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their discretion , and successor appointed by them to supply their place . Having , painted out students , then at Glasgow , to be his first beneficiaries ,
-who while undergraduates were to receive ) six pounds per annum from the said College , and when admitted masters of arts , ten pounds , or fifteen pounds for three years , as his trustees should direct ; he enjoined the latter
in filling up of vacancies , to prefer the sons of poor presbyterian ministers , equally qualified , before others . The College , however , was ordered to send every year to the trustees in London of
^ n account their rece ipts and distributions ; and the testator ordained that the grant should , be no longer valid than while the present constitution of the , church of Scotland
continues , and that should the episcopal hierarch y or popery be established in North Britain , the beauest shall become null and voidy and revert to his trustees , to be applied" to the other uses of h is will . In the year 1726 , the then trustees of Dr . Williams
conveyed to the then professors of the College of Glasgow , and their successors , the estates before mentioned ; but by . this conveyance the professors took only estates for life in the presentations , the fee and inheritance remaining in T > r Williams * s trustees .
In the year 1754 , the trustees passed a , resolution , that all persons who shall hereafter be presented to exhibitions jn the ^ College of Qlasgow shall be entered as under-gTaduates , and nhali wear the gown , jajnd be subject to the rules of the college , in order to their being admitted to the degree of M . A- and that a clause be for the future inserted in the presentations of the exhibitioners for that purpose . Irj 17 55 , the professors of Glas&aw brought # n amicable bill against T ) r .
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graduates . By tke regulptiqns of th * » trustees , no eKhlbitjon is to be rjuicie to any of the students who are' absent during the terms , or times of , redoing lectures , unless leave of absence ht previously granted by them , or by the principal or faculty of the iTniv ^ rsily , lhe qualifications of students , as to their knowledge iri the languages should be attended to while undergraduates , and testimonials are to be sent at the end of each . session of their progress : if any exhibitioner wishes
to continue another session beyond what is usually allowed , he must apply at least six months before the close of the expiring session . Student * are not eligible till sixteen years of age , and are required at certain periods to declare their intention of pursuing the Christian ministry in South Bru
tain . On the value of such an institution , and the enlarged liberal views of the founder , this is not the place in which to expatiate , and they will be found amply illustrated in another department of this treatise . The same spirit prompted Dr .
Williams to give to the Society in Scotland for Pr ^ ppagatipg Christian Knowledge , an estate at Catworth in Huntingdonshire , together with one hundred pounds in money , " to possess at the end of one year after they should send
three qualified ministers on mis $ ions for the conversion of foreign infidel countries to the Christian faith ; with the proviso , in the event of the Society s becoming dissolved , or subjected to restraint , or neglecting to name such ministers , that the possession of those estates should be resumed hy his
trustees . From the ' minutes of th « trust it appears , that 4 variety of obstacles arose in negotiating the settlement of this business with the Scots Society , which were not removed for seyeTal years : but at length the conditions on which the grant was made by the teata ^ or having J ^ een satisfactorily complied with > arid a deed of conveyance d / awn up , which fljet with the approbation of all parties concerned , it was executed by the trustees 0 ^ 1 : ' . ttyp jfc of JTutjk 1737 . ^ The reyersiqn ' of anpther estat ^ ca * w W&nm . , W < wLM ^ 'J *!; VvilliaBas bequeathed to the owWJj , % N ^ jP ^ Bfli HJW °£ tfe * ^ ° W ^ -, » . J . i v Jk « - * T 4 fk / ypL flJCTlrF ^ .- Jn 1 A 4 * - ^ -. A ^ i / llflOll q ^ JPqrtpVw ^^ " ^ - i SS t ^ pt y Jo ^ , ^ hm ^ i : &M ** j imm $ & Am , wwvk % wb ^
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378 Abstract qftke Mislory qfDr . William ? $ Trust . v
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1816, page 378, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2454/page/6/
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