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N ? xxxv. 7'err,e-Filius. x From thence we went into the inner quadrangle, which my friend told me wai built at the role charge of archbi?op L?u?, who was form?ly prudent of this college i in confide/orion of which munificent beneli&ion, and his other great /e/vices to the church and nation, the reverend Dr. Du?x?s?, his worthy fucceffor, has eau?d a publick oration to be annualiy made to his memory on the tenth of ]? nuaq, which was the day ot his This quadranale is an hindfome piece of building, only too low, it being but one ?ory high, except the garrets i for which this tea/on is traditionally handed down to uq? vi=. that the old ffua&angle wa? no higher, and/he mode? archbi?op fa?d? he ?ould not overlook his found=. When we had looked round this qua&t?ngle, my friend, the fctlow, askc.t me whether I would fee the libraq, which was jut[ by, or fee the re? of the college firfi ? i chore the la? i and tb ?om thence went into the &apd, which is adorned with a n?w altar-piece, and an organ, but the upon the communion taNe are too froall, and want to & ne? caR, which my fiiend told me was ?o be done, as loon as they could get any body to pay for it; wh?eupon I couid not tbr? recommendinga method which is pra?is'd abroad upon the time cation. One of the holy candlefiffks at a church in ?erp being ?olen away, the dimenfions of it are chalked out upon the wall, and under it are placed words in L?tin to this efii&; If ?ny per/on, wh o coOi?ee i? burthened ?ith any grievous?n, wi?eome the lame. A gentleman of my acquaintance told me tha{he fiw t?is at ?nt?erp about h?f a .year ago. But to return to my account: in the rhapel are feveml cariou? epitaphs and Nfcriptiom, two wher?