[432] He married Anne daughter of the first Lord St. John of Bletsoe, a descendant of Margaret Beauchamp the mother of Lady Margaret.
[433] See Trinity College pp. 135, 7, 9.
[434] His ancestor Dr. Richard Sterne was one of the Masters ejected for refusing the Covenant.
[435] In the Mildmay-Ratcliffe alliance, the two Protestant foundations of the xvi c. meet. The Ratcliffes, in addition to the alliance with Sidney, intermarried with the Staffords and Stanleys.
Beside the xv c. Bynghams and Bassetts and Percies, and the xiv c. names so often recorded, it should not be forgotten that few early figures in the university are more interesting than that of Chancellor Stephen Segrave mentioned on pp. 203 and 259. Segrave was Bishop of Armagh and titular bishop of Ostia. He had been a clerk in the royal household, and was the champion of the university against the friars. It will be remembered that Nicholas Segrave—a baron of de Montfort’s parliament in 1265—had been one of those defenders of Kenilworth who held out in the isle of Ely till July 1267.
[436] Cf. pp. 203 n., 294 n.
[437] One of the Pastons married Anna Beaufort a great-granddaughter of John of Gaunt.
[438] Gray took the LL.B. on returning to the university.
[439] Morland improved the fire engine and invented the speaking trumpet—one of his trumpets is preserved in the library at Trinity. He was 10 years at Cambridge, and was assistant to Cromwell’s secretary, Thurloe.
[440] Woodward went to Cambridge when he was 30 years old.