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"To HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE REGENT!

"We His Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the "Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Ox"ford, beg leave to approach Your Royal Highness for the purpose of expressing our grateful and lasting sense of the "consideration which Your Royal Highness has given us in the eyes of Foreign Nations as well as of the British Empire, "by Your recent Visit to the University.

“The Interest which Your Royal Highness has thus mani“fested in our prosperity and honour, and the very gracious "and condescending manner in which Your Royal Highness "has been pleased to accept our humble endeavours to testify "to Your Royal Highness our devoted attachment, cannot "fail to animate us to such a discharge of our respective "duties as shall be most conducive to the Public Good; well as"sured, that we can in no other way so effectually recommend

Charles Price, D. M. Fellow of Wadham College.

The Rev. Henry Payne, D. C. L. Fellow of St. John's College.

The Rev. Peter Frye Hony, D. C. L. Fellow of All Souls' College.

The Rev. William Aldrich, M.A. Fellow of Magdalen College and Senior Proctor. The Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel, Fellow of New College and Junior Proctor.

The Rev. Francis Deacle, B. D. Fellow of Magdalen College.

The Rev. Thomas Gaisford, M. A. Student of Christ Church and Regius Pro

fessor of Greek.

The Rev. John Nelson, M. A. Fellow of Queen's College.

The Rev. James John Hudson, M. A. Fellow of Magdalen College.

"ourselves to the continuance of Your Royal Highness's Favour "and Protection.

"Given at our House of Convocation, under our Com

"mon Seal, this First Day of July, in the Year of our "Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fourteen.”

To this Address His Royal Highness was pleased to return the following most gracious Answer, after which the Delegates were admitted to the honour of kissing His Royal Highness's hand.

"The reception, which I experienced on my late Visit to the University of Oxford, was, in every respect, most gratifying

❝to me.

"I had great satisfaction in presenting to the notice of the "Illustrious Personages, who accompanied me, the venerable "establishments, for which you are distinguished. They were "not insensible to the effects of your liberal institutions, in the "orderly, yet animated, expression of public feeling, called forth "on that memorable occasion.

"To me they were peculiarly interesting, as I deeply feel "how much the best interests of the country are involved in "the success of your exertions to provide for the Church and "State, their future ornaments and support."

APPENDIX.

At a Meeting of the Chancellor, Heads of Houses, and Proctors, holden in the Delegates' Room, June 11, 1814, in consequence of His Royal Highness THE PRINCE REGENT having been graciously pleased to notify his Intention of honouring the University with a Visit, accompanied by THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA, THE KING OF PRUSSIA, and other Foreign Princes;

IT WAS ORDERED,

THAT all Members of the University, Undergraduates and Bachelors, as well as Masters of Arts, Proctors, Doctors, Heads of Houses, and Noblemen, go out to meet His Royal Highness in their proper academical habits; and that the station of those who are not included in the Procession, as well as the Procession itself, be arranged according to the plan agreed on in the year 1703.

In conformity with this plan, the Members of the University will, according to their respective gowns and seniority, range themselves at Half past Ten in the Morning of Tuesday the 14th instant, on each side of High Street, in lines extending from St. Mary's Church to the

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further extremity of Magdalen Bridge, the Seniors being nearest to the Bridge, so as to leave the centre of the street open for the Procession, and the foot-pavement for the accommodation of spectators, between whom and the line of Gownsmen Cavalry will be stationed.

The Noblemen, Heads of Houses, Doctors, Proctors, and delegated Masters, will wait upon the Chancellor at ten o'clock, at the Lodgings of the Vice-Chancellor at Exeter College, and from thence attend him to the Hall of Magdalen College, where, by permission of the President and Fellows, the persons constituting the Procession will assemble.

Upon the Prince Regent's approaching Magdalen Bridge, the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, Noblemen, Heads of Houses, Doctors, Proctors, and such Masters of Arts as are delegated for that purpose, will move forward, when the Chancellor will lay the Bedels' staves at the feet of His Royal Highness.

When the staves have been received back, the Chancellor, preceded by the Bedels, will place himself immediately before the Royal carriages; and the rest of the Procession, the Juniors being first, will move in return up High Street, those Members of the University who are not in the Procession continuing stationary, and being uncovered until the Prince Regent has passed.

It is understood, that, at the entrance of His Royal Highness within the limits of the city, the Mayor will present his Ensigns of Office in like form; and that the City procession will then move in the same order, the Juniors being first, and the Mayor taking the left of the Chancellor. Upon leaving High Street, the University Procession will move to the Divinity School; and as they successively enter the area of the Schools, the delegated Masters, the Doctors, the Heads of Houses, and Noblemen will open to right and left, so as to leave ample space for the advance of the Royal Visitors to the seats prepared for

them, to which they will be conducted by the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, and Proctors.

When the Prince Regent is seated, the Address of the University will be presented to His Royal Highness by the Chancellor, who, after having received His Royal Highness's gracious Answer, and presented the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors to His Royal Highness, will, together with them, attend His Royal Highness to his Lodgings at Christ Church; and will then receive His Royal Highness's commands for conducting him to such Colleges and Public Buildings as His Royal Highness may be pleased to visit; the Heads and principal Officers of which, being duly apprized of His Royal Highness's approach, will be in readiness to receive him.

On the morning of Wednesday the 15th, the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors will wait upon the Chancellor at eight o'clock, and proceed with him to Christ Church, to conduct His Royal Highness and his illustrious Guests to the Divinity School, at nine o'clock in the morning, where the Noblemen, Heads of Houses, and Doctors will be assembled. On entering the Theatre, the Members constituting the Procession will file off to the right and left in two ranks, in which they will stand, the Juniors nearest to the door, so as to leave a proper avenue for the Prince Regent and his illustrious Guests to move up to the chairs on the elevated part of the platform. They will then take their places according to seniority. The enclosed space in the rising semicircle is reserved for Royal Personages, and the rest of the semicircle for distinguished Foreigners, Noblemen, and Doctors; and there, no person must be admitted on any account whatever, before the entrance of the Procession. The area is reserved for Masters of Arts, and Bachelors of Law, and such strangers as are admitted by tickets. The lower galleries, in the semicircle, at the sides, and under the Orchestra, are reserved for Ladies exclusively. The upper gallery is reserved for Bachelors of Arts and Undergraduate Members of the University; and no Bachelor