Unique Foundation of Corpus Christi College--The Cambridge Guilds--The influence of "the Good Duke"--The Peasant Revolt--Destruction of Charters--"Perish the skill of the Clerks!"--The Black Death--Lollardism at the Universities--The Poore Priestes of Wycliffe. CHAPTER VII TWO ROYAL FOUNDATIONS 137 Henry VI--The most pitiful Character in all English History--His devotion to Learning and his Saintly Spirit--His foundation of Eton and King's College--The Building of King's College Chapel--Its architect, Reginald of Ely, the Cathedral Master-Mason--Its relation to the Ely Lady Chapel--Its stained glass Windows--Its close Foundation--Queens' College--Margaret of Anjou and Elizabeth Wydville--The buildings of Queens'--Similarity to Haddon Hall--Its most famous Resident, Erasmus--His _Novum Instrumentum_ edited within its Walls. CHAPTER VIII TWO OF THE SMALLER HALLS 173 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 Library--Its ancient Bookcases--The Foundation of S. Catherine's Hall. CHAPTER IX BISHOP ALCOCK AND THE NUNS OF S. RHADEGUND 183 The New Learning in Italy and Germany--The English "Pilgrim Scholars": Grey, Tiptoft, Linacre, Grocyn--The practical Genius of England--Bishops Rotherham, Alcock, and Fisher--Alcock, diplomatist, financier, architect--The Founder of Jesus College--He takes as his model Jesus College, Rotherham--His Object the Training of a Preaching Clergy--The Story of the Nunnery of S. Rhadegund--Its Dissolution--Conversion of the Conventual Church into a College Chapel--The Monastic Buildings, Gateway, Cloister, Chapter House--The Founder a Better Architect than an Educational Reformer--The Jesus Roll of eminent Men from Cranmer to Coleridge. CHAPTER X COLLEGES OF THE NEW LEARNING 210 The Lady Margaret Foundations--Bishop Fisher of Rochester--The Foundation of Christ's--God's House--The buildings of the new College--College Worthies--John Milton--Henry More--Charles Darwin--The Hospital of the Brethren of S. John--Death of the Lady Margaret--Foundation of S. John's College--Its buildings--The Great Gateway--The new Library--The Bridge of Sighs--The Wilderness--Wordsworth's "Prelude"--The aims of Bishop Fisher--His death. CHAPTER XI A SMALL AND A GREAT COLLEGE 246