Note 222 — XI. BRASENOSE COLLEGE. (Aula Regia et Collegium de Brasenose, Collegium Aenei Nasi.)

Odds and Ends, 1872, p. 108: F. G. Lee’s Glimpses of the Supernatural, 1872, vol. ii. p. 207. The story there told of a sudden death at a club meeting, and a simultaneous appearance in Brasenose of a fiend dragging a man out of the window through the bars, is probably a mixture of two incidents, the death of a woman who had been given brandy out of a Brasenose window on Dec. 5, 1827, and the death of the President of the H. F. Club in 1834, which closed the career of that society, between which and the Phœnix there was no connection whatever. The story has now become a commonplace of fiction, to judge by the way in which it occurs dressed up in Maltese surroundings in Blackwood’s Magazine, Feb. 1891.