[414] Cf. Tulloch, _Rational Theology in England in the xvii century_ (1872) vol. 2. p. 13, to whose able and interesting account of the movement I am very much indebted. “They sought,” writes Tulloch, “to confirm the union of philosophy and religion on the indestructible basis of reason and the essential elements of our higher humanity”: and again: “It is the glory of the Cambridge divines that they welcomed this new spirit of speculation” and “gave it frank entertainment in their halls of learning.” “Their liberalism takes a higher flight” than that of Hales and Chillingworth. [415] His _True Intellectual System of the Universe_ was published in 1678. [416] Afterwards fellow of Queens’, Hebrew lecturer and Greek praelector. [417] Whichcote’s moral and philosophical style of preaching now replaced “that doctrinal style which Puritans have curiously always considered to be more identical with the simplicity of Scriptural truth.” Tulloch. [418] The Conqueror gave him the barony of Bourne in the fen. [419] The de Vere of Matilda’s time had been her faithful adherent; Cambridgeshire was one of the ten English counties in which the Veres held lands, and they were the benefactors of the Cambridge Dominicans. [420] See also i. pp. 19, 44, ii. p. 110 _n._ and p. 296. [421] Manfield was nephew to Castle-Bernard another Cambridge landowner. [422] Dugdale, _Monasticon_ p. 1600. Stoke in the deanery of Clare was within the liberty of S. Edmund. The Augustinian hermits, as we have seen, came to Cambridge about the same time. [423] Stanton is a Cambridge place-name; other names derived from places in the district (besides of course ‘Cambridge’ and ‘Croyland’) being Walsingham, Walpole, Gaunt, Balsham, Bourne, Chatteris, Haddon, Milton, Newton, Caxton, Drayton, Brandon, Connington, Shelford; and Chancellor Haselfield (1300, 1307) probably took his name from Haslyngfield. Long Stanton was the seat of the Hattons. [424] The name appears early in the fen country as that of an abbot of Thorney--xiv c. [425] Cf. iv. p. 204. [426] 2nd son of Edmund Langley. His wife was Anne Mortimer great-granddaughter of Elizabeth de Burgh, Duchess of Clarence; the son of Hastings, who figures in the earlier conspiracy, married her granddaughter. Richard’s son was earl of Ulster and lord of Clare in right of his mother. The sons of Edw. III.--Clarence, Gaunt, Edmund Langley, and Thomas of Woodstock--were all allied to founders of Cambridge colleges (see Tables I, II, III). Scrope’s brother Stephen was chancellor of the university; see p. 94, 94 _n._ [427] “In all which time, you, and your husband Grey, were factious for the house of Lancaster.” _Richard III._ Act i. scene 3.