Sir Christopher Wren, Oxon. Alexander Torriano, D.C. Oxon.

MUSIC.

Thomas Clayton, M. D. Oxon. Sir Thomas Baynes, M.D. Camb.

John Taverner, A. M. Oxon. William Perry, A. M. Camb.

Richard Knight, M. B. Camb. John Newey, A. M. Oxon. 1696, dean of Chichester.

Sir William Petty, M. D. Oxon. Robert Shippen, D. D. Oxon.

1705, principal of Brazen John Gordon, Camb. 1723. Thomas Brome, A. M. 1739.

nose College. Edward Shippen, M. D. Oxon. Theodore Aylward, Mus. D. R. J. S. Stevens, 1806.

Benjamin Thorneton, rechosen. Thomas Taylor, L. L. D. 1806.

PHYSIC.

Peter Mounsell, A. M. Oxon. Henry Paman, M. D. Oxon. and

RHETORIC.

Caleb Willis, A. M. Oxon. 1596.
Richard Ball, A. M. Oxon. time

of election uncertain. Rev.Charles Croke, D.D. Oxon. 1613.

Rev. Henry Croke, D.D. Oron.

1619.

"one of the mirrors of learn

ing in his age."

William Croune, M. D. Camb.

1659.

Henry Jenkes, A. M. Camb.

1670.

John King, M. B. Camb. 1676. Edward Wilkinson, A. M. Oxon. Sir Charles Gresham,A.M. Oxon.

1627.

1638.

1686.

John Goodridge, A. M. Oxon. Edward Martyn, A. M. 1696. John Ward, LLD. 1720. Joseph Waugh, A. B. 1806.

Richard Hunt, A.M. Camb.1654,

This college was so decayed in 1686, that Sir Christopher Wren, who had been desired to survey the premises, declared the buildings to be in a dangerous condition. In the year 1704, the trustees petitioned parliament to take down the whole structure, and to rebuild it in a convenient manner, that the lecturers, &c, might be comfortably accommodated with chambers. The application was unsuccessful. The year 1768 produced a bill, which was passed, for carrying into execution an agreement for the purchase of this college, for building an excise office on the site. The corporation were to find "a sufficient and proper place for the professors to read their lectures in;" the place appropriated for this purpose is a room on the south-east side of the Royal Exchange; and the lectures are thus arranged:

The opportunity which the above bill furnished to the lecturers against celibacy, according to Sir Thomas Gresham's will, induced them to present a petition that the restriction of single men only to be lecturers might be done away. This was complied with.

The only view of the college, which after the Fire of London, served as a common refuge for the municipality

and

and merchants, is preserved in Ward's Lives of the Gresham Professors. It was here that the Royal Society had its origin. The college was pulled down in 1768, and in its place rose THE EXCISE OFFICE.

This is a plain, massy, and beautiful stone building, upon a masterly design. It is very spacious, with a magnificent front, composed of a double basement, with a principal and attic story. A slight projection in the centre is terminated by a pediment. Here is a high and spacious arch, with a flight of steps leading to an area, three sides of which are occupied by various offices belonging to the revenue. The passages to them are very dark.

The EXCISE OFFICE was formerly kept in the house in the Old Jewry, originally occupied by Sir John Frederick, lord mayor in 1662. This office is managed by nine commissioners; under these there are a multiplicity of officers, both within and without the house, viz. commissioners for appeals, a secretary and clerks, accomptants general, general surveyors, a receiver general, comptroller of cash, inspector general for coffee and tea, an auditor of excise, auditor of hides, a comptroller, &c. with clerks in each office.

These receive the produce of the excise duties collected all over England, and pay it into the Exchequer; and for the collecting, surveying, &c. they have a great number of out-door officers in all parts of the kingdom, regulated within certain districts, or divisions, both horse and foot, to gauge, and to prevent frauds and loss.

Before the commissioners of excise are tried all frauds committed in the several branches of the revenue under their direction; without any appeal, except to the commissioners of appeal for a re-hearing. Wherefore the people of England look upon the excise laws to be an infringement upon their freedom; and are always jealous and resolute to oppose any extension of those laws.

The consolidated excise, in the year ending the 5th of Ja nuary 1805, produced 12,798,540l. 16s. 8d.; and the same source of revenue produced on the 5th of January 1806, 14,121,5837. 3s. 114d.

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THIS church is supposed to have received the additional name of Le Poor, from its approximity to the Augustine monastery, the rule of which affected. poverty, and its monks were denominated "begging friars." A church stood upon the spot so early as the year 1181; and the late edifice which had escaped the Great Fire, was erected about the year 1540.

This structure, which subsisted till the present one was re built, had been a disgrace to the respectable street in which it was placed; it was mean in its structure, an obstruction to the passage, and in many degrees had more the appearance of an inn than a place of worship; which idea was strengthened by the clock extending across the street, in resemblance of a sign-post. Its inconvenience and ruined state induced the inhabitants to apply for an act of parliament in 1788 to take down the old fabric, and erect another upon the site of an adjoining court. Thus, by having more room behind the passage, Broad Street, and the other avenues, might be rendered uniform and handsome.

In the year 1791, the design was completed by Mr. Gibbs, at the expence of 4000l. raised by annuities; the corpora