propriate decorations. The present Altar was erected in 1740, and in the same style of design and enrichment with the later alterations in the interior of the Chapel. The Altar Piece, by Isaac Fuller, was placed here about the year 1680. This picture, with all its imperfections, inspired the muse of Addison, who made it the subject of an elegant Latin poem, while he was a Demy of this College. Underneath this painting is a very fine picture of Christ bearing his Cross. The connoisseurs were divided in their opinion respecting the master who produced it; some attribute the work to Guido, and others to Ludovico Caracci: but it is now given to Moralez, styled El Divino, a Spanish artist, who flourished in the sixteenth century. The figures in the back ground are undoubtedly from another pencil; but whose hand guided it is a matter of doubt among the judges of the arts. It was brought from Vigo, in 1702, by the last Duke of Ormond; and afterwards coming into the possession of William Freeman, Esq. of Hamels, in Hertfordshire, he presented it to the College. Sherwin's beautiful engraving from this picture is well known. The new Organ was also the gift of Mr. Freeman. In the year 1793, the old roof being decayed, a new one was placed on the Chapel and the Hall, under the direction of Mr. Wyatt, which cost the College upwards of £4000, paid out of the incomes of the President and Fellows. With the same liberal spirit they furnished the expense of the windows in

the ante-chapel, to the amount of £1400. Over the western entrance are five small figures, which are among the finest specimens of ancient sculpture in Oxford, and are coeval with the Chapel. They represent St. John the Baptist, St. Mary Magdalene, Henry III. William of Wykeham, and the Founder. The latter and Henry III. are in a kneeling posture. Service is performed in this Chapel at ten in the morning, and at four in the afternoon, except on Sundays and Holydays, when the morning service begins at eight o'clock. The fine columns which support the roof of the antechapel merit attention. In the ante-chapel are several monuments, one of which is to the me mory of the two sons of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, members of this College, who were bathing in the river Cherwell, when one of them, being in danger of drowning, cried out for aid; his bróther immediately rushed to his assistance; but unfortunately they both perished. Cowley, the poet, wrote an elegy on the eldest of these two brothers. The University Sermons are preached here on the Festivals of St. Mark and St. John the Baptist.

On leaving the Chapel we enter the great quadrangle, with its fine cloister, which was begun by the Founder, in 1473, and retains its primitive figure as Waynflete left it, with the exception of the south ambulatory, which was added after his death, in 1490. It is formed by the Chapel, Hall, and Library, the ancient

part of the President's Lodgings, and the apartments of the Fellows and Demies. The Kitchen is very ancient, and was a part of St. John's Hospital. The interior of the quadrangle is remarkable for the hieroglyphics which decorate it, and whose singular devices have employed the conjectures of the curious antiquary. They were originally coloured. The following description of them is abridged from a manuscript preserved in the Library :

"Beginning from the south-west corner, the "two first figures are the Lion and the Pelican. "The former of these is the emblem of Cou66 rage and Vigilance; the latter of Parental "Tenderness and Affection. Both of them "express the complete character of a good Go❝vernor of a College. Accordingly, they are "placed under the window of those Lodgings "which originally belonged to the President, "as the instructions they convey ought parti"cularly to regulate his conduct.

"Going on to the right hand, on the other "side of the gateway, are four figures, viz. The "Schoolmaster, the Lawyer, the Physician, and "the Divine. These are ranged on the outside "of the Library, and represent the duties and "business of the students of the house. By

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means of learning in general they are to be "introduced to one of the three learned pro❝fessions; or else, as hinted by the figure with 66 cap and bells in the corner, they must turn "fools in the end.

"On the north side of the quadrangle, the three first figures represent the history of "David, his conquest over the Lion and Go"liah: whence we are taught not to be dis"couraged at any difficulties that may stand "in our way, as the vigour of youth will easily "enable us to surmount them. The next figure "to these is that of Hippopotamos, or the "River Horse, carrying his young one upon "his shoulders. This is the emblem of a good "Tutor, or Fellow of a College, who is set to "watch over the youth of the society, and by "whose prudence they are to be led through "the dangers of their first entrance into the "world. The figure immediately following re

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presents Sobriety or Temperance, that most "necessary virtue of a collegiate life. The ❝ whole remaining train of figures are the Vices "we are instructed to avoid. Those next to "Temperance are, the opposite Vices of Glut66 tony and Drunkenness. Then follow the Lu"canthropos, the Hyæna, and Panther, repre❝senting Violence, Fraud, and Treachery; the "Griffin, representing Covetousness; and the "next figure, Anger or Moroseness. The Dog, "the Dragon, and the Deer-Flattery, Envy, "and Timidity; and the three last, the Manti"chora, the Boxers, and the Lamia-Pride, "Contention, and Lust."

On the south-side of the Chaplains' Court, rises the beautiful TOWER, whose stately form, fine proportions, admirable simplicity, and pic

turesque effect, delight the eye in whatever point of view it is contemplated. The foundation of this structure was laid, August 9, 1492, by Dr. Richard Mayew, President: and it was finished in 1498.

Previously to the Reformation, a mass was performed every May-day morning, at an early hour, on the top of this Tower, for the repose of the soul of Henry VII. who had honoured the College with a visit in 1486-7. The choristers continue to execute, in the same place, and on the same day, certain pieces of choir music; for which harmonious service the rectory of Slymbridge, in Gloucestershire, pays the yearly sum of ten pounds. This ceremony has encouraged the notion, that Henry contributed to the erection of the Tower: but his only recorded act of favour to the College is, the confirmation of its claim to the rectory charged with the annual payment.

The Chaplains' Court was begun soon after the Tower was completed, but not finished till about the first of Henry VIII. At the same time the range of building, which forms the south-side of the first court, was altered and improved. The buildings at the east end of the Hall were erected in 1635; and in 1783, those on the north-side of the Kitchen, which had originally been part of the Hospital, and appropriated to the Lodgings of the Divinity Lecturer, junior Demies' Common Room, &c. were taken down, and the present buildings erected,