By the annexed plate, copied from an engraving by Vertue in Ward's "Lives of the Professors," a clear idea may be obtained of the former state of this College. The view is looking eastward: the more distant buildings are those which communicated with Bishopsgate-street, among which the reading hall is discoverable by its gable end nearly in front. On the south and north sides of the quadrangle, the area of which was about 100 feet square, were piazzas, or arcades; and over the southern arcade was a long gallery, of which a projecting window shews the west end. There was likewise a gallery on the west side, above the eight alms-houses in front, distinguished by protruding doorways: the other parts were appropriated to the Professors. This side was upwards of 200 feet in length, and opened towards Broad-street.

A singular anecdote is connected with this print. At the entrance of the open archway, seen in front, (which led to the stables and other offices) two persons are represented, the one on his knees, with his arms extended, and his sword dropt, and the other standing over him with his sword elevated. These figures were designed for Drs. Mead and Woodward, the latter of whom was Professor of Physic in Gresham College, and they allude to a transaction of which

be inserted in volume iii., under the head Royal Exchange. It is highly to be wished, that the total inefficiency of the Lectures, as now delivered, for the purposes contemplated by Gresham, should become a subject of Parliamentary attention; and that the Professorships should be attached to one of our new London Colleges !

DESIGN FOR A MONUMENT FOR KING HENRY VI. From a Drawing in the British Museum.

"In the exertion of his

the following is the history. profession, Dr. Woodward had said or done something that had given offence to Dr. Mead. Mead, resenting it, was determined to have satisfaction, and meeting Woodward in this place, when he was returning to his lodgings in the College, drew, as did his adversary; but Mead, having obtained the advantage of him, commanded him to beg his life. Woodward answered, with some wit, No! Doctor, that I will not, till I am your patient." However, he yielded, and his submission is marked by a situation that represents him tendering his sword.-Dr. Mead was the friend and patron of Ward, which may possibly account for the above fact being so singularly recorded."*

INTENDED MONUMENT FOR KING HENRY VI.

Henry the Sixth, who was born at Windsor in December, 1421, succeeded to the throne within nine months after his birth, amid the fairest and most brilliant prospects that ever opened on a new reign. England was exclusively his own, and nearly the whole of France had submitted to British domination. But the bright promise of his youth was quickly clouded, and the sun of his early hopes set in darkness and blood. His education had been entrusted to Beaufort, his ambitious uncle, the Cardinal Bishop of Winchester, and, by a natural consequence, he was rendered more fit to govern a cloister than to

"Monthly Magazine," vol. xxii. p. 243.

direct the perturbed councils of a warlike nation. His life was chequered by a romantic diversity of good and evil fortune, but the latter predominated, and his days closed in wretchedness, whilst a prisoner in the Tower. Grafton says, "constant fame ranne," that he was murdered by Richard, Duke of Gloucester, "with a dagger ;" yet later historians have contrasted this report with known facts, and raised a strong presumption of its inaccuracy. It is far more probable, that his decease, which happened in 1471, was occasioned by extreme grief. His corpse was interred at Chertsey Abbey, in Surrey, but it was afterwards removed to Windsor by King Richard the Third, and deposited in St. George's Chapel, within the choir.

The reputed sanctity of this monarch, combined with Henry the Seventh's desire to rest his right to the crown upon his Lancastrian descent, induced the latter sovereign to make application to the Papal See for the Canonization of his devout predecessor; to whose memory he designed to found a chapel at Windsor, and erect therein a stately monument over his remains, which were said "to have wrought miracles !"*

In this stage of the proceedings, the Abbot and Convent of Westminster petitioned the King, claiming to have the body of Henry removed into their

*From the Commission of Inquiry, issued by the Pope on this projected Canonization, we learn that, by Henry's intercession," the blind were said to receive their sight, the deaf to hear, and the lame to walk."