George Carter, sometime Provost, who bequeathed his whole fortune for this purpose, and the purchase of livings, for the benefit of the College. In 1818 a considerable addition was made to this College by the erection of a handsome stone building, which contains fifteen sets of rooms for members of the Society, erected at the sound end and the back of Bishop Robinson's building. The Provost's Lodgings were, at the same time, repaired and very much improved.

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The LIBRARY stands between Robinson's and Carter's buildings. It was built after a design of Wyatt, and is considered as one of the most perfect pieces of architecture in Oxford, but wants the advantage of situation. The front, with equal grandeur and simplicity, exhibits only the Ionic order; all the parts are great and commanding, the ornaments few, and the whole harmonious. This Library contains a good collection of books. To those originally belonging to it, has been added a very curious and valuable collection by the bequest of the late Edward Baron Leigh, of Stoneleigh, in Warwickshire, who was sometime a Nobleman of this College, and afterwards High Steward of the University. He died in 1786, and the expenses of this building, which was begun in 1788, were supplied by the subscription of the Provost, Fellows, and other members of the Society, as well as of the Honourable Mrs. Leigh, his Lordship's sister. There is a curi

ous picture in the Library, by Vasari, presented by James Clutterbuck Smith, Esq. The subject of it is a group of the Italian writers, Guido Calvacanti, Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch, Politian, and M. Ficinus. The two fine pillars in this room are very much admired. A new room, adjoining to the gallery, is fitted up with some of the rich wainscotting which was part of the furniture of New College Chapel, previously to the alterations in 1789. Under the Library is a very elegant Common Room, which is ornamented with a portrait of Dr. Eveleigh, the late Provost, by Hoppner.

The CHAPEL was completed in 1642. In 1677, the high altar was paved with black and white marble, and the following year the whole of it was very much improved in consequence of the legacies of Samuel Short and Charles Perrot, Masters of Arts, and Fellows of this College. The subject of the east window is, The Presentation of our Saviour in the Temple, by Peckitt, of York, after a design of Dr. -Wall, of Worcester. In the Ante-Chapel is a marble monument of Henry Edmunds, LL.D. who died in 1746, and a very handsome one, by Westmacott, to the memory of Dr. George Carter, erected at the expense of Dr. Eveleigh, in 1811. This Chapel was improved, and the seats enlarged in 1818.

The HALL was built in 1637. It is entered by a flight of steps, with an embattled portico, over which are the statues of the Virgin Mary

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and Child, and those of the Kings Edward II. and III. in canopied niches: above them a circular pediment, supported by pilasters and decorated with vases, rises before the roof. The room, which is 50 feet long and 20 wide, is fitted up with a handsome wainscot, and an entablature of the Doric order. At the upper end is a portrait of Edward II. enthroned, by Hudson; to the right is that of Queen Anne, by Dahl; on the left the Duke of Beaufort, in his parliamentary robes, with a negro servant bearing his coronet, by Soldi. In one of the windows are the arms of Pierrepoint, Duke of Kingston, with the motto, Pie repone te. There are two curious cups belonging to this Hall, the one presented by the Founder, the other by Bishop Carpenter.

The Founder of this College was Edward II. who had the character of a scholar and a patron of learning. It was founded in 1326, for a Provost and ten Fellows. The number of Fellows has since been increased by various benefactions. Four were added by John Frank, Master of the Rolls, in the time of Henry VI.; one by John Carpenter, Bishop of Worcester, about the year 1476; one by William Smyth, Bishop of Lincoln, 1507; and two by Richard Dudley, Chancellor of the Church of Salisbury, 1529. The present foundation is for a Provost, eighteen Fellows, and fifteen Exhibitioners. The foundation of this College was first suggested

to Edward II. by his almoner, Adam de Brome, who was appointed the first Provost.

The number of members on the books is usually about 220.

At a short distance from this College, northward, is

ST. MARY HALL.

The Porter's Lodge is the first room on the right of the quadrangle.

The buildings of this Hall compose a quadrangle, formed by the Principal's Lodgings on the north, the Hall and Chapel on the south, and on the east and west, by apartments for the Students.

The CHAPEL was built in 1640, at the expense of several benefactions. In 1777 John Oswald, Bishop of Raphoe, gave one hundred pounds for repairing it. In it is a curious epitaph on Dr. William King, formerly a Principal of this Hall, drawn up by himself. He was buried in Ealing church, Middlesex, but ordered his heart to be preserved in this Chapel. This Hall was formerly a tenement given by Henry Kelpe, a citizen of Oxford, in 1239, to the Rector of St. Mary's Church, and his successors, and continued to be the parsonage house of the Rectors, till Edward II., in 1325, gave the church, with all its appurtenances, to the Provost and Fellows of Oriel College, who converted it into an Academical Hall, in 1333.

The establishment consists of nearly 70 members.

To continue our tour through the University and City, it is necessary to return, to pass by Oriel College, and, when at the end of the lane, by walking a few paces to the left, we arrive at

CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE.

The Porter's Lodge is the first room on the right on entering the quadrangle.

This College is opposite to the south-side of Oriel. The entrance to Corpus, as it is usually called, is under a square tower, in the front of which are three unoccupied niches, with rich canopies. The quadrangle is 101 feet by 80. In the centre of it is a curious cylindrical dial, constructed in 1605, by Charles Turnbull, M.A. and Fellow. On the south-side of this quadrangle is a statue of the Founder, with the crosier and the mitre. In 1706, the Fellows' building was erected on the site of the old cloisters. It is 119 feet in front, and is a beautiful piece of architecture. The central pediment is supported by four plain Ionic pilasters; and the basement story, being devoid of rustic work, heightens the elegant simplicity of the elevation. The front is opposite to the Wide Walk of Christ Church. Several rooms on the east-side of the College, next to Merton Grove, were taken down in 1737, and rebuilt for the residence of Gentlemen Commoners,