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quaintance with him in another team from 

 the same establishment. 



It has often occurred to me, that the 

 spot where I tried the experiment of fire 

 is the site where those sturdy defenders 

 of the reformed religion, Ridley and Lati- 

 mer, suffered martyrdom ; a splendid 

 monument has since. been erected in honour 

 of those champions of our creed. 



The late Lord Macaulay, in one of 

 his early essays written, I believe, 

 in his rooms at Trinity asserts the 

 claims of his Alma Mater to supremacy 

 over that of the sister University; and 

 states, as an argument for it, that 

 Cambridge had the honour of educating 

 the two Bishops and Oxford the ho- 

 nour of burning them. I am not a 

 member of either University, as these 

 pages can testify, nor can I decide the 

 question of controversial superiority; but 

 I have been a long time a member of 



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