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legacy of 20,000/. for that purpofe, payable on thedeath of two fillers.

The pious Founder feems to have thought that hehad provided fufficient food for the Scholars of hisCollege, in the ample and well-fele£ted Library hebequeathed them; for their allowance of commonswas fo very fmall, that about fixty years after thefoundation, they were obliged to petition for an in-creafe; and obtained a difpenfation to add 2 d. forthe week days, and a groat for the Lord’s Day, onthe villtation of Thomas Arundel ], Archbifhop ofCanterbury: which occafloncd Fuller quaintly tofay, “ True it is, that a body furfeited with food is“ unfit for fludy; and fcholars, like hawks, fly“ bell, when lharp and not full gorgedand themonk’s verfe hath much truth in it—

Diftentus venter non vnlt ftudere Iibenter,

Yet, perchance—

Laudavit pleno.monachus jejunl'a ventre.'

Among the Benefactors of this College, previousto the princely bequell of Dr. Andrews, are Gar-diner, Bilhop of Winchefter; Nix, Bilhop ofNorwich; Dr. John Cowel; Sir George New-man ; Dr. Monse, who gave 80/. per annum forrepairing the road towards London , by HawkelloneE 3 Mills;