at the Governors of the univerſity and city of Oxford were notoriouſly guilty of practices, highly diſreſpectful to his majesſty's royal family, and tending to Sedition.
I will mention but one thing more upon this head, beſides what is farther alledged in the following volumes, which is the treatment that the Conſitution-club received from the Magiſtrates and Rulers, as well as the inferior part of the univerſity; a Club, which deſerves immortal honour, and the higheſt encouragement, for thier zeal and ſervices to the preſent happy ſettlement, in the moſt critical ſeaſon; for which they were repaid at Oxford with perſecution and diſgrace, with injuries and hardſhips, and with the moſt partial and cruel treatment. Were witneſſes wanting to the truth of this, I could appeal to ſeveral Gentlemen of great diſtinction, and ſhining ornaments of their country, who were formerly members of that ſociety and at preſent make a conſiderable figure in the Houſe of Commons.
It muſt be confeſs'd, indeed, that this ſeditious ſpirit, and theſe treaſonable practices have, of late years, ſo much abated, if not entirely ceaſed there, that it induced his Majeſty, out of his royal goodneſs, to diſtinguiſh his ſubjects at Oxford with ſeveral valuable Donations, and marks of his affection: Neither ought it to be diſſembled, what a loyal, dutiful, and grateful ſenſe they expreſ-
