EXTRACT FROM THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE LATE REV. JOHN BAMPTON, CANON OF SALISBURY. "I give and bequeath my Lands and "Eftates to the Chancellor, Mafters, and Scholars "of the University of Oxford for ever, to have and "to hold all and fingular the faid Lands or Eftates upon truft, and to the intents and purposes herein"after mentioned; that is to fay, I will and appoint "that the Vice-Chancellor of the Univerfity of Ox"ford for the time being shall take and receive all "the rents, iffues, and profits thereof, and (after all "taxes, reparations, and neceffary deductions made) "that he pay all the remainder to the endowment "of eight Divinity Lecture Sermons, to be efta"blished for ever in the faid Univerfity, and to be performed in the manner following: "I direct and appoint, that, upon the firft Tuefday in Eafter Term, a Lecturer be yearly chofen by the Heads of Colleges only, and by no others, "in the room adjoining to the Printing-House, "between the hours of ten in the morning and "two in the afternoon, to preach eight Divinity "Lecture Sermons, the year following, at St. "Mary's in Oxford, between the commencement "of the laft month in Lent Term, and the end of "the third week in A&t Term. "Also I direct and appoint, that the eight Di"vinity Lecture Sermons fhall be preached upon "either of the following Subjects-to confirm and "eftablish the Chriftian Faith, and to confute all "heretics and fchifmatics-upon the divine au"thority of the holy Scriptures-upon the autho"rity of the writings of the primitive Fathers, as "to the faith and practice of the primitive Church upon the Divinity of our Lord and Saviour "Jefus Chrift-upon the Divinity of the Holy "Ghost upon the Articles of the Christian Faith, "as comprehended in the Apoftles' and Nicene * Creeds. "Alfo I direct, that thirty copies of the eight Divinity Lecture Sermons thall be always printed, "within two months after they are preached, and "one copy fhall be given to the Chancellor of the Univertity, and one copy to the Head of every College, and one copy to the Mayor of the city "of Oxford, and one copy to be put into the Bod"leian Library; and the expence of printing them fhall be paid out of the revenue of the Land or "Eftates given for establishing the Divinity Lec turę Sermons; and the Preacher shall not be paid "nor be entitled to the revenue, before they are printed. "Alfo I direct and appoint, that no perfon fhall "be qualified to preach the Divinity Lecture Sermons, unless he hath taken the degree of Mafter "of Arts at leaft, in one of the two Universities " of Oxford or Cambridge; and that the fame per"fon fhall never preach the Divinity Lecture Ser"mons twice." |