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APPENDIX. "notion? of them?lves and others, which they had, "in a good meafure, learned bette they came to "the U?vtRSmr." Once more you fly:" # A Governor, therefore, "in the exec?tio? of the fiatutes. can neither "dentl?t nor iufily make any ,litrenee, between "thor6 who-are flyled Gentlem?n. commoners, and "thole who are call'd timply CommonerJ, who are "not unfrequently of the/arne family with thole "of the fi,p?rior order, very often of as go?d, and "rometimes better. A Gentleman-commoner hath "a foul to be rived as well a jir?'itor, and is under "fame obligations to religion and ?irt?e. A Gentle- "man-commoner owes a duty to his country, and "hath no more title to be u.?l 0 to ?r, than anl? "other per13n, to whom he would thiff off" the "licence, and the qualilqcation? to ?rve it." I}' any one can deny'that this is an indirdt ban- ter, exactly in .the Newtoninn manner? upon the method of treating Gentlemen-commoners at Oxford, as well as upon thbli G?ntkrnrn th?mfelv�?, I muff confefs that I have no judgme. nt in hnguage, and will rather gi?,e up my atI'ertaon, than endeav9? to prove it. I have now gone through my ob?mratiom upon this extraordinary TreatiIe? and, though I could produce divers other paffiges out of it to the time effe&? yet, 1. believe, th0fe already cited will thought fuffiaent to demonffrate that you have, in almo!t every particular, covertly efpOufed m caufe, and fought under my banners. Na�? in rome point?, you have exceeded the r?odd which I laid down, and urged your refentment .f?rther than i can juffifyl particularly with _rehuon to the Gentlemen of Oriel and Btdid Colleges, in which I 4. you