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A considerable increase has taken place in modern times, in the annual rental of the estates belonging to one of the two latter foundations, and a proportionate increase has accordingly been made in the yearly stipends of the bye-fellowships attached to it. Each of the bye-fellows on the Parke foundation, receives weekly £1. 148. ; on the Ramsey, 58. 61d. ; on the Perne, 4s. 71d., subject to deduction for non-residence exceeding three months in the year.

The scholars on the several bye-foundations receive respectively sums varying from 1s. to 5s. 1d. per week, subject to deductions for non-residence. Almost all the scholarships are fixed in yearly value by the terms of the respective foundations.

The vacant scholarships are filled up from the most distinguished students at the College examination at the division of the Easter Term.

A very deserving candidate may be elected to more scholarships than one at the end of his first year, and if he continue to be deserving, to other scholarships after the examinations at the end of his second and third year of residence.

Four sizars are admitted, one every year, a freshman, after an examination in Classics and Mathematics in October. Each sizar is permitted to dine with the other undergraduates in hall free from expense, except in the long vacation. One of the sizars holds the office of chapel-clerk, the emoluments of which are about £20 a year.

The College from its funds expends annually about 20 guineas in books as prizes for the most distinguished students in Classics and Mathematics at the annual examination. There is also one prize given for Classical composition and one for Divinity. The average annual amount given for prizes in the seven years ending 1851 was £23. 48. 8d.

The Ecclesiastical Patronage of the College consists of the right of presentation to eleven church-livings.

The College also appoints a Master to the Grammar-school of Drighlington, in Yorkshire.

The total aggregate of gross income on an average of seven years ending in 1851, was about £7317. 38. ; that of the net income about £5923. 14s. 4d.

CLARE HALL.

FOUNDED 1326, A.D.

THIS College had its origin from RICHARD DE BADEW, Chancellor of the University in 1326. He built a small Hostel, which he called University Hall, and appointed a Principal, under whom some scholars, called Pensioners, lived at their own expense. University Hall continued in this state without endowment for sixteen years, when it was accidentally destroyed by fire. Dr Badew being unable to undertake the restoration, appplied to the Lady ELIZABETH, co-heiress to Gilbert, Earl of Clare, widow of John de Burgh, Lord of Connaught, and mother of William de Burgh, last Earl of Ulster, by whose munificence the College was rebuilt and endowed, and thenceforth called after her own name.

1359. The Foundress, according to the ancient Statutes*, which bear the date of this year, designed that there should be 20 Fellows and Scholars including the Master, and 10 poor Scholars, besides servants, and that the number of fellows and scholars might be increased when the revenues of the College became augmented. It would appear that the number of fellows and scholars appointed at first did not amount to that number.

• The design and object of the noble Foundress appears from the following extract from the ancient statutes:

"Cupientes igitur, hac consideratione inductæ ad augmentum cultus Divini, reique publicæ commodum, et profectum hujusmodi scientiam quæ (morsu pestilentiæ sublata multitudine hominum) hominibus lamentabiliter deficere jam incipit, in quantum nobis Deus dedit, propagare, ad Universitatem Cantabrigiæ Eliensi Diœcesi, in qua est Congregatio Studentium, convertentes oculos mentis nostræ, et Aulam inibi existentem; Aulam Universitatis communiter hactenus nominatam, quæ de nostra fundatione jam existit, et quam Domum de Clare et non aliter volumus perpetuis temporibus nuncupari in Facultatibus de bonis nostris a Deo datis, et in numero Studentium fecimus ampliari, ut pretiosa Scientiæ Margarita ab eis studio et doctrina in dicta Universitate inventa et etiam acquisita, non sub modio lateat, sed ulterius divulgetur, lucemque præbeat, divulgata iis qui ambulant in semitis Ignorantiæ tenebrosis; et ut Scholares in dicta Domo nostra antea commorantes, sub firmioris pacis tutela et concordiæ commodo valeant studio liberius indulgere; quædam statuta et ordinationes de consilio peritorum fecimus infra scripta perpetuis temporibus duratura."

1551. In the reign of King Edward VI. the ancient Statutes were revised, and by him it was decreed, that the number of fellows should not be less than 10, unless from extraordinary decrease in the revenues, and that there should be 4 poor scholars. The numbers, however, are directed to be increased according to the increase of the revenues.

Fuller states that in 1634 there were maintained, one master, 18 fellows, 36 scholars, besides officers and servants of the foundation, and other students; the whole number being 106. In the time of Dr Caius, the number was 129, but in 1753 the number was about a hundred.

Master Thomas Cave gave £12 a year to found two Scholarships for scholars from the Grammar-school at Wakefield.

Mr Ralph Scrivener gave a benefaction for founding one Scholarship, now of the value of £14 per annum.

Walter Worlick and Elizabeth his wife gave a benefaction to found Scholarships.

William Marshall gave a rent-charge of £3. 68. 8d. for founding one Scholarship.

1571. Edward Leeds, D.C.L. sometime Master of the College, left a benefaction for the maintenance of scholars.

1562. Queen Elizabeth endowed ten Scholarships with an allowance of 1s. a week, by the gift of the Hospital of St John and Mary Magdalene in Ely.

1584. Robert Johnson, B.D. Rector of North Luffenham, Rutland, and Archdeacon of Leicester, appropriated four of his Exhibitions to students at Clare Hall, with a preference to Scholars from the Grammar-schools of Oakham and Uppingham, of which he was the founder. The value of each of these Exhibitions was originally £6. 10s. per annum. In 1796 they were £10, and now they are £20 each.

1612. Thomas Cecil, Earl of Exeter, left a rent-charge of £108 for the maintenance of three Junior Fellows and eight Scholars. His lordship ordained that the three fellows should be called "the Earl of Exeter.his Fellows," and not be under the degree of B.A. at the time of their admission. They have the same privileges as the senior fellows, and are required to be in priests' orders in four years after M.A. The value of these fellowships has been increased by Gilbert Bouchery, who left an

estate in Kent of the present value of £80 per annum for the augmentation of the income of the three Exeter fellows.

It was also ordained that six of the scholars should be called "The Earl of Exeter his Scholars," and receive a stipend of 2s. a week; and the other two, "The Lady Dorothy, countess of Exeter, her Scholars," and receive 1s. 6d. a week when in residence.

It is also provided that in the election of new scholars the Master and Fellows shall principally prefer such persons as formerly had been taught and instructed in the Grammarschool of Stamford, if in respect of their learning and honest conversation they should be found as fit and able as others who shall be competitors with them for the said scholarships.

1622. John Freeman, Esq. of Great Billing in Northamptonshire, gave by his executors the manor of Risby, with lands, tenements, &c., in the county of Lincoln, for the maintenance of two Junior Fellows and eight Scholars, and two poor Scholars. By indenture made between his executors and the College, the fellows on this foundation have the same privileges as those on the Exeter foundation. In 1805 each of the fellows had rooms rent free and a stipend of 10s. a week if resident, or £9. 19s. 4d. a year if non-resident. Eight of the scholars received 3s. 3d. a week, and the other two 10d. a week, if resident.

The Master and Fellows have now increased the income by allowing each of the two Freeman's fellows £120 per annum, and have increased four of these scholarships to the value of £50 a year, besides an allowance of 38. 3d. a week during residence, and they are tenable till B.A.

1637. Mr Borage gave the College a rent-charge of £15 a year to found a Bye-fellowship for a person of his name and kindred, and in failure, for a native of Norwich or of the county of Norfolk, with a preference to the scholar on his foundation at Corpus Christi College. This fellowship is not tenable by a Non-Regent M.A.

1658. Joseph Diggons, Esq. of Lisse, in the county of Southampton, left estates to found new fellowships and scholarships, without fixing any conditions.

The Society agreed the same year that there should be two Junior Fellows and four Scholars; and that the allowance to each fellow should be £10, with rooms rent free if resident;

and to each of the scholars 48. a week during residence. In 1804 the rental of the estates was about £350 a year. Two additional fellowships were added to this foundation, by the Master and Seniors in 1824, from the increased rents of the estates, and each of the four fellows on this foundation is allowed £100 per annum.

1684. Daniel Wilson of Bremhill, sometime Fellow of the College, left a benefaction for the maintenance of two poor scholars.

1684. Robert Hancock, M.A. sometime Fellow of the College, gave a benefaction for one exhibition to a poor scholar. 1684. Thomas Pyke, of Cambridge, founded two Scholarships.

Alexander Metcalfe founded a Scholarship for a student from the Grammar-school of Kingston-upon-Hull.

Sir John Trott founded one Scholarship of the annual value of £20, and tenable till M.A.

Benjamin Cherry, Esq. founded one Scholarship of the value of £40 a year for a native of Hertford, but it is to be open to general competition if there be no candidate from Hertford sufficiently qualified.

1717. Thomas Philipott, Esq. left an estate for founding two Bye-fellowships for natives of the county of Kent, with a preference to those persons born in the hundred of Blackheath. In 1805 the stipend of each fellow was £24 per annum.

1730. Robert Greene, D.D. of Tamworth, and formerly Fellow of the College, by his will left money for the purchase of two silver cups of the value of £6 each, with appropriate inscriptions, for two scholars in their third year; "the first as a reward of piety, virtue, and goodness,-and the other, of ingenuity, scholarship, and learning; it being a more difficult task to be a real Christian than an excellent scholar; and if it so happen that one and the same youth, according to the judgment of the Master and Fellows, shall be the most eminent of his year for both these endowments of piety and learning, it is then my will that he be presented with both these plates.”

Dr Greene also gave a benefaction for founding Scholarships, which are now eight in number, four of the value of £20 per annum, and four of 38. per week during residence.

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