GENERAL REPORT.
5 occasion of the promotion of the Hev.
PI.
Griffin, d.d.,
an Ex-Fellow, to the Bishopric of Limerick.
The annuities awarded to their Incumbents were respectively £8S 9 5s.
1 Id.
and £dS6 7s.
2d.
"When we come further on in our report to deal with the proper application of the Advowson Compensation Fund, we shall have occasion to return to the question of stagnation, and we believe that what we shall then recommend will provide a sufficient remedv for any injurious consequences, so far as they may arise from the loss of patronage.
We* were further to inquire whether the compensation received by the College is affected by any equitable claim arising out of the before recited Acts, or from any changes recently made in the condition or constitution of the College and University.
A statement was submitted to us by some of the Fellows in Ploly Orders claiming App.
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compensation out of the Advowson Fund for the loss of their right of succession to the QQ.23G-3r_-
livings formerly in the gift of Trinity College.
Two of them, representing the larger number, appeared before us and gave evidence upon the subject.
We are of opinion that the compensation received by Trinity College for the loss of natronage is not affected by any equitable claim arising out of the said recited Acts.
It is only necessary to consider the case of the Fellows who had been elected before the ^II'.^('!li:itly
passing of the Irish Church Act, 1869.
They had all refused at least one living of Mr.'iirav.
greater value than any of those which have fallen vacant since the passing of the Act ; Q 202.
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and judging of the future by the past it is highly improbable that any of those Fellows would ever accept any of the old crown livings, or would derive any advantage from the existence of that patronage, if that Act had not been passed.
As long a3 the patronage existed the Board was obliged by custom to offer each vacant living to the Fellows in Mr-[1Y: succession, but that custom would not create an equity to prevent the purchased ^' "^ advowsons from being sold for the purpose of procuring other property more valuable ro the College as an educational institution.
If any loss was thereby sustained by the Junior Fellows it will be much more than compensated if the suggestion which we shall make hereafter, for an increase in the number of Senior Fellows, he adopted.
No compensation was awarded to the College on the ground of a right of succession lit.
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on the part of the Fellows in Holy Orders.
Longfield, No equitable claim arises from any changes recently made in the condition or.
jyr Trxil] constitution of the College or University.
Q.
557.
Part II.
The next branch of our inquiry is into the offices of Professors and Lecturers in Divinity in the' College ' and' University, the endowments and emoluments either of private or public foundation connected with the same respectively; and into the mode of conferring Degrees in the Faculty of Theology in the University.
With regard to the offices of Protessors and Lecturers in Divinity, we requested the Board to furnish a list of such Professors and Lecturers ; stating—
The modes of their appointment.
The tenure of their offices.
The duties which they perform ; and The salaries and other emoluments which they receive.
In reply we have received the following information :— Y7^p " The Regius Professor of Divinity, appointed by the Provost and Senior Fellows from among the Fellows or ex-Fellows of the College, who are Doctors in Divinity.
The Professor holds the office for life, unless guilty of neglect of duty or other offence againsb the statutes, or unless promoted to a bishopric.
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" The prescribed duties are, to read a Preelection at the beginning of every term, in which the order and matter of the studies of that term are expounded.
To give two lectures in every week during the term.
To explain the Holy Scriptures in these lectures.
To expound also the controversies with all opponents as well of the Cliristian religion as of the Church of England.
To hold lectures also and examinations in Ecclesiastical Histoiy.
To assign to the Students books, approved by the Provost and Senior Fellows, in which they are to be diligently examined.
To prescribe exercises in Theology.
To furnish the Provost, at the end of each term, with the names of Students remarkable for negligence or for diligence.
To bo Moderator in disputations for Theological Degrees.
To preach four sermons each year in confirmation of the Christian religion.
To read annually four public Preelections in Divinity, at such times and in such places as the Provost and Senior Fellows shall prescribe.
To hold an annual examination of the Students in Divinity, for two days, during wur hours each day; in the morning of the first day in the Old Testament, and in the evening in tire New testament; in the morning of the second day in Ecclesiastical History, and in the evening of the second day in the Articles and Liturgy of the Church of England.
The salary is £1,212 per annum.
'', -^khishop King's Lecturer, appointed by the Provost and Senior Fellows.
He holds his office for life.
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duties are>to lecture Divinity Students during their first year, on two days in each week ; during the AUchaelmas and Hilary Terms on the Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion, and in Trinity Term on the fcocrnian controversy, and to preside at examinations of those Students at the end of each term.
The salary is -sbf 00
XIV.
forrfi
per annum.
^The Professor of Biblical Greek, appointed by the Provost and Senior Fellows.
The tenure of the office is ve years.
