In 1851, the aggregate net proceeds of the estates were £92. 14s. 8d. Any surplus remaining, after the payments to the fellows and scholars, is to be appropriated to the benefit of the College, or to be distributed among poor sizars at the discretion of the master and fellows.

1626. Rev. Thomas Wilson, by Will, gave £200 to the master and fellows of Christ's College, to purchase lands for the endowment of three Scholarships, each of £5 per annum, for scholars from the Free Grammar School of Kirkby Lonsdale. These Scholarships are now each of the value of £20 per

annum.

1622. Thomas Hallwood gave £400 by Will to the wardens and Company of Ironmongers, upon trust, that the wardens, together with his executors, should pay the rents and profits every half year to four poor scholars studying divinity: two at Magdalene College, Oxford, and two at Christ's College, Cambridge (or such other two Colleges as the wardens and his executors 'should allow and appoint), for their better maintenance for the period of three years, if they continue to reside and study divinity. A preference is reserved by the founder in favour of any of his own kindred who might stand in need of assistance, while studying divinity at the University of Oxford or Cambridge.

The Exhibitioners are chosen by the Company at their quarterly courts, and £4 per annum is paid to each of the four Exhibitioners for three years, unless before the expiration of that time he takes a degree, or ceases to reside in the University.

1661. John Harvey, Esq., of Thurleigh, in Bedfordshire, gave a small estate towards the maintenance of a poor Scholar, born at Thurleigh, or in the county of Bedford, and in default of such, for one to be appointed by the master. This Exhibition is tenable for four years, but cannot be held by one of the standing for the degree of M.A. In 1851 the net proceeds of the estate were £9. 11s. 1ld.

1662. John Brown, gent., gave the rent of an estate at Islington, for Exhibitions of £10 each, towards the maintenance of six Scholars of Christ's Hospital at the University of

Cambridge, of which three were to be entered at Christ's College, and to enjoy the benefaction not longer than seven years. In 1837 the rental of the estate was reported to be £92 per

annum.

1681. Seth Ward, D.D., Lord Bishop of Sarum, gave lands, &c., for founding four Scholarships, to be called the Buntingford Scholarships of his foundation. Each scholar is to receive £12 a year, unless the revenue of the lands, &c. be less than £48 a year, in which case each shall be abated proportionally. The scholarships are appropriated to persons born in Hertfordshire, and educated in some free school in that county, with preference, cæteris paribus, to those educated in the Grammar School of Buntingford; and of them, to such as have been born in the parish of Aspeden, or the town of Buntingford.

In case of vacancies, if there be no person fit in respect of learning or other qualifications from the school of Buntingford, or from the other schools of the county of Hertford, then the master and fellows are to elect, out of the students of the College, such as they shall judge to be most deserving. The profits during a vacancy of one of these scholarships are to be reserved for the successor.

The revenues of this benefaction arise partly from an estate in land, and partly from fee-farm rents. In 1851 the proceeds. of the estate were £96. 11s. 8d., and of the fee-farm rents £17.3s. The surplus, after paying the scholars £12 each, is directed to be divided equally between the master of Buntingford School and the College.

1688. The Rev. Dr Widdrington founded four Exhibitions, each of £5 a year, for four of the Lady Margaret's scholars who are found to be the most promising and best grounded in Greek and Latin, and approved to be so in the judgment of the Lady Margaret's Professor and the Public Orator. These Exhibitions are paid out of the profits of an estate purchased with money, left partly by Dr Widdrington and partly by Mr William Petyt.

1692. Thomas Otway, D.D., Bishop of Ossory, by will gave a benefaction to found three Scholarships, for scholars from the Grammar School of Kirkby Lonsdale, or in default of such,

from Sedburgh School, with a preference, cæteris paribus, to those of the name of Otway, and of the township of Middleton. In 1851, the net proceeds of the estate out of which these scholarships are paid, amounted to £21. 38. 7d.

1704. The Rev. Thomas Plume, D.D., gave £100 to the College on condition that they should allow an annual exhibition of £6 towards the maintenance of one Scholar, educated (1) at Maldon, (2) at Chelmsford, (3) at Brentwood, (4) in the county of Essex.

1705. Mr William Petyt bequeathed £200, to be laid out by his executor, Mr Sylvester Petyt, with the advice of the master and fellows of Christ's College, in such a manner as should be thought best for the augmentation of such poor scholars as shall be entered of the College; with preference to scholars from the Free Grammar School of Skipton.

Theshare of the profits from the lands so purchased belonging to Mr Petyt's benefaction amounts to about £18.10s. per annum. Mr Sylvester Petyt directed that £20 should be yearly paid to the College, to be equally divided among three scholars from the Grammar School at Skipton. In default of such scholars, the unclaimed Exhibitions are to be bestowed on such poor scholars of the College as the master and fellows shall think fit, until claimants from Skipton School shall be admitted of the College.

1736. Rev. Christopher Clarke granted certain lands, &c. to the College, to the intent that one Exhibition of £10 a year should be paid to a student of the College, such as the master and four seniors, or the major part of them, shall think most deserving as to morality and learning.

A student born in Norfolk or Norwich, and brought up in the Free-school of Norwich, is to have the preference. This Exhibition is tenable by a Bachelor of Arts until he is of sufficient standing for the degree of M.A., if he resides nine calendar months every year.

1745. Diana, Lady Drury, of Pinckney Hall, Norfolk, gave four-fifths of the profits of two estates to be equally divided into two Exhibitions, and paid to two students of Christ's College whom the master and fellows shall think most deserving as to

Christian morality and good learning. A preference is reserved, cæteris paribus, to such as have been brought up at the Free Grammar Schools of Scarning, Holt, Swaffham, and Norwich. The value of each of these Exhibitions is now £30 a year, and they may be held with other scholarships.

1750. Mrs Beridge, of Kensington, gave to the College £100 for the promotion of scholarships. The sum of £4 is paid yearly out of the College funds to a deserving student as Mrs Beridge's scholarship.

1754. Christopher Tancred, Esq., of Whixley Hall, in the county of York, gave certain tenements to the master and fellows in trust, that they and their successors should apply the yearly profits of the same for ever, as an Exhibition for some young student in the said College, while he continues an undergraduate there; with a preference to a native (1) of Newmarket, (2) of the county of Cambridge, and in default of either of these, to such person from time to time as by the master and fellows should be thought expedient. The present value of this Exhibition is about £40 a year.

Mr Tancred also founded four Divinity Studentships at this College, and appointed seven governors and trustees who are the electors to these Studentships. A student when admitted to this charity, must be between sixteen and twenty-two years of age, a native of Great Britain, a member of the Church of England, and of such low abilities or pecuniary means, as not to be capable of obtaining a University education without the assistance of such charity. He must take the B.A. degree as soon as he is of sufficient standing, and may retain his Studentship for three years after adinission to that degree. In 1796 the value of each of these Studentships was £75; the present value of each is £107. 8s. per annum.

1807. Beilby Porteus, D.D., late Lord Bishop of London, transferred to the College the sum of £1200, stock, the interest of which is to be expended in the purchase of three gold medals, to be contended for by the students of the College in the following order: one medal of 15 guineas for the best Latin dissertation on some one of the Evidences of Christianity; another of 15 guineas for the best English composition on some moral

precept of the Gospel; and one of 10 guineas to the most distinct and graceful reader and regular attendant at chapel.

1851. The Rev. John Dowell Ridout, M.A., Fellow of the College, gave £100, the interest of which is to be expended annually in a prize of books, to encourage the study of the Greek Testament, and of the doctrines and formularies of the Church of England.

The examination for this prize takes place at the end of the Michaelmas Term, and is open to students in their third year.

1851. The Rev. Frederick Gell, M.A., Fellow of the College, gave £100, the interest of which is to be annually expended in a prize of books, to encourage the study of Biblical Hebrew. The examination for the prize takes place at the division of the Easter Term, and is open to undergraduates.

The statutes make no provision for sizars or sub-sizars. The College however admits four sizars, and occasionally more, who are selected by the master and fellows from those students who have resided some little time, and who seem by their good conduct, condition and circumstances in life, and acquirements, considered together, to be pointed out as most deserving of the bounty of the College. Occasionally, a student who has been recommended to the master and fellows by some one well known to them, as possessing more than ordinary ability, and as wanting money or friends to defray the expenses of a pensioner, has been received as a supernumerary sizar.

Each sizar receives £4 a year, has his commons free, and other advantages.

In addition to the Scholarships and Exhibitions, other prizes are awarded after the College examinations.

Three prizes of books, each of the value of three guineas, are given to three undergraduates, the most distinguished students respectively of the first, second, and third years.

Three prizes of books, each of the value of two guineas, are given to the second in each year.

Prizes of books are awarded to the two most distinguished students of the second and of the third year, who excel at the voluntary classical examination.