[125] See also p. 86 footnote.
[126] The proportion of priests among the fellows (i.e. scholars on the foundation) was to be 6 in 30, 4 in 20, 2 in 12. See also pp. 152 and 153.
[127] Cf. King’s Hall, p. 132.
[128] The xv c. library at Pembroke was over the hall; the older library of the same date at Peterhouse was next the hall.
[129] The earliest of these features appears at Pembroke, which had a treasury. For the combination room see p. 135 and iv. p. 214. For the gateway, p. 140. For students’ studies, iv. p. 232 n.
[130] Cf. Peterhouse p. 56. The Christian church evolved in Rome no doubt originated in the domestic aula, the basilica, of a great private house, and was surrounded by those dwelling-rooms which constituted the first titulus or domus ecclesiae. So at Cambridge we have a domus collegii, and domus vel aula scholarium sancti Michaelis or Clarae.
[131] After the founder’s death two rectors were to exercise complete jurisdiction, one of these was to be a secular graduate but the other is to be a Franciscan. Moreover the fellows of the college were “to give their best counsel and aid” to the abbess and sisters of Denney abbey who had from the founder “a common origin with them.” For Denney, see i. p. 25, 25 n.
[132] Notabile et insigne et quam pretiosum collegium quod inter omnia loca universitatis ... mirabiliter splendet et semper resplenduit.
[133] Spenser entered as a sizar.
[134] Gray left Peterhouse on account of some horseplay on the part of its students who raised a cry of fire which brought him out of bed and down from his window overlooking Little S. Mary’s church in an escape which his dread of fire had induced him to contrive. Of his treatment at Pembroke he writes that it was such as might have been extended to “Mary de Valence in person.”