[W]e think it very unbecoming our Prudence, that the Determination ſhould be remitted to the Authors themſelves; when our Adversaries, by Briguing and Caballing, have cauſed so univerſal a Defection from us, that the greater Part of our Society has already deſerted to them, …

It would be more correct to speak of “vertible choice” or “mutable choice,” in the way in which Augustine and the Sophists after him limit the glory and range of the word “free” by introducing the disparaging notion of what they call the vertibility of free choice.

The result is that I’m entering Ward Jackson Park, near Hartlepool Cricket Club, dressed in people shorts, comfy top – and traditional blue-and-white Pooly dut (for culture starved southerners, a woolly cap).

An exquisite south-east door is preserved; it is round-headed, of four orders, with a foliated label. A canopied carol or monk's seat, a Pointed crocketed arch within a square case, is seen beside it, succeeded on the south wall by an arcade of trefoiled arches with toothed mouldings.