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 22 BRITISH PHYSICIANS. mus, in 1520, (in which year the sickness also pre- vailed in Calais ;) and from the death of another of that nation, related by Caius himself. On the supposition of its being a fever of the putrid and malignant kind, we shall scarcely be able to account for its prevailing most among the rich and well fed, contrary to what we now observe of that class of disorders ; and, indeed, the vast numbers related to be swept away by it, evidently prove its fre- quency amongst the lowest ranks of people. To revert to the character of Caius, it has been mentioned before that he seems to have modelled himself upon the example of Linacre, and he fol^ lowed him also in his patronage of learning : for being in great favour with Queen Mary, he ob- tained from her Majesty a licence to advance Gon- ville Hall into a college ; which permission he suitably seconded by endowing it with several estates for the maintenance of three fellows and twenty scholars, and by various other acts of bounty. This was effected in the course of the years 1557 and 1558; and his name, together with that of the co-founder, still gives title to the college. He framed a new body of laws for this society, and in 1559 accepted the mastership of it, which he retained as long as he lived. In 1565 he began to enlarge his college by the erection of a new square, which was finished in 1570 at the expense of 1834/., a very considerable sum at that time. The inscriptions which he caused to be piit over the gates of the new square of liis College exhi- bit at once specimens of the quaintness of the man, as well as of the moralizing turn of the age in which he lived. One, being low and little, was