� I 0� =- ...El � � t!l � lit a 0- 'i d' �.... III � � ;:i' � � � � 0 � ��- = == .... 1Il 1Il � ...0 !l �= � 0 $:l o "t:s � e< "t:S � ? o-t 00 E CS" �-p .... ::s � 00 � 1Il� -- -..) � .... ::: � .. ... CS" � � � lA E" [J:j.., ....... .... � .... 00 2.11::S � � CC - 0 00 '" ? - � .... tI'!... � ?fl lA � l"5 .... .. C> ... 0 1: ....... �- ....la � 11;:f .. � � .: � 1Il la � 0 � - � ..... � " l!'� � � � � � � I ,� CONTENTS. The Subscription for the current year is fixed at 4/6; it includes Nos. 8r, 8l and 8 . Subscribers who pay One Guinea in advance will PAGE 3 be supplied with the Magazine for five years, dating from the Term in 281 St. John's College (continued) Founders alld Benefactors of which the payment is made. Subscribers are requested to pay their Subscriptions to Mr E. 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Schiller, Our Chronicle N.B.-Contributors of) anonymous articles or letters will please send 340 The Library their names to one of the Editors who need not communicate them further. - (Supplement) Books List of early· printed Classical - FOUNDERS AND BENEFACTORS OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE. (Continuedfr�m Vol. XIV. pag' 218.) �H E present Catalogue of Founders, &c., whilst _ arranged in approximately chronological order, " has yet its groups of benefactions of similar character. The wants and fashions of each age are reflected in the predominating type of its gifts and endowments. The half century which fo llowed the Foundation of the College, and the erection of the buildings necessary for its existence, witnessed chiefly the endowment of additional Fellowships and Scholarships-a large and important acquisition of what were called Bye­ Foundations. The Second Court and the Library are monuments not only of the bounty of the Countess of Shrewsbury and of Bp. Williams, but also of the growth of the College during the 16th century. Gifts of books were frequent after the completion of the Library. The Third Court co mmemorates the Restoration of the Monarchy, the zeal of Bp. Gunning and other Royalist members of the College, and at the same time marks a period when a change in habits and manners was taking place, so that men were no longer co ntent to be herded to gether in the same apartment 50 thickly as heretofore. The co mmencement of a Fund for the purchase of Advow50ns towards the close of the 17th century, VOL. XIV. pp Founde?'s and Benefactors if St. John's Oollege. Founde?'s and Benejacto)'s if St. John's Oollege. followed, hy a rapid succession of bequests of Advow­ The benefaction came to the College through the influence of Thos. Baker. sons or of money wherewith purchase them, Geo. B. died August 1699, leaving the money to charitable purposes. His to made executors were the Hon. Chas. Montague of Esington, the historian, and the next half-century remarkable as the time when another brother, Francis. With their concurrence Butler's Hall and Wiliey's more patronage was acquired by the College than Farm in Sawbridgeworth, and Thorley, Herts, were pID'chased and made during all the rest of its history. over to the College, on condition that tlle clear profits of the estate, deducting &c., should be divided amongst six scholars, share and share alike. An account of the living taxes, s in the order in which The executors were to have the nomination of the scholars during their lives. we received them, of the conditions under which they Preference was to be given first to the Founder's name or kin, and were given, and of the men who have been sent to then to pupils of Durham School. Scholars of the Founder's kin, or any the estate. In the serve them, would have a historical value all the nominated by the executors might enjoy two shares of election special regard was to be had to the piety and good manners of t�e greater because it could be largely compiled fr om person to be elected. At every voidance tl1ere was to be a vacancy of SIX independent records within the College, and would months, the income for that time being for the use of the College. The deed thus serve to supplement and not infrequently to of conveyance to the College is dated 1710. Ten or fifteen years laterwe find correct statements in some works of acknowledg the exhibitions, sometimes double shares, held by members of the family, ed some apparently nephews of the founder. authority. For the present the fo llowing summary will Two other George Bakers, the son and grandson of the above, were suffice to illustrate what has been said. Fellow Commoners of the College, the latter having entered shortly before One living only, namely Horningsea, came to the the death of Thomas Baker, tlle historian, was chief mourner at his funeral. College from the Ancient Hospital. By a special statute of r 86 r, there are to be so many ' Baker' exhibitions Six we owe to as the funds of this benefaction shall suffice to maintain at the rate of £30 Bp. Fisher and other executors of Lady Margaret, per an. each, preference being given to candidates who have been scholars of chiefly obtained from the suppressed religious houses. the Free School of Durham for one year at the least. These are Aldworth, Higham, Ospringe, North Stoke, ,. tH UMPHREY GOWER, D.D., 24th Master, endowed Sunninghill, and Thorington. For a hundred years the Mastership with an estate at Thriplow, left his the College possessed no other livings, until Sir books to the Library and £ 500 to purchase Advowsons, Ralph Hare and Rev. Rd. Whittington gave each one, and founded two Scholarships of £ IQ a year. and Bp. Williams fo ur about the reign of Charles 1. at Thriplow to his nephew, StanJey West, for his life, Sixty years more He left his estate passed and then began the series then the rents were to be paid to the Bursar until he had received £500 for of bequests described in this and in our last paper, the purchase of an advowson; then to go to the Master on condition that which added thirty (or more than half our livings) £2;)annually should be paid to two scholars, the sons of clergymen, orthodox within fifty years, and left us with and regular, educated (if possible) at St. Paul's or Dorchester, the sons of a fu nd out of deceased clergymen to be preferred. On every vacancy the College to which most of the subsequent purchases of the kind receive half a year's stipend. have been made. The advowson of tl1e Rectory of Lilly, Herts, was purchased with Dr. Gower's money. GEORGE BAKER, ESQ., of Crook, Co. Durham, left H. G. was born about r638, the son of Stanley G., Rector of Brampton £ 1300 with which the 'Baker' Exhibitions were Brian, Heref., one of the Westminster Assembly of Puritan Divines; he was founded. educated at Dorchester and St. Paul's, admitted 21 May 1655, was Spalding r He and his younger brother, Thomas Baker, the eminent historian of the Scholar the following November. In r658-9 he was 2nd Wrangler, the Senio College, were admitted, the former Fellow Commoner, the latter Pensioner, at the same time, June 13, 1674. They were sons of George Baker of Crook, in the parish of Lanchester, and grandsons of Sir GeOl'ge Baker, sometime • The ma,-k (t) is prefixed to some names to indicate that they have �ot Recorder of Newcastle, who bravely defended that place against the Scots in elm of late years included ill the list read at the A?l1lttal Commemoration 1639, and was knighted il} 1643 for his devotion to the Royalist cause. on lJ£ay 6. Founders and Benefactors of St. JQhn's Oolleg�. Founders and Benefactors of St. John's Oollege. part of bequeathed an e5tate at Alston-cum-Hothersall, and £800, being Joseph Cutlove of Emman. Coll. The same year he was elected He lford property. His will is dated 27 Ap. 1712. the purchase money of our Sbe Fellow. He held in succession the livings of Hamoon, Dorset, 1663; should be given first to electing students 'he desires that preference r675; and Fen Ditton, 1677. In ••• Paklesham, Essex, 1667; Newton, Isle of Ely, 'my patron being poor ' , crofts' related to the deprived Archbishop, He was Dean i669- 1678, and also lectured in College. In 1679 he Was San afterwards to his own kin. appointed in rapid succession Master of Jesus College, Canon of Ely and and by an order of The Studentships are now regulated by Statute 34, Master of St. John's. He was Vice-Chancellor, 1680- I, Lady Margaret's for three years, Council, made Dec. 4, 1883. They are tenable March 27, 17I 1, the College Professor fr om 1688 to his death in 1711.