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APPENDIX. fiSi? in Oriel College, of which he had afterwar& a good profpe&; but pref?'d him, in the ltrongelt terms, to return to I-Iart-I-lall? promifinghim a TutorjI?i? there, which, you fiid, fhould be better than what lae already had, or could propore to hirrffclfby be. ing Fellow of Oriel. From hence we may judge of the great you once had for Mr. Boroles; for ! prefume that you would not have courted him, even in that un- rea{omble manno'..,. to dct?rt one place which he then enjoy'd for life, and the well grounded exp. ec- tation of another, in order to become a ? precnr?om a'l?gkr ia your ?all, un]e? you had conceived a very great opinion cf his abilities? efpecially tince you tell us of your prelint Tutors, That �f you could have k?awn ?here to have j?und men of greater arts and abilities to have a ted au in the ti?l? o l youth, u?o? th? foot of that fcheme. ciptine you ?rould efiabhfls i? Hart-Hall, you ?voutd have ?urthatSd them at any rate, that your flender leortun? would have allowed you to a?rd. I wifla I could have omitted there particulars, and that I had no octorion to mention how happy Mr. Bowles once was in your citeera 5 becaufe, to rome perforts, it may carry an air of flattery, vehich I dereta, and be conttrued as an artifice to cajole my?If into his favour5 for which reafon, though I am a lieanger to the Gentleman, and have no fuch defign, I fhould have gladly c?nccaled ?ot? tender points, fo diffu:ult to be touch d upon? were I not laid under a neceff?y to di?lofi them, by your pre- lent at. tack upon his charorder, in fo pubtick ? and outragzous a manner. ? Bnt ' The T;t?r, in Ifart-Itall �0 called, from their havlng c?ch of them an dingle of it afllgncd to hi? care. ? ? Page 6 7.