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On Mifs TR-LL-PE.

HOSE native smiles, that winning air,

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Those looks by fenfe refin'd,

That harmony of fhape that speaks
Thy more harmonious mind;

That lively bloom which decks thy cheek,
That fymmetry of face,
Which fhine confpicuous in thy form,
And all thy texture grace;

Thefe every youth do juftly warm,
And fet each foul on fire;
And, tho' but one muft win the prize,
We all alike admire.

You daily, like th' all-chearing fun,
The genial warmth renew;
While, planet-like, each other fair
Illumin'd fhines by you.

Stay then, dear maid, for ever here,
Here thy bleft beams display;
So barren Logick hence fhall bloom,
Aftronomy look gay.

Philofophers indeed have said,

That should the fun defcend,

The earth, and all that's in it, must
In conflagration end.

'Twas prophecy and emblem all,

Which you were born to prove,

And meant, fhould TR-LL-PE live on earth, The world would burn with love.

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END of the fifth number.

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UR Oxford Friends, it is prefumed, will not be displeased at the alteration of our Title. As we have received fuch confiderable affiftance from our Sifter-University, particularly fince our last number, we fhould think it the highest injuftice not to admit her into an equal fhare of whatever merit may accrue from our work.

In this we have been advised by some Cambridge gentlemeri of established reputation, who have promifed their affift ance; and fuch a coalition between the two Univerfities, it is hoped, will redound to the honour of both; and the members of both will look upon themselves as equally concerned in the success of our Miscellany.

Numb. VI.

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LETTERS

LETTERS between the Earl of SUNDERLAND and Dr. JOHN FELL, Bishop of Oxford and Dean of Chuyê Church, relating to the expulfion of Mr. JOHN LOCKE, Student of the fame.

To the Lord Bishop of OXFORD.

MY LORD,

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Whitehall, Nov. 6, 1684.

HE King being given to underftand, that one Mr. LOCKE, who belonged to the late Earl of Shaftsbury, and has upon feveral occafions behaved himself very factioufly to the government, is a Student of Christ Church; his Majefty commands me to fignify to your lordship, that he would have him removed from being a Student, and that in order thereunto your lordship should let him know the method of doing it.

I am, MY LORD, &c.

SUNDERLAND.

To the Right Hon. the Earl of SUNDERLAND,

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RIGHT HONOURABLE,

Nov. 8, 1684.

Received the honour of your lordship's letter, wherein you are pleased to enquire concerning Mr. LOCKE's being a Student of this houfe; of which I have this account to render; that he being, as your lordship is truly inform❜d, a person who was much trufted by the late Earl of Shaftsbury, and who is fufpected to be ill affected to the government,, I have for divers years had an eye upon him; but so close has his guard been on himself, that, after several strict enquiries, I may confidently affirm, there is not any man in the col

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lege, however familiar with him, who had heard him speak a word either againft, or, 18 much as concerning the government. And altho' very frequently, both in publick and private, discourses have been purposely introduced to the difparagement of his mafter the Earl of Shaftsbury, his party, and defigns, he could never be provoked to take any notice, or discover in word or look the least concern, fo that I believe, there is not in the world fuch a master of taciturnity and paffion. He has here a phyfician's place, which frees him from the exercises of the college, and the obligation which others have to refidence in it; and he is now abroad upon want of health. But notwithstanding that, I have fummoned him to return home, which is done with this profpect; that, if he comes not back, he will be liable to expulfion for contumacy; and if he do, he will be anfwerable to the law, for that which he fhall be found to have done amifs, it being probable, that, tho' he may have been thus cautious here, where he knew himself to be fufpected, he has laid himself more open at London, where a general liberty of speaking was used, and where the execrable defigns against his majesty and his government were managed and purfued. If he do not return by the first day of January next, which is the time limited to him, I fhall be enabled of course to proceed against him to expulfion. But if this inethod seem not effectual, or speedy enough, and his Majefty, our founder and visitor, fhall please to command his immediate remove, upon the receipt thereof, directed to the Dean and Chapter, it fhall accordingly be executed by,

MY LORD,

Your lordship's most humble and obedient fervant,

JOH. OXON.

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To the Bishop of OX FOR D.

MY LORD,

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Whitehall, Nov. 12, 1684.

AVING communicated your lordship's letter of the 8th to his Majefty, he has thought fit to direct me to fend you the enclosed, containing his commands for the immediate expulfion of Mr. Locke.

SUNDERLAND.

To the Right Reverend Father in God, JOHN Lord Bishop of OXFORD, Dean of Christ Church, and to our trusty and well-beloved the Chapter there.

Right Reverend Father in God, and Trusty and Wellbeloved, We greet you well.

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factious and difloyal behaviour of LOCKE, one of the Students of that Our college, we have thought fit hereby to fignify Our will and pleasure to you, that you forthwith remove him from his Student's place, and deprive him of all rights and advantages thereunto belonging. For which this fhall be your warrant. And so we bid you heartily farewell. Given at our court of Whitehall, the 11th of November, 1684.

By His Majefty's command,

SUNDERLAND:

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To the Earl of SUNDERLAND.

RIGHT HONOURABLE,

Nov. 16, 1684.

Hold myself bound in duty to fignify to your lordship, that his Majefty's command for the expulfion of Mr. LOCKE from this college is fully executed.

JOH. OXON.

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