and well proportioned. Of thefe, the firft was erected, A. D. 1617; the second foon after the year 1621; and the laft was completed 1636.

Three fides of the inner court, begun by Dr. Manfel, one of the Principals, a little before the Grand Rebellion, are finished in a decent and uniform manner. The Library is on the weft fide, which is a well-furnished room, and adorned, among other Portraits, with a curious picture of Dr. Hugh Price, probably pa sted by Hans Holben. It has been engraved as fuch by Vertue.

This College was founded, according to the purpofe of its Charter, dated June 27th, 1571, by Queen Elizabeth, for a Principal, eight Fellows, and eight Scholars. About the fame time it received an endowment of land (175 .. per annum) fince loft, from Hugh Price, L. L. D. a native of Brecknock, and Treafurer of the Church of St. David's, who likewife erected a part of the first court.

The chief benefactors are, Sir Eubule Thelwall, Knt. formerly Principal, who encreased the number of Fellows and Scholars from eight to fixteen; Francis Manfell, D. D. Sir Leoline Jenkins, Charles I. and many others.

In the Bursary is fhewn a fumptuous piece of plate, the gift of the late Sir Watkin Williams Wynne; alfo the Statutes of the College, exquifitely written on vellum, by the Rev. Mr. Parry, of Shipfton-upon- Stower, formerly Fellow, This College confifls of a Principal, nineteen Fellows,, eighteen Scholars, exclufive of independent members..

Vifitor. The Earl of Pembroke.

LINCOLN

LINCOLN COLLEGE.

LINCOLN College is fituated between All Saints.

Church and Exeter College, and confifts of two Quadrangles. The firft, which we enter under a plain but decent tower, is formed, exclufive of chambers, by the Lodgings of the Rector, ftanding in the fouth-eaft angle, and erected by Thomas Beckington, Bishop of Bath and Wells, A. D. 1465; the Library and Common Room on the north, and Refectory on the calt.

The Library, under which is the Common Room, isfmall, but neatly decorated, and contains many curious manufcripts, chiefly given by Thomas Gafcoigne, A. D. 1432. It was finished, as it appears at prefent, by the liberality of Sir Nathaniel Lloyd, firft a Commoner of this, and afterwards Fellow of All Souls College, A. D. 1738.. This room was originally the Chapel, and was converted into a Library at the expence of Nathaniel Lord Crew, when Fellow, A. D. 1656, of whom there is a good halflength picture, and another of Sir Nathaniel Lloyd.

The Hall was erected by John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, A. D. 1631. It was handfomely wainscotted by Bishop Crew, A. D. 1701, whofe arms appear over the middle of the fcreen; and thofe of the reft of the contributors are interfpersed about the mouldings. It is 40 feet in length, 25 in breadth, and proportionable in height.

From this court, which forms a fquare of 80 feet, we enter through the fouth fide, the fecond, which is about 70 feet fquare. On the fouth fide of this Quadrangle is the Chapel, which particularly deferves our attention.. It was built by Bishop Williams above-mentioned, A. D. 1631. The fcreen is of cedar elegantly carved. The windows are of painted glafs, complete, and well preserved, done A. D. 1632. Thofe on the north reprefent twelve of the Prophets, and those on the fouth the twelve Apostles, large as life. The caft window exhibits a view of the

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types relative to our Saviour, with their refpective com-pletions, viz. 1. From the left hand, the Nativity; and under it, the Hiftory of the Creation its antitype. 2. Our Lord's Baptifm; and under it, the Paffing of the Ifraelites through the Red Sea. 3. The Jewish Paffover; and under it, the Inftitution of the Lord's Supper. 4. The Brazen Serpent in the Wildernefs; correfponding to - Christ on the Crofs. 5. Jonas delivered from the Whale's belly, expreffive of Christ's Refurrection. 6. Elijah in the fiery chariot, with-Our Lord's Afcenfion.

The roof confifts of compartments in cedar, embellished with the arms of the different Founders and Benefactors, and interchangeably enriched with cherubims, palmbranches, and feftoons, diverfified with painting and gilding. There is an admirable proportion, and elegance of execution, in the eight figures of cedar which are refpectively placed at each end of the defks, and represent Mofes, Aaron, the four Evangelists, St. Peter, and St. Paul.

This College was founded, A. D. 1429, by Richard: Flemming, a native of Royston in Yorkshire, and Bishop of Lincoln, for the maintenance of one Rector, feven Fellows, and two Chaplains; and intended as a Seminary forthe education of Scholars, who fhould oppofe the doctrine. of Wickliffe. But the Founder dying before he had fully established his little Society, the College, left in an indigent condition, with fome difficulty fubfifted for a few years on the flender endowment which he had configned to it, and the addition of fome small benefactions afterwards, when Thomas Rotherham, Bishop. of Lincoln,. more effectually fupplied its neceffities, by improving the buildings and revenues, adding five Fellowships, and affigning a new body of ftatutes, in the year 1479, in which he limits the choice of the Fellows to the Dioceses of Lincoln and York, excepting one to the Diocese of Wells.

Their Benefactors are, William Dagvyle, Mayor of Oxford; William Smith, Bishop of Lincoln; Edmund Audley, Bishop of Salisbury; and Jane Trappes, with many others..

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But their principal Benefactor is Nathaniel Lord Crew, Bishop of Durham, who about the year 1717, added to the Headship an annual allocation of 20l. to the twelve Fellows Iol. each; and to the feven Scholarships and Bible Clerkship, 51. each. He likewife improved the four College Curacies, All Saints and St. Michael's, in Oxford; Twyford, in Bucks; and Coombe, in Oxfordshire; and moreover founded twelve Exhibitioners, with falaries of 201. per annum each. The late Dr. Hutchins, who had been many years Rector, has fince augmented the income of the Scholars and Exhibitioners.

This College confifts at prefent of a Rector, twelve Fellows, twelve Exhibitioners, and feven Scholars, with a Bible Clerk, exclufive of independent members.

Vifitor. The Bishop of Lincoln.

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RIEL College is fituated fouthward of St. Mary's Church, on the north fide of the front of Corpus Chrifti College; its great gate being almoft oppofite to the back gate of Chrift Church.. Its Quadrangle, which was erected in the year 1640, though fmall, has a beautiful effect: The north fide confists of the Provoft's Lodgings; the eaft of the Hall, Buttery, and veftibule of the Chapel, which runs caftward from thence; and the fouth and weft fides form the apartments for the Fellows and Students.

We afcend the Hall by an ample flight of fteps, covered with a proportionable portico. It is handfomely wainfcotted in the Doric ftyle, and decorated at the upper end with a Portrait of Edward II. dreffed in his Regalia, by Hudfon; one of Queen Anne, who annexed a Prebend of Rochefter to the Provofthip, by Dahl; and another of

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the late Duke of Beaufort, who is reprefented erect, in his Parliament robes, attended by a Negro-boy bearing his coronet, by Soldi.

The Chapel has that beauty belonging to it which is derived from a decent fimplicity, and was finished A. D. 1642. The window over the altar has been lately painted with the Wife Men's Offering, by Mr. Pecket, of York, from a defign of the late Dr. Wall.

The Library is a neat well furnished room, being half the upper ftory of the north fide of this Quadrangle.

The Garden-court, which we enter by a paffage in the fame north fide, receives an agreeable air from an elegant little Garden which is formed in the midst of it, and fenced on this fide with iron gates and palifades, fupported by a dwarf-wall and ftone piers. The fides are two wings, in a ftyle correspondent to that of the Quadrangle. That on the right was erected by Dr. Robinson, Bishop of London; and that on the left, by Dr. Carter, formerly Provost.

This College was founded by Adam le Brome, Almoner to Edward II. A. D. 1327; for one Provoft, and ten Fellows. Though Edward II, is generally efteemed the Founder; but he appears to have acquired this title, merely becaufe le Brome, in hopes that his mafter would increase its small revenues, and more effectually fecure its foundation, had furrendered his fociety into the King's hands. In fact, Edward conferred little or nothing more on the College than a charter of incorporation and certain privileges. The members were at first placed in a building purchafed by le Brome, where St. Mary Hall now stands; but they were foon removed from thence to a meffuage called Le Oriel, given to them by Edward III. The faid King likewife granted to the College the Hospital of St. Bartholomew, near Oxford. The number of Fellows hath been fince increafed by various bencfactors. Thefe were, John Frank, Mafter of the Rolls in the time of Henry VI. who founded four Fellowships; John Carpenter, for.

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