"oratiuncle" meaning in English

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          "text": "As he was his friends chief Advocate he thinks it his duty to become Oratour, therefore in two or three ſhort and ſweet oratiuncles (each of which might have been Printed by F. S. for a Speech of a Noble Peer of the Realm) he exhorts them to make the ſame worthy choiſe […]",
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          "text": "[…] one or other of the two had risen, and in a short, plain, unvarnished oratiuncle, told the company that the thing must be done, and why […]",
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