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Tuesday or Wednesday last, the same day the Proctors
were made, it was debated in Convocation
whether we are to have a Publick Act or an
Encænia, but was carried by a very great majority
for the latter: as I believe now we have no hopes
scarcely of the King's coming here. there was a
great Number of People by the Convocation-house
to see the Colleges the Proctors belonged to, walk in
Procession, and to know the determination2 and debates1
of the Convocation about a matter of such importances
a great number crowding in to the Convocation
-house, they were all turn'd out, upon which there began
a kind of a riot, 2 or 3 especially, who knockd
at the Convocation-door as if it were one of the
Masters who wanted admittance, and when any one
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