appeals to the world, and eſpecially to those who were his contemporaries there, excepting only ſome, who would think it very hard to be oblig'd to ſpeak the Truth.
As to my charge of a treaſonable ſpirit reigning in the univerſity at that time, I think it generally known, that I need not uſe any arguments, or produce any vouchers, to prove to be juſt; it was ſo far from being diſowned by the perſons poſſeſs'd of that ſpirit, that was boaſted of, in moſt of their ſermons and publick ſpeeches, tho' under another name as the chief ornament and glory of the place. They labour'd to convince the world how ſtrenuous they were in the cauſe of High church and the Pretender, by publick drinking his health, defending his right, praying for his reſtoration, and careſſing his moſt open and declar'd adherents. This is ſuficiently confirmed by the prudent ſteps which the Government took, at that time, to prevent their farther deſigns, by ſending a regiment of Dragoons into the univerſity; a thing which is never done, but in caſes of the utmoſt extremity. To this we may add the [1] Reſolutions which afterwards paſſed, in the House of Lords, on a complaint of a Riot at Oxford by which Reſolutions it appears, according to the judgement of the Lords, both ſpiritual and temporal, after the ſtrickeſt examination
- ↑ Vide the Journals of the houſe of lords, April 3, 1717. [Footnote may not appear in exactly this place in the original. See scan.]
