SOCIAL AND DOMESTIC ECONOMY. li; 



of the complainants is an increase in the number of the fel- 

 lows, more of whom, as is avowed in a statement of one 

 fellow, the revenues of the college could easily bear. But if 

 we take the name's as exhaustive, the college at this time 

 maintained thirty-five fellows. 



A suggestion is made that the land held by the college in 

 Little Wolford should be let to farm, and an enquiry be made 

 into the state of the college property at Stratton. From the 

 earliest times of its foundation this society seems to have 

 encouraged the system of tenant in contrast to bailiff farming. 

 One of the fellows suggests that a mill should be erected in 

 Seton, an estate possessed by the college in Durham. Many 

 complain that the college is careless in the appointment of 

 c economi,' that is, it appears, such persons as should be bound 

 to take account of the profits of the separate estates comprised 

 in the rent-roll of the society. 



There are some hints as to breaches of discipline and de- 

 corum. The fellows talk at dinner and make a noise in 

 their chambers. Some keep dogs, and neglect their studies. 

 There is a tendency towards undue smartness in dress among 

 some of the fellows, and two of the chaplains are reproved for 

 carelessness in chapel. One of these chaplains keeps a servant 

 in his chamber, with whom he seems to wrangle ; and is open 

 to reprehension on the score of his dress. Again, some of the 

 fellows are charged with being rude and quarrelsome. A few 

 of the writers in the Scrutiny confine themselves to observa- 

 tions as to the condition of the library, and there is a general 

 demand for copies of the decrees and decretals, that is, it 

 seems, for the books of the canon law. 



One of the fellows is charged with having broken the hall 

 door. Such a culprit must have been a precursor of that wild 

 member of the society, Richard Lythum, whose expulsion is re- 

 corded in vol. ii.p.667, under a deed fortified with the chancellor's 

 seal. The college seems to have taken the initiative, and to 

 have got the confirmation of this chief of the University. The 

 misconduct of this offending fellow is much the same as that 



