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388 ON THE LATE, OR DEBASED, cation House, and the upper part an addition to the library for containing the books of the learned Selden, and is called by his name. The next building in order of time is "Wadham College, which was commenced in 1610, and completed in 1613, the year in which the Schools were commenced. It was founded by Sir Nicholas and Dame Dorothy Wadhara, (whose effigies appear over the doorway of the hall,) but was not commenced till after the death of Sir Nicholas in 1609. The building was commenced in 1610, and the whole of the quadrangle, the hall and chapel, were completed in 1613. The general character of the buildings of the quadrangle is the same as that of the Schools, having a tower, gateway, and oriel window in the same situation, but the haU and ante-chapel are of somewhat different character, having debased tracery in the windows formed of scroll-work, and of which the large window of the hall is a very curious example. But the most singular part is the chapel, which is totally different in style from the rest of the buildings ; the windows have good perpendicular tracery and mouldings, though of rather late character, and there is little to dis- tinguish it from a pure perpendicular building except the upper mouldings of the buttresses. In the east window, however, there is a singularity in the subordination of the tracery which would not have occurred in the best period of perpendicular. The two mullions of the centre light are carried throuo-h the head and on each side in the sub-arches. The other two mulHons are not carried through, but another rises from the second and fourth hghts, cutting through the sub-arches, and by this means the primary tracery, not throne, and giving with his right hand a Peace and Plenty, and underneath all, book to the picture or emblem of Fame, this inscription in golden letters : with this inscription on the cover : « Kegxaxte D. Jacobo Regum Doctissimo MUNIFICEXTISSIMO, OPTIMO, H.E MTSIS " H^C HABEO QUJi; SCRIPSI. EXTRl'CT.E MOLES, CONGESTA BiBLIOTHECA, Et gU^ECUNQUE ADHUC DEERANT AD SPLENDOBEM " With his left hand he reacheth out Academi.e feliciter textata, another book to our mother, the Univer- Coepta absoluta. Soli Deo gloria. sity of Oxford, represented in effigie, All which Pictures and Emblems kneeling to the King, with this inscription were at first with great cost and splendour on the cover also : double gilt; but when K. James came from « H^c HABEO QUi: DEDi. Woodstock to See this quadrangular pile „ , - ,, ^, commanded them (being so glorious and " On the verge of the canopy over the ,^^.^ ^,^^^ ^^^^ especially when the throne and the Kmg's head, which is also ^^^ ^^^. ^^^,^ j^^j^^j^ ^jj^^^ ^^ y^ most admirably cut m stone, is his motto, ^j^j^^^ ^^,^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^..^^ ordinary " Beat[ pacifici. colours, which hath since so continued." " Over that also are emblems of Justice, Vol. iii. p. 793.