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FORD.

This was a question on an agreement said to be simoniacal. By

the statute of simony, in the time of Elizabeth, it is enacted," that if any person or persons, &c. shall, by reason of any promise, agreement, &c. directly or indirectly present or collate any person to any benefice, or cure of souls, &c. or give the same for such corrupt cause, every presentation, institution, &c. in consequence of such practices,

practices, shall be void, and the crown shall present for that one time or turn only."

A rule had been obtained to shew cause why a mandamus should not issue, calling upon the Bishop of Oxford to license the Rev. Isaac Knipe to the curacy of Piddington, in the parish of Ambrosden, in the county of Oxford, on the nomination of the inhabitants.

Sir Vicary Gibbs and Mr. Abbott shewed cause against this rule. They said, that in the year 1481 the curacy was separated from the Vicarage of Ambrosden, and was endowed with the small tithes. On the 7th of May, 1801, Mr. Cockerill, the late curate, died; the inhabitants having the right of election vested in them, appointed a day for election, at which two candidates, the Rev. Mr. Stopes, of Luggershall, and the Rev. Mr. Pearson, attended; the former gentleman, who had a majority in his favour, would have been elected, but refusing to sign an agreement, binding himself to accept of 301. a year, in addition to an old money payment of 401. which had been formerly paid to the curate, (which he understood was to prevent him from claiming some supposed rights of tithes belonging to the vicarage) Mr. Pearson, hay ing previously signed the agreement in the presence of the attorney who attended on the part of the parish, was elected. The bishop having been informed of this transaction, refused his licence to Mr. Pearson, on the ground that he was elected in consequence of this simoniacal agreement, it being considered that the value of the benefice would have been 130l. at least, if the rights of the curate were established.

In May 1902, the inhabitants nominated Mr. Knipe to the curacy, to whom the bishop refused his licence; and in June, 1805, the crown nominated the Rev. Thomas Pardo Matthews, who was duly licenced by the bishop, but had never

taken possession of the church, being prevented reading in it by the inhabitants, who opposed the crown's nomination. The learned counsel contended that there could be no ground for the mandamus, as the presentation devolved to the crown in consequence of the simony practised by the inhabitants.

Mr. Serjeant Williams and Mr. Mills, in support of the rule, read the words of the agreement, and argued, that it was in no respect simoniacal, since the incumbent had full power, after signing it, to establish his claim for tithes, if, indeed, he had any such demand. They cited the case of the King v. the Marquis of Stafford; and they said, if this Right Rev. Lord, who was removed from Christ Church to the prelacy he now enjoyed, had consulted Kennett's Parochial Antiquities, in the library of that establishment, he would have been better informed on the subject of this defence.

The court, however, were clearly of opinion that the agreement was simoniacal, and that it was all contrivance and art on the part of the parishioners. The agreement being simoniacal, they held that the nomination had vested in the crown by forfeiture; and that Mr. Matthews, being nominated by the crown, was properly licensed by the bishop. They not only approved the bishop's conduct, and censured that of the inhabitants; but Lord Ellenborough said, that the bishop was bound to take notice of the simoniacal contract, and that it would have been a breach of his duty to have known and not noticed it.

Mr. Serjeant Williams pressed the court much to call upon the bisop for a return, or to put the matter in some train for trying an issue upon it; but after a short deliberation the court refused to do

So.

Rule discharged with costs.
L Preparations

Preparations are at length making for the crection of DOWNING COLLEGE, at Cambridge, on the ground which lies opposite to the front of Emmanuel, and of the left of the street leading from that college to Pembroke. The architect is Mr. Wilkins, whose knowlege of Grecian models gives room to expect that the edifice will be worthy of the university it is intended to adorn. The establishment is to consist of a master, a professor of the laws of England, sixteen fellows, and six scholars. Two of the fellows are to be in holy orders; and the rest, after the usual standing, are to become barristers at law or doctors of physic. The master, the two professors, and three of the fellows, have been named in the charter; and are Dr. Francis Annesley, master; Sir Busick Harwood, professor of medicine; Mr. Christian, professor of law; and Messrs. Lens, Frere, and Meek, fellows. It is understood that medicine is the branch of science which will be chiefly cultivated in this institution.

At the Clarendon Press, Oxford, a corrected edition is preparing of GROTIUS DE VERITATE, into the common impressions of which valuable book have crept innumerable

errors.

The same press is also about to issue The Public Orations of Demosthenes, with various readings and notes, in 2 vols. 8vo.

Dr. Vincent has in the press a new edition of his Nearchus.

Sir George Staunton having translated into the Chinese language a Treatise on the Vaccine Inoculation (the first English work ever published in China) a general inoculation for the cow-pox has taken place in the populous city of Canton. Thus while prejudice and bigotry, set on by selfishness, have succeeded too well in impeding this

discovery in England, it has been hailed and has spread its salutary effects in the most distant parts of the earth.

The papers of the late Earl Macartney have been committed by his executors to Mr. Barrow, who will communicate them to the public, with memoirs of his lordship's life.

Mr. Mitford has in the press an enlarged edition of his History of Greece.

The Bishop of Salisbury is reprinting, with corrections, his excellent work entituled CRITERION, or Miracles examined, which was published about half a century ago, and has been long out of print, and very scarce.

Among the manuscripts found in the ruins of Herculaneum, a fragment of a Latin poem in hexameters has been discovered, relating to the battle of Actium. It is written in the large letters called uncial, and all the words are separated by points. It is hoped that this will prove to be the poem of Varius, the friend of Horace and Virgil, and that the whole of the poem will be discovered.

Mr. Kidd has circulated proposals for an edition of Homer, which will contain the collations of several important MSS. and many hitherto inedited Scholia.

A new translation of Grotius on the Truth of the Christian Religion, by Mr. HEWITT, Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, will be published in Michaelmas term. The numerous testimonies in the notes, which in the edition of the original now issuing from the, university press, are accommodated to editions prior to 1640, will in this transla tion be adapted for convenience to recent editions. A few notes will be added to those of Grotius and Le Clerc by the translator.

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