Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map . minent manof letters when atMagdalen. If time permit, thevisitor will do well tocomplete the circuit ofthe meadow. 11 not,he can from this pointretrace his steps tothe Cloisters. Not withstanding theheavy requisitionslevied by Charles the Civil War,a few interesting arti-cles ol gold and silverplate remain in pos-session of the the.^e is theFounders cup, and agrace-cup, presentedon the restoration ofthe Fellows who hadbeen ejected in thetime of James a Roman Catho-lic President wasforc
Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map . minent manof letters when atMagdalen. If time permit, thevisitor will do well tocomplete the circuit ofthe meadow. 11 not,he can from this pointretrace his steps tothe Cloisters. Not withstanding theheavy requisitionslevied by Charles the Civil War,a few interesting arti-cles ol gold and silverplate remain in pos-session of the the.^e is theFounders cup, and agrace-cup, presentedon the restoration ofthe Fellows who hadbeen ejected in thetime of James a Roman Catho-lic President wasforced on the incident is illus-trated in one of thefrescoes in the Housesof Parliament. Bp. addisons walk. Hough, whose portrait is in the Hall, was the President who resisted theKings arbitraiy demand. A curious ceremony annually observed at MagdalenCollege is represented in our Frontispiece. Every May-day morning, at fiveoclock, a Latin hymn to the Holy Trinity is sung on the summit of theTower by the choir habited in their surplices. This custom is commonly said. 207869 38 Aldens Oxford Guide. to have been substituted for a mass anciently performed for the soul of KingHenry VII., but is probably, like other May-day usages, a relic of Pagan hymn now sung is taken from the College grace, and is in no way connectedwith the annual commemoration of Henry VII. in the chapel on the same words of the hymn in Latin and English, together with a beautiful descriptivepoem by Dean Burgon, are published in a neat form at the office of this Guide. After thus exploring the beauties and antiquities of MagdalenCollege, the visitor will be inclined to agree with a modern writerthat it is perhaps on the whole the most beautiful, certainly themost enjoyable, place, not in Oxford only, but in England. Returning up the High Street, on the same side of the way, we cannot fail to be impressed at every step by the ever-changing scene, as the street in its graceful curve rev
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