The Grounds of the Complaint of the Principal of Hart-Hall, Concerning the Obstruction Given to the Incorporation of His Society, by Exeter-College and Their Visitor, as Lately Set Forth in a Letter to Dr. Holmes, More Fully Represented and Justified (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1735 Excerpt: ... Petition for a Charter; which Petition then lay before the Attorney General, with whom the College had entered a Caveat praying to be Heard before he should make his Report. Well; by Virtue of This Power Mr. A--/ did Oppose Dr. Newton's Petition till the Cause had been Heard, and the Attorney General had made his Report. In this Report the Rector, and the Rest of the College too, except the Triumvirate, as far as I could ever leam, Acquiesced: Or, at least, did not Appear Not to Acquiesce, (a) Here seems then to be a Determination of the Authority granted to Mr. A--I by the said Letter of Attorney. If it be not (a) For though, aster the Report, My Opponents got a sew Undergraduate and Batcbehrt to Vote for setting the College Sal to the Petition for a Rehearing, yet were they supposed to have given their Votes at the instance of my said Opponent), implicitly. And, when the Exfence of University Education reduced was published, and the Dean of Christ Church thought Himself and Mr. A / aeflected upon in it for Opposing the Incorporation of the Hall in the manner therein described, and it waa hereupon observed Co him, that ft was not certain these Persons were particularly meant by the Author of the Pamphlet, Mr. Dean used it as an Argument, Why Himself and Mr. A / must for certain have been particularly meant, because they Two, had all along conducted the Opposition. And when, soon after this, in a POSTSCRIPT to the said Pamphlet, the Author of it observ'd, he could never learn that, by the C O L L E G E, the Principal ever meant any Other Members of it, than Dr. C re, Mr. A---I, and Mr. B--ly; neither Dr. C---re, nor Mr. A / (for Mr. B'--ly was then dead) did assert in their Vindication that there mere Other Members concerned in the Opposition with them. A...