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"Since I concluded this, Mr. Hales (our Biblio- >heca ambiilans, as I use to call him) came to me by chance, and told me that the Book of Controversies issued under the name of Baconus, hath this addi- tion to the said name, alias Southwell ; as those of that Society change their names as often as their shirts: And he says it is a very poor thing, only graced with a little method."

It is very amusing to read the worthy knight's sneer at the Jesuits, for he could not surely have forgotten that twice, at least, did he himself change his name, to say nothing of his shirt : first, when he fled from his country, and secondly, when he came from Italy by way of Norway to Scotland under the pseudonym of Octavio Baldi, having been sent by the Duke of Florence to warn the king against " a design to take away his life by poison," and to supply him with "such Italian antidotes against poison as the Scots till then had been strangers to." No doubt he often spoke of these doings to his friend Izaac Walton from whom I have learnt them when they were out angling ("his innate pleasure of angling, which he would usually call his idle time, not idly spent; saying often, he would rather live five May months than forty Decembers"); or perhaps in the evening after dinner, in his study, whilst taking tobacco, which, his amiable biographer says, "as many thoughtful men do, he also had taken im- moderately."

After all, it seems difficult to understand why a Jesuit, when his life was exposed to certain destruction if discovered, should not be as much justified in concealing his identity as any one else in those fierce and troublous times. However that may be, we may, I think, conclude that the story told by Tobie Matthew to Bacon and the one men- tioned by Sir Henry Wotton manifestly refer to one and the same person, i.e., Father Thomas Southwell ; though it strikes one as something strange that the Provost of Eton should not have heard of him until 1638, especially if he had become famous many years before under the name of Baconus.

JOHN T. CURRY.

THE FOUNDERS OF COLLEGES AT

OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE.

(Concluded from p. 122.)

Corporate Bodies.

Mediaeval Gild. Gild of Corpus Christi (with assistance of the Gild of St. Mary), 1352, founded Corpus Christi, Cantab.

Two Memorial Colleges erected by Public Subscription. 1870. Keble College, in memory of the Kev. John Keble, Professor of Poetry

in University of Oxford, founded on strict Church of England principles.

1882. Selwyn College (similar college at Cambridge), in memory of George Augustus Selwyn, sometime Bishop of New Zealand.

Of the thirty-nine colleges the thirty-six founded by forty-seven persons fall, for the most part, into other obvious groups as follows :

Ten Colleges founded, or partly founded, by Women. Balliol (Devorguilla practically sole founder), Clare, Pembroke (Cantab), Queen's (Oxon), Queens' (Cantab), Christ's, St. John's (Cantab), Jesus (Oxon), Sidney Sussex, Wad- ham (Dorothy Wadham practically sole founder). Thus four colleges were founded at Oxford by women, although of these only two (Balliol and Wadham) can be said to owe their successful establishment chiefly to women ; while, on the other hand, of six so founded at Cambridge each may be said to owe its existence to a woman, or in the case of Queens' College to two women. Cambridge is pre-eminently the women's university, having led the way in erecting colleges solely for the use of women students, although she still denies them a degree.

Colleges founded by more than one Founder. Balliol, Oriel, Queen's (Oxon), Brasenose, Jesus (Oxon), Wadham, Pembroke (Oxon).

Sir Richard Sutton (co-founder B.N.C.) was the first voluntary lay founder in Oxford ; and his college was the first to absorb and continue the life of an old hall. This latter novelty was reproduced at Jesus, Pembroke, Worcester, and Hertford.

Queen Elizabeth and James I. became royal founders at Oxford on very easy terms, the queen giving little beside letters patent and her portrait to Jesus, and the king content- ing himself with granting a charter to Pem- broke, where he is commemorated chiefly by the presence of the rose and thistle in the college coat of arms.

Colleges practically refounded. Clare, Gon- ville and Caius, Lincoln, Queens' (Cantab), Christ's, Christ Church, Hertford.

Clare arose out of University Hall, which, founded in 1326 by the University under its Chancellor Richard do Badew, was unsuc- cessful. At Oxford the University founded University Hall (now College) chiefly out of William of Durham's bequest.

In 1447 Andrew Doket founded St. Ber- nard's College at Cambridge. This he eventually put under the protection of Queen Margaret, when it became the Queen's Col- lege. Finally, it was refounded by Queen Elizabeth Wydvile as Queens' College.

Christ's (the only one of her two colleges