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Stanger's counsel, an exact relation of a part of 

 which will demonstrate more strongly than I 

 can possibly do, that the court uniformly re- 

 garded the conditions, which were required by 

 the by-law for admitting licentiates into the 

 college, merely as cautionary measures against 

 the entrance of improper persons into their 

 body ; and constantly supposed, that if any 

 licentiate of good character, and possessing the 

 qualifications marked by the statute, could pre- 

 vail upon a fellow to propose him, no obstacle 

 would afterwards exist to his admission. How 

 far these opinions were well founded, will here* 

 after appear to your 'Lordship. 



Extract from Mr. Gurnets Report. 



Mr. Justice Lawrence. " Where is the diffi- 

 culty of a gentleman's getting some one fellow 

 of the college to propose him ?" 



Mr. Law. "There has been no person ad-, 

 mitted there have been many trials, but no- 

 body has ever got through that wicket, nor 

 ever will.*' 



Mr. Justice Lawrejice. " Do you imagine, if 

 they think Dr. Stanger, or any other physician, 

 is a fit person, that they will not propose him?" 



Lord Kenyan. " There is a wicket of that 



