Ashton in Wiltshire, valued at £120 a year, to Magdalene College, after the decease of Mr Robert Wake, for the maintenance of one Fellow for ever.

This fellow must be a gentleman's son, B. A., born in Norfolk, and designed for Holy Orders. He may hold his fellowship for nine years, and must spend some good part of the time in travelling and visiting foreign parts; and the fellowship to be accordingly called "the Norfolk Travelling Fellowship." The net value of this fellowship is now from £270 to £290 per annum.

1721. The Rev. Thomas Millner, vicar of Boxhill, in the county of Sussex, by his will of that date, and as corrected by a codicil dated Sept. 5, 1722, gave to the College £1000, after the death of his sister, to be paid within twelve months after her decease, and within three years after that date to be laid out in a purchase of land for the founding of three Scholarships, to be called "the Millner Scholarships," open to the schools of Heversham, Halifax and Leeds.

1724. John Millington, D.D., by his will founded one Fellowship and four Exhibitions, appropriated to scholars from Shrewsbury School. It was provided that the fellowship should not commence till forty years after the date of the deed of settlement, namely in 1764.

A new scheme was obtained for the regulation of this charity in 1817. The value of the fellowship is fixed at £126 per annum; and whenever the funds will allow of it, a second fellowship of like value is to be founded.

By the same scheme the four exhibitions were fixed at £63 each.

In default of scholars from Shrewsbury School, these exhibitions are open.

1736. Mrs. Millner died this year, and left £200 to the College to make the number of Millner Scholarships four, pursuant to the original design of Mr Millner, béfore he annexed the codicil.

If Magdalene College do not observe the conditions, or misapply the funds, they shall forfeit the whole to St John's College. These scholarships are each worth £65 per annum.

1734. Mr James Millington left by will two Scholarships*, to bear his name, of £20 each, appropriated to youths born in Frankwell, and educated in the first instance at the Hospital in that parish, and afterwards at the free grammar-school in Shrewsbury.

1760. Rev. Groom, vicar of Childerdish in Essex, left the College a rent-charge of £30 per annum, to be divided into three Exhibitions of £10 each, which are to be given to sizars, sons of clergymen, and to those of Essex in preference to others.

1775. Margaret Dongworth, spinster, of Old Elvet, Durham, left a legacy to the College for the augmentation of the smaller bye-fellowships.

1797. Peter Peckard, D.D., Master of the College, gave a benefaction to found two Scholarships, perfectly open without any restrictions, to be called, "The Ferrars Scholarships." These scholarships are each of the value of £52. 5s. per annum.

Dr Peckard also left a property to the College, in which the bye-fellows on Sir Christopher Wray's foundation are equal sharers with the foundation fellows of the College, receiving £50 a year each. The master receives two dividends.

1832. The College from its general funds founded a Scholarship, of the annual value of £52. 5s.

1835. The College founded a Scholarship of £40 per annum, tenable for three years, and appropriated to a student from King's College, London. It has since been opened to students from Eton College also.

The Pepysian benefaction of £50 a year is derived from the publication of "Pepys' Diary," and by the generosity of Lord Braybrooke, the present Visitor, is bestowed on the College, with a provision that it should be in the gift of the Master. It is given by the Master from year to year, with the advice of the tutors, to the most deserving of the poor scholars.

* These have been ineffective for some time through default of properly qualified claimants, but a new scheme is at present (1851) being carried out, which will benefit both the town of Shrewsbury and Magdalene College; it is proposed to make them 401. each per annum.

1854. The present Society consists of the Master, four Foundation Fellows, besides thirteen Bye-fellows, all of whom, with two exceptions, are equally unrestricted as to counties. The election of the fellows is made wholly according to the merit of the candidates and in conformity with the statutes. All the fellows are required to enter into holy orders within three years after their election, if it should please the Master. The statutes provide with respect to candidates for fellowships, that " Nemo pro Socio eligibilis habeatur qui a Magistro ac æquali parte suffragiorum sociorum non approbetur, qui antea examinatus non fuerit, qui Regis auctoritatem post Christum supremam ex conscientia non agnoverit, qui canonicas Scripturas Patribus ac Conciliis humanis omnibus non anteposuerit, denique qui Idololatriam ac cultum superstitiosum cum corporali juramento ante admissionem non abjuraverit."

The gross income of the College from various sources, together with the rents of rooms and fixed college payments, in the year 1851 amounted to about £4130. The payments made out of this sum for stipends, the establishment expenses of the college, and fixed allowances to the bye-fellows, made up about £2440, leaving £1690 to be divided into six portionstwo for the master, and one for each of the four foundation fellows.

In addition to his dividend and the allowance from the Peckard benefaction, each foundation fellow has his rooms rentfree, and an allowance of some £28 per annum for commons, the master receiving twice that sum on the same account.

The scholars on the different foundations are elected by the master and fellows, after an examination in classical literature, and a given subject in divinity, which takes place in the Lent Term. The Statutes direct that in every election those who are learned and poor are to be preferred, and especially those who intend to enter into Holy Orders, and a married man is not excluded from holding a scholarship. No provision was made by the founder for the maintenance of any scholars.

The number of sizars admitted is at present limited to four, and the appointment is claimed by the master. The sizars have their commons free, and receive a certain small payment

each term, which varies with the number of noblemen or fellow-commoners on the boards; and are eligible to scholarships and exhibitions as other students.

"Certain small sums were left under wills at different times for the assistance of sizars, as well as poor scholars, but most of them appear to have been lost to the College some way or other."

Prizes of books of the value of £2. 12s. 6d. are given to each of the most distinguished proficients of the three years, at the general College Examination in classics and mathematics, which takes place at the division of the Easter Term.

A Prize is given of two guineas to the best reader of the lessons in the College-chapel.

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

FOUNDED 1546, A.D.

Virtus vera nobilitas.

HENRY VIII. by Letters Patent dated the 19th December, in the thirty-eighth year of his reign, to the glory and honour of Almighty God, and the Holy and undivided T..nity, for the amplification and establishment of the Christian and true religion; the extirpation of heresy and false opinion, the increase and continuance of divine learning and all kinds of good letters, the knowledge of the tongues, the education of youth in piety, virtue, learning and science, the relief of the poor and destitute, the prosperity of the Church of Christ, and the common good and happiness of his kingdom and subjects,-founded and established on the site and precincts of the late Hall and College, commonly called the King's Hall, and of a certain late College of St Michael, commonly called Michael-house, and also of a certain house called Phiswick's Hostel, and of another house called Oving's Inn*; and of one lane lying and being between

* Edward II. by letters patent in the 17th year of his reign, A.D. 1324, to the honour of God, and in augmentation of divine learning, granted and licence gave to his beloved clerk and liege, Hervie Aungier of Stanton in Suffolk, chancellor of the Exchequer, that he might institute and found for all time to endure, in a certain messuage, with the appurtenances in Cambridge, what he had acquired to himself in fee, a certain House of scholars, chaplains, and others, under the name of the House of Scholars of St Michael in Cambridge, to be ruled by a certain master of the same House, according to the ordinance of him the said Hervie. And that the said Hervie might give and assign the messuage aforesaid, with the appurtenances, to the aforesaid Master and Scholars: and that he might give and assign to them the advowson of the church of St Michael in Cambridge, with the appurtenances, and to their successors for ever, so that they might appropriate the same, and hold it appropriated, in aid of their sustentation.

Hervie de Stanton, by a charter dated Thursday before the Feast of St Michael, 1324, founded the House of St Michael, and granted and assigned to the Master and Scholars and their successors, a place of habitation in his messuage, situate in the parish of St Michael, in the street called Milne Street, which he had purchased of Master Roger, the son of the Lord Guy Buttetourte, for ever. By the same charter he made ordinances and statutes for the government of the College: all the scholars were to be priests, or at least in Holy Orders, within a year from the time of their admission. During the reign of Edward II. another licence was granted to Hervie de Stanton to purchase houses for the purpose of enlarging his College.

Hervie de Stanton died at York in 1337, and his body was brought in great state to Cambridge, and was buried in the midst of his scholars, according to his request, in the great chancel of St Michael's Church.