ISLE OF MAN.

KING WILLIAM'S COLLEGE.

FOUNDED 1688, A.D.

THIS Collegiate institution was founded and endowed by Dr Barro bishop of Sodor and Man, and afterwards bishop of St Asaph, wi some special advantages for persons born in the island, or who fathers are natives of it.

There are three exhibitions, called "The Barrow Exhibitions tenable for four years at either of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridg or Dublin, at the discretion of the trustees. The value of each these exhibitions is £30 per annum.

JERSEY.

LAURENS BAUDAINS' EXHIBITIONS.

1611. Laurens Baudains founded Exhibitions for natives of Jersey tenable for three years at either of the Universities of Oxford or Cam bridge.

The candidates for these exhibitions are elected by thirteen governors according to the number of applicants, regard being paid to the testmonials produced.

The present value of each is about £80 per annum.

GUERNSEY.

ELIZABETH COLLEGE.

THERE is no exhibition belonging to this college which requires residence at either Oxford or Cambridge. There are however two Exhibitions, one called "The Queen's," of £30 per annum, and tenable for four years; the other of £15 per annum, for the same period, founded by Lord De Saumarez. Neither of the exhibitioners is required to be a member of the University of Oxford or Cambridge; though in practice the successful competitors have always (or nearly always) been pupils preparing for one of the Universities.

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THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF CLOTHWORKERS.

My trust is in God alone.

THE Cloth workers' Company, though a very ancient guild, was not incorporated till the year 1480, when Edward IV. granted the members a charter, by the style of "The Wardens and Commonaltie of Freemen of Mistery or Art of Fullers of the Cittie of London." Henry VII. in 1508 granted them additional privileges under the title of "The Fraternity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Sheermen of the Cittie of London." In the eighteenth year of Henry VIII. the Sheermen and Fullers were united and called The Guild or Fraternity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Clothworkers in the Cittie of London, to implead and be impleaded by the name of "The Master, Wardens, and Commonalty of the Freemen of the Mistery of Cloth workers of the Cittie of London." In 1560 the company was re-incorporated by Queen Elizabeth, and the charter was confirmed in the year 1633 by Charles I., and by Charles II. in the year 1685.

This Company is governed by a Master, four Wardens, and a Court of Assistants, and is possessed of considerable estates, both in their own right and in trust for charitable purposes. Their hall is situated in Mincing Lane.

1580. William Heron, citizen of London, among his other bequests to the Company of Clothworkers, gave to the Bursar of University College, Oxford, and to the Master of Peter-house, Cambridge, the yearly rents of £5 each, towards the maintenance and bringing up of poor scholars at the said Colleges for ever. About £25 yearly is paid to St Peter's College. (See p. 209.)

1599. Mr William Hewett, by his will, bequeathed to the Company £110, on the condition that the sum of £5 yearly should be paid to some poor honest scholar studying divinity at Cambridge.

1635. Mr John Heath, by indenture, gave to the Cloth workers' Company £1000, and directed that, among other uses of the income, they should pay to two poor scholars of the name of Heath, one at Oxford and one at Cambridge, studying divinity, the sum of £2. 10s.

per annum : and if there be none such, then to two other poor schola as the Company should think fit, and that no scholar should hold th exhibition more than six years.

The company have created four additional Exhibitions, each £20 per annum, for students at Cambridge who are appointed by t court collectively. They have also increased Hewett's and Heath exhibitions to the same amount of £20 per annum from their o funds.

In March, 1854, it was ordered by the court, that whenever any these exhibitioners at Cambridge, upon his final examination, is plas among the wranglers in the mathematical tripos, or in the first class the classical tripos, he shall receive a complimentary grant of £2 This arrangement to be continued during the pleasure of the court.

THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF CARPENTERS.

THIS ancient fraternity was incorporated by letters patent Edward IV. bearing date the 7th July, 1477, by the name of "T Master, Wardens, Assistants and Commonalty of the mystery of in men of the Carpentry of the City of London," with a power to bye-laws for their better regulation.

This Company is governed by a Master, Wardens, and a Court Assistants: their hall is No. 68, London Wall.

1651. John Read, by his will, gave property in Southwark to th Carpenters' Company, that, among other purposes, they should out of the rents the sum of £4 yearly to a godly poor scholar at University of Cambridge. The appointment of the exhibitioner made by the Company, and the exhibition is tenable for three years.

THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF CORDWAINERS. THE Company of Cordwainers was incorporated in the first ye of King Edward I.

The Company is incorporated and confirmed by the style of "Th Master, Wardens and Commonalty of the Mystery of Cordwainers et the City of London." Their hall is situated in Cannon Street West.

1630. James Shawe, by his will, devised to the vicar and churchwardens of the parish of St Sepulchre, London, certain messuages an tenements, for various uses, one of which was, that they should pa