OXFORD. 
figned and partly executed 7 collegiate eftablifhment for 
nks and fecular feholars, 
He ee), obtained a charter 
arch, 1516, and fhortly after dr 
body of ftatutes, declaring the fociety to confit ofa prefident, 
twenty fellows, twenty {c fet 
rifters. 
general liberal, and the ample provifion of the founder ren- 
dered additional contributions the lefs requifite. Bifho 
Oldham above-mentioned gave 6000 mar i _ fome 
eftates in land, and Dr. Turner 6 mbers o 
the college are the fame as thofe peicabed "a de charter, 
with the addition only ve four exhibitioners and fix gentle- 
men commoners. The bifhop of nay ee 18 _vilitor. 
Of the buildings of ep cellege, t 
alone, with the chapel, h all, and ito was aah by 
in his pontifical ro 
rangle were firft built i in 1667, and re- a in 1737, for 
the refidence of the fix The fine 
merous curious 
e of ae aes peaeenon: 
in 
The Aldine clas + were cle by the fou 
juftly ftyled the Moca of his age. This cele began 
the great work in queftion in the year 1524, upon a fcale 
far furpafling the defign of any former or fucceeding 
founder. By the original charter, which he procured from 
king Henry VIII., his projected eftablifhment was made 
to confift of one hundred and fixty perfons, who were to 
apply themfelves to the ftudy of the fciences at large, a 
well as to polite literature. For the fupport of this ag 
he fettled upon it a clear annual revenue of 2000/. and com- 
menced the prefent ftruture for the scammers ea of its 
members, under the defignation of “ Cardinal College.” 
Before he had a his plans, however, he was hurled 
from the lofty pinnacle of power to which he had rifen, 
and plunged ae eink difgrace : but before his death 
he warmly recommended his college to the foftering regard 
of his latte "Ae rdingly Henry, after the firft effu- 
fions of his refentment had Ss yielded to the en- 
treaties of the fociety in 1532, became its patron. 
But in order to preclude Wolfey oa all nominal partici- 
pation in the merit of the undertaking, he granted the col- 
canons, and tha 
= an agra to the cathedral, os ater the 
e Cathedr al Church of 
ege eftates made ov hem on conditi 
taining three profeffors of divinity, Hebre 
hundred ftudents in theology, arts, or "Philofophy y> oak 
chaplains, and a numerous choir. The king is vifitor of 
this college. 
The pa be Chrift-church are few, and all of them 
y o 
for a catechetical le&ure ; bifhop 
etki tions of 10/ per m each ; e, phyfician 
Geo who left decor for the Sarpole a erecting 
a 
f this magnificent college occupy the 
St 
area of the ancient priory of Fridefwide, and have un- 
boas one as many revolutions as the fociety itfelf. They are 
four 
pat The 
refting, as bein he wo 
if that illuftrious founder had furvived till he had been en- 
abled to complete the defign he appears to have formed, 
his college would have éxceeded in magnificence every other 
in Euro This rangle is entered by t teway of 
n 
ftately tower begun by Wol 
ae completed in 1681, by fir Chriftopher Wren. 
bu uildings here are beautifully a elec hea are faced 
with a fine terrace, as well as furmounted by a handfome 
{tone balluftrade. The hall and kitchen are on the fouth, 
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fineft fpecimens of that mode of archite@tural 
The fide walls are of panelled a and 
play ‘an extenfi of portraits, amon ich are 
an original half ik oF orina Wolfey, a i length 
of king Henry VIII. another of queen Elizabeth, and a 
third of Dr. Bufby, with a pupil in attendance. 
The fecond great quadrangle of this college, termed Peck- 
water court, was erected at the commencement of the lait 
century, and contains the library on its fouthern fide. This 
edifice is 141 feet long in front, and is adorned with maflive 
pillars in the Corinthian ftyle. Each of the other fides 
1s apprepriated as lodgings for ftudents. Their elevation is 
three ftories, the lower of which is ruftic, and ‘ {upports a 
range of architecture of the Ionic order,’’ finifhed by an 
entablature and balluftrade of ftone. In the library, which 
is among the 
difpofal.”’ 
uife in 1 
he old oe and muft have been collected at an im- 
menfe expenc 
The two ‘allen courts are dencminated Canterbury 
» dene and Chaplain’s court. Of the : the firft only de- 
ferves to be noticed, being now the principal entrance into 
the college. It flands on the {cite of Canteba ury hal, which 
was founded in the fourteenth century by archbifhop Iflip, 
asa place for the ftudy of the canon and civil law. The 
defiga 
