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APPENDIX. the bodies were unlan,fidly buried; and if .Co, the breach of the law ought to be repaired. Perhaps you will endearour to difiinguifl. in your great logical capacity, between there two cafes, ind obxten'e, that a breach of the u.iverfiey fi.tute tends to the fub,eerfion of di]ip!ine and Itbe/,! learn~ i,g, which is re,alum in j� and that fchob:r, thus irregularly admitted, ought there�ore to be res?or.;, to prm, ent the ill confcquences of lhch an exam?le: whe,'ea, in the other c.fe, fay )'ou there can be no fuch pretence, it bcig eally or' no moment, ei-- ther to the living or the dead, whether a rrian he buried in linnen or rvoollen any farther than as it is breach of an act of Parlmmentl that this is only ma- l.m per accidemi and that therefbre, if they pay the penalty exacted by the law, the injury is fully Faired. But I mull beg leave to obferve, that this dittinc- fion is fallacious, and a meet �cholafiick t:btlety - For, as the fitute, to prevent the �cholar's rem.vmg from one houfe to another, was made for the ad- vancement of good learning; �o the at of t'arliament againit burying in linnm was ma& for the encou- ragement of the ooollen manufgtur, which is ac- /mowledged, on all hands, to be the gr.ea. tel! fupport: of the wealth of this kingdom; for wNch reafon think that one ought to be regarded as much as the other for I conceive an attempt to injure he Pub- lick, and defeat the ?ro�perity of our native try, to be equally deltruive, and therefore equally mlum in f e, with an attempt to �ubv'ert the difci- ?hne of the uniteriley; and therefore, all exampl.es, both of one and the other, fhould be equally cd and removed. But )on go on, and fiy That though eke flatnee mention only the enMty of forty fhillings ana tilent a to the reltitution of the ]kolar, yet it on record to have been ufual to reft:ore t3 fctolar H .
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