A New Pocket Companion for Oxford; Or, Guide Through the University Containing an Accurate Description of the Public Edifices, the Buildings in Each of the Colleges the Gardens, Statues, Pictures, Hieroglyphics, and All Other Curiosities in the Universit (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1808 Excerpt: ... mas Cookes, for a Provost, fix Fellows, and six Scholars. Dr. Finney farther endowed it with two Fellowships and two Scholarships for students from Staffordshire. Dr. Clarke founded six Fellowships and three Scholarships, with-a preference to Clergymen's sons. And Mrs. Eaton, daughter to Dr. Eaton, Principal of Gloucester Hall, founded six Fellowships. Lady Holford gave two exhibitions of 20I. a year each, for Charter-house scholars, to be enjoyed eight years. This house was formerly called Gloucester College, being a seminary for educating the novices of Gloucester Monastery. It was founded A. D. 1283, by John Giffard, Baron of Brimsfield. When suppressed at the Reformation, it was converted into a palace for the Bishop of Oxford; but was soon afterwards erected into an academical Hall, by Sir Thomas White, the Founder of St. John's College; in which state it continued till it received a charter of incorporation, and an endowment from Sir Thomas Cookes. Here are a Provost, twenty Fellows, seventeen Scholars, &c. The whole number about 70. Visitor. The Chancellor of the University. EXETER COLLEGE. JL HIS College is situated opposite Jesus College, the front whereof is 220 feet long; in the centre of which is a magnificent Gate and Tower. The composition of each front (viz. that towards the street and that towards the quadrangle) is a rustic basement, which forms the gateway; a plinth, whereupon are placed four pilasters of the Ionic order, supporting a semicircular pediment, in the area of which are the Founder's Arms, on a /hield adorned with festoons, finishing with a balustrade above all. This, with the beautiful arched roof of the gateway, is justly esteemed an elegant piece of workmanship. The building within chiefly consists of a large quadrangle, for...