os 
fociety of Exeter college confited of 206 perfons. ‘The pre- 
fent members are a rector, twenty-five fellows, one {cholar, 
who is bible clerk, and ten exhibitioners, befides other ftu- 
dents. The bith of Exeter i is vifitor. 
peculiarity of having two e d 
fome building, alfo in the pointed ftyle, eredted = fir John 
Ackiand about the year 16203; but the library is of 
modern ereCtion, and Sear among other valuable were 
a fine colleGtion of Aldine claffics 
Oriel College was founded, about the year 1324, by Adam 
e Brom, rector of St. Mary’s in Oxford, under the fanction 
of Edward II., to whom he afeerwardi furrendered the 
whole, in the a e ee the royal protection for 
wa infant eftablithm Nor were eCtations 1s ground- 
care, and the next year granted a new charter, appointing 
it a college ra divinity and the cagon law, to be governed 
by a oft, He likewife beftowed upon the fociety fome 
tenements in Oxford advowfon 8 
urch, on condition of their providing chaplains for the 
daily fervice. Ada as oft, 
and drew up a code of ftatutes in 1326, by which the 
yw 
college was to confift of a provoft, ten fellows or {cholars, 
feven to ftudy divinity, and three the canon law. He like- 
wife gave them the livings of Aberforth in Yorkfhire, and 
Coleby in Lincolnfhire ; and in 1327 Edward III. beftowed 
upon them a large mefluage called La Oriole, or Oriel, to 
which the members foon after removed; and hence the 
college derived its prefent name. The chief fubfequenc 
benefactors of this Staton were John Franke, lord chan- 
binfon, bik of London; Dr. 
Carter, provott of the college in i Charles, ae ioe? 
of Beaufort, and her majefty nne. 
thefe oe fellow! o cae “founded, rd os re 
ociety now confifts of a provoft, eighteen fellows, fifteen 
exhibitioners, aad other ftudents. ‘The lord chancellor is 
the - ito 
he buildings oo of a large quadrangle, a two lateral 
ranges of cham or oe reception of ftudents, with a 
library between. The w 
oth exteriorly 
d contt 
an 
a ba e hall faces e gateway, and is 
. approached ae a fight of Reps under a portico, furmounted 
tues of Edward II. and III. in aan ity the 
virgin and child in another niche, immediately a The 
provolt's lodgings are on the north fide ; and he ees 
Vou. XXV. 
on the fouth and weft are entirely Ci a te for the ac- 
commodation of ftudents. The li was defigned by 
ames pitins efq. eieuae a xen under his direc- 
tion. It contains, among m er books, a very curious 
and valuable ele ea. wh hcl was eat to the fociety 
Edward, lord Leigh of Stourleigh. 
a by ack a ele 
feflor to queen ilippa, the illuftrious confort 
Edward III. The founder was defcended ee an Nenbaniele 
family in the county of Cumberland, and appears to have 
ane defervedly held in high eftimation by his ae ae matter 
con-~ 
0. 
ation to the border counties, in which, to 
ufe his own expreffions, ‘ an unufual fearcity of — 
prevai he purchafed fome tenements on or near 
firft inftance ; and afterwards of thofe counties in which the 
college poffeffed property. This number, however, so 
fince been increafed by various benefactions, but by a 
xhibitioners ; and for the er ae of fuitable bulge for 
the a modation e matters and fcholars; fo 
his has been confidered in the a new foundation 
The queens who have contnbuted to the college, befides 
queen Philippa, are Henrietta Maria, confort to Charles I., 
the late queen Caroline, and her prefent maj The fi 
gave three reCtories an das man vicarages, and the two laft 
prefented 1o00/, each towards enlargin 
buildings, which now confift of two 
cipal front is in 
large g 
very ancient paint- 
ings on glafs of Hea V. ae poset his eiucstian at this 
college. 
New College is indebted for its origin to William de 
Wykeham, bifhop of Winchefter, one of the moft illuftrious 
charatters of his age: This prelate 
AM). ori analy founded the fociety of New 
olleze about the ven 1373, and eftablifhed the members in 
halls, which he hired for oa reception, till a college as 
5 
