third class (the number depending upon the vacancies and the merits of the candidates) are awarded to those who come next in order of merit. Scholarships of the third class may also be obtained in the second year by students who have failed in their first year.

The interest of the money bequeathed by Dr Chetwode and Sir George Oxenden, for the purpose, together with a small money-payment, and an allowance for commons from the College, make up one Exhibition, to which the duties of Chapelclerk are attached. This office, the whole value of which is about £30 a year, is disposed of yearly, and is given to one of the more distinguished of those who obtained scholarships at the erd of the first year. In compliance with the will of Sir George Oxenden, a certain preference is given to the sons of clergymen.

In addition to the Scholarships, after the College Examinations, two Prizes of Books, one of 5 guineas and one of 3 guineas, are awarded to the two most distinguished students of the first year; and two, one of 3 guineas and one of 2 guineas, to those of the second year. A Prize of 3 guineas is given to the most distinguished Candidates for Mathematical Honors, both in their second and third years.

Two Prizes are annually given for the best Latin, and for the best English Essay, the subjects of which are proposed at the end of the Lent Term; and the Exercises are delivered before the end of the following Michaelmas Term.

A Prize of 3 guineas is also awarded by the College, to that Student who is the most distinguished at the Examination in Modern History, and in the Principles of Law.

The Ecclesiastical Patronage of the College consists of the right of presentation to seven Church livings.

The gross annual average Revenue of the College returned to the Commissioners in 1851 was £3917. 28. 10d.

CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE.

FOUNDED 1352, A.D,

THIS College had its origin very differently from any other in the University. It was founded under the name of "Domus Scholarium Corporis Christi et Beatæ Mariæ Cantebr,” by the union of two guilds or societies in Cambridge called "Gilda Corporis Christi” and “ Gilda Beatæ Mariæ Virginis.” Through the mediation of Henry Duke of Lancaster, their mutual friend and patron, they obtained from the King a licence (bearing date 7 Nov. 26 Edw. III.) by which they were empowered to found their College and to increase its revenues "by the appropriation of the tythes of St Benedict's, which they had leave to hold in mortmain." In consequence of this licence, the aldermen and brethren of the united guilds appointed the first master and two fellows (the revenues then not being sufficient for more). They also devised rules and statutes for the government of themselves and the members of their College.

1354. Thomas de Eltisle, the first Master, obtained leave of Thomas, son of Sir John de Cambridge, to remove the Chantry, founded by his father, into the Churches of St Benedict and St Botolph, and to convert the two chaplains into fellows of the College, provided they continued to observe the conditions prescribed in the Will. By this accession the number of fellows was doubled, and the revenues considerably augmented.

1356. Fresh statutes were composed, better accommodated to the government of the society, and were ratified and sealed on St Benedict's Day, 1356.

1379. Two other fellowships were added to the College, about this date, on the increase of the endowment.

1461. John Botwright, master of the College, about this time, is said to have added another fellowship out of the revenues of the manor of Over and that of Chatteris.

1489. Richard Brocher, B. D., sometime fellow of the College, and Rector of Landbeach gave by his will, lands and tenements in Cambridge and Barton of the yearly value of 40s.

for the maintenance of a Bible-clerk, who was to be called his scholar. This was the first scholarship founded in the College, although Robert Schotesham was appointed bible clerk in 1457.

1495. The society, in consideration of the liberal benefactions of Elizabeth, Duchess of Norfolk, and her sister Lady Botelar, covenanted to receive a studious and well-disposed priest, who should be a graduate in arts, into a fellowship at her nomination for the first time, and to allow him a yearly salary of 8 marks, with all other advantages enjoyed by the rest of the fellows. And in further consideration of the various gifts and benefits conferred upon them by these ladies, the society agreed to elect a scholar who should be called after their name, and have the like stipend, and perform the same exercises with Brocher's scholar.

1525. John Sayntwarye, M.A. and James Curson, M.A., fellows of the College, conjointly gave a house in St Benedict's of the yearly rent of 40s., with £6 to keep it in repair, for founding another Bible-clerkship with the same advantages as the one founded by Mr Richard Brocher.

1546. The annual revenue of the College, as reported by the Commissioners in the 37th year of Henry VIII, was £171. 7s. 6d.

1548. The master and fellows desirous of promoting good learning, as an encouragement to young students, founded six new scholarships, for such as were likely to proceed in Arts, and afterwards make divinity their study, out of such reliefs and commodities as else yearly should have risen to their private portions and profits. Each scholar was to have 8d. per week for commons and a chamber with other allowances. The commons" were soon after increased to 12d. per week, which was the usual allowance about that time.

1567. Matthew Parker, D. D., sometime master of the College, and Archbishop of Canterbury, purchased of the corporation of Norwich an annuity of £10, payable out of their Manor of Hethill cum Carleton in Norfolk, which he settled upon the College. He ordered £8 thereof for the founding of three scholarships, 30s. to a preacher sent by the College, for a sermon

on Rogation Sunday at Thetford in Norfolk, on Monday at Wymondham, on Ascension Day at St Clement's, Norwich, and on the Sunday following in the Green Yard and to the mayor, sheriffs, officers, &c., present at the sermon in St Clement's, the remaining 10s. These scholars are to be nominated by the mayor and aldermen of Norwich, out of the schools of that city or the town of Aylsham: they are to be under 20 years of age, well instructed in grammar, &c.; and are to enjoy their exhibitions for six years if they be disposed to enter into holy orders,-otherwise no longer than three.

1569. Archbishop Parker founded two Fellowships and two more Scholarships, and provided for their endowment by purchasing (for the sum of £320) an annuity of £18, issuing out of all the estates belonging to the corporation of Norwich.

The scholars are to be nominated in like manner with the former, out of the schools of Norwich, Wymondham, or Aylsham, being natives of those places. To these scholars, now five in number, were assigned the three lower chambers on the east side of the quadrangle, and for their commons weekly 12d. each.

The fellows are to be styled Norwich Fellows, and to be elected by the society out of the five scholars above mentioned, within two months after a vacancy. Each of them is to have £6 per annum for his stipend, with chambers on the east side of the quadrangle.

It was likewise covenanted and agreed at the same time, (the society giving to the corporation of Norwich a bond of £200 for the performance of the covenant) that two other fellowships, to be called the ninth and tenth, should be founded out of the college revenues, with the same stipend of £6 each per annum: and that four of the fellows, besides those of Norwich, should always (if possible) be Norfolk men. The Norwich fellows, and the ninth and tenth, are to instruct the Norwich scholars freely, and on that consideration to have the privilege of holding prebends with their fellowships.

The Archbishop the same year, provided for three other scholars, out of some tenements in Westminster, then rented at £8. 138. 4d. These were to be called Canterbury scholars, to be

nominated by the dean and chapter of that church out of their Free School, and to be such tenants' sons in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Lincolnshire, as they are obliged to support there. In default of such, the dean and chapter of Westminster nominate from Westminster school: and if they fail to do so, the master and fellows may appoint from any school in the province of Canterbury. These scholarships have been augmented to £20 each per annum.

Two scholarships more were endowed by him, in the same year, with an annuity of £6. 13s. 4d., payable for 200 years out of the revenues of Eastbridge Hospital in Canterbury. This payment Archbishop Whitgift subsequently ordered to be made perpetual, and had his decision confirmed by act of parliament in 1584. To the Canterbury and Eastbridge scholars three sets of rooms are appropriated on the north side of the quadrangle.

1569. John Mere, Esq. M. A., one of the Esquire Bedells, left effects (of which an investment was made,) and directed that out of the rents, one scholar of the county of Cambridge should for ever be maintained as the other scholars, and be called "Mr Mere's scholar."

1573. The statutes, by which the society had been governed for upwards of 200 years, were revised by Archbishop Parker and others, and formally approved and subscribed by them in January 1573.

Though the Norwich and two other fellowships had been founded four years previously, yet these statutes do not recognize them as foundation fellowships, but ordain that the college shall consist of a master (magister sive custos), eight fellows (socii sive scholares), two Bible-clerks (bibliotistæ), and six poor scholars (pauperes scholastici), besides college-servants: but that the number of fellows, &c., may be increased or diminished according to the judgment of the master and all the fellows, and the state of the revenues of the college.

In the election of fellows, it is ordained "Quod magister et socii qui per scrutinium socios in virtute juramenti eligant simpliciter meliores non habendo respectum ad aliquem affectionem carnalem, nec instantiam seu requisitionem aliquorum,