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No sooner did Queen Anne disavow her Whig advisers and place herself openly under Tory influences, than Oxford, undeterred by this rebuke, paraded its Toryism without disguise, and, had it retained its old place in national politics, the Hanoverian succession would have encountered a still more formidable opposition. But tlie Whig oligarchy again saved the country. After four years of Tory policy, another crisis occurred, the Tory i66 The University of Oxford ministry broke up, the great Whig l...ords forced their way into the council chamber, the Hanoverian succes- sion was secured, and Queen Anne opportunely died. The accession of the Elector of Hanover was received at Oxford with sullen disappointment, but the Heads of Houses consulted their own interests by offering a reward of lOOZ. for the discovery of an unknown person who had delivered at the mayor's house a letter protesting against the proclamation of George I. He was pro- claimed, nevertheless, at St. Mary's, as well as at Carfax, but the scantiness of the attendance and shabbiness of the procession was remarked with satisfaction by the Tories.
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