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The Society now confifts of a Principal, 19 Fellows and 18 Scholars, befides a confiderable Number of Exhibitioners, in all eighty or ninety.

Vifitor. The Earl of Pembroke.

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LINCOLN COLLEGE

S fituated between All-Saints Church and Exeter College. It confifts of two Courts. The first, which we enter under a Tower, is formed by the Rector's Lodgings on the South-Eaft Angle, the Li brary and Common Rocm on the North, and Refectory on the Eaft, the Sides of which are 80 Feet each. The Inner or South Court has alfo a Gate into the Street; and is a Square likewife, but lefs than the other, being 70 Feet each Way.

The Hall is a handfome Edifice about 40 Feet long, 25 broad, and of a proportionable Height. It was new wainscoted in 1701, chiefly by the Benefaction of the late Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham, whose Arms are placed over the Middle of the Screen, as are thofe of the reft of the Contributors over other Parts of the Wainscot.

The Library is a very neat: Room in the North Sideof the Outer Court, over the Common Room. It has been lately new fitted up, fafhed and wainscoted at the Expense of Sir Nathaniel Lloyd, Knt. fometime Commoner of this College, and afterwards Fellow of AllSouls. It is well furnished with Books, and there are in it some antient and valuable Manufcripts.

There is a good Half-length Picture of Bishop Crewe at the West End of it, and another of Sir Nathaniel. Lloyd.

But what is moft taken Notice of in this College, is their Chapel, which is fituated on the South Side of

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the Inner Court. The Screen of it is of Cedar, finely carved, and is mentioned y Dr. Plott as a great Curiofity. The Windows are entirely of Painted Glass, of which there is a large one over the Altar, and four leffer on each Side. In thofe of the South Side are the Figures of the Twelve Apoftles, three in each Window, as large as Life. In the first Window which is next the Altar, are Peter, Andrew, and James the Greater: In the 2d, John, Philip, and Bartholomew: In the 3d, Matthew, Thomas, and James the Lefs: In the 4th Jude, Simon, and Matthias.

On the other Side, over against thefe, are the Figures of twelve of the Prophets. In the First Window, or next to the Altar, are David, Daniel, and Elijah : In the 2d, Ifaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel: In the 3d, Amos, Zechariah, and Malachi: In the 4th, Elifa, Jonah, and Obadiah.

The Eaft Window, which is over the Altar, contains the Types and Anti-types of our Saviour. It is divided into fix Partitions: In the firft, reckoning from the North, is the Creation of Man in Paradife; and over it the Nativity of our Saviour. In the 2d, the Paffing of the Ifraelites through the Red Sea; and over it, our Saviour's Baptifm: In the 3d, the Jewish Pasfover; and over it, the Inflitation of the Lord's Sup per: In the 4th, the Elevation of the Brazen Serpent in the Wilderness; and over it, our Saviour's Crucifixion: In the 5th, Jonas delivered out of the Whale's Belly; and over it, our Saviour's Refurre&t on: In the 6th, Elijah going to Heaven in the Fiery Chariot ; and over it, our Saviour's Afcenfion

The Ceiling which is of Cedar, is embellished with the Arms of the Founders and the Principal Benefactors; intermixed with Cherubims, Palm-brances, Fef. toons, &c. beautifully painted and gilt.

The Chapel was built in 1630, by Dr. John Wil. liams; at that time Bishop of Lincoln, and afterwards Archbishop of York; of whom Memorials are to be feen in feveral Places.

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This College was firft founded by Richard Flemming, who was born of a good Family in Yorkshire. He was educated in this Univerfity, of which he was two Years Proctor, being then Fellow of Univerfity College. In 1420, he was made Bishop of Lincoln by King Henry V. and died in 1431. He obtained the Charter of Incorporation of King Henry VI. in the fixth Year of his Reign; and in 1429 eftablifhed a College, confifting of a Rector and feven Fellows, to whom he ap propriated the Income of the faid Churches.

In the Year 1478, Thomas Scott, alias Rotherham, then Bishop of Lincoln, confidering the Imperfect State of this Foundation, obtained a new Charter of King Edward IV. by Virtue whereof, he added five other Fellowships to the feven before founded, annexed to the College two Rectories, and gave them a Body of Sta tutes, in which he limits the Choice of the Fellows to the Dioceses of Lincoln and York, all except one, whom he would have to be of the Diocese of Wells.

But a greater Benefactor to this College was the Right Honourable Nathaniel Lord Crewe, late Bishop of Durham, who being prefent in the Year 1717, after contributing liberally to the Buildings which were then carrying on at Chrift Church, Queen's, Worcester, and All-Souls Colleges, and to the finishing of All Saints Church, fettled by Way of a Rent Charge free from all Deductions whatsoever, iffuing out of his Manors in Northumberland and Durham, twelve Exhibitioners of 201. per Annum each, for Commoners of this College, whom he would have to be the Sons of Gentlemen; and made a confiderable augmentation to the annual Stipends of the Rector, Fellows, Scholars, Bible Clerk, and the Chaplains of the four appropriated Churches.

The last Benefactor was the late Dr. Hutchins, who had been many Years Rector, and who augmented the Incomes of the Scholars.

The Members of this College are ufually between fifty and fixty.

Vifitor. The Bishop of Lincoln.

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RIEL College is fituated between St. Mary's Church on the North, Corpus Chrifti College on the South, and Christ Church on the Weft; the Entrance is on the Weft. It chiefly confifts of one regular uniform and well-built Quadrangle. On the North Side whereof is the Library and the Provoft's Lodg. ings, on the Eaft the Hall, and the Entrance into the Chapel, which runs Eastward from thence; and on the South and Weft Sides are the Chambers of the Fellows and other Students.

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Oppofite to the Great Gate we afcend by a large Flight of Steps, having a Portico over them, to the Hall; which is a well proportioned Room, handfomely wainscoted, with a Doric Entablature, and adorned with three Whole-length Portraits, viz. in the Middle, at the Upper-end, a very fine one of King Edward II, enthroned with his Regalia, by Hudson; on his Right Hand, that of Queen Anne by Dahl: and on his Left, one of the late Duke of Beaufort, in his Parliamentrobes, having a Negro Servant bearing his Coronet, by Soldi.

The Chapel has that Beauty which is derived from a decent Simplicity: The large Eaft Window, The Wife Men offering, was lately painted by Mr. Peckett, from a Defign by the late Dr. Wall.

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Through a Paffage on the North Side, we enter the Garden Court, which is fenced at this End with a Pair of Iron Gates and Palisades, properly fupported by a Dwarf-Wall and Stone Piers. On either Hand is a Wing of a new Building, in a Style conformable to the Quadrangle. That on the Right was built at the Expense of Dr. Robinson, Bishop of London; and that on the Left by Dr. Carter, late Provoft.

This College was founded by that learned Prince King Edward II. on the Petition of Adam de Brom his Almo

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Almoner, Anno 1324. who was the firft Provoft. King Edward I gave the Large Meffuage of Le Oriel, fituate in St. John's Parish, by which Name the College was afterwards called, and from whence it has been fiequently held to be a Royal Foundation. He likewife gave the Hofpital of St. Bartholomew, near Oxford, with the Lands thereunto belonging.

Other Benefactors were John Frank, Master of the Rolls in the Reign of Henry VI. who gave 1000l. to this College to purchafe Lands for the Maintenance of four Fellows; John Carpenter, formerly Provost, and afterwards Bishop of Worcester; William Smith, Bishop of Lincoln, and Dr. Richard Dudley, fometime Fellow, and afterwards Chancellor of the Church of Sarum, gave the College the Manor of Swainfwick in Somer. fetfhire, for the Maintenance of two Fellows and fix Exhibitioners. Dr. John Tolion, who was Provost in 1640, was the principal Benefactor to the prefent Edifice, to which Purpose he gave 1r50l. and other confiderable Donations. Queen Anne annexed a Prebend of Rochester to the Provost for ever. Dr. Robinson, Bishop of London, befides the New Building, gave 2500l. to augment the Fellowships. And the late Duke of Beaufort gave 100%. per Annum for four Exhibitioners.

The present Members are a Provost, eighteen Fellows, and fourteen Exhibitioners; the whole Number of Students about eighty.

Vifitor. The Lord Chancellor.

CORPUS-CHRISTI COLLEGE.

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ORPUS CHRISTI College ftands between Chrift Chu ch on the Weft, Merton College on the Eaft, and Oriel College on the North; confifting of one Quadrangle, an elegant Pile of Modern Buildings, erected

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