"To London hence, to Cambridge thence, With thanks to thee, O Trinity! That to thy hall, so passing all, I got at last. There joy I felt, there trim I dwelt, Then heaven from hell I shifted well With learned men, a number then, The time I past. When gains were gone and years grew on, And Death did cry, from London fly, In Cambridge then I found again A resting plot: In College best of all the rest, With thanks to thee, O Trinity! Through thee and thine for me and mine, Some stay I got!" --THOMAS TUSSER. The Foundation of Trinity Hall by Bishop Bateman of Norwich--On the Site of the Hostel of Student-Monks of Ely--Prior Crauden--Evidence of the Ely Obedientary Rolls--The College Buildings--The Old Hall--S. Edward's Church used as College Chapel--Hugh Latimer's Sermon on a Pack of Cards--Harvey Goodwin--Frederick Maurice--The Hall--The Library--Its ancient Bookcases--The Foundation of S. Catherine's Hall. Thus sang Thomas Tusser--the author of "Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry united to as many of Good Housewifery"--of Trinity Hall and his residence there about the year 1542. And the words of the homely old rhymer--the most fluent versifier, I suppose, among farmers since Virgil, wise in his advice to others, most unlucky in the application of his own maxims--have been echoed in spirit by many generations of "Hall" men from his time onwards. And indeed there is hardly perhaps another College in Cambridge which stirs the hearts of its members with a more passionate enthusiasm of loyalty than this, which yet never speaks of itself as a "College," but always proudly as "The Hall." It was founded by William Bateman, Bishop of Norwich, in 1350, but it had an earlier origin than this. On the southern part of the present site there stood an old house, which had been provided some thirty years earlier for the use of the student-monks of Ely attending the University by the then Prior. This was John of Crauden, Prior of Ely from 1321 to 1341, a man of noble personal character, a model administrator of the great possessions of his abbey, a patron of art and learning, the friend on the one hand of Queen Philippa, and on the other of the greatest cathedral builder of the fourteenth century, Alan de Walsingham. The portrait bust of him, which may still be seen carved at the end of one of the hood moulds of the great octagon arches in the Minster, shows a strong, handsome face, dignified, benignant, pleasant; a full, frank, eloquent eye; a mouth intelligent and firm, and yet with a merry smile lurking unmistakably in its corner; altogether such a man as we may well feel might not only rightly be Queen Philippa's friend, as the chronicler says, "propter amabilem et graciosam ipsius affabilitatem et eloquentiam,"[59] but one also who one might expect to find anxious to maintain among his convent brothers the Benedictine ideal of knowledge and learning.