A DORSET WORTHY. 21 



S. d. 



It. paid for lace for the collars . . . . ..030 



It. paid Mrs. Gillingham for making of 2 sur- 

 plices 070 



It. paid for a hoode for Mr. Stone . . . . 165 



Mr. Stone was held in high reputation in the University 

 of Oxford as well as in his native town of Wimborne ; and on 

 July 6th, 1663, he was appointed Principal of New Inn Hall 

 there. 



As one of the conditions of the appointment of the Ministers 

 at this time was that they should make their continual resi- 

 dence in Wimborne, in all probability Stone would have to 

 resign his position as Presbyter of the Minster on his appoint- 

 ment to his new post in Oxford. 



It is, however, the case that, shortly after this time, we 

 constantly find the Ministers of Wimborne combining their 

 work there with the charge of other parishes. If this were the 

 case with Stone, perhaps he would be allowed to remain at 

 Oxford during term time, and, during the remaining half of 

 the year, would carry on his ministerial work in Wimborne. 



New Inn Hall was one of the few hospices for students in 

 Oxford which survived the Reformation. The Halls were 

 originally private houses rented by students who elected 

 their own Principal, though at a later date the Chancellor of 

 the University usurped the nomination. The Halls had little 

 or no endowments, and, consequently, could not hold their 

 ground along with the well-endowed Colleges which took their 

 place, or which in some cases were actually grafted upon 

 them. Those which remained came into the hands of 

 neighbouring Colleges and were gradually absorbed by them. 

 Thus, by virtue of a statute framed by the Oxford University 

 Commissioners (1881), about the same time that two other 

 Halls ceased to exist as separate institutions, New Inn Hall, 

 upon the death of Dr. Cornish, its last Principal, in 1887, 

 was incorporated in Balliol College. St. Edmund Hall is the 

 only society of the kind now existing in Oxford. 



