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In the comfortable old wainscoted College-Hall,
and round about Roubilliac's statue of Saint Boniface (who stands in an
attitude of seraphic benediction over the uncommonly good cheer of the
fellows' table) there are portraits of many most eminent Bonifacians.
There is the learned Doctor Griddle, who suffered in Henry VIII.'s time,
and Archbishop Bush who roasted him--there is Lord Chief Justice Hicks--
the Duke of St. David's, K.G., Chancellor of the University and Member of
this College--Sprott the Poet, of whose fame the college is justly proud
--Doctor Blogg, the late master, and friend of Doctor Johnson, who
visited him at Saint Boniface--and other lawyers, scholars, and divines,
whose portraitures look from the walls, or whose coats-of-arms shine in
emerald and ruby, gold and azure, in the tall windows of the refectory.
The venerable cook of the college is one of the best artists in Oxbridge
(his son took the highest honours in the other University of Camford),
and the wine in the fellows' room has long been famed for its excellence
and abundance.


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