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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    the Laws of your Community, may with great Safety affirm, that there is a Similitude of Offence in thofe Cafes, as each of them was fuch a noto¬ rious Violation of the wholfome Laws of the Place, as called for the Penalty of Expuljion, which was aflually inflidted. But again: It is demanded whether the In¬ quirer dare fay that there is any Similitude be¬ tween the firft (viz. the Cafe of Th—te) and the prefent Cafe ? [/>„ 28.]—Now really I fhould apprehend that there would be nothing exceed¬ ing daring in fuch an Affertion. Let any un¬ prejudiced Reader but compare the filthy Depo- fitions in both Cafes, and if He does not difco- ver a Similitude of Crime, I fhall not envy him for his Faculty of Penetration: And when He has made fuch a Difcovery, he will not be for¬ ward to admit the Reafonablenefs of Your Charge of“Affurance or fcandalous Injinuations” brought againft the Writer who call’d the Warden of W*—dh—mJ§ Cafe a Precedent [/>. 28. ] But to revert to Your own Cafe : There is fomething too abfurd to merit a ferious Reply in that Dream of Your Apologift, that“no College cc in O—d (excepting Ch. Ch.) could have ex- sc pelled one of it’s Members for a like Offence; “ and that Ch. Ch. could only exert fuch an Au- “ thority, becaufe that College was govern’d by “no Statutes/’ [p. 29, 30.] I could really wifh, that before Your Apolo¬ gift had fo roundly afferttd, he had given him- felf the Trouble of an Inquiry amongft your Neighbours