In

new buildings were designed by William Wilkins Esq. M.A. of
Caius College. They consisted of a Hall, Chapel, Library, Master's
Lodge, and numerous apartments for the fellows and scholars.
short, the College was almost entirely rebuilt in this and the four
following years, at an expence of £71,000., principally arising from
the benefactions of Dr. Thomas Herring Archbishop of Canterbury,
Dr. Matthias Mawson Bishop of Ely, and Dr. John Green Bishop
of Lincoln, the interest on which had been allowed to accumulate
for many years.(1)

On the 3rd of July, at a public meeting of the inhabitants, held at the Shire Hall, resolutions were passed, expressive of sympathy with the people of Spain in their efforts for constitutional freedom, and a committee was appointed to collect subscriptions for the Spanish cause.(2)

On the 12th of August, being the King's birth day, the first stone of a new court at Trinity College was laid by the Right Honourable Charles Manners Sutton Speaker of the House of Commons (deputed by his Majesty to represent him on the occasion), attended by the Vicechancellor, High Steward, Noblemen, Heads of Houses, Doctors, Professors, Proctors, and other officers and members of the University, who came in procession from the Senate House, and the Master, Fellows, Scholars, and others of the Society. This new court, called the King's Court, was designed by William Wilkins Esq. M.A. of Caius College. The King contributed £1000. in aid of the funds for its erection.(3)

This year, the Town was lit with gas. Oil gas was at first used, but a few years afterwards coal gas was substituted.

On the 7th of October, his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex again visited Cambridge, which he left the following morning for Holkham.(4)

This year, two wings were added to Addenbrooke's Hospital, and the colonnade in front was erected from a design of Charles Humfrey Esq.

At an election, on the 24th of November, by the parishioners of the Holy Sepulchre, of a perpetual curate of that parish, the votes were, Hastings Robinson M.A. fellow and tutor of St. John's College, 36; Richard Rowland Faulkner B.D. of St. John's College, 34; Francis Russel Hall B.D. fellow of St. John's College, 14.(5)

(1) Masters, Hist. of Corp. Chr. Coll. ed Lamb. 261-266.

(2) Cambridge Chronicle, 4 July, 1823.

(3) Ibid. 15 Aug. 1823.

(4) Ibid. 10 Oct. 1823.

(5) Ibid, 28 Nov. 1823.

Mr.

Faulkner afterwards instituted proceedings in the Court of King's Bench with reference to this election, and that Court held it to be void in consequence of the votes having been taken by ballot. It was also decided that certain persons who had not paid churchrates were not thereby disqualified from voting.(1) Ultimately Mr. Faulkner was appointed curate.

1824.

This year, a petition from the inhabitants of the town was presented to the House of Commons, praying for its prompt and powerful influence in behalf of the slave population in the colonies.(2)

At a public meeting of the inhabitants, convened by the Mayor, and held at the Shire Hall, on the 27th of February, it was unanimously agreed to present two petitions to the House of Commons, one for repeal of the duties on sea-borne coals, the other in favour of a bill for extending the jurisdiction of County Courts.(3)

The Cambridgeshire Horticultural Society was established at a meeting held at the Red Lion, on the 10th of March; the Earl of Hardwicke K.G. in the Chair.(1)

On the 26th of March, George Henry Storie LL.B. of Trinity Hall, was adjudged by the Vicechancellor and Heads, to be suspended from his degree for a year, for using gross and abusive language to Richard Duffield B.D. of St. John's College.(5)

On the 3rd of April, John Lane was executed at the Castle, for a rape at Cheveley.(6)

In or about May, this year, the new buildings at King's College, designed by William Wilkins Esq. M.A. of Caius College, were commenced. They were completed in 1828.

On the 19th of May, a Grace passed, rescinding graces of 25 January, 1781,(7) and 9 April, 1807, by which persons having private tutors during the last year and a half preceding the time of taking their degree of B.A. were precluded from taking Honors: and to preclude those persons from taking Honors in future who should have private tutors in the University during the last six months preceding their admission "ad respondendum quæstioni."(8)

(1) Barnewell & Cresswell's Reports, iv. 449.

(2) Cambridge Chronicle, 13 Feb. 1824.

(3) Ibid. 5 March, 1824.

(4) Ibid. 12 March, 1824.

(5) Ibid. 2 April, 1824.

(6) Ibid. 9 April, 1824.

(7) Vide ante, p. 400.

(8) Cambridge Chroniele, 21 May, 1924.

The Sale of Bread Act, passed on the 3rd of June,(1) contains a proviso for the privileges of the Universities, to the like effect as that in the Act of the 3rd George III.(2)

The Beer Act, passed on the 5th of June, empowering brewers and others to retail and sell beer on taking out a licence for that purpose, contains a proviso that within the limits of the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, all persons applying for such licences should apply to the persons theretofore granting common ale licences, who should or might grant the same, in the same manner and according to the same rules and usages by which they had been accustomed to grant the said last-mentioned licences; any thing in that or any other act or acts of Parliament to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.(3)

In this and the following year, a steam packet plied between Cambridge and Lynn, making two voyages either way each week.(4)

His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex visited Cambridge on the 8th of November, and remained here till the 10th.(5)

On the 10th of December, about ten in the morning, a fire broke out in the unfinished buildings of the King's Court, at Trinity College. The flames were speedily subdued, but not until property worth about £250. had been destroyed.(6)

A Grace to exempt persons of sixty years of age from being compelled to serve the office of Vicechancellor, was, on the 15th of December, rejected in the Non-Regent House by 24 against 7.

1825.

On the 9th of February, the Court of King's Bench discharged a rule obtained by the Rev. Dr. Geldart and others, calling on the Churchwardens of St. Andrew the Less to shew cause why a writ of mandamus should not issue, commanding them to repair the church of that parish.(7)

A Grace, to confirm the report of a Syndicate in favour of the purchase, by the University, of Mr. Dodwell's collection of Drawings,(1) was, on the 23rd of February, rejected in the Non-Regent House by 49 against 13.

On the 8th of March, the Senate voted petitions to both Houses of Parliament against any further concessions to the Roman Catholics. The votes were: Non-Regents, Placets, 47; Non-Placets, 23: Regents, Placets, 23; Non-Placets, 15.

On the 18th of March, the following Grace passed, requiring noblemen to be examined before admission to any degree:

QUUM in capite 21mo Statutorum Regina Elizabethæ anno 12mo editorum Nobilibus et Nobilium Filiis concedatur ut eorum admissio stet iis pro com pletis gradu et formâ, adeo tamen ut penes Vos arbitrium sit admissionis conditiones illis præscribendi, ET QUUM plurimum tam ad Academiæ honorum, quam ad Juvenum ipsorum apud Vos commorantium utilitatem intersit, ut nemo ad gradum prius admittatur, quam de ejus progressu in studiis Academicis Vobis constiterit: PLACEAT VOBIS, ut neque Nobilibus, neque Nobilium Filiis, neque iis qui pro Nobilibus habendi sint secundum Interpretationem die Maii 31ma 1786(2) datam, stet in posterum ipsorum admissio pro completis gradu et formâ, nisi prius eodem modo examinati fuerint atque approbati, que alii qui admittantur ad respondendum quæstioni. PROVISO TAMEN, ut illis post novem terminos completos (primo et ultimo exceptis) examinationem subire liceat. PROVISO QUOQUE, ne hâc vestrâ Gratiâ vel ad examinationem subeundam astringantur Juvenes isti quorum nomina in Album Collegii alicu. jus jam relata sunt, vel tollatur laudabilis ista, quæ semper apud Vos invaluit, consuetudo viros maturioris ætatis, et quum natalibus tum meritis vel in rempublicam vel in bonas literas illustres, gradu Academico ornandi, nullâ terminorum atque exercitiorum ratione habitâ.

At a meeting of owners and occupiers of land, held at the Red Lion, on the 9th of April, Mr. Robert Moyse in the chair, resolutions condemnatory of suggested alterations in the Corn Laws were proposed by Mr. William Thurnall, seconded by Mr. Nash, and carried unanimously.(3)

In consequence of several members of the University having been in the practice of horse racing in the neighbourhood of Cambridge, Dr. Le Blanc Vicechancellor, on the 16th of May, published a cautionary notice, that persons, in statu pupilari, found guilty of riding any such race, or betting upon, or being present at any such race, would be proceeded against and punished with the utmost severity.

(1) This collection was formed by Mr. Dodwell in Greece, in 1801, 1805, and 1806. The drawings were 67 in number, 57 were coloured, the remainder executed by the pen. 30 had been engraved. They were mostly executed by an Italian artist named Pomardi, who accompanied Mr. Dodwell; those which were designed by Mr. Dodwell were afterwards filled up and finished either by Pomardi, or by an artist at Rome named Giuntatardi. The price required was £500, which the Syndicate were assured by artists and travellers was much below their intrinsic value.

(2) Vide ante, p. 418.

(3) Cambridge Chronicle, 15 April, 1825.

On the 1st of June, a Grace passed, in pursuance of the recommendation of a Syndicate, regulating the fees on matriculations, which were (including the stamp duty) fixed as follows: Nobleman, £10; Fellow Commoner, £5; Pensioner, £2. 10s.; Sizar, £1. 5s.

On the 3rd of June, the labourers employed in digging under the site of an old house in Benet-street, taken down to make additions to the Eagle Inn, discovered two earthen vessels, containing great numbers of gold and silver coins, principally of the reign of James the First and Charles the First. On the 4th of February, in the following year, these coins were presented as treasure trove, by an inquisition taken before Aaron Chevell one of the coroners for the town. The Corporation laid claim to them, but did not prosecute the claim in the Court of King's Bench, into which court the inquisition was moved by certiorari. The Lords of the Treasury ultimately presented them to Corpus Christi College, on condition of their paying the law expences, and giving gratuities to the mason and his labourers. The coins produced, clear of auction expences, £192. 11s. 2d. According to the inquisition there were 195 pieces of gold coin, weighing, in all, 34 oz. 5 dwt.; and 3510 pieces of silver coin, weighing, in all, 289 oz. 15 dwt,(1)

This year was established The University Life Assurance Society, for effecting assurances on the lives of persons whose names are or have been on the boards of any college at either of the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge. The Society was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1826.

On the 16th of June, died Gilbert Ives, of St. Benedict's, barber and bookseller. By his wilk(2) he gave to the Churchwardens and Overseers of St. Benedict's (after the decease of certain annuitants) £800., for the erection and endowment of four almshouses for aged and infirm persons of either sex, and £100., the interest of which, together with the interest of the like sum, given by him in his life. time, to be distributed about St. Thomas's Day, to the necessitous and deserving poor of that parish, the sexton to have 10s. annually for keeping up his grave. He had given to that parish, in 1806, £30., as a stock for the use of the acting overseer; and in 1818 a piece of freehold ground, at Barnwell, for the erection of a workhouse for the parish of St. Benedict. By his will he also gave to the Master and fellows of Corpus Christi College £500., in trust,

(1) Cambridge Chronicle, 10 June, 1825; 10 Feb. 1826; Jervis, Office and Duties of Coroners, 302; Masters, Hist. of Corp. Chr. Coll, ed. Lamb, 266.

(2) Dated 24th December, 1821; Codicil dated 9th of February, 1825.