The Society, at prefent, confifts of a master, fixteen fellows, forty fcholars and exhibitioners.

Vifitor. Lord Howard.

TRINITY COLLEGE. This College was founded by Henry VIII. on the fite of two other colleges, and a hostel, viz.-1. King's Hall, founded by Henry III. 2. St. Michael's, built by Harvey, of Stanton, chancellor of the exchequer, 17th Edward II.; and, 3. Phyfick's Hostel, built by William Phyfick, efquire-beadle; to the revenues of which houses Henry VIII. made great additions, and erected one fpacious college, dedicating it to the Holy Trinity, appointing a master, fixty fellows, fixty-feven scholars, four conducts, three publick profeffors, thirteen poor fcholars, twenty beadfmen, befides fervants. Subfequent benefactors were, Thomas Allen, clerk; Sir Edward Stanhope, who gave 900l. to the library; the lady Bromley; the lady Anne Weald; Mrs. Elizabeth Elvis; Dr. Bill, mafter; Dr. Beaumont, mafter; Dr. Whitgift, mafter; Dr. Cofins; Dr. Barrow, mafter; Dr. Skevington; William Cooper, efq.; Sir William Lidley; Sir Thomas Lake; Sir John Suckling; Dr. Robert Bankworth; Sir Ralph Hare; Dr. Duport; Sir Thomas Sclater; Dr. Babbington; bishop Hacket; the reverend and learned Dr. Robert Smith; the late mafter, Dr. Hooper; and Dr. Richard Walker.

Trinity College is fituate between the High-ftreet on the eaft, and the river Cam on the weft, having St. John's college on the north, and Caius college on the fouth, and contains two fpacious quadrangles. The first court, next the street, is much the largeft, being 344 feet in length on the weft fide, and 325 on the eaft; 287 feet broad on the fouth fide, and 256 on the north. It has a magnificent gate, which is the entrance from the ftreet; and another gate, adorned with four lofty towers, called Queen's-gate, on the fouth. The chapel, the mafter's lodge, and the hall, form near one half of this grand quadrangle, in the middle of which is a beautiful conduit of an octagonal figure, fupported by pillars, which fupplies the college with excellent water, always running, conveyed thither by a fubterraneous aqueduct a mile in length. The fouth end of the weft fide has been rebuilt in an elegant ftyle, and is a fpecimen of the manner of which it is propofed to rebuild the whole quadrangle. In this building are the new combination rooms, the largest of which is very neatly fitted up, and adorned with paintings. The fecond court, which was built by Dr. Thomas Nevill, dean of Canterbury, master of this college, and called Nevill's Court, measures 228 feet on the fouth fide, 223 on the north, 132 on the east, and 148 on the west. The greatest part of the fouth and north fides having been rebuilt, and the

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other parts much altered, and beautified with a balustrade, and other ornaments, this court is efteemed the most elegant, being encompaffed on three fides by a spacious piazza, over which are the library and apartments of the ftudents; the hall forming the eaft fide of the court, in the front of which is a grand tribunal upon a terrace, with a handfome flight of fteps and baluftrade. The area, in the middle, is laid out in one beautiful large grafs-plat, with a neat border of ftone round it.

The Chapel is a grand and elegant ftructure, 204 feet in length, including the Ante-chapel, and 33 feet 8 inches broad on the infide; the height 43 feet 7 inches. A beautiful fimplicity reigns throughout the building. The altar-piece is a fine painting by Weft; the subject, St. Michael driving the rebellious angels out of heaven. The, chapel is adorned with elegant ftalls, and a noble organ-gallery, which feparates the chapel from the ante-chapel. Here are finging men and chorifters as in a cathedral, and a most admirable organ; in no place can the audience be more gratified with folemn churchmufic, nor is the eye lefs delighted than the ear, from the great number of students ranged in regular order, in this noble oratory, which is illuminated in the evening by a vast number of wax lights. In the ante-chapel ftands, erected at the expence of the late mafter, Dr. Smith, a noble ftatue of Sir Ifaac Newton, executed by the celebrated Roubillac, and esteemed an admirable piece of ftatuary.

Near the chapel ftands the Mafter's Lodge, in which are very grand apartments, fit for the reception of a prince; and here the king always refides and is entertained, whenever he vifits Cambridge. The judges, alfo, in their circuits, make this their refidence during the affizes.

The Hall, at the fouth end of the master's lodge, is fuitable to the other public buildings; being upward of 100 feet long, forty broad, and fifty high, with two grand bow windows of an extraordinary depth. It is adorned with many portraits and .bulks.

The Library, which conftitutes the weft end of Neuill's, or the inner court, is the grandeft ftructure of the kind in the kingdom; being 190 feet in length, forty in breadth, and thirtyeight in height within. It is afcended by a spacious stair-cafe, wainscotted with cedar, the steps of black marble; and entering by folding doors at the north end, it appears inexpreffibly beautiful: the floor is of marble. The fpacious claffes, which are thirty in number, are of oak, which time has reduced to the colour of cedar: and the great number of scarce and valuable books and manufcripts they contain richly deserve attention. This library, which for the elegance, tafte, and judgment difVOL. III.

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played in the infide, may justly be styled the first gallery in Europe, is adorned on the outfide with pilafters, carved chapiters, and architraves; and a stone balustrade runs round the top of it. Over the east front are four fine ftatues, reprefenting Divinity, Law, Phyfic, and Mathematics, done by Mr. Caius Gabriel Cibber, (father of Colley Cibber the poet laureat.) All the upper parts of the arches are filled up. Under the library is a spacious piazza of equal dimenfions, out of which open three gates of wrought iron towards the river; over which is a way to the walks by a fine ftone bridge of three arches. The walks are about the third part of a mile in circumference, having the river and elegant buildings on the eaft, and corn fields and an open country on the weft. There is a fine vista through the lofty limes of the middle walk; and on the north and fouth are shady rows of horse-chefnuts and limes, which make the whole very delightful, and much frequented both at noon-day and evening. Thefe walks, which, together with those of Saint John's, Clare Hall, and King's Colleges, fkirt the whole weft fide of the town, afford the most advantageous view of the principal buildings. There are few places in Europe where fo many elegant edifices may be taken into the eye at once, on one fide, and a rural landscape of native fimplicity on the other.

Vifitor. The bishop of Ely.

EMANUEL COLLEGE. This college was founded by Sir Walter Mildmay, of Chelmsford, in Effex, chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, and of the exchequer; a man, according to Camden and others, of uncommon merit in his public and private character, who obtained a licence, or charter of incorporation, from queen Elizabeth. He built the college upon the fite of the Dominican convent of black preaching friars, and endowed it for the maintenance of a mafter, three fellows, and four scholars. On the 29th of September, 1784, and juft 200 years fince the foundation of the college, the fociety, according to ancient cuftom, concluded the century with a grand jubilee. Some of the principal fubfequent benefactors were, queen Elizabeth; Henry, earl of Huntington; Sir Francis Hastings; Sir Robert Jermyn; Sir Francis Wallingham, fecretary of flate; Sir Henry Killigrew; Sir Wolfon Dixie, founder of two fellowships and two scholarships; Sir John Hart; Sir Samuel Leonard; Sir Thomas Skinner; Edward Leeds, LL.D.; Alderman Radcliffe; John Morley; Dr. Richardfon; Sir Henry Mildmay; Lady Grace Mildmay, who gave four exhibitions; Dr. Holbeck, who founded a chatechiftical lecture in divinity, and a lecture upon ecclefiaftical hiftory; Dr. Sudbury, dean of Durham, who, befides other benefactions, founded a Greek lecture, and gave 61. per ann. to purchase a piece of plate to be ....bestowed

bestowed upon the most pious and best learned of the commencing bachelors of arts in each year; Lady Sadler, foundrefs of the algebra lecture; Dr. Whichcot, who, befides other benefactions to the college, founded four exhibitions; Dr. Branthwaite, founder of two fcholarships; Francis Afhe, Efq. who befides fettling a fund for buying books for the library, and other ufes of the college, founded ten exhibitions, giving a preference to his own relations, then to the fchools of Derby and Afhby-de-la-Zouch, and, for want of fuch, to clergymen's fons; archbishop Sancroft, who contributed great fums towards building the chapel and other ufes, and gave all his books to the library; Mr. Hobbs, founder of two exhibitions; Mr. Gillingham, founder of a fellowship; Mr. Robert Johnson, archdeacon of Leicester, founder of four exhibitions, with a preference to fons of godly minifters, and fuch as have been brought up in the public fchools of Oakham or Uppingham, in Rutlandfire; Mrs. Anne Hunt, foundress of two exhibitions for scholars born in the county of Suffolk; Mr. Walter Richards, founder of two exhibitions; Mr. Wells, rector of Thurning, who gave an exhibition; Nicholas Afpinal, who founded an exhibition, with a preference to the fchool of Clithew in Lancafhire, and then to the free fchool of Bedford; Dr. Thorpe, prebendary of Canterbury, who fettled five exhibitions, defigned chiefly for bachelors of arts, with fome preference to the fons of orthodox minifters of the church of England, and of the diocefe of Canterbury, and fuch as have been brought up in the King's school there; John Brown, B. D. rector of Wallington, in Hertfordshire, who, in the year 1736, left upwards of 2000 1. for the augmentation of the mastership, and four of the fellow-. fhips, and for the fettling two Greek scholarships, with a preference to the King's fchool in Canterbury, and then to any school in Kent: he alfo gave 50 l. and part of his books to the library. To these might be added the late earls of Westmoreland, with many others, who generously contributed to the expences of the new building, &c.

Emanuel College is fituate on the fouth-eaft of the town, from whence there is a very extenfive profpect of the adjacent country. On the weft, next the ftreet, is erected a handsome building, which makes the principal court very beautiful, hav-ing on the fouth an elegant uniform ftone building, adorned with a balustrade and parapet; and oppofite to it, on the north, the hall, combination room, and mafter's lodge; on the east is a fine cloister with thirteen arches, and an handfome gallery over it, well furnished and adorned with the portraits of the founder, several of the benefactors, and former members of the

college. In the middle of the cloifter is the entrance into the chapel.

The Chapel, including the ante-chapel, is eighty-four feet long, thirty broad, and twenty-feven high, and is extremely well adorned and furnished. The altar-piece is a very grand painting of the prodigal fon, by Ammiconi: the floor is marble, and the ceiling ftucco. There is a neat organ, and a gallery for the master's family. In the middle of the chapel hangs a curious glafs chandelier, which has a beautiful appearance when lighted.

The Hall is one of the most elegant in the univerfity.

The combination-room adjoins to the hall, and is neatly fitted up.

The Library is a good room, and contains a large collection of well-chofen books; among which is Tully's Epiftles by Fauft, with a beautiful illumination of Henry VIII. when a boy (whofe book it was), and of his preceptor.

The Gardens are extenfive and pleafant, with a bowling green and cold bath; over which is a neat brick-building, fafhed in front, containing a commodious little room to drefs in. The curious take notice of a fine young cedar tree in this gar

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The Society confifts of a master, fifteen fellowships, fifty scholarships, ten fizars' places, and thirty-feven exhibitions.

SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. The foundrefs of this college was the lady Frances Sidney, countefs of Suffex, daughter of William Sidney, knighted at the battle of Flodden Field, and fteward of the household to Edward VI.; fifter to Sir Henry Sidney, knight of the garter, and lord prefident of Wales; aunt of Sir Philip Sidney, and widow to Thomas Ratcliffe, earl of Suffex. Dying without iffue, fhe left 5000l. and other legacies to found this college, by the name of Sidney Suffex College. But if her bequest fhould not be fufficient for the purpofe, then it fhould go towards the improvement and extenfion of Clare Hall. Henry, earl of Kent, and John Lord Harrington, baron of Exton, executors to the foundrefs, at firft founded ten fellowships and twenty scholarships; but, after building the college, and other expences, they found that the remainder of her legacy would not be a fufficient maintenance for fo many fellows as were at firft defigned; and thereupon they reduced the ten fellowships to feven. Edward, the first lord Montague of Boughton, founded three scholarships; which Edward, his fon and fucceffor, defired might be reduced to two. Sir John Hart, citizen of London, founded two fellowships and four fcholarships. Sir Francis Clerke, of Houghton Conqueft, in Bedfordshire, founded four fellowships and eight scholarships,

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