[48] It is supposed that monks from Denney and Tyltey came here to study. The former was in fact a cell to Ely abbey before Marie de Chatillon transferred the Franciscans of Waterbeach thither. The two ‘nuns of the Order of S. Clare’ who were friends of Erasmus at Cambridge were probably inmates of Denney. In _Rot. Hund._ two other communities are recorded: the _moniales de Pato_, of whom we know nothing--there is a _Paston_ in Norfolk and another in Northants.; and ‘the monks of the Holy Trinity at Cambridge’ who are mentioned in the Oxford Hundred Rolls of the 7th year of Edw. I.: the name affords another instance of the antiquity and popularity of this dedication to the Trinity, which we find at Michaelhouse, Trinity Hall, Trinity church, and in the guild of the Trinity at Cambridge. [49] p. 127. [50] Fuller. [51] For later monastic influences in Cambridge, see ii. pp. 127-9, Magdalene College. [52] Pembroke College p. 69. For Scrope see ii. 94, v. 295; for Thorpe ii. 75, 96, v. 295. [53] _ ...in statutis universitatis ejusdem ... familia scholarium ... immunitate et libertate gaudeant qua et scholares, ut coram archidiacono non respondeant...._ (Balsham’s Judgment A.D. 1275/6). The _Statuta Antiqua_, the old body of statutes of the university, have for the most part no chronological arrangement, and the date cannot in some cases be determined to within a century. The earliest ‘grace’ to which a date is attached belongs to the year 1359, but there is another referable to the year 1275/6. The latest, reduced to chronological order, is of the year 1506. The _Statuta Antiqua_ were replaced in the 12th year of Elizabeth by a fresh body of statutes, and these again by the statutes of Victoria, 1882. The former are printed in Dyer’s _Privileges of the University_. [54] Simon Montacute (1337-1345) ceded the right of the bishops of Ely to the presentation of fellowships in their own college of Peterhouse. Cf. also iv. pp. 203-4. [55] Dated February 20, 624; and 689. Martin’s bull recognises their authority. Copies exist in the Cambridge Registry, Nos. 107 and 114 in the catalogue. [56] “_Si quis de ordine sacerdotium in monasterio suscipi rogaverit, non quidem citius ei assentiatur._“--_Regula S. P. Benedicti, caput lx._ [57] See, chap, ii., Michaelhouse, Corpus, Gonville, and Trinity Hall. [58] A chartered corporation and a university in the sense of a _studium generale_ possessing European privileges. Cambridge was a _universitas_ many years before this, and was so familiarly styled by Henry III. in 1231.