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The College is said to be haunted by a number of ghosts.

Most famous, and feared, is the terrifying apparition of Henry Butts, hero of the plague of 1630, who hanged himself with his garters in the then Master's Lodge on Easter Sunday, 1632.

Butts ' ghost was subject to an attempted ( and purportedly unsuccessful ) exorcism by three students in 1904.

The last sighting of Butts was in 1967 as a half length figure of a man in the passage between New Court and Old Court.