Engraved by J.C.Varrall, from a Drawing by H.bastineau for the Excursions through Surrey. DULWICH COLLEGE,

Contiguous to this spot, until about 80 years ago, was the usual place of execution for felons convicted in this county, as well as occasionally for criminals brought from London. On the 8th of July, 1539, (as related by Holinshed) Griffith Clarke, Vicar of Wandsworth, with his chaplain, servant, and Friar Waire, were hanged and quartered here;* probably for denying the king's supremacy.

At Peckham, which forms a large and continually increasing portion of this parish, a fair is annually kept on the 21st of August, and two following days, for which no charter exists; but the tradition is, that King John, hunting here, and killing a stag, was so pleased with his sport, that he granted this fair, to last three weeks, though now abridged to its present duration.

Dulwich, situated on the borders of Kent, is chiefly remarkable for the College founded here by Edward Alleyn, Esq. who had purchased the manor in 1606; and with it, as well as other estates, he endowed the foundation. Edward Alleyn, born in London the 1st of September, 1566, was by profession an actor, and of such celebrity, that Fuller, in his Worthies, speaks of him as the Roscius of his age, and Heywood calls him "Proteus for shapes, and Roscius for tongue." Baker says of him and Burbage, that "they were two such actors as no age must ever look to see the like;" while Ben Johnson, and others of his contemporaries, also make mention of him in the highest terms of commendation. He was proprietor of the Fortune Play-house in Whitecross Street, which he built at his sole expence, and part-proprietor with Henslow of the Bear-garden at Bankside already mentioned. Having acquired a considerable fortune, which, say the editors of the Biographia Britannica, was probably increased by marriage, he determined to devote it to some charitable foundation; and, having settled at

* Chronicles III, 947,

Dulwich, as before stated, after retiring from the stage, this College, which he lived to see completed, became the fruits of his resolution. An idle tale is told by Aubrey, of his having been terrified into his purpose, on occasion of his representing with other players a company of demons, by the sudden appearance in their circle of his satanic majesty himself. The institution, which Alleyn, "to the honour and glory of Almighty God, and in thankful remembrance of his gifts bestowed upon him," called God's Gift College, is for a master, warden, four fellows, six poor brethren, and six sisters (all of whom must be unmarried) 12 scholars, and 30 out-members. The statutes also provide, that the master and warden must be of the blood and surname of the founder; or, for want of such, of his name only. On the death of the master, the warden is always his successor, and the new warden is chosen by lot. The fellows are chosen in the same manner: the senior of whom performs divine service in the chapel; upon two others devolve the duties of master and usher: and the fourth, who is a layman, is the organist. The poor brethren and sisters must be 60 years of age at the time of their admission: if they marry, commit fornication, or adultery, they are expelled. These brethren and sisters are selected, as vacancies occur, from the 30 out-members, who must be of the parishes of St. Saviour, Southwark, St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, and St. Giles, Cripplegate, 10 from each. The 12 poor scholars must be from six to eight years of age when admitted, and the term of their education expires at that of 18; when they should either be apprenticed to some trade, or sent to the University, where, agreeably to the statutes, there ought always to be four Dulwich Scholars; but, notwithstanding the injunctions of Archbishop's Wake and Potter upon the subject, the provisions for educating boys for the University have long ceased,

The founder's endowments consisted of the manor of Dulwich, with messuages and lands in Camberwell,

Lambeth, and St. Botolph Bishopsgate, and the Fortune Theatre, in Whitecross Street. The rental of these estates for 1808, produced £3784. In 1811 the College received a valuable accession of pictures, in the entire collection of Sir Francis Bourgeois, a painter of eminence, who bequeathed them to the College, with £10,000 to keep them in due preservation, and for salaries to the necessary officers, servants, &c. These pictures, however, were not to revert to the institution until after the death of Mrs. Desenfans, wife of the eminent picture-dealer by whom they were bequeathed to Sir Francis; but the college having come to the resolution to erect a spacious building for their reception, that lady signified her intention to give them up as soon as it should be prepared for them, and added a liberal donation to the farther bequest of £2,000 by Sir Francis for the repair of the old picture-gallery, in aid of the intended work. The recent erection has the gallery on the ground floor, 144 feet long by 20 wide, divided by circular arches, and lighted from the top. At each angle are apartments for some of the sisters, with rooms for the officers and attendants who have the care of the pictures. In the centre of the west front is a mausoleum for the remains of Sir Francis Bourgeois, Mr. Desenfans, and Mrs. Desenfans, the latter of whom died in May, 1813. The statutes for the government of the institution, made by the founders, are in number 121; they descend to many minute particulars, and are altogether curious, but much too long for insertion. Nearly all the lands in this division of the parish of Camberwell, are the property of the college.

EXCURSION II.

From Guildford, through Merrow, East Horsley, Effing ham, Great Bookham, Leatherhead, Ashtead, Epsom, Ewell, Cheam, Sutton, Carshalton, and Beddington, to Croydon: returning by Purley, Godstone Green, Bletchingley, Nutfield, Ryegate, Buckland, East Betchworth, Dorking, Westcott Street, Abinger Hammer, Gomshall, Shire, and Albury Downs, to Guildford.

THE little parish of MERROW, the first we arrive at in our second excursion through this county, appears to be of considerable antiquity, though not mentioned in Domesday; as in 1433, in a return of the gentry resident in Surrey ordered by Henry VI. no less than seven are enumerated in this petty place, of whom it is farther remarkable, that no traces of property belonging to any families of their names occur in our records. On the extensive Downs to the right of Guildford, races are annually held.

The Church is considered by Mr. Manning to be more ancient than the generality of those in the county. In it are several round arches, and one has the zig-zag ornament. Several members of the Onslow family lie interred here.

WEST and EAST CLANDON, are on the left of our road. At the former is Clandon Park, the noble seat of the Earl of Onslow. East Clandon contains Hatchlands, the seat of George Holme Sumner, Esq. built by Admiral Boscawen, who died here on the 10th of January, 1761.

The peculiar neatness of the houses at EAST HORSLEY is very observable. The whole parish nearly belonging to a single proprietor, William Currie, Esq. of Horsley Place, has derived all the benefit from that circumstance, in the power of benevolence and humanity