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Barnes's Poems of Rural Life 373 The Editors would be glad if Subscribers would inform them of any of Some Memories of my "Vac" their friends who are anxious to take in the Magazine. 376 A Johnian Trilogy Subscribers are requested to leave their acldresses with Mr Johnson, 381 On Idleness as a Fine A.rt . and to give notice of any change; and also of any conections in the 87 printed list of Subscribers issued in December. Jubilate - 3 92 The Secretaries of College Societies are requested to send in their MonHabit 3 notices for the Chronicle before the end of the seventh week of each Term. My Auld Coat 393 Contributions for the next nUlilber should be sent in at an early date Overboard 394 to one of the Editors (Dr Donald MaeAlister, Mr J. R. Tanner, C.H. Heath, F. N. Schiller, J. Windsor, A.H. Bagley). Obituary 395 N.B.-Colltributors of anonymous articles or letters will please send 0 Our Chronicle 4 4 their names to one of the Editors who need not communicate them further. 18 The Library 4 [77leEditors will be grateful to any Subscriber who will furnish them XIV are Title and Contents to Vol with Nos. 20 and 72, which wanting to complete the editorial copy.] 344 The L£brary. Schanz (Dr. Georg). Englische Handelspolitik. 2 Vols. 8"0. Leipzig, . r88r. Ww. 3b. Scotland. The Exchequer Rolls of. Vol. IX. Addenda, r437-r487. Edited by George Burnett. 8vo. Edinburgh, r886. Yy. 32.9. Series Episcoporum EcclesileCatholicle. Ed. Gams. 4to. Ratisbonle, r873- r886. Z. [5.8. Supplementum Aristotelicum. Vol. I. (Aristophanes. Priscianus Lydus). 8vo. Berolini, r885-86. Zz. [3. Tyery (Nicholas.). Proposals to Hemy VIII for an Irish Coinage. Edited by G. O. White-Cooper and F. J. H. Jenkinson. 8vo. Cambridge Anti_ quarian Society, [886. fliissigen Van der Waals (Dr. J. D.). Die Continuitiit des gasformigen und ORS OF Zustandes. Ed. Dr. Friedrich Roth. 8vo. Leipzig, r88r. Xx. 28.24. FOUNDERS AND BENEFACT Vergilius Grammaticus. Edited by J. Huerner. Teubner Text. 8vo. Lipsile, COLLEGE. r886. Ii. H. ST. JOHN'S Words worth (William). Poetical Words of. Edited by William Knight, LL.D. 8 Vols. 8vo. Edinburgh, 1882-r886. X.30.16-23. 290.) Wyclif (John). Tractatus de benedicta Incarnacione. Edited by Edwa�d (Continued from Vol. XIV. page Harris. Wyclif Society. 8vo. Lond. 1886. Y. r6.6. Year Books of the Reign of King Edward Ill. Years XIII. and XIV. Edited and Translated by L. O. Pike. 8vo. Lond. 1886. Rolls Series. Yy. tful in changes, MES of depression are frui Zeller (Dr. Edward). Plato and the Older Academy. Translated by S. F. reforms. And the Alieyne and A. Goodwin. 8vo. Lond. 1876. Ww. 29.33. sometimes in important - The Stoics, Epicureans, and Sceptics. Translated by C. J. Reich.el. was a time of great 8vo. Lond. 1880. Ww. 29.34. middle of last century -- of Greek Philosophy from the earliest period to the time number of entries, A History depression in the College. The of Socrates. 2 Vols. Translated by S.F. Alieyne. 8vo. Lond. 1881. reached the lowest Ww. 29.35 and 36. which had long been declining, - A History of Eclecticism in Greek Philosophy. Translated by S. F. To what extent limit of which we have any record. Alieyne. 8vo. Lond. 1883. Ww. 29.37. to the changes - Socrates and the Socratic Schools. Translated by O.J. Reichel. 8vo. this condition of affairs contributed Lond. 1884. Ww. 29.38. which characterised the that ensued, and to the events the century, history of the College in the latter half of deserves notice. is not always obvious, but the sequence erected, but some of No additional buildings were Had fu nds permitted the old ones were defaced. [A list of the very valuable but little-known collection of early were to have been editions of lthe classics in the possession of the College most of our red brick walls First Court. is presented with this number as a supplement.] Italianised, like the S. side of the and pupil entered The relations between Tutor all, or nearly all, the Upon a new phase. Hitherto were fo r the most part Fellows had received pupils, who them in the same 'pensioned ' upon them, living with modern system chambers. The introduction of the of the pupil, his led to the greater independence Tutor, and the withdrawal fu rt.her separation from his personal responsibility from the bulk of the Fellows of concentrated upon and care, which was henceforth members of the two or three of the more prominent Body. zz VOL. XIV. 346 Founders and Benifactors of St. Jo lm's Oolle.qe. Foundel's and Benefactors of St. Jo hn's Oollege. 347 In connexion with the foregoing changes we the letting t RICHARD HOLMES, of Lowther, clerk, gave in 173S of second floor rooms by a separate tenancy £ 100 fo r a poor scholar. from those immediately below them, and the constructio The son of Jas. Holmes, he was educated at Sedbergh, admitted here, n of independent access to those of the First Court. :et. 16, in June, 1672, as a sizar, B.A. 1675, M.A. 1679. We have been unable to discover The Benefaction belongs to Sedbergh School, a\ldthe Scholar who enjoyed precisely when the requisite structural alterations were it was formerly obliged to come to St. John's, bnt that condition has been made. since removed. They may have been part of that large plan of Dr. Powell's, now so universally condemned because its prominent tFELICIA JONES in 1738 founded an Exhibition of fe atures are the stone fa cing, sash windows, £16 per an num. and other incongruities of the First Court. Dr. Powell In accordance with the will of her late husband, Robert Jones, of Gray's instituted at St. John's a system of regular College Inn, she left a rent of £16 per an. upon her estate at Langdon-upon-Tern in Examinations, which he strenuously Shropshire in trust to their kinsman, Ed. Green, of the Middle Temple, to urged, and long urged in vain, the rest of the choose a scholar of some school in Shropshire, giving preference to their University to adopt. kindred. He appointed John Lloyd, of Shrewsbury School, in 1739, and The Benefactions of this period Samuel Dickenson, of Newport School, in 1752• were few. Robert Jones' will is dated Dec. 1730: his widow's Jan. 1731. One, t ROBERT Robert Jones, son of Thos. J., attorney, of Wellington, Salop, was admitted '/> LAMBERT, D.D., left the College £ 300, and such here, May 20, r681, ret. r6. of his books as were wanting in the Library. His legacy of £300 was added to the fund for the purchase of Advowsons. tTHOMAS BAKER, B.D., ejected Fellow, who died He also left £roo to the University. The son 01 the Rev. Josh. Lambert, in 1740, bequeathed to the Library a valuable collection also of this College, he was born at Beverley and educated at the Grammar School there, of which his father was of books. Master; admitted here 2 r Ap. r693, ret. r6, he was elected scholar the same His family history has been already given in the Note on his elder brother, year and Fellow in r699. Besides lecturing at different times in Greek, George Baker. He was elected Scholar in 16i6, and Ashton Fellow in Hebrew, Mathematics and Divinity, he was 13 years Dean and 7 years 1680. For a short time he was Hebrew Lecturer, but otherwise does not Bursar before being elected Master. Perhaps it is to him we owe the a ppear to have taken an active part in College work. He was pre-eminently arrallgement of the List of Benefactors in three divisions. He made the copy a scholar and a student, his time and energies being devoted mainly to now in the Bursar's cnstody, which, with another made from it in r838, was historical and antiq uarian research. We have seen that he declined used in the terminal Commemoration Services untilr860. He seems to have Bp. Watson's offer to make him his private Chaplain. He is said to have been most painstaking in his attention to all departments of College business. done this in anticipation of a similar ofTer from the Bp. of Durham, which His beautiful handwriting may be seen in numerous papers, and in marginal came to him and was accepted shortly after. The Bp. also gave him the notes on others' MSS in the College Treasury. living of Long Newton, near Durham, in 1687. The year following he During the short period, less than 8 years, of his Mastership he was twice incurred his patron's displeasure by refusing to read King James' declaration Vice-Chancellor. On the second occasion, 1729, he gained the office only by of Liberty of Conscience. Two years later he resigned his living rather than one vote, 84 against 83· His opponent, Dr.