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16. If non-resident without licence, were you so by exemption?

17. If non-resident by exemption, state the ground of exemption, and whether such exemption was claimed for the whole year, or during what part thereof?

18. If you were non-resident, and did not perform the duties of your benefice, what ecclesiastical duties, if any, were you performing, and where do you now reside?

OBSERVE,-The foregoing questions are to be answered by every incumbent, whether resident or not.

FURTHER QUESTIONS to be answered, in addition to the foregoing, in case the incumbent be non-resident.

19. What is the name of your curate?

20. Does he reside in the glebe house?

21. Does he pay any and what rent or consideration for the use of the glebe house; or is any deduction made on account thereof from the stipend assigned to him in his licence?

22. If not resident in the glebe house, does he reside in the parish?

23. If not resident in the parish, where does he reside, and at what distance from your church or chapel?

24. Does he serve any other church or chapel as incumbent? If so, state the name thereof, and the distance from your own church or chapel ?

25. Does he serve any other church or chapel as curate? If so, state the name thereof, and the distance from your own church or chapel?

26. Is he licensed?

27. What is his salary from you?

28. Has he from you any other allowances or emoluments? State what, and the average value thereof respectively?

29. What is the gross and what is the net annual value of your benefice? N.B.-All the questions have reference to the year immediately preceding that in which they are transmitted.

The Second Schedule referred to in the foregoing Act.

FORM OF THE MORTGAGE.

THIS indenture, made the of our Lord

day of

in the year

between the Right Reverend Father in God of the one part,

Lord Bishop of

and of the other part: whereas the said bishop pursuant to the directions of an act passed in the second year of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled, “An Act to abridge the holding of Benefices in Plurality, and to make better Provision for the Residence of the Clergy," hath determined to levy and raise the sum of pounds, to be laid

out and expended in building, rebuilding, or repairing [as the case shall be] the parsonage house and other necessary offices upon the glebe belonging to the rectory, vicarage, &c. of [describing it], [or, in purchasing a house and land for the residence and occupation of the incumbent of the rectory, &c.] and whereas the said hath agreed to lend and advance the sum of pounds, upon a mortgage of the glebe tithes, rent-charges, rents, and other profits and emoluments of the said benefice, pursuant to the directions and the true intent and meaning of the said

act. Now this indenture witnesseth, that the said bishop, in consideration of the sum of pounds, paid at or before the sealing and delivery hereof into the hands of (a person or persons [as the case shall be] nominated by the said bishop to receive the same, pursuant to the directions of the said act (which nomination is hereunto annexed), and which receipt of the said sum of pounds the said have or hath acknowledged by an endorsement on this deed,) hath granted, bargained, sold, and demised, and by these presents doth grant, bargain, sell, and demise, unto the said his executors, administrators, and assigns, all the glebe lands, tithes, rent-charges, rents, moduses, compositions for tithe, salaries, stipends, fees, gratuities, and other profits and emoluments whatsoever, arising, coming, growing, renewing, or payable to the incumbent of the said benefice in respect thereof, with all and every the rights, members, and appurtenances thereunto belonging; to have, hold, receive, take, and enjoy the said premises and their appurtenances unto the said his executors,

administrators, and assigns, from henceforth for the term of thirty-five years. fully to be complete and ended: provided always, that if the incumbent for the time being of the said benefice and his successors shall, from and after the expiration of the first year of the said term, yearly and every year, (such year to be computed from the date hereof,) pay to the said his executors, administrators, and assigns, one-thirtieth part of the sum of pounds, until the whole thereof shall be repaid, and at the end of the first and each succeeding year pay interest at the rate of per cent. per annum on the said sum of pounds, or so much thereof as shall from time to time remain unpaid, according to the true intent and meaning of the said act and of these presents, and also all costs and charges which shall be occasioned by the nonpayment thereof, these presents and everything herein contained shall be void: provided also, that it shall be lawful for the incumbent for the time being of the said benefice, and his successors, peaceably and quietly to hold and enjoy the said glebe lands, tithes, rent-charges, rents, moduses, compositions for tithes, stipends, fees, gratuities, and other emoluments and profits whatsoever, arising or to arise from or in respect of the said benefice, until default shall be made by him or them respectively in the payment of the interest and principal, or some part thereof, at the times and in the manner aforesaid. In witness, &c.

Appointment of the Nominee, (to be written on Parchment.)

I, the Right Reverend Father in God

Lord Bishop of

do hereby nominate and appoint of to receive the money authorized to be raised by an act passed in the second year of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to abridge the holding of Benefices in Plurality, and to make better Provision for the Residence of the Clergy," for the purpose of building, rebuilding, repairing, or purchasing the parsonage house, &c. [as the case may be] to the rectory, vicarage, &c. of belonging, and to

pay and apply the same, and to enter into contracts with proper persons for such buildings or repairs, and to inspect and to take care of the execution of such contracts, and to take such receipts and vouchers, keep such accounts, and do and perform all such other matters and things which nominees are authorized and required to do and perform in and by the said act, the said having given security for the due application thereof, according to the directions of the said act. Given under my hand this

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of the other part: parsonage house belonging to the said rectory, &c. hath been made, by the direction of the said bishop, the absolute purchase of the house, buildings, and lands hereinafter described, for the price or sum of pounds, pursuant to the directions of an act passed in the second year of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to abridge the holding of Benefices in Plurality, and to make better provision for the Residence of the Clergy." Now this indenture witnesseth, that the said A. B., in consideration of the sum of

pounds to him in hand paid for the purchase aforesaid, the receipt of which sum the said A. B. hath admitted by an endorsement on the back of this deed, hath granted, bargained, and sold, and by these presents doth grant, bargain, and sell, unto the said E. F. and his heirs, all, &c. [here insert a full, description of the buildings or lands so intended to be conveyed, with their and every of their rights, privileges, and appurtenances,] to hold unto the said E. F. and his heirs or successors [as the case may be] in trust for the sole use and benefit of the incumbent of the said benefice and his successors, rectors, vicars, &c. [as the case may be,] of the said benefice for the time being, for ever. [Usual covenants for title to be added.] In witness, &c.

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.

THE following sketch of the "Regulations of the University of London, on the subject of examinations for degrees in Arts," may be interesting to the readers of the British Magazine :

MATRICULATION EXAMINATION.

*The Matriculation Examination shall take place once a year, and commence on the first Monday in October.

No Candidate shall be admitted to the Matriculation Examination unless he have produced Certificates that he has completed his sixteenth year, and that he has been admitted as a Student at the University of Durham, or at one of the Institutions in connexion with this University.

Candidates for the Matriculation Examination shall be examined in the following subjects :

Mathematics-Arithmetic and Algebra-[as far as Quadratic Equations.]— Geometry: The First Book of Euclid.

Chemistry and Natural History.

Classics The Greek and Latin Languages :-One Greek and one Latin subject to be selected one year previously, by the Committee of the Faculty of Arts from the works of the under-mentioned authors :

For the year 1838 alone, the commencement of this Examination was fixed for Monday, the 5th of November.

For the first two years as long notice as practicable will be given.

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Homer
Xenophon.
Virgil

Horace
Sallust

Cæsar

Livy
Cicero.

One Book of the Georgics, or the Sixth Book of the
Eneid.

One Book of the Odes.

The Conspiracy of Catiline, or the War with
Jugurtha.

The Civil War, or the Fifth and Sixth Books of the
Gallic War.

One Book.

The treatises De Senectute and De Amicitiâ, or two of the shorter, or one of the longer Orations.

History and Geography-History of Greece to the death of Alexander; History of Rome to the death of Augustus; History of England to the end of the seventeenth century; the outlines of Ancient and Modern Geography.

The Papers in Classics shall consist of passages to be translated, accompanied by questions in Grammar, History, and Geography.

EXAMINATION FOR HONOURS,

Any Candidate who has passed, and has produced a Certificate shewing that he has not completed his nineteenth year, may be examined for Honours in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and also in Classics.

Candidates for Honours in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy shall be examined in the following subjects:-Arithmetic and Algebra; Geometry; Plane and Spherical Trigonometry; Conic Sections; the elements of Statics and Dynamics; the elements of Hydrostatics; the elements of Optics. That Candidates for Honours in Classics be examined in the following subjects

The Greek and Latin Languages:

Homer..

The first six Books of the Iliad, and Books IX-XII. of the Odyssey.

Prometheus.

Medea.

Eschylus

Euripides

Sophocles

Thucydides

Herodotus

Demosthenes.

Plato

Xenophon

Virgil.

Horace.

Sallust

Livy

Cicero.

Tacitus ..

Antigone,

Book I.

Book II.

The Olynthiacs and Philippics.
Apology of Socrates and Crito.
The Memorabilia.

The Wars with Catiline and Jugurtha.
Books XXI. and XXXI.

De Senectute, De Amicitiâ, the Orations against
Catiline, Pro Milone, Pro Archia, and the Second
Philippic.

Agricola, Germania, and Annals, Book I.

Composition in Latin and in English:

Latin prose; translation and retranslation.

English prose; analysis of any of the subjects selected for examination.
Original composition upon questions arising out of the classical authors

selected for examination.

The Papers in Classics shall consist of passages to be translated, accompanied by questions in Grammar, History, and Geography.

VOL. XIV.-Dec. 1838.

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EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS.

The Examination for the Degree of B.A, shall take place once a year, in May or June.

No Candidate shall be admitted to this Examination unless he have produced Certificates from the authorities of the University of Durham, or one of the Institutions in connexion with this University, to the following effect :1. Of having been a Student during two years at one of such Institutions. 2. And of good conduct so far as their opportunities of knowledge have extended.

Candidates for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts shall be examined in the following subjects :

Mathematics and Natural Philosophy-Arithmetic and Algebra; Geometry; Plane Trigonometry; Mechanics; Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, and Pneumatics; Astronomy; Chemistry; Vegetable Physiology and Structural Botany; Animal Physiology.

The Greek and Latin Languages: one Greek and one Latin book to be selected two years previously by the Committee of the Faculty of Arts from the works of the under-mentioned authors :

Six Books.

Two Books, from any of his larger works.

One of the longer, or three of the shorter public Orations; or two of the private Orations.

Homer

Sophocles

One Play.

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Livy.
Tacitus

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Apology of Socrates and Crito.

The Eclogues and six Books of the Eneid; or the
Georgics and the Sixth Book of the Æneid.

The Odes and Ars Poetica, and either the Satires or
the Epistles.

The Civil Wars and the Fifth and Sixth Books of the Gallic War.

The Somnium Scipionis, and two of the shorter and one of the longer Orations.

Three Books.

The Agricola, Germania, and one Book of either the
Annals or Histories.

History History of Greece to the death of Alexander; History of Rome
to the death of Augustus; History of England to the end of the seven-
teenth century.

The French or German Language. Logic. Moral Philosophy.

EXAMINATION FOR HONOURS.

Any Candidate who has passed, and has produced a Certificate shewing that he has not completed his twenty-second year, may be examined for honours in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and also in Classics; but in case any Candidate should delay proceeding to the Examination for the Degree of B.A. more than three academical years from the date of his passing the Matriculation Examination, he cannot become a Candidate for the Scholarships, or be admitted to the Examination for Honours, unless he shew evidence to the satisfaction of the Examiners that he has been prevented, up to that time, from proceeding to the Examination for the Degree of B.A.

Candidates for Honours in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy shall be examined in the following subjects :-Algebra, including the theory of Equations; Analytical Geometry; the Differential and Integral Calculus; Calculus

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