Providence, seminaries of useful learning and sound Christian theology.

The buildings of the smaller court, although of far more recent date, possess, with the exception of the Chapel, little claim to the stranger's notice; but the Chapel is a structure of which the visitor of taste will not rest satisfied with a hasty and superficial inspection. Its venerable exterior, embattled, and exhibiting a range of handsome pointed windows, while it appears to additional advantage from being contrasted with the other buildings of the court, seems also to indicate greater antiquity than the Chapel can in reality boast. It was built in the year 1631, at the expence of Dr. John Williams, then Bishop of Lincoln, afterwards Archbishop of York, a prelate of great mental powers, and of high literary attainments: memorable likewise as being the last Ecclesiastic who was Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England.

The interior of the Chapel does not harmonize in style with the exterior; yet it possesses great neatness and elegance, and is rich in decorative appendages. A handsome cedar screen, formed by fluted Corinthian columns into three divisions, and ornamented by fine carving, is placed between the ante-chapel and the part appropriated to divine worship. The ceiling of the latter is also of cedar, and, besides the arms of benefactors, exhibits a profusion of other carving,

b The College had previously a Chapel dedicated to St. Mildred, which in 1656 was converted into the Library. But, like many other of the older Colleges, this of Lincoln had no Chapel for several years after its foundation, the Society attending divine Service at the churches of St. Mildred, All Saints, or St. Martin's.

festoons, palms, &c. The windows are completely filled with painted glass, purchased in Italy by the before-mentioned Dr. John Williams. In the four windows on the southern side of the Chapel are fulllength figures of the twelve Apostles; and in those on the opposite side, an equal number of Prophets, some of which, and especially the three figures over the entrance, are paintings of no ordinary merit. The painted glass of the great eastern window is arranged in twelve compartments. In the lower six of these are represented an equal number of events in Jewish history, typical of the six leading circumstances of our blessed Saviour's mission. The first subject is the Creation of Man, typical of the Birth of Jesus, which is represented immediately above it. Then follow in succession the miraculous Passage of the Red Sea, the Institution of the Passover, the Elevation of the brasen Serpent, the Deliverance of Jonah from the belly of the Whale, and the Translation of Elijah, respectively typical of the Baptism, Last Supper, Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Ascension of the Blessed Redeemer; all of which are delineated in the compartments above the several types.

Of this College, so little attractive in its exterior, Dr. John Radcliffe, to whom the University is indebted for some of its most useful and ornamental edifices, was formerly Fellow. And had not his munificence flowed in this channel, the members of Lincoln must have regretted that some occasion of disgust should have diverted so much of it from his own College; as it is well known, that it was once his intention to have extended and greatly embellished its buildings.

The Library which bears his name, the Infirmary, and the Astronomical Observatory.

Retracing our steps through both the courts, we now proceed to

JESUS COLLEGE,

the front of which stretches in long line before us on the western side of the street, contributing, with the opposite College of Exeter, and the Chapel of Trinity College in the distance, to form a very pleasing perspective. Considered individually, however, the front of Jesus College has little attraction; its only ornamental features being a gateway of rustic work, and the eastern window of the Chapel; the latter of which is pointed, and exhibits some delicate tracery.

On entering the first quadrangle of a College, outwardly of so little promise, the tourist will be agreeably surprised to find a neat assemblage of edifices, surrounding a tolerably spacious court, and deriving additional interest from the Chapel on the north, and the Hall on the west. The second or inner quadrangle is of a still superior character. The buildings on three of its sides are uniform, and are distinguished by neatness of appearance. Their style is pleasingly simple. Each of the three stories of which they consist is lighted by a regular series of square-headed windows, each window being composed of two narrow round-topped lights. Around the whole quadrangle runs an ogee-battlement, the effect of which is by no means pleasing, although, from the circumstance of University and Oriel Colleges being similarly decorated, it was probably a favourite architectural ornament of the time. An embattled pentagonal projection from the eastern

d This side of the quadrangle was re-built in 1756.

side of the square exhibits a large and handsome oriel window belonging to the HALL, a room which, although sufficiently spacious, possesses few embellishments beyond the paintings that adorn its walls. Among these are portraits of Queen Elizabeth, of Charles I. (by Vandyke,) of Charles II. of Sir Eubule Thelwall, (represented as an infant at his mother's side,) and of Sir Leoline Jenkins, a gentleman of great learning, whose loyalty to the unfortunate Charles I. and inflexible adherence to the Church of England, brought on him persecution and imprisonment, and ultimately obliged him to seek refuge in a foreign land. Having survived the reign of fanaticism, and the existence of a power founded on rebellion, and cemented by blood, Sir Leoline became first a Fellow, and afterwards Principal of this College. He was subsequently preferred to other high offices, and was also chosen to represent the University in Parliament. His death took place in 1685. His remains were interred in the Chapel of the College over which he had presided, and to which he had been a liberal benefactor. He it was who built the

LIBRARY, which is situated over the Common Room on the western side of the court. Its original founder was however Sir Eubule Thelwall, of Bathafern Park, Denbighshire, another liberal benefactor, who is said to have expended on the buildings of the College, at different times, not less than 5000l. Among the books in this Library are those of the celebrated Edward Herbert, Baron of Cherbury, in Salop.

The CHAPEL, situated in the north-eastern corner of the first court, was erected chiefly by a subscription of Cambrian gentry, for the education

of whose sons the College was originally founded by Hugh ap Rice, or Price. This gentleman's father was Rees ap Rees, a wealthy burgess of Brecknock, in which town Hugh was also born about the year 1500. Of his personal history, although he lived in a comparatively recent period, little farther is known than that he graduated at Oxford in 1525 as Doctor of Civil Law, that he was afterwards a Prebendary_of Rochester, and subsequently Treasurer of St. David's. His death took place in August 1574, and, as it is supposed, at Brecknock; where, in the church of St. John the Evangelist, he is also thought to have been buried. Wishing to provide for youth of the Principality of Wales the means of an academical education, Dr. Price, at a late period of life, petitioned Queen Elizabeth to found a College for a Principal, eight Fellows, and eight Scholars, which he might endow with 60l. per annum. His prayer was granted. Her Majesty issued a charter, dated June 27, 1571, in which the Society is designated Jesus College, within the City and University of Oxford, of Queen Elizabeth's foundation; but if, as is probable, the worthy Founder calculated on obtaining for his infant establishment the liberal support of royalty, his expectations were grievously disappointed. The Queen gave some timber from her forests of Shotover and Stow, but she gave nothing more. Dr. Price expended on the buildings more than 1500l. and, besides conveying to the Society his estates in the county of Brecon, valued at 60l. per annum, left by will, in the hands of Sir Eubule Thelwall, a sum of money, which, at the beginning of the seventeenth century, had accumulated to 7001. The income arising from his estates however rapidly decreased,