Poore, or of St Vedast, Foster Lane, London. Each of these scholarships is £4. 10s. per annum,

1621. John Sikes, A.M., a member of the College, and afterwards rector of Kirton in Nottinghamshire, gave a rent charge of 40s. a year out of his lands near Wakefield, for the maintenance of one Scholar.

1625. Lionel Gatford, D.D., gave a benefaction for founding two Scholarships, for orphans of clergymen of the Church of England. These scholarships are of the annual value of £16 each, and are tenable from the time of admission to the degree of B.A., to that of M.A.

1671. Tobias Rustat, Esq., Yeoman of the Robes to King Charles II. gave a benefaction for the endowment of Scholarships for the orphans of clergymen of the Church of England. The number of these scholarships is now fourteen, and they are open to the orphans of clergymen of all counties in England and Wales. The scholars must be admitted before they have completed their nineteenth year. The value of these scholarships is £30 a year. There is every year at the beginning of the Easter Term an examination of the Rustat scholars in classics, and a gratuity varying from £10 to £30 is given to each scholar according to his merit.

1673. Richard Sterne, D.D. Archbishop of York, founded four Scholarships, for natives of Nottingham and Yorkshire, by a rent-charge of £40 a year on the manor of Birken, Yorkshire.

1675. Dame Margaret Boswell, conveyed to trustees a farm called Hallywell Farm, containing about 306 acres, with the adjacent Saltmarsh belonging to it of 60 acres, in the parish of Barnham, Essex, in trust, to pay from the rents the sum of £12 yearly to each of two Scholars, to be chosen by her trustees from the grammar-school at Sevenoaks, and in default, then from the grammar-school at Tunbridge, and to be sent to Jesus College, Cambridge, and to be called "Sir William Boswell's scholars.” These scholarships are now each of the annual value of £50.

1677. Henry Brunsell, LL.D., prebendary of Ely, gave a benefaction for three Exhibitions of £8 each per annum.

1682. Mr John Somerville, sometime master of the Grammar School of Loughborough, bequeathed £200 for the purchase of land, towards the maintenance of two scholars from the school at Loughborough, at Jesus College, Cambridge, until they are Masters of Arts. The present value of these scholarships is £30 each.

1703. John Mawherd gave the rent of 31 acres of land for the maintenance of a poor scholar from Doncaster or Arksey Free School.

1718. Mr Charles Humphry gave a rent-charge of £6. 8s. 6d. per annum, arising from lands in the parish of Harburgh, in the county of Lincoln, for a Scholar at Jesus College, Cambridge, from the Grammar School of Caistor, Louth, or Alford.

1758. Mr Marsden, gave a benefaction to found a Scholarship for the son of a living clergyman, with a preference to a native, cæteris paribus, of Nottinghamshire or Lancashire. The present annual value of this Scholarship is £42.

1785. Rev. Frederick Keller, M.A., formerly fellow of the College, left £20 per annum for one or more deserving Bachelors of Arts on admission to their degree. Of this sum £10 is given to the best proficient in Mathematics, provided he be a Wrangler: and £10 in plate or books, to the best proficient in Classics, provided he be in the first class of the Classical Tripos.

1825. Mrs Sarah Jones, of Newport, Salop, bequeathed by her Will the sum of £6000 in trust, subject to a life interest, to found three Bye-fellowships (to be called "Ley Fellowships") at Jesus College, Cambridge, in memory of the Rev. Thomas Dummer Ley, late of Hingham, in the county of Norfolk, and formerly member of the College. The property came into the hands of the College in 1837, and three Bye-fellowships in conormity with the bequest have been founded.

The "Ley Fellows" are required to be graduates of the University, and they cease to be fellows on this foundation at the xpiration of 12 years from the time at which they were of ufficient standing to complete the B.A. degree.

1840. Rev. Edward Otter, M.A., formerly fellow of the College, gave the dividend of his fellowship for one year, which

having been increased from the funds of the College, forms a Divinity Prize of £21, and is open every two years to Bachelors of Arts.

1854. The present society consists of the master and 16 foundation fellows, besides three bye-fellows. With the exception of the fellow appointed by the Bishop of Ely, all the fellowships and foundation scholarships are open to all Her Majesty's subjects, without any restriction or appropriation whatever. On the occasion of a vacancy in a foundation fellowship, the master and fellows nominate two candidates, and the Bishop of Ely elects one of them to fill the vacant fellowship.

The scholars are generally elected from those students who most distinguish themselves at the annual College examination which takes place at the division of the Easter Term. The foundation scholars are allowed their commons free during residence.

All the scholarships and exhibitions, except the Rustat scholarships, are freely open to competition, when properly qualified candidates are not found among those students to whom such scholarships and exhibitions are, in the first place, restricted.

In addition to the Scholarships and Exhibitions, prizes of books are given to the most distinguished students of each year in Classics and Mathematics at the College examination.

Two prizes of books, each of the value of 3 guineas, are awarded by the College, for the best Latin and the best English Declamations.

The ecclesiastical patronage of the College consists of the right of presentation to 16 Church livings.

CHRIST'S COLLEGE.

FOUNDED 1505, A.D.

THIS College received its first Charters and endowment from KING HENRY VI; but owes its present foundation to the pious munificence of the LADY MARGARET, COUNTESS OF RICHMOND and DERBY, mother of King Henry VII.

In or about the year 1439, William Byngham, parson of St John Zachary in London, petitioned King Henry VI. in favour of his grammar scholars, for whom he had erected a house, called God's HOUSE, adjacent to Clare Hall; and three years later he obtained a Royal Charter of incorporation for the same.

The site being subsequently required for King's College, which the King was about to found, God's House was removed, A.D. 1446, to St Andrew's Street (then called Preacher Street), where Christ's College now stands; and in 1448, the King granted to it a new Charter, with certain property, taking upon himself (on William Byngham's earnest entreaty) the character of founder, and designing to give sufficient endowment for the maintenance of a proctor and scholars,-in all sixty persons. The revenues actually granted, however, only sufficed for a proctor and four scholars.

In the year 1505, the Lady Margaret, being desirous of completing the College according to the intentions of Henry VI, obtained from the King, her son, a new Charter for a master and scholars, not exceeding sixty persons, under the authority of which she granted liberal endowments for the maintenance of the same, and changed the name of God's House into Christ's College. The letters patent, bearing date May 1, 20 Hen. VII. recognise the Lady Margaret as the foundress, and incorporate the Society under the title of “The Master or Keeper and Scholars of Christ's College, in the University of Cambridge, by Henry VI, King of England first begun, and after his decease augmented, finished, and established ›y Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby, mother of King Henry VII.*"

* On the occasion of the opening of Christ's College. "Anno Domini 1507, erat ommessatio solennis Cantabriggia in Ecclesia Fratrum Minorum præsente illusissimo Henrico Septimo, cum Principe Walliæ Henrico filio suo cum Regina matre

The Foundress gave Statutes for the government of the College, bearing the date of 1506, A.D., which open with the dedication: "Ad Honorem Christi Jesu, et fidei ejus incrementum."

The statutes prescribe that there shall be a Master, twelve Fellows, and forty-seven Scholars on the foundation, but that other students (Pensionarii), studious and of good morals, may be admitted to the College.

The fellows are elected by the master and fellows.

When a vacancy occurs, an election is to be made from the scholars of the College, if that can conveniently be done; if not, from others in the University: provided always that the person chosen be from the more virtuous, more learned, and poorer sort. At the time of election, the fellow must be M.A., or B.A. at least, of whom there is good hope that he will in time become a learned and virtuous man; and must, if not already, be in priest's orders within one year after his admission.

Those candidates for fellowships are to be preferred, who are in other respects equal, but who have poor friends, and have more need than others.

The statutes require that there shall be always six fellows of the following nine counties: Northumberland, Durham, Westmoreland, Cumberland, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire,

Regis et cæteris Regni magnatibus, in quibus, solennis præter cæteros in aliis facultatibus creabantur duodecim Doctores in Theologia seculares inter quos Willielmus Woderove Custos istius Collegii de Clare unus quidem erat Doctor creatus qui respondebat coram Rege in Vesperiis prædictis opponente scilicet acutissimo Theologo Doctore Fysher, Roffensi Episcopo Universitatis Cancellario per partem actus, et Doinino Galfrido Blyth Lichfieldiensi et Coventriensi Episcopo Sacræ itidem Theologiæ professore et aliis ejusdem facultatis et juris."

Fuller, in his history, describes Mr Hugh Latimer as being a member of Christ's College, and Cross Keeper of the University about the year 1525. The following extract, however, from a record preserved at Clare Hall, is conclusive evidence that Latimer was, while an undergraduate, a member of Clare Hall:-"1509. Anno Regni Regis Henrici tunc Octavi primo decimo octavo Kalendas Januarias electi erant in Socios istius Collegii, Dominus Hugo Sneder et Dominus Willielmus Cunney in Artibus Baccalarei. Et eodem anno 14• Kalendas ejusdem mensis electus erat in Bibliotista Willielmus Cove et sexdecim ferme annorum sextum decimum, videlicet completurus annum circa Pascham futuram. Et circa Festum Purificationis proximo sequens eligebantur in Socios istius Collegii, Dominus Joannes Pomel, et Dominus Willielmus Pynder in Artibus Bachalarii et Dominus Hugo Latemer Questionista.”