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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 Estates upon trust, and to "the intents and purposes hereinafter men"tioned; that is to fay, I will and appoint "that the Vice-Chancellor of the University " of Oxford for the time being shall take and

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"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 established for ever in the faid Univerfity, and to be performed in the manner following:

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"I direct and appoint, that, upon the first Tuesday in Eafter Term, a Lecturer be yearly chosen by the Heads of Colleges only, and by no others, in the room adjoining to the Printing-Houfe, between "the hours of ten in the morning and two "in the afternoon, to preach eight Divinity "Lecture Sermons, the year following, at St.

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Mary's in Oxford, between the commence"ment of the last month in Lent Term, and "the end of the third week in Act Term.

Alfo I direct and appoint, that the eight "Divinity Lecture Sermons shall be preached upon either of the following fubjects—to "confirm and establish the Chriftian Faith,

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and to confute all heretics and fchifmatics "-upon the divine authority of the Holy "Scriptures upon the authority 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 Di"vinity of the Holy Ghoft-upon the Ar"ticles of the Chriftian Faith, as comprehended in the Apoftles' and Nicene "Creeds.

Alfo I direct, that thirty copies of the eight Divinity Lecture Sermons shall be always printed, within two months after they are preached, and one copy fhall be given to the Chancellor of the University, "and one copy to the Head of every Col"lege, and one copy to the Mayor of the

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city of Oxford, and one copy to be put "into the Bodleian Library; and the ex162 pence of printing them fhall be paid out "of the revenue of the Land or Estates given "for establishing the Divinity Lecture Sermons; and the Preacher fhall not be paid,

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"nor be entitled to the revenue, before they

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are printed.

"Alfo I direct and appoint, that no per"fon fhall be qualified to preach the Divinity Lecture Sermons, unless he hath taken "the Degree of Master of Arts at least, in

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one of the two Universities of Oxford or Cambridge; and that the fame person "fhall never preach the Divinity Lecture "Sermons twice."

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