The life and letters of Benjamin Jowett, M. A., master of Balliol college, Oxford.

320 Lzfe of Benjamin Jowett
to the payment of certain specific sums, and because on
an appeal of the Students in I629 the King as Visitor had
stated that the improved Revenues of the House wholly
and properly belonged to the Dean and Chapter.
Armed with this opinion, and refusing as a body to
recognize any moral obligation, the Dean and Chapter
notwithstanding on the ground of expediency 'agreed to
take such measures as might be necessary for increasing
the yearly salary of the Regius Professor of Greek to
the sum of ~500.' This resolution was intimated by the
Dean to the Vice-Chancellor on February I7, I865 1.
1 The Dean declares (May, 1895) had great difficulty in bringing
that even at the last moment he the Chapter to agree to this.