years at Winchester College, or for at least twelve Terms at New College. Candidates for the latter must have passed all Examinations for the B.A. degree. There is a property disqualification in both cases.

Once at least in every seven elections to Open Fellowships the examination is to be specially in each of the following subjects: Theology, Natural Science or Medicine, and Mathematics.

An Ordinary Fellow does not become a member of the Governing Body after his year of probation, unless he has resided since his election for three Terms, Easter and Trinity Terms being reckoned as one.

The tenure of an Ordinary Fellowship may be prolonged for one year, provided that the holder has for two years been resident and employed as Tutor, Lecturer, or Bursar of the College, or (with the consent of the College) in the educational work of the University or of another College. (2) Tutorial Fellowships. than ten.

The number is to be not greater

Candidates must be members of some University in Great Britain or Ireland, and must have passed all Examinations required for the degree of B.A. or other first degree therein.

Elections may be held either after or without an examina

tion.

These Fellowships are tenable for not more than fifteen years, but are renewable for successive periods not exceeding ten years.

The yearly emolument is (1) £200, (2) £100 paid out of the Corporate Revenue, (3) such payment out of the Tuition Fund as may be allotted.

So long as there are resident within the College four unmarried Fellows being Tutors or Lecturers, a Tutorial Fellow after having held his Fellowship for seven years may marry and yet retain his Fellowship; moreover, if by marriage within seven years after election he vacate his Fellowship, he may be elected to fill the vacancy.

The Pension Fund, for payments out of which Tutors and Lecturers are eligible, is administered under Bylaws framed by the Warden and Fellows.

Lincoln.

The number of Fellowships is ten, which are open to all persons who have passed the Examinations necessary for the degree of B.A., provided that they have not 'certi reditus' exceeding twice the value of the Fellowship. Every Fellow (except the Professor of Classical Archæology and Art) must take Holy Orders within ten years from his admission as actual Fellow, unless during that time he has become one of the two senior Lay Fellows. Their approximate annual value is £300, and they are all vacated by marriage, except that, if any Fellow holds either of the College livings of All Saints and St. Michael's in Oxford, he may retain his Fellowship although he be married. The College has power to elect without examination any person, otherwise eligible for a Fellowship, who is considered likely to be useful to it in an educational capacity. One of the ten Fellowships is in the appointment of the Bishop of Lincoln; and one is annexed to the Professorship of Classical Archæology and Art.

All Souls.

(1) Fourteen Fellowships are awarded after examination in subjects connected with the studies of Law and History:

(2) Seven Fellowships are awarded after examination in other subjects connected with any of the studies of the University.

Three of the above twenty-one Fellowships, and not more, are to be filled up each year.

Candidates must have passed the Examinations for the B.A. degree: but no one possessed of more than £500 a year from any benefice, property, pension or office may, if elected, receive the emoluments of a Fellowship.

(3) Seven Fellowships are awarded by an Electoral Board (consisting of the Warden and four Fellows of the College, Bodley's Librarian, and three members of Convocation appointed for five years by the Hebdomadal Council) after an examination or without one as may be decided on each occasion. Candidates are eligible who, having passed the Examinations for the B.A. degree, undertake to prosecute in the College, or in the University, or (under the direction of either) elsewhere, some specified literary or scientific work.

Each of the above twenty-eight Fellowships is tenable for seven years with a stipend of £200 a year.

(4) Three Fellowships of the above tenure and stipend may be awarded without examination to persons whom the Warden and Fellows deem specially qualified respectively for each of the offices of Bursar, Tutor, and Lecturer.

(5) Twelve Fellowships of £50 a year, tenable for seven years, during which the holders are bound to attend the Stated Meetings of the College, and renewable on the same conditions, may be awarded to persons who have been Fellows, and whom the Warden and Fellows desire to retain on the Foundation.

The Warden and Fellows may retain on the Foundation (1) any Fellow whose services they require as Bursar, Librarian, Tutor, or Lecturer, during his tenure of office; also (2) two Fellows, and not more at any one time, holding the office of Professor or Public Reader in the University, or of Assistant Librarian in the Bodleian Library.

Magdalen.

The total number of Fellowships, Ordinary and Official, is to be not less than thirty nor greater than forty.

Candidates must have passed the Examinations for the B.A. degree, and must be unmarried; there is a property disqualification. Once at least in every three years the examination is to be in Theology; once at least in every seven years in Mathematics, and in either Natural Science or Medicine.

(1) Ordinary Fellowships. The number to be filled up each year is two. The tenure may be prolonged for one year provided that the holder has for two years been resident and employed as Tutor, Lecturer or Bursar of the College, or as Master or Usher of the College School, or engaged in the educational work of the University, or of another College (with the consent of his own College).

The possession of £500 a year from any benefice, property, pension or office vacates a Fellowship at the end of a year.

(2) Official Fellowships. The number assigned to persons holding any of the offices of Dean of Divinity, Senior Dean of Arts, Bursar, or Tutor, may be not greater than eleven: they may be filled up without examination, but in that case no person

is to be elected unless he be recommended by the Tutorial Board: moreover the other qualifications of candidates for a Fellowship may be dispensed with.

They are tenable for not more than fifteen years, and renewable for successive periods not exceeding ten years; but an Official Fellowship is vacated at once upon the holder ceasing to fill any office which is the qualification therefor.

The yearly stipend of an Official Fellow holding a Tutorship is (1) £200, (2) £100 from the Corporate Revenue, (3) such payment from the Tuition Fund as may be assigned to him by the Tutorial Board. The yearly stipend of an Official Fellow holding any other office is (1) £200, (2) such payment as the President and Fellows may from time to time assign to him out of the Corporate Revenue.

Official Fellows have the privilege of retaining their Fellowships after marriage according to seniority in date of appointment to office, provided that the number of Fellows who are Tutors or Deans of Arts or Divinity and unmarried is not less than six, of whom four must be resident in College.

No Official Fellow is entitled to a pension; but a Tutor or Senior Bursar at any time after twenty years' service (or after fifteen years' service on the recommendation of the Tutorial Board) is eligible for a pension.

Brasenose.

(1) Ordinary Fellowships. The number is to be not less than

three.

Candidates must have passed the Examinations for the B.A. degree: there is a property disqualification.

Thrice at least in every ten elections the examination is to be in the subjects recognised in one or more of the Final Schools other than that of Literæ Humaniores.

The tenure of an Ordinary Fellowship may be prolonged for one year, provided that the holder has for two years been resident and employed as Tutor, Lecturer, or Bursar of the College, or engaged in the educational work of the University, or of another College (with the consent of his own College).

(2) Official Fellowships. The number is not to exceed nine. They may be awarded after or without examination as the

College shall decide on each occasion; but no one is eligible who possesses £500 a year from any benefice.

They are tenable for not more than ten years; but the. holders, if serving the College, are re-eligible for successive periods not exceeding ten years, provided that no Fellowship be held for more than thirty-five years.

The yearly emolument is £200; in addition to which an Official Fellow who is Tutor or Lecturer receives £50 a year together with a variable sum to be paid out of the Tuition Fund.

An Official Fellowship is vacated by marriage, unless the holder has previously obtained leave to retain it after his marriage: but no such leave can be given, unless there are four Official Fellows, three being unmarried, resident either in College or in a house with immediate access to the College.

An Official Fellow after thirty years' service is entitled to a pension at the highest rate then allowed, and after twenty years' service is eligible for a pension if not re-elected.

Corpus Christi.

(1) Ordinary Fellowships. The number is to be not less than ten, and is to be increased to fourteen when the revenues of the College admit of it.

Candidates must have passed the Examinations for the B.A. degree; there is a property disqualification. Out of the full number of fourteen Fellowships one at least is assigned to each of the following subjects, Mathematics, Natural Science or Medicine, Theology, Law, Modern History. Till this number is completed, one Fellowship in every three is to be assigned to some one of the above-named five subjects.

A Fellow is not entitled to vote at any College Meeting after his year of probation, unless he either is in residence or (if not in residence) has kept by residence since his election three of the usual College Terms.

The tenure of two Fellowships, and not more at any one time, may be prolonged for a period not exceeding two years, provided that the holders have for that period been resident and employed in the educational work of the College.

(2) Official Fellowships. The number is to be not less than ten nor greater than twelve. They are to be assigned to three