He directs that certain rents and profits (now amounting to about a hundred pounds yearly) be paid to such learned and ingenious person, in the University of Cambridge, under the degree of Master of Arts, as shall compose, for that year, the best Dissertation, in the English language, on the Evidences in general, or on the Prophecies or Miracles in particular, or any other particular Argument, whether the same be direct or collateral proofs of the Christian Religion, in order to evince its truth and excellence; the subject of which Dissertation shall be given out by the Vice-Chancellor, and the Masters of Trinity and Saint John’s, his Trustees, or by some of them, on New Year’s Day annually; and that such Dissertation as shall be by them[1], or any two of them, on Christmas Day annually, the best approved, be also printed, and the expense defrayed out of the Author’s income under his Will, and the remainder given to him on Saint John the Evangelist’s Day following; and he who shall be so rewarded, shall not be admitted at any future time as a Candidate again in the same way, to the intent that others may be invited and encouraged to write on so sacred and sublime a subject. He also desires, that immediately following the last of the clauses relating to the prize Dissertation, this invocation may be added: “May the Divine Blessing for ever go along with all my benefactions; and may the Greatest and the Best of Beings, by his all-wise Providence and gracious influence, make the same effectual to His own glory, and the good of my fellow-creatures!” Subject proposed by the TRUSTEES for the Year 1865: _The mutual Influence of Christianity and the Stoic School._ Footnote 1: By the new Regulations, the four Divinity Professors were appointed as additional Adjudicators. INTRODUCTION.