vi PREFACE century, but the record is very imperfect. The Scholarships, being of small value, were often lumped together, and a Scholar might hold simultaneouslyScholarships on different foundations, or several Scholarships on the same foundation. In the case of the Nowell Scholarships, six or even twelve of them were sometimes held together. The conditions attached to the several foundations are given in the Quatercentenary Monogra^phs, vol. i, Mon. iv. When Scholars fulfilling these conditions were not forthcoming, others not so qualified were sometimes substituted for them. After 1800 no attempt has been made to record the foundation to which each Scholarship belonged, with the exception of the Hulme and Somerset foundations, but some information on this point may be obtained from the Uni- versity Calendar,which begins in 1810and has been annually issued since 1813. The Scholarships on the foundations of Joyce Frankland, John Claymond, Humphrey Ogle, James Binks (otherwise James Stoddard), Hugh Henley, Thomas Church, and Thomas Yate, were abolished in 1857 by an Ordinance of the Commissioners acting under the Oxford University Commission of 1854. The record of Somerset Scholarships and Hulme Ex- hibitions is as complete as it can be made. A list of Hulme Exhibitioners from 1692 to 1827 is given in "Whatton's History of Manchester Grammar School, published in 1828, and from that date onwards the information is derived partly from the University Calendar, and partly from documents in the possession of the College. "With regard to the Hulme foundation it must be observed that under a Scheme framed by the Charity Commissioners, which came into force in 1881, Senior and Junior Exhibi- tions (subsequently in 1900 altered to Senior and Junior Scholarships) took the place of the old Exhibitions, and also that in 1900 Exhibitions were added, similar to the Junior Scholarships, but of smaller value. Up to the year 1855 the various foundations under which each Fellow was elected are duly registered. The Fellow- ships on the original foundation were to be awarded to