in the city of London. The parish of St Sepulchre has two exhibitions for either University, one of £5 the other of £4 per annum each, tenable for five years. These exhibitions are in the gift of the vestry, and preference is given to a parishioner. There is an exhibition of £30 per annum for four years to either University, in the gift of trustees selected from the inhabitants of Lewes in Sussex, which is to be given to a clergyman's son in preference, and in default of such, to a layman, both being at the same time natives of Sussex. Respecting the Fishmongers' Company, as before stated, each -Member of the Court of Assistants in his turn nominates a candidate, whom all the others elect. All the other exhibitions are disposed of by the Court of Assistants of the respective companies; those excepted which are in the gift of the Mercers' and confined to Cambridge; of them the whole Livery has the disposal. PATRONAGE IN THE GIFT OF THE UNIVERSITY. When a benefice becomes vacant, the senior Proctor declares the vacancy, and a candidate is chosen by the Senate. In regard to the vicarage of Burwell, the University, within four months after a vacancy, names two candidates, and the Earl of Guilford presents one of them to the Bishop of Norwich. By an Act of Parliament passed in the 3d year of James I. (cap. 5. §. 20.) it is enacted, "That the Chancellor and Scholars of the University of Cambridge, shall have the presentation, nomination, collation, and donation, of and to every benefice, prebend, or ecclesiastical living, school, hospital, and donative, belonging to any popish recusant convict," in the following 27 Counties of England and Wales, viz. This privilege has been further confirmed by 1 William and Mary, Sess. 1. Cap. 26. 12 Anne, Stat. 2. Cap, 14, and 11 George II. Cap. 17. §. 5. |