ing little otherwife than as Nature directs: There is plenty of Water as well as Verdure, and an agreeable View of the Country adjacent.

This College was founded by William Patten, ufually called WILLIAM WAINFLEET, from a Village of that Name in Lincolnshire, where he was born, and were there is a School kept in Repair by the College. He was firft educated at Winchester School, and was afterwards Fellow of New College in Oxford. Having taken the Degree of Batcheler of Divinity, he was appointed chief Master of Winchefter School, where he continued 12 Years, and then was made School-master, and foon after Provost of Eton College by King Henry VI. who preferred him to the Bishopric of Winchester in the Year 1447, and in 1449 he was conftituted Lord High Chancellor of England.

He first founded a Hall in Oxford without the Eaft-Gate, which he dedicated to the Honour of St. Mary Magdalen, and in the Year 1456 obtained Leave of King Henry VI. to convert St. John's Hofpital, fituated further Eastward, into a College, which the Hofpitallers thereupon furrendered to Trustees for that Ufe, with all their Manors, Lands, and Poffeffions; in Confideration whereof there were fettled on the faid Hofpitallers certain Penfions during their Lives; and the fame Year the Bishop being impower'd by a Royal Charter to found his College on the Scite of the Hofpital, he erected the great Quadrangle with the Library, the Chapel and Hall in his Life-time; dedicated his College to St. Mary Magdalen; and ordained that it fhould for ever bear her Name, notwithstanding he further devoted it in honour of all the tutelar Saints of the Cathedral Church of Winchester, viz. the bleffed Virgin Mary, St. John the Baptift, St. Peter, St. Paul, and the glorious Confeffor St. Swithin. And having chofen Fellows, &c. from the Hall adjoining and other Seminaries, he further ordained, that this Foundation fhould be a perpetual College for poor and indigent Clerks in the University of Oxford,

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ford, ftudying Arts and Sciences. It confifts of a Prefident, forty Fellows, thirty Demies, a Divinity Lecturer, School-Mafter and Ufher, four Caplains, an Organist, eight Clerks, and fixteen Chorifters. The whole Number of Students in their Books is 108. King Henry VI. gave to the Founder the Hofpital of St. James at Brackley in Northamptonshire; which he annexed to the College as a Place for the Society to retire to, in cafe a pestilential Distemper or any other Caufe fhould render their Refidence here unfafe.

Among the fubfequent Benefactors to this College was William Fitz-Alan, Earl of Arundel, who ftipulated with the Prefident and Fellows, (1 Rich. III.) that they and their Succeffors for ever fhould celebrate daily Mafs for the Soul of himself, the Soul of his Son Thomas Maltravers, and the Souls of his Ancestors, at an Altar from thence called the Arundel Altar; and that all Doctors and Masters of this College fhould mention Them, as well in their Prayers at Oxford, as before their Sermons at St. Paul's in London; but the Maffes have been difused ever fince the Reformation; in lieu of which there are annual Commemorations for the Benefactors, and quarterly Ones for the Founder.

It is cuftomary on St. John Baptift's Day to have the University Sermon preached in the Stone Pulpit at the South-East Corner of the first Court within the College Gate; the Court on that Occafion being decked with Boughs and ftrewed with Rufhes, alluding to St. John's preaching in the Wilderness, and in Commemoration of the Hofpital's being dedicated to him. But if the Weather proves unfavourable, they remove into the Chapel.

All this Side of the Building, except the Tower, confifts of the Remains of the faid Hofpital. Near one Half of which, viz. from the Weft End running towards the Bridge, was the Chapel thereof 'till fince the Restoration: But during the Civil Wars, and afterwards, having been profaned and prostituted to the vileft Purposes, the College ob

tained Leave to convert it into Lodgings. At the Weft End in a fmall Niche is the Head of the Baptift.

The laft Thing we fhall take Notice of, is the Tower. This was erected by the College under the Direction of Cardinal Wolfey, who was Fellow and (at that Time) Burfar of this College. It is about 150 Feet high, and by its folid and fubftantial Bafis, number of Set-offs, and gradual Diminution, is calculated for Strength and Duration as much as any Building whatever; it is nevertheless beautiful, and a great Ornament to the Place.

The most advantageous View of it, is from the Phyfic Garden. We must not omit mentioning that this Tower contains a very musical Peal of Ten Bells; and that on May Day Morning the Clerks and Chorifters affemble on the Top of it, and inftead of a Mafs of Requiem for King Henry VII. fing chearful Songs and Catches.

The Vifitor is the Bishop of Winchester.

QUEEN'S COLLEGE.

HE next College, after we have paffed St. Mary Magdalen, is Queen's which stands within the Eaft-Gate, on the North Side of the High-freet.

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 fpacious Courts.

The South End, which is the grand Front, abuts upon the High-freet, in the Middle whereof is a magnificent Gate, and over it the Statue of Queen Caroline, under a Cupola fupported by Pillars; the reft of the Front being adorned with Niches; but no Chambers on this Side, except at each End.

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