Dr Fuller, in his History of Cambridge, states that in the year 1634, there were one Master, 12 Fellows, 14 Scholars, with other students, besides officers and servants of the foundation; the whole number being three score.

1730. Dr Allen by will gave the reversion of an estate (Assington) to found two scholarships of £10 per annum, more or less. The College came into possession of this property in 1781, and the two scholarships were then established.

The founder reserves a preference:-1, to his nearest kindred: 2, to scholars from Richmond School in Yorkshire: 3, from any other School in Yorkshire: 4, to scholars from the diocese of Norwich: 5, to scholars from the town and county of Cambridge. From the increased rental of the estate, each was raised to 12 guineas. The present value of each of these scholarships is £18 a year.

1734. Dr Chetwode gave £150 to the College to found a scholarship, for the due attendance of a scholar in taking care of the Chapel.

1704. Mrs Oxenden, widow of Dr Oxenden, in compliance with his intentions, gave £150 to found a scholarship, to be held by a scholar of the College, in addition to any other scholarship; and preference to be given, first to the son of a Kentish clergyman, then to the sons of clergymen in general.

1821. Horatio Goodbehere left to the College, subject to a life interest, funded property producing nearly £100 per annum, for the purpose of founding a fellowship on such terms as they might think best. The College, on coming into possession of the property in 1849, applied this bequest, augmented from the general funds of the College, to found a clerical fellowship, and requiring residence for the greater part of each term. Any graduate in Arts or a student in Civil Law who has performed the exercises for the degree of Bachelor of Laws may be a candidate for this fellowship. This fellow may be elected into either of the other clerical fellowships, and may hold College offices, and also be presented to College livings. He is also allowed rooms rent-free, and 28. per diem when in residence.

1849. The society, in order to promote the purposes of the foundation, established from the general funds of the College

some Law studentships, to assist meritorious and distinguished students of the College, who, having completed the usual residence for a B.A or LL.B. degree, are prosecuting their studies with a view to practising at the Bar, or as advocates at Doctors' Commons. These studentships are of the annual value of £50, and are tenable according to circumstances for two or three years. It is intended that one shall be at the disposal of the College every year.

Graduates in Arts, and such students in Civil Law as have performed the exercises requisite for the degree of LL.B., are eligible to these studentships, in the conferring of which the society is guided by the places of the candidates in any of the four University Triposes, in the Classes of the Regius Professor of Civil Law, and by any University or College distinctions they may have obtained.

1854. The present society consists of the Master, 12 Foundation Fellows, and one Bye-fellow.

The fellowships are open to all her majesty's subjects wheresoever born, without restriction. Graduates in Arts, not of less standing than within one year of the time of incepting as M.A., and students of three years' standing in Civil Law, are eligible to vacant fellowships.

Of the 12 foundation fellows, according to present practice, 10 are laymen, and generally engaged in practice at the Bar, or as advocates in Doctors' Commons, two are in Orders, and are the Tutors of the College. The bye-fellow acts as an Assistant Tutor. The Statutes contain no restriction as to the time of holding the fellowships, but according to practice, they become vacated by marriage, or resignation, or by taking Church-preferment beyond the value prescribed by the Statutes.

The Master receives the same stipend as each of the fellows, and also certain allowances and benefactions of small aggregate value. In 1851, according to the Report of the Commissioners, each fellow received a stipend of £150 a year, which had been the stipend for some years past, besides an allowance of 2s. a day when in residence. The tutors also have their rooms rent-free.

In the Declaratio Status Collegii made in the reign of Henry

VIII, the scholarships are denoted by the names of their respective founders; and the stipends of the scholars are of the amount stated in the deeds of foundation, that is to say, 10d. or 1s. a week. In the register of admissions to scholarships up to about the year 1610, the particular foundation with the value, which was then also 10d. or 1s. per week, is specified; after this we have no further mention of the value, and the foundation is rarely stated. The last specification is that of a scholar from Norwich with Archbishop Parker's scholarship, which was then of more value than the others, as a money-payment was made to it. This occurs about 1635. After this the scholarships seem to have been equalized, and it is no longer possible to assign all the scholarships severally to their respective founders. In 1791 all the scholars received 28. per week during residence, and 7s. 6d. at Christmas, without distinction. The emoluments were then increased to 58. 3d. per week, and the Christmas payment was abolished. They remained in this state till 1828, when they were further raised to 4 guineas per term, and two sums of £20 were assigned annually to the most deserving. In 1833, three of the scholarships were raised to £20 per annum. In the year 1840, the £20 rewards were abolished, and some of the scholarships were largely augmented by grants from the general funds of the College; and besides the two founded by Dr Allen, the following arrangements were then made with respect to the rest, which still exist.

3 Scholarships of the First Class of 50 Guineas a year each.

The scholarships are open (except the two founded by Dr Allen), and are awarded according to merit to those Undergraduates who distinguish themselves at the College Examinations, which take place at the end of the Lent Term and the division of the Easter Term of the first or second year, and are tenable during residence, until the scholar is of sufficient standing to be admitted to the B.A. degree. One of the first class scholarships and one of the second class, are awarded annually to the students who obtain the first and second places respectively in the College Examinations of the first year: and some of the

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 end 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.