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w. Terra-Filiz:s. difcover greater refignation and fubmiffion to Got and his vice�nt? And yet, did they not diffover as plain a mark: of their loyalty in breaking that decree the very next reign, and joining with the prince of Orange again King ames, and in placing him upon the throne .--And did not we I&e another equal mark of their u'/haken loyalty, in oppofing the prince o� Orange after they had invited him over, and fix'd him upon the throne, gotlowing King ame$ in his exile, which. th 7 had octorlon'd, with their prayers and pious wifhes ? During the reign of' the late Queen .aN N/, their loydty had feveral turns and fetches; but toward the latter end of her lif, it difcoer'd ittklf firmly feetled in her interell, by openly, el'pouting the cauf� of her Rival. "l'heir condu&, fince the acceffion of his prefent majetty, is �o frefh in every body's roemot D that, 1 lear, it will be thought impertinent to repeat. �ome inthnces of' it. It is well known, that Ow, the rebel, 'ann companions, were entertained publickly by' molt of' the H-aos of collegesi that they walked oh. out the ttreets, at noon.day, with the mob at their heel, huzzaing King Jas and the Duke o' O,on for e,er, and no lJsuu,us, in defiance of' the govern. merit and the friends of the government that the fw' friends it had there went every day in danger of their lives from them and their abettors i that they a&ua!ly befieged Oriel college, and demanded' out o['it two gentlemen, remarkable for their zeal br the protefhnt fuecetlion, to facrifice to the mob that they inlifted great numbers of uclents and' others in the Pretender's caufe; that they marked all the hort$ there fit for fervice, and waited only for th news of' the Duke of OUMor?slanding in the wett; upon the firit reception of which, they defiga'd toil[ C off,
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