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buried,) after a feries of public misfortunes and con-finement, was murdered in the Tower , in 1471-, bythe hands of Gloucefter himfelf.

Edward IV . was naturally no zealous promoter'of the intentions of his predeceffor, and he deprivedthe College of many large eftates, to the value of1000A a year, all of which was given to the Oxo-nians, then about the Court . Nor did the building-much advance during the turbulent reign of Richard111 .; but Henry VII. in whom the line of Lan-caster was reftored, began, towards the latter endof his reign, to complete the labours of the Founder,expending 2000/. and prefenting the College withthe fum of 5000/. for the -purpofe of finifhing theChapel . He alfo ordered, at his deceafe, that hisexecutors Ihoukl fupply the College , from time totime, with different fums of money, fufiicient forcompleting the building. This certainly (Lengthensthe obfervation which one of our hiftorians hasmade, that, “To allay the terrors under which he“ laboured, he endeavoured, by diftributing alm s“ and founding religious houfes, to make atonement“ for his crimes ; and to purchafe, by the facrifice“ of part of his ill-gotten treafures, a reconciliation“ with his offended Maker/’

Description.] —This College confifts of feve-ral large piles of building, detached from eachother. The old Court is fltuate on the north fideG 2 of