Page:Terræ-filius- or, the Secret History of the University of Oxford.djvu/134

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Terr,e-Filius. xvx. "tmi?erfity;. Forbidding th.e t?ublicmlon of "which there is rmthi?& ?mpious, fly he, implies "e?ther that ?re dJflru? our cauj?, or d?rufl our ? ?l=es ? our abideits: ?d it is but ?n ilhterate "? to th?t that f?h in?reR and u ? tht author, and ai?}ut, his ?ritings: ? t? eon?aq, ?S he, 't?ill }t fo?d that the "?riee =i? ? ?b?d ? a condmn'd or a forbid- ? ?m?. SlR? iT Hough I have been your eonfhnt reader, and, by fatal experience, am convinc'd of the truth of'what is alledg'd againft the uni- ,, verlity of Oxvouo? yet my own private buffneff ,, hashitherto orevented my being your corref_?ndenti "and.I have, 'fore againlt my will, been obliged to �' defer a ha?pine? which I have long ?romis'd "my fell. '- In your third paper, you have treated of the ,c oaths which are impos d on young ftudents; but ,? there is one inflance o the knavery of rome of ,' the great men o! the univertit)?, which certainly "muR have efeapd your knowledge, or doubtleE ,, )ou wou!d have thought it too flagrant to have ,, been omitted. "Whm I was matriculated I was about feven- ', teen years of age, and confequently entitled to "take ill the oaths i accord.ugly I �ubfcrib'd the "thirty-nine articl?s of religion. (tkongh, by the ', bye, I did n:?t kno? that I had done it titl near fix "months afterwards) and the then V--Ch----r u Dr B .... n, comin? ot:t of the convocation- '� hot, ?:, Itc, ok the o.,r]?. of fu?rema?, and of .,$ obt?v:ug theftam;o, Irsvileges, &c. of the uni- - �?_ vetfity,