or any estate or interest arising or derived out of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, for the purposes aforesaid.

THAT the physicians and surgeons to be appointed to the hospital, should and might act as governors at all general courts.

THAT no person should be capable of acting as a governor of the hospital, who should hold or enjoy any place of profit arising by virtue of the act, or who should enter into any bargain or contract for the sale of any goods or other things for the use of the hospital, during the time such bargain or contract should be subsisting.

THAT the edifice or hospital erected by the trustees acting under the will of Dr. Addenbrooke, or some of them, and the buildings thereto belonging and the ground and soil thereof, and all the lands, tenements, and hereditaments theretofore purchased or contracted for by the trustees, or any of them, for the purposes of carrying into execution the trusts reposed in them, and their rights and interest therein, together with the furniture of the hospital, and other premises thereto belonging, should, from and after the said 24th day of June, be vested in the said corporation, according to the tenor of the several contracts and purchases already made thereof, for the several uses, intents, and purposes of the act.

THAT the trustees acting under the will of Dr. Addenbrooke should pay and deliver over to the governors or any nine or more of them, or to such person or persons as they or any nine or more of them should appoint to receive the same, all and every such sum and sums of money and other effects, as should be in their any or either of their hands, custody, or power belonging to the trust; and that from and immediately after such payment and delivery, the trustees, their heirs, exccutors, administrators, and assigns, should be freed and discharged and absolutely acquitted, exempted, and exonerated of, from, and against all and every the trusts, uses, intents, and purposes mentioned, expressed, and declared in the will of Dr. Addenbrooke or the recited decree, or either of them.

THAT the right honourable Philip Earl of Hardwicke Lord Lieutenant of the county of Cambridge, and from and after the decease of the said Earl the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Cambridge for the time being, should be president of the said corporation; and that the president with any eight or more of the governors, or in the absence of the president any nine or more of the governors should compose a general court; and that the said governors should hold their first general court on Monday the 29th day of June, 1767, at the hospital; and should then, and from time to time, adjourn the court to such times and places as they should think necessary for the due execution of the act; and that a general court of the governors should be held at the hospital four times at least in every year; viz. on the Monday next after the 24th of March, on the Monday next after the 24th of June, on the Monday next after the 29th of September, and on the Monday next after the 25th of December, or oftener if occasion should require, upon notice thereof given by the governors, or any seven or more of them, or by their order, by publishing the same in the Cambridge newspapers and by affixing a like notice in writing upon the gate and in the board-room of the hospital, twenty days at least before every such meeting.

THAT the governors assembled at any such general court should have full power and authority in the name of the Corporation, and on their account to enter into such contracts as they or nine or more of them should think proper; and to do, manage, transact, and determine, all such matters and things as should to them or any nine or more of them, at any such general court appear

to be necessary or proper for the effecting and carrying on the good purposes of the act; and should and might also appoint such weekly or other meetings of the governors or any five or more of them, with such powers and authorities as they should think necessary for the more easy, speedy, and effectual execution of the act.

THAT it should and might be lawful to and for the governors in a general court assembled, or any nine or more of them, to make, ordain, and constitute such and so many bye-laws, constitutions and ordinances, as to them should seem necessary and convenient for the finishing and completing the hospital, and for the better governing, regulating, ordering, and management thereof, and of the officers, servants, and persons employed in and about the affairs of the hospital, and the sick persons or patients to be taken therein under their care, and for the auditing of the accounts of the hospital; and the same bye-laws, constitutions, and ordinances so made to put in use accordingly, and at their will and pleasure to revoke, change, and alter the same, or any of them: which said byelaws, constitutions, and ordinances so as aforesaid made should be duly kept and observed; provided that the said bye-laws, constitutions, and ordinances be not contrary or repugnant to the statutes, customs, or laws of this kingdom. THAT at all and every general court, and other meetings of the governors, in case of an equality of voices, the president or chairman should have the casting vote.

THAT the governors, or any nine or more of them, at a general court, should have power, from time to time, to appoint such officers and other persons as they should think necessary to employ for the purposes, and in the execution of the act; and, from time to time, to suspend or remove such officers and other persons, or any or either of them, as they should think fit, and appoint others in case of death, or such suspension or removal: and might out of the monies to be received for the purposes of the act, make such allowances to such officers and other persons for their services, as to the governors or any nine or more of them at a general court should seem reasonable.

THAT it should and might be lawful to and for the governors, or any five or more of them, at any weekly or other meeting, being impowered by the said governors or any nine or more of them, at a general court so to do, to suspend or remove any such officers and other persons, and to appoint others in case of death, or such suspension or removal until a general court should be held; and the said governors, or any nine or more of them, at a general court should and might confirm such appointments, or might remove such officers or other persons, and appoint others in their room, as they should think fit.

THAT all and every such officers and other persons should, from time to time, (when thereunto required by the governors or any nine or more of them) make and render to the governors or any nine of them a true, exact, and perfect account in writing under their respective hands, upon oath to be taken before two or more of the governors (which oath two of the governors are impowered to administer) of all monies which he, she, or they and every of them respectively should to that time have received, paid, and disbursed by virtue of the act, or by reason of their respective offices; and in case any money so received should remain in their or any of their hands, the same should be paid to the governors or any nine or more of them, or to such person or persons as they should appoint to receive the same: and in case any such officer or other person should not make and render, or should refuse to verify upon oath any such account, or to make such payment as aforesaid; then any one or more of such

justice or justices of the county or town of Cambridge should make inquiry of and concerning such default in a summary way, as well by confession of the parties themselves as by the testimony of one or more credible witness or witnesses upon oath: and if any such officer or person should be convicted of all or any the offences aforesaid, such justice or justices should, upon such conviction, commit the party offending to the common gaol of the county of Cambridge, there to remain without bail or mainprize, until he or she should have made a true and perfect account and payment as aforesaid, or until he or she should have compounded and agreed with the governors or any nine or more of them, and have paid such composition money; which composition the governors or any nine or more of them were impowered to make.

THAT the governors or any nine or more of them should and were required to take such security from the treasurer or treasurers to be appointed for the purposes of the act, as to the governors or any nine or more of them should

seem meet.

THAT no person whatsoever, who should be employed in the hospital as a hired servant, should by reason of such service gain a settlement in the parish in which the hospital is situate.

THAT the charges and expences of procuring and passing the act, and all other expences incident thereto, should be paid by the corporation out of the first monies to be by them received.

THAT if any action should be brought, or suit commenced against any person or persons for any thing done in pursuance of the act, or in relation to the premises or any of them, every such action or suit should be laid or brought within six months next after the fact done, and should be laid or brought in the county of Cambridge, and not elsewhere; and the defendant or defendants in such action might plead the general issue, and give the act and the special matter in evidence at any trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the authority of the act and if the same should appear to have been so done, or if any such action or suit should not be brought within the time before limited, or should be brought in any other county or place than as aforesaid; then the jury should find for the defendant or defendants; or if the plaintiff or plaintiffs should become non-suited, or suffer a discontinuance of his, her, or their action or actions, or if a verdict should pass against the plaintiff or plaintiffs, or if upon demurrer, judgment should be given against the plaintiff or plaintiffs; the defendant or defendants should have treble costs, and should have such remedy for recovering the same as any defendant or defendants had for costs in other cases by law.

THAT the act should be taken and allowed in all courts as a public act; and all judges and justices were thereby required as such to take notice thereof, without specially pleading the same.(1)

On the 14th of November, the Vicechancellor and Heads, on the petition of the Tutors, augmented the fees for tuition to the following quarterly sums, viz. £8. for a nobleman, £4. for a fellow commoner, £2. for a pensioner, and 15s. for a bachelor of arts. The tuition fee of a sizar remained as before at 15s. a quarter.(2)

(1) Stat. 7 Geo. III. c. 99.
(2) Stat. Acad. Cantab. 513.

1768.

On the 2d of February died Robert Smith LL.D., D.D., F.R.S., Master of Trinity College, Master of Mechanics to the King, and sometime Plumian Professor. He left £2000. to his college and £2500. to the University for increasing the stipend of the Plumian Professor, and for two annual prizes of £25. each to two commencing Bachelors of Arts, the best proficients in mathematics and natural philosophy.

At the Town Sessions on the 14th of April, came on to be heard an appeal by John Smith against a poor rate for the parish of Saint Andrew the Great, on the ground that Christ's and Emmanuel Colleges were not assessed. No judgment was given. Mr. Bentham Mayor and Alderman Gifford were for confirming the rate, and Dr. Ewin and Alderman Norfolk for quashing it. Alderman Whittred declined giving any opinion.(1)

On the 14th of July, came on at the Town Sessions appeals by Dr. Richardson Master of Emmanuel College, Dr. Thomas Master of Christ's College, and the Rev. Henry Hubbard, and six other fellows of Emmanuel College, against the poor rate for the parish of St. Andrew the Great, on the ground that they were not liable to be charged thereto. No one appearing for the respondents, the appeals were allowed, as was also an appeal by James Blackley, who was charged for a garden occupied by him belonging to Emmanuel College, and, by consent, the name of Mr. Cotton of Emmanuel College was struck out of the rate in which he was charged for his chambers.(2)

On the 29th of August, the King of Denmark came to Cambridge,(3) attended by Comte de Bernstorff his principal Secretary of State, Baron de Schimmelmann Treasurer, Comte de Holcke Grand Master of the Wardrobe, Baron de Bulow, Dr. Struensee his Majesty's Physician, &c. The King lodged at the Rose inn, where the Vicechancellor and Heads waited on him in their robes, and attended him thence to the Senate House, where the whole University and a brilliant company of ladies in the galleries were assembled. He was

(1) Town Sessions Book.

(2) Ibid.

Dr. Marriott the Vicechancellor published this year "Argument in the case of the Poors Rate charged on the Colleges of Christ and Emmanuel, in the University of Cambridge." This he reprinted in 1769, together with a charge at the Quarter Sessions 10th of October, 1768. The Poor Rate Argument is an exquisitely absurd performance; and as to the charge, Gray in a letter to the Rev. Norton Nicholls, says it "moved the towns-people to tears, and the University to laughter." Gray's works, ed. Mitford, v. 82.

(3) The King of Denmark had been expected in Cambridge a week before, but put off his visit on account of illness.-Gray's works, ed. Mitford, v. 80,

conducted to a chair of state, where he received the compliments of the Heads, and after a short stay went in procession to the library and to all the principal buildings in the University, where he saw everything that was rare and curious.(1) He expressed the highest satisfaction, and invited the Vicechancellor to supper. Early next morning he proceeded on his journey to York.(2)

On the 5th of October, Dr. Marriott the Vicechancellor and Mr. Beadon the Public Orator waited on the King of Denmark at Newmarket, and in the name of the University presented a letter of address and graces for confering the same degrees upon the King and his attendants as had been conferred at Oxford.(3)

Walter Titley, Esq. fellow of Trinity College and sometime Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of Denmark, having left £500. to the University to be disposed of as the Vicechancellor should think fit, Dr. Marriott the Vicechancellor designed to appropriate it in aid of a subscription for the erection of an amphitheatre for public lectures and musical performances, but this project failed.(4)

(1) On being shewn at Sidney College Oliver Cromwell's picture by Cooper, he turned to one of his nobles and said in French, "He makes me tremble."-Cambridge Chronicle, 10 Sept. 1768.

(2) Cambridge Chronicle, 3 Sept. 1768. Annual Register for 1768, p. 159. "My Lord Montfort personally knew Count Holkte while he was at Geneva, so went "to Cambridge on 29 Aug. to be there at his reception, & put on his Robes as Dr. of "Law; he told me the Vice Chancellor's carriage was rather forward & absurd. He "had sent the week before a letter to my Lord's Gardener for fruit, instead of writing "to his Lordship, who gave me the original letter, which is as follows:

To the Head Gardener at Lord Montfort's.

'The Vice Chancellor acquaints Lord Montfort's Gardener, that the King of Denmark 'will be in the University this day, & the University will entertain him. Three or four 'ripe Pine apples, & some Melons are wanted, which the Vice Chancellor desires Lord Montfort's Gardener to send him packed up with great care by the bearer. If Lord 'Montfort is at home, this note is to be carried to his Lordship, that his Lordship may, if he pleases, make the present in his own name to the King: otherwise, if his Lordship is not at home, the Vice Chancellor will remain his Lordship's Debtor, and desires the Gardener to call at his lodge the first time he comes to Cambridge. Trinity Hall Lodge, Monday 22 Aug.'

-MS. Cole, xxxiii. 464.

(3) Annual Register for 1768, 176.

(4) "The late Mr. Titley, Envoy to the Court of Denmark, and fellow of Trinity College, "having left £500. to the University, the Vice Chancellor has appropriated it to the build"ing an Amphitheatre for public Lectures, & musical performances, & has added a Bene"faction of 20 Guineas. The Rev. Dr. Long, Professor Shephard, & Mr. Alderson have "also subscribed 10 Guineas each."-Cambridge Chronicle, Nov. 5, 1768.

"Whereas it is proposed to build a room by Subscription, in the Town of Cambridge, for "the use of the members of the University, & to be appropriated for the purpose of having "public Lectures read therein; by the Professers in Divinity, Law, Physic, Modern His"tory, Mathematics, Experimental Philosophy, Botany, Astronomy, the Learned Languages "& Music, for the performance of Musical Compositions; Such room to be built according "to such plan & estimate as shall be approved of by the Vice Chancellor for the time "being; & the majority of the several subscribers, who shall subscribe and advance the "sum of £5. & upwards, & the same to be used for the purposes aforesaid, under such "orders & regulations as shall be established by the Vice Chancellor for time being, & "the majority of the said persons so subscribing, being members of, & Graduates resi"dent in the said University: This is therefore to give Notice, that the Subscription "Lists, for the above purposes are left, and subscriptions received by Mr. Alderman "Gifford, of the Town of Cambridge, & Mr. Merrill & Mr. Woodyer, Booksellers, in the "said town of Cambridge, & Sir Samuel Gosling & Co., Bankers, in Fleet Street, Lon"don, who are authorized to receive the same."-Cambridge Chronicle, 5 Nov. 1768. "Mr. Titley left this £500. by will, to the University, under the direction of the Vice "Chancellor for the time being, comme chef thereof: this happening while Dr. Marriot