DULWICH, (Surrey) on the b. of Kent, 5 m. from London, is noted for the medicinal waters in its neighbourhood, called
Sydenham-Wells, much resorted to in the purging season; but much more for that, called The College of God's Gift, founded
in 1619 by Will. Allen; who, being a principal actor in many of Shakespeare's plays, and personating the devil in one of
them (who is said to have appeared in propria persona) was so affrighted, that he vowed to erect this hos. which he
founded for a master and warden (who were to be always an Allen) 4 fellows (of whom 3 were to be divines, and the 4th an
organist) 6 poor men, as many poor women, and 12 poor boys, therein to be educated by one of the fellows as schoolmaster,
and by another as usher. In his original endowment he excluded all future benefactions to it, and constituted for visitors
the Ch. wardens of St. Giles's Cripplegate, St. Saviours's Southwark, and St. Botolph's Bishopsgate; who, upon occasion,
were to appeal to the Abp. of Canterbury, before whom, all the members at their admission were to be sworn, A chapel bel.
to it, in which the founder himself, who was several years master of his college, lies buried.