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Excerpt from The Past History and Present Duties of the Faculty of Theology in Oxford: Two Inaugural Lectures Read in the Divinity School, Oxford, in Michaelmas Term, 1878 Henry VIII. In 1535, the year after the English nation had renounced the Papal Supremacy; and re-founded in 1540, in conjunction with four new Regius Professorships, those of Hebrew, Greek, Civil Law, and Medicine, the endowment of which was first charged upon the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, and subsequently, by arrangement, upon the Dean and Chapter of the King's new foundation of Christ Church. The first King's Professor of Divinity was Richard Smyth, who had been elected Fellow of Merton in 1527, Registrar of the University in 1531, Principal of St. Alban Hall in 1535. He was a man strongly addicted to the old learning, a vigorous upholder of all Papal doctrines, both in his lectures and in his published works. His moral cha reeter does not seem to have been spotless; in temper he is described by Strype as a hot, turbulent man a, and the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.