Page:Terræ-filius- or, the Secret History of the University of Oxford.djvu/72

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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