fo averfe to coercion, particularly about the 
age of fixteen, that the lectures of your tutors 
make very little impreflion, becaufe they 
are attended by compulfion. In every other 
Univerfity in Europe, attendancejipon lee- 
turesfTs a voluntary act : no_tafks,jio^xer^__ 
ales are~impoledr '"Neverthelefs, the public 
attended, and the 
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ftudentsTlIften with an eager defire of in- 
formation: becaufe their attendance is vo- 
luntary^ 
ItTcannot be denied, that the colleges in 
our Englifh Univerfities retain an obvious 
fimilitude to Roman Catholick Convents; 
and it is very furprizing that the Reforma- 
tion mould have produced fo little, fo very 
little, alteration in their inftitutes, habits 
and regulations; many of which are totally 
indefenfible on principles either of policy 
or utility. 
In thefe ftrictures, I have told you no- 
thing that you did not know before; no- 
thing with which the whole world is not 
as well acquainted as myfelf: nor have I 
difcovered any blemifhes that are not feen 
and felt by every rational member of both 
Univerfities. Why then, you will afk, are 
no fleps taken towards reformation ? 
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