(5) From the Monday seven night after Easter Day to the end of Easter Term.
6. The Divinity Lecture to be read on Monday and Wednesday at 8 A.M. in Latin and on Friday in English.
7. The Divinity Lecturer to deal especially with the controversies which affect the Church of Rome.
8. The Law and Physick Lectures to be read, like the Divinity Lecture, twice in Latin and once in English.
9. The other lectures in Astronomy, Geometry, Rhetoric, and Music to be read alternately in Latin and English.
10. The Professors to wear their hoods and gowns.
11. A keeper of the House to be appointed by the Lord Mayor.
The college was intended to be a rival, in some sort, to Oxford and Cambridge. It seems never to have succeeded in attracting students. Dr. Johnson attributed its failure to the fact that the lectures were free, and that what is given is not valued. The House was pulled down in 1768 and the Excise Office took its place. The lectures were then read in a room at the Royal Exchange. In 1843 the present building was erected and the college entered upon a new course. So far, however, it does not seem to fulfil the intentions of the Founder as a great educational centre. Isaac Barrow, Robert Hooke, and Christopher Wren have been Professors in the college. The Royal Society held its meetings here for fifty years (1660-1710).
ST. PETER-LE-POER
In Broad Street at present still stands St. Peter-le-Poer, nearly opposite the Excise Office. It escaped the Great Fire, but was rebuilt in 1791 from the designs of Jesse Gibson. In 1842-44 St. Benet Finck was demolished, and its parish was united with this. The earliest date of an incumbent is 1356.