In former days members of the Society who died in College were not infrequently buried in the chapel--a shocking thing to permit in a building in constant use, though sanctioned by the custom of many centuries. There are a good many tombstones scattered over the floor, and copies of all the inscriptions have been published. I wonder how many members of the Society know that among those here buried is one woman, bearing the strange Christian name of Elismar. The last interment in the chapel took place in October 1886, and further burials are now forbidden unless sanctioned by the Home Office. The building has always been used for various secular purposes, such as elections to scholarships and fellowships; the admission of scholars, fellows, and officers; the affixing of the College seal to documents, and the delivery of declamations by students. Within recent years lectures in the antechapel and an oration in the chapel have been delivered. I believe the view that a church or chapel is intended only for the performance of religious services is modern and unwarranted by history: at any rate our records give no authority for it. [Footnote 22: On the site acquired for the College were situated the buildings of King's Hall, Michael-House, Physwick's Hostel, and some private hostels or boarding houses. Members of private hostels used their parish churches. All the students in Physwick's Hostel were members of Gonville Hall, and used the chapel of that Hall. The members of Michael-House used St Michael's church: this House had been founded in 1324 by Hervey de Stanton for a master and six fellows, who if not priests at the time of admission, had to take orders within one year; and later two more fellows, three chaplains, and four bible clerks were added to the foundation, which was intended for secular clergy studying in the University. The church of St Michael was appropriated to it, and rebuilt by its founder for use as its chapel. The fellows had in their House an oratory, and in March 1393, the bishop of Ely granted them leave to build a chapel, but their history and convenience alike made them wish to continue to use St Michael's church as their regular chapel.] [Footnote 23: Fuller's _History of Cambridge_, reprint 1840, p. 265. Fuller mistakenly assigned the disturbance to 1566-67 instead of 1565-66.] [Footnote 24: Since published in the _Proceedings_ of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 22 May 1916, vol. XX, pp. 114-116.] [Footnote 25: When I first came into residence a survival of this interpolated symphony existed in a long organ solo which preceded the anthem.] CHAPTER VI. SOME COLLEGE TREASURES.