Saint Bernard's Hostle* and Rector of Saint Botolph's, Cambridge, who was subsequently nominated the first President of the Society. The edifice was dedicated to Saint Margaret and Saint Bernard; and the first stone was laid on the 15th of September, 1448, by Sir John Wenlock. At the time of founding the College (1446), six persons were nominated for the purpose of framing its Statutes, viz. John Somerset, Chancellor of the Exchequer; John Langton, Chancellor of the University, and Master of Pembroke Hall; Richard Cawedray, Peter Hirford, Gilbert Worthyngton, and Thomas Bolyn, Master of Gonville Hall: to whom were added, in the following year, John Sperhauk, and Hugh Damlet, Master of Pembroke Hall; and lastly, in 1448, William Boothe, Bishop of Lichfield; and William Millington, Master of Clare Hall. It is, however, uncertain, whether any Statutes were actually framed and given to the College during the reign of King Henry VI: for the liberal designs of the Foundress appear to have been frustrated by the disastrous events of that period. Through the influence of the first President, Andrew DOKETT, in the Court of the new Sovereign, what the Saint Bernard's Hostle was bequeathed to Queen's College, by Andrew DOKETT, in 1484, and continued under the superintendence of the succeeding Presidents, till it was sold to the Society of Corpus Christi in 1535. It stood on the site afterwards occupied by the Dolphin Inn, which was pulled down in 1825 for the erection of the new fabric of Corpus Christi. Its site was near the present great gateway. original Foundress had begun, was prosecuted and auspiciously completed, partly by the donations which he procured from several of the most distinguished adherents of the House of York, and particularly by the very munificent benefactions of ELIZABETH, Queen-Consort of Edward IV, who became the second or Co-Foundress of the College in 1465. After procuring for her College many distinguished privileges, in 1475 she gave it a Code of Statutes, by which it was governed until the year 1529, when a new set was compiled and sanctioned by Royal Authority, and also by a Bull of Pope Clement VII. A Protestant Revision of the Statutes took place in the year 1549, during the reign of Edward VI. In the year 1553, on the accession of Queen Mary, the old Popish Statutes of 1529 were restored. They again received a Protestant form, with several deviations from the Statutes of Edward VI, in the year 1559, under the care of the following Visitors or Commissioners of Queen Elizabeth, viz. Sir William Cecil, Chancellor of the University; Sir Antony Cooke; Dr. Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury elect; Dr. Walter Haddon, Master of the Requests; Dr. William Bill, High Almoner of the Queen; Dr. William Mey, President of Queen's College, and Dean of Saint Paul's; Thomas Wendy, M.D. Physician to the Queen; Dr. Thomas Horne; and Dr. James Pilkington, afterwards Bishop of Durham. This Code of Statutes, by which the College is at present governed, was signed by five of the Commissioners; the fac-similes* of whose hand-writing it may gratify the reader to see annexed. Cantuar Matthæus mas Wendyo These Fac-Similes, as well as the Arms and Crest in the Title-Page, and the Ornamental Letters in different parts of the Catalogue, are taken from the accurate and elegantly executed copy of the Statutes of Queen's College, edited in a quarto volume, from the original MS. by the Rev. George Cornelius GORHAM, B. D., one of the Senior Fellows of the College, by whom the Drawings were made. The Initial Letter in page vii, represents the Arms and Crest of Queen's College; that in page 1, the oriel window in the College-Hall; and that in page 512, the eastern front of the College. The stalls and figures of Monks, in page 469, are traced from the private Psalter of King Henry VI., (preserved among the Cotton MSS. in the British Museum) in whose reign and by whose charter the College was founded. The Volume just cited is intituled, "Statuta Collegii Reginalis apud Cantabrigienses, Anno M. D. L. IX., a "Regiis Commissariis reformata: quibus accedunt Interpretationes Sta"tutorum a Præside et Sociis sancitæ. Cantabrigiæ, Typis Academicis, Sumptibus Collegii Reginalis, excudit Joannes Smith. M. DCCC. XX. II." To the preface of these Statutes, as well as to the notes annexed to the "Form for the Commemoration of Benefactors, to be used in the College "of Saint Margaret and Saint Bernard, commonly called Queen's Col"lege, Cambridge," (printed in quarto, in the year 1823, under the editorial care of Mr. Gorhamn,) and also to the information obligingly communicated by him, the Compiler of the Catalogue now offered to the Society, is indebted for the present Historical Notices. 66 The LIBRARY of Queen's College is coeval with the erection of the College itself. In the year 1448, when the buildings were commenced, Marmaduke LUMLEY, Bishop of Lincoln and Chancellor of the University, gave a manuscript of the Holy Scriptures in three volumes, (the loss of which the College has had to deplore for ages,) besides many other books. In the course of the three following centuries, and the former part of the present century, numerous other benefactors have enriched the Library, by donations or bequests of books, or by endowments for its augmentation by purchase. Among these, the following may justly claim to be noticed for the value or the extent of their contributions, viz. : 1577. Sir Thomas SMITH, LL. D. bequeathed all his Latin and Greek books, and also his great globe made by himself. 1589. William CHADERTON, D. D. President of Queen's College and Bishop of Lincoln, gave the very fine copy of the Antwerp Polyglott, now in the Library, and frequently called Montanus's Bible, in eight volumes folio. 1613. Henry HASTINGS, Earl of Huntingdon, Student of Queen's College, gave one hundred and two volumes. 1613. Roger MANNERS, Earl of Rutland, Student of Queen's College, gave about sixty volumes. 1614. Humphrey TINDAL, D.D., President of Queen's College and Dean of Ely, left fifty-eight volumes in folio. 1625. Edward DAVENANT, Fellow, gave forty-two volumes. 1626. John DAVENANT, D. D., President of Queen's College and Bishop of Salisbury, gave a benefaction, with which one hundred and thirty volumes were purchased: and in 1637 he gave an an nuity for increasing the Library. 1646. Henry PALMER, B. D., who occupied the Presidency of Queen's College during the Civil War, gave thirty volumes. 1652. John SMITH, M. A., Fellow of Queen's College, and one of its most learned and distinguished members, bequeathed about six hundred volumes. 1662. Edward MARTYN, D.D., President of Queen's College and Dean of Ely, gave about thirty volumes. 1665? ..... THOMPSON, Clerk, Student of Queen's College, gave thirteen Persian and Turkish manuscripts. 1674. Thomas CLARKE, M. A.,Fellow of Queen's College, and Rector of Manningford Abbots, Wiltshire, gave an estate for the increase of the Library, and for a Librarian, who is to be one of his Scholars. 1717. Henry JAMES, D. D., left all his books and fifty pounds. 1777. David HUGHES, B. D., Fellow and Vice-President of Queen's College, bequeathed more than two thousand volumes, including a very valuable collection of tracts. 1820. Isaac MILNER, D. D., President of Queen's College, |