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largely experienced the bounty of feveral Benefactors, particularly Bifhop Fell, who left ten Exhibitions of Iol. per ann. to Commoners, to be held for ten years from the time they were nominated to them. The 101ft Studentship was added by William Thurfton, Efq. 1663, and is now in the gift of the Vernon Family. Several Exhibitions were given by Lady Holford for Scholars educated at the Charter-Houfe, and more by other Benefactors.

Vifitor. The KING.

PEMBROKE COLLEGE.

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EMBROKE College, fo called from the Earl of Pembroke, Chancellor of the Univerfity at the time it was founded, is fituated near St. Aldate's Church, in a direct line from the grand Gate of Chrift Church, and confifts of two fmall Courts. The Quadrangle is uniform, having the Hall at the north-weft angle, in which are Pictures of the Founders and fome Benefactors. The Chapel is a fmall,. elegant building, of the Ionic order, with a beautiful Altar-piece. In the Garden, which is weft of the Chapel, is a pleasant Common Room, and a Terrace-walk. The Mafter's Lodgings, which join to. the College on the north, is a modern edifice.

This College, formerly Broadgate Hall, was founded an. 1620, by Tho. Tefdale, of Glympton, Efq.. and Richard Whitwick, S. T. B. Rector of Ilfley, Berks, for a Mafter, ten Fellows and ten Scholars. Four of Mr. Tefdale's Fellows to be chofen out of his relations, and the reft to come from Abingdon. Free-School.

As to Mr. Whitwick's Benefaction, two of the Fellows and two Scholars to be of his-kindred, and. the reft from Abingdon School.

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King Charles I. granted to this Society the perpetual advowson of St. Aldate's Church; and certain lands for the maintenance of one Fellow, to be chofen from Guernsey or Jersey.

Archbishop Abbot, Juliana Stafford, and Francis Rous, were the next Benefactors; and Dr. George Morley, Bishop of Winchester, founded five Scholarships for the natives of Guernsey and Jersey.

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Queen Anne annexed a Prebend of Gloucester to the Mastership. Lady Holford gave two Exhibitions of 201. a year each; Dr. Hall, Master of this College, and Bishop of Bristol, built the Master's Lodgings; Sir John Bennet, Lord Offulftone, endowed. two Fellowships and Scholarships; Mr. Townfhend gave eight Exhibitions to young Scholars from Gloucefterfhire; and Sir John Philips, Bart. in 1749, founded one Fellowship and one Scholarship..

The prefent members are, a Mafter, fourteen Fellows, thirty Scholars and Exhibitioners; the whole number of Students ufually about 70.

Vifitor. The Chancellor of the Univerfitý..

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IVE Halls or Academical Houfes, not incorporated, are ftill remaining. Originally the Students lived chiefly in Halls or Hotels,, where Profeffors and Tutors: refided. But when the Colleges were founded, and ftill more, when the Reformation took place, the libe. ral education, now in ufe, brought the Students to the more convenient accommodation in Colleges. Thefe Societies are not endowed, though they have had confiderable Benefactions, which are difpenfed to the Stu dents in Exhibitions, which they enjoy for a flated time. They are under the government of their refpective Principals, whofe incomes arife from the room

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rent of the Chambers. The Students take an oath to obey the statutes and cuftoms of the Hall, which ftatutes are made and altered by the Chancellor, who has the nomination of the Principals, and is Vifitor of all the Halls, except St. Edmund Hall, which is dependant on Queen's College, and the Principal appointed by that Society.

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I. ST. ALBAN HALL, which is in St. John's Parish, adjoins to Merton College on the eaft. It had its name from Robert de St. Alban, a Citizen of Oxford, who conveyed the premises to the Abbey of Littlemore. Of this Hall were Archbishop Marth; Dr. Lamplugh, Archbishop of York; Benedict Barnham, Alderman of London, who built the Front of the Hall as it is at prefent; and William Lenthall, Speaker of the Long Parliament.

ST. EDMUND HALL.

II. ST. EDMUND HALL is oppofite to the eaft fide of Queen's, to which College it is dependant, and has about forty Students. The Buildings were completed, and other confiderable improvements made while the late Dr. Shaw, that eminent Traveller, was Principal. Of this Hall were Dr. John Mill, who published the Greek Teftament, printed at the Theatre; and Thomas Hearne, M. A. that diligent Antiquary.

NEW INN HALL.

III. NEW-INN HALL ftands at the weft end of the City, near the Church of St. Peter in the Bailey. It was formerly called Trillock's Inn, from John Trillock, Bishop of Hereford, who built it in the year 1349. Oppofite this Hall is the Gateway of a College of Monks of the Auguftine Order, in which Erasmus refided two years. He left an elegant Latin Poem on his manner of living there.

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ST. MARY HALL.

IV. ST. MARY HALL is fituated north of Oriel Col. lege, near the High-Street. It confifts of one Quadrangle, formed by the Principal's Lodgings on the north, the Hall and Chapel on the fouth, and on the east and weft by the Chambers of the Students.

This Hall was erected by King Edward II. Some Exhibitions have been given to affift the Students in the profecution of their studies.

Several eminent men have refided and been educated here, viz. Cardinal Allen, Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor Hatton, Erafmus, Mr. Sandys the celebrated English Poet and Traveller, &c.

The buildings of this Society have received confi. derable improvements within the prefent century, the eaft fide having been entirely rebuilt by the contribu tions of feveral noblemen and gentlemen educated here; and the fouth fide of the Quadrangle has been lately raised and finished by Benefactions from the prefent Principal and other members of the Society. The number of Students is about go.

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V. MAGDALEN HALL is adjoining to the weft fide of Magdalen College, to which it is an appendant. The number of Exhibitions given to this Hall fupplies it with many members. It was erected by William Wainfleet, the Founder of Magdalen College, and has a large Grammar School joined to it, intended as a Nursery for Magdalen College. The number of Students is generally about 90.

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Late and prefent Prefidents of Magdalen College. 1768. George Horne, D. D.

1791. Martin Jof. Routh, D. D.

Late and present Mafters of University College. 1744. John Browne, D. D.

1764. Nathan Wetherell, D. D. Vomita

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Late and prefent Provofts of Queen's College. ·1767. Thomas Fothergill, D. Die y bar son D. 1797. Septimus Collinfon, D. D. vende pla Late and prefent Wardens of All Souls College. 1767. Right Honourable Lord Tracy, D. B. 1793. Edmund Ifham, D. D. pipa Trop¤ Late and prefent Principals of Brafenofe College.

1777. Thomas Barker, D. D.Linglong b 1785. William Cleaver, D.D.

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Late and present Principals of Hertford College,"

1757. David Durell, D. D..

1775. Bernard Hodgson, LL. D.

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