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We have here, therefore, a complete and inftructive Leffon, for the ufe of a Society dedicated to the advancement of Religion and Learning; and, on this plan, we may fuppofe the Founder of Magdalen thus fpeaking, by means of thefe Figures, to the Students of his College.

"It is your Duty, who live under the Care of a "Prefident, whofe Vigilance, and Parental Tenderness, "are the proper Qualifications to fupport the Govern"ment of my Houfe, attentively to purfue your Stu"dies, in your several Profeffions; and fo avoid the "Follies of an idle, unlettered, and diffipated Course of "Life. You may poffibly meet with many Difficulties, 66 at your first fetting out in this Road, but thefe every Stripling will be able to overcome by Courage and Perfeverance. And remember, when you are advanc"ed beyond thefe Difficulties, that it is your Duty to "lend your Affiftance to those who come after you, and. "whofe Education is committed to your Care. You are to be an Example to them of Sobriety and Tem

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perance: So fhall you guard them from falling into "the Snares of Excefs, and Debauchery. You shall "teach them that the Vices with which the World "abounds, Cruelty, Fraud, Avarice, Anger and Envy, "as well as the more fupple ones of abject Flattery, "and Cowardice, are not to be countenanced within "thefe hallowed Retirements. And let it be your En"deavour to avoid Pride and Contention, the Parents of

Faction, and, in your Situation, the worst and most "unnatural of all Factions, the Faction of a Cloyster. "And lastly, you will complete the Collegiate Character, "if you crown all your other Acquirements with the "unfpotted Purity, and Chastity, of your Lives and "Conversation."

We hope, by this Time, the Reader is convinced, 'that fo exact a Syftem of Morals, could not eafily have been produced from the licentious Inventions of "the Mafon."

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From the Cloyfter we go through a narrow Paffage in the North Side, into the Court where the New-Building ftands. This Edifice is 300 Feet in Length, and confifts of three Stories befides the Garrets. This Front is fupported by an Arcade, which forms a beautiful Cloyster. The whole is built of Heddington Stone, and is justly deemed an elegant Structure. It has confidera. bly the advantage of fome other modern Buildings; for in those the upper Story is commonly an Attic, and confequently the Rooms lower than thofe of the middle; the Rooms of the upper Story here are exactly of the fame Dimenfion with thofe below; and command a better Profpect. Three other fides were intended to be added; but probably fince the effect of that beautiful Opening to the Meadow has been feen, † the Society may think proper, in fome refpect, to alter their defign.

One unparalleled beauty belonging to this College is the Grove, which feems perfectly adapted to indulge. Contemplation; being a pleafant kind of Solitude, laid out in Walks and well planted with Trees. It has in it about forty Head of Deer.

Befide the Walks which are in the Grove, there is a very delightful and much frequented one round a Meadow, containing about thirteen Acres, furrounded by the feveral Branches of the Cherwell; from whence it is called the Water-Walks; which yields all the váriety that could be wifhed: fome parts of it running in ftraight lines with the Trees regularly cut; others winding, and the Trees growing little otherwife than as Nature directs. On the weft 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 WAINFLEET, from a Village of that name in Lincolnshire, where he was born. He was educated at Winchefter School, and was afterwards Fellow of New College in Oxford. Having taken the Degree of Bachelor in Divinity, he was appointed chief Master

† See the Perspective View annexed.

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of Winchefter School, where he continued 12 years, and then was made School-mafter, and foon after Provoft of Eton College by King Henry VI. who preferred him to the Bishopric of Winchefter in the year 1447, and in 1449 he was conftituted 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 Prefident, forty Fellows, thirty Demies, a Divinity Lecturer, School-mafter and Ufher, four Chaplains, an Organist, eight Clerks, and fixteen Chorifters. The whole Number of Students, including Gentlemen Commoners, is about 120.

The lofty Tower 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 fubftantial Bafs, number of Set-offs and gradual dimunition, is calculated for ftrength and duration. The moft advantageous View of it, is from the Phyfic Garden. The Tower contains a very mufical Peal of Ten Bells.

Vifitor. The Bishop of Winchefter.

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QUEEN's COLLEGE.

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Univerfity 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 fpacious 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 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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The firft, or South Court, is a handfome Quadran gle, 140 feet long, and 130 broad, having a lofty Cloifter, fupported by fquare Pillars, on the Weft, South, and Eaft. Over the Weft Cloifter are two Stories confifting of the Chambers of the Fellows and Students, an elegant Gallery, and Common Room, and in that Cloyster is the Apartment of the Provoft. Over the East Cloyfter are alfo Chambers for the Fellows and Students, and fome of thofe of the late Benefaction of Mr. Michell. The second, or North Court, has the Library over it on the Weft, and Chambers for the Fellows and Students on the North, East and South.

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. The Side Windows were removed thither from the old Chapel: two on the North Side are the laft Judgment, and two other on the South, the Afcenfion. The reft are all of old Glafs, remarkable for the Livelinefs of the Colours.

There is a Paffage between the Chapel and the Hall. from the South to the North Court, the Walls of which carry a handfome Cupola with eight Ionic Columns, and all the proper Ornaments of that Order. The Outfide of the whole is a Doric Building, and the Infide of the Hall beautified with the fame Order: But the Infide of the Chapel is entirely Corinthian, the Ceiling of which is not inferior to the reft.

The Hall is fixty feet long, and 30 broad, with an arched Roof of a fuitable Height. It is furnished with Portraits of the Founder and principal Benefactors; to which has lately been added a good Picture of her prefent Majefty 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 Weft Cloister, which feems defigned for Mufic; and hither Strangers are frequently brought, who defire to fee the Society at Dinnner.

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The Library on the Weft Side of the North Court, about 123 feet in Length, is a noble Building of the Corinthian Order, with a spacious Cloister to the Eaft, and the Statue of the Founder, and principal Benefactors to the College, in Niches to the Weft, and is adorned with Stucco Work by the late Mr. Roberts. It has a fplendid Orrery, and is furnished with a valuable Col lection of Books and Manufcripts in moft Languages and Sciences. It is alfo ornamented with a Caft in Plaifter of Paris of the Florentine Boar.

Robert Egglesfield, a native of Cumberland, Confeffor to Queen Philippa, and Bachelor of Divinity in this Univerfity, having purchafed feveral Tenements in the Parish of St. Peter's in the Eaft, erected there a Collegiate Hall, at the Inftance (and, probably by the Encouragement) of Queen Philippa, Confort of King Edward the III. giving it the Name of Aula Scho larium 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 conftituted a Provost and twelve Fellows, ordering, that the Provost should be chofen out of the Fellows, and be in Holy Orders; and that for the future the Fellows fhould be elected out of the. Counties of Cumberland and Weftmorland.

The principal Benefactors, befides the Founder, were King Eward III. and his Queen Philippa; king Charles I. who gave this College three Rectories and three Vicarages in Hampshire; Sir Jofeph Williamson, Knight, fometime Fellow, who rebuilt part of the College, and left 6000l. towards the finishing of it, befides a most valuable Library of Books; Dr. Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln; Dr. Lancaster, the Provoft of this College, and Dr. Timothy Halton, were great Benefactors. And of late feveral very confiderable Exhibitions have been given by Sir Francis Bridgman. Lady Elizabeth Haftings, and additional Fellowships and Scholarships by the late Mr. Michell of Richmond.

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