Item 15 - Letter from Edward Hawkins

Oriel College - Although a scheme for enlarging the theological system drawn up by a Committee of Heads of Houses was approved by the Board of Heads of Houses and Proctors, it has not yet been sanctioned by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the University Chancellor: 'I am scarcely at liberty, therefore, to send you any copy of the scheme itself'. However, in the meantime he can send such particulars as will perhaps be sufficient for your purpose. They currently have two Professors of Divinity, and they now propose to establish two new ones and possibly a third. One would be in Ecclesiastical History and the Study of the Fathers, the other in Pastoral Theology. The four Divinity Professors, the Professor of Hebrew and a Graduate in Theology would sit on the Board of examiners. EH gives details concerning the quantity of lectures and the amount students have to attend.