me Causes that I can't account for, the Revenue is not improved as
much as might be wished; neither is the College brought to that Method
of Education and Advantage, as it might be; tho' 'tis hoped, that in a
few Years it will, like the Palm Tree, grow to the greater Perfection,
under the weighty Obstacles that load it.

The Salary of the President Mr. _James Blair_, has been lately ordered
to be reduced from 150 to 100 _l. per Ann._

The Salary of the Fellows (one of which I have been several Years) is 80
_l. per Ann._ each, with 20 _s._ Entrance, and 20 _s._ a Year for
Pupilage for each Scholar: The Payments are sometimes made in Current
_Spanish Money_, and sometimes in _Sterling_ Bills.

The Nature of the Country scarce yet admits of a Possibility of reducing
the _Collegians_ to the nice Methods of Life and Study observed in
_Oxford_ and _Cambridge_; tho' by Degrees they may copy from thence many
useful Customs and Constitutions.

When the _College_ shall be compleatly finished, and Scholarships
founded, then is the Trust to be transferred from the _Trustees_ to the
_President and Masters_; but at present it is managed by a certain
Number of _Governors_ or _Visitors_, (one of which is chosen yearly
_Rector_) appointed first by the _Trustees_, elected out of the
principal and worthiest Inhabitants.

These appoint a Person, to whom they grant several Privileges and
Allowances to board and lodge the Masters and Scholars at an
extraordinary cheap Rate.

This Office is at present performed in the neatest and most regular and
plentiful Manner, by _Mrs. Mary Stith_, a Gentlewoman of great Worth and
Discretion, in good Favour with the Gentry, and great Esteem and Respect
with the common People.

Great Pity it is, but the noble Design of this College met with more
Friends to encourage, and Benefactors to advance, its flourishing State.

One Happiness is, that it has always a _Chancellor_ in _England_, chosen
by the _Governors_ or _Feoffees_; to whose Patronage and Direction it
may have Recourse upon emergent Occasions.

The last _Chancellor_ was the late _Bishop of London_; and the present
is his _Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury_.

The _Chancellor_ continues in that Office but seven Years; so that it
may happen as soon as he has obtained a perfect Knowledge and
Acquaintance with the Persons and Affairs belonging to the _College_,
his Term is expired: Besides their Business in other momentous Affairs
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