be elected by the Provost and Fellows on the Cookes foundation, the Eaton scholars should be elected by the Provost and five Senior Fellows, and the Clarke Fellows should be elected by the Provost and Fellows on the foundations of Cookes and Clarke.

It may be noted that this decision was of very nearly the same date as the dispute and the appeal to the Visitor on the subject of the disputed Cookes election. Of course, these quarrels between the different foundations have now become matters of the past. The first scholars and Fellows were elected on June 25, 1773. The endowment was confined to sons of clergymen.

6. The Chettle Bequest.-Thomas Chettle, a merchant of the City of London, and brother to Mr. William Chettle, one of the first scholars, and afterwards a Fellow on Sir Thomas Cookes' foundation, by his will dated February 17, 1745, left £1,000 to be divided among the Fellows of the College. But they decided to lay out the sum in the purchase of a property for themselves and their successors. Mr. Chettle was prob

ably one of the founder's kin.

7. The Gower Bequest.-Dr. William Gower, the second Provost of the College, who died on July 19, 1777, bequeathed to the College the sum of £3,500 in old South Sea annuities. He also left to the College the reversion of his estate situated at Bramsford, near the city of Worcester, together with a large collection of books for the Library. The Bramsford estate was sold in 1859 for £3,690.

8. The Kay Bequest.-In 1787 Mr. Kay left a sum of £15,200 for the endowment of an exhibition of £30 per annum for a native of Yorkshire in the first place,

and for the purchase and improvement of livings. From this fund the following advowsons were purchased:

In 1798 the Rectory of Hoggeston for £1,575. In 1799 the Rectory of Neen Solars for £2,100. In 1801 the Rectory of Winford for £1,680. In 1805 the Rectory of Tadmarton for £810. In 1819 the Rectory of Dinedor for £1,450. In 1821 the Rectory of High Ham for £4,200. In 1862 the Rectory of Blandford St. Mary for £1,937 15s.

9. The Barnes Scholarship.-In 1867 Mr. Barnes gave the sum of £3,760 to the College, on condition that the College should pay £120 a year to a scholar, who should be known as the Barnes Scholar. The scholarship was founded to encourage the study of Holy Scripture, and an examination in this subject generally forms part of the competition for the scholarship. The scholarship is open, and is tenable for four years. It was founded in memory of Robert Barnes, who matriculated at the College on October 16, 1861, and died while an undergraduate.

10. The Cotton Exhibition.-In November, 1883, a sum of about £500, which had been raised as a memorial to Dr. R. L. Cotton, the late Provost, was received by the College. The proceeds are devoted to an exhibition tenable by a member of the College who is studying theology.

11. Muckleston Bequest.-In 1898 the Rev. Rowland Muckleston, formerly Fellow and Tutor, and subsequently Rector of Dinedor, left by his will £2,000 for providing pensions for decayed servants of the College.

12. Laycock Bequest.-In 1899 Mrs. Laycock, to carry out the wishes of her late husband, formerly a member of the College, bequeathed the sum of £5,679 for the endowment of a studentship in Egyptology of an annual value not exceeding £150. Mr. MacIver was elected the first student at Lady Day, 1900.

In addition to the foregoing bequests, there have been several contingent gifts which have failed to take effect.

John Loder, some time of Gloucester Hall, and Vicar of Napton-on-the-Hill, in the county of Warwick, bequeathed his estates at Lechlade and Moreton-in-theMarsh to the College, subject to certain contingencies. His will was dated in 1742.

By his will, dated April 28, 1750, Chancellor Jones bequeathed £2,000 to the College in certain contingencies which never occurred.

In 1861 the Rev. Benjamin Dent bequeathed £1,000 to certain relatives in succession, and in case of failure to the College, but no failure has occurred.

Minor Gifts.-A number of benefactions will be recorded in connection with the lists of plate and pictures. In addition to these, it may be of interest to enumerate some of the smaller donations received by the College :

In April, 1717, Mr. Edward Dupper, the first Steward of the College, gave the Provost a copy of the Statutes written by himself, and very elegantly bound.

Edward Cooke, of Highnam, near Gloucester, presented five guineas to the College towards the buildings in 1720.

Nathaniel Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham, unasked, sent the College £100 towards the erection of their chapel.

On September 10, 1720, Samuel Cooke, M.A., Rector of Little Wittenham, Prebendary of Gloucester, and afterwards Archdeacon of Oxford, gave the College five guineas towards their buildings; and in November, 1714, he gave the College a study of books, consisting of 400 volumes.

Mr. Daniel Godwyne, of the City of London, who died in 1761, bequeathed by will to the College his books and papers, and several mathematical instruments.

Robert Burd Gabriel, a Fellow upon Dr. Clarke's foundation, gave a handsome grate for the use of the hall in 1784.

In a letter dated 1832, Walter Williams, "calling to remembrance that in a season of the greatest affliction under the blessing of Almighty God the means provided by the College greatly contributed to his support in life," bequeathed to the Provost and Fellows the sum of £500 to be disposed of as they should deem most conducive to the interests of the Society. The gift, which was subject to a life estate, and did not fall in till 1843, was expended in the purchase of the tithes of Hillmarton, in the county of Wilts.

On November 30, 1870, Dr. R. L. Cotton, the Provost of the College, presented the iron railings which at present stand at the entrance of the College.

The Rev. G. C. Bell, late Fellow and tutor, gave £50, and R. T. Tidswell, Esq., gave £100 for the payment of exhibitioners.

The Rev. James Hannay, late Fellow and Bursar, bequeathed £500 to the Fellows of the College to be employed at their discretion.

THE present chapel, like its two predecessors, was many years in building. Begun in 1720 with money left by Mrs. Margaret Alcorne, it was at least sixty-six years before it was completed with the plain internal fittings which it retained till 1864. The building was lit by windows only on the east and south; the walls were covered with a coating of stone-coloured paint begrimed with dust and gas; lofty box-like pews, too often the convenient shelter of irreverence, lined either side, and twice in each term, when the Provost preached a sermon, a somewhat loftier box was dragged into the middle of the chapel to serve as pulpit.

Dissatisfaction with this sordid state of things first took the shape of a scheme for the erection of a new chapel on the open side of the quadrangle, but fortunately this was set aside, and the plans of Mr. Burges for the