TOUNDED BY THE REV. JOHN BAMPTON, M. A. LATE CANON BY ΤΗΣ REV. RICHARD SHEPHERD, D.D. F.R.S. AND CHAPLAIN TO THE RIGHT REVEREND LONDON: PRINTED FOR LOCKYER DAVIS, IN HOLBORN; AND DANIEL PRINCE, OXFORD. M,DCC,LXXXVIII. Extract from the laft Will and Teftament of the late Rev, JOHN BAMPTON, Canon of Salisbury. "I give and bequeath my Lands and Estates "to the Chancellor, Mafters, and Scholars of the "Univerfity 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 hereafter " mentioned; that is to fay, I will and appoint, that "the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford "for the time being fhall take and receive all the rents, iffues, and profits thereof, and (after all "taxes, reparations, and peceffary 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 perform"ed in the manner following. 66 66 "I direct and appoint, that upon the first Tuesday "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-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. Mary's in Oxford, be"tween the commencement of the last month in Lent "Term, and the end of the third week in Act Term. 66 "Alfo I direct and appoint, that the eight Divi"nity Lecture Sermons fhall be preached upon either "of the following fubjects-to confirm and establish "the Chriftian Faith, and to confute all heretics and "fchifmatics-upon the divine authority of the Holy "Scriptures-upon the authority of the writings of the "primi |