[307] See chap. iv. p. 225.
[308] This professorship was an expansion of the natural science lectureships founded by the great Linacre.
[309] A chair of history was endowed by Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, with £100 a year, in the reign of Charles I. It no longer exists.
[310] A list of the professorships, with date of creation and emoluments, and of the readers and lecturers, appears in the University Calendar every year.
There were no less than 7 chairs of medicine and natural science before 1851 when the tripos was created. The chairs existed, but with no scientific school to support them.
[311] In 1524 the executors of Sir Robert Rede, Lord Chief Justice, endowed tres liberae lecturae in humane letters, logic, and philosophy; and many distinguished men have been invited to deliver this annual lecture. The Hulsean lecture was founded in the xviii c.
The first exhibitions were founded in the xiii c. by Kilkenny, 9th Bishop of Ely, Balsham’s predecessor, for “2 priests studying divinity in Cambridge.”
[312] Towards the end of the xv c. we have several instances of papal degrees conferred on members of religious orders which were followed by incorporation and full membership of Cambridge university. Thus frater Steele “of Rome” was incorporated in 1492, and frater Raddyng as a doctor five years later.
[313] 1539 Eligius Ferrers, D.D.; 1544 a Venetian B.A. ad eundem; 1559, circa, a B.D.; 1615 an M.A. created B.D.; 1617 the same; 1619 an M.A.; 1635 the archdeacon of Essex M.A., is created B.D.
[314] Archbishop Sumner (1848-62) 120 degrees; Langley (1862-68) 46; Tait (1868-82) 101; Benson (1882-96) 55; Temple (1896-1903) 12.