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 Note the notice taken by Vicesman[?] Kings[?] of this perjury and nothing done in consequence. Established P[...?] a [...?] and refuge of incorrigible profligacy, and your profligacy. [...?] would [...?] him for calling a University man a perjurer.

Would not proof of [...?] of Statutes be a fullfillment[?]?

To state and discuss the several cases in which explanation and distinctions by the help of which young men and old, profance and sacred are by this Right Reverend person instructed and empowered to committ perjury, /In talking becakwrads and forards but upon the whole/ In certifying to them that it is not perjury would be an endless business. But by the concluding passage by which howsoever it may fare with the governed, the governing Members of the University by whom /whose hands or by whose authority/ this volume is put into the hands of every one of the governed, stand /are/ condemned convicted /and pronounced guilty/ of perjury are and all without exception must not be omitted.

After some obersvations on the heavier weight that lies upon their consciences, and a concession that in their instance it is not every breach of duty that amounts to perjury, "But (says he (speaking of the " Magistratus" whoever they are /may be/)) "if (which heaven forbid quod a leit[?]) "by their negligence or carelessness they suffer any Statutes to grow out of use, and as it were to be tactily abrogated, even these men we pronounce guilty of breach of faith and perjury: "ipsos etiane fides violata et perjurii timis[?] dicernimus."
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    It is not therefore for nothing and to no use that immorality is cultivated in this shape. In in They behold and find not only a mine of wealth, but a mine of honour /respect/, which if mens eyes were opn and their understandings /judgements/ unperverted, would be converted in to scorn and merited contempt. /evaporate and give place to contempt and abhorrence./

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    By thus taking possession of the /raw and unformed/ mind and steeping it to the lips in perjury and whom /of the youth whose soul/ the ambition of his parents has delivered into their hands, [...?]ing it /him/ at the very moment of instruction in their riots[?] and baptizing him with the water and spirit of perjury, they afford to him to his parents to all his connections the strongest and most efficient interest in giving credit and support to their reputation for learning and virtue. A perjurer /Perjury/ so long as he stays /abides/ with them he is at any rate: but a perjurer in whose instance perjury is or is not accompanied with guilt and merited reproach according as the power of those suborners by whom it has been forced upon is or is not regarded as capable of changing its nature and converting guilt into innocence /washing away guilt/: if they

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    14 Of the Statutes all which /to the observance of which/ the youth is sworn to observe some are in print into his hands: those which are not in print he never sees. No reason is assigned for the difference

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