24 July 1810 11 Note continued

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| | Universities 1. Virtue

These perjuries great obstacles for the Corr[..?]ter oath

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

15 While a matriculated persons 900 Under-Graduate or Graduate, is still at the University, fresh statutes Statutes made subsequently to his taking of this oath call upon him for his observance. The oath does it not extend to these subsequent statutes? if so then are the statutes of later time made upon improved experience deprived of a sanction which to the statute made upon less experience was /are/ deemed necessary. If /as/ it does extend to them, there is the young men made to [...?]ever to do whatever it may happen to him to be commanded to do by this local and subordinate authority, what soever it may happen to it to be, and without knowing what it is.

The King in Parliament forbids what thus holy /sacred/ legislature commands, or vice versa. What is a man to do? If he disobeys the King in Parliament he is punished as Parliament directs. If he obeys the King in Parliament, he is damned: or undergoes whatsoever it may be, the future punishment ordained for perjurers.

The Catholics contrary to their most solemn and continual[?] declaration are accused of setting up spiritual authority in opposition to temporal. In any instance is a Catholic made to bind himself upon oath to any such blind obedience as man is here made to

promise

promise upon oath by these Reverend Protestants?