“Your aged mother, and not yours alone, but of this whole University, if not all other such nurseries of Learning, at least in this nation, craves your assistance in the Time of her Necessity. It is not long since her walls Ruining and her Buildings, almost, after so many years, decayed; It pleased God to excite two of her sonnes in especiall manner, M^{r} Charles Greenwood, the tutor, and S^{r} Simon Benett, his pupill, to compassionate her decay, Repair her Ruins and Renew with Great Augmentation her former glory. But the late civil warrs and other alterations intervening not only interrupted that progresse which in a small time would have finished the work; But also disappointed her of the Assistance of Diverse, who were willing to contribute to her repairs. * * * * * “And we have very good Hopes that you will not be wanting to us in this our Necessity; this being a college designed for and most of the preferment in it limitted to Northern Scholars. A college which hath had the felicity to be herselfe at this present time DCCC. years old.… In recompense she may justly expect that as she hath fostered your youths, so you would cherish her age.” _Additional Notes._ p. 9. On Clerical Fellows.--It should be added that the statutes of 1736 provided that the two senior Fellows of the foundation of Sir Simon Bennet might study Medicine or Law. In 1854 the general ordinances of the Commissioners provided that there should be six (_i. e._ half of the) Fellows in Holy Orders. More recently clerical Fellowships have been practically abolished in the College. p. 14. Anti-Norman feeling.--A spirit of Rivalry with Cambridge may with more reason be alleged in explanation of the acceptance of the Aluredian Legend. p. 14. On the Legend of King Alfred.--The Court of King’s Bench only decided that the College is a Royal Foundation, not that it was actually founded by King Alfred. Cp. the Preamble of Statutes of 1736: “it manifestly appears by a Judgement lately given in our Court of Kings Bench that the college of the great Hall of the University, commonly called University College, in Oxford, is of the foundation of our Royal Progenitors.” p. 23. On Northern Scholars.--The College lost its one-sided Northern character in 1736, when new statutes ordained that Sir Simon Bennet’s Fellows were to come from the Southern Province of Canterbury (in partibus regni nostri Australibus oriundi). II. BALLIOL COLLEGE.[7] BY REGINALD L. POOLE, M.A., BALLIOL COLLEGE.