[235] Removed to its present position by Nevile in 1600; see p. 132.
[236] p. 102 n.
[237] See p. 133.
[238] Willis and Clark.
[239] iii. p. 179.
[240] iii. p. 174.
[241] iii. p. 180.
[242] Closed courts, however, continued to be built at Oxford; a late instance being the second court of S. John’s built by Laud so that his college should not be outshone by its Cambridge namesake.
[243] Bull of Sixtus IV. 1481. The bull recites that in the time of William Bishop of Norwich the Norwich Benedictines had been accustomed to lodge at Gonville and Trinity Hall where Bateman had made convenient arrangements for them. When the pope proceeds to say that Benedict XI. had required all Benedictines who wished to study in Cambridge to live in certo alio collegio dictae universitatis, “deputed ad hoc,” he is mistaking the authorisation of Monks’ hostel 50 years before for the papal Constitution of 150 years before, as he mistakes Benedict XI. for Benedict XII. The suggestion that he refers to University Hall (the hospicium universitatis) is certainly erroneous: the words above quoted simply mean “in the said university” and not “the college called university college“: there was no such house for monks in Cambridge between 1347 and 1428, when “the college deputed in the said university ad hoc“—Monks’ College—was founded. Benedict’s Constitution does not specify whether the religious are to dwell in common, or not.
[244] Cf. Magdalene, p. 127.