Under this was a "lowe chamber" of exactly the same dimensions, entered as now from the quadrangle, which was made into a Common Room c. 1665, and afterwards became the Old Bursary. These two rooms were probably the oldest chambers, which, it must be remembered, were at once living and sleeping rooms, usually for two or three students, the musaea or studies being small spaces partitioned off from the main apartment for privacy and warmth. The windows are clearly shown in Loggan and appear to be earlier in style than the large square-headed windows with a single mullion crossed by a transom which appear in all parts of the buildings, and still exist on the E. side of the library. The upper room had a large window in the eastern gable, which now contains miscellaneous scraps of stained glass and the name of Warden Wm. Ebchester in the upper lights; there are remains of a similar window in the western wall.

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present Hall, which That it was warmed louvre over it, is the

Northward from this range stood the Refectory: it collapsed when Kettell tried to dig cellars under it in 1618, and was replaced by the occupies exactly the same space. by a hearth in the middle, with a one fact which can be ascertained from the rough drawing by Bereblock in the MS. presented to Queen Elizabeth in 1566. From the north side of the Hallpassage projected a long Buttery, of which about half was destroyed in 1678, and "another inward Buttrey," which may have been the "Thesaurarium" mentioned in the inventories. Over these was a large chamber, which can still be traced, though it is now sub-divided. The original kitchen and larder were of small dimensions,

and appear to have been on the site of the present coal house; to the south of them, between the Hall and the Balliol boundary, was a court 138ft. by 30, afterwards divided into a wood-yard and a "Plumpe-yard," as shown by Loggan, now covered by the Kitchen, Lectureroom, and Common-room stores.

The N. side of the small quadrangle, probably erected between 1409 and 1414, appears in Loggan, and the north elevation of it in Williams; it was pulled down about 1728. It is not fully described in the Survey; but it is clear that the room next to the Hall door was a perloquitorium or parlour, which corresponded to the Calefactorium or Pisalis usually provided in a Benedictine Monastery as a Common-room where the monks might occasionally warm themselves and gossip. In 1428 it contained a chair for the warden, a "langsetyll" and a form for the fellows, eight cushions, scabella (stools) and skeppis (hassocks), andirons and bellows; the windows retained many coats of arms in the 17th century. Over it was the warden's chamber, 40ft. by 18, with a chimney and two studies; Loggan indicates a newel staircase in the angle, by which, as elsewhere, the warden would have direct access to the Hall. In 1456 this Camera Custodis contained

'In primis duo lecti lignei. Item ij silura (canopies) cum vj rydellis (curtains). Item una cathedra. Item unum longum sedile. Item ij copbordys. Item una formula. Item ij Andyryns. Item unum vertibulum (poker). Item unum peell (? firepan) de ferro. Item una mensa. unum par tristyllarum (trestles). una cista. Item unum pressore pro pannis. Item iiij panni de sago (say) ex dono mag. Johannis Burnby pendentes

Item

Item in Studio Custodis

circa cameram.

Item alij duo panni de sago ex dono eiusdem. Item iij alij panni blodij ex dono eiusdem. Item unus bonus lectus cum tapete cum stella et nominibus Jesu Christi intextis. Item una peluis de stanno cum lauacro de auricalco. Item vj culcidre [cushions] de blodio sago. Item j gret meell [great mallet]. Item una mappa cum ij manutergijs ex dono mag. Johannis Burnby. Item unum manutergium pro pane deferendo."

The other rooms in this range are not described; in 1428 the pueri or scholars had three rooms containing v lecti lignei cum pressuris.'

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The E. side of the quadrangle (1417-21), which became the President's lodgings, in spite of internal alterations at different dates, the insertion of "cocklofts" in the roof, and the absurd "restoration" of the pointed lights in the first-floor windows, is in all essentials unaltered. In the garden front large sash windows have replaced some of the original mullions; but the library windows are untouched, and the heads of three other windows retain vestiges of old work. The projecting staircases are later. In the north and south gables are long windows, the one square-headed and now blocked up, the other (seen in Loggan) with a pointed arch and almost Decorated in character. At the north end was

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a fayr chamber bynethe cont. in lenght xxvij fote and in Bredethe xviij fote with ij studies and twoo Woodhouses. Item over that a Chamber seeled, with a studie, of the same lenght and bredethe, and a large woodhouse."

These rooms became first the study and diningroom of the President, afterwards the dining and

drawing-rooms, and since 1887 have been occupied by fellows. Next to them southward were two similar chambers, now curtailed by a staircase; the low archway in the middle is that of the staircase which originally gave access on the first floor to the Library on the south, and on the north to the President's lodgings by a small wooden doorway reopened in 1888. Under the Library were the Vestry and a room long used as the Bursary of Trinity College; the modern ceiling conceals remains of a running vine pattern painted on the joists and boards of the library floor. The “fayre Library, well desked and well flowred withe a Tymber Flowre over it," cost £42 in 1417, the fittings were added for £6 16s. 8d. in 1431, the windows gradually glassed, and the books chained as they were added; but nothing survived the Dissolution except the bare fabric and the beautiful and interesting 15th century figures, mostly of bishops, which seem to have been pieced together in 1765, with additions from other parts of the College. The herald's visitation of Oxfordshire by R. Lee, Portcullis, in 1574, records many shields that had disappeared when Aubrey and Wood made their notes. When the former came to Oxford in 1642

"crucifixes were common in the glasse windowes in the studies; and in the chamber windowes were canonized saints (e.g., in my chamber window, St. Gregorie the great, and another, broken), and scutcheons with the pillar, the whip, the dice, and the cock. But after 1647 they were all broken-downe went Dagon!'"

The effigies have suffered much from wanton damage and from injudicious insertion of modern work which is