the Master's lodgings. Above the gateway of this court, on the outside, is a statue of Queen Mary, and another within of Dr. Radcliffe. These two quadrangles form a grand front towards the Highstreet, of above two hundred and sixty feet in length, with a tower over each gateway at equal distances from the extremities. The whole, from its numerous Gothic ornaments, and especially when contrasted with the airy grandeur of its opposite neighbour, Queen's, exhibits an appearance of higher antiquity than is justified by its history, and serves to perpetuate the notion, that this is the eldest daughter of Alma Mater.

The HALL was begun to be built in 1640, but, owing to the interruption given to the University during the Usurpation, was not completed until the time of Charles II. In the year 1766, the interior was much improved by the removal of the fire-place from the centre of the room, where it was usually placed in College-halls, as well as in the ancient halls of our nobility and gentry'. A chimney was then constructed on the south side, and a wainscot put up with a screen at the lower end, and the whole ornamented in the Gothic taste. The entire expence of these alterations was borne by the spirited contributions of the Master and Fellows, and of some gentlemen who had left the College with a grateful remembrance of her favours. The elegant chimney-piece was one of the many donations of the late Sir Roger Newdigate, Bart, some time Gentleman Commoner here, and for many Parliaments one of the Repre

* Churton's Lives of the Founders of Brazenose College, p. 85.

sentatives of the University, The arms of most of the other contributors are placed on the wainscot, together with the portraits of Sir Roger Newdigate, Lord Radnor, Sir William Scott, and Sir Robert Chambers. The south window contains the figures of Moses, Elias, and our Saviour, in painted glass, by Henry Giles, dated 1687; and the roof is decorated with the arms of the principal benefactors.

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The COMMON ROOM contains Wilton's excellent bust of Alfred from Rysbrach's model, given to the College by the Earl of Radnor the portraits of Henry IV. and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, burnt in wood by Dr. Griffith; a mode of delineating objects, which certainly produces a very extraordinary effect, and may be ranked among the most ingenious substitutes for the pencil. From the same artist, is a beautiful drawing of the High-street: and prints of Dr. Samuel Johnson and Sir William Jones have lately been added to the decorative memoranda of this room.

The old LIBRARY was an upper room at the west end of the Chapel, and as far back as 1632, when Dr. George Abbot, the Master, gave an hundred pounds for the purchase of books, consisted of a considerable number; but when the old Chapel was pulled down, the present Library was erected on the south side, and beyond the principal quadrangle, and finished in 1669. The collection has since been valuably enriched, both in MSS. and printed books, by various presents. Wood's notice of this Library in its infant state is illustrative of the manners and learning of the times. "At first the Society kept "those books they had (which were but few) in

"chests, and once, sometimes twice in a year, made "choice for the borrowing of such as they liked, "by giving a certificate under their hands for the "restoring of them again to their proper place." How arduous the pursuit of literature, and how slow its progress, before the invention of printing!

It does not appear that, for some years after the foundation of this College, the Society had any place for divine service belonging to themselves, but attended either in St. Mary's, or St. Peter's in the East. About the year 1369, they possessed an Oratory, or CHAPEL, within their own premises, of which little can be traced. The Chapel which preceded the present was finished and consecrated to the memory of St. Cuthbert on the second of the Kalends of April, 1476. This continued in use until about the year 1639, when a design was formed of building the present Chapel on the south side of the new quadrangle; but this was interrupted now, and again in 1657, by the distractions of the Interregnum, and the building was not finally completed until 1665. On March 20, St. Cuthbert's day, it was consecrated with great solemnity by Dr. Blandford, then Bishop of Oxford, afterwards of Worcester; a man, says Burnet, " modest and humble even to a fault."

The painted windows were executed by Abraham van Linge in 1640-1, and as the Chapel was not then ready to receive them, escaped the general destruction to which most works of art of this description were devoted. The fine east window, whose colours are much decayed, was the work of Henry Giles, already

* Wood's Colleges and Halls, edit. Gutch, vol. i. p. 61,

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noticed, a famous glass-painter of York, and was given by Dr. Radcliffe in 1687. The ceiling of this Chapel is of Gothic groined, and of more recent date than the walls. The screen, as usual, of the Corinthian order, is exquisitely carved by Grinlin Gibbons. The altar-piece is a copy of Carlo Dolce's Salvator Mundi, burnt in wood by the present Master. The ante-chapel has lately received an addition calculated to excite the highest emotions of veneration, the monument of Sir William Jones, from the classical chisel of Flaxman, and presented by Lady Jones. The bas relief represents Sir William employed, with the assistance of some Bramins, in preparing that great work, a digest of the Hindoo laws, on which he seemed to wish that his fame, as a public benefactor, should rest. But the fame of such a man could not be circumscribed. had perhaps more various learning, and more extensive knowledge, than any scholar of his time, This, by comparison, is only preeminence, but, joined as it was in him to the exquisite sensibility of the finest taste, was truly wonderful. A monument by Flaxman has lately been erected to the memory of Dr. Wetherell, the late Master.

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We find no MASTER or Custos on record before the year 1332, which is consistent with the date assigned to the habitation of Durham Hall before mentioned. The first Master was Roger de Aswardby, and he was succeeded in 1962 by John Pocklington, who, in Wood's opinion, had been Principal of Balliol Hall. In this list we find the names of Dr. Abbot, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury; Dr. Bancroft, Bishop of Oxford; and Obadiah Walker, who

lost his Fellowship, during the Rebellion, for his adherence to the Church of England, and his Mastership, at the Revolution, for his adherence to the Church of Rome. Dr. Radcliffe, who had been his pupil, kindly maintained him until his death in 1699, and interred him in St. Pancras church-yard, London, with a short epitaph, intimating that he had reached the grave" through good report and ill report." The present Master is the thirty-sixth on the list,

Among the ARCHBISHOPS and BISHOPS educated in University College, attention is first due to Skirlaw, Bishop of Durham, already noticed as a benefactor to this College, but probably in a less degree than to other places. Besides the erection of several bridges and gateways, and the repairs of churches in his diocese, he built at his own expence a great part of the tower of York Minster, usually called the Lantern, He founded a chantry likewise in that church, erected part of the beautiful cloister of Durham, and a chapel called from his name in the parish of Swine in Holdernesse. His will affords additional proofs of his munificent spirit. His successor in the Bishopric of Durham, Thomas Langley, was also of this College, according to Wood, although Hutchinson places him at Cambridge. When appointed to this Bishopric, he resigned the seals as Lord Chancellor, and afterwards was made a Cardinal by Pope John XXIII. He was likewise a very extensive benefactor in his diocese:-Richard Flemming, Bishop of Lincoln, and Founder of Lincoln College:-John Shirewoode, or Sherwood, Bishop of Durham from 1485 to 1493, had the reputation of a poet, and, what was perhaps more remarkable in his time, that of