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APPENDIX, with a penalty oran hundredlounds, or of any large fcm. But you go on, and * labour very hard to prove, that betides the penalty of forty flillings to be exac� �f the Head of any college or hll, for every iucn irregular admiff'on, he ought al/b to reftore the �cho- /at'. Indeed, you are to modctt as to own, that the 1!atute is 't' filent as to this rflimtio# and if lb, why fhould more be required, than the flatute re- quires ? i:ut perhaps it is imptd d in the ftatute cialIy fince you fay, that the payment of the forty /hil{-ing/s a conceffion that thejqholar was wrong? removed; and/fwrongly removed, augbt to be reftor ! o net tee that any fuch thing i imply'd, or that ny thing flould be fuppofed to be impl/d, which is not exrefd, or does not at lealt appear to be i'd. This is a ttrange way of explaining lena' fiaturn.5 which I always thought fhould rather be relaxed in the execution, than flrain'd, and rn.de more rigorous by filent meanings, and forc'd im?,'i.. ta:ics. We will examine this refoning by a parat- lei care. ?kere is an a cf Parliament, which is a natio- al fiatute, agaifl bu,fing in ay thing but woollen, u;der a pena.ty of five pound: Whereas we know that fevcraI perfon$ of taft,ion are every year buried in tirmea Lace, Oc. and, upon payment of the/e- za;ty, are fuFpotid to have complied with the and to ke fi..'e from any proicutiun: but, accord- ig to ]your way of reathning, tIe bodies, thus &r. fi, l!y 5ntered, ought to be taken out of their grave:, fl.ippcd of their prohibited jrotds and v,:rapFd up once mere in ]beeps-wool ,only: I-or, though b.e a6t of Pa51iament isfilent as to this, yet ,"&e Faymerit of the five ounds is a concefiion that the
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