of solitude, well planted with trees. It has in it about forty head of deer.

Besides the walks which are in the Grove, there is a very delightful and much frequented one round a meadow surrounded by branches of the Cherwell, called the Water-walks, which yields a great variety, some parts of it running in straight lines, with the trees regularly cut; others winding, and the trees growing little otherwise than as nature directs. On the west side a beautiful opening is made into the Grove, by removing the embattled wall in that part.

This College was founded by William Patten, called WILLIAM of WAYNFLETE, from a village of that name in Lincolnshire, where he was born. He was educated at Winchester School, and is supposed to have been afterwards of New College. Having taken the degree of Bachelor in Divinity, he was elected Master of Winchester School, where he continued twelve years, and then was preferred to be Provost of Eton College by King Henry VI. who advanced him to the bishopric of Winchester in the year 1447, and in 1449 he was constituted Lord High Chancellor of England. In the year 1456 he obtained leave of King Henry VI. to convert St. John's Hospital into a College. He appointed a President, forty Fellows, thirty Demies, a Divinity Lecturer, Schoolmaster, and Usher, four Chaplains, an Organist, eight Clerks, and sixteen Cho

risters. The whole number of Students, including Gentlemen Commoners, is about 120.

The Tower, which is so conspicuous from every part of the neighbourhood, and elegant in its structure, was built some time after the foundation of the College, and has been supposed to have been erected under the inspection of Cardinal Wolsey, who was a member of this Society: but this presumption rests only on tradition. No other notice occurs in the records of the Society, than that the Tower was begun in 1492, and completed some years after. The most advantageous view of it is from the Physic Garden. The Tower contains a very musical peal of ten bells.

Visitor. The Bishop of Winchester.

QUEEN'S COLLEGE.

ON the north side of the High-street, opposite 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, and 220 in breadth, which, being divided by the Hall and Chapel, forms two spacious courts.

The south end, which is the grand front, abuts upon the High-street, in the middle whereof is a magnificent gate, and over it the statue of Queen Caroline, under a cupola, supported by pillars;

the rest of the front being adorned with niches; but no chambers on this side, except at each end.

The first or south court is a handsome quadrangle, 140 feet long, and 130 broad, having a lofty cloister, supported by square pillars, on the west, south, and east. Over the west cloister are two stories, consisting of the chambers of the Fellows and Students, an elegant gallery, and common room; and in that cloister is the apartment of the Provost. Over the east cloister are also chambers for the Fellows and Students, and some of those of the late benefaction of Mr. Michell. The second or north court has the Library over it on the west, and chambers for the Fellows and Students on the north, east, and south. It has lately received considerable improvements, and is now a very handsome quadrangle.

The Chapel is 100 feet long, and 30 broad. In the arched roof is a piece of painting by Sir James Thornhill. The windows are admirably painted; the subject of that over the altar, by Mr. Price in 1717, is the Nativity of our Saviour: under which has lately been placed a painting on the same subject, a copy by Mr. Cranke from La Notte, the Night, of Correggio, in the Dresden Gallery, esteemed one of the first pictures in the world. It was presented to the Society by Mr. Robson of Bond-street. The side windows by Van Linge were removed thither from

the old Chapel; two on the north side are the last Judgment, and two other on the south the Ascension. The rest are all of old glass, remarkable for the liveliness of the colours. This Cha

pel was begun in 1714, and completed in 1719.

There is a passage between the Chapel and the Hall from the south to the north court, the walls of which carry a handsome cupola with eight Ionic columns, and all the proper ornaments of that order: the outside of the whole is a Doric building, and the inside of the Hall beautified with the same order: but the inside of the Chapel is entirely Corinthian, the ceiling of which is not inferior to the rest.

The Hall, built in the beginning of the last century, is 60 feet long, and 30 broad, with an arched roof of a suitable height. It is furnished with portraits of the Founder and principal Benefactors: to which has lately been added a picture of her present Majesty Queen Charlotte. It is extremely well illuminated, and has a chimney-piece of beautiful marble; and there is an opening from the gallery over the west cloister, originally designed for music; and hither strangers are frequently brought, who desire to see the Society at dinner.

The Library on the west side of the north court, which was completed in 1694, is about 123 feet in length; a noble building of the Corinthian Order, with a spacious cloister to

the east, and the statue of the Founder, and principal Benefactors to the College, in niches to the west, and is adorned with stucco-work by the late Mr. Roberts. It has a splendid Orrery, and is furnished with a valuable collection of books and manuscripts in most languages and sciences. It is also ornamented with a cast in plaster of Paris of the Florentine Boar, presented by Sir Roger Newdigate.

Robert Egglesfield, a native of Cumberland, confessor to Queen Philippa, and Bachelor of Divinity in this University, having purchased several tenements in the parish of St. Peter's in the East, erected there a Collegiate Hall, probably by the encouragement of Queen Philippa, consort of King Edward III. giving it the name of Aula Scholarium Regina de Oxon.; and on the 18th of January, 1340, obtained the Royal Charter for incorporating the society of this Hall or College; by virtue whereof he constituted a Provost and twelve Fellows, ordering that the Provost should be chosen out of the Fellows, and be in holy orders; and that for the future the Fellows should be elected out of the counties of Cumberland and Westmorland.

The principal Benefactors, besides the Founder, were King Edward III. and his Queen Philippa; King Charles I. who gave this College three rectories and three vicarages in Hampshire; Sir Joseph Williamson, Knight, some time Fellow,