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 JESUS

Author:John Richard Green, the Historian, and himself a Jesus man, said, in 1862, that "if Christ Church was the last and grandest effort of Mediævalism, if Trinity and St. John's commemorated the reaction under Philip and Mary, Jesus, by its very name, took its stand as the first Protestant College in Oxford." It was founded in 1571, under a charter granted by Queen Elizabeth, Defender of the Faith, who took all the glory of the foundation, but did very little to help it on to success. The real and active progenitor of the institution was D. Hugh Price, a good Welshman, who wished to be permitted to bestow his estates for the benefit and maintenance of certain scholars of Wales, that "they might be trained up in good letters." And many distinguished scholars of Wales, and of elsewhere, but especially of Wales, have benefited by the training. The Library is rich in ancient Welsh manuscripts; and in the Bursary is kept a striking example of the Cambrian good-fellowship and hospitality, in the shape of a mammoth silver-gilt punch-bowl, which weighs over two hundred and seventy-eight ounces, and holds ten gallons; the accompanying ladle weighing thirteen ounces and 115