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Articles Westmoreland could be fellows. The West Country men were expelled, and for almost 500 years, every fellow of Queen’s was a native of Cumberland or Westmoreland, what became known as the Two Counties. By the 16th century a system had developed in which, though undergraduates came to Queen’s from across the country, talented boys from the Two Counties were made Taberdars on taking their BA. This gave them a small stipend – we might call it a scholarship today – which allowed them to take their MA and continue studying in the College until a fellowship became available. A map of the Wheldale estate given to the College by Lady Betty Hastings, dated 1769. Sadly, the once vibrant colours have faded over the years. The dominance of the Two Counties finally came to an end in 1858. Half a millennium after Robert de Eglesfield had issued his statutes for Queen’s many people were questioning whether running the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge by rules that had been written centuries earlier was sensible. In 1850 a Parliamentary Commission started investigating college statutes, and the fellows of Queen’s cooperated. They drew up a new Ordinance in 1858, rewriting the statutes for the first time in 517 years. A section of the Long Roll (main college accounts) for 1418-9 showing (end of first paragraph) that College had collected no income due to the devastation of the Scots: in abbreviated Latin ‘vastationem scottorum’. 94 The Queen’s College | College Record 2022
This stated that fellows were to be elected by open examination, and though the first to be elected happened to be from Cumbria, the second was not, and he was followed by JR Magrath who hailed from Guernsey, and would later be provost for 53 years. The monopoly of Cumberland and Westmoreland on the College’s fellowships was broken forever. Though the Two Counties had a stranglehold on the fellowship, the College as a whole developed a wider Northern aspect in the 18th century. In the 1720s Provost Joseph Smith persuaded Lady Betty Hastings to make a significant contribution to the College. Daughter of the earl of Huntingdon, she was a Northern lady known for her evangelical piety and charity. She was keen to establish scholarships that would support men from the North of England who would become missionaries, but Smith managed to persuade her to instead support men who would merely be ordained. So, she gave the College her manor of Wheldale, now subsumed into Castleford, which proved to be a lucky bequest when a rich seam of coal was discovered beneath the land in the 19th century. Articles The system laid down by Lady Betty for electing her scholars, odd though it seems today, reflects her character. She nominated twelve schools (eight from Yorkshire and two each from Cumberland and Westmoreland) who, every five years, could send their best pupil to the inn at Aberford, near Leeds. There they would be examined by a group of clergy who whittled their number down to ten. The Provost and a few fellows then examined the remainder and reduced them to eight. These eight best pupils then had their names put into a pot and the first five names to be drawn were elected Hastings Scholars! Lady Betty observed in her codicil that drawing lots like this ‘may be called by some superstitious’ but she preferred to believe it ‘as leaving something to Providence’. This system continued until as late as 1861. There is one more aspect to the College’s northern connections, and that is in its capacity as a landowner. On founding the College, Robert de Eglesfield gave the College his estate in Ravenwyk. Now known as Renwick, it is not far from his putative birthplace. The residential property in Renwick has been sold, but the College still owns a farm in the village and is Lord of the Manor. But owning property at the country’s extremities could be dangerous. A small estate in Bowness-on-Solway, a little to the north-west of Carlisle had been acquired in 1416, but just three years later, the accounts reveal that no income could be collected due to the ‘devastation of the Scots’. We come full circle with a gift from an Old Member, Percy Wyndham. He had come up to Queen’s in 1886 as an Eglesfield Scholar, and it may well be that association which led him in 1895, not long after going down, to purchase Moorland Close Farm in Eaglesfied, the Cumberland village from which the founder’s family presumably originated. In his will of 1947 he left it to the College, giving us another property associated with the founder. College Record 2022 | The Queen’s College 95
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