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of fir William Jones; the celebrated pene err a which was 
defigned and executed by John Flaxman, R. end 
highly creditable to the ica of the artit. The oe relief 
is furmounted by tigers’ heads, and reprefents the lamented 
fubje& of the funeral trophy engaged in a 
Hindu code, with Brahmins in attendance. 
ere was aed in 1669, and is furnifhed with a very 
valuable colleétion of books and MSS. 
Balliol college owes its foundation to John de Balliol, of 
Bernard’s caftle, in the county of Durham, father to the 
unfortunate king “a Scotland of the fame name. 
gentleman, who ed a tafte for literature, and a bene- 
volence of difpolition little prevalent in the thirteenth cen- 
tury, commenced it in the year 1263, and intended that it 
fhould maintain fixteen poor ee of Oxford. He died, 
the defign, and fo fuddenly 
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na fubfequent fteps to perpetuate the efta 
2 fhe appointed ftatutes under her fe a which a are in- 
tereftings becaufe they ferve to throw fome light on the 
modes of collegiate difcipline at that carly period. In 128 
the lady Dervorgille purchafed a tenement called Mary’s- 
hall, and having repaired and enlarged it, transferred the 
{cholars to this new refiderce, which was henceforth called 
college ftill continued penne f{mall, not yielding above 
eight-pence fer week to each fcholar. A number of bene- 
faGtors, however, foon ae and by their united contribu- 
tions conferred a "confiderable degree of opulence on the in- 
Hugh de Warkenby, and W 
meffuages, in School-ftreet, for the fupport of a chaplain to 
officiate in the oratory. In 1320, Richard de Hunfinfore 
ave a tenement in Oxford; but thefe aa were 
honours of a fecond founder. A new todo ftatutes was 
drawn out under his fanction, one article of = brig ‘ 
that the evel fhould henceforward be gov 
matter hefe ftatutes were confirmed hy Edward Balliol, 
when a 
oa 1507 this code was like- 
period, the moft eS were Thomas Harrope, rector 
. of Hafely ; Peter Blundell of Tiverton in Devonfhire ; lady 
Elizabeth Periam of Greenland, in Berkshire » lifter to the 
great lord Bacon; Dr. John basal bithop © ochefter ; 
and John Snell of Warwickthire 
a matter, ‘orelue ellows, fourteen fcholars, and 
eighteen pareve The vifitor is elected by the college, 
which is the only one in the univerfity that enjoys a like pri- 
vilege. John Wicliffe, the celebrated reformer, was one of 
the mafters of this college. 
The buildings of Balliol college were ereCted at various 
times on the fcite of the tenements or halls hired and pur- 
chafed by the lady Dervorgille, and are chiefly arranged 
found a iit which is 120 feet long and 80 broad, 
in the interior. ‘The front towards the ftreet prefents much 
i aed of ftru€ture. Over the entrance, in the centre, 
a fine {quare tower, embattled at the top, with an oriel 
window in front, — o a highly enriched and canopied che 
on each fide. ateway is likewife adorned with the 
arms of Balliol. The buildings to the eaft and weft of the 
tower were co nftruGted at t 
tions of the co 
larity of architeCture is vifible as on the outfide. The hall, 
and the refidence of the mafter, occupy its weftern fide ; 
the northern fide is compofed of the chapel and library, and 
the other fides are e 7 dad aoe as lodgings for the fellows 
and {cholars. The | 
r the fuperintendence of James 
Wyatt, archite@. Formerly this library was efteemed among 
the firft in the univerfity. Before the time of Edward VI. 
it was particularly richin MSS., above two hundred of which, 
highly illuminated, were prefented by Grey, bifhop of Ely, 
in 1454. oft of thefe, however, have been fince loft or 
deftroyed, but the colle&tion of printed books is ftill both 
valuable and extenfive 
Befides the quadran; le, there is an area on the north-weit, 
confifting of feveral detached lodgings for the ftudents. 
Thefe were purchafed and made over to the fociety by arch- 
bifhop Abbot. There is likewife a building Gulcaging to 
the college, at the fouth-weft angle of the quadrangle front- 
ing the ftreet. It was erected at the expence of Mr. Fifher 
late fellow of Balliol. 
Exeter college was founded in the year 1315, by Walter 
de sa aseee bifhop of Exeter, who was likewife the founder 
of H 
aving been removed to the buildings which formerly oc- 
cupied the prefent {cite, and others dependent on them fub- 
ftituted in their ftead. According to the ftatutes then 
aries igs 7 was to confift of thirteen members, eight 
of w ere to be chofen from Devonfhire, four from 
Conweil pee one, a prieft, nominated by the dean and 
chapter of Exeter, from any part of the kingdom. The 
chief benefa€tors of this inftitution were Edmund Stafford, 
bifhop of Exeter, _ — two hie sae and reformed 
the ftatutes in 1404; and fir William Petre, who procured 
a new body of ao ee a regular deed oe merger 
or 
