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books have not been made use of in the following pages, as they gave no information as to Degrees.

V. The Buttery Books; two series of these books are kept. They contain the names of all members of the College, and are written out at certain short intervals. The Senior Book contains the names of the Fellows, Doctors, Masters, and the higher classes of Undergraduates in standing and rank; the Junior Book contains the Junior Undergraduates and students of inferior rank. In these books are recorded the punishments imposed on such students as have incurred the censure of the Deans for any neglect of duty or misconduct. They commence from about 1673. The following Junior Books are unfortunately missing: from 31st December, 1687, to 18th September, 1691; from March, 1717, to January, 1718; from 1724 to 1726; from 1728 to 1734. The loss of these books renders it impossible to determine what students were sizars, during the period to which they relate.

The troublous times in the reign of Charles I., the irregularities of the Commonwealth, and the great poverty of the College at that period, to say nothing of its internal dissensions, and want of government,^[1] lead us naturally to expect considerable

1. In 1641 Provost "Washington deserted the College in disgust, and returned to Oxford. The great Irish rebellion stopped all the College rents, and they were forced to sell some of their plate in December, 1642. They made applications for relief several times to the Government, one of which, a petition to the Lord Lieutenant and Council, in the beginning of 164${\tfrac {3}{4}}$, commences as follows:—"Humbly sheweth, that if the likely ruin of the College (the mother of the University in this Kingdom), whereof ther hath been so late representation to your honours, had only concerned the private interest of your Petitioner's, the resentment of it by your honours (whereof we have then had experience) had stopped our being further troublesome, but all supply for the relief of the College being this day expired, &c." In answer to this petition a sum of £4 a week was granted to the College until further orders; and the College was without a statutable Provost from the flight of Washington until the appointment of Anthony Martin, Bishop of Meath (i. e. from 1640 to 164${\tfrac {4}{5}}$). The University at a congregation (January 12, 164${\tfrac {5}{6}}$) petitioned by the Vice-Chancellor and