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through the University of Cambridge the other
half. In Oxford, preeminent in uselessness
and frivolous news, a volume of Statutes,
receives, at entrance, from each member, as,
in every article of it, a security for observance,
an appropriate promissory oath. Now for
the effect. On no day does any one of these Academics
tread on the pavement of that same
Holy City, without trampling upon some
one or more of these Oaths. Held up to the
inexorably conniving eyes of the constituted
authorities has been the contempt thus put
upon this ceremony — held up, not by strangers
only but by members — not by Lay-members only,
but by Clerical members:- for more than the
last half century, by a Clerical member — Vicesimus
Knox — in a work, editions of which, in
number between 20 and 30, are in circulation.

8.

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So much for promissory oaths. To
come back to assertory oaths. Stand forward
Custom House Oaths. for demonstration of the
inefficiency — the uncontested and incontestible
inefficiency — these two words supercede
volumes. How prodigious the benefit to finance
and trade if to asserveration, with the appropriate
punishment in case of mendacity, were
substituted, and by adverse interrogation
a Defendant made subjectible to a limited
loss, as by Equity interrogation he is to loss
of all he has exated to a vast extent, the
assertion of facts, of which, in the nature of
things it is not possible that the assertor
should have had any Knowledge. Thus simple
is the arrangement, by which, without
the illusory assistance of the thus universally
condemned ceremony finance might be made
to assume a new and healthful face; trade be
made to receive changes in great variety, generally
regarded as beneficial; and pounds
by hundreds and thousands a year — not to say
millions — be saved.

So much for needlessness and
inefficaciousness.

3. Now as for mischievousness. Of
the immense mass of evil constantly flowing
from this source, a part, and but a part —
has as yet been presented to the view of the
Honorable House: namely under the last head,
the head of —mendacity.

9.

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Box	081	Main Headings	petition for justice
Folio number	186	Info in main headings field
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Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
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