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258 And the undergraduate who contracted a debt amounting to over ten shillings "with any person keeping a cook-shop or a coffee-house, or any public-house whatsoever" was summarily expelled.

The uniform of the students, by a decree of 1744, consisted of "open-sleeved, purple gowns, square caps, black silk and white silver tuffs, equally mixt."

Scott made a Literary Landmark of Amy Robsart. Her ill-used body was brought secretly from Cumnor, where she met her unhappy fate, to Worcester College, and was placed, according to Dugdale, " in the Great Chamber, where the mourners did dine and that where the gentlewomen did dine, and beneath the stairs a great hall, being all hung with black cloth and garnished with scutcheons."

She was buried under the floor of the Choir of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin; but her grave was unmarked until 1874. Her cruel and ambitious husband created no memorial whatever to her memory.

Prominent in the annals of Gloucester Hall is the name of Thomas Allen. He was a Scholar at Trinity in 1561, and a Fellow in 1565. But about 1570 he migrated to Gloucester, where he soon made himself felt as a power. Mathematics,