[116] See royal visits, p. 113.
[117] See Mill Street, pp. 96-7 n.
[118] She was daughter of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford by Joan daughter of Edward I. Her brother and co-heir fell at Bannockburn 1314. Like Lady Margaret she was three times married, first to John de Burgh son and heir of Richard Earl of Ulster, her third husband also being an Irishman.
Chancellor Badew was a member of the Chelmsford knightly family of that name.
[119] April 5 1340. Grant by the university of the domus universitatis to Elizabeth de Burgh Lady de Clare, in consideration of her gift of the advowson of Litlyngton. See Caius p. 144 n.
[120] Peterhouse, Michaelhouse, Clare House—the earliest name for a Cambridge college; Corpus also was incorporated as the Domus Scholarium Corporis Christi, etc. King’s Hall is the first to be so styled and is followed by Pembroke Hall. In 1440 we have King’s College. Peterhouse and Trinity Hall are now the only colleges which retain the older style, although Clare itself was called Clare Hall until 1856.
[121] Cf. p. 109 n.
[122] “Soler,” apparently used for a loggia or balcony. East Anglian belfries were called bell-solers. Cf. solarium for an upper chamber, and nei solai (Ital.) for “in the garrets.” In early Cambridge college nomenclature solar was an upstairs, celar (cellar) a downstairs room.
[123] Simon Montacute, 17th Bishop of Ely, re-wrote the statutes of Peterhouse, 1338-44.
[124] Cf. Merton’s “Oxoniae, vel alibi ubi studium vigere contigerit” (1264), and the words in Alan Bassett’s bequest for monastic scholars at Oxford or elsewhere ubi studium fuerit universitatis (1233).