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APPENDIX, with a penalty oran hundredl?ounds, or of any large fcm. But you go on, and * labour very hard to prove, that betides the penalty of forty fl?illings to be exac� �f the Head of any college or h?ll, for every iucn irregular admiff'on, he ought al/b to reftore the �cho- /at'. Indeed, you are to modctt as to own, that the 1!atute is 't' filent as to this r?flimtio# ? and if lb, why fhould more be required, than the flatute re- quires ? i:ut perhaps it is imptd d in the ftatute ? cialIy fince you fay, that the payment of the forty /hil{-ing?/s a conceffion that thejqholar was wrong? removed; and/fwrongly removed, augbt to be reftor ! ?o net tee that any fuch thing i? imply'd, or that ?ny thing fl?ould be fuppofed to be impl/d, which is not ex?ref?d, or does not at lealt appear to be i?'d. This is a ttrange way of explaining l?ena?' fiaturn.5 which I always thought fhould rather be relaxed in the execution, than flrain'd, and rn.?de more rigorous by filent meanings, and forc'd im?,'i.. ta:ic?s. We will examine this re?foning by a parat- lei care. ?kere is an a? cf Parliament, which is a natio- ?al fiatute, agai?fl bu,fing in a?y thing but woollen, u?;der a pena.?ty of five pound?: Whereas we know that fevcraI perfon$ of taft,ion are every year buried in tirmea Lace, Oc. and, upon payment of the/?e- za;ty, are fuFpotid to have complied with the and to ke fi..'e from any proi?cutiun: but, accord- i?g to ]your way of reathning, tI?e bodies, thus &r. fi, l!y 5nter?ed, ought to be taken out of their grave:, fl.?ippcd of their prohibited j?rot?ds? and v,:rapF?d up once mere in ]beeps-wool ,only: I-or, though ?b.e a6t of Pa51iament isfilent as to this, yet ,"&e Faymerit of the five ?ounds is a concefiion that the