[189] Cf. with the dimensions of Corpus old court which was considerably larger (220 by 140), of the proposed quadrangle at King’s p. 102 n., and with the frontage of some of the hostels p. 50.
[190] Haddon Hall in Derbyshire; the first owners of which were those Peverels (”of the Peak”) who figure in Cambridge history at the time of the Conquest (i. p. 17). The house passed to the Bassetts, a name which was also well known in the university; and from there—so the old story runs—Dorothy Vernon, a daughter of the last owners of the manor, ran away with Sir John the first Lord Manners.
[191] For the marriage of a xvi c. President of Queens’, see iv. pp. 209, 212.
[192] Pearson was educated here, then at King’s of which he became fellow, and was Master of Jesus and, in 1662, of Trinity.
[193] See Bernard’s hostel p. 109.
[194] Margaret had however called it “the quenes collage of sainte Margarete and S. Bernard.” In her petition for a charter she tells the king: “in the whiche vniuersitie is no college founded by eny quene of Englond hidertoward.” The statutes were drawn up by Millington first Provost of King’s, and others.
[195] Accounts of King’s Hall. Here, too, the king was to have been lodged for the parliament of 1447.
[196] Henry VII. was on his way to the same celebrated shrine when he came to Cambridge in 1506.
[197] He was at S. John’s Oxford, which he left without his degree.
[198] “Hall of S. Katerine,” the only foundation since King’s College founded as a hall not a college.