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will not submit to the parliamentary visitors are expelled. Some survive to be restored to their places when the King comes home again.

The chief benefactors of the College, besides its Provosts, have been Sir Joseph Williamson, Secre- tary of State, who in 1666 presented a magnificent silver trumpet and contributed largely to the expense of rebuilding the College at the end of that century ; John Michel, who founded eight fellowships, four scholarships and eight exhibitions, now merged in Eglesfeild's foundation ; Lady Elizabeth Hastings, who gave an estate in Yorkshire, which now supports more than twenty-five exhibitioners ; Robert Mason, who gave £30,000 to the Library and so raised it to one of the highest places among the libraries of Oxford ; and Sir Edward Repps Jodrell, who in these last days has founded five scholarships.

Among its most distinguished alumni have been Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London, the author of Codex Juris Ecclesise Anglicanoe ; the antiquaries Archbishop Nicolson, Bishop Tanner and Edward Rowe Mores ; Bishop Van Mildert of Durham ; Arch- bishop Thomson of York ; John Mill, the editor of the Greek Testament ; H alley the astronomer, Mitford the historian of Greece, Jeremy Bentham and Lord Jeffrey.

About two hundred years ago the College, which is represented in Loggan's print, was entirely pulled down and gradually replaced by the present buildings. Through the liberality of the Corporation of the City a frontage to the High Street was course of sixty years the buildings were completed, taken in hand by Provost south fronts of the front quadrangle were the last to be finished. The woodcut, by Green, shewing the eastern side about 1730 shows the ruins of the east window of the old chapel before they were finally cleared away. The cast of the Florentine Boar, given to the College by Sir Roger Newdigate, and shown in the sketch from Ingram of the Upper Library before the old reading desks were

obtained, and in the whole of the present The library was first Halton ; the east and

removed to make room for new bookcases, is now on loan in the University Art Galleries in the Taylor Building. The design for the south front of the Hall and Chapel is said to have been sketched for Hawkes- moore by Sir Christopher Wren.

J. R. MAGRATH, Provost.

For a much fuller account of this college by the provost, see the " Colleges of Oxford," by A. Clark, M.A., Methuen, London, 1891.

the founder's drinking HORN.— From Shaw 's specimens of Ancient Furniture.