The Man that is moved to behave decently only for Fear of temporal Punishment, or because his flagrant Vices ftand in the Way of his Preferment, will, whenever he has obtained his Ends, probably return to his former Way of Life.

But one whofe Ambition it is to recommend himself to the Favour of that allwife Being, who is the only competent Judge of his Actions, will be constant and uniform, however Circumftances may vary, and dedicate his whole Life to the Honour of his Creator, and the Service of Mankind.

He will not, when he has obtained a Subfiftence in a College, or fome little Preferment in the Church, imagine that he is to fleep away the Remainder of his Life, indulge in Eafe and Luxury, fet an ill Example to his Juniors, neglect the Improvement of his Talents, or the Inftruction of the People committed to his Care, but will ftill endeavour to excell in Learning and Virtue, and be doing good to the People of the Place where his Lot fhall fall, confidering, that it was for this very End his Preferment was.conferr'd upon him, and that nothing can contribute more to his own Glory than the being inftrumental in promoting the Happiness of Mankind, and efpecially of those committed to his Care; and in order to this, he will in the first

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Place endeavour to convince his People of his Friendship for them, for few will receive Instruction from a Man they apprehend indifferent to them, and perhaps their Enemy.

But to return to the grand Foible of our Youth, their roving Gallantries, which frequently contribute to the Ruin of their Parts, their Fortunes, and their Conftitutions. It has been obferved already, that a Man of Resolution may fubdue and command every Appetite, or at least he may restrain his natural Propenfions for a limited Time, especially if he applies himself with Diligence to make himself Master of any Branch of Learning. It is the Idle, the Slothful and Voluptuous, that lie most expofed to Temptation. Philofophy, Mathematicks, and many other Studies, will ingrofs a young Gentleman's Time fo entirely, that he will have no Leifure for deftructive Amusements. 'Tis true, the most abstemious and refolute may be surprized, where they affociate with the Fair: But in Colleges there either are, or ought to be, no Females admitted. It is certainly a very great Abuse, where Bed-makers are permitted to keep young Wenches to wait upon young Students: In vain do they ferrit the poor Sinners out of their Lodgings in Town, while they fuffer those that have not a Whit more Chastity to visit their Mmm 2 Rooms.

Rooms. Some indeed are fo provident (in order to avoid Scandal) to admit none but married Wenches into Colleges, but this only gives a vicious Lad an Opportunity of adding Adultery to Fornication; the Women that attend Colleges not having a better Reputation than the Wives that inhabit the Playhouse, where the wretched Husband feems to connive at the Failings of his Turtle, that they may both fatten on the good Things of the House.

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CHAP. VII.

Containing a Defcription of the rest of the
Towns in the County of OXFORD.

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Hundred.

AVING defcribed the City and Wotton Univerfity of Oxford, I proceed to take Notice of the reft of the Towns in this County, and first of

Woodstock, a fmall but neat Corporate Woodstock Town, fituate on the East Side of Woodstock Town. Park, fix Miles to the Northward of Oxford, and upwards of fifty Miles (West almoft) from London, fends two Members to Parliament: It has only a Chapel of Ease, Bladen being the Mother Church, and the Palace or Castle of Blenheim, from whence it is about half a Mile diftant, is extraparochial. There are two Hamlets belonging to Woodstock, which, with the Town, contain two hundred and forty Houses : Here is a Free-School, with a Stipend for the Master of twenty Pounds per Annum, Alms-houses for eight poor People, and a Library under the Care of the Corporation. Bishop Fell built a large House here for the Refidence of the Minifter. It has a Market weekly on Tuesdays, and four Fairs annually, viz. On the 25th of March, 21ft

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of July, 20th of September, and 6th of December. This Town gives the Title of Viscount to the Duke of Portland, and is faid to have been the Place where that celebrated Poet Jeffery Chaucer was born, tho' other Towns contend for the Honour of his Birth, as the Grecian Towns did for Homer's. The Country about Woodstock is one of the most pleasant and healthful Parts of Oxfordshire, and has a great many Noblemen and Gentlemens Seats in it.

Dedington. Dedington is fituate about fixty Miles North-west of London, and fifteen Miles North of Oxford. It was anciently a Corporate Town, and fent two Burgeffes to Parliament, but has not fent any fince the 33d of Edward III. The Manor here was purchased by King Henry VIII. of Sir Thomas Pope, and given to the College of Chrift-church in Oxford. The Town contains two hundred and ten Houses, and there are fixty-fix more in two Hamlets which belong to it. The Royalifts wanting Cannon in the Civil Wars, caft the Bells of Dedington Steeple into great Guns. There is a Charity School here for twenty Boys.

In this Town was born the Lord Chief Juftice Scroggs: He was firft a Captain of Foot in the King's Service, and one of those brave Officers who defended Colchester

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