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A78273
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The case of the Vniversity of Oxford: or, The sad dilemma that all the members thereof are put to, either to be perjur'd, or destroy'd. In a letter sent from thence to Mr Selden, Burgesse of the University.
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1648
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Wing C1173; Thomason E443_19; Thomason E673_21; ESTC R204731
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commissarium_fw-la specialem_fw-la quem_fw-la duxerit_fw-la deputandum_fw-la praeterquam_fw-la per_fw-la cancellarium_fw-la vniversitatis_fw-la seu_fw-la ejus_fw-la commissarium_fw-la generalem_fw-la seu_fw-la procuratores_fw-la vnivers_n oxon_n etc._n etc._n ac_fw-la praeterquam_fw-la custodem_fw-la aut_fw-la aliquam_fw-la personam_fw-la nostri_fw-la collegii_fw-la aut_fw-la alios_fw-la quoscunque_fw-la in_o vniversitate_fw-la per_fw-la unam_fw-la quindenam_fw-la anno_fw-la proximo_fw-la cum_fw-la visitationem_fw-la praecedente_fw-la student_n etc._n etc._n per_fw-la quos_fw-la aut_fw-la ipsorum_fw-la aliquem_fw-la haec_fw-la nolumus_fw-la quomodolibet_fw-la exerceri_fw-la ad_fw-la collegii_fw-la huius_fw-la visitationem_fw-la liberè_fw-la accederè_fw-la &_o custodem_fw-la ac_fw-la alios_fw-la singulos_fw-la socios_fw-la etc._n etc._n nostri_fw-la collegii_fw-la in_o sacellum_fw-la ejusdem_fw-la convocare_fw-la from_o whence_o these_o few_o thing_n be_v distinct_o conclude_v by_o 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