Dissolution of the Monasteries--Schemes for Collegiate Spoliation checked by Henry VIII.--Monks' or Buckingham College--Refounded by Sir Thomas Audley as Magdalene College--Conversion of the old buildings--The Pepysian Library--Foundation of Trinity College--Michaelhouse and the King's Hall--King Edward's Gate--The Queen's Gate--The Great Gate--Dr. Thomas Neville--The Great Court--The Hall--Neville's Court--New Court--Dr. Bentley--"A House of all Kinds of Good Letters." CHAPTER XII ANCIENT AND PROTESTANT FOUNDATIONS 265 Queen Elizabeth and the Founder of Emmanuel--The Puritan Age--Sir Walter Mildmay--The Building of Emmanuel--The Tenure of Fellowships--Puritan Worthies--The Founder of Harvard--Lady Frances Sidney--The Sidney College Charter--The Buildings--The Chapel and the old Franciscan Refectory--Royalists and Puritans--Oliver Cromwell--Thomas Fuller---A Child's Prayer for his Mother. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS _TINTED LITHOGRAPHS_ ORIEL WINDOWS, QUEENS' COLLEGE _Frontispiece_ THE SCHOOL OF PYTHAGORAS _facing page_ 28 PETERHOUSE " 82 CLARE COLLEGE AND BRIDGE " 96 PEMBROKE COLLEGE " 106 GATE OF HONOUR AND GATE OF VIRTUE, CAIUS COLLEGE " 112 THE CHURCHES OF S. EDWARD AND S. MARY THE GREAT FROM PEAS HILL " 123 CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE AND S. BENEDICT'S CHURCH " 128 THE PITT PRESS, S. BOTOLPH'S CHURCH, AND CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE " 132 THE WEST DOORWAY, KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL " 144 GATEWAY TO OLD COURT OF KING'S COLLEGE " 153 THE CHAPEL, TRINITY HALL " 174 ORIEL WINDOW, JESUS COLLEGE " 178 GATEWAY IN GREAT COURT, S. CATHERINE'S COLLEGE " 180 THE CHAPEL, CHRIST'S COLLEGE " 214 GATEWAY, S. JOHN'S COLLEGE " 230 ORIEL IN LIBRARY, S. JOHN'S COLLEGE " 236 TOWER AND TURRETS OF TRINITY FROM S. JOHN'S COLLEGE " 243 THE LIBRARY, CHAPEL, AND HALL, MAGDALENE COLLEGE " 248 GATEWAY AND DIAL, TRINITY COLLEGE " 254 NEVILLE'S COURT, TRINITY COLLEGE " 260 HALL AND CHAPEL, EMMANUEL COLLEGE " 266 DOWNING COLLEGE " 274 THE GARDEN FRONT, SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE " 278 _BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS_ PAGE COURTYARD OF THE FALCON INN 25