The name of Walsingham occurs as that of a prior of Ely in 1353. The Walsinghams held two manors
A.D. 1344.
in Suffolk, besides land in Cambridge part of which was sold to the king for the site of King’s Hall.
A.D. 1290-1299.
There was a Ralph Walpole bishop of Ely, and subsequently of Norwich in the time of Edward I., who gave a messuage to Peterhouse as early as 1290. The Walpoles continued to figure on the roll of this college till in the xvi century the Walpole of that day fled with the Jesuit Parsons to Spain after the trial of Campian; he became vice-rector at Valladolid but was eventually martyred at York five years before the close of the century. Robert and Horace Walpole continued the Cambridge traditions of their family.
With the xiv century other names appear: the Scropes, Gonvilles, Stantons,[423] the families of Cambridge and of Croyland, Haddon,[424] Zouche,[425] and Cavendish, and last but not least Valence, and the house of Gaunt and Beaufort.
The connexion of the Scropes with Cambridge probably dates from the earlier half of the xiv century. Scropes, as we have seen, figure among the chancellors of the university in that century, and were allied not only to the Mortimers but to the Gonvilles: when therefore we find the representative of the house of Valence who is also a grandson of Roger Mortimer, and whose son married a descendant of the founder of Clare, engaged in a political intrigue with Gaunt,
A.D. 1371.
Scrope, and the Master of Pembroke in 1371, and the Scropes[426] Greys and Mortimers conspiring with
A.D. 1414.