OXFORD. 
157 
Members of 
Convocation* 
and furniture, was deftroyed by fire, on the morning of 
the gth of January, 1820. Of the new lodgings provid¬ 
ing for the members we have already fpoken. 
The following fummary of the members of the Univer- 
fities of Oxford and Cambridge, in the year 1815, will 
ferve to fhow the comparative ftate of both thefe diftin- 
guifhed feminaries, and of their refpeCtive colleges and 
halls. 
Oxford. 
Univerfity Coll 
Balliol 
Merton 
Exeter 
Oriel - 
Queen’s 
New 
Lincoln 
All Souls 
Magdalen 
Brazen-nofe 
Corpus-chrifti 
Chrift-church 
Trinity 
St. John’s 
Jefus 
Wadham 
Pembroke - 
Worcefter 
Hertford - 
St, Mary Hall 
Magdalen Hall 
New Inn Hall 
St. Alban Hall 
74 
39 
56 
100 
97 
56 
33 
69 
109 
141 
61 
300 
63 
92 
63 
5° 
30 
65 
1 
16 
30 
1 
8 
St. Edmund Hall 25 
Total 1631 
Member# on 
the Book#* 
157 
130 
104 
155 
207 
195 
119 
72 
90 
152 
320 
94 
647 
161 
169 
127 
134 
82 
137 
2 
37 
84 
1 
4° 
73 
3489 
Pnwtlwtln'o Members of Members on 
'Csiunui iu b c. the Senalc , tIlQ Boards* 
Trinity Coll. 
407 
922 
St. John’s Coll. 306 
683 
Emmanuel Coll. 
80 
170 
Jefus College 
5i 
162 
Queen’s College 56 
143 
Trinity Hall 
z 4 
131 
Caius College 
59 
126 
Chrift College 
45 
J13 
Pembroke Hall 
30 
102 
Clare Hall 
37 
98 
St. Peter's Coll. 
40 
87 
King’s College 
60 
86 
Magdalen Coll. 
35 
73 
Sidney College 
24 
73 
Bene’t College 
20 
7i 
Catharine Hall 
16 
56 
Downing Coll. 
7 
8 
Oppidants - 
4 
0 
Total 1301 3104 
The Totals, in the year 1819 and 1820, flood thus: 
1819. Oxford. 
Members of Convocation 1874 
•-on the Books 3984 
1820. —-of Convocation 1873 
--on the Books 4102 
1819. Cambridge. 
Members oftlie Senate 1495 
-on the Boards 3698 
1820. — of the Senate 1558 
-on the Boards 3395 
Befides the colleges and halls, there are feveral public 
buildings and eftablifhments, which either owe their ori¬ 
gin to the univerfity, or are placed under the manage¬ 
ment of its officers. The principal of thefe are the Schools ; 
the Bodleian Library; the Theatre ; the Clarendon Print- 
ing-houfe ; the Radcliffe Library; the Affimolean Mu- 
feum ; the Obfervatory ; and the Phyfic-garden. 
The firft Public Schools were ereCted about the com¬ 
mencement of the fifteenth century, by Thomas Hoke- 
norton, abbot of Ofeney ; and confifted of ten apartments, 
allotted to different branches of education. To thefe 
were added the divinity-fchool in the year 1427, the erec¬ 
tion of which was chiefly effected by the liberality of 
Humphry duke of Gloucefter, ufually ftyled the Good. 
This laft is ftill {landing, and is a curious fpecimen of 
architecture. All the others, however, were demolifhed 
in the beginning of the feventeenth century, when the 
prefent fchools were ereCted, which, with part of the 
Bodleian library, form a quadrangle of about 170 feet in 
length. Over the gateway is a lofty tower, fantaflically 
arranged in compartments, exhibiting an imitation of 
the five orders of claffic architecture. (See Britton’s Ar¬ 
chitectural Antiquities, vol. iii.) The whole quadrangle 
is now three (lories high, two of which are appropriated 
as fchools, while the third and highefl is occupied as a 
picture-gallery, and contains a numerous and fplendid 
collection of the portraits of founders, benefaCtors, and 
other eminent perfons connected with the univerfity. 
The fchools are governed by three mailers, who cannot 
hold their office more than two years in fucceffion. The 
public profeflors read leCtures here in the different fci- 
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ences; and here alfo the fcholars of the univerfity are 
obliged, by flatute, to perform the exercifes required of 
them, before they can obtain their degrees. In the mo- 
ral-philofophy leCture-room is preferved a collection of 
flatues, marbles, and bulls, the gift of the countefs dow¬ 
ager of Pomfret; and, in an apartment on the north fide 
of the fchools, are ranged the Arundelian Marbles, toge¬ 
ther with numerous other monuments of Grecian anti¬ 
quity, collected by Selden, Wheeler, and others, and pre- 
iented or bequeathed to the univerfity. 
The Bodleian or Public Library, was founded by fir 
Thomas Bodley, at the clofeof the fixteenth century, on 
the remains of that which was eltablilhed by the duke of 
Gloucefter before-mentioned, but had been diverted of all 
its valuable books and illuminated manufcripts by the 
commiffioners of Edward VI. This library occupies three 
extenfive rooms, difpofed in the form of the letter H, and 
probably contains the moll valuable collection of books 
and manufcripts in Europe, as the donations in aid of fir 
Thomas’s contribution have been fplendid and liberal 
beyond precedent. Among thofe who had added whole 
libraries to the original collection, are the earl of Pem¬ 
broke, Mr. Selden, archbifhop Laud, fir Thomas Roe, fir 
Kenelm Digby, general Fairfax, Dr. Marfliall, Dr. Bar- 
low, Dr. Rawlinl'on, Mr. St. Amand, Dr. Tanner, Mr. 
Willis, T. Hearne, Mr. Godwin, and Mr. Gough. The 
laft contributed all his topographical collections, books, 
prints, copper-plates, and drawings. The ftatutes by 
which this library is governed, were drawn up by fir 
Thomas Bodley, who, befides his books, left an ellate to 
the univerfity for the provifion of fuitable faiaries to its 
officers, and for the repair of the buildings. Thefe fta¬ 
tutes are preferved in the founder’s own hand-writing, in 
the archives of the library; and contain, among other 
claufes, one appointing the vice-chancellor, proCtors, and 
the regius-profefl'ors of divinity, law, medicine, Hebrew, 
and Greek, vifitors or curators. 
The Theatre, or Selden Theatre, in which are held all 
the aCls called the Enccenia and Comitia, alfo lord Crewe’.* 
annual commemoration of benefaCtors, was built at the 
foie charge of archbifhop Selden, who, befides, gave the 
fum of 2000I. as a fund for repairs. The architect was 
fir Chriftopher Wren, who, in the plan and conftruCtion 
of this edifice, gave a happy prefage of thofe talents 
which he afterwards difplayed in the metropolis. By an 
ingenious difpofition of its parts, he has contrived to ren¬ 
der it capable of holding nearly four thoufand perfons, 
though its dimenfions feem altogether inadequate for that 
purpofe. The roof is. eighty feet by feventy, and refts 
entirely on the fide-walls, without any central fupporc. 
The exterior elevation on the fide oppofite to the divinity- 
fchool is adorned with columns of the Corinthian.order, 
and ftatues, in niches, of the founder, and the duke of 
Ormond. 
The Clarendon Printing-houfe was ereCted in 1711, 
with the profits arifing from the tale of lord Clarendon's 
Hiltory of the Rebellion, the copyright of which was 
prefented to the univerfity by his lordfhip’s fon. It is a 
maffive ltruCture, two (lories high, adorned in front with 
a portico of the Doric order, and has a ftatue of the noble 
author over the fouthern entrance. The bufinefs of this 
houfe is fuperintended by perfons termed delegates of 
the prefs, who are appointed by the vice-chancellor and 
proCtors. 
The Radcliffe Library, which is certainly one of the mot 
impofing architectural ornaments of the univerfity, was 
founded by Dr. Radcliffe, an' eminent phyfician in the 
reigns of king William and queen Anne, he having be¬ 
queathed 40,000!. for its ereCtion, 150I. per annum for a 
librarian, and 100I. per annum for the purchafe of books. 
The building itlelf was defigned and executed by Gibbs, 
between the years 1737 and 1749; and fome of the firft 
artifts of the age were employed on its interior embelli/h- 
ments. Exteriorly, a ruftic bafement, in the form of a 
double oCtagon, fupports a cylindrical fuperltruCture, 
S s adorned 
