he slave-trade. There is also a very beautiful sketch of the head of
William Wordsworth; this study was made by Pickersgill to save the poet
the tedium of long sittings for the portrait in the Hall. It was
presented to the College by Miss Arundale, a descendant of the painter.
The smaller Combination Room contains many engraved portraits of
distinguished members of the College.

The institution of the Combination Room seems gradually to have grown up
in colleges as a place where the Fellows might meet together, partly
about business, partly for the sake of society. In early times, as the
Fellows shared their chambers with their pupils, there could have been
no privacy. The room seems to have been called the Parlour for some
time; the name Combination Room is now universal at Cambridge, and may
have arisen from the fact that the cost of running the room was met by
the Fellows combining together for the purpose. At the present time the
Combination Room is used for College meetings, as a room where the
Fellows meet for a short time after dinner and for dessert on those
nights when there is a dinner in Hall to which guests are invited.

_The Library._

The Library is only open to visitors by leave of the Librarian, or to
those accompanied by a Fellow of the College. The usual access is by
staircase E in the Second Court, but leaving the Combination Room by the
west door we find ourselves in front of the Library door. The visitor
may note that the moulded ceiling of the Combination Room extends
overhead. This portion, as we have already seen, originally forming part
of the long gallery.

The door of the Library is surmounted by the arms of John Williams,
impaled with those of the see of Lincoln. The original position of the
Library, as has been already stated, was in the First Court, next the
street, and to the south of the entrance gate. In 1616 the books were
moved out of this Library to a room over the Kitchen, and in the
succeeding year the Master and Fellows wrote to the Countess of
Shrewsbury to intimate their intention of building a Library, and
hinting at the possibility of her aid in the scheme. The answer of the
Countess, if there was one, has not been preserved. In the year 1623,
Valentine Carey, Bishop of Exeter, and a former Fellow, wrote announcing
that an unnamed person had promised L1200 towards a Library. After some
little time Lord Keeper Williams disclosed himself as the donor, and
some further advan