1721. Mr Gillingham gave an estate to found one Fellowship. The annual value of the property on an average of the seven years ending 1851, was £101. 7s. 6d. and consists of £90 from land, and £11. 7s. 6d. from the funds. The possessor of this fellowship received a dividend of £89. 7s. 6d. a year, according to the average of seven years ending in 1851; and is on an equality with the foundation fellows in most other respects. 1736. Rev. J. Brown, B.D. formerly fellow of the College, and rector of Wallington, Herts, bequeathed property, now of the value of about £340 a year, for various uses, one of which was to found two Greek Scholarships, with a preference to students from King's School, Canterbury, or any school in Kent. The value of these scholarships was 10s. a week during residence; it is now increased to 15s. per week. 1773. Michael Smith, D.D. rector of Freckenham, Suffolk, left by will £800 for the purchase of land, one-half of the interest arising therefrom to be applied towards the reparation of the College and chapel, and the other half to found an exhibition of £16 a year, to be tenable till M.A. with a preference to a student from Durham or Newcastle Schools, in case there should be any one from such school in the College at the time of a vacancy. 1778. Rev. Henry Hubbard, B.D. formerly fellow of the College, and registrary of the University, left a benefaction of £12 a year for the best and most able scholar on Dr Thorpe's foundation, tenable so long as he shall continue to enjoy Dr Thorpe's scholarship, provided that, on taking the degree of B.A. he be judged by the proctors and two examiners in the University fairly to deserve a seniority at the first tripos, otherwise to be vacant: provided also, that no Thorpe's scholar who is B.A. and had not such seniority, shall be capable of being chosen into this benefaction. Rev. H. Aspinall, rector of St Peter's, Bedford, left £100 for the purchase of an exhibition, with a preference to students from the grammar-school of Clitheroe; or in default, to any native of Lancashire; in default, then to a student from Bedford School, or the county of Bedford. If the exhibitioner be resident, this exhibition is tenable till M.A. Walter Travers, Esq., gave £100 to found one Scholarship. Rev. W. Hardyman, B.D., late fellow of the College, instituted a prize to be given in plate or books for the best proficient in classics, to the amount of £12, if he be in the first class of the Classical Tripos, and of £6, if in the second. Mr Lynn founded one Exhibition of £4 per annum. 1814. Sir Busick Harwood left an exhibition of £10 a year, with a preference to a medical student. 1854. The present society consists of twelve Fellows on the foundation, besides three Bye-fellows. They are elected (except the Dixie fellows) by a majority of the master and fellows from the scholars of the College, of the degree of at least B.A., natives of England, with a preference cæteris paribus to persons born in Essex and Northamptonshire: or from other students, if none of the scholars should be found qualified. The Statutes also thus describe their qualifications: "Hos igitur pauperes, sive ex Collegio, sive ex Academia fuerint (acto prius anno vigesimo primo), eligi volumus: peritos etiam esse volumus, primum in tribus linguis, Græcâ, Latinâ, et Hebræâ, ita ut illas intelligere possint: deinde in Rhetoricâ, Dialecticâ, Physicâ, quarum Artium præcepta et vere scire, et in usum ac praxin reducere apti sunto: ante omnia vero puræ religionis, Papismo et cæteris hæresibus contrariæ, professores erunt, quique vitam moresque secundum eam conformaverint: Quæ omnia cum non cito comparari possint, neminem in Socium admitti volumus, qui non sex ad minimum integris annis studuerit in Academia." The fellows must proceed to B.D. The average yearly stipends of the foundation fellows for the seven years ending 1851 was, of A fellow not in priest's orders receives £24. 58. 5d. a year less on the same average. In the year 1828, Richard Hurd, Esq., of Worcester, bequeathed to the College £2000, 4 per cents., for the purpose of increasing the stipends of the master and the senior fellows. The scholars are elected by the master and fellows after the general College examination, at the division of the Easter term. The average number of foundation scholars is fourteen, and with regard to their election, the Statutes direct, "ut discipulorum electio fiat ex illis juvenibus, qui pauperiores, probiores, aptiores atque egregii magis fuerint, quique sint probitate, indole ac bona spe, nec Baccalaurei in Artibus, nec ad sacrum ministerium admissi, quique sacram Theologiam ac ministerium sanctum proposuerunt sibi, sintque (saltem mediocriter) instructi et periti in Græcis, Rhetoricâ, et Logicâ: indigentes tamen imprimis, modo cæteris conditionibus fuerint pares.” The annual sum received by a foundation scholar, as such, is £52. 13s. 2d., on the same average as the fellows. The College Statutes make no provision for the maintenance of sizars beyond “Emolumenta ad judicium magistri et majoris partis sociorum." The College now admits four sizars, who receive what is equivalent to about £40 a year each. The average annual sum paid by the College in scholarships and exhibitions is about £1130 or £1150 altogether, and when the value of the estates has increased, the several payments to all parties interested have been increased proportionally. Two prizes of books, one of the value of five guineas, and the other of the value of three guineas, are awarded yearly for the best English or Latin dissertations on some given theological or historical subject. A prize of books is given for the best compositions in Latin and Greek. In addition to the scholarships and exhibitions, prizes of books are given after the general College examinations to two or three of the most distinguished students of each year. About £25 a year is given in prizes and rewards for the encouragement of learning from the College funds. The ecclesiastical patronage of the College consists of the right of presentation to twenty-one Church-livings. The College also appoints the masters of the Grammar Schools of Harleston and Bungay. The total aggregate of gross income of the College, returned to the Commissioners in 1851, was £6516. 16s. 3d., and the total net income £6005. 8s. 5d. SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. FOUNDED 1598, A.D. LADY Frances Sidney, Countess Dowager of Sussex, aunt to Sir Philip Sidney, who died 9th March, 1589, by her will dated 6th December 1588, gave £5000, and unbequeathed goods for the erection of a new college in the University of Cambridge, to be called the College of the Lady Frances Sydney-Sussex, for a Master, ten Fellows, and twenty Scholars; or in case her legacy should be found insufficient for that purpose, to augment in a corresponding proportion the foundation of Clare Hall. The executors, Henry Gray, Earl of Kent, and her nephew, Sir John (afterwards Lord) Harrington purchased, to hold in fee, at a rent of £13. 6s. 8d. per annum, the site and remains of the buildings of the late house of Friars Minors, commonly called Grey Friars, which had been demolished in the thirtyeighth year of Henry VIII, and granted by that monarch to Trinity College. By an act of Parliament passed in the thirtyfifth year of Queen Elizabeth, the master and scholars of Trinity College were empowered to make a sale of this property for the new College. The executors generously ceding to the College legacies of £100 left to each of them by the noble foundress, began the foundation on the 20th May, 1596, and in three years had erected buildings sufficient for the accommodation of the College, but were obliged to limit the number of fellowships to seven, and of scholarships to four. Dr Fuller, in his History of Cambridge, observes that "this College continued without a chapel some years after the first founding thereof, until at last some good men's charity supplied this defect. Some have falsely reported, that the new chapel of the College was formerly a stable: whereas, indeed, it was the Franciscans' ancient dormitory [rather refectory], as appeareth by the concavities still extant in the walls, places for their several reposure. But others have complained, that it was never ceremoniously consecrated, which they conceive essential thereunto, whilst there want not their equals in learning and religion, who dare defend, that the continued series of divine duties (praying, preaching, administering the sacrament), publicly practised for more than thirty years (without the least check or control of those in authority), in a place set apart for that purpose, doth sufficiently consecrate the same." "It is as yet but early days with this College (which hath not seen sixty years), yet hath it been fruitful in worthy men proportionably to the age thereof, and I hope it will daily increase. Now though it be only the place of the parents, and proper to him (as the greater) to bless his child, Heb. vii. 6, yet it is the duty of the child to pray for his parents, in which relation my best desires are due to this foundation, my mother for my last eight years in this University. May her lamp never lack light for the oil, or oil for the light thereof. Zoar, is it not a little one? Yet who shall despise the day of small things? May the foot of sacrilege, if once offering to enter the gates thereof, stumble and rise no more. The Lord bless the labours of all the students therein, that they may tend, and end at His glory, their own salvation, the profit and honour of the church and commonwealth." * 1599. Edward Montague, Esq., of Hemmington, in the county of Northampton, granted an estate of between forty-five and forty-six acres in the parish of Burwash in Sussex, the income from which, after a certain time, was to be employed towards the maintenance of three Scholars, each to have £3. 6s. 8d. per annum, and to be nominated by the heirs of Edward Montague. These scholars are to have all liberties and privileges of scholars on the foundation. Two of these three scholars are to be Northamptonshire men born, and of Oundle School; the third a Sussex man born, if any such shall be found fit scholars. There are now two scholarships each of the value of £6 per annum. 1599. Mr Peter Blundell, of Tiverton, by his will bearing date of 9th June of this year, directed his executors to bestow £2000 for founding six scholarships (the six scholars to be students in divinity, for the increase of good and godly preachers of the Gospel), at either of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge: and with that view they were directed to purchase lands and tenements, the yearly profits whereof should be |