[66]. Nichols’s Progresses, p. 45.
[67]. Wilson’s Reign of James I., p. 63.
[68]. Lord Audley is said to have given this College the name of Magdalen, or rather Maudleyn, in allusion to his own name, adding one letter at the beginning and at the end. M AUDLEY N. See Nichols’s Progresses, p. 45, note.
[69]. Brydge’s Peers of England, p. 260.
[70]. Coke’s Detention, p. 82.
[71]. Nichols’s Progress of James I., vol. iii., p. 70.
[72]. Sir Walter Mildmay, the founder of Emmanuel College, being at the Court of Queen Elizabeth, she said to him:—“Sir Walter, I hear you have erected a Puritan Foundation.” “No, madam,” he replied; “far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws; but I have set an acorn, and when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.”—Fuller’s History of Cambridge, p. 147.
[73]. Nichols’s Progresses, vol. iii., p. 67.
[74]. A list of the dramatis personæ in the play of “Ignoramus” is preserved in Emmanuel College; it was once in the possession of Archbishop Sancroft; and an elaborate edition of the play, with valuable notes, has been printed by T.S. Hawkins.
[75]. Nichols’s Progresses of James I., vol iii., p. 50.