A letter to ******* ***** [William Lewis], M.D. heretofore of ****** ****** [Christ Church] College in the University of O-*-*-*-*-d [Oxford] / [George Wilmot].

  • Wilmot, George.
Date:
1752
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Credit: A letter to ******* ***** [William Lewis], M.D. heretofore of ****** ****** [Christ Church] College in the University of O-*-*-*-*-d [Oxford] / [George Wilmot]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *5 ] You a good Deliverance. In the mean Time I cannot avoid obferving to You, that were I a Promoter of this intended Profecution, I fhould really look no further for Evidence of Your Dirt than into Your own printed Confeffion, (if after all it be Yours) and out of That I fhould readily colled: fufficient Matter of Accu- fation againft You. That You now are £C Tour own Accufer” [p. 39.] is apparent to every Reader; and if Your Profecutors really wanted Proof of Your Offence cc contra Bonos Mores T You have kind¬ ly furnifhed them therewith; [p. 11.] infomuch that fhould You at this Time reaffume any Thoughts: of the £C Facility of tampering with £C a poor Boy, or with his neceffitous Family’s [p. 10.] in order to take off his Evidence, Your Scheme would be abfolutely fruitlefs, becaufe You have, in the Judgment of all Mankind, given publick Evidence againft Yourfelf. It was far from my Intention, when I took my Pen, to follow Your Apologift thro’ efpecial Scenes of Dirt, Blocking to every modeft Rea¬ der, and to every intelligent one Evidence of a Stain, which, by the umkilful Ufe of a Spunge, He has greatly increafed.——I conclude there¬ fore myAddrefs to Tou9 as Your Sham Advo¬ cate does His to the Inquirer, with a Piece of Advice, (viz.) When You really find Yourfelf animated to commence (as You are faid to menace) a Profecution againft any fuppofed Au¬ thor of the Inquiry, do Yourfelf ftill further Juftice