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 It may be added, as a capital bit of Latin punning, that the family motto is said to have been Teneo et Teneor—“I Hold and am Holden.”

The interior arrangements of the chapel must have scandalized the stricter Calvinists; for the painted box-like pews to which they were accustomed were replaced by long rows of solid oak benches parallel to the central aisle, and rising in successive tiers to the side walls—the traditional English collegiate plan, modelled on the choir of a cathedral! The pulpit, or president’s desk, was at the eastern end; at the western, possibly a gallery above the door. The ceiling was a plain barrel vault of gentle curvature. The windows had the rare adornment of curtains or draperies. A sober amount of carving probably enriched the whole. Altogether, a little gem of a building, simple yet elegant, harmonizing in material and scale with its neighbors, of academic dignity and restraint, and perfectly adapted to its purpose.

Who designed this beautiful bit of architecture? Clearly it was not, like the other edifices of its time, the