Conferring of Honorary Degrees 165 



Edward VII — King, Defender of the Faith, Em- 

 peror of India — Represented by the person of his Am- 

 bassador [Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, '05 LL.D.] — 

 LL.D. 



At the Court of St. James, upon the 12th day of Au- 

 gust, 1763, His Majesty King George II being present 

 at the King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council, it was 

 ordered that the Right Honourable the Lord High 

 Chancellor of Great Britain do cause Letters Patent to 

 be prepared and passed under the Great Seal, authoriz- 

 ing the first Provost, William Smith, to collect funds 

 from all well-disposed persons for the assistance and 

 benefit of the College, Academy and Charitable School 

 in Philadelphia; and upon the 9th day of April, 1764, 

 the Archbishop of Canterbury, together with Thomas 

 and Richard Penn, addressed a joint letter to the Trus- 

 tees of the College, congratulating them upon the great 

 success which had attended the ef^forts of the first Pro- 

 vost, through His Majesty's Royal Brief. 



The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania — the 

 successors of the Trustees of the same Foundation — bear- 

 ing in mind the interest which His Majesty, the then 

 King of England, so graciously showed in the infant 

 Institution in the Colony of Pennsylvania, now confer 

 upon His Majesty, Edward VII, impersonating Eng- 

 land, the highest Degree in their power to bestow. 



