OF THE COLLEGES IN CAMBRIDGE WITH THEIR FOUNDERS.
| Yeares of the foundations. | Colleges. | Founders. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1546 | 1 Trinitie college. | King Henrie 8. | |
| 1441 | 2 The kings college. | K. Henrie 6. Edward 4. Henrie 7. and Henrie 8. | |
| 1511 | 3 S. Iohns. | L. Margaret grandmother to Henrie 8. | |
| 1505 | 4 Christes college. | K. Henrie 6. and the ladie Margaret aforesaid. | |
| 1446 | 5 The queenes college. | Ladie Margaret wife to king Henrie 6. | |
| 1496 | 6 Iesus college. | Iohn Alcocke bishop of Elie. | |
| 1342 | 7 Bennet college. | The brethren of a popish guild called Corporis Christi. | |
| 1343 | 8 Pembroke hall. | by | Maria de Valentia, countesse of Pembroke. |
| 1256 | 9 Peter college. | Hugh Balsham bishop of Elie. | |
| 1348 | 10 Gundeuill and | Edmund Gundeuill parson of Terrington, | |
| 1557 | Caius college. | and Iohn Caius doctor of physicke. | |
| 1354 | 11 Trinitie hall. | William Bateman bishop of Norwich. | |
| 1326 | 12 Clare hall. | Richard Badow chancellor of Cambridge. | |
| 1459 | 13 Catharine hall. | Robert Woodlarke doctor of diuinitie. | |
| 1519 | 14 Magdalen college. | Edw. duke of Buckingham, & Thom. lord Awdlie. | |
| 1585 | 15 Emanuell college. | Sir Water Mildmaie, &c. |
OF COLLEGES IN OXFORD.
| Yeares | Colleges. | Founders. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1539 | 1 Christes church. | King Henrie 8. | |
| 1459 | 2 Magdalen college. | He founded also a good part of Eaton college, and a frée schole at Wainflet where he was borne.
William Wainflet first fellow of Merton college, then scholer at Winchester, and afterward bishop there. | |
| 1375 | 3 New college. | William Wickham bishop of Winchester. | |
| 1276 | 4 Merton college. | Walter Merton bishop of Rochester. | |
| 1437 | 5 All soules college. | Henrie Chicheleie archbishop of Canturburie. | |
| 1516 | 6 Corpus Christi college. | Richard Fox bishop of Winchester | |
| 1430 | 7 Lincolne college. | Richard Fleming bishop of Lincolne. | |
| 1323 | 8 Auriell college. | Adam Browne almoner to Edward 2. | |
| 1340 | 9 The queenes college. | by | R. Eglesfeld chapleine to Philip queene of England, wife to Edward 3. |
| 1263 | 10 Balioll college. | Iohn Balioll king of Scotland. | |
| 1557 | 11 S. Iohns. | Sir Thomas White knight. | |
| 1556 | 12 Trinitie college. | Sir Thomas Pope knight. | |
| 1316 | 13 Excester college. | Walter Stapleton bishop of Excester. | |
| 1513 | 14 Brasen nose. | William Smith bishop of Lincolne. | |
| 873 | 15 Vniuersitie college. | William archdeacon of Duresme. | |
| 16 Glocester college. | Iohn Gifford who made it a cell for thirteene moonks. | ||
| 17 S. Marie college. | |||
| 18 Iesus college now in hand. | Hugh ap Rice doctor of the ciuill law. |
There are also in Oxford certeine hostels or hals, which may rightwell be called by the names of colleges, if it were not that there is more libertie in them, than is to be séen in the other. In mine opinion the liuers in these are verie like to those that are of Ins in the chancerie, their names also are these so farre as I now remember.
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Brodegates. Hart hall. Magdalen hall. Alburne hall. Postminster hall. |
S. Marie hall. White hall. New In. Edmond hall. |
The students also that remaine in them, are called hostelers or halliers. Hereof it came of late to passe, that the right reuerend father in God Thomas late archbishop of Canturburie being brought vp in such an house at Cambridge, was of the ignorant sort of Londoners called an hosteler, supposing that he had serued with some inholder in the stable, and therfore in despite diuerse hanged vp bottles of haie at his gate, when he began to preach the gospell, whereas in déed he was a gentleman borne of an ancient house & in the end a faithfull witnesse of Iesus Christ, in whose quarrell he refused not to shed his bloud and yéeld vp his life vnto the furie of his aduersaries.
Besides these there is mention and record of diuerse other hals or hostels, that haue béene there in times past, as Beefe hall, Mutton hall, &c: whose ruines yet appéere: so that if antiquitie be to be iudged by the shew of ancient buildings, which is verie plentifull in Oxford to be séene, it should be an easie matter to conclude that Oxford is the elder vniuersitie. Therin are also manie dwelling houses of stone Erection of colleges in Oxford the overthrow of hals. yet standing, that haue béene hals for students of verie antike workemanship, beside the old wals of sundrie other, whose plots haue béene conuerted into gardens, since colleges were erected.