dedicated it to the Holy Trinity, and appointed a Master, three Fellows, and two Scholars to be ftudents in the cannon and civil law, alfo one Fellow to ftudy Divinity, and be chaplain to the college.

This college is more particularly confined to the ftudy of civil law, the Profeffor being always a member of the fociety. It is detached from the town; being fituated behind Caius College, and a little to the north of Clare Hall, on the banks of the river. It confifts of one large court and other buildings; and is, throughout, handfomely built with ftone and uniformly fashed.

THE CHAPEL is fmall, but exceedingly neat and appropriate; it has at the altar a fine painting of the Presentation in the Temple. by Stella, in which seven figures are introduced and two boy-angels: the expreffion is very fpirited and the colouring fine.

THE HALL is a remarkably handsome room, 36 feet long, 24 broad, and 25 high; and has a gallery for mufic at the north end. At the upper end is a fine portrait of Sir Nathaniel Lloyd, Knt. with whose bequeft of £3000. towards improving the college, this apartment was principally built; here is also a fine bust of the late celebrated Earl of Mansfield, by Nollikins, the gift of Sir James Marriot, late mafter. (The figure on his Lordship's monument in Westminster Abbey, was taken from this buft.) The Combination.room is extremely neat; and contains the portraits of John Andrews, L. L. D. and Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.

THE LIBRARY is neatly claffed, and contains befides a large collection of choice and valuable books, a complete study of civil and common law.

THE LODGE is fmall and inconvenient, and has not been for fome time inhabited by the Mafters, who feldom refide in

Cambridge, but appoint a Vice-mafter. It contains the portraits of Stephen Gardiner, the Popish Bishop of Winchester; Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, by Hoare; and feveral others. The garden, at the back of the college, is extremely pleasant, enjoying the fame view as Clare Hall, its neighbour, with a terrace on the bank of the river.

John Andrews, L. L. D. late Fellow of this college, has bequeathed £20,000. for the erection of a new building; which is to confift of two spacious wings or buildings, to extend from the college towards the river, leaving the prospect open, This bequeft was left in 1747, and to come to the college at the decease of two maiden fifters,

With the various learned characters educated here are: Thomas Tuffer, an author on Husbandry, &c. Dr. Gabriel Harvey, a famous Poet and Orator: Dr. Cowell, famous for his Inftitutiones Juris Anglicana; the celebrated Earl of Chesterfield; Sir Robert Maunton, author of Fragmenta Regalia; Sir James Marriot, late Judge of the Admiralty; and the Right Honourable Sir William Wynne, the prefent master.

This fociety consists of a Master, twelve Fellows, and fourteen Scholarships. The whole number of members in 1802, was 82. Vifitor, the King.

KING'S COLLEGE.

This Royal and magnificent foundation derived its origin from the general regard to the interefts of literature, poffeffed by Henry VI. who inftituted a small feminary on this spot for a rector and twelve Fellows, in the year 1441; but in 1443, he entirely changed its form, and endowed it for a Provost,

feventy Fellows and Scholars, (to be fupplied in regular fucceffion from Eton, established nearly at the fame time) three chaplains, fix clerks, fixteen choristers, and a mufic-master, (who now poffeffes also the office of organist) fixteen officers of the foundation, twelve fervitors for the fenior Fellows; and fix poor Scholars; amounting in all to 140.

If the building of this college had been finished according to the plan of the founder, its architecture would have rivalled the most splendid palaces in Europe, or perhaps the world; but the difcord and tumult with which the kingdom was filled, distracted the King's attention, and forced him to recede from his designs enough has however been effected to record his munificence. This college is fituated between Trumpingtonstreet and the river; and may be reckoned the finest college in this, and indeed in any other, Univerfity; for though it may be inferior to Chrift Church in Oxford in fome respects, yet, in others, it is fuperior even to that splendid foundation. It is composed of feveral detached piles of building. The old court is north of the chapel, between the Schools and Clare Hall: it is about 120 feet long, and 90 broad, is built of ftone, and is extremely lofty; though, from its being very ancient, it contains but a small number of convenient apartThe Hall is on the north, and the Combination-room on the fouth fide of the court; and the eaft fide is formed by part of the Public Library and Schools. The new court is a noble quadrangle, upwards of 300 feet long, and almost as many broad. It is formed by the Chapel on the north, a magnificent new building on the weft, and a very large lodge for the Provost on the east. The fouth fide of this grand fquare is not yet completed; but it is intended to erect a grand pile of building, which is to contain a Hall, Provoft's lodge, and

ments.

Some peculiar privileges appertain to this college. The Provost has abfolute authority within the precincts; and the under-graduates do not keep any public exercises in the fchools, nor are examined for their Bachelor of Arts' degree.

other apartments; and to be feparated from the ftreet by a magnificent colonnade. This plan, whenever it is carried into execution, will certainly be a great ornament to the town as well as the college.

THE CHAPEL is the principal object of attraction at this college. This fuperb ftructure is confidered as the most perfect specimen of Gothic architecture remaining in Europe. When viewed on the outfide, the maffive ftone with which it is compofed, and the immenfe buttreffes that fupport it, raise an idea of the most uncommon folidity: though this idea is but tranfient; the height and magnitude of the building, its open-worked battlements, and finely proportioned pinnacles and towers, exalt the fleeting emotions that arise from the confideration of its strength, into the fenfations that emanate from the contemplation of its fublimity and grandeur. The extreme length of this magnificent edifice is 316 feet, the breadth 84 feet, the height from the ground to the fummit of the battlements 90 feet, to the top of the pinnacles more than 101 feet, and to the top of each of the four corner towers 146. feet. Within fide, the length is 291 feet, the breadth 45. and the height 78 feet. The architect was named Cloos ; the father of Nicholas Cloos, who was made a Fellow of the college by Henry VI. in 1443, and afterwards Bishop of Litchfield. The original building begun by Henry VI. was lengthened out 188 feet, and the outfide wholly finished by Henry VII. The infide, the ftalls, painted windows, carvings, &c. were the work of Henry VIII.

The interior view of this Chapel is yet more striking and impreffive than the exterior. The vaft arched roof, unfuftained by a fingle pillar, with its voluminous ftones, difplaying all the elegance of fan-work, and feeming to hang in air, at once aftonishes and confounds. The chapel has two roofs, between which a man may walk upright. The inner roof is offtone in the form of a Gothic arch, but is fomewhat

fattened at the centre; where are fixed at equal distances, and perpendicularly, ponderous ftones, beautifully ornamented with roses and portcullifes; every one of which is said to weigh more than a ton, and are above a yard in thickness, projecting far beyond the other carved work of the ceiling. The difpofition of the materials of this roof, (which is without even the appearance of a pillar to uphold it, its only fupport being the towers and buttreffes,) and of these ftones in particular, may be justly ranked among the most remarkable efforts of architectural ingenuity. It was greatly admired by Sir Chriftopher Wren; who, according to tradition, went once a year to survey this roof, and said that, if any man would fhew him where to place the first stone, he would engage to build fuch another: and competent judges of the present day pofitively affert, that to lay a roof of stone in the fame order is beyond the skill of modern architects. Over this inner-roof is one of timber, covered with lead.

The walls, on the infide of the Anti-chapel, are ornamented with carved stone of exquifite, and almost inimitable, workmanfhip; representing the arms of the houfes of York, and Lancaster, with a vaft many crowns, roles, portcullifes, and fleur de lis. In the middle of one of these roses, at the west end, is a fmall figure of the Virgin Mary.

About the middle of the chapel is a screen and Organ-loft of wood, richly and curioafly carved; which separates the Antichapel from the Choir. It was erected in 1534, when Anne Boleyn, was Queen to Henry VIII. The weft fide is ornamented with several lovers' knots; and a pannel near the wall, on the right, displays the arms of the unfortunate Anne, impaled with those of the King. On a pannel, at the upper part of the screen, is a piece of sculpture in very bold relief; which represents the Almighty hurling the rebellious Angels from

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