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CHRIST CHURCH.


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case, which has been raised more than thirty feet.

It would take up too much space merely to enumerate the distinguished men, who as Undergraduate mem- bers of the House owed not a little to their training herein, and by their subsequent career shed lustre upon Christ Church ; while to write their lives would in several instances be to transcribe pages of England's history.

The Arms now borne by Christ Church are those of Cardinal Wolsey : Sable, on a cross engrailed argent,


a lion passant gules between four leopards' faces azure ; on a chief or, a rose of the third, seeded of the fifth, and barbed vert, between two Cornish choughs proper.

The Badge is a Cardinal's Hat with five tassels.

The Motto, belonging to Wolsey, is Dominvs Mihi Aoivtor ; this was to be seen in the East Window of the Choir, which existed during the whole of the last and down to the middle of the present century.

T. Vere Bayne, M.A.


FROM AN ENGRAVING. — By Skelton.