"abject Flattery, and Cowardice, are not to be coun"tenanced within these hallowed Retirements. "And let it be your Endeavour to avoid Pride and "Contention, the Parents of Faction, and, in your "Situation, the worft and moft unnatural of all "Factions, the Faction of a Cloyster. And laftly, you will complete the Collegiate Character, if you crown all your other Acquirements with the un"fpotted Purity, and Chastity, of your Lives and. "Conversation."

We hope, by this Time, the Reader is convinced, that fo exact a Syftem of Morals, could. not eafily have been produced from the licentious Inventions of the Mafon."

From the Cloyster we go through a narrow Paf-. fage in the North-Side, into the Court where the new Building ftands. This Edifice is 300 Feet in Length, and confifts of three Stories above the Cellars, befide the Garrets. This front is fupported by an Arcade, which forms a beautiful Cloyster The whole is built of Heddington Stone, and is juft ly deemed an elegant Structure. It has confidera bly the Advantage of fome other modern Buildings: For whereas the upper Story of thofe is commonly an Attic, and confequently the Rooms lower than thofe of the middle Stary; the Rooms in the upper Story here are exactly of the fame Dimenfion with thofe below; and command a better Profpect. Three other Sides were intended to be added ; but probably fince the Effect of that beautiful Opening to the Meadow has been feen, the Society may think proper, in fome Refpect, to alter their Defign.

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MAGDALEN COLL. NEW BUILDING,

One unparalleled Beauty belonging to this College is the extenfive Out-let. The Grove feems perfectly adapted to indulge Contemplation; being a pleasant Kind of Solitude, laid out in Walks, and well planted with Trees. It has in it about forty Head of Deer.

Befide the Walks which are in the Grove there is a very delightful, and much frequented One, round a Meadow containing about thirteen Acres, furrounded by the feveral Branches of the Cherwell from whence it is called the Water-Walks; which yields all the Variety that could be wifhed: Some Parts of it running in ftraight Lines, with the Trees formerly more regularly cut than at present; others winding, and the Trees growing little otherwise than as Nature directs: There is plenty of Water as well as Verdure, and an agreeable View of the Country adjacent.

This College was founded by William Patten, called WILLIAM of WAINFLEET, from a Village of that Name in Lincolnshire, where he was born. He was educated at Winchefter School, and was afterwards Fellow of New College in Oxford. Having taken the Degree of Batchelor of Divinity, he was appointed chief Master of Winchefter School, where he continued 12 Years, and then was made Schoolmafter, and foon after Provoft of Eton College by King Henry VI. who preferred him to the Bishopric of Winchester in the Year 1447, and in 1449 he was conftituted Lord High Chancellor of England.

He firft founded a Hall in Oxford without the Eaft-Gate, which he dedicated to the Honour of St. Mary Magdalene, and in the Year 1456 obtained Leave of King Henry VI. to convert St. John's Hofpital, fituated further Eaftward, into a College. It

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confifts of a Prefident, forty Fellows, thirty Demies, a Divinity Lecturer, School-Mafter and Usher, four Chaplains, an Organist, eight Clerks, and fixteen Chorifters. The whole Number of Students including Gentlemen Commoners, is about 120.

It was customary on St. John Baptiff's Day to have the University Sermon preached in the Stone Pulpit at the South-East Corner of the firft Court within the College Gate; which on that Occafion was decked with Boughs and Rufhes, alluding to St. John's preaching in the Wilderness.

The laft Thing we shall take Notice of, is the Tower. This was erected by the College under the Direction of Cardinal Wolfey, who was Fellow and (at that Time) Burfar of this College. It is about 150 Feet high, and by its folid and fubftantial Bafis, number of Set-offs, and gradual Diminution, is calculated for Strength and Duration.

The most advantageous View of it, is from the Phyfic Garden. We must not omit mentioning that this Tower contains a very musical Peal of Ten Bells; and that on May Day Morning the Clerks and Chorifters affemble on the Top of it, and inftead of a Mafs of Requiem for King Henry VII. fing chearful Songs and Catches.

Vifitor, The Bishop of Winchester.

QUEEN's COLLEGE.

N the North Side of the High Street, oppofite
University College, is Queen's College.

The whole Area, on which this fine College is built, is an oblong Square, of 300 Feet in Length,

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