cafe of Dr. Wills, who was ſtrenuouſly oppoſed in taking his Degree (which he obtained at laſt, with much difficulty, by a majority of only three or four) and was by many perſons denied the common favour of accumulating, the very ſame day, by the very ſame convocation, that the ſame favour was unanimouſly granted to the worthy Doctor Wintle. I do not mention this as any accuſation againſt you, who, I am informed, did Dr. Wills all the ſervice in your power; but to ſhew the partiality of ſome men, and the ſpirit, that ſtill reigns in the Univerſity; which may be fully gather'd from the anſwer of one (amongst a large cluſter of zealots) to a gentleman who modeſtly ask'd his reaſons for acting ſo furiouſly against Dr. Wills, which he very ingenuouſly returned in theſe words; what Reaſons, ſaid he, have I againſt him? did not he decypher the Biſhop of Rochester's letters?
I cannot be induced, upon any account, to believe that a perſon of your great judgement, integrity and candour, would raſhly præjudge any book, and condemn it without reading, even upon the ſtrongeſt ſollicitations and moſt preſſing importunities of any man whatſoever; for you cannot be inſenſi-
