True account of the election at Cambridge March the third, 1680/1..

March the Thiicl, 168?.
f* ^ SHough fbme Perlbns have of late obtruded (everal RelaVions of
B upon the Nation, which were only the fidiions of their
& own Imagination 5 and, not contented with laying their Scene
lb remote, that they wereaflared no Peribn would take the pains
to prove them Lyars. Elephant Smith has had the impudence, fo natural
jto him, to venture at a Forgery under the very Nofeof the City, without
the leaft colour of truth, in the late pretended Addrefs at the Ele&ian at
Hampfiead Heath 5 yet*j hope, it will be no prejudice to the truth of the
following Relation, which, if occafion be, will be fupported by the Tefti*
mony of fo many Worthy and Loyal Gentiemen, and others that were
f reftnt at; it.
Upon Tktrfday the Third of this Inftant March, the Gentlemen and
Free-holders of the Coupty of Cambridge and the Ifle of proceeded
i^pon his Majefties Writ, to the Election of Knights to ferve for ,the Coun¬
ty in the enfting Parliament at Oxford 5 the Candidates were Sir Levinu*
Bennet Baronet, $ir Robert Cotton Knight, Edward Pathoricby and Gerrard
Buffet Elquires^ the two laft having been Members in the Commons Houle
in the Parliament of 1679.. and the two firft, of the late Parliament 3
wherein they acquitted themlelves with that Loyalty* Prudence, and Mo¬
deration, as became worthy Patriots, to the general fatisfa&ion of the Peo¬
ple, whom they reprelented.
A Poll being demanded and granted, all things were -carried with a
great evennefs and calmneE, till towards the conclufion, when (bme of
the Diffeating ProteftaKts, doubting the Event, began to buttle, purpolely
to gain (bme foundation for a future Petition } and one of his Majefties
Jufllces aof the-Peace* foa,-4akmg^nor4ce-^il4:J^sMi-4^ttil£BJEse^ v
have fallen under the judicature of their Club-Law; but he feafbnably
demanding. Whether the Fatiatkks \u(\ a mind to out-do the Papifis, by, \
murdering a JuJiice of in the Execution of his Office in the very
face of the Countrey } the fear of infamy proved a more reftrainig-Grace , »
to the Confciences of their Clubs, than the Club-Principles of their'’Con*
fciences. But the Auront was lb ^dented by the Generality of the Free^
holders, that, after the fhuningup the Poll, Sir iC Cotton was obliged to