[245] v. p. 286. Cudworth was afterwards Master of Clare, then of Christ’s; Whichcote became Provost of King’s.
[246] p. 126.
[247] The spot is marked by the black tombstone in the present farmyard, half way between Cambridge and Ely.
[248] At her own request made to Louis XI. The tomb was destroyed during the Revolution.
[249] The seat of the Bedfordshire Beauchamps, her mother’s family.
[250] A headless skeleton found, before the middle of last century, near the spot where tradition says that Henry Duke of Buckingham suffered, is presumed to be that of the duke, of whose burial there is no other record. Hatcher’s History of Salisbury, 1843.
[251] Elizabeth Clare was heir to her brother who fell at Bannockburn: Marie Chatillon was widow of Valence Earl of Pembroke who fell in the wars against Bruce. The only Scotch benefactor was Malcolm the Maiden who endowed the nunnery of S. Rhadegund; but this was before colleges were built.
[252] “Ex omni dioecesi et qualibet parte hujus regni nostri Angliae, tam ex Wallia quam ex Hibernia.” There were, however, Scotchmen at Cambridge in the xiv c., i. p. 37.
[253] To this day Pembroke fellowships are open to men “of any nation and any county,” whereas at other colleges (as e.g. Corpus) the restriction is to “any subjects of the king, wherever born.” Cf. Jebb’s “Bentley,” p. 92.
[254] See divinity, canon and civil law, medicine, arts, and grammar in the next chapter, pp. 164-7.