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EXTRACT from the Deed

of Trust for founding this Lecture,

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N Indenture, bearing date July 21, 1768, fets forth, "That

"the right reverend WILLIAM " Lord Bishop of Gloucester has " transferred the sum of 500%. " Bank four per cent. annuities con" folidated, to the right honourable

" WILLIAM LORD MANSFIELD,

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" Lord Chief Justice of his Ma" jesty's Court of King's Bench, " the right honourable SIR JOHN " EARDLY WILMOT, Lord Chief

" Justice of his Majesty's Court of " Common Pleas, and the honoura

" ble CHARLES YORKE [a], of Lin

" coln's-Inn, in the county of Mid

" dlesex, UPON TRUST, for the pur

" pose of founding a Lecture, in the

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[a] This nohle and eminent person was the second son of the Lord Chancellor Hardwicke. He had been, for many years, in the first reputation at the Bar; and, having passed through the offices of Sollicitor and Attorney General, was, himself, made Lord Chancellor in January 1770, but died foon after his appointment to that high dignity-Luttuofum hoc fuis; acerbum patriæ; grave bonis omnibus. CIC.

" form

" form of a Sermon, To prove the “ truth of revealed Religion, in general, " and of the Christian in particular, " from the completion of the prophe"cies in the Old and New Testament, " which relate to the Christian church, " especially to the apostacy of Papal "Rome: That, in case of any va

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cancy in this trust by the decease " of any one or more of the above

" mentioned Trustees, the place or

" places shall be filled up, from time " to time and as occafion may require,

" by the furviving Trustees, or Trustee,

" or by the Executors of the furvivor

" of them: That the Trustees shall

"appoint the Preacher of Lincoln's-Inn

" for " for the time being, or some other “able Divine of the Church of Eng" land, to preach this Lecture: That "the Lecture shall be preached every " year in the Chapel of Lincoln's-Inn " (if the Society give leave [b]) and " on the following days, viz. the first " Sunday after Michaelmas Term, the

" Sunday next before and the Sunday

" next after Hilary Term: That the

• Lecturer shall not preach the said

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" Lecture longer than for the term

" of FOUR YEARS, and shall not again

" be nominated to preach the fame:

" And, when the term of four years

[b] The Society have given leave that this Lecture be preached in their Chapet, and on the days specified.

" is expired, that the said Lecturer

" shall print and publish, or cause to

“ be printed and published, all the Ser

" mons or Lectures, that shall have been

" so preached by him."

CON.

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