"3º. The farther garden is not farre remote, being scarce 25 yards distant from their intended building; y^{e} nearer is on one side fenced with a high wall indeed, but y^{t} wall is fraudulently alleaged by them, and beside y^{e} purpose: for y^{t} wall y^{t} stands between their view and y^{e} garden is not much aboue 6 feet in height: and y^{t} we haue any vine or frame there to walke under is manifestly untrue."[37] However, the controversy was settled in favour of Clare-Hall by a letter from the King. A tradition has long prevailed that Clare-Hall was the College mentioned by the poet Chaucer in his "Reeve's Tale," in the lines-- "And nameliche ther was a greet collegge, Men clepen the Soler-Halle at Cantebregge." There appears, however, to be good reason for thinking that the Soler Hall was in reality Garrett Hostel, a _soler_ or sun-chamber being the equivalent of a garret. For the tradition also that Chaucer himself was a Clare man there is no authority. The College may well be satisfied with the list of authentic names of great men which give lustre to the roll of its scholars--Hugh Latimer, the reformer and fellow-martyr of Ridley; Nicholas Ferrar, the founder of the religious community of Little Gidding; Wheelock, the great Saxon and oriental scholar; Ralph Cudworth, leader of the Cambridge Platonists; Archbishop Tillotson and his pupil the philosopher, Thomas Burnett; Whiston, the translator of "Josephus"; Cole, the antiquary; Maseres, the lawyer and mathematician. The foundation of Pembroke College, like that of Clare Hall, was also due to the private sorrow of a noble lady. The poet Gray, himself a Pembroke man, in the lines of his "Installation Ode," where he commemorates the founders of the University-- "All that on Granta's fruitful plain Rich streams of royal bounty poured," speaks of this lady as "...sad Chatillon on her bridal morn, That wept her bleeding love." [Illustration: Pembroke College.] This is in allusion to the somewhat doubtful story thus told by Fuller-- "Mary de Saint Paul, daughter to Guido Castillion, Earl of S. Paul in France, third wife to Audomare de Valentia, Earl of Pembroke, maid, wife, and widow all in a day (her husband being unhappily slain at a tilting at her nuptials), sequestered herself on that sad accident from all worldly delights, bequeathed her soul to God, and her estate to pious uses, amongst which this is principal, that she founded in Cambridge the College of Mary de Valentia, commonly called Pembroke Hall." [Illustration: Pembroke College]