This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1804 edition. Excerpt: ...fo many particulars, of which he had no knowledge, nor could form _ any judgment. Accordingly, having palfed the ufual examinations in hiscollege and the public fchools, he demurred tothe fubfcription; offering howevera declaration, that he wasssrmly perjiiaded ofthe truth of the chri/ ian religion, and was in a ifual communion with the church qf frrgland; hoping this might anfwer all the ends propofed by the impofers of this new tell: but orthodoxy, was, as uIt1 al, inflexible, and therefore after conlidering the cafe in all views, he was contented to facrifice his degree, and whatever emoluments and advantages might: from it, the di lates of his conlcience, and the hopeofenjoying in due time the peaceable fruits of his integrity. The whole cale is fet forth in the Whitehall Evening Poil of/lugu/t, the 12th. 1773, from which I have extrafled thefe particulars, and, is well worthy the ionlideration of every parent who fends his child to either of thefe famous leminaries, with aview of having him made an honeil man and a good chriflian, as wellas fcholar. What authority the Oxford-men have for injoining thefe llrange fubfcrip. tions, I know not. The Britilh parliament hath left them in pollef. lion of it, whatever it is. It is better known whence the fubfcrip-tion IO the articles exafled of Bachelors of Arts took its rile in the of Cambridge, namely, from a 'verbal of King James I. given to the Vice-chancellor and heads of houfes at l"ewmarhet in the year 1616, which aloe.: not appear ever to have rcceived the corssrmation of a Grace. Whitehall.