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It is now 237 years since the illustrious Fellow of this College whose name we are met to commemorate, provided, when two years before his death he conveyed his estate at Burmarsh to the College, that:—

“There shall be once every year a general feast for all the Fellows; and on the day when such feast shall be kept, some one person of the said College shall be from time to time appointed by the President and two Eldest Censors and two Eldest Elects for the time being of the said College (so that the person so to be appointed be not in that behalf appointed two years together), who shall make an Oration publicly, in the said College, wherein shall be a commemoration of all the benefactors of the said College by name, and what in particular they have done for the benefit of the said College, with an