year. In addition to the stipend fixed by "the Rules and Orders," every scholar is allowed out of the surplus income of the estate, an annual payment of £20, subject to the deduction of 6s. 8d. a week for absence from College, to be calculated the same way as the 58. a week from the original stipend; but undergraduate scholars who reside the major part of every term in the year are allowed their full stipends without any deduction, in the quarter from Midsummer to Michaelmas.

1758. Thomas Sherlock, D.D., Bishop of London, and formerly Master of the College, bequeathed certain lands to the master and fellows, upon trust, to pay and apply the clear rents and profits thereof (excepting timber) as an addition to the scholarship usually given to the master's sizar. The sizar is appointed by the master, and holds the office till he is of standing for the degree of B.A.

Bishop Sherlock founded the office of Librarian, and endowed it with a fixed stipend of £20 a year, and rooms rentfree.

1850. A Divinity Prize, called "the Corrie Prize,” has lately been instituted, by a fund subscribed by several members of the College, formerly pupils of the Rev. G. E. Corrie, D.D., late tutor. The amount of the fund has been invested in £166. 68. 4d. 3 per cent. Consols.

1854. The present Society consists of the Master, 6 Foundation Fellows, besides 8 Bye-fellows and Scholars.

It is directed in the Statutes, that the election of a fellow shall be made by the votes of the master and the major part of the fellows; or by the votes of the master and of half the number of fellows, if the votes of the fellows should be divided into two equal numbers.

The person elected fellow is required to be a native of England, and a Master or Bachelor of Arts. There must not be more than two fellows at any time natives of one and the same county, and among persons so qualified, those are to be chosen who are most distinguished for learning, knowledge, and good behaviour.

No fellow is to be permitted to take a degree in any faculty except Arts or Divinity.

Three of the whole number of fellows must be in Holy Orders, viz., two in Priests' Orders and one in Deacons', and whenever a vacancy occurs by the cession of one of the fellows in orders, the senior fellow, who is not in such orders, must take them in the course of one year, (unless a junior does so of his own accord) or he vacates his fellowship. A fellow is to be removed from his fellowship if he be convicted before the master and fellows by the evidence of competent witnesses, or by his own confession, of any of the crimes of heresy, simony, perjury, theft, adultery, incest, violent assault on the master or a fellow, or of any other great crime; or if he shall have engaged in any unlawful contract or conspiracy, against the interests of the College, or have aided and abetted any such attempts.

A fellow is required to vacate his fellowship if he be absent from College more than 60 days without good and lawful cause to be approved by the master: also if he comes into possession of any patrimony, inheritance, or real property of greater value than 10 marks a year on the average; or if he obtains any ecclesiastical benefice which requires residence, or not requiring residence, is worth more than 10 marks a year on the average.

Each of the fellows is allowed £5 yearly to be paid in four quarterly sums, with rooms in College. There is an additional stipend of 13s. 4d. paid to each fellow on account of Commemorations.

Each fellow also receives a yearly dividend from the net amount of the rents of certain estates called "Fellowship estates,” being a sixth part of the residue of that amount after deducting the dividend paid to the master.

The scholarships are in general given to those students who are chiefly distinguished at the annual College Examination, regard being also had to character and conduct, and to the pecuniary circumstances of the students.

Besides the scholarships, prizes of books are awarded to the best proficients in Classics and Mathematics at the annual College Examination.

Two prizes of £3 each in books are given to students of

the first and second year who have passed the best examination in Classics.

Two prizes of £2 each in books are given to the students of the same years who have passed the best examination in Mathematics.

One prize of £1 in books is given to the student of any year who exhibits at the College Examination, the soundest and most accurate knowledge of the Greek Testament.

One prize of £5 in books is given to the student of any year who writes the three best Latin Essays on assigned subjects during the year, one being written in every term.

One prize of £5 in books is given to the scholar on Mrs Ramsden's foundation who passes the best examination in Classics before the Vice-Chancellor, the Public Orator, and the Greek Professor.

The Ecclesiastical Patronage of the College consists of the right of presentation to four Church livings.

JESUS COLLEGE.

FOUNDED 1496, A.D.

THIS College was originally a convent or priory of veiled nuns, a society of virgins of the order of St Benedict, founded in the former part of the twelfth century, and dedicated to “the honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Rhadegund." In consequence of irregularities, the priory was dissolved by Henry VII., and the house and lands were bestowed by a charter on John Alcock, Bishop of Ely, to be converted into a College, and to be incorporated by the name of the Master, Fellows, and scholars of the Blessed Mary the Virgin, St John the Evangelist, and the Glorious Virgin St Rhadegund, near Cambridge.

The appellation by which the College was commonly known seems to have been immediately derived from the church of the priory, which was dedicated to the name of Jesus.

BISHOP ALCOCK in 1496, the 11th year of Henry VII., began to restore the fabric, and in four years he had established a master, five fellows, and six scholars in the College.

The original Statutes were given by James Stanley, the 30th Bishop of Ely: these were subsequently altered by Nicholas, his successor in that see, and under the sanction of the visitor were again revised in 1841.

The Statutes of the College prescribe that there shall be a master, 16 fellows, and 15 scholars. The fellows are required by the Statutes to be "viri honesti, opinionis illæsæ, studiosi, devoti, et cælibes, ac literarum studio dediti."

The Statutes also decree that in the election of scholars, the master and fellows choose such as are "idoneores, aptiores, et habiliores:" and provide also-"Quod si contingat aliquem istorum scholarium sive puerorum super illo crimine defamari notabiliter, unde collegio nascatur infamia, juxta judicium præsidentis et majoris partis sociorum expellatur e collegio ipso facto."

The annual revenue of the College, as reported by the Commissioners in the thirty-seventh year of the reign of King Henry VIII. was £130. 88. 4d.

In the year 1635, the foundation consisted of one master, 16 fellows, 24 scholars, besides officers and other students; in all 110: and when Mr Shermann was fellow, the College maintained a master, 16 fellows, and 28 scholars.

1507. James Stanley, D.D., Bishop of Ely, in the 22nd year of Henry VII., gave the rectory of Great Shelford to found one Fellowship, of which the nomination and appointment should be vested in the Bishop of Ely.

Richard Pigot about the end of the reign of Henry VII. founded one Fellowship.

Thomas Roberts of Over founded one Fellowship about the latter part of the reign of Henry VII.

1507. Sir Robert Read, of Bore Place in Kent, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, gave £100 to found one Fellowship.

1515. Roger Thorney, in the 6th year of Henry VIII. gave by will various tenements in the borough of Southwark, for the maintenance of one Fellow.

1546. John Reston, S.T.P., fifth master of the College, by his will, gave lands for founding one Fellowship, and seven Scholarships.

1548. John Andrews, Clerk, rector of Great Waltham in Essex, and canon of St Paul's, gave lands for the maintenance of two Fellows.

1559. John Fuller, LL.D., seventh master of the College, gave a benefaction for founding four Fellowships.

At the visitation of the College in the time of Elizabeth, the number of fellows was reduced to 16, and the number of scholars to 15.

1579. William Marshall, an attendant of Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury, gave a rent-charge of £3. 68. 8d. a year for a scholar at Jesus College, who is a native of Lancashire, Herefordshire, Cumberland, or Essex.

1620. Dame Joanna, relict of Owen Wood, S.T.P., Dean of Armagh, afterwards wife of James Price, of Ynys y Maen Gwyn, in Merionethshire, gave a tenement for the maintenance of two Scholars of Jesus College, one of the county of Anglesey or Merioneth, and the other born in the parish of St Peter-le