BETWEEN
ON THE FOUNDATION OF THE LATE REV. JOHN BAMPTON, M.A.
CANON OF SALISBURY
BY THE RIGHT REV.
London
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1903
Reprinted January and February (twice), 1885, April, 1885;
Re-issue (Crown 8vo), November, 1885, 1903.
OXFORD: HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
OF THE LATE
CANON OF SALISBURY.
—"I give and bequeath my Lands and Estates to the Chancellor, Masters,and Scholars of the University of Oxford for ever, to have and to holdall and singular the said Lands or Estates upon trust, and to theintents and purposes hereinafter mentioned; that is to say, I will andappoint that the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford for thetime being shall take and receive all the rents, issues, and profitsthereof, and (after all taxes, reparations, and necessary deductionsmade) that he pay all the remainder to the endowment of eight DivinityLecture Sermons, to be established for ever in the said University, andto be performed in the manner following:
"I direct and appoint, that, upon the first Tuesday in Easter Term, aLecturer be yearly chosen by the Heads of Colleges only, and by noothers, in the room adjoining to the Printing-House, between the hoursof ten in the morning and two in the afternoon, to preach eight DivinityLecture Sermons, the year following, at St. Mary's in Oxford, betweenthe commencement of the last month in Lent Term, and the end of thethird week in Act Term.
"Also I direct and appoint, that the eight Divinity Lecture Sermonsshall be preached upon either of the following Subjects—to confirm andestablish the Christian Faith, and to confute all heretics andschismatics—upon the divine authority of the holy Scriptures—upon theauthority of the writings of the primitive Fathers, as to the faith andpractice of the primitive Church—upon the Divinity of our Lord andSaviour Jesus Christ—upon the Divinity of the Holy Ghost—upon theArticles of the Christian Faith, as