UNIV. OF VINNQETVO RELIGION SINCE THE REFORMATION Eight Lectures Preached before the University of Oxford in the BY LEIGHTON PULLAN, D.D. OXFORD P8 Oxford University Press Printed in England EXTRACT FROM THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT " OF THE LATE REV. JOHN BAMPTON, 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 hold all and singular the " said Lands or Estates upon trust, and to the intents and purposes hereinafter mentioned; that is to say, I will and appoint that the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford for the time being shall take and receive all the "rents, issues, and profits thereof, and (after all taxes, reparations, and necessary deductions made) that he pay all the remainder to the endowment of eight Divinity "Lecture Sermons, to be established for ever in the said 'University, and to be performed in the manner following : "I direct and appoint, that, upon the first Tuesday in Easter Term, a Lecturer be yearly chosen 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 last month in "Lent Term, and the end of the third week in Act Term. Also I direct and appoint, that the eight Divinity Lecture Sermons shall be preached upon either of the following Subjects-to confirm and establish the Christian Faith, and "to confute all heretics and schismatics-upon the divine 66 535333 |