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rce reject you? No\ but we require that you 

 should be introduced for examination by some one 

 of the fellows of the. college, and then we will exa- 

 mine you. Is it consistent with common sense 

 to say, that there is any thing unreasonable in 

 that?" 



" Your Lordships have the same authority, 

 assembled in your judicial capacity, as judges 

 over our voluntary societies, as you have over 

 a college by mandamus. I apprehend, if a 

 person were to apply to your Lordships, and 

 say, I have been rejected at Lincoln* s-Inn ; 

 why ? because I could find nobody who would 

 give in my name to the benchers to be called 

 to the bar ; you would reject such petition with 

 indignation. You would say, that those learned 

 bodies, who have a jurisdiction exactly similar, 

 only that it is directed and referred to a different 

 profession, in the regulation, and in the learn- 

 ing and integrity of the members of which, the 

 public have a similar interest, inasmuch as they 

 exercise a profession very important in every 

 view of it ; your Lordships would say, that he 

 ought not to be admitted, who could not find 

 one person to propose him as fit to be examined ; 

 (and that is all that we are contending for] be- 

 cause if a man can find any one fellow of the 



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