During the first hundred years of the life of the College its members were called simply _University Scholars_, and the ordinance of A.D. 1311, that they should call themselves _the Scholars of William of Durham_, proves that that was not the name in common vogue. Their old house at the corner of what is to-day Brazen-nose College was called the _Aula Universitatis in Vico Scholarum_ (the Hall of the University in School Street). After 1343, the probable year of their migration, until at least 1361, the College was called as before _Aula Universitatis_, only _in Alto Vico_, i. e. in High Street. After 1361 they assumed the official title of _Master and Fellows of the Hall of William of Durham_, commonly called _Aula Universitatis_. It was not till 1381 that the present title _Magna Aula Universitatis_, or Mickle University Hall, was used, in distinction from the _Little University Hall_, which was only separated from it by Ludlow Hall. But the nomenclature was not uniform, and in Elizabeth’s reign, as in Richard II.’s, it was called _the College of William of Durham_. The legend of the foundation of the College by King Alfred has been mentioned, and here is a convenient place to conjecture how and when it arose. The first mention of it we meet with in a petition addressed in French to King Richard II., A.D. 1381, by his “poor Orators, the Master and Scholars of your College, called Mickil University Hall in Oxendford, which College was first founded by your noble Progenitor, King Alfred (whom God assoyle), for the maintenance of twenty-four Divines for ever.” Twenty years before, in 1360, Laurence Radeford, a Fellow, had bought for the College various messuages, shops, lands and meadows yielding rents of the yearly value of £15. This purchase was made out of the residuum of William of Durham’s money, now all called in. But it turned out that the title to the new property was bad, and, after forging various deeds without success, the College appealed in the above petition to the king, Richard II., to exercise his prerogative, and take the case out of the common courts, in which--so runs the petition--the plaintiff, Edmond Frauncis, citizen of London, “has procured all the Pannel of the Inquest to be taken by Gifts and Treats.”