Mr Whiston would raise Fenn’s estimate of £100 to £200. He says that the rent of land in Kent in 1540 was a shilling or eighteenpence an acre,--see _Valor Ecclesiasticus_,--and that the tithes and glebes of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester, which were worth about £480 a-year in 1542, are now worth £19,000. The remaining Oxford letter in the Paston volumes seems to allude to the students bearing part of the expenses of the degree, or the feast at it, of a person related to royal family. “I supposed, when that I sent my letter to my brother John, that the Queen’s brother should have proceeded at Midsummer, and therefore I beseeched her to send me some money, _for it will be some cost to me_, but not much.” The first school at Cambridge is said to have been founded by Edward the Elder, the son of Alfred, but on no good authority. In 1223 the term _University_ was applied to the place. The dates of the foundations of its Colleges, as given in its Calendar, are: St Peter’s 1257 (date of charter, 1264) Clare Hall 1326 Pembroke 1347 Caius 1349 Trinity Hall 1350 Corpus Christi 1351 King’s 1441 Queen’s 1446 (refounded 1465) St Catherine’s Hall 1473 Jesus 1496 Christ’s 1505 St John’s 1511 Magdalene 1519 Trinity 1546 Emmanuel 1584 Sidney 1598 Downing 1800 [Headnote: FEW NOBLEMEN AT CAMBRIDGE.] Lord Henry Brandon, son of the Duke of Suffolk, died of the sweating sickness then prevalent in the University, on the 16th July, 1551, while a student of Cambridge. His brother, Lord Charles Brandon, died on the same day. Their removal to Buckden was too late to save them (_Ath. Cant._, i. 105, 541). Of them Ascham says, ‘two noble Primeroses of Nobilitie, the yong Duke of Suffolke and Lord _H. Matrevers_ were soch two examples to the Courte for learnyng, as our tyme may rather wishe, than look for agayne.’--_Scholemaster_, ed. Mayor, p. 62. Besides these two young noblemen, the first 104 pages of Cooper’s _Athenæ Cantabrigienses_ disclose only one other, Lord Derby’s son, and the following names of sons of knights:[44] CAMBRIDGE MEN. 1443 Thomas Rotherham, Fellow of King’s, son of Sir Thomas Rotherham, knight, and Alice his wife. 1494 Reginald Bray, high-steward of the university of Oxford, son of Sir Richard Bray, knight, and the lady Joan his second wife. 1502 Humphrey Fitzwilliam, of Pembroke Hall, Vice-Chancellor, _appears_ to have been the son of Sir Richard Fitzwilliam of Ecclesfield, and Elizabeth his wife. ab. 1468 Richard Redman, son of Sir Richard Redman and Elizabeth [Aldburgh] his wife; made Bp. of St Asaph.