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A67907	The foundation of the Universitie of Oxford, with a catalogue of the principall founders and speciall benefactors of all the colledges, and total number of students, magistrates and officers therein being. And how the revenews thereof are and have been increased from time to time, and by whom, with buildings, books and revenues as no universitie in the world can in all points parallel: these are the nurseries of religion, and seminaries of good literature.	Langbaine, Gerard, 1609-1658.	1651 (1651)	Wing L370; ESTC R202711	10,636	19

the lands and revenews which at this present are belonging thereunto ordaining in the same a Warden and no definitive number of Fellows Since by the liberality of Iohn Williot Doctor of Divinity Chancellour of Excester formerly Fellow of this Colledge who gave maintenance for twelve Schollers whereof nine should serve the nine seniour Fellows and are by them to be chosen upon which they were called Postmasters the other three should serve all the Fellows and they are chosen by one who is yearly elected to be principall of the Postmasters Thomas Leech S. Thomas Bodeley Knight a memorable benefactor to this University Doctor Wilson Mast. Iohn Chambers sometimes a Fellow of Eton Canon of Winsor who made them 14. gave 1000 pounds that two Fellows should be elected out of Eton School to this Colledge successively Doctor Jervice Doctor Jesop and the late worthy Warden S. Henry Savil Knight Provost of Eton who founded two mathematick lectures in the Universiry which he in his person read publickly for two terms by whose procurement and care this Colledge hath been much beautified and enlarged with fair buildings books and ornaments it is much enriched In this Colledge at this present is a Warden 21 Fellows 14. Schollers besides officers and servants of the foundation with other students the whole number being 80. IV. Excester Colledge founded 1316. VVAlter Stapuldon being descended of noble parentage for his wisedome gravity and learning was often employed in Embassages for King Edward the 2. who made him Bishop of Excester Lord Trea surer of England and one of his Privy Councel founded this Colledge by the name of Stapuldon Hall which he endowed with lands and revenews for the maintenance of one Rector 12 Fellows out of which number one should beyearly chosen to govern the rest After in anno 1404. Edmund Stafford Bishop of Excester brother to Ralph Earl Stafford Lord Chancellor of England gave two Fellowships reformed the statutes altered the name thereof and called Excester Colledge To this Colledge since Sir Willam Peter Knight principall Secretary to King Henry the 8th K. Edward the 6th Q. Mary and Q. Elizabeth gave eight fellowships and augmented the wages of the Fellows of the first foundation to make them equall with his Sir Iohn Periam Esq. gave 560 pounds which was expended in building Sir Iohn Aelan Knight gave 800 pounds which was bestowed in building of a fair and spacious Hall and George Hakewell Doct. of Divinity Archdeacon of Surrey yet living sometimes Fellow of this House founded erected and finished the new Chappell all three Devonshire men In which Colledge at this present is one Rector 22 Fellows two Pensioners and one Bible-clark besides officers and servants of the Foundation with other students to the number of 230. V. Oriall Colledge founded 1337. KIng Edward the second called Edward of Canarvan began the foundation of this Colledge by the procurement of Adam Brown Clerk Almner to the said King dedicating the same to the honour of the blessed Virgin Mary calling it the House or Hall of S. Mary the Virgin Vulgo Oriall Colledge which he endowed with lands and revenews for the maintenance of one Provost and 10 Fellows But afterwards by the liberality of Iohn Frank who gave allowance for four Fellowships Iohn Carpenter Bishop of Worcester who gave one Fellowship William Smith Bishop of Lincolne who gave one Fellowship the aforenamed Adam Brown who was first Provost being also a great benefactor King Edward the third who gave the Hospitall of S. Bartholmew near Oxford Anthony Blincow D. of Law late Provost who bestowed 1200 pounds in building the forefront and Rich. Dudley who gave maintenance for two Fellows and 6. exhibitioners other six being of a more ancient foundation besides divers other benefactors this Colledge is much encreased Moreover our late Soveraigne L. King Iames being informed that the title of the foundation thereof with the lands thereunto belonging were in question and subject to eviction hath confirmed by Letters Pattents a sure estate of the same wherein at this present is one Provost 18. Fellows 12. Pensioners or exhibitioners one Bible-Clark besides officers and servants of the foundation with other students the whole number being 106. VI Queens Colledge founded 1340. RObert Eglesfield Batchelor of Divinity Chaplain to Queen Philippa wife to King Edward the third founded this Colledge in his own ground by the name of Queens Colledge commending the patronage thereof to his Lady the Queen and to the Queens of England successively which he endowed with lands and revenews for the maintenance of a Provost and 12 Fellows which were to be augmented as the revenews increased But since by the bounty of King Edward the third who gave the Hospitall of S. Julians in Southampton commonly called Gods House King Edward the fourth who gave the Priory of Sherborn in Hamshire Robert Langton Thomas Langton Provost Bishop of Winchester Edm. Grindall Archbishop of Canterbury Christopher Bambridge Provost Archbishop of Yorke William Fettiplace Esquire Henry Robinson Provost Bishop of Carlile D. Ayrie late Provost and divers other late good benefactors the number of students are much increased Moreover our late Soveraign Lady Q. Elizabeth in the 3 year of her raign being informed that the title of the foundation thereof with the lands thereunto belonging were in question and subject to eviction by Act of Parliament confirmed a sure estate of the same Likewise of late for the better encouragement of the Fellows who are all bound by statute to professe Divinity King CHARLS by the intercession of Q MARY Patronesse of this Colledge to bestow upon the same the perpetuall patronage of certaine Benefices in the County of Southampton In it at this present is a Provost Fourteen Fellows Seven Scholars Two Chaplaines and fourteen other students Under-graduats called by the Founder Servientes ad mensam or Sociorum ministri besides officers and servants of the foundation with other students to the number of 160. VII New Colledge founded 1375. VVIlliam Wickam alias Perot Rector of S. Martins le grande and after Dean there Archdeacon of Lincolne Northampton and Buckingham Provost of Wels Prebend of twelve severall places principall Secretary to King Edward the third Keeper of the Privy Seal Bishop of Winchester L. high Treasurer and Chancellor of England founded this Colledge dedicating the same to God the Father and the blessed Virgin Mary which he endowed with lands and revenues for the maintenance of a Warden Seventy Fellows and Schollars Ten Chaplains three Clarks one Organist Sixteen Choristers besides officers and servants and before he builded the same he gave exhibition to Fifty Scholars for the space of ten years in this university He also founded a Colledge at Winchester wherein he established one Warden ten Fellows two School-masters and seventy schollars with officers and servants which are all maintained at his charge out of which School he ordained should be chosen the best scholars alwayes to supply the vacant places of

The Foundation OF THE UNIVERSITIE OF OXFORD With a Catalogue of the principall Founders and speciall Benefactors of all the Colledges and total number of Students Magistrates and Officers therein being And how the Revenews thereof are and have been increased from time to time and by whom with Buildings Books and Revenues as no Universitie in the world can in all points parallel These are the Nurseries of Religion and Seminaries of good Literature Ito fac similiter LONDON Printed by M. S. for Thomas Jenner and are to be sold at his Shop at the South entrance of the Royal-Exchange 1651. ABout the time of the foundation of the Universitie of Oxford the ancient Historians have diversly written some affirmed that it was founded when the most ancient Britains first inhabited this Island and that from Greeklade a Town in Wilt-shire this Academy was translated to Oxford which some will have called Ouseford from the River of Ouse by the Latins called Isis which giveth name to the next adjoyning Island called Ousney Others say it was founded when the City of Oxford was first builded many years before the Incarnation of our Saviour Christ Others say it was builded or at least restored by King Vortiger But the chiefest conclude and agree that Elfred of some called Alured King of the West Saxons about the year 872 was the chief and Principall Founder thereof And that besides the ancient Hostles for Scholars which is evident were there remaining after many overthrows of warres he caused to be erected therein three Colledges or publick Schools for the teaching of Grammer Philosophy and Divinitie sending thither his owne son Ethelward Since which time by reason of divers incursions and continuall wars which were daily in this land between the Britains Romans Saxons Kings of this Heptarchie Danes and Normans the light and glory of this Academy was not onely of old eclipsed but even since the Conquest in the Barons wars also obscured and defaced And it is most certaine as the destructions were many so the restaurations thereof shortly ensued by one Prince or other so that at length recovering the fame and dignity which it holdeth amongst other Christian Academies of Europe it is now worthily reputed one of the most famous Universities in the world the ancient and noble Family of the Veres having been long Earls thereof and so still remain And howsoever the Hostles Hals Innes Schools and religious Houses whereof this University since the Conquest did consist and which now are wholly defaced or in part converted into some of the present Colledges were for their number and for the number of Students in them much above all that now are extant viz. Divi Fridswidi Prior S. Mariae Aula Divi Jacobi Aula Divi Gregorii Aula D. Johan Baptist Aula D. Thomae Aula Portlat Aula Sacerdotiss Aula Peckwateri Aula Phiswici Diversorium Magnae Academiae Aula S. Margaretae Aula Regis Aula Reginae Aula Pittantii Aula Green-Aula Corbetti Au'a Parvae Academiae Aula Stapul Aula and many others yet at this present there are eighteen goodly Colledges and houses erected maintained with the lands and revenews of their founders and seven Hals that Students live in at their own charge not having endowment of land to maintain them Besides there are publick Schools and a Library whose Fabrick by the bounty of many royal noble and religious persons was of late years finished which no Universitie in the world can in all points paralel These are the nurseries of Gods true religion and Seminaries of good literature I. University Colledge founded 872. ALfred or Alured King of the West Saxons being addicted to Religion and good literature for the increase and study of Divinity Philosophie and other arts in the second year of his reigne founded this Colledge by the name of the Great Hal or Universitie Colledge from the foundation whereof the students were maintained out of the Kings Exchequer until King William the Conqueror did take the same from them by which means both the Colledge wanted repairing and the students also were for many years enforced to live by the devotion of religious people Afterwards William Arch-deacon of Durham about the year 1217 repaired and endowed the same with new possessions establishing therein a Master two Fellows a Bible Clark which is the Porter Since by the bounty of Walter Skirlow Doctor of Law Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry after of Bath and Wels and lastly of Durham who gave three Fellowships Henry Piercy Earl of Northumberland who gave other three and by the gift of Robert Dudley late Earl of Leicester Iohn Friston Esquire Mast. Gunsley Rector of Tytesley in Surrey Mistris Pain Mast. Aston S. Simon Bennet who hath bequeathed good lands to increase the number of Fellows and Scholars after the decease of his Lady Master Charles Greenwood sometimes fellow of this Colledge and Proctor of this University who gave 1000 pounds towards the new building of this Colledge and some other benefactors the company and revenues of this Colledge is much increased so as there is at this present in the same a Master eight Fellows one Bible-Clerk with officers and servants of the Foundation besides other students the whole number being 73. II. Baliol Colledge founded 1262. IOhn Ba'iol born at Bernards Castle in the Bishoprick of Durham a worthy warriour to King Henry the third in his civil wars against his Barons with his wife Dervorgilla a Lady of honorable Parentage being in her right Earl of Galloway and Lord high Constable of Scotland parents of Iohn Baliol King of Scots founded this Colledge giving thereunto both lands and revenews for the maintenance of a Master 10 Fellows 11 Scholars which is recorded to be the first and most anciently endowed Colledge in this University as some late Historians constantly affirme But by the reason of the Scottish wars in the reigne of King Edward the first the students could not peaceably enjoy the same This Colledge hath since by the liberality of Philip Somervil and Margaret his wife the Lady Ella Longspee Countesse of Salisbury Richard de Hofinger VVilliam Lord Felton Hugh de Vrenna Knight VVilliam Hamon of Gilford Esquire Doctor Bell Bishop of VVorcester Peter Blundel Esquire the Lady Elizabeth Perian sister to the honorable Sir Francis Bacon late Lord Chancelour Mary Dunch and Iohn Browne with divers other benefactors been much increased with buildings and other ornaments In which the number of fellows are uncertaine and at the discretion of the Visitour Master and three seniour Fellows as the revenews thereof do increase or decrease There are in the same at this present a Master 11 Fellows 11 Schollers four exhibitioners besides officers and servants of the foundation the whole number being 138. III. Merton Colledge founded 1274. WAlter de Merton sometimes L. Chancellour of England Counsellour to King Henry the third and Edward the first Bishop of Rochester founded this Colledge by the name of Merton Colledge endowing it in effect with all

the Fellows of this Colledge Since by the bounty of Master Rawlins Sir Richard Read Knight Doctor Newman Doctor Reeve late Warden Doctor Martin Robert Bell Doctor Smith and others this Colledge is much enriched with plate books and other ornaments in which at this present is a Warden Seventy Fellows and Scholars ten Chaplains three Clarks one Organist sixteen Choristers besides officers and servants of the foundation with other students being in all 135. VIII Lincolne Colledge founded 1420. RIchard Fleming born in Yorkeshire Doctor of Divinity Bishop of Lincolne in the eight yeare of the reigne of King Henry the Fifth founded this Colledge by the name of Lincolne Colledge which he endowed with lands and revenews for the maintenance of one Rectour six Fellows and two Chaplains After Robert Fleming Deane of Lincolne Edward Derbie Arch Deacon of Stow endowed the same Colledge with lands for the maintenance of three Fellows superadded to the number of the foundation Iohn Forrest Deane of Wels Thomas Beckington Bishop of Bath and Wels John Southam Arch Deacon of Oxford William Fyndern Esquire Henry Beauford Cardinal Bishop of Winchester Iohn Bucktott and Iohn Crosbie augmented the same In anno 1479 Thomas Scot alias Rotheram borne in Yorkeshire Fellow of Kings Colledge Chaplaine and Lord Privy Seal to King Edward the Fourth Provost of Beverley Bishop of Rochester after of Lincolne and then chosen Master of Pembroke Hall in Cambridge Arch-Bishop of Yorke Lord Chancellour of England Chancellour of the University of Cambridge Secretary to foure Kings when he was Bishop of Lincolne did much enlarge and finally perfect the buildings of the same adding to the former number five fellowships Since Walter Bates William Dagvill William Atwater Bishop of Lincolne Edmund Audley Robert Traps Richard Kelbie late Rector Iohn Randal the Right Honorable and Right Reverend Father in God Iohn Lord Bishop of Lincolne c. who at his great charge erected a faire Chappel and divers other Benefactors have much increased the same wherein at this present is one Rector fifteen Fellows two Chaplains and foure Scholars besides officers and servants of the foundation with other students being in all one hundred and nine IX All-Soulnes Colledge 1437. HEnry Chichely Doctor of the Civil Law Chancellour of Salisbury Bishop of Saint Davids Arch-Bishop of Canterbury in the fifteenth year of the reigne of King Henry the Sixth founded this Colledge by the name of All Soulne Colledge procuring the said King Henry to give thereunto foure Priories Alians namely Alberbury Rumney Weeden Pinkeney and Languenith the building whereof the perfected in such forme as it still remaineth endowing the same with lands and revenews for the maintenance of one Warden forty Fellows whereof twenty foure should be Divines and the rest students of the Civill Law appointing by statute that the number of Fellows should never be augmented nor empaired and that once in every year all places by death or otherwise void should be supplyed He also gave lands and revenews for the maintenance of Chaplains Clarks and Choristers sans number Since Reginald Pool Cardinall and Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Sir William Peter sometime Fellow of this Colledge Privy Counsellor to Henry the eight King Edward Queene Mary and Queen Elizabeth have been benefactors to the same And the late Queen Elizabeth of famous memory confirmed by letters Pattents to this Colledge the Parsonage of Stanton Harecourt In this at this present is one Warden forty Fellows two Chaplains three Clarks six Choristers besides officers and servants of the foundation with other students the whole number being 70. X. Magdalene Colledge founded 1459. VVIlliam Pattin commonly called Wainfleet from the place of his birth having been Provost of Eton juxta Winsor after Bishop of Winchester and Lord Chancellor of England about the thirty seaventh yeare of the reigne of King Henry the sixth founded first Magdalene Hall after that this Colledge where S. Iohns Hospitall had formerly been situated dedicating the same to the honour of S. Mary Magdalene endowing it with lands and revenews for the maintenance of one President forty Fellows thirty Demies or Scholars four Chaplaines eight Clarks and sixteen Ghovisters Since King Henry the seventh Thomas Ingledue Chaplaine to the Founder VVilliam Fitzallen Earle of Arundel Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter who married Jane daughter of Richard Nevil Earle of Salsbury from whom is lineally descended the Right Honorable and my singular good Lord Thomas now Earle of Arundel and Surrey Earle Marshall of England ut supra Iohn Forman D. Higden President Iohn Clamond President Robert Morewent Iohn Mullins Arch-Deacon of London Iohn VVarner D. of Divinity Deane of Litchfield with some others have been liberal benefactors but the number of Fellows and Scholars neither hath been nor may be increased In which at this present is a President forty Fellowes thirty Demies or Scholars four Chaplains eight Clarks sixteen Choristers School-Master and an Usher three Readers of Divinity naturall and morall Philosophy besides divers officers and servants of the Foundation with other students being in all two hundred and twenty XI Brazen Nose Colledge founded 1515. VVIlliam Smith borne at Farmoutb sometimes Fellow of Pembroke Hall in the University of Cambridge Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield translated to Lincolne first Lord President of VVales and that for many years five yeares Chancellor of the University of Oxford in the first year of the reigne of King Henry the eight founded this Colledge by the name of Kings Hall and Colledge of Brasen-Nose but he lived not to finish the same as he intended in a place where heretofore divers Hals have been situated some whereof still remaine namely Parva Aula Vniversitatis AEnaei-Nasi or Little Vniversity and Brazen-Nose Hal otherwise called the Kings Hall with many more After whose death Richard Sutton Esquire tooke upon him to perfect the same which he accomplished wherein he established a Principall and twelve Fellows maintained partly by the charges of the Founder and partly by his owne charge But since by the liberality of William Clifton William Porter Iohn Elton alias Baler Humfrey Ogle Edward Derbie Iohn Clamond Iohn Williamson Brian Higden Alexander Noel Dean of Saint Pauls in London Joyce Frankland Richard Harper Justice of the Common pleas Sir Iohn Port Knight Iohn Lord Mordant Doctor Barnston George Palin and other good benefactors this Colledge is much beautified with buildings and other ornaments for the perfecting whereof there hath been expended great summes of money within these few years past and at this present there are in the same a Principall twenty Fellows besides Sholars officers and servants of the foundation the whole number being 186. XII Corpus Christi Colledge founded 1516. RIichard Fox Doct. of Law Agent in France for King Henry the seventh Lord Keeper of his Privy Seal principall Secretary and one of his Privy Counsel Embassador into Scotland Bishop of Excester Bath and Wels Durham and Winchester Godfather to King Henry the eight and then

of a Colledge in Oxford and gave order for raising of five thousand pounds more upon his lands for the building of it and before his death gave directions to Dorothy his wife sister to Iohn Lord Peter for the erecting of the same who in testimony of her love to her husband hath since erected and perfected in such fair and ample manner as no Colledge in Oxford for the quantity doth exceed the same expending between eleven and twelve thousand pounds in the building thereof and hath endowed and setled a perpetual estate of her owne and her husbands of near eight hundred pounds per annum in present for the maintenance of a Warden fifteen Fellows fifteen Scholers two Chaplains two Clarks furnishing them wth serviceable officers and other necessary ornaments fit for such a society To which Colledge since Philip Bisse Doctor of Divinity Canon of VVels Archdeacon of Taunton gave 1849 books for their Library valued at 1200 pounds Wherein at this present is a Warden fifteen Fellows fifteen Scholars two Chaplains two Clarks besides officers and servants of the foundation with many other students the whole number being 129. XVIII Pembrook Colledge founded 1620. THomas Tisdal of Glimpton in the County of Oxford Esquire bequeathed five thousand pounds to George Abbot then Bishop of London John Bennet Knight and Henry Airay Doctor in Divinity to purchase lands for the maintenance of 7 Fellows and 6 Scholars with which mony lands were purchased to the valew of two hundred and fifty pounds per anuum for the said use And Richard VVightwick Batchelor in Divinity Rector of East-Isley in comitat Berk. gave lands to the value of a hundred pounds per annum for the maintenance of three Fellows and four Scholars whereupon Petition being made to King Iames he granted a Charter for the foundation of a Colledge by the name of Pembroke Colledge with mortmain of seven hundred pounds per annum which Colledge was founded at Broadgates Hall an ancient house for Scholars but not endowed having onely a Principall and voluntary students therein This Colledge was called Pembroke Colledge in respect to VVilliam Earl of Pembroke then Chancellor of the Uniuersity of Oxon. and Visitor of Broadgate Hall to which King CHARLES gave the Patronage of the Church adjoyning to it viz. Saint Aldats for ever This Colledge consisteth of a Master ten Fellows and ten Scholars with other students and officers to the number of 169. THere be also in this University seven Hals in which there are many students living at their owne Charges viz. Glocester Hall which was first built by Iohn Lord Grifford of Brimsfield for five Monks of Glocester to study in afterwards it was augmented by the Monastery of the order of Saint Benedict for their Benedictine Monks and lastly converted to a House for Scholars by Sir Thomas VVhite Knight ut prius and nine students Edmund Hall was builded by S. Edmund Archbishop of Canterbury wherein is a Principall and ninety three students Saint Albon Hall was builded by the Abbot of Saint Albons for their Monks to study in wherein is a Principall and ninety nine students Hart Hall was builded by Walter Stapuldon Bishop of Excester for students wherein is a Principall and a hundred and four students N●w Inn was in the Tenure of New Colledg heretofore called Turlocks Inne wherein is a Principal and 140 students Saint Mary Hall was founded by King Edward the second wherein is a Principall and a hundred students Magdalene Hall was founded by William Waithfleet Bishop of Winchester wherein is a Principall and two hundred and twenty students The totall number of Students of all Degrees in this Vniversity that had names in every particular Colledge with the Magistrates and daily officers thereunto belonging besides divers young Scholars that were relieved therein which had no names in any of the Colledges aforesaid were in Anno 1622 2850. And at this present there are in the same 3247. FINIS