where it was found at the digging for the foundation of the college. A very authentic account of this event hath been retrieved, and published to the learned world, from a manufcript of Thomas Walfingham, the hiftorian and monk of St. Alban's. It is the cause of much mirth; for on the day, and in remembrance of the Mallard, is always fung a merry old fong fet to ancient mufic.

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Vifitor. The Archbishop of Canterbury.

BRAZEN-NOSE COLLEGE

ORMS the weft fide of the Radcliffe Square. It was founded in the year 1509, by the joint Benefaction of William Smith, Bishop of Lincoln, and Sir Richard Sutton, Knight, of Prefbury in Cheshire. Over the gate are the Arms of the latter.

The most probable account of the uncommon name of this College feems to be as follows. The Founders purchafed from University College, for the fcite of their intended building, two ancient feats of learning, Brazen-nofe and Little Univerfity Halls; \ the former of which, as well as one of the fame name at Stamford, received its title from the circumstance of having a nofe of brass affixed to the gate. It was with a view to this, that the Founders ordered their new Seminary to be called the King's Hall and College of Brazen-nofe: and a fimilar Appendage is still confpicuous over the portal.

Over the door of the Refectory are two very ancient Bufts: the one of Alfred the Great, the first Founder (deemed one of the beft reprefentations of that great monarch); the other of John Eregina, a Scotfman, the first Lecturer in Univerfity Hall.They have been more than once engraved, and

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are faid to have been found in digging for the foundation of the college.

The Refectory is handfome and fpacious, and adorned with fome good portraits and paintings on glafs of the two Founders. It ftands on the fouth fide of the firft Quadrangle; in the centre of which is a ftatue of Cain and Abel.

Through a paffage on the left-hand of the gate of the firft Quadrangle we enter the second, of which a cloyfter, with the Library over it, forms the eaft fide; the Chapel the fouth: these are more modern ftructures, and are fuppofed to have been built in 1667, conformably with a plan given by Sir Chriftopher Wren.

The Library (a light pleafant room, ornamented with a moft elegant ceiling) contains a refpectable collection of books, very commodioufly arranged. The chapel is diftinguished by a neatnefs and fimplicity becoming the Houfe of God. If thefe may be. confidered as the Parents of Beauty, this Edifice has very strong pretenfions to it. The roof, which, being a frame of wood, is an admirable imitation of Gothic ftone-work, and the altar, with its decorations, demand our attention. The east window is enriched by painted glafs, finely executed by Pearfon, from a painting of the late celebrated Mr. Mortimer.

In the Ante-chapel is an elegant monument to the memory of a late Principal, Dr. Shippen, whofe uniform attention to the interefts of his college are thereon defervedly commemorated. The buft is supposed to give a ftriking refemblance of his countenance. An elegant houfe, connected with the college, and fronting the High-ftreet, has been lately fitted up at a confiderable expenfe, for the accommodation of the Principal.

The foundation of this college is for a Principal,

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twenty Fellows, thirty-two Scholars, and ten Exhi

bitioners.

The number of independent members at prefent on the books is about 100.

Vifitor. The Bishop of Lincoln.

HERTFORD COLLEGE

S_fituated oppofite to the gate of the Public

twenty years ago was begun to be rebuilt. The college is intended to be erected in the form of a Quadrangle, to confift of four angles, and four intermediate buildings; each angle to confift of three ftaircafes and fifteen fingle apartments; every apartment to contain an outward room, a bed-place, and a ftudy. Of these the south-east angle, and the chapel in the fouth, the Principal's lodgings in the eaft, the hall in the north, and the gateway (with the Library over it) in the weft, are already finished, agreeable to the plan of the Oxford Almanack for the year 1747.

Hertford or Hart Hall, an ancient Houfe of Learning, was an Appendant to Exeter College. But having received an Endowment in part, was (at the request of Dr. Richard Newton, then Principal, who endowed the Senior Fellowships) incorporated Sept. 8, 1740.

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And, though it is now ftyled Hertford College, it be called by the name of any other person who will complete the endowment of it, or become the principal Benefactor to it.

This College confifts of a Principal, two fenior Fellows or Tutors, junior Fellows or Affiftants, Under-graduate Students, and four Senolats.

Vifitor. The Chancellor of the University.

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