Produced by Brownfox and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) The College [Illustration] Monographs Edited and Illustrated by EDMUND H. NEW TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE W. W. ROUSE BALL. ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE R. F. SCOTT. KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE C. R. FAY. MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD THE PRESIDENT. NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD A. O. PRICKARD. MERTON COLLEGE, OXFORD REV. H. J. WHITE. [Illustration: Gateway St. John's Coll.] [Illustration] ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY ROBERT FORSYTH SCOTT FELLOW AND SENIOR BURSAR OF THE COLLEGE ILLUSTRATED BY EDMUND H. NEW 1907: LONDON: J. M. DENT & CO. NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO. [Illustration] _All Rights Reserved_ CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. THE COURTS AND BUILDINGS 1 II. SOME INTERIORS 13 III. THE HOSPITAL OF ST. JOHN (CIRCA 1135-1511) 35 IV. THE FIRST CENTURY (1511-1612) 40 V. THE SECOND CENTURY (1612-1716) 52 VI. THE THIRD CENTURY (1716-1815) 66 VII. THE CURRENT CENTURY 74 VIII. SOCIAL LIFE 86 INDEX 109 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS _The Entrance Gateway_ _Frontispiece_ PAGE _Plan of College Buildings_ x _Bag of Flowers; detail of Carving over Entrance Gateway_ 3 _The Second and Third Courts from the Screens_ 6 _The Gatehouse from the Churchyard of All Saints_ 12 _Monument of Hugh Ashton in the Chapel_ 19 _The Hall from the Second Court_ 24 _Interior of the Library_ 34 _The Old Bridge_ 41 _The Hall and Chapel Tower from the Second Court_ 53 _The College Arms_ (_in the Third Court_) 58