 The English Civil War " all but destroyed the corporate life of the college . " Mansell was removed from his position as principal and Michael Roberts was installed . After the Restoration , Mansell was briefly reinstated as principal , before resigning in favour of Leoline Jenkins . It was Jenkins ( principal 1661 – 73 ) who secured the long @-@ term viability of the college . On his death , in 1685 , he bequeathed a large complex of estates , acquired largely by lawyer friends from the over @-@ mortgaged landowners of the Restoration period . These estates allowed the college 's sixteen fellowships and scholarships to be filled for the first time – officially , sixteen of each had been supported since 1622 , but the college 's income was too small to keep all occupied simultaneously . In 1713 , the bequest of Welsh clergyman and former student Edmund Meyricke established a number of scholarships for students from north Wales . 
