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    The estate has been conveyed to Robert Philipps , Esq ., of the Park , near Manchester , a member of the Committee , and a gentleman well known as one of the oldest and steadiest patrons of the CoiLege ; and it is thought expedient to postpone the execution of the Deed of

    Trust until the debt is redeemed , when it is intended to convey it to Trustees on such trusts as may be deemed advisable . The writings are in the mean time to be deposited with the Solicitor of the Committee , in trust , as a security for the payment of the borrowed money , but no mortgage will be required .

    The estate consists of about three hundred and ten acres , of which forty are in wood , and the remainder chiefly arable : —it is proposed to increase the quantity of wood-land , as the timber grows with

    great luxuriance , and some parts of the estate are particularly suited for that mode of occupation . Since the purchase was made , timber has been sold to the value of 8001 ., tfre proceeds of which will be available in the course of 1826 for the

    reduction of the debt : the remainder of the purchase-money will be raised from the existing property of the College , iucluding some building ground in Manchester , worth about 800 / ., the sale of which has just been contracted for , and which has hitherto been unproductive .

    The money in the Stocks has been sold out at prices that leave a profit of nearly 500 / . on the investments , as will be seen by a reference to cc The state of the Funds , " at the foot of the cash account . The chief rents have been since sold on favourable terms . In relation to this investment the two following resolutions were passed , viz .

    Resolved , " That the Treasurer be authorized to advance whatever sum may be necessary for completing the purchase of the estate , and that the title deeds and estate be a security for repayment of such advance , in common with the other suras borrowed for the like purpose . " Resolved , " That the Ling Moor and Oxclose Estate be held for the same

    purposes and under the same conditions , as the Permanent Fund , subject nevertheless to the payment of the money borrowed for completing the purchase , until the same shall be otherwise discharged , and reserving a power to sell the estate , or any part thereof , and re-invest the proceeds , for the like purposes and on the like conditions , if such should be judged expedient . "

    The following amended regulations for the admission of Divinity Students were adopted at this Meeting , and ordered to » e inserted in the future reports of the V ^ stees , instead of thoso before existing , 'lut

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    4 € That no one shall be admitted as a Divinity Student , but on the recommendation of three Protestant Dissenting Ministers , residing in the neighbourhood where he lives , who shall certify , that at the commencement of his Course he will have attained the full age of sixteen ; that , on their personal examination , his

    moral character , natural endowments , and classical proficiency , are found to be such as to qualify him for becoming a Student for the ministry ; and that the profession is the object of his own voluntary choice . It is required that he have read , in Greek , four books of Homer , and three books of the Cyropaedia , or the

    Anabasis of Zenophon ; in Latin , four books of Virgil , two books of the Odes of Horace , and Sallust ' s History of the Catilinarian Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War : —in all these he is to be examined in any part , pointed out at the

    time , without previous notice . It is also required that he shall be thoroughly acquainted with the practical rules of arithmetic , as far as vulgar and decimal fractions , as usually taught in schools . Students admitted from other academical

    institutions , in any other year than the first , will be required to have made classical proficiency , proportioned to the standing which they wish to take . If they enter in the second year , their testimonials must also state , that they have been examined and found competently skilled in Hebrew , and have read the book of Genesis in the original ; if in the third year , the book of Psalms .

    " It must be further understood that when candidates are admitted as Divinity Students , it is under the implied obligation on their part , that it is their honk iide intention , and that of their friends , that they shall go through the full College course , and that to quit the College at an earlier period , for the purpose of undertaking any congregational charge , cannot be sanctioned by the Trustees . "

    Applications for the admission of Divinity Students on the Foundation must be addressed either to the Rev . Charles Wellbeloved , York , or to one of the Secretaries at Manchester , before the first day of May : they will be decided upon at the York Annual Meeting of Trustees ,

    on the last Friday in June , when such Candidates will be preferred , as , from their testimonials , appear to be most eligible . The Divinity Students on the Foundation have every expense of lectures , board and lodging , defrayed for them .

    The Chair was then taken by Mr . Samuel Kay , and the thanks of the ^ Meeting voted to Ottiwell Wood , Esq ., for his services as the President . In the afternoon of the same day , the friends of the

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    Intelligence . —Manchester College , York . 376

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1825, page 375, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2537/page/49/