We have no information relating to the extent or progress of the earlier buildings of this college, which probably occupied the western part of the present site, where there are still considerable remains of them. They were not very extensive; and it is said that a dignitary of the university used to characterize the old college by the title of le petit coigne. The first person who is mentioned as having added much to the original edifice is Henry Harvey, the seventeenth master (1560-1584). According to Caius, it owed to this master much of the beauty which distinguished it at the time when he wrote (1574).* In the map published with Caius's History, as well as in Fuller's map, it appears in form nearly the same as at present, consisting of two courts, with some out-buildings towards the river.

Trinity Hall is at present the only old foundation in the university exclusively devoted to the study of law. Previous to the Reformation, the number of students in the canon law, so closely allied with the practical administration of the affairs of the church, and superseding or controlling the civil or the common law in all cases where their principles or their precepts came in collision with each other, was generally greater than in any other faculty. In 1536, amid the changes wrought by the reforming policy of Henry VIII., degrees in canon law were forbidden by a royal injunction, upon the ground that the study of the decretals of the popes and the recognition of their authority were contrary

* Præterea Henricus Harveus magister hujus collegii ante fatus dilatavit istic ædificia, eaque multo ornatiora et ampliora perfecit. Caius, Hist. Canteb. Acad. p. 63.

to the doctrine of the king's supremacy. This measure had the immediate effect of diminishing the number of civilians as well as of canonists in this country, from the close connexion which had previously existed between them; and before the end of the reign of that monarch a sufficient number of them could not be found for the public service, more particularly in foreign embassies and negotiations. From a feeling of this deficiency, the protector Somerset was led in the following reign to propose the combining Clare Hall with Trinity Hall and the hostle of St. Nicholas in one great college for the study of the civil law, but the accomplishment of this project was defeated by the death of the young king. In the statutes of Edward VI. there are allusions to this projected foundation under the title "collegium novum juri civili dicatum."*

In one of the college books Dr. Harvey has left a memorandum, in his own handwriting, of some of the principal alterations made in the buildings previous to the year 1570, from which it appears that in A.D. 1545 “the grownde on the northe side of the buildyng of our college was taken yn, and the wall builded; which before was a lay-stowe." In "1562, the west bay window in the hall was sett up." In "1563, the stable was sett up wher it is and the same yere the chambers and buildyng over the botery and pantrie, and the entrie into the ketchyn and over the kechyn, the larder and enner botrie was buylded, &c." And in " And in "A.D. 1569, the old wall, on the northe side of our backsyde was taken down, and the grownde which was without our wall, taken yn unto the

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* Peacock's Observations on the Statutes of the University of Cambridge. Appendix, p. li.

water syde all the lengethe from the stable, with the retorn to the privé, and the new wall sett up, and a new crosse wall sevaryng the stable yard also made the same yere. "* However, there seems good reason for believing that many of Harvey's most important works were executed after the latest of these dates. He remained master

of his college till his death in 1584. The music gallery and screens of the old hall bore the date 1566. The oak stalls in the chapel appear also to have been set up in Harvey's time.

During nearly a century and a half from this period. the college buildings underwent very little alteration. The bird's-eye view by Loggan exhibits them probably in nearly the same state as they are represented in the maps of Caius and Fuller. Trinity Hall seems to have suffered much less by the parliamentary visitation in the time of the civil war than most of the other colleges; the master, Dr. Eden, who was the representative of the university in parliament, was continued in his office, and he was therefore a well-wisher to and favourer of the party of the parliament. This latter fact probably explains another circumstance connected with the college: it appears, from the long and curious inventory made by Dr. Warren in 1718, and of which a copy will be found in one of the volumes of Cole's Manuscripts in the British Museum, that Trinity Hall possesses a far greater quantity of ancient plate than the other colleges, although it is to be feared, from some hints by Cole himself, that since that time part of it has been made away with. Much of the curious old plate preserved in the different

* Cole's MSS. vol. lviii. p. 20.

colleges in the earlier part of the seventeenth century was carried to the king by the zealous royalists, to be turned into money.

New alterations in the buildings of Trinity Hall began early in the last century. In 1729-30, under the mastership of Sir Nathaniel Lloyd, the chapel underwent very extensive repairs, so as to be almost rebuilt. Sir Nathaniel, who was buried in this chapel, also left a considerable sum of money to rebuild the hall, which was effected some time after his death. Since that period other changes have been made; the master's lodge has been considerably enlarged, and the second court built for the accommodation of the under-graduates. John Andrews, D.C.L., formerly fellow of this college, who died in 1747, bequeathed £20,000 for the purpose of erecting a new building, "which is to consist of to spacious wings, to extend from the college towards the river, leaving the prospect open.

BUILDINGS. Trinity Hall, as has been already stated, consists chiefly of two small courts. The principal court, which is built with stone, contains the chapel, hall, master's lodge, and rooms of the fellows.

The CHAPEL is small, and is in great part modern. The whole length, including the ante-chapel, is forty-three feet; the breadth is eighteen. The original chapel was built in or soon after the year 1352, which is the date of the bishop of Ely's license to build it. As we have already observed, this edifice appears to have undergone repairs under Dr. Harvey as well as under Sir Nathaniel Lloyd. In its present state it is a neat building. The ceiling is ornamented with armorial bearings, gilt and painted. Over the altar is a fine painting of the Pre