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mentioned, that his Majesty took upon himself the patronage of the said college, and reserved the power of adding to, changing, or dispensing with any of the said statutes. That in the second chapter of the said statutes, intitled, Of the quality and duty of the Provost, it is directed, that the Provost should so administer the affairs of the college, that he may appear not to seek his own, but the interest of the college. That by the oath prescribed by the statutes, the Provost swears to preserve and administer all the benefices, farms, lands, and goods of the college, without waste, as far as he shall be able, and observe to the utmost of his power the statutes of the college. That by the fourth chapter of the statutes, the Provost is constituted the head of the society, and the statutes direct, that the seven senior Fellows should be as assessors to him; and that, by their counsel and assistance, he should manage all the greater affairs of the college; and that, in the setting of lands, and all other instruments which ought to be authenticated under the college seal, nothing should ever be done, unless with the consent and suffrage of the Provost. That by the 21st chapter of the statutes it is ordained, that if the rents of the college should increase, the salary of the Provost, Fellows, and Scholars, may be increased in manner therein mentioned. And, that such intention of increasing salaries may be more effectual, it is ordered, that in setting to farm lands and houses, the statutes made in Ireland should be strictly observed; namely, that the moiety of the just annual value should be reserved to the college, in the name of rent. That the salary of the Provost had been considerably increased from time to time, according to the increased value of the lands and other funds of the college. The bill then stated the act of 10th and 11th Charles I. and the act of settlement made in Ireland, 14th and 15th Charles II. by which it is enacted, that out of the lands and hereditaments belonging to any Archbishop, Bishop, Dean, Dean and Chapter, or any other ecclesiastical person or persons, which had been granted by them in fee farm, under the reservation of any chief rent or other du-[522]-ty, and by the said act were forfeited and vested in his Majesty, his heirs and successors, such a proportion of them should be allotted and set out for the better support of the said Archbishops and Bishops, and their successors, as therein-after particularly named, which should be given to them and their successors for ever; and the said statute gave to the Provost of Trinity College near Dublin, out of the forfeited lands in the archbishopric of Dublin, and to his successors for ever, £300 per annum; and directed that, for the setting out of the said lands, and the valuation of them, with more conveniency, the same should be done in such manner as the Lord Lieutenant or other chief governor of Ireland should direct. That by the act of parliament, made in the 17th and 18th Charles II. for explaining the last-mentioned act, it is enacted, that the commissioners for the execution of the said acts, should set out so many acres of profitable land as might be of the yearly value of £300, or sufficient to secure an annual rent-charge of £300, to be issuing out of the same; to the intent that the same might be a perpetual revenue for the support and maintenance of and be settled upon the Provost and his successors, in such manner as the Lord Lieutenant, or chief governor for the time being, should direct. That the commissioners, by an instrument under their hands and seals, dated the 2d of January 1668, reciting the clause in the last act, and that the lands therein-mentioned had been seized on account of the late rebellion in Ireland, and forfeited and vested in his Majesty, to the uses in the said act mentioned; and that the same had been brought into the common stock (as lands concealed from his Majesty) by Dr. Thomas Soil, then Provost of the college; and that the lands appeared, by the valuation of the Lord Lieutenant and Council, to be of the clear yearly value of £300, and no more; it was therefore adjudged and decreed by the commissioners, that Dr. Seil and his successors, Provosts of the college, were by the said acts lawfully entitled to the lands therein-mentioned, viz. the lands in Meath and Galway, which they certified to the Lord Lieutenant, to the end that letters patent might be granted thereof to Dr. Seil and his successors, according to the intent of the said acts. The bill then stated the grant of these lands from King Charles II. to Dr. Seil and his successors. That Dr. Baldwin the former Provost having died, Dr. Francis Andrews was, on the 28th of October 1758, appointed Provost of the said college, as above stated. That Dr. Baldwin having made a lease of the lands in Meath for twenty-one years, and another lease of the lands in Galway, to Merick Shaw, since deceased, for the like term; Dr.