at eight o'clock in the morning of March 17th. Thus the whole work occupied nearly four years'.]

It appears from the Bursars' accounts that the subscriptions amounted to £2365, including £300 from Leonard Mawe, Master (1617-1625), and Bishop of Bath and Wells, and £300 from Dr Cosin, afterwards Master.

From the following document, which is not dated, but which must have been drawn up soon after the consecration, we gather that the Chapel was erected on the sensible plan of fitting it for use as rapidly as possible, leaving such decorations as were not absolutely required to be provided by subsequent benefactors, or as funds accumulated. Thus the side walls and the east end were constructed of rough brickwork; and the desiderata for the interior are enumerated, as a marble "frontispiece" for the Altar, a silk pallium, the painted glass of seven windows, the ornamental case of the organ, and the historical paintings of part of the walls.

"Sacellum Collegii Sancti Petri in Academia Cantabrigiensi a fundamentis nuper exstructum et consecratum Mar. 17, A.D. 1632.

1 A Bursar's account book is preserved, which was exclusively kept for the building of the Chapel, and to it I am indebted for the particulars above given. Everything is minutely recorded even to "June 7, 1628. pack thread to measure out the ground for the wall, 13d.;" and "June 21. to Pattison in regard of spoiling his boots in standing in the water to dig. o.o.6."

2 [This was a bequest "pro tecto plumbeo."]

...

3 [The building accounts of the Chapel include charges for clunch and bricks, but not for stone, except "for water-table 284 foote and for coines 156 foot ❞— "for 10 windowes at 8. a peece "-" for 598 foote of splayes "-" for corben table over y 9 windowes." "Item for 290 foote of freestone Quines for ye butterys at 10d. ye foote£12.1.8." These entries shew that the brickwork was supplemented by a certain amount of stonework. The four sides of the Chapel, together with the cloisters, before the east side of their northern division was lengthened to meet the building of 1742, measure exactly 284 feet.]

Expense (pro quibus Collegium nunc in re alieno) superant summam receptam £119.

Et desunt adhuc

Frontispicium Altaris de marmore polito

Pallium cum frontalibus holosericis

Septem Fenestræ sacris Historiis depingendæ
Ornatus Organi pneumatici

Structura lapidea ad orientalem sacelli faciem quæ nunc
Lateritia est et invenusta

Utrumque Sacelli Latus similiter restaurandum cum Acroteriis.
Ornatus interiorum Parietum nondum depictorum Historiis.”

The exterior facings of the Chapel were entirely built at the expense of Dr Cosin, who succeeded Bishop Wren as Master of the College in 1635. He was ejected at the rebellion in 1644, and restored to the Mastership in 1660, but being immediately made Bishop of Durham, was succeeded in the former office by Dr Hale. The pavement was due to the munificence of his wife, Mrs Frances Cosin'. His affection for his College did not however cease when he left Cambridge, for the Order Book records (2 Feb: 1665)

"Sixty pounds being now received wch my Ld of Duresme sent to ye College as one Moitie of the Sum wch his LP was pleased to promise for y building of ye East end of our Chapel with freestone; the said £60 were this day layd up in ye Chest in ye Treasury, sealed in a Purse. . . . The Mony is to ly there till it be taken out to pay ye Workmen.”

His will, dated Dec. 11, 1671, contains this clause:

"I give and bequeath two hundred pounds towards the reedifying of the north and south sides of St Peter's Colledge Chappell in Cambridge, with hewn stone-worke answerable to the east and west ends of the sayd Chappell allready by mee sett up and finished.”

1 [Benefactors' List, Blomefield, 156.]

* [A previous passage in the will records the donation of £120 for the east end of the Chapel: and a memorandum, bearing the same date, states that the

The west end and its porch', which had been built before the summary printed above was drawn up, are carefully represented in Loggan's print (fig. 14), and a comparison of that with the existing building shews that its general appearance has suffered very little from the meddling of modern restoration.

From Loggan.

Fig. 14. £200 had been paid "for the faceing the south and north sides thereof with hewen stone and new canted buttresses." The will is printed in the Correspondence of John Cosin, D.D. Ed. Surtees Soc. 1872, ii. 291.]

1 [This porch had been the object of special donations.

"Rev' Pat' Matthaeus Wren D' Ep' Norw', ex piis Donationibus ad Structuram Porticus assignavit £30. Petrus de Laune, S. T. P. ex hoc Coll' £25. Joh' Cosin S. T. P. Magr' Coll' 10. Socii 11." Benefactors' List, in Blomefield, 155.]

The porch was taken down in 1755, and "the materials applied to ye Repair of ye Court." The foliation has been cut out of the window, and the carving of foliage, etc., in the frieze and in the spandrils of the lower arcade has been scraped off. Lastly, the tabernacle which occupied the space above the window has been exchanged for a clock. The whole composition belongs to the beginning of the reign of Charles the First,

but the east end, erected after the Restoration, is in a plainer style, and is capped by a small pediment'.

[Dr Cosin, who shared Archbishop Laud's views about Church ceremonial, introduced a gorgeous ritual into this Chapel, together with the use of incense. In consequence, it attracted much ill-will from the Puritans. One of his most

bitter opponents says:

1 [A careful drawing of the east window will be found in the Cambridge Portfolio, ii. 488.]

"that in Peter House Chappel there was a glorious new Altar set up, and mounted on steps, to which the Master, Fellowes, Schollers bowed, and were enjoyned to bow by Doctor Cosens the Master, who set it up; that there were Basons, Candlestickes, Tapers standing on it, and a great Crucifix hanging over it. . . . that there was likewise a carved Crosse at the end of every seat, and on the Altar a Pot, which they usually called the incense pot: . . . and none of them might turne their backs towards the Altar going in nor out of the Chappell : ... and the common report both among the Schollers of that House and others, was, that none might approach to the Altar in Peter-house but in Sandalls, and that there was a speciall consecrated Knife there kept upon the Altar, to cut the sacramental bread that was to be consecrated '."]

In the diary which William Dowsing, the iconoclast, kept of his proceedings we read:

"We went to Peterhouse, 1643, Decemb: 21, with Officers and Souldiers and...we pulled down 2 mighty great Angells with wings, and divers other Angells, & the 4 Evangelists, & Peter, with his Keies, over the Chappell Dore-& about a hundred Chirubims and Angells, and divers superstitious Letters in gold; & at the upper end of the Chancell, these words were written, as followeth Hic locus est Domus Dei, nil aliud, et Porta Cali. Witnes Will: Dowsing. Geo: Long. These wordes were written at Keies Coll: and not at Peterhouse, but about the walls was written in Latine, we prays the ever, & on some of the Images was written, Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus. on other, Gloria Dei, et Gloria Patri, etc: & all non nobis Domine &: & six Angells in the windowes. Witnesses Will: Dowsing, George Longe?"

Many of these Angels and Cherubim were probably at

1 [Prynne, Canterbury's Doom, fol. Lond. 1646, p. 73. The account is probably much exaggerated; but that incense was really used is proved by the list of plate furnished by the Bishop, where a charge is made "for the Sencor:" and for "making a newe case to the Sencor." "Correspondence," etc., i. 224; and the Chapel Accounts for 1632-3 record payments for much costly plate, altar-cloths, cushions, and hangings. See Appendix, No. v. Similar accusations are brought against Dr Wren, in two curious and extremely scurrilous Pamphlets, "The Wren's Nest Defil'd," 1640, and "Wren's Anatomy; Printed in the yeare, That Wren ceased to domineere, 1641.” The latter expressly accuses him of introducing Latin service into Peterhouse, and setting up an altar there: an accusation the truth of which is proved by an entry in the above account for eight service-books in Latin.]

2 MSS. Baker, xxxviii. 455. [Dowsing's Diary is printed rather differently in Carter's History of the University of Cambridge, 8o. London, 1753. So far as I have been able to discover, this was the first time that the diary was printed; but unfortunately Mr Carter tells us nothing about the history of the MS.]