terians of London, and was engaged with undiminished ardour for dispute in a controversy on Original Sin at the time of his death in 1712. Hearne says he was not a man of the great integrity he should have been. He would probably, in Hearne's eyes, have shown greater integrity if he had been less Calvinistic, and allowance must be made for the "odium theologicum." He was a Benefactor to the College, spending, it is said, £1000 on the adornment of the Chapel, and leaving a bequest of £600 and his valuable Library. It was during the last years of his rule that the Inner Quadrangle was finally completed by the filling up of the gap hitherto left in the north-western corner.

CHAPTER IX

THE NEW FOUNDATION

§1. SIR LEOLINE JENKINS' ENDOWMENT OF THE COLLEGE. CONSIDERING the nature and importance of the offices of State which Sir Leoline had held in the last twenty years of his life, and the opportunities for amassing money which several of them might have presented to a less scrupulous character, the estate which he left behind him was small. He had already in his lifetime contributed largely to, if not entirely built, the new Library, and by his will he consummated his beneficent intentions to the College by bequeathing to it his whole property, real and personal.

His real estate, which was of comparatively recent acquisition, consisted of:

(1) Lands in Glamorganshire, including the manor of Moulton and a number of farms and messuages within the precincts of Eglwys-Llewn. These were of the annual value of about £140, but subject to a rentcharge of £100 a year during the lifetime of Evan Jenkins, Sir Leoline's brother.

(2) Two parcels of land, respectively three acres and four acres in size, situated near the river in the parish of Lambeth, with all houses, buildings, and wharves upon them. The rent from this land was £85 a year.

Some idea of the ultimate value of this land to the College may be gained from the fact that in 1813 the three acres were sold to the Strand Bridge Company for over £20,000, whilst the remaining four acres now bring in over £3000 a year.

(3) Lands and tenements in the neighbourhood of Woodend and Plumpton in Northamptonshire, calculated to bring in, on an average, £350 a year.

(4) An estate at Dumbleton in Gloucestershire, worth about £160 a year, but on which a rent-charge of £150 was payable for her life to the widow of the former owner, being her jointure.

In addition to these estates the personal property was laid out by the Executors after Sir Leoline's death in

(5) Some land at Bampton and Weald in Oxfordshire, worth at first about £60 a year.

Altogether the College revenues were increased by about £700 a year, and Sir Leoline may well be styled the second Founder of the College.

The estates, however, were not left entirely at the free disposal of the College; they were intended "to bear a charge of pious and charitable uses." Of these the following are the most important:

(1) The allowance of the Head of Jesus College as Principal, "not being suitable to the trust and dignity of the place," was to be increased by £50 a year.

(2) £120 a year was to be added to the common stock for the purpose of filling up all the sixteen Fellowships and sixteen Scholarships and raising them to the full value of £20 and £10 respectively, so that there might be no "honorary" Fellowships or Scholarships.

(3) As soon as the estate allowed of it, two additional Fellowships were to be founded, with the same salaries, allowances and privileges as the rest, open to persons born in the Dioceses of St. David's or Llandaff, and by preference from Cowbridge School. The holders of these two Fellowships were to be in Priests' Orders and to serve as Chaplains either in his Majesty's fleet or in the Plantations, receiving while on actual service an extra £20 a year each, being styled respectively the "alumnus of King Charles II." and the "alumnus of King James II.," as an acknowledgment " of the goodness and bounty of his late Majesty and his Majesty that then was.” The first two of these "Missionary Fellows " were elected in 1702, when the rent-charge of £100 on the Glamorganshire lands lapsed by the death of Evan Jenkins, the last was elected in 1875.

(4) When the estates of Moulton and Dumbleton came to the College,

"I recommend it to them to settle some Lectures in the College for the opening and explaining classical authors in Greek and Latin to the Undergraduates. I should think £15 a year a piece to the two Lecturers and fifty shillings a year among the auditors of each would be a competent reward."

With regard to the Fellowships and Scholarships, mention has already been made of the local restrictions to which some of them were subject according to the Benefactors' Wills, and it has been pointed out that these restrictions were in many cases merely de facto. In all probability many disputes had arisen, and perhaps some jealousy between North and South Wales. Thus

in 1662 we find Dr. George Stradling writing to Sir Leoline that "North Wales men are very averse from doing anything for the College." In order to prevent this in future, Sir Leoline Jenkins attached an important condition to his bequest of £120 a year to the Fellowship and Scholarship fund :

"In regard there is nothing in this world more valuable in a society of men that follow liberal and pious studies than peace and concord among themselves, specially in electing Foundation men, together with a great exactness in observing and performing the wishes and disposition of their Founders and Benefactors, my design in this settlement of £120 a year upon the College is to engage them before they receive any part of it to fill up all Fellowships and Scholarships that are now vacant, and to set forth in one Scheme the present sixteen Fellowships and sixteen Scholarships, and therein to show to what Diocese, County, Town, place or family, each by the disposition of the respective founder and donor doth and ought of right to belong and in case there be any of those places that are not already so affected and fixed by the particular donors, then to set forth in the said Scheme how, and to what Diocese, County, Town or place they may be... affected and appropriated with strict regard had to the donations and dispositions of the particular Benefactor respectively and with most advantage to the peace of the said College."

In accordance with this a scheme was drawn up in the form of an indenture between the College and the Executors of Sir Leoline, by which seven Fellowships were assigned to South Wales and Monmouthshire, and seven to North Wales, certain preferences being retained in each case for particular localities in accordance with