WARBURTONIAN LECTURE: A lecture course founded by a testamentary bequest of £500 by Bishop William Warburton (q.v.) to prove "the truth of revealed religion in general, and of the Christian in particular, from the completion of the prophecies in the Old and New Testaments, which relate to the Christian Church, and especially to the apostasy of papal Rome." The lecture is to be preached an-

nually, in the chapel of Lincoln's Inn, London, on the first Sunday after Michaelmas Term and the Sunday before and the Sunday after Hilary Term, and no lecturer may continue more than four years. A list of the lectures, so far as they have been published, is as follows:

1768-72. Richard Hurd, Introduction to the Study of the Prophecies concerning the Christian Church, and in Particular concerning the Church of Papal Rome, London, 1772.

1772-76. Samuel Halifax, On the Prophecies concerning the Christian Church and Papal Rome, London, 1776.

1776-80. Lewis Begot, Twelve Discourses on the Prophecies concerning the first Establishment and subsequent History of Christianity, Oxford, 1780.

1782-86. East Apthorp, Discourses on Prophecies, 2 vols., London, 1786.

1801-05. Robert Narea, A Connected and Chronological View of the Prophecies relating to the Christian Church, London, 1805.

1807-11. Edward Pearson, On the Subject of the Prophecies relating to the Christian Church, London, 1911.

1811-15. Philip Allwood, On the Prophecies relating to the Christian Church, and especially to the Apostasy of Papal

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WARD, SETH: Church of England bishop of Salisbury; b. at Aspenden (18 m. n.e. of St. Albans), Hertfordshire, Apr. 5, 1617; d. at Knightsbridge, Salisbury, Jan. 6, 1688-89. He was educated at Sidney-Sussex College; Cambridge (B.A. 1636-37), where he became fellow in 1640 and mathematical lecturer in 1643, but in the following year he was deprived of his fellowship by the Puritans for refusing to subscribe the Solemn League and Covenant. He then resided in London, and at Aspenden, pursuing his mathematical studies and acting as a private tutor, until 1649, when, being willing to take the oath of allegiance to the Commonwealth, he was appointed Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford, where he enunciated a clever, though unsuccessful, theory of planetary motion, and where he also became involved in a controversy with Thomas Hobbes (q.v.), the results of his astronomical studies being embodied in his In Ismaelis Bullialdi asfronomice philolaicce fundaments inquisitio brevis (Oxford, 1653) and Astronomic geometrica; ubi methodus proponitur qua primariorum planetarum as tronomic slue elliptiea sine circularis possit geometriee absolvi (1656), and his points of disagreement with Hobbes being contained in his Yindiciteacademiarum (1654) and In Thomce Hobbii philosophiam exereitatio epistolica (1656).

At Oxford Ward resided at Wadham College, and about 1649, on the formation of the Philosophical Society of Oxford, he became a member of that body, while he was later one of the original members of the Royal Society. In 1657 Ward was elected principal of Jesus College, Oxford, but was obliged to give place to an appointee of Cromwell; and two years later he was chosen president of Trinity, but was compelled within a year to resign since he did not possess the statutory qualifications. .He now retired to London, where Charles II. appointed him vicar of St. Lawrence Jewry and rector of Uplowman, Devonshire, while in 1662 he was rector of St. Breock, Cornwall. He had been precentor of Exeter since 1656, and in 1660 he was made a prebendary, and dean in the year following. In 1662 he was consecrated bishop of Exeter, and five years later was translated to Salisbury, while in 1671 he was appointed chancellor of the Order of the Garter. In 1672 he declined to become the successor of John Cosin (q.v.) in the see of Durham. Both as dean and as bishop Ward strongly opposed dissenters, suppressing their conventicles and ejecting them and their stalls from his cathedral, although, on the other hand, he was very willing to make certain concessions to win them back to the Church. He restored and beautified the cathedrals and palaces of both his sees, and founded several beneficent institutions, such as a college of matrons at Salisbury (1682) for widows of the Exeter and Salisbury clergy.

The chief theological works .of Ward, besides many sermons, were Certain Disquisitions and Considerations representing to the Conscience the Unlawfullness of the . . . Solemn League and Covenant (Oxford, 1643; the first edition destroyed by the Puritans, the earliest edition extant being that of 1644), and Philosophical Essay towards an Eviction of the Being and Attributes of God, the Immortality of the Souls of Men, and the Truth and Authority of Scripture (1652); and he also edited Samuel Ward's Dissertatio de baptismatis infantilis vi et efficacia (London, 1653) and Opera nonnulla (1658).

Bibliography: The primary life is by Walter Pope, London, 1698, on which of. A. 5, Wood; Athence Oxonienaia, ed P. Bliss, i. p. clxa., and iii. 6$8, 1209, iv. 246, 305, 612; and Fasti, ii. 184, 4 vols., 1813-20, and the same writer's An Appendix to Pope's Life of Ward, ib., 1697. On the mate= rials for a life of Ward cf. J. E. B. Mayor, in Notes and queries, 2 ser., vii. 269, and for a list of references DNB, lis. 336-340.