Merton College through Christ Church to Carfax, and thence through the High-street to the Divinity School, where it was deposited, while an oration was delivered; it was then removed to St. Mary's church, where a funeral sermon was preached by Dr. William Goodwyn, Dean of Christ Church: and these ceremonies being over, the corpse was conveyed to Merton College; and, after another speech, it was interred at the upper end of the choir, under the north wall. The whole concluded with a funeral dinner in the hall, at which were present the greater part of those who formed the procession.

This Chapel also contains the monument of Sir Henry Savile, which is honorary, as he was buried at Eton: those of Dr. Bainbridge, Henry Briggs, the first Savilian Professor, Dr. Wyntle, a late Warden, and, among others of inferior note, that of Earle, Bishop of Salisbury, to whom Walton ascribes more innocent wisdom, sanctified learning, and a more. pious, peaceable, primitive temper, than were to be found in any after the death of Hooker. To this may.. be added, that his "Microcosmography," which Langbaine has improperly ascribed to Blount, a bookseller,. proves him to have been a satirist of genuine humour. In the antechapel lie the remains of Antony Wood, a man, who, by his indefatigable researches into its history, antiquities, and biography, must be acknowledged, in these respects, the greatest benefactor the University ever had. It is much to be regretted, that he was diverted by his other undertakings from the particular history of this College, for which he had made some preparations.

One of the finest variety of crosses which Mr.

Gough could recollect in England is in this antechapel, for John Bloxham, seventh Warden. The flowered shaft rests on a tabernacle inclosing the Holy Lamb, and under the two steps is a scroll, inscribed with the names of the two persons whom it commemorates, Johannes Bloxham and Johannes Whyt ton. This was formerly placed at the bottom of the steps leading up to the altar, but was removed, with others, when the Chapel was paved in 1671. John Whytton is omitted by Wood among the "divers "benefactors whose gifts were small"."

This College was fated to be a precedent in every appendage. The first COMMON ROOM was fitted up here in 1661. Common Rooms made no part of the plan of the Founders. The progress of society towards communicative habits, interchange of sentiments, and mutual kindness, first produced meetings among the senior members of the Colleges, which were held by turns in each other's apartments; and this yielded to the superior convenience of having a room in common, to which such members as contributed to the expence of its furniture, &c. might have access, and where strangers are entertained with elegant hospitality.

The present WARDEN is the thirty-ninth from the foundation. Of these the most eminent were, Thomas Rodburne, a man of great learning and skill in architecture, who died Bishop of St. David's about the year 1442-Sever and Fitz-James, already noticed as benefactors; Fitz-James was successively Bishop of Rochester, Chichester, and London, and occurs among

*Gough's Sepulchral Monuments, vol. iv. p. 116.

the contributors to the erection of St. Mary's church: -Dr. John Chamber, who, with Lynacre and Victoria, founded the College of Physicians in London; he was also a divine, and the last Dean of St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster, where he was the architect of a cloister of exquisite workmanship:-Dr. Thomas Bickley, Bishop of Chichester, and a benefactor to this Society and to Magdalen College school; the sermon preached on May-day in this College was one of his foundations :-Sir Henry Savile, a very celebrated scholar, and founder of the Geometry and Astronomy Professorships; he died Provost of Eton, Feb. 19, 1621-2:-Sir Nathaniel Brent, a lawyer of great learning, but unfortunately a deserter from the laws and constitution of his country in the grand rebellion; yet he had been knighted by King Charles, when on a visit to Oxford in 1629, and the royal party were sumptuously entertained in this College in honour of the newly-knighted Warden. To these may be added, the very celebrated Dr. Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood; and Dr. Reynolds, Dean of Christ Church, by authority of the parliament in 1648, but on the restoration made Bishop of Norwich. The style of his works has a vigour and polish of which we find few instances at that period. In 1674 he gave 100l. to adorn the chapel.

Of the ARCHBISHOPS and BISHOPS who received their education here, the most eminent names of antiquity are those of Bradwardine and Islip, Archbishops of Canterbury in the fourteenth century. Bradwardine, one of the first mathematicians of his age, treated theological subjects with mathematical accuracy: his treatise against the Pelagians extended his fame over

all Europe. The learned Savile became his editor and biographer. The title of Profound, bestowed on him by his contemporaries, appears to have been not unmerited, and of his piety and integrity there are indubitable proofs.-Rede, Bishop of Chichester, and Rodburne, already noticed.-William of Wainfleet, Bishop of Winchester, and Founder of Magdalen College, is supposed to have belonged to this Society, and Hooper, the martyred Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester: but with more certainty Merton College may boast of the pious and excellent Dr. Jewell, Bishop of Salisbury; Parkhurst, his tutor, a poet, and one of the translators of the Bible; and Dr. Carleton, of Chichester. Dr. Robert Huntingdon, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, and Bishop of Raphoe, was a Fellow of Merton, an able oriental Scholar, and a benefactor of valuable MSS. to the Bodleian Library, the Curators of which purchased the remainder of his collection in 1691. He died Sept. 2, 1701, a few days after being consecrated Bishop of Raphoe.

Among scholars of other ranks, the once celebrated John Duns, or Duns Scotus, as he is usually called, was educated here. England, Scotland, and Ireland contend for his birth; but the conclusion of his MSS.. works in the library of this College gives the preference to England, and states, that even by birth he was connected with Merton, having been born" in a certain

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village called Dunstan, in the parish of Emildon,

(Embleton,) in the county of Northumberland, be"longing to the house of the Scholars of Merton "Hall, in Oxford." He was titled Doctor Subtilis, as his successor and opponent in this College was named Doctor Invincibilis. Scotus died in 1308; but

there appears no foundation for the report that he was buried alive. Occam died in 1347. The no less celebrated John Wickliffe was admitted a Commoner of Queen's, but removed afterwards to Merton, of which he became a Fellow. He too acquired a title of respect, that of Doctor Evangelicus. To these may be added, Dr. George Owen, physician to Henry VIII. praised by Leland for his extensive learning:→ Dr. Richard Smith, the ablest supporter of the catholic religion in the reign of Mary;-Grimoald, poet and translator, the author of a spirited paraphrase on Virgil's Georgics, published in 1591:-Jasper Heywood, a poet :-The celebrated Drusius was admitted a member of this College, and handsomely entertained by the Society, in return for the instructions he gave in oriental languages:-Dr. Goulston, founder of the Goulstonian Lecture:-Sir Isaac Wake, ambassador, a man of various learning; he was Public Orator in 1604, and Representative of the University in 1624 :— Dr. Bainbridge, originally of Cambridge, astronomer and Savilian Professor :-Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, the parliamentary general, whose character by Clarendon does so much honour to the impartiality of that illustrious historian:-Farnaby, the eminent classical scholar and teacher:-Francis Cheynell, to whose history Dr. Johnson's elegant pen has given a considerable degree of interest :-Samuel Clarke, the orientalist, and first archetypographer of the University :Hugh Cressy, the Roman Catholic historian, one of the firmest champions of that religion in the seventeenth century, but remarkable for softening the asperities of controversy by his manners as well as his pen:-Dr. Edmund Dickinson, a physician of great