56 



Broughton Gifford. 



lows of the College, but by his will, dated July 6th, 1674, he de- 

 vised the sum of £1200 to Jesus College, with the view of founding 

 Two Fellowships in that House : — one for Divinity, the other for 

 Civil Law. He provided that, in case the College should decline 

 to accept his bequest, then the £1200 should be laid out by 

 his executors in the purchase of an Impropriation, the proceeds of 

 which should be applied, from time to time as they accumulated, 

 to buy up other Impropriations, with a view to uniting them to 

 the vicarages to which they might severally belong. By a codicil 

 to his will, dated 10th May, 1676, in which he takes notice of his 

 former bequest to Jesus College, he directed that the £1200 above 

 mentioned might be applied to found Two Bye -Fellowships, with- 

 out prescribing any conditions, except that these Fellows should 

 not be entitled to any emoluments beyond what the investment of 

 £1200 might produce, giving the College power, in case the Fel- 

 lowships were declined, to apply the £1200 in the first place to the 

 purchase of the Impropriate Tithes belonging to any vicarage in 

 the gift of the College, so as to unite the tithes to these vicarages. 

 'And, also, for the buying in of Advowsons, of Rectories, and 

 Yicarages, and settling the same in such legal manner as that the 

 same might be presented unto and disposed from time to time, for 

 ever, by the said College/ 



" It appears that soon after the death of Dr. Proby, the £1200 

 was paid over to certain Trustees for the purposes expressed in the 

 Codicil: and that four Advowsons were purchased within the fifty 

 succeeding years. But in the 9 George II. an act passed by which 

 Colleges were restrained from purchasing Advowsons, if the num- 

 ber of livings in their gift equalled half the number of the Fellows 

 of the College. Jesus College being thus precluded from any fur- 

 ther applying the proceeds of Dr. Proby's bequest in the manner 

 they had hitherto done, they had to obtain an act of Parliament to 

 enable them to invest those proceeds in public securities, with a 

 view to accumulating a fund, out of which they might augment 

 the income of their smaller livings: and to that purpose the pro- 

 ceeds of Dr. Proby's legacy are at present devoted." 



It only remains to add that Dr. Proby was buried, 3rd January, 



