Editing Lincoln College, Oxford (section)

==Traditions==

===Grace===
The college grace is read aloud at every [[formal hall]], usually by a student. To encourage readers, students who read the grace twice in a term receive a bottle of wine. The college grace is in Latin.<ref name=Grace/>{{refn|{{lang|la|Benignissime Pater, qui providentia tua regis, liberalitate pascis et benedictione conservas omnia quae creaveris, benedicas nobis, te quaesumus, et hisce creaturis in usum nostrum, ut illae sanctificatae sint et nobis salutares, et nos, inde corroborati, magis apti reddamur ad omnia opera bona; in laudem tui nominis aeterni, per Iesum Christum Dominum nostrum, Amen.}} (Translation: "Most gracious Father, who by thy providence rulest, in thy generosity feedest, and by thy blessing preservest all that thou hast created; bless us, we beseech thee, and these creatures for our use, so that they may be hallowed and of benefit to us, and we, strengthened thereby, may be rendered fitter for all good works; to the praise of thy eternal name, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.")<ref name=Grace>''The Lincoln College Grace'', from the Office of the Butler, Lincoln College</ref>|group=n}}

===Coat of arms===
[[File:Lincoln College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg|thumb|upright|The College Coat of Arms]]
The college arms incorporate (1) the arms of Bishop Richard Fleming, the founder; (2) the arms of the [[Diocese of Lincoln|See of Lincoln]]; (3) the arms of Bishop Thomas Rotherham, the second founder.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

The [[blazon]] (description in formal heraldic terms) is: ''Tierced per pale, Barry of six argent and azure, in chief three lozenges gules, on the second bar of an argent a mullet pierced sable; Argent, thereon an escutcheon of Gules two lions passant guardant or, on a chief azure the Blessed Virgin Mary ducally crowned seated on a throne issuant from the chief, on her dexter arm the infant Jesus and holding in her sinister hand a sceptre, all gold: the escutcheon ensigned with a mitre azure garnished and stringed or; Vert, three stags statant two and one or.''