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I. Item, Whereas George Freeman of Steeple-Aston in the County of Oxford, Doctor in Divinity, and Thomas Meare late of Brazen-Nose College in the Univerfity of Oxford, Mafter of Arts, and now Rector of the Parish of Cottingham in the County of North'ton, mention'd in the pretended Prefentation exhibited in this Cause on the Part and Behalf of the faid Dr. Shippen, are therein and thereby fet forth, and ftyl❜d to be the true and undoubted Patrons of the Rectory of White-Chapel in the County of Middlefex, the fame was and is therein and thereby falfly fet forth and fuggefted; for that, in rei veritate, the

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faid George Freeman and Thomas Meare are not the true and undoubted Patrons of the Rectory of WhiteChapel aforefaid. Hocq; fuit & eft verum, &c. Et ponit Pars ifta proponens conj'm, div'm, & de quolibet.

Item, Whereas it is mention'd, II. fet forth, and infinuated, in the faid pretended Presentation, exhibited in this Caufe on the Part and Behalf of the faid Do&or Shippen, dated the third Day of March 1715, laft paft, that the faid Rectory of White-Chapel aforefaid, was then lawfully vacant by the Amotion of Richard Welton, Clerk, the late Incumbent therein, the fame was and is falfly fuggefted, set forth, and infinuated therein; for that, in rei veritate, the faid Richard Welton, Clerk, in the faid pretended Prefentation mention'd, and the Reverend Richard Welton, Doctor in Divinity, now living, and the Party in this Caufe, was and is one and the fame Perfon, and not divers; and that no Caufe or Profecution whatsoever had been brought or inftituted before the

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Date of the faid pretended Prefentas tion, whereby the faid Dr. Welton was, before, or at the Time of the Date of the faid pretended Prefentation,pronounc'd, adjudg'd, fentenc'd, or decree'd, in any Ecclefiaftical Court, to be depriv'd, fufpended, or amov'd from the faid Rectory of White Chapel aforefaid: Nor is he in Fact hitherto legally depriv'd, fufpended, or amov'd from the fame by the Laws, Canons, and Conftitutions of this Realm, nor ought to be, but by Sentence and judicial Privation firft regularly obtain'd in the Ecclefiaftical Court. And this was and is true, publick, and notorious. Ponit tamen, &c. Et ponit ut fupra.

Item, That the faid pretended Prefentation exhibited in this Cause on the Part and Behalf of the faid Dr. Shippen, by the many Errors, Rafures, Interlineations, and Obliterations, appearing in and throughout the fame, especially in the more effential Parts thereof, is and doth appear to be fufpicious, fraudulent,

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and falfarious, and is not an authentick Inftrument, carrying full Faith, nor fuch as ought by Law tọ be admitted; nor are the Contents thereof true. Et ponit ut fupra,

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Item, That whereas it was and is IV. alleg❜d on the Part and Behalf of the faid Doctor Shippen, in this Caufe, that the faid Doctor Shippen is duly prefented to the faid Rectory of White-Chapel aforefaid, and thereupon Inftitution and Induction is pray'd; and whereas this Suit is commenc'd ad Inftantiam Partis, to wit, at the Inftance of the faid Do&tor Shippen; and whereas the faid Doctor Welton, the Party proponent, doth deny and oppose the pretended Right of the faid pretended Patronage, and the pretended Intereft of the faid Doctor Shippen under the fame, and the Validity of the faid pretended Inftrument of Prefentati on, and the Truth of the Contents thereof; the faid Doctor Welton, the Party proponent, prays, That the faid Doctor Shippen may be oblig❜d to propound and plead his D pres

pretended Intereft in due Form of Law; and that the Party proponent may have Liberty to make his lawful Defence, as by Counfel he shall be advis'd. Et ponit ut fupra.

Now it will be proper to demonftrate, that this Plea, confifting of the foregoing Allegation, and additional Articles, given in and exhibited on the Behalf of Dr. Welton, is admiffible according to Law; and that it does fhew fufficient Caufe, and carry in it unanswerable Reafons, why Dr. Shippen ought not to have Inftitution to the Living of White-Chapel.

And, firft, as to the Admiffibility thereof, that is eafily to be evinc'd, as reasonable and equitable, from the very Tenor of it.

The Requifites which the Law expects for admitting an Allegation, are, that it should be Relevant and Concludent. And the Relevancy of this, and its Concludency, in Law, will appear plainly enough throughout the whole Series, and in every Article thereof.

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