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drained ; so that, these physical ameliorations accompany¬ 
ing a really sound and good system of tuition, the fame 
and credit of this venerable seminary was soon restored.” 
It is difficult, in the light of modern sanitary reforms, to 
realise the condition of the school about fifty years ago. 
Among a large collection of MS. papers in the Oxford 
Museum, chiefly consisting of notes of lectures, to which 
Professor Green has kindly allowed the biographer to have 
access, is found a practical letter 1 of Buckland’s, giving 
details of his proposed alterations, and announcing a 
promised subscription from Her Most Gracious Majesty 
the Queen of £ 500, and from the Archbishop of York 
^300, and further donations from old Westminsters. 
Dean Buckland followed the precedent set him by Dean 
Atterbury in appealing to the Crown for a subscription 
towards the contemplated improvements. As in the case 
of his predecessor, the domestic comfort of the Queen’s 
scholars was the first matter to engage his attention. In 
1 <l Improvements in Westminster School .—“The Dean and Chapter 
of Westminster take this method of making known to the old West¬ 
minsters that they have resolved to increase the comfort and diminish 
the expense of the Queen’s scholars in the following manner. 
“ 1st. By providing all their meals at the cost of the Establishment. 
“ 2nd. By fitting up large and convenient rooms for study, etc., in 
the entire cloister under the dormitory. 
“ 3rd. By building a sanatorium at the end of the dormitory, with 
rooms for a resident matron. 
“4th. By refitting the present lavatory and necessary offices with 
improved hydraulic apparatus. 
“ 5th. By undertaking that the necessary charges on the Queen’s 
scholars shall not exceed £4.5 per annum, exclusive of books, clothes, 
washing, and journeys, and the leaving fees, if the subscriptions should 
