Christian morality and good learning. A preference is reserved, cæteris paribus, to such as have been brought up at the Free Grammar Schools of Scarning, Holt, Swaffham, and Norwich. The value of each of these Exhibitions is now £30 a year, and they may be held with other scholarships.

1750. Mrs Beridge, of Kensington, gave to the College £100 for the promotion of scholarships. The sum of £4 is paid yearly out of the College funds to a deserving student as Mrs Beridge's scholarship.

1754. Christopher Tancred, Esq., of Whixley Hall, in the county of York, gave certain tenements to the master and fellows in trust, that they and their successors should apply the yearly profits of the same for ever, as an Exhibition for some young student in the said College, while he continues an undergraduate there; with a preference to a native (1) of Newmarket, (2) of the county of Cambridge, and in default of either of these, to such person from time to time as by the master and fellows should be thought expedient. The present value of this Exhibition is about £40 a year.

Mr Tancred also founded four Divinity Studentships at this College, and appointed seven governors and trustees who are the electors to these Studentships. A student when admitted to this charity, must be between sixteen and twenty-two years of age, a native of Great Britain, a member of the Church of England, and of such low abilities or pecuniary means, as not to be capable of obtaining a University education without the assistance of such charity. He must take the B.A. degree as soon as he is of sufficient standing, and may retain his Studentship for three years after adınission to that degree. In 1796 the value of each of these Studentships was £75; the present value of each is £107. 8s. per annum.

1807. Beilby Porteus, D.D., late Lord Bishop of London, transferred to the College the sum of £1200, stock, the interest of which is to be expended in the purchase of three gold medals, to be contended for by the students of the College in the following order one medal of 15 guineas for the best Latin dissertation on some one of the Evidences of Christianity; another of 15 guineas for the best English composition on some moral

precept of the Gospel; and one of 10 guineas to the most distinct and graceful reader and regular attendant at chapel.

1851. The Rev. John Dowell Ridout, M.A., Fellow of the College, gave £100, the interest of which is to be expended annually in a prize of books, to encourage the study of the Greek Testament, and of the doctrines and formularies of the Church of England.

The examination for this prize takes place at the end of the Michaelmas Term, and is open to students in their third year.

1851. The Rev. Frederick Gell, M.A., Fellow of the College, gave £100, the interest of which is to be annually expended in a prize of books, to encourage the study of Biblical Hebrew. The examination for the prize takes place at the division of the Easter Term, and is open to undergraduates.

The statutes make no provision for sizars or sub-sizars. The College however admits four sizars, and occasionally more, who are selected by the master and fellows from those students who have resided some little time, and who seem by their good conduct, condition and circumstances in life, and acquirements, considered together, to be pointed out as most deserving of the bounty of the College. Occasionally, a student who has been recommended to the master and fellows by some one well known to them, as possessing more than ordinary ability, and as wanting money or friends to defray the expenses of a pensioner, has been received as a supernumerary sizar.

Each sizar receives £4 a year, has his commons free, and other advantages.

In addition to the Scholarships and Exhibitions, other prizes are awarded after the College examinations.

Three prizes of books, each of the value of three guineas, are given to three undergraduates, the most distinguished students respectively of the first, second, and third years.

Three prizes of books, each of the value of two guineas, are given to the second in each year:

Prizes of books are awarded to the two most distinguished students of the second and of the third year, who excel at the voluntary classical examination.

Prizes of £15 and £5 are given to the first and second proficients at a theological examination which takes place after the division of the Easter Term. The candidates are students in their third year or Bachelors of Arts; and if the first proficient be sufficiently distinguished, his prize is increased to £20.

Three prizes of books, each of the value of three guineas, are given to undergraduates for the best compositions in Latin verse, Greek verse, and Latin prose respectively.

The ecclesiastical patronage of the College consists of the right of presentation to eighteen Church-livings.

The average gross income in 1851 was £9178. 15s. 3d., and the net income £8126. Os. 4d.

ST JOHN'S COLLEGE.

FOUNDED 1511, A.D.

THE site of this College was formerly that of a priory, styled the Hospital of the Master and Brethren of St John the Evangelist. On the 20th of January, in the second year of Henry VIII, St John's Hospital was dissolved, and the house and its revenues were granted to Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby, who designed to establish on the site thereof a College, to be called St John's College.

The untimely death of the Lady Margaret which happened soon after its foundation, retarded the progress of the College: but by will she devised her lands, manors, and possessions, of the then yearly value of £400, together with the site of the dissolved Priory of St John's Hospital, with the revenues thereof, amounting to £80 per annum, to her executors, in trust for the building of the College. They obtained a Charter bearing the date of April 9, 1511, and established the College, and appointed a Master and thirty-one Fellows, giving them a body of Statutes for the government of the College.

The foundress designed that her College should contain fifty fellows, according to the Charter for incorporating the College, but in consequence of Henry VIII. having withdrawn some estates of the value of £500 a year, according to the value of money at that time, it is decreed by the Statutes that the number of fellows shall be thirty-two, unless the revenues should become so far diminished by any means as that this number could not be maintained. It is also decreed that there shall be twenty-seven scholars on Lady Margaret's foundation, in addition to some others named in the fifteenth chapter of the College Statutes.

Students over and above the members of the foundation are directed to be admitted in conformity with the regulations prescribed in the twentieth chapter of the Statutes, which concludes with the following precaution :-" Atque hic imprimis Decani et Lector Publicus diligenter circumspiciant, ne imperitiores magistro et senioribus commendent; quia qui Grammaticam bene et intelligenter tenent, eos necesse est multum proficere;

qui non tenent, eos videmus vel difficultate rei vel desperatione sui debilitatos, a discendo abhorrere, et vix ad mediocritatem pervenire."

Between the years 1599 and 1602, the second court was erected, the expense being for the most part defrayed by Mary, Countess of Shrewsbury. About 1671, the space of ground between the second court and the river was made the site of a smaller court, now usually called the third court. The north side of this court, forming the Library, had however been erected in 1624, principally at the cost of Dr John Williams, bishop of Lincoln and Lord Keeper, afterwards archbishop of York.

In 1826 the College commenced, and in 1830 completed, the erection of a New Court, and united the older buildings of the College by a covered bridge over the river. The cost of these buildings was £77,878. Os. 2d., of which £13,369. 16s. 7d. remained to be liquidated in 1851.

1511. Sir Marmaduke Constable, about the time of the foundation of the College, endowed a Fellowship for a person in priest's orders, and a native of the county of York, with a preference to those of his name and kindred. At the same time he also endowed four Scholarships, under the following restrictions:-" The said four scholars or disciples for Sir Marmaduke Constable shall be taken and chosen of such as shall be of the name and kindred of the said Sir Marmaduke, if any such be able in the University of Cambridge. If none such can be found, then they shall be elect and chosen of such as are born, or hereafter shall be born within the county of York, or the diocese of the same. And for default of such, they shall be elect and chosen of such as be most able and apt in the University of Cambridge, after the discretion of the master and fellows."

1516. John Riplingham, D.D., chantor of Beverley, gave £100 to found two scholarships for natives of Yorkshire.

1520. Rev. James Beresford, canon of Lichfield, and vicar of Chesterfield and Wirksworth, founded two Fellowships. The limitations of candidates for these fellowships are, 1. They shall be of the name and kindred of the said James Beresford; 2. In default of the former class, persons born in the parishes of

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