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[243] Bull of Sixtus IV. 1481. The bull recites that in the time
of William Bishop of Norwich the Norwich Benedictines had been
accustomed to lodge at Gonville and Trinity Hall where Bateman had
made convenient arrangements for them. When the pope proceeds to say
that Benedict XI. had required all Benedictines who wished to study
in Cambridge to live _in certo alio collegio dictae universitatis_,
“deputed ad hoc,” he is mistaking the authorisation of Monks’ hostel
50 years before for the papal Constitution of 150 years before, as
he mistakes Benedict XI. for Benedict XII. The suggestion that he
refers to University Hall (the _hospicium universitatis_) is certainly
erroneous: the words above quoted simply mean “in the said university”
and not “the college called university college“: there was no such
house for monks in Cambridge between 1347 and 1428, when “the college
deputed in the said university ad hoc“--Monks’ College--was founded.
Benedict’s Constitution does not specify whether the religious are to
dwell in common, or not.
[244] Cf. Magdalene, p. 127.
[245] v. p. 286. Cudworth was afterwards Master of Clare, then of
Christ’s; Whichcote became Provost of King’s.
[246] p. 126.
[247] The spot is marked by the black tombstone in the present
farmyard, half way between Cambridge and Ely.
[248] At her own request made to Louis XI. The tomb was destroyed
during the Revolution.
[249] The seat of the Bedfordshire Beauchamps, her mother’s family.
[250] A headless skeleton found, before the middle of last century,
near the spot where tradition says that Henry Duke of Buckingham
suffered, is presumed to be that of the duke, of whose burial there is
no other record. Hatcher’s _History of Salisbury_, 1843.
[251] Elizabeth Clare was heir to her brother who fell at Bannockburn:
Marie Chatillon was widow of Valence Earl of Pembroke who fell in the
wars against Bruce. The only Scotch benefactor was Malcolm the Maiden
who endowed the nunnery of S. Rhadegund; but this was before colleges
were built.
[252] “_Ex omni dioecesi et qualibet parte hujus regni nostri Angliae,
tam ex Wallia quam ex Hibernia._” There were, however, Scotchmen at
Cambridge in the xiv c., i. p. 37.
[253] To this day Pembroke fellowships are open to men “of any
nation and any county,” whereas at other colleges (as e.g. Corpus)
the restriction is to “any subjects of the king, wherever born.” Cf.
Jebb’s “_Bentley_,” p. 92.
[254] See divinity, canon and civil law, medicine, arts, and grammar
in the next chapter, pp. 164-7.
[255] To these must be added: insurance, rates, and taxes, repairs,
legal expenses, printing, and stationery, gifts made by the
university, and the _honorarium_ paid to the university preacher.
[256] Fuller.
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