BATTIE'S SCHOLARS.

William Battie, M.D. Fellow of King's college, left an estate, present value £18. per annum, on a plan similar to the preceding, but subject to the following conditions:-1st. Every Scholar shall reside nine calendar months in the year, except he be a graduate in Physic, or one who designs to profess the same; in that case his residence may be dispensed with at the University, provided he produces once every year a certificate signed by one Hospital Physician in

1 Formerly Greek Professor.

2 Formerly British Minister at the Court of Denmark.

3 Founder of Battie's Scholarship, and Editor of Isocrates.

4 Formerly Provost of Eton, and founder of Davies's University Scholarships.

5 Late Fellow of King's, and Conductor of the Commemoration of Handel in Westminster Abbey.

6 Late Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.

7 Provost of Eton, and Canon of Windsor.

8 Head Master of Eton, and Canon of Windsor.

London, testifying his regular conduct and diligent attendance with the said Physician at the Hospital. 2d. No Scholar is capable of being elected who has been admitted three years, or receives any benefit or advantage from either of Lord Craven's exhibitions; and if any one, after being admitted to this Scholarship, shall become entitled to any emoluments from the said exhibitions, his claim to this benefaction is void. 3d. When any Scholar shall have entered nine years at the college to which he first belonged, or shall have obtained any ecclesiastical benefice or preferment, excepting he is a Fellow of some one college, his right to this legacy shall then cease and determine. The electors to this Scholarship are, the Vice-Chancellor, the Provost of King's, the Regius Professors of Civil Law, Physic, and Divinity, and the Proctors for the time being.

1747 Henry Venn, Jes.
1757 G. Chamberlayne, King's.
1760 E. Chamberlayne, King's.
1765 William Coxe, King's.
1773 Edward Cooke, King's.
1785 Jonathan Raine, Trin.

1791 Robert Smith, King's. 1798 H. Vin. Bayley, Trin. 1804 Thomas Fraser, King's. 1809 John Lonsdale, King's. 1816 G. J. Pennington, King's. 1824 Alfred Power, Clare.

BROWNE'S SCHOLARS.

Sir William Browne, Knt. M.D. left a perpetual rent charge of £21. per annum, upon sundry estates, for founding a Scholarship, to be paid clear of taxes and disbursements, to the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University. A candidate for this Scholarship must offer himself for examination within a year from his matriculation; public notice being given by the Vice-Chancellor a month before such election. Scholarship, with all the arrears which may happen by vacancy, is tenable for seven years; but the possessor, if of another college, is obliged to remove to St. Peter's, and reside there every entire term during his undergraduateship. Electors to this Scholarship the same as to Lord Craven's.

1 Sub-Dean of Lincoln, Archdeacon of Stow, and late Fellow of Trinity.

The

1775 Thomas Veasey, Pet. 1782 Joseph Tiffin, Pet. 1784 Wilfred Clark, Pet.

1791 John Vernon, Pet.

1797 John King, Pet.
1806 Thos. Fallowfield, Pet.
1814 Joseph Hudson, Pet.
1820 Chas. E. Palmer, Pet.

DAVIE'S SCHOLARSHIP.

The Rev. J. Davies, D.D. formerly Fellow of King's, and afterwards Provost of Eton college, bequeathed (by will, dated July 1804,) to the Vice-Chancellor for the time being, and the Provost of King's, in the University of Cambridge, in trust, the sum of £1000. in the 3 per cents. to found a Scholarship, to be called Dr. Davies's University Scholarship, on the same footing as those called Craven's Scholars, for the greatest proficient in classical learning. The examiners to be the same, only with the addition of the Provost of King's; and to be tenable for the same number of years as the above-mentioned Scholarships. 1810 John Patteson, King's. 1813 Geo. Waddington, Trin.

1819 T. Pell Platt, Trin.
1825 T. W. Peile, Trin.

BELL'S SCHOLARSHIPS.

The Rev. William Bell, D.D. Prebendary of the collegiate church of Westminster, and late of Magdalene college in this University, in the year 1810, transferred £15,200. stock, 3 per cents. to the University of Cambridge, in trust, to found eight new Scholarships, for the sons of clergymen of the Church of England. On the receipt of this benefaction, Scholars were elected in such a manner and for such a period that two Scholarships will become vacant every year.

The regulations of these Scholarships are, that every Scholar elected on this foundation shall promise in writing to take the degree of B. A. in the most regular way. Where personal merits are equal, those are to be preferred who stand most in need of assistance, If any Scholar shall degrade or determine, and go out in a bye-term, or declare for law, or be rusticated or expelled, his Scholarship shall be ipso facto vacant,

The profits to continue for four years, and no more. No persons shall ever have two sons Scholars, nor shall there be two orphans, brothers, Scholars at the same time. If no sons or orphans of clergymen shall be found properly qualified for these Scholarships, then, and then only, the electors shall elect the sons of laymen, being undergraduates, who stand in need of assistance. No Scholar to be elected from King's college or from Trinity Hall.

The electors are, the Vice-Chancellor, the Regius Professor of Divinity, the Regius Professor of Civil Law, the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, and the Public Orator.

1810 Thomas Robinson, Trin.

George Peacock, Trin.
George John Skeeles, Chr.
John Griffith, Trin.

1811 William Cecil, Magd.
Thos. Shelford, Corpus.

1812 William Owen, Joh.

Samuel Grove Price, Trin. 1813 John James Blunt, Joh.

W. C. Wollaston, Trin. 1814 Hugh James Rose, Trin.

Temple Chevallier, Pemb. 1815 Connop Thirlwall, Trin.

J. Hutton Fisher, Trin. 1816 Fran. E. J. Valpy, Trin.

Richard Thursfield, Joh. 1817 Hor. Waddington, Trin. Francis Goode, Trin.

1818 John H. Macaulay, Trin. A. Blatch Beevor, Corp.

1819 Mitford Peacock, Clare.

W. Henry Marriott, Trin. 1820 Thomas Crick, Joh."

John Moultrie, Trin. 1821 Francis Martin, Trin. Edward Baines, Chr. 1822 John F. Isaacson, Joh. Edward Wilson, Joh. 1823 J. Howard Marsden, Joh. Henry Browne, Corpus. 1824 Samuel Rees, Joh.

Eq. John Venn, Queen's 1825 E. H. Fitzherbert, Trin. John Wordsworth, Trin. 1826 H. S. Hildyard, Pet. Thomas Scott, Queen's.

PITT SCHOLARSHIP.

Rules for the foundation of the Pitt Scholarship, and for the Election of a Scholar, as proposed by the Syndics appointed by the University for that purpose, and confirmed by the Senate, Dec. 9, 1813.

1. The sum of £1000. given by the subscribers to Mr. Pitt's Statue, for the purpose of founding the Pitt Scholarship, and which has since been augmented by a donation of £500. from the Pitt Club in London, shall be placed in the public funds, until the Syndics shall

be able to vest it in land; and the clear annual income arising from it shall be paid to the Pitt Scholar.

2. The Vice-Chancellor or his deputy, the Public Orator, or the Greek Professor, and two members of the Senate, to be appointed by the different colleges in their turn, shall be the electors. Two colleges, according to the cycle of Proctors commencing with the year 1817, shall respectively nominate an elector. But if the Vice-Chancellor, the Public Orator, and the Greek Professor, or any two of them, be members of the same college, no elector in that case shall be appointed by that college according to the cycle of Proctors, but the appointment shall be made by the University. Or if the Public Orator or the Greek Professor shall be prevented by illness or otherwise from attending the examination, or if the colleges shall have neglected to signify to the Vice-Chancellor the appointment of the electors according to their respective turns, then deputies shall be appointed by grace.

3. The first examination commenced on Monday, January 17, 1814; and the Vice-Chancellor or his deputy, the Public Orator, and the Greek Professor, shall, in future, on or before the 1st day of December after every vacancy, cause a writing, under their hands, declaring the said vacancy and the time of examination, to be affixed to the door of the Public Schools; and they shall notify the same to the two colleges which are to nominate the electors, and the Heads of those colleges, or their deputies, shall, within one week after such notices, signify to the Vice-Chancellor the names of the electors so appointed.

4. The examination, which shall be solely classical, shall always take place during the week of the public examinations in the Senate-House previous to the Bachelors' Commencement, and the Scholar elected shall receive all the dividends or rents that shall have become due subsequent to the last vacancy.

5. Any undergraduate, of whatever rank, may be a candidate for the Pitt Scholarship, provided he be not of more than three years standing from the time of his first residence; but he shall, on or before the 31st day of December preceding the examination,