A petition having been propos'd in the last Convocation to dispense with the scholars lately elected upon Mr. Viner's foundation for not attending their Professor ... in consideration of their having attended Dr. Blackstone previously to the settlement ... the members then present did almost unanimously reject this dispensation. But their motives for so doing have ... been called in question ... They therefore take this method of openly avowing them. ...
[Oxford,
1758]
Dated at end: November 20, 1758.
ESTC