the clergy at:d the Jews; between the fcholars and the mendicants; between ttudents in one faculty and fl'udenrs in another taculty, and between fludents of the time facult; between: fcholars or' different na. tions, or of dfierent counties in the time nation; md of tome quarrels or other, between rome body' or other., in the univerfity, aimoil in a regular un- interrupt ed fucce.7on. I mull own, that the fchohr, in molt of their tlifputes and quarrels with the towntmen or aliens, ufualty came off the bali at laft, and brought their dverfariesdown upon their maxrow-bones to them but I wou!d not have them wagger too much up- on this. as if they were therebre always in the right  for the fondneii and partiality of molt princes, a: that time, towards eligous minaries and eccle- �ml!ical perfons was very of're, the only teafort hat hex were not ie'erd) Dnitl,'d, as m many cats they detrv'd i notwithflanding 'hat they were acqui tecl by the King regnant, or the Pope, (whole catfe they were tcrving) with impunity, and, per- haps, with marks of honour. At the famous riffration of Maudlin college, in King laszs IFs time, the bifc, op of 6'hefler told the e'[lows in a fl'eech; "That their/bciety had , been long exercis'd in the methods ot: quarrelling; "had always been troubled with faSious tpirits and u t�lt}' mutineers, ever fmce the reftoration of the

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