They formed a collegium, and were one of the four great religious corporations at Rome with the pontifices, the augures, and the quindecemviri.

See also Kornemann's article "Collegium" in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encykl., and Waltzing, Corporations professionelles chez les Romains, i. p. 78 foll.

Electus in Collegium Sancti PETRI WESTMONAST.

A group of burghers obtaining a charter from the lord of the realm became a municipal corporation; a group of teachers, a collegium, became the corporation of the college or a university (a number of persons united into one association); a group of craftsman became a gild-corporation.

By R. Siemering King Frederick William I and His "Tobacco Collegium".

I AND HIS "TOBACCO COLLEGIUM" ADOLPH VON MENZEL] PRINCE.