with a great variety of curious and valuable exotics; which have been greatly augmented and improved within these few years. Adjoining is a Hot-houfe, furnished with stoves for preferving exotics, on the most improved conftruction. Among the exotics are a variety of fingular trees and plants from New-Holland; fome tea, coffee, and bread-fruit trees; a cotton-tree, and many others of equal curiofity and value.The whole garden is arranged according to the fystem of Linnæus.* This garden is under the government of the Vice-Chancellor, the heads of King's, Trinity, and St, John's Colleges, and the Regius Profeffor of Phyfic; and is fuperintended by a lecturer and curator. A large and handfome building has been erected in the garden for the Botanical and Chemical lectures; which is peculiarly convenient for the purpose, and furnished with a large collection of natural curiofities well deferving a strangers attention,

For a description of ST, MARY's CHURCH, and ADDENBROOKE's HOSPITAL, fee the Hiftory of the Town, &c.

St. PETER's COLLEGE,

Originally confifted of two Hotels, which were purchased by Hugh de Balsam, Sub- Prior of Ely, and by him, appropri ated, in the year 1257, to the use of the ftudents; and in the year 1284. after he became Bishop of Ely, he endowed this college for the fupport of a Master, fourteen Fellows, and eight Scholars. There are three colleges at Oxford which difpute the point of antiquity with this houfe: and an opinion has

* A catalogue of the plants is published, and may be had of the Cu rator, at his houfe, at the entrance of the garden.

been advanced that St. John's College is the most ancient foundation.-See St. John's College. St. Peter's College derived its name fiom its vicinity to the church of St. Peter: on the fite of which the church of St. Mary the lefs now ftands; it is ufually called Peter-Houfe.

It is fituated on the weft fide of Trumpington-ftreet, near the fouth entrance of the town; and confifts of two courts, separated from each other by a cloister and gallery. The fmalleft court, which is next the street, has the Library on fouth, and a handfome lofty ftone building on the north, which contains fix grand apartments, the upper ones command a pleasant and extenfive prospect. In the middle of this court stands the Chapel. The large court, weft of the cloister, is about 145 feet long, and 85 broad; it has been elegantly cased with stone, and fashed in the modern style, and now forms a regular and handsome square, containing feveral commodious apartments.

THE CHAPEL is a very handsome structure with embrafures and pinnacles; it is very neatly decorated within, and is about 55 feet long, 27 broad, and as many high. At the weft end is a gallery, in which is a neat Organ, given by Sir Horatio Mann; and the Altar-piece is a beautiful one of Norway Oak, over which is a very fine window of painted glass, reprefenting the Crucifixion, the figures are nearly as large as life, and it is, in some parts, very richly coloured. The principal figures are copied from the famous picture of Rubens on the fame fubject, at Antwerp: the groups at the fides are faid to be from a defign by L. Lombard.

THE LIBRARY, though not remarkable either for its extent or beauty, contains fome ancient and valuable books.

THE HALL is a handfome room, 48 feet long, and 24

broad, and has feveral pictures; amongft which is a portrait of the founder, Hugh de Balfam.

THE MASTER'S LODGE is oppofite the college, on the east fide of the street; it is a large modern building of brick and stone, containing many convenient and well-furnished rooms, and furrounded with a pleasant garden. South of the college is a pleasant retired grove; and beyond an extensive garden, well planted with fruit trees, &c. and containing a cold bath.

Among the eminent characters who have have been educated at this college are: The famous Cardinal Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester; John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury; John Cofyns, Bishop of Durham; the Duke of Grafton, Chancellor of the University; Roger Marshall, an eminent Mathematician and Physician to Edward IV. George Joy, one of the Tranflators of the Bible; Sir Samuel Garth, author of the Difpenfary; and the Poet Gray.

This college confifts of a Master, fourteen Fellows on the foundation, eight bye Fellows, and forty-eight Scholarships. The whole number of Members in 1802 was 69. The Vifitor, is the Bishop of Ely.

CLARE HALL.

Was founded by Richard Badew, or Badow, Chancellor of the University, in the year 1326; who purchased two tenements, on the fite of which he built a college called Univerfity-hall. This edifice, fixteen years after its erection, was destroyed by an accidental fire; Dr. Badew, then folicited

the patronage of Elizabeth, third daughter and heirefs of Gilbert, last Earl of Clare, By her bounty the college was rebuilt in 1344; and endowed with lands for the maintenance of a Master, ten Fellows, and the fame number of Scholars : and from thence it obtained the name of Clare Hall. Richard

III. augmented the endowments; which have alfo been increased by the donations of Thomas Cecil, Earl of Exeter; John Freeman, Efq. William Butler; and Samuel Blythe ; befides numerous fmaller benefactions.

In Cambridge, as we have before remarked, there is no difference in any refpect between a college and a hall; and Clare Hall is indeed one of the principal. It is delightfully fituated on the eastern banks of the river Cam; and confists of one fpacious court (befides the Chapel) which is entered, on the east and west fides, by two noble porticos, or, rather, lofty arched paffages. This court is 150 feet long, and 111 broad, and is uniformly and hand fomely built with stone; on the north fide are the Library, Hall, and Combination-room; on the west, the Master's Lodge; and on the east and fouth sides, are the apartments of the Fellows and Students, which are all modern, handfome, and convenient. The three fronts feen of this college are all elegant; but that next the walks and fields, is extremely magnificent; it is built with Ketton. stone, and is ornamented with two ranges of pilasters, the lower one of the Tuscan, and the upper of the Ionic order, which includes two stories. Between these pilasters are three rows of fash-windows; the upper and lower ones being adorned with architraves, and the middle tier with pediments. This elegant front is finished with a circular pediment, ornamented with urns, an entablature, and handfome balustrade; and has a fine and beautiful effect, when viewed from the fields.

THE CHAPEL is situated without the court, at the western front of the college, in a fmall court-yard inclofed with iron

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palifades. This Chapel was erected, in 1703, from a claffical and elegant design of Sir James Burroughs, and cost above £7000. building. The outside is ornamented with Corinthian pilasters, rising from a rustic base, and supporting a handfome cornice, crowned with a balustrade. The Anti-chapel is entered from the north-east corner of the court; it is an Octagon, lighted by an elegant dome, beautifully stuccoed and decorated. The interior of the Chapel is adorned with a very handsome ceiling of stucco-work, feats and wainscotting of Norway Oak, neatly carved, and a floor of black and white marble. Over the altar is a beautiful alcove, ornamented with fluted columns and carvings; in which, is a fine painting of the Salutation, by Cipriani. The communion-plate, belonging to this college, is of pure beaten gold. This Chapel is allowed, for chastenefs of design and elegance of decoration, to excel any building of its kind in the University.

THE HALL is a large and very handsome room 69 feet long, 21 broad, and 25 high; it has a gallery at the west end, leading to the Combination-room; which is about 33 feet square, elegantly wainscotted with Oak, and fitted up in a fuperior style. Here are portraits of Thomas Cecil, Earl of Exeter; Archbishop Tillotson; Bishop Moore; a whole length of the late Duke of Newcastle, Chancellor of the University; and a copy, by Freeman, of Lady Elizabeth Clare, the foundrefs.

THE LIBRARY opens into the Combination-room at one end, and the Master's Lodge at the other. It is nearly of the fame dimensions as the former, and very elegantly fitted up and ornamented, with columns and carvings of Norway Oak. The books are extensive and well felected, and the room as complete, of its size, as any in the University.

THE MASTER'S LODGE, which fronts the fields, is anfwerable to the other buildings; commodious and handsome within, and elegant without. It has a pleafant and tasteful