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THE ANNALS
GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE
By
JOHN CAIUS M.D.
MASTER OF THE COLLEGE
EDITED BY-
JOHN VENN Sc.D.
PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
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INTRODUCTION.
DR CAIUS has recorded. (see p. 78) that when he became
Master of his College in 1559 he found everything in a terrible
state of confusion: rents in arrear, buildings falling to pieces,
title-deeds missing, chapel-ornaments misused and purloined
by the fellows. Amongst other instances of mismanagement
there was a general neglect of the various records which ought
to have been systematically kept up. On this last point
Dr Caius, as a keen antiquary and historian, felt strongly;
and whilst taking stringent measures for the recovery of lost
property he was also careful to insist upon the punctual record,
not only of current accounts, but also of all current events of
the slightest interest to the College. No doubt the idea of
a Diary of contemporary occurrences was common in the
Monasteries, but I cannot find that it was introduced into any
other College in so formal a manner. Dr Caius expressly
enacted, in one of his Statutes, what records, in the way of
accounts and so forth, should be systematically kept. Some
of these, for instance the Bursars’ and stewards' accounts, and
the lists of “evidences, or title deeds, leases, etc., -were obviously
necessary for any corporation which possessed property, but the
Annals were peculiarly his own conception. He says, in
Statute 59:
“Volumus etiam et statuimus ut ea sociis aliquis qui quam
scitissime scribat, et optimi still sit, eligatur per custodem et
majorem sociorum partem, qui pro tempore fuerint, in Collegii
vi INTRODUCTION.
secretarium, seu registrum, in annum, biennîum aut triennîum,
prout spes melioris aut metus deterìorìs fuerit: ut sine fædatione
librorum et varietate literarum omnîa referamtur in libros quœque
suos quam pulcherrime, videlicet în rationalem rationes accepti
et ea pensi: in annales res gestæ singulo quoque anno : in
evidentiarum, volumem evidentiæ : et ín commentarium rerum,
gestarum, seu pandectas omnia promiscue usque ad tempus com-
putorum. Quo tempore omnia memorabilia secernantur, et in
suos cujusque argumenti libros, ordinis et circumstantiarum,
habita, ratione, digerantur. Tot enìm libros habeatis volumus
in comservationem rerum, omnîum : ratìonum vídelícet, annalium,
evidentiarum, et pandectarum, quœ commentarìum rerum gesta-
rum, latino nomine dicimus, præter librum, matriculationis.
Quod si quando secretarius absit et res urgeat, ita scribere
alîus încîpîat, ut utræque literæ uno ìntuitu sub aspectum non
cadant, sed discretæ sint vel pagîna, versa vel interposito folio.
Habeat vìgìnti solidos in subsídium.”
As regards most of these series of records, Dr Caius was
merely insisting on the better retention and preservation of
a system which had long been nominally in vogue, but as
regards his Annals he was breaking somewhat mew ground.
The only volume, at all resemblimg this, which had beem
produced before his time, was the so-called Evidences of
Sheriffe. Edmund Sheriffe, master of the College from 1472
to 1475, compiled a sort of Register of deeds and other
* evidences,'—whence the mame,—which we still have. On the
first page is the entry: “ Johannes Caius hunc librum vetustate
dissolutum et neglectum colligari fecit cura sua atque refici, in
vetustatis memoriam et futuri temporis exemplum, anno Domini
1564, mense Augusto.” It is a valuable book, as some of the
documents here transcribed have long since been lost, and
Dr Caius has made much use of it in his owm volume, but
it contains only what may be called legal documents, and
therefore omits all notice of those interesting events which we
expect to find in a Diary kept up from year to year.
I am afraid that on the whole these Annals will prove
rather disappointing to our readers. In the first place, far the
larger part of them is filled with what cam omly be termed legal
INTRODUCTION. vii
verbiage". Every one of the many leases, surrenders, and
licences, which had to be dealt with before Dr Caius could
Secure possession of the manors which he gave to the College,
is here transcribed in full; though of course even here there
are elements of interest. For instance, the long list of manorial
rights and customs, inherited from the former monastic pos-
sessors, mentioned in the conveyance of the Bincombe manor in
Dorset and described on pages 127, 151, is well worth perusal.
But one can soon feel satiated with the lawyers’ phraseology.
Again, most of the really interesting historical details contained
in these pages have already appeared in print elsewhere.
Professor Willis thoroughly searched the Annals for his account
of Caius College in the Architectural History of Cambridge;
and I similarly went through it, and extracted whatever seemed
of use, when writing the Biographical History of my own College
The really valuable and interesting bits in the volume consist
in large part of the personal recollections of Dr Caius himself
as to contemporary events during his life in College. These
give in many cases the only record we have as to his fellow-
students, the customs of the day, minor alterations in the
College buildings, and picturesque incidents in the life of the
past. Similar details have occasionally been added by successive
compilers after Dr Caius' time. No reader, for instance, can fail
to be touched by the account of Dr Gostlin's death in College
(p. 325), which was written by Mr Moore; or by the narrative
of the outrage which drove Dr Caius from the College (p. 185),
whether this was contributed by Dr Legge, or taken down from
the lips of Caius himself.
As to the actual MS. itself some account must now be given.
The original volume is of vellum and is preserved in our
Library. The writing is obviously that of a professional scribe,
but the personal form in which many of the details are conveyed
suggests that these were either transcribed from a MS. in Caius'
own hand, or more probably taken down from his lips. The
* I confess that if I had fully realized this, before the printing was somewhat
advanced, I should have suggested to the Committee of our Society a departure
from their usual rule of printing in full whatever they undertake to publish
at all.
viii INTRODUCTION.
writer was evidently a competent person, as there are very few
mistakes or grammatical errors to be detected. The greater
part of this volume was thus compiled for or by Dr Caius. It
was continued by his successor as master, Dr Legge, who added
the account of Caius' death, and carried on the narrative till
within a few years of his own death, viz. until 1603.
Here the statutable duty of the registrar to continue the
record was for long interrupted. The circumstances under
which it was resumed are worth mentioning. They were the
result of one of the perpetual squabbles between the fellows
and the master for the time being. A certain Mr Cooke gave
the College much trouble by, amongst other things, persisting
in holding or claiming his fellowship after the expiry of his
so-called ‘year of grace.’ When at last the College declared
his fellowship vacant, the circumstances are fully recorded in
this volume, he appealed to the king. In this appeal he
relieved his feelings of resentment by a long catalogue of
complaints against alleged neglects and misdoings on the
part of the master, Dr Branthwaite. These were fully enquired
into by the Chancellor of the University, and most of them
were dismissed as frivolous. But in one respect Cooke did the
College a service, in pointing out the neglect that had been
committed by the suspension of the College Annals. The
Chancellor recommended that they should be duly resumed,
and continued as by Statute directed.
This judgment of the Chancellor, prescribing the continuation
of the Annals, was given in 1635. But it appears that still
further delay was incurred, for it was not until May 16, 1655,
that we find an entry in the College Gesta, authorizing
Dr Bagge to undertake the work.
The College order runs as follows: “That Doctor Bagge doe
continue and endeavour to perfecte the College Annales wher
they are defective, and that he doe take out of the treasury or
other wher of the College at all times as occasion shall require
all such evidences writeings and bookes as may be usefull to
him therein, and that he take the assistance of Dr Bachcrofte
(the lately expelled master), Mr Moore and all others who may
in any particular be instrumentall to him in the carryeing on
INTRODUCTION. ix
of that businesse.” In the following year (March 1655–6), it
was “ordered that Mr Moore be desired to assiste in registring
the College evidences.”
Dr Bagge was at this time president of the College, but
was very likely already in failing health, as not long afterwards
(November 1657) he died in Norfolk. In any case the Annals
from 1603 onwards seem to be entirely the composition of
Mr Moore. No more competent person could have been
appointed. He was eminent as University Librarian, was a
careful and accurate historian, and devoted to the interests
of the College of which he had been a resident member for
more than 40 years. At the time of his appointment to the
work in question he had ceased to be a fellow, having been
practically ejected from his fellowship in 1647. But he was
still resident in Cambridge, apparently in the close neighbour-
hood of the College, and was evidently in constant communication
with the fellows. After losing his fellowship he seems to have
married. He was buried in Great St Mary's Church, April 18,
I659.
For some unknown reason this continuation of the Annals
was not carried on in the old volume. A transcript was made,
in a paper volume, of the original which Dr Caius had started,
so that Mr Moore's additions run on in the same handwriting
continuously from where Dr Legge had left off. He carried it
on to the year 1648, when it ends abruptly.
The actual writer of this paper copy was a certain Moses
Horne. He was a townsman, son of a tailor, and had been
admitted a member of the College in 1636. He did not
however graduate, and by the inscription on his tombstone
at St Mary's (scribendi felicitate clarus), where he was buried
June 18, 1656, we should suppose that he was a professional
scribe in the town. By the dates therefore it would seem that
it was during the last year of his life that he was employed on
our Annals. Perhaps he was already failing, for the writing
does not seem clear or good for a professional person, and the
standard of accuracy as regards the Latinity is not equal to that
of the former scribe.
Perhaps for lack of another Mr Cooke to make things
x INTRODUCTION.
unpleasant to the Master and the Registrar, the former neglect
and indifference soon reasserted themselves, and no Chancellor
was called in to stir the authorities up to their duties. Not a
page was added for just two centuries. It is true that the
portrait of Dr Gooch, master from 1716 to 1754, now on the
stair-case of the University Library, represents him conspicuously
holding the volume of the Annals in his hands. But one might
almost suspect a touch of sarcasm here. No one indeed in the
College was probably more familiar with their contents, for no
one was more ready than he to appeal to the past history of the
College whenever the rights and privileges of the master were
Overlooked or disputed. But it is certain that he never added
a word to their contents.
Once only in subsequent days did a master of the College
feel himself called upon to make an entry in this record, and to
most of those at the present day the circumstances of the case
will seem almost grotesque. In 1848, under the mastership of
Dr Chapman, a certain Mr Tozer, who had recently become one
of the senior fellows of the College, thought that he had detected
Some irregularities in the conduct of affairs. Accordingly he
appealed directly to Prince Albert, who had lately been appointed
Chancellor of the University, to enquire into the matter. Any
ordinary reader of these Annals, who observes that the Chan-
cellor for the time being had repeatedly been appealed to, will
be apt to suppose that there could have been no serious
irregularity in such a course. But on looking closer, and
consulting the Statutes, it seems that there was an important
distinction. The Chancellor could only be directly appealed to
on one point, viz. grave misconduct on the part of the master,
and then only by a majority of the governing body. For all
other causes the Visitorship was vested elsewhere. So Mr Tozer
was technically in the wrong, as Dr Chapman pointed out in an
elaborate letter to his Royal Highness. To those who look back
now to the state of things in the University during the pre-
Commission times, and who perceive how totally the spirit, and
often the letter, of the Statutes were neglected by general
convention and usage, it may seem that a technical breach of
this kind was only a drop more in the great ocean of disregard,
INTRODUCTION. xi
but the old master looked at the matter in a very different way.
He treated it as little less than High Treason, and summoned
a meeting of the fellows to decide what should be done.
Mr Tozer was cited to appear, was earnestly reproved for his
insubordination, and reminded that nothing but a spirit of
clemency prevented them from formally expelling him from
the College. Finally Dr Chapman reopened the long closed
volume of the Annals, and solemnly recorded on its pages an
account of the crime and its punishment. Besides the personal
and private nature of this episode, it has been considered too
much out of keeping with the rest of the volume for inclusion
here.
Some readers of these pages may remember that extracts
from these Annals have already been published, some 50 years
ago, by the first body of University Commissioners. The cir-
cumstances of this publication are so curious that a brief
account of them must be given here. That learned historian,
Robert Brady, master of the College from 1660 to 1700, and for
many years Keeper of the Archives in the Tower, was, not
unnaturally, deeply interested in the history of his own College.
He made a free translation of the earlier part of the Annals,
I have very little doubt that it is in his own handwriting, with
notes and comments of his own. Of this we have three" copies
1 They are numbered in our Catalogue 709, 617, and 617 bis. Of these,
709 is, I think, in Dr Brady’s hand : at any rate in part. No. 617 is in a
different hand, but belongs also, in all probability, to the 17th century. This
is the one which Blomefield transcribed, as shown by his initials. As to
617 bis, there is some doubt, but it seems probable that it is actually
Blomefield’s transcript. Mr Walter Rye, indeed, who is familiar with the
MSS. of all the Norfolk antiquaries, does not think that the text is in
Blomefield’s hand, though the marginal notes may be so (if this is not the case,
Blomefield's transcript must be a fourth copy, now missing). This last MS.
was given to our College by Sir John Fenn, the antiquary, some time between
1770 and 1782 (as proved by the note outside “To B. Edwards, president, from
John Fenn’’). Another note states that it was purchased at Thomas Martin’s
sale, but does not say by whom. Blomefield died in 1752; Martin in 1771; and
Ives in 1776. The probable explanation is that Ives bought it at Martin’s sale
(who, we know, came into possession of most of Blomefield’s MSS.) and
Sir J. Fenn bought it at Ives' sale, giving it soon afterwards to the president of
our College. I may take this occasion for remarking that the D. N. B. is wrong
in assigning John Ives to Caius College.
xii INTRODUCTION.
in our Library. Francis Blomefield, the Norfolk historian, as
is well known, was a very early and diligent student of the
antiquities of his own county. Hardly had he commenced
residence in our College when he found his way into our library
and began collating MSS. there. Amongst others he seems to
have transcribed Brady's version of the Annals. The copy which
he thus used is our No. 617. It has his initials on each page,
and the date is added, March 4, 1724–5. This he used for the
purpose of his subsequent History of Norfolk. After his death
his transcript came, with other of his papers, into the hands
of John Ives, a Norfolk antiquary. Ives, not very unnaturally,
supposed it to be entirely Blomefield's own composition, and
published it as such in his Select Papers in 1773. It there
appears together with some other documents, and is described
as by Blomefield; a mistake which, as far as I know, has never
been pointed out, though one would suppose that men like
John Smith, Martin Davy, and Benedict Chapman, who were
all acquainted with the history of the College of which they
were masters, must have seen it in print and recognized its
Origin.
When the first Cambridge Commission began their work,
they endeavoured to print the Statutes of the various Colleges,
together with a few other documents dealing with the ancient
history of these foundations. As is well known, they had no
slight difficulties to encounter here. Several of the Heads
of Houses absolutely refused to divulge their secrets, or to give
the slightest assistance in the way of consulting the copies
of the Statutes in their possession. So they had to do the
best they could in these cases by procuring versions of the
Statutes from other sources. Dr Chapman, master of Caius,
was one of their most resolute opponents, but they baffled him
by procuring an authorized version of our College Statutes from
Lambeth Library. To this they added what they supposed to
be “Blomefield's Annals,” reprinted from Ives' Select Papers.
Whilst the Commission was sitting, but some time before their
publication of these documents, Dr Chapman died and was
succeeded by Dr Guest, the well-known historian, who however
thought little if at all better of the Commissioners than did his
INTRODUCTION. xiii
predecessor. Both he and Dr Chapman were perfectly familiar
with Caius' volume, and, if they had seen the Commissioners'
volumes, must have instantly recognized the real origin of what
was attributed to Blomefield. Probably no hint of what they
were doing ever reached the ears of Dr Chapman. As regards
Dr Guest one can only conclude, either, that he declined to look
at the clandestine publications of the Commissioners, or that,
if he did see them, he felt a not altogether unmalicious pleasure
in perceiving the blunder into which they had fallen.
Amongst the many friends whom I have to thank for their
kind assistance, I must especially mention Professor Reid, of
our College, who has carefully revised every proof-sheet. Any
accuracy which may have been attained in correcting the
original transcriber's rendering of the crabbed Latin, and in
expanding the innumerable abbreviations, is largely due to
him. Professor Maitland has freely aided me from the stores
of his learning, wherever difficulties (insuperable to me) were
found in matters of Mediaeval Law. Mr Buckland, of our
College, the steward of our manors, has also revised many
passages dealing with Roman law and with manorial rights
and customs. Mr J. W. Clark and Mr J. E. Foster, members
of the Council of the Antiquarian Society, have also given much
assistance. The brief list of the various donations of books to
our Library is the work of Mr C. E. Sayle, member of our
Society.
ERRATUM.
p. 119, for mote 6 read Appendia.
ANNALIUM
COLLEGII DE GONVILLE ET CAIUS
A COLLEGIO CONDITO *
LIERI DUO.
Per Joannem Caium unum fundatorum et
custodem ejusdem.
Anno Domini 1563.
[p. 2]
Ammalium Collegii de Goneville
et Caius a Collegio condito liber primus.
Annales Collegii nostri de Goneville et Caius scripturi
superiorum atque etiam præsentium temporum, a primis con-
ditoribus ad extremum usque vitæ nostræ terminum (quantum
memoria, monumentis, et rerum usu constare potest), in bene-
ficorum memoriam, et maleficorum exemplum evitandum,
dividemus opusculum in duos libros, primo, quæ prima et
secunda fundatione gesta sunt referemus: secundo, quæ tertia.
Ordiemur a prima.
De prima fundatione.
Anno Domini 1347. 1347
Edwardus tertius Angliæ et Franciæ rex potentissimus,
per literas suas patentes magno sigillo Angliæ consignatas,
datasque Westmonasterii xxviii Januarii, anno regni sui
Angliæ quidem XXII Franciæ vero nono, concessit, Edmundo
C. A. S. Octavo Series. No. XL. ]
2 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANID CAIUS.
de Goneville rectori Ecclesiæ de Tyrington in comitatu Nor-
folciæ, viro bono atque pio, et hujus Collegii fundatori primo,
ut tria messuagia, sive ædificia cum horto et pertinentibus,
annui redditus viginti solidorum, posita in vico vulgo per id
tempus nominato Lurghburlane strete, latine Lurghburni vico,
in parochiis S* Benedicti et S* Botulphi in Cantabrigia, inter
Lurghburni vicum ex Oriente, et coemiterium S* Botulphi ex
occidente, in perpetuum Collegium viginti scholarium con-
verteret &ac stabiliret, utque quod vellet momen eidem im-
poneret.
1348
Qua authoritate fultus Edmundus, in honorem annuncia-
tionis beatæ Mariæ Virginis, tria illa ædificia cum horto
adjacente ac cæteris pertinentibus, per chartam suam datam
apud Tyringtom predictam, die Jovis in septimana pentecostes
anno Domini 1348 et regni regis Edwardi prædicti 23",
dedit et concessit Joanni de Colton de Tyrington prædicta,
primo custodi aulæ suæ, et quatuor tantum scholaribus suis
Willelmo de Rougham', Joanni de Tyringtom, Willelmo de Lee,
et Richardo de Pulham, per ea tempora, a se institutis, etsi
viginti, ut ex statutis ejus constat, instituere decreverat, nomine
custodis et scholarium Aulæ suæ de Goneville, et successoribus
suis, in moram et inhabitationem perpetuam secundum regulas
et ordinationes suas.
Custodi autem et scholaribus Aulæ suæ statuta et ordi-
nationes vivendi præscripsit, quæ adhuc supersunt in collegio
nostro, per custodem et scholares Aulæ suæ, et per universitatem
Cantabrigiæ, Antonio de Grancester per ea tempora Cancellario,
communi suo utriusque* sigillo confirmata.
I350
His peractis, moriebatur Edmundus Goneville apud Tyring-
tom (ut creditur) anno Domini 1850, nullis Aulæ suæ relictis
possessionibus prædiisve, quantum ex vetustissimis monumentis
et vivendi usu scire licet, pecuniario enim subsidio suos vivens
aluit. Grandem tamen pecuniam, una cum Aula sua, reverendo
DE PRIMA FUNDATIONIE. 3
patri Willelmo Batemam episcopo Norwicensi, executori testa-
menti sui, in hoc ut absolveret quod ipse inchoaverat, testamento
reliquit.
[p. 3]
De secunda fundatione.
1351
Post Edmundi mortem, idem Willelmus Batemam, jam tum
in ædificatione Aulæ S* Trinitatis occupatus, ablato Gonevilli
nomine, et addita beatæ Mariæ appellatione, constituit ut coetus
scholarium, Collegium annunciationis beatæ Mariæ nominetur, et
domus quam inhabitant annunciationis beatæ Mariæ vocitetur :
verum istud sua authoritate episcopus, non regis, ut Edmundus
(sine cujus concessione fundatio nulla esse potest) ordinavit ;
obtinuit, tamen usus, ut etiam translata ea, Gonevilli Aula
diceretur. Sed et ejusdem Aulæ custos atque socii per
Edmundum prius constituti in eadem permanserunt. Gesta
hæc sunt per literas Episcopi anno Domini 1851, 21 Decembris,
et anno regni regis Edwardi tertii vicesimo quinto, episcopo
Eliensi et Cancellario Cantabrigiæ confirmantibus.
I352
Ampliata est, Aula de Goneville in Lurghburni vico duobus
messuagiis illi contiguis, ab universitate (Richardo de Linge
Cancellario) et hospitali S* Joannis (Willelmo Bier Magistro)
emptis, anno Domini 1352 et anno 26 regis Edwardi tertii,
vocabatur autem tenementum illud universitatis, le Longe
entre, id est longus introitus.
I 353
Custodi et sociis statuta et ordinationes ampliores sua
authoritate præscripsit reverendus pater, septimo die Septem-
bris anno Domini 1353 et regni regis Edwardi tertii 27, atque
ut observarent præcepit, secutus multis in rebus Gonevilli
statuta. Eisdem postea nonnihil in supplementum addidit.
Hanc fundationem et statuta temporis illius parum curiosa,
benignitas et favor literarum conservarunt cum tamen nullius
1—2
4; ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANID CAIUS.
principis authoritate constabant. Dedit idem sigillum etiam
commune sua tantum authoritate. Atque hæc quidem acta
sunt, cum adhuc in Lurghburni vico Aula fuit.
1353
Alio autem ut transferatur ea, idem rex Edwardus tertius
primo Julii anno Domini 1853 et regni sui 27, custodi et
sociis Aulæ predictæ potestatem fecit. Commutarunt ergo
Aulam suam in Lurghburni vico custos atque socii quodam
messuagio sive ædificio Collegii corporis Christi et beatæ
Mariæ, vulgo nominato le stomne house, id est, domum petream
(sic), cum pertinentibus in Henney, quod capitale quondam
(anno 1323) fuit messuagium Joannis de Cantabrige militis
Justiciarii domini regis, positum ex adverso Collegio scholarium
S“ Michaelis, cum aliis etiam tenementis tum dudum Joannis
Goldecorme, predicto messuagio jumctis, cum hortis et cæteris
pertinentibus, et scholis ibidem.
1353
Permutatio autem facta fuit indenturis gallicè et latinè
scriptis anno Domini 1353, consensu reverendi Episcopi et
domini Henrici ducis Lancastriæ, Aldermanni sive præfecti
Gildæ sive fraternitatis corporis Christi et beatæ Mariæ, data
eidem collegio Aula de Goneville sive annunciationis beatæ
[p. 4] Mariæ in Lurghburlane, cum advocatione Ecclesiæ S°
Botulphi, et acceptis messuagiis seu ædificiis Ioannis de
Cantabrige et Goldecorne cæterisque supra memoratis in
Hemmey, his conditionibus, ut dux et sui fratres facerent;
sumptus omnium negotiorum quæ gererentur in Cantabrigia,
et collegium annunciationis beatæ Mariæ omnes impensas
rerum agendarum in Aula regia permutationis causa, Thoma
de Eltislee per id tempus magistro Collegii corporis Christi
et beatæ Mariæ. Hæc permutatio facta fuit suadente episcopo,
quia Aula illa commodior erat vicinitate Collegio corporis
Christi et beatæ Mariæ (quod hodie Collegium Divi Benedicti
dicitur) et hæc tenementa, Collegio nostro construendo aptiora
votisque episcopi gratiora, quod vicima essent Aulæ S* Trini-
tatis, quam tunc ædificare coeperat.
DE SECUNIDA FUNIDATIONE.
5
1353
Ita ex Aula, de Goneville sive annunciationis beatæ Mariæ,
pomarium factum est Collegio corporis Christi, superstitibus
adhuc vetustis parietibus portisque, altera in Lurghburni
vicum, altera in coemiterium S* Botulphi spectante et ape-
riente. Ex messuagio autem Joannis de Cantabrige et tene-
mentis Joannis Goldecorne facta transformatione, episcopus
septentrionalem partem Collegii nostri cum culina in usum
custodis et sociorum reliquit. Custodis cubiculum portæ ;
septentrionali incubuit, sociorum cameris utrimque constitutis.
1353
Aulæ annunciationis beatæ Mariæ tum nuper ad hunc
modum fundatæ concessa est potestas anno 1353 a Thoma
Eliensi episcopo, et Alamo priore ecclesiæ cathedralis Eliensis,
ut divina officia privato Aulæ sacello celebrarentur. Ex qua
re significatio est, fuisse eo tempore sacellum, sed inchoatum.
Absolutum enim non fuisse ante ammum Domini 1393, ex titulo
literarum Bonefacii papæ, qui eodem anno 1393 eodem sacello
celebrandi potestatem sociis fecit, intelleximus.
1354
Aluit suos reverendus pater pecuniario stipendio ex cistis
suis, ut idem in statutis scribit, concedendo cuique gradu
aliquo insignito duodecim denarios : ceteris decem.
Ante tamen mortem suam idem reverendus vir dedit juxta
formam chartæ suæ per procuratorem suum Joannem Primiget
de Terlinge, Joanni de Tyrington sacellano suo et custodi Aulæ
suæ, Willelmo de Rougham, Joanni de Tyrington, Willelmo
de Lee et Richardo de Pulham sociis ejusdem, manerium
suum in villa de Triplowe in comitatu Cantabrigiæ, die Jovis
post festum S" Mathiæ Apostoli anno Domini 1354 et anno
regni regis Edwardi tertii 28°. Quod quomodo evanuerat,
nondum constat. Appropriavit etiam collegio tria beneficia
ecclesiastica, Wilton, Fouldon, et Mutforde (quæ adhuc super-
sunt) eodem anno 1354, annui redditus, ut nunc se habent,
6 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANID CAIUS.
viginti octo librarum. Quorum tamen jus patronatus cum
gleba et pensionibus, collegium prius ab Edmundo Hemegrave
milite, et Hugone de Chintriaco priore monasterii S* Pancratii
de Lewes, sua pecunia emerat, ut ex charta ejusdem Edmundi
[p. 5] et Hugonis satis constat. Dedit etiam vestimenta
quædam ex bysso candido et auro intertexta, inter nostra
preciosissima habita, et in solemnioribus divæ Virginis festis
nostro tempore usitata. Sed iniquis postea modis sub Edwardo
sexto Angliæ rege, inter custodem et socios divisa, atque dissipata
sunt, et (uti alia) in lectorum suorum ornamenta conversa.
Duo item pallia seu capas ex holoserico, virides et elaboratas,
preciosiores nostros calices argenteos, et multa vasa argentea
contulit. Contulit etiam libros aliquot ut ex statutis ejus
constare potest.
1354,
Cum innotuerat episcopum constituisse in universitate
Cantabrigiensi Aulam in honorem annunciationis beatæ Mariæ,
ordinatum est a Cancellario et universitate ut mortuo episcopo,
regentes conveniant in exequiis ejusdem anniversariis in Aula
predicta in perpetuum, primo die veneris in adventu Domini.
1355
Quibus ita constitutis, moriebatur episcopus octavo Idus
Januarii anno Domini 1355, et sepultus est* Norwici in
Ecclesiæ Cathedralis presbyterio, ut ex quibusdam scriptis
libris in bibliotheca Ecclesiæ ejusdem intelligimus. In vita
tamen episcopi apud Aulam S* Trinitatis in universitate
Cantabrigiæ quam fundaverat, memoriæ proditur, eum ad
curiam Romanam ab Edwardo tertio Angliæ rege, de pace
ineunda inter regna Angliæ et Franciæ missum, et in eadem
curia in die Epiphaniæ inter horam primam et tertiam apud
Volcos (quæ gens Avinionæ est) anno Domini 1355 mortuum,
et ante altare summum beatæ Mariæ in Ecclesia cathedrali
ejusdem civitatis sepultum, in ejusque sepultura præsentes
fuisse cardinales curiæ Romanæ omnes, uno excepto, qui
gravi morbo detinebatur, hierosolimitano patriarcha funebre
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officium celebrante. Erat autem Norwici matus, et ex univer-
sitate Cantabrigiæ juris civilis doctor, archidiaconus item
Norwicensis, postea episcopus anno 1843, electus et creatus, et
in curia rotarum Romæ in summo officio constitutus.
I356
Post ejus mortem orta contentione inter Collegium corporis
Christi et Aulam annunciationis beatæ Mariæ, de quibusdam
permutationis conditionibus per reverendum patrem nondum
ad plenum præstitis, pacem inter se composuerunt, persolutis
Collegio corporis Christi et beatæ Mariæ 40 marcis, anno
Domini 1356 et Edwardi tertii 30°.
Ad eum modum pace inita, uno custode et sociis quatuor,
res Collegii et creverunt et steterunt (quantum ex monumentis
constare potest) usque ad annum 1472, quo tempore legimus
fuisse custodem probum et frugi virum Edmundum Shiref,
et socios etiam quatuor, Edmundum Albon, Joannem Carter,
Joannem Barly, et Willelmum Plumbe.
De benefactoribus et ædificatione Collegii.
144]
Interea vero temporis, opera, sumptu, et studio optimi
viri et eximii benefactoris Thomæ At Wood (anno Domini
1441 et 19° Henrici sexti, ejusdem Aulæ custodis) beneficio
item Joannis Warroke, Joannis Preston, et aliorum bonorum
virorum factum est, ut Aula Collegii, custodis cubiculum, et
bibliotheca, pars videlicet Collegii occidentalis, et quod ab ea,
[p. 6] ad sacellum usque pertinet atque ad austrum spectat,
aedificaretur, cum prius sola pars septentrionalis, ex Joannis
olim de Cantabrige et Goldecorme ædificiis, ut ante diximus,
transformata, Edmundi Gonevilli et Willelmi Batemanni bene-
ficio superfuerat. Amte autem non fuisse bibliothecam, sed ejus
loco securam cameram, non solum vetusta collegii monumenta,
referunt, sed etiam statuta reverendi patris testantur. Adhæc
anno 1470, 5° Septembris, concessam potestatem a Willelmo
Eliensi episcopo magistro et sociis, ut liceat in oratorio propter
8 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANI) CAIUS.
cubiculum custodis officia divina celebrare, inter vetera monu-
menta reperio. Sacellum autem, lateris australis collegii
reliquum, Willelmus Rougham medicimæ professor a multis
annis inchoatum, et circiter annum Domini 1393, suis sump-
tibus absolvit. Id, quo omnibus numeris perficeretur, Thomas
Dramtalle hujus collegii olim socius, dedit libras 14, solidos 13,
et denarios 4. Sed ad extruendam partem collegii orientalem
egregia foemina et omni laude dignissima Elizabeth Clere
vidua, uxor quondam Roberti Clere armigeri, circiter annum
Domini 1490 dedit ducentas marcas. Ejus partis cubiculum,
quod proxime sacello est, absolvit suis sumptibus Nicolaus
Βuckenham, ac præterea fundos seu prædia sua in Haddenham
Eliensi contulit. Ad hunc modum et per hos perfectum sua
quadratura ad nostra usque tempora collegium perstitit, hortis
interim ampliatum, necessario stabulo et columbario auctum,
muris inclusum, et decenti apparatu ornatum. Sed et in
consummatione CvEjî, Henricus etiam Costelsey clericus,
ejusdem Collegii olim custos, Joannes Awbrey senator Norwi-
censis, et Joannes Owdolfe clericus, dederunt libras ducentas
anno Domini 1481. Dederunt idem Hemricus, Joannes Drolle,
et Richardus Browne senatores Norwicenses, ducentas et
quadraginta marcas, quibus ædificati sunt muri hortorum
Collegii, stabulum, et focalium domus, ex qua postea divisa
extructum est sumptu septem librarum et sedecim denariorum
columbarium, anno Domini 1536. Empta præterea eadem
pecunia peristromata aulæ Collegii, cubiculi custodis, et
interioris ejusdem cameræ sunt, cum aliis mensæ communis
ornamentis, et instratis diaperimis. Eadem pecunia ædificatæ
etiam sunt partes aquilonares et australes (ad portam usque)
hospitii fishewicke cum muris ejusdem, quod Willelmus
fishewicke universitatis Cantabrigiæ accisus seu bedellus,
testamento reliquit, anno Domini 1893, quarto calendarum
Aprilis. Per nostra tempora ad Collegium nostrum id hos-
pitium pertinebat, e regione nostri collegii constitutum, et via
tantum publica separatum. Jam vero pars est Collegii
Sanctæ Trinitatis, Henrico 8° in festo conceptionis beatæ
Mariæ annuo redditu trium librarum ex scaccario solvendarum
in festo Sancti Michaelis, tum concessa cum Collegium
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scholarium Sancti Michaelis, Aulam regis, et hospitium Fishe-
wicke uniri fecit, anno Domini 1546. In id hospitium nostri
Collegii membrum, juventus olim mostra tanquam in coloniam
relegata fuit ut erudiretur, præpositis duobus principalibus (sic
enim vocabantur) altero exteriori, altero interiori. Exterior
socius erat nostri Collegii per custodem assignatus. Interior
quem hospitii commensales seu inquilini cum principali ex-
teriore elegerunt. Exterior degebat in Collegio, interior in
hospitio. Eam ob causam ille exterior, iste interior dicebantur.
Prælegebat, uterque in hospitio, et progymnasmatis seu actionibus
scholasticis uterque moderabatur. Eam ob rem ex quovis in-
quilino singulis tribus mensibus habuerunt denarios sedecim,
lectionis et doctrinæ suæ premium, inter se divisum, et
tamtumdem in cubiculi eujusque sui pensionem, sed hoc in
usus Collegii principali exteriori persolvendum. Per ea
tempora amplius triginta aut quadraginta commensales erant.
Sed redeo ad muros et ædificia unde diverteram. Ad
ædificationem etiam murorum Collegii, Joannes Barly olim
[p. 7] custos dedit libras 5, et alias quinquaginta quas in
usus Collegii prius expenderat eidem remisit. In id præterea
tum Jacobus Goldewell episcopus olim Norwicensis anno
Domini 1473 consecratus, et anno Domini 1498 mortuus,
contulit libras movem et solidos 19, præter libros, et duos
exiguos calices ; tum Agnes Thorpe uxor quondam Roberti
Thorpe senatoris Norwicensis sex solidos et octo denarios,
et Anna Rede decem solidos. Thomas Lovell item miles ad
ædificationem eorum murorum qui a sacello ad venellam et
vicum extenduntur, dedit libras triginta. Extendebatur enim
angiportus olim a platea Sancti Michaelis per sacelli nostri
latus meridionale, hortos a Collegio dividens, et ad vicum hospitii
divi Gerardi se producens. In horum parietum ædificationem
concessa potestas fuit Collegio Sancti Michaelis, ut ædificia
quædam sua, ex parte australi ejus extructa, illi innitantur,
modo ea commode ad murorum conservationem tegere velit.
I0 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANI) CAIUS.
1393
Dum hæc geruntur, advocationem seu jus patronatus
Ecclesiæ de Matsalle magna (quæ tunc temporis valebat in
annos singulos quadraginta marcas) cum una acra terræ
(patronatus forsan) in eadem, tenementi quondam Joannis
Lewin, jacente inter terras nativas Domini de Morlee, cujus
caput australe abuttat super communiam de Matsalle, et caput
aquilonare super terras Domini Bardolf, dederunt Thomas
Thomson et Walterus Harlinge clerici anno Domini 1393,
primo Maii, et anno regni regis Richardi secundi 17°, delegati
seu feoffatores existentes chartæ Radulphi Hememhall militis,
qui dedit eas collegio anno 1370 et Edwardi tertii 44°, cum
his conditionibus, ut tres socii presbyteri orent pro domina
Maria, de Pakenham, utque distribuantur annuatim custodi
viginti solidi, et cuique socio tunc existenti (erant autem
quatuor tantum usque ad annum 1478) tredecim solidi et 4
denarii, et in festo mativitatis Domini et Paschæ custodi et
cuique socio duodecim denarii, in hoc ut custos et socii illi
quatuor alacrius preces quasdam verbis conceptis singulis
diebus Deo funderent pro domina Maria et domino Radulpho.
Istis de causis a custode et sociis ejus temporis, statuto locali
cautum et constitutum fuit, ut tres ex illius temporis quatuor
sociis qui ad hoc officium electi essent, sint presbyteri. Quod
si per adolescentiam id non liceat, ut jurent se quam primum
per ætatem liceat, futuros sacerdotes.
Appropriata autem fuit Collegio Ecclesia de Matsalle sexto
die octobris 1393, per Bonifacium nonum. Atque ita prioribus
tribus beneficiis ecclesiasticis Mutforde, Fouldon, et Wiltom a
reverendo patre appropriatis, quartum jam adjunctum est.
Plura autem non possedisse aut presentasse per id tempus
collegium, nec anno 1402 insequenti, episcopo Eliensi eodem
anno sexto calendas Augusti per Collegii literas significatum
est. Cui quia una illa acra terræ patronatus, de qua supra
diximus, de eo tenetur in capite, annis singulis solvitur libra
thuris, offerturque ad altare summum sacelli manerii sui de
Fem Dittom, in festo translationis Sanctæ Etheldredæ, aut intra
IDE BENEFACTORIBUS. 11
dies quindecim insequentes, in præsentia ballivi, prepositi, aut
alterius ministri dicti manerii, sub poema viginti solidorum.
1410
Dedit etiam Thomas Aylward, rector Ecclesiæ de Havente,
in comitatu Southamptomensi, libras viginti, quarum decem
usibus custodis et sociorum assignavit ; sic ut eis indigentibus
singuli mutuo accipiant 20", fide tamen et juramento præstito,
aut pignore deposito, pro arbitrio custodis, se intra annum
restituturos. Reliquas autem decem, im providas atque utiles
emptiones victualium, focalium, aut aliarum rerum in rem
atque usum Collegii destimavit, sed ita ut intra octiduum a
[p. 8] festo nativitatis beatæ Mariæ proxime sequens numerata
pecunia omnino reponatur, et quicquid rei emptæ tunc super-
fuerit, loco deficientis pecuniæ habeatur. Asservabatur autem
in arca ferrata ad nostra usque tempora Ailwardi nomine.
Nunc vero arca quidem superest, sed pecunia nulla, custodum
credo negligentia, qui in debentium morte aut decessu debitam
non exigebant pecuniam. Novimus tamen apud unum atque
alterum adhuc viventem, præter eos qui nobis sollicitantibus
resolverunt, unam atque alteram libram superesse, quas resti-
tutas iri certo speramus.
1493
Ea pecunia annis 53 (sic) postquam data fuit, penitus ex-
hausta, nobilis mulier et hujus Collegii prope dixerim mater
atque nutrix indulgentissima domina Elizabeth Clere vidua
(de qua prius diximus) tantumdem sua liberalitate reposuit,
amno 1493 vicesimo sexto Maii.
Eadem Elizabeth donavit item 40 libras ad fundos apud
Causton emendos, quibus emptis ac revenditis, redemptæ sunt
eodem pretio quædam terræ in Newenham, et quædam in
Cowlinge et Cartelinge quæ vocantur Bamstedes.
Willelmus item de Huntingfelde et Joannes de Limsted
rectores de Caustom, dederunt ob quod inter benefactores
haberi merito censeantur.
I2 ANNALS OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS.
Edmundus Albon quomdam hujus Collegii socius dedit
90 marcas argenti.
I 426
Johannes Wakerimge episcopus Norwicensis, vir pius et
privati sigilli regii custos, viginti marcas argenti dedit.
Richardus Powle vicarius de Mutforde, duodecim acras
terræ ibidem jacentes contulit.
1468
Sed anno a Christo nato 1468, secundo Octobris, Thoma,
Boleym custode, Johannes Beverly theologiæ professor, pre-
bendarius ecclesiæ cathedralis Lincolniensis, et olim hujus
Collegii socius, multos dedit libros, pretii quadraginta librarum.
1516
Joannes Le Strange de Massingham parva in comitatu
Morfolciæ armiger, ex testamento in commune Collegii sub-
sidium dedit oves foeminas detonsa lana 700, et agnos 300,
pro quibus venditis adhuc debetur grandis pecunia, ut ex
rationum libris nostri Collegii scire licet : de qua recuperanda
mulla spes est ; ea erat ultimis temporibus custodum negligentia,
qui non solum eam pecuniam neglexerunt, sed aliam multam,
ut ex syngraphis et obligationibus, annos jam ante sedecim aut
viginti, plures aut pauciores, scriptis constare potest. Ejus
bonam partem nos Collegio recuperavimus, ut dicemus postea.
Nicolaus Buckenham dedit terras suas in Haddenham
Eiiensi, redemptæ tamen sunt per Collegium a Willelmo
Buckenham per nostra tempora custode (qui jure cognationis
eas postulaverat) justo pretio pecuniarum doctoris Bayly, cujus
etiam sumptu eædem ad manum mortuam confirmatæ sunt,
ut dicemus in sequentibus, ubi ejus, de socii sui fundatione,
beneficentiam declarabimus.
Domina Philippa Barleston contulit calicem unciarum xiii
et iii quartarum.
Domina Anna Drury largita est viginti marcas argenti ex
proventu domus suæ in parochia Sancti Michaelis in Coslonia
DE BENEFACTORIBUS. I3
Norwici, ad fundos comparandos annui redditus 13 solidorum
et quatuor denariorum, insumendorum pane et vino tribus
sacerdotibus stipendiariis, celebrantibus in ecclesia parochiali
prædicta, et omnia divina officia exequentibus in sacello Collegii
nostri, si quid eorum fuerit reliquum.
Walterus de Helveden* et Rogerus de Hydon sacerdotes,
quid contulerunt, et quo tempore vixerunt, non lego, sed inter
egregios benefactores referendos lego.
[p. 9]
Doctor Calton quondam hujus Collegii socius dedit ad
emendos fundos 10 marcas argenti, quas magistro Carter
tradidit in usus predictos.
Magister Jacket, alias Blundell de Eie, dedit Collegio
vestimenta quædam, capas ceruleas et superpellicia duo.
I 521
Sed hi Benefactores sunt. Malefactores erant Willelmus
Tayte hospitii Divi Gererdi, decanus postea sacelli ducis
Richmondiæ et Somersettiae, et Thomas Asplande” Hovemi
diversorii cum suæ factionis hominibus gentis angliæ borealis,
qui ex discordia inter eos et Humphredum de la pole nostri
Collegii, fratrem ducis Suffolciæ, orta, incenderunt posticum
nostrum occidentale, eorum hospitiis non solum propinquum,
via tantum publica intercedente, sed etiam ex adverso positum.
Ad quod facinus tacito nutu provocabat Joanmes Stachouse
ejus anni procancellarius, homo ejusdem gentis et factionis,
verbo tamen dissuadebat. Quo incenso, irruperunt hostili
impetu omnes in Collegium, et ingressi in promptuarium,
effuderunt omnem potum, et mi alia cado, alia fonte seu
puteo argentea vasa occultasset, promus, direpta fuissent eo
furore omnia. Sed coacti sunt quam incendebant, portam
cum fenore incumbentis ædificii reficere, et omne vitium et
offensam mature præstare. Ex his Willelmus Tayte, quasi
prioris facinoris pœnitentia motus, et juvenilem errorem senili
prudentia compensans, sub mortem suam libros multos impressos,
tum theologiæ, tum utriusque juris, alteriusque argumenti
nostro Collegio dono dedit. Hæc gesta sunt anmo Domini
14. ANNALS OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS.
1521, Willelmo Buckenham custode. Sed redeo ad bene-
factores, a quibus propter rationem temporis perpetrati mali
declinaveram. *
1524
Robertus igitur Thorpe senator Norwicensis et Agnes uxor
ejus, dederunt Collegio nominationem honesti alicujus sacerdotis,
aut socii nostri Collegii, ad Cantariam suam in ecclesia Sancti
Michaelis in Coslonia, et donationem ejusdem, decem præterea
marcas argenti, et vestimentum ostadi nigri 27° Julii anno
Domini 1524.
1534
Thomas Necton senator Norwicensis, dedit Collegio cam-
panam, pretii decem solidorum, quæ postea revendita fuit,
quia major erat quam pro sacelli usu, et pecunia expensa in
bonos usus.
1556
Nicolas Shaxtom Theologiæ doctor, quondam nostro tempore
hujus Collegii socius atque presidens, dein episcopus Saris-
buriensis, et ultimo suffraganeus Eliensis, moriebatur hoc
Collegio anno Domini 1556, 5° Augusti, et sepultus est in
sacello. Dedit Collegio viginti libras ad emendas possessiones
ammui redditus viginti solidorum, ut festis Nataliciis per
hyemem focus communis in Aula aut conclavi in perpetuum
aleretur, et præterea libros theologicos multos*, ut Diomisium
Carthusianum,
Chrysostomum Arnobium
Ireneum Barnardum
Ambrosium Concilia generalia
Gregorium Testamentum vetus Erasmum
et multos alios, ut ex ejus nomine suis libris inscripto scire licet.
Andreas Demme etiam, hujus Collegii olim socius, decem
libras contulit.
Inter precipuos benefactores hi sunt. Sunt et alii peculiari
commendatione digni, uti tum ex aliis rebus, tum ex vasis
* See Appendix I for all books mentioned in the text.
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argenteis (quæ per elapsa tempora copiosa erant) conjicio.
Sed quia de his benefactoribus nihil habeo certi ex monu-
mentis, contentus universali commendatione, vasa prioris
temporis commemorabo, ut utilitatem majorum nostrorum com-
ponamus, qui collegium ab infantia per adolescentiam suo
studio ac diligentia ad maturitatem statum ac perfectionem
deduxerunt, nobis contra ad declinationem ac infantiam revo-
cantibus omnia, et quæ a majoribus nostris probe constituta
sunt, nostra iniquitate labefactantibus, nulla posteritatis habita
ratione : quasi nostra privata essent quæ possidemus (quod
iniquum est), non nobis cum posteris communia. Non enim
singulorum hominum, sed universæ reipublicæ causa possi-
[p. 1o] demus. Etenim quæ a fundatoribus ac benefactoribus
nostris concessa sunt, reipublicæ concessa sunt et consecrata,
ut eorum ope egestas ad meliora emergat, evadatque docta in
officia publica, idque per omnia tempora, non tantum nostra.
Imitabantur fundatores illi nostri providos et prudentes
agricolas, qui serunt arbores alteri seculo non præsenti tantum
profuturas. Sed ad vasa redeo. Ex duorum ergo indicum
in quos incidimus altero, legimus fuisse uncias argenti 1306,
quae pro ratione trium solidorum et quatuor denariorum
singulæ æstimatæ, valebant, omnes 217 libras. Ex altero,
ammo 1467 mense Octobri scripto, uncias argenti 1180, quæ
eadem ratione æstimatæ ducentas triginta quatuor libras
quinque solidos et duos demarios valebant (sic). Ista, eum in
bonorum manus inciderunt, verisimile est aut fundamenta aut
incrementa fuisse nascentis adhuc Collegii. Nos nostris tem-
poribus cum in ærario publico ex auro puro libras fuisse
sexcentas novimus, in prima, creatione nostra in custodis
officium, tantum libras quatuor et solidos sedecim invemimus.
Quod etsi ferendum non fuit, æquius tamem si Collegium
nihil debuisset ; debuit, autem ultra centum marcas, custode
et senioribus sociis tribus omnem pecuniam in privatos usus
consumentibus, quod in odium facti refero, et ne in posterum
quoquo modo fiat consulo, et omnino prohibendum censeo.
Hucusque de primordiis et fundamentis mascentibus Col-
legii, de translatione et ædificatione, de fundatoribus et bene-
factoribus ejusdem deque custode et quatuor sociis diximus.
16 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANI) CAIUS.
Jam de incremento numeri sociorum et scholarium, et eorum
fundatoribus, subsidiariis patronis, et adjutoribus, lectionum
authoribus, aliisque elemosinariis compendio dicemus. Et
primo de fundatoribus custodis et sociorum, et subsidiariis
patromis, mox de scholarium, ultimo, de lectionum authoribus
et elemosinariis. Quod dum facimus, ordinem temporum et
annorum retexere cogemur.
De custode et sociorum fumdatoribus.
Diximus paulo ante fuisse a Collegio condito ad annum
usque Domini 1478 unum custodem et socios tantum quatuor.
Horum tres cum custode Willelmum Batemam reverendum
episcopum fundatorem suum jam multis annis agnoverunt :
cum tamen ante eum Edmundum Goneville agnoscere de-
buerunt, ut jam ante indicavimus. Quartus autem ille, ut ex
Edmundi fundatione fuerat, ita quemadmodum evanuerat,
nondum constat. Hoc constat, etiam anno Domini 1393, cum
dono datum esset beneficium ecclesiasticum de Matsalle magna
per feoffatores seu delegatos Radulphi Hemenall militis, ut
ante dictum est, fuisse tantum quatuor, ut prius, socios. Nec
obligatio erat ut Collegium alios tres socios nomine Mariæ de
Pakenham aleret, sed ut tres socii sacerdotes orent pro ea.
Quos per ea tempora necessum est ex 4 illis fuisse tres. Cujus
rei argumentum et hoc est, quod a majoribus nostris con-
stitutum legimus, ut precum ratione, singulorum illorum
trium ordinario stipendio accessio sit in annos singulos duarum
marcarum argenti ex ærario publico. Jam tamen unum
Dominæ Mariæ de Pakenham substitutum socium habemus,
qui unus octo argenti marcas habet, cæteris precum officio
exoneratis, et quartum priorem deletum. Agnoscimus enim
nunc tres tantum fundatoris Batemanni socios.
I 393
Quartum ergo socium Dominæ Mariæ de Pakenham esse
dicemus, qui precibus pro ea et domino de Hemenhall solus
intendat. Dicemusque im ejus socii subsidium et vestitum,
vestitum custodis et sociorum, ac distributiones ut vocant,
datam collegio advocationem Ecclesiæ de Matsalle magna,
DE sOCIORUM FUNDATORIBUS. ' 17
annui redditus per ea tempora quadraginta marcarum argenti,
per nostra duodecim tantum librarum. Ex quibus si demas
viginti solidos Episcopo Norwicensi ammuatim solvendos pro
decimis, pretium libræ thuris in annos singulos Episcopo
Eliensi impendendum, et octo marcas argenti im salarium socii,
[p. 1 1] et tredecim solidos et quatuor denarios in vestitum seu
liberaturam, ut vocant, ejusdem : præterea, si tollas in vestitum
custodis 20* et aliorum septem sociorum septem marcas argenti,
id est singulis tredecim solidos et quatuor denarios, excluso
Doctoris Bayly socio : postremo, si eximas distributiones (ut
appellant) Custodis et cujusque novem sociorum, duodecim
videlicet denarios in festis Paschæ et Nativitatis Domini, in
summa viginti solidos, in universo tredecim libras tredecim
solidos quatuor denarios et amplius, totus annuus redditus
beneficii de Matsall exhaurietur, et Collegium quatuor mar-
carum annuo sumptu et amplius onerabitur. Quo scire licet
nihil superesse ad alterum et secundum socium alendum. Nec
est cur Collegium suo sumptu illum secundum Dominæ Mariæ
alat : imo contra, æquius est ad exonerandum Collegium (quod
alieno sumptu gravari non debet) ut quatuor marcæ argenti
quatuor postremis Collegii sociis ante socium Doctoris Bayly
pro liberaturis concessæ, et octo solidi pro distributionibus
Collegii damno eisdem elargiti subtrahantur, qua ratione sub-
tracti sunt Doctoris Bayly socio, videlicet, quod liberaturæ illæ
et distributiones concessæ fuerunt tum, cum et quatuor tantum
socii erant, nec plures futuros certo constabat. Quod autem
in tertia fundatione mentio est decem sociorum, et in visita-
tionum libris item decem, substitutusque ibi est Willelmus
Earker, hic Andreas Persom, in socium Dominæ Mariæ de
Pakemham, cum tamen nec ille tum socius (etsi nostro tem-
pore) nec iste unquam fuit, ex conditione seu statu Collegii
parum cognito natum est. Cum enim cognitum fuit collegis
nihil esse unde decimus aleretur socius, et ob id non alendum
judicarunt, habere tamen videri voluerunt quod fundatum fuisse
suspicati sunt. Sed Thomas Wendye et Edwardus Crome, prior
medicimæ alter theologiæ doctor, viri graves et fide digni,
olimque ante nostra tempora nostri Collegii socii, et anno
Domini 1560 ambo superstites, fatebantur se suis temporibus
C. A. S. Octavo Series. No. XL. 2
I8 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANID CAIUS.
nunquam vidisse decem socios, nec nostro tempore nos vidisse
unquam decem, etiam nos, Richardus Taverner, Andreas Deane,
Willelmus Barker, et Willelmus Botswayn, qui ex omnibus
mostri temporis sociis soli nunc vivimus testamur. Atque istud
ausim affirmare etiam, ante tertiam fundationem non plures
fundatos quam mostro tempore fundati sunt. Nostro autem
tempore postremus fuit, qui doctoris Bayly socius fuit, et pos-
tremus remansit usque ad tertiam fundationem. Doctor Wendie
tantum movit octo. Nonum doctor Crome primus novit, executor
testamenti Joannis Bayly, cujus socium diximus fuisse monum.
Tamen quia in postremis fundationis literis, decem sociorum
prioris temporis mentio est, decimum Collegii socium diximus,
et ejus sumptibus alendum me custode constituimus, ut secundo
libro proferemus.
1478
Quintum, et eum presbiterum, secundum statuta, Collegii
mostri eligendum, Stephanus Smithe clericus, rector ecclesiæ
Blomertom in comitatu Norfolciæ adjunxit, ultimo Maii anno
Domini 1478, Henrico Costesey custode. In cujus socii subsi-
dium, dedit fundos suos in Barningham in comitatu Suffolciæ,
annui redditus per ea tempora quatuor librarum, per nostra
quinque. Ex quibus quatuor marcas argenti assignavit socio
in stipendium, et eum alterius subsidii fecit capacem. Theo-
logiæ studiosum esse voluit, et gradu theologico insignitum
suo tempore, utque ter annis singulis apud Barningham, in
festo nempe sanctæ Margaretæ, in adventu Domini, atque in
quadragesima, concionetur, instituit: ut pro Stephano Smith
benefactore suo in concionibus oret, utque in Collegio divina
pro defunctis officia, et exequiæ mortuorum, in festo Sanctæ
Margaretæ celebrentur, præcepit. Vocari autem voluit suum
socium, Stephami Smith presbiterum.
1487
Sextum ex diocesi Norwicensi oriundum, eadem ipsa præ-
clara domina Elizabeth Clere vidua (de qua prius diximus)
pietate nunquam satis laudata instituit, anno Domini 1487, ut
DE SOCIORUM FUNDATORIBUS. 19
theologiæ studiosus sit, et gradibus ejusdem insigniatur, suique
im concionibus honestam faciat mentionem, utque literis Collegii
[p. 12] sigillo obsignatis ejus electio intra mensem aut ses-
quimensem in manerio suo de Ormesby in hundredo de Flegge
juxta Silbie in comitatu Norfolciæ, hæredibus suis significetur,
sub poena amittendi possessiones Collegio per eum (sic) concessas,
et sub juramento in cujusvis admissione præstando, voluit. In
cujus subsidium Collegio dedit 14° Octobris anno regni regis
Henrici septimi 2°, certas terras ac tenementa sua in Tutington
juxta Aylsham, et aliis oppidis adjacentibus, unà cum iis quæ
ad eas pertinent in comitatu Norfolciæ, nuper vocatas Port-
landes, annui redditus hodie quatuor librarum sedecim solidorum
et octo denariorum, fecundioribus olim quam nunc arvis exist-
entibus, quod ex eo scire licet, quod in stipendium socio suo
assignavit movem marcas argenti.
1502
Septimum domina Anna Scrope vidua, uxor quondam
domini Johannis Scrope de Boltom, ex diocesi Norwicensi
oriumdum ordinavit, 4° Martii anno Domini 1502, Johanne
Barly custode. Sacerdotem esse voluit, et sacrarum literarum
studiosum, atque ut salarium, victum et alias commoditates
habeat ut statuta, Collegii ferunt, decrevit. In hoc dedit Col-
legio octo libras annui redditus ex manerio suo de mortimers in
Newenham. Ad quod Collegio ad manum mortuam confir-
mandam, domina Anna Drury uxor prius Johannis Bamiarde
40 libras contulit. Socio assignantur octo marcæ. Ejus electio
ut fiat intra menses tres instituit, alioqui voluit ut magistro
Collegii de Rushforde viginti solidi persolvantur, ac deinde
de tribus septimanis tres in tres quadraginta solidi quam diu
locus vacaverit.
1503
Octavum Willelmus Willowes de Cantabrigia cheirothecarius
fundavitamno Henrici septimi 16°, augusti 12°, Edmundo Stubbes
custode. Socium suum sacerdotem et theologiæ studiosum esse
voluit, secundum statuta Collegii eligendum, et viventem salario
2—2
20 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANI) CAIUS.
Octo marcarum, et una toga pretii unius marcæ argenti. Dedit;
Collegio in hujus subsidium, et unius scolaris bibliotistæ, omnes
terras suas cum ædificiis in Teversham, ditton, fulburne, et
hintom, annui redditus quatuor librarum, una cum quinque
marcis ex molendino de Newenham. Scolari autem bibliotistæ
40 solidos in annos singulos assignavit.
1534
Nonum Joannes Bayly theologiæ doctor, quondam Aulæ
Pembrochiamæ socius, et ecclesiæ Sancti Mathæi et sacelli
beatæ Mariæ im Ipswiche in comitatu Suffolciæ rector, sua
liberalitate instituit ammo 1534, 20 die februarii, Willelmo
Buckenham custode. Ordinavit, ut aut theologiæ aut medicimæ
studeret ejus socius, secundum Collegii statuta, eligendus, exhi-
buitque in ejus stipendium octo marcas in omnes sumptus. In
id Collegio dedit trecentas libras et amplius, quarum ducentis
Willelmus Buckenham, per id tempus Collegii custos, vendidit,
Collegio prædia ea, quæ prius fratrem ejus Nicolaum concessisse
diximus, in Haddenham Eliensi, Wiltom, Suttom, Stretham,
Ereth, et Wittelsforde, id est, Madingleys, cum Osdelwere, Pert-
rikes, et Stephuns ; ac domum quamdam im parochia Sancti
Edwardi Cantabrigiæ in foro pisorum, ammui redditus omnia,
movem librarum et duodecim solidorum; et centum libris ejus
pecuniæ ea prædia, ad manum mortuam Collegio confirmavit.
Vestitum seu liberaturam (sic enim vocamt) ut cæteri socii non
habet doctoris Bayly socius, credo quod liberaturæ illæ aliis
jure non debentur, quam quatuor illis sodalitatibus primis, quæ
ante id tempus fundatæ sunt, quæ per Radulphum Hememhall
concessæ sunt.
Atque ita ante tertiam fundationem, novem tantum socii
erant.
Decimum tamen et postremum, quem opinio Collegarum
ejus temporis fecit, sibi totidem esse falso persuadentium, sed
[p. 13] quo authore aut stipendio nescientium, ut jam ante
diximus cum de quarto socio verba fecimus, cogebamur nos,
quo fundationi tertiæ satisfieret, communi consensu sociorum
omnium constituere, ex ærario publico stipendium assignare,
et Collegii socium nominare.
DE SOCIORUM FUNDATORIBUS. 2]
1504
De socio aut scholare" ex diocesi Norwicensi eligendo, Henrici
Carter Clerici tum dudum nostri Collegii socii, quem, si fortuna
votis respondisset 12° Augusti anno Domini 1504 et regni regis
Henrici septimi 19°, Joanne Barly custode, addidisse constituit,
exhibendo ei in septimanas singulas octo denarios ex fundis
suis in Thornham et Tichewell in comitatu Norfolciæ, nihil
dico, quia Collegium fundos eos suis impensis redimere jure
cogebatur. Eam ob causam nec socius nec scholaris jure
alitur.
De subsidiariis sociorum, patronis.
1520
A fundatoribus sociorum transitus est ad subsidiarios eorum
patronos, quorum primus occurrit Galfridus Knight, sacrarum
literarum professor, qui testamento suo primo Octobris anno
1520 condito, Joanne Skippe Herefordiensi episcopo tum cus-
tode et olim socio, dedit Collegio nostro in subsidium duorum
sacerdotum theologiæ studiosorum, qui ex senioribus Collegii
nostri sociis fuerint per custodem eligendi, et unius lectoris
humaniorum literarum in Collegio nostro, manerium suum de
Pattisley in Comitatu Norfolciæ, anmui redditus viginti mar-
carum, jam commutatum manerio de Stow Quie et Teversham
in comitatu Cantabrigiæ vocato Dengayns, et aliis terris ibidem.
positis, annui redditus viginti unius librarum. In cujus manerii
reliquum comparandum, pecuniæ doctoris Bayly impensæ fue-
runt. Utrique socio assignavit octo marcas in stipendium ea
conditione, ut antequam ejus participes fuerint, per literas
Collegii communi sigillo consignatas, eorum admissionis certior
fiat hæres dominæ Katarinæ, uxoris Joannis Heydom militis in
Baconsthorpe in Comitatu Norfolciæ, et bis septimanis singulis
officia divina peragant cum certis orationibus præscriptis, exclusi
ab omni alieno officio seu subsidiario, ut vocant, servitio. Lectori
literarum humaniorum, annuatim per solum custodem eligendo,
quadraginta solidos assignavit.
22 ANNALS OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS.
1539
Secundus patronorum subsidiariorum fuit Joannes Whit-
acres clericus, Norwicensis, qui Collegio dedit primo Maii anno
1539, et regni regis Henrici octavi vicesimo, Joanne Skippe
custode, in subsidium unius socii, divina obituri officia bis
septimanis singulis apud sanctam Mariam majorem Canta-
brigiæ, et cantaturi in choro singulis diebus domimicis atque
festis uno mense excepto, omnes terras seu fundos suos in
Steple Mourden et Gilden Mourden in Comitatu Cantabrigiæ ;
et terras suas in Aschewell in comitatu Hertfordiæ, annui
redditus trium librarum tredecim solidorum et quatuor dena-
riorum, ultra reprisas (ut appellant) seu sumptus ordinarios, sed
ita ut is socius habeat in subsidium tres libras sex solidos et
octo denarios, et eligatur.
De fundatoribus Scholarìum.
• ] 503
Willelmus Willowes Cantabrigiensis (de quo egimus cum de
octavi socii fundatione diximus) unum scholarem bibliologum
fundavit, stipendio 40* ut superius exposuimus, cum de ejus
socio scripsimus.
I 505
In sustentationem unius sacerdotis (cui tamen sacerdotium
»non est) aut duorum scholarium diocesis Norwicensis, Willelmus
Gale de Eie in comitatu Suffolciæ sacerdos, dedit per chartam
suam indentatam, datam septimo die Septembris anno Domini
1505, et anno septimo regni regis Henrici septimi, manerium
de Bamstedes in Cowlinge et Cirtelinge in comitatibus Suf-
[p. 14] olciæ et Cantabrigiæ annui redditus quatuor librarum,
et decem solidorum, comparatum nonaginta sex libris, quas
Collegio prius dederat. Etsi mihi non exciderit e memoria me
legisse in veteri rationum libro post computum Paschæ 1513,
concessas fuisse eas terras Collegio a Willelmo Gale et Thoma
Alkim, ac rursus locatas a Collegio Richardo Pitches de Cirte-
limge ad annos viginti, annuali redditu quatuordecim librarum,
DE FUNDATORIBUS SCHOLARIUM. 23
forsan quod bona parte quadraginta librarum, quas domina
Elizabeth Clere dedit, et aliqua parte pretii terrarum in
Causton, aliæ emptæ et junctæ terræ sunt in Cirtelinge ad
summam predictam. Idem Willelmus terras etiam suas in
Hinxton in Comitatu Cantabrigiæ annui redditus quatuor
librarum, ex testamento nobis reliquit, sed ea conditione ut
socius suus annuatim percipiat quatuor libras in stipendium,
aut duorum scholarium singuli, quadraginta solidos, sub poena
amittendi terras si nullus sustineatur. Sed imperio suo urgente
nimium Edwardo North, per ea tempora curiæ augmenta-
tionum et reventionum coronæ domini regis cancellario, nunc
vero domino et barone de Cartelinge, Joannes Skippe tunc
custos predia illa cum terris nostris in Hinxtom, quasi vi
coactus, vendidit 300 libris, et earum pretio manerium de
Aymels in Westoninge in comitatu Bedfordiensi, annui redditus
quatuordeoim librarum redemit ammo Domini 1540, unde unus
tantum hodie bibliotista, salario quadraginta solidorum, nomine
scholaris Willelmi Gale alitur, forsan quod maxima ejus manerii
pars sit empta aliena, non Willelmi Gale pecunia.
1507
Willelmus Sigo grammatices professor, quondam hujus Col-
legii commensalis, dedit 12 Junii 1507, Edmundo Stubbe
custode, in subsidium unius scholaris diocesis Norwicensis,
domum suam apud le Castle ende in Cantabrigia, vocatam
vulgo le Maydenheade, et terras suas in agris Cantabrigiæ,
Chestertom, Histon, Girtom, et Cotton, annui redditus viginti
solidorum. Sepultus est in sacello Collegii nostri.
1540
Thomas Alkym vicarius de Mutforde in Comitatu Suffolciæ,
et Margeria Hore de eadem, dederunt singuli anno Domini
1540 et regni regis Henrici 8' 31, Joanne Skippe custode,
quadraginta octo libras. Lego tamen aliis monumentis tem-
pore Edmundi Stubbes largitas fuisse eas, eumque Edmundum
ea pecunia Collegio possessiones in Cowlinge et Kirtelinge
alias Cartelinge annui redditus quatuor librarum emisse. Dedit
24. ANNAILS OF GONVILLE ANI) CAIUS.
idem Thomas clausum etiam in Worlingham magna, vocatum
paynes close, in comitatu Suffolciæ, annui redditus quadraginta
solidorum, ac præterea decem libras numerata pecunia in sus-
tentationem trium scholarium diocesis Norwicensis, salario
singulorum triginta quinque solidorum. Eligendi hi sunt per
custodem et duos seniores socios, cum eorum loca vacent.
1556
Petrus Hewet, de Barow in comitatu Suffolciæ clericus
dedit Collegio libras 180, et scholares tres diocesis Norwicensis,
bonæ indolis et spei, grammatice doctos, et commoraturos in
collegio usque dum magisterii gradum consecuti sunt, unum
per custodem, secundum per presidentem, tertium per seniorem
socium illi proximum eligendos instituit, 12° Julii anno regni
Philippi et Mariæ tertio et quarto, et anno Domini 1556. Ita
tamen ut singuli scholares, si per corruptionem aut citra quali-
tates commemoratas electi fuerint, per custodem excludantur,
et alii eorum loco substituantur primo per eos penes quos
eligendi jus fuit, postremo eis fallentibus per custodem, et sic
ut singuli scholares sui habeant annuatim quatuor marcas in
stipendium ex annuis redditibus fundorum sua pecunia empto-
rum. De quibus fundis postea dicemus suo loco, quo tempore
acquisiti fuerint. Acquisitum autem est manerium de Woborne.
' De cygni diversorio ex adverso Ecclesiæ divi Petri de Man-
crofte in foro Norwicensi, annui redditus quinque librarum sex
solidorum et octo denariorum, inconsulte empto centum viginti
libris, et propter ruinam quam mimatum est revendito centum
libris, anno Domini 1562°, nihil dico, propter editum mali frugi
(sic) exemplum.
Hos scholares si im numerum redigere libeat, tot fuerunt
ante tertiam fundationem, quot socii, novem videlicet.
De authoribus lectionum.
I 520
Post sociorum et scholarium fundatores, ut de lectionum
authoribus commemoratio fiat, ordo rerum postulat. Quare
[p. 15] lectionum literarum humaniorum author primus fuit
DE AUTEIORIBUS LECTIONUM. 25
Galfridus Knight theologiæ doctor, deditque Collegio im lectoris
mercedem quotannis quadraginta solidos ex manerio suo de
Pattysley, ut ante cum de ejus socio scripsimus, complexi
SUlÌY1U1S.
1536
Secundus post eum fuit serenissimus princeps et rex Britan-
miæ, Henricus 8, qui quia primos fructus et decimas decreto
Perlamenti sui, anno Domini 1536, et regni sui 27, remiserit;
universitati, et in ea nostro Collegio, voluit ut una lectio
humaniorum literarum juventuti nostræ perlegatur imper-
petuum. Quamobrem a predecessoribus nostris rectè constitu-
tum est, ut socius unus, unica quadraginta solidorum mercede
duplici lectione, altera græcè altera latinè, utrique authori
satisfaciat.
De elemosynariis.
A fundatoribus, benefactoribus, et lectionum authoribus ad
elemosinarios venio. Ex quibus Reginaldus Elie lapidicida seu
fremason (ut evidentiæ ejus nominant) Cantabrigiensis, primus
est, qui per nostra tempora dedit per Willelmum Buckenham
executorem testamenti sui et hujus Collegii magistrum sive
custodem, unum ædificium in tres habitationes divisum, in
angiporto vulgo nominato Michell lame in Cantabrigia, in. habi-
tationem trium pauperum per custodem eligendorum, et terras
suas in campis de Bertom, Grancester, Cumbertom, et Chestertom
in comitatu Cantabrigiæ, annui fructus viginti solidorum, im-
pendendorum in reparationes dictarum ædium, in redditum
annuum novem solidorum Collegio Sancti Michaelis, nunc
autem jure ejusdem Collegio Sanctæ et individuæ Trinitatis
pro solo seu messuagio super quo ædificium constituitur, et
in sex solidos octoque denarios numerandos (si fieri potest) in
mercedem laboris collectoris redditus, socio mostri Collegii per
custodem substituendo, qui rationem accepti et expensi reddat
amnis singulis in festo Sancti Lucæ, aut duobus diebus inse-
quentibus, et in subsidium pauperum inhabitantium si quid
superfuerit.
26 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANID CAIUS.
Atque ita de fundamentis et incrementis nascentis Collegii,
de uno custode et sociis primo quatuor, postremo novem, de
scholaribus item novem cum suis fundatoribus, adjutoribus, et
benefactoribus, de lectionum authoribus, elemosynariis, et iis
qui Collegio quid contulerint, tempore primæ et secundæ funda-
tionis, quantum ad nostram notitiam pervenire potuit, diximus.
Superest ut quot possumus magistros sive custodes ejus temporis
enumeremus, et annorum primarum fundationum supputatio-
nem faciamus, atque ita ad tertiam fundationem transeamus.
Custodum catalogus.
Custodum sive magistrorum Collegii nostri
primus erat
Joannes Cotton, de Tyrington, anno Domini 1848.
Willelmus Rougham medicinæ doctor, secundus.
Richardus Pulham, tertius, 1393.
Willelmus Somersham 7, 1412. *-.
Joannes Rikinghale 1423, qui resignavit officium in crastimo
Sancti Benedicti 1426.
Thomas Atwoode 1440, qui præfuit ad annum usque 1454.
Thomas Bulleym, 1467.
Edmundus Shireffe 1472, in cujus electione turbam non
modicam excitavit Laurentius Bothe* in jure licentiatus, et epi-
scopus postea Excestrensis, qui ambitione sua sibi prefecturam
curavit, sed frustra, homo parum integer non dicam pessimus,
quod omnem Collegii pecuniam, quam quoquo modo per fas
nefasque corradere potuerat, una cum preciosiori calice et
argenteo poculo, in usus suos convertit. Quæ an restituta,
fuerant cum ad pinguiorem fortunam pervenerat, adhuc non
constat. Obiit Edmundus, vir in officio diligentissimus, in festo
Sancti Michaelis 1475. Scripsit registrum, ut vocat, fundatio-
mum Collegii, appropriationum, bonorum spiritualium et tem-
poralium, librorum, jocalium seu monilium (utor ejus verbis)
atque id genus aliorum anno 1472, quod registrum adhuc
superest, et hisce annalibus conjunctum est tum memoriæ et
antiquitatis causa, tum in diligentiæ exemplum iis qui inse-
quentur custodibus.
CUSTODUM CATALOGUS. 27
Henricus Costesey 1475, qui in præfectura obiit 20° Julii
anno 1483.
Johannes Barly 1483, præfuit amnis viginti, viz. ad annum
Domini I503.
Edmundus Stubbes 1503, prefuit annis 11, obiit 1514, paulo
[p. 16] post festum Sancti Mathæi apostoli.
Willielmus Buckenham 1514, statim a computo Sancti
Michaelis electus est. Præfuit ammos viginti duos. Resignavit
officium jam gravis ammis doctissimo et ingeniosissimo viro
Joanni Skippe Herefordiensi episcopo, prius nostri Collegii
socio, in festo Sancti Johannis Baptistæ, anno 1536. Morie-
batur Norwici apud Sanctum Michaelem in Coslonia (ubi
ecclesiæ rector fuit) decimo octavo Junii 1540, anno ætatis
suæ octogesimo primo.
Johannes Skipp 1536, præfuit ammos quatuor, et ammo
Domini 1540, 25° Junii, resignavit optimo viro Joanni Styrmyn
theologiæ baccalaureo.
Johannes Styrmym 1540, præfuit annos duodecim.
Thomas Bacon, theologiæ baccalaureus, anno 1552 electus,
præfuit annos septem.
Fuerunt omnes theologi, quantum constat, præter Willel-
mum Rougham doctorem medicum.
Ex hoc custodum catalogo, fundationum collatione, et
annorum supputatione scire licet, fuisse a principio primæ
fundationis Aulæ de Gonneville in Lurghburni vico (quod ex
charta donationis ejusdem Edmundi fuisse constat anno Domini
1848, in septimana pentecostes) ad tertiam usque fundationem,
quarto videlicet septembris anno Domini 1557, annos novem
supra ducentos, et menses tres plus minus. Verum a conces-
sione literarum patentium Edmundo Gomeville per regem Ed-
wardum tertium 28° Januarii 1347, usque ad tertiam funda-
tionem, fuisse annos ducentos et decem et circiter menses
septem. A secunda, item fundatione Aulæ ejusdem in Lurgh-
burni vico, 21° Decembris 1351, ad tertiam fundationem inter-
venisse annos 206. Ac a primordiis presentis Collegii in
Hemmey tranformatis anno 1353, ad tertiam fundationem, annos
intervenisse 204. Hinc illud etiam constare potest, inter
primam fundationem Aulæ de Goneville in Lurghburni vico,
28 ANNALS OF (}ONVILLE ANID CAIUS.
et primordia presentis Collegii in Henney, fuisse annos quinque.
Neque istud prætereundum, secundam fundationem fuisse
Aulæ de Goneville in Lurghburni vico, non presentis Collegii
in Henney, quod ex eo scire licet, quod secunda fundatio fuit
21° Decembris anno 1851, permutatio autem locorum, et ædi-
ficiorum in Henney transformatio, non ante annum Domini
1358. Itaque hujus nostri Collegii in Henney, ante tertiam
fundationem, fundatio erat nulla, Aulæ autem de Goneville
in Lurghburni vico fundationes erant duæ, si modo funda-
tiones sint dicendæ, quæ a rege aut plene aut nullatenus non
manarunt. Dicemus tamen una cum locorum transmutatione,
translatam quoque fundationum virtutem in hoc nostrum Colle-
gium in Henney, in majorem rei authoritatem.
Fundato Collegio fenestras vitreas addiderunt locis publicis
suo quique tempore hi benefactores:
Aulæ.
Willelmus Sponme archidiaconus: Maria Clynte et frater
ejus Henricus: Thomas Warner socius, et Johannes Cruche
socius, doctor et decanus Cicestrensis:
Bibliothecae.
Johannes Dogget, archidiaconus Cicestrensis: Willelmus
Lynewode doctor et episcopus Menevenensis, commensalis:
Joannes Markham, archidiaconus Norfolciæ et Cornubiæ :
Thomas Boleyn custos : Joannes Clynte, theologiæ doctor,
socius, et vicarius Waldem : Willelmus Grene, socius ac theo-
logus : et Galfridus Champeney, socius et theologus.
Sacellî.
Nicolaus de Boteshome : Joannes de Ufford : et Hemricus
de Spencer, episcopus Norwicensis.
Aulæ impluvíum.
Aulæ mediæ incubuit impluvium, et illi draco ingens, quovis
vento mobilis: utrumque grave plumbo, adeo ut per tempes-
tates metus erat me aulæ tectum gravitate deturbent. Qua-
propter sublatum utrumque est nostra memoria, circiter annum
Domini 1531. -
IBENEFACTORES. • 29
Robertus de Thorpe eques, quondam cancellarius Angliæ,
dedit quadraginta marcas argenti, ut et Johannes de Bottyn-
sham episcopus Roffensis viginti libras.
[p. 17] Ex hac fundatione promanarunt præter
cæteros insignes viros nostra memoria
præclari viri,
Willelmus Reppes Norwicensis
Nicolaus Shaxtom | Episcopus | Sarisburiensis
Johannes Skippe Herefordiensis
Gulielmus Buttes regis Henrici octavi
Thomas Wemdie ejusdem Henrici
Edwardi Sexti ę
Mariæ et medicus
Elizabeth ]
regum & reginarum
Henricus de Morley, Baro ; et Henricus Walker doctor
medicus, atque in hac Academia medicimæ professor publicus.
Et ante nostram memoriam :
Humphridus de La Pole, ducis Suffolciæ frater, Comes;
quem solum ideo recenseo, non quod omnes (credo) enumerem,
sed quod ex vetustatis monumentis male asservatis, aut hominum
negligentia memoriæ parum commendatis, mullum alium repe-
riam. Pensionarius erat hujus Collegii anno Domini 1510, et
anno secundo Henrici octavi.
Duo item filii ducis Suffolciæ; quorum personæ in femestra
in capite schalarum quæ ascendunt ad custodis cubiculum et
bibliothecam, depictæ sunt doctorali habitu.
Una nobiscum per juventutem hujus Collegii pensionarius
erat Thomas Gresham, mobilis ille et ditissimus mercator, qui
forum mercatorum Londini (quod Bursam seu regale excam-
bium vocant) exstruxit ammo salutis 1566, 1567, 1568, 1569,
quo tempore nostrum Collegium nos quoque ædificavimus istie
Cantabrigiæ.
30 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANID CAIUS.
[p. 18] Concessiones Romanorum
Pontificum.
Clementis 7, circiter annum Domini 1414.
Sententia Clementis pro decimis de Hoveburgh, rectori de
Mutforde adjudicatis.
Sententia lata pro rectore de Mutford, contra rectores de
Barnbye et Gysham pro decimis predictis.
Bonifacii 9, 1404.
Ut liceat appropriare Collegio ecclesiam de Wilton.
Ut liceat ecclesiam de Matsall magna etiam eidem appro-
priare.
De quibus in Registro Mri Edmundi Shiriff, folio 46 et 66:
Bonìfacîî 9, et Alea amdri 6,
circa annum Domini 1500.
Ut præsbyteri et scholares Collegii, atque etiam hospitii
Fyshwike, celebrare audireque possint divina officia in Collegii
sacello, ordinarii licentia non requisita, et sepelire.
Ut liceat Collegio fructus beneficiorum appropriatorum
clericis et laicis indifferenter locare, absque ordinarii licentia
vel mulctatione aliqua.
Alea amdri 6, 1502.
Ut eligantur et deputentur annuatim sub sigillo Collegii
communi ad excercitium predicationis, duo de Collegio artium
magistri, vel in theologia baccalaurei, qui per totum regnum
Angliæ verbum Dei predicent, ordinarii licentia super hoc
minime requisita, sed ecclesiarum rectorum consensu tantum
habito.
[p. 19] Bulla° Bonifacii moni.
Ammo Domini 1384.
Quod licet celebrare officia divina in sacello Collegii non
habita licentia Episcopi Eliensis, modo non fiat in præjudicium
ecclesiæ parochialis.
IBUILIA BONIFACII NONI. 31
Bonifacius episcopus servus servorum Dei. Dilectis filiis
Custodi et scholaribus Collegii Annunciationis beatæ Mariæ
virginis in studio Cantabrigiæ Eliensis diocesis salutem et apo-
stolicam benedictionem. Sinceræ devotionis affectus quem ad
mos et Romamam geritis ecclesiam promeretur ut petitionibus
vestris illis presertim quæ animarum salutem et divini cultus
augmentum respiciunt, quantum cum deo possumus favorabiliter
annuamus. Vestris itaque supplicationibus inclinati ut in Ca-
pella Collegii vestri Ammunciationis beatæ Mariæ virginis in
studio Cantabrigiæ Eliensis diocesis ad reverentiam Dei et
ejusdem virginis fundata et constructa vos et quicunque alii
ydonei in dicto Collegio pro tempore habitantes ac etiam ad illud
pro tempore declinantes in presbyteratus (sic) et sacris ordinibus
constituti causa devotionis dummodo aliquod canonicum nobis
et eis non obsistat missas et alia divina officia etiam cum nota
et alta voce celebrare pro tempore libere et licite valeatis et
valeant diocesani loci et cujuscumque alterius licentia super hoc
minime requisita, quibuscumque constitutionibus apostolicis ac
provincialibus et synodalibus statutis et aliis contrariis mequa-
quam obstantibus vobis et successoribus vestris pro tempore in
ipso Collegio authoritate apostolica tenore presentium de spe-
ciali gratia, indulgemus, jure tamen parochialis Ecclesiæ et
cujuscumque alterius alias in omnibus semper salvo. Nulli ergo
omnino hominum liceat hanc paginam nostræ concessionis
infringere vel ei ausu temerario contraire. Si quis autem hoc
attemptare presumpserit indignationem omnipotentis Dei et
beatorum Petri et Pauli apostolorum ejus se moverint, imcur-
suros. Datum Romæ apud sanctum Petrum Id. Novembr.
Pontificatus nostri anno quinto.
[p. 2O] Bulla Siati quarti.
Ammo Domini 1481.
Quod licet monachis Norwicensibus studere in Collegio
mom obstante decreto ut omnes monachi universitatis studeant
in Collegio de Buckyngham quod hodie Collegium Magdalene
dicitur. •
Sixtus Episcopus servus servorum Dei. Dilectis filiis Priori
32 ANNALS OF GONVIT,ILE ANID CAIUS.
et Capitulo ecclesiæ Norwicensis ordinis Sancti Benedicti
salutem et apostolicam benedictionem. Simceritas vestræ devo-
tionis exposcit, ut illa vobis favorabiliter concedamus ex quibus
tam ecclesiæ vestræ Norwicensis ordinis Sancti Benedicti quam
illius personis honor et utilitas valeant provenire. Exhibita
siquidem nobis nuper pro parte vestra petitio continebat quod
olim bonæ memoriæ Wilhelmus episcopus Norwicensis mona-
chorum dictæ ecclesiæ literarum studio insistere volentium
commodo et utilitati providere cupiens de bonis adeo sibi colla-
tis duo Collegia, unum videlicet sub sanctæ Trinitatis et aliud
sub Annunciationis beatæ Mariæ virginis invocationibus Gum-
will hall et Trinite hall muncupata, in universitate studii gene-
ralis Cantabrigiæ Eliensis diocesis in quibus monachi predicti
morarentur et studerent fundavit et dotavit, sed quia felicis
recordationis Benedictus Papa XI predecessor noster dudum
inter alia statuit et ordinavit quod omnes et singuli monachi
dicti ordinis in eadem umiversitate studere volentes im certo
alio Collegio dictæ universitatis ad hoc deputato morarentur et
studerent monachi ejusdem ecclesiæ in prefatis Collegiis studere
mom possunt statuto et ordinatione obsistentibus supradictis.
Quare pro parte vestra mobis fuit humiliter supplicatum ut vobis
[p. 21] quod monachi dictæ vestræ ecclesiæ quos in prefata
universitate studere contigerit in predictis Collegiis per eundem
episcopum ut premittitur fundatis morari et studere valeant
concedere de benignitate apostolica dignaremur. Nos igitur
hujusmodi supplicationibus inclinati vobis quod monachi dictæ
ecclesiæ quos in eadem universitate pro tempore studere conti-
gerit in predictis Collegiis per prefatum episcopum ut pre-
mittitur fundatis morari et studere libere et licite valeant
statuto et ordinatione premissis et quibusvis apostolicis nec-
mom bonæ memoriæ Ottonis et Ottoboni olim in regno Angliæ
apostolicæ sedis legatorum ac im provincialibus ac synodalibus
Conciliis editis generalibus vel specialibus Constitutionibus et
Ordinationibus statutis quoque et consuetudinibus ecclesiæ
et ordinis predictorum juramento confirmatione apostolica vel
quavis firmitate alia roboratis ceterisque contrariis nequaquam
obstantibus auctoritate apostolica tenore presentium de specialis
domo gratiæ indulgemus. Nulli ergo omnino hominum liceat
EULLA SIXTI QUARTI. 33
hanc paginam mostræ concessionis infringere vel ei ausu teme-
rario contraire. Si quis autem hoc attemptare presumpserit
indignationem omnipotentis Dei ac beatorum Petri et Pauli
Apostolorum ejus se noverit incursurum. Datum Romæ apud
Sanctum Petrum Anno Incarnationis Dominicæ Millesimo
quadringentesimo octuagesimo primo, undecimo Kalendarum
Junii, Pontificatus nostri Ammo decimo.
Bulla, Aleæandri seacti.
Ammo Domini 1500.
Quod liceat divina officia celebrare in sacello scholasticis
Collegii et Hospitii Fischwicke, eucharistiam servare, sacra-
menta ministrare, et corpora sepulturæ tradere.
Alexander Episcopus servus servorum Dei ad perpetuam rei
memoriam. Piis fidelium votis illis presertim quæ divini cultus
augmentum et animorum salutem concernumt libenter annui-
[p. 22] mus illaque quantum cum Deo possumus favoribus
prosequimur opportunis. Dudum siquidem foelicis recordationis
Bonifacius papa VIII predecessor moster tunc custodi et scho-
laribus Collegii amnumciationis beatæ Mariæ virginis in studio
Cantabrigiæ Eliensis diocesis omnibusque aliis in eodem Col-
legio pro tempore existentibus et ad illud declinantibus in pres-
byteratus (sic) et sacris ordinibus constitutis ut in Capella dicti
Collegii sub invocatione ejusdem beatæ Mariæ Virginis fumdata
missas et alia divina officia etiam cum nota, et alta voce
diocesami loci et cujusvis alterius licentia super id minime
requisita libere celebrare possent per suas literas licentiam
concessit prout in illis plenius continetur. Cum autem sicut
exhibita mobis pro parte dilectorum filiorum moderni Custodis
et sociorum dicti Collegii petitio continebat dictum Collegium
habeat unam domum Hospitium Fischewyke nuncupatam in
alia parte viæ contra dictum Collegium quæ ad illud legitime
pertimet et im qua scholares literarum studio operam dantes
habitant et si scholares inibi pro tempore habitantes ac socii et
aliæ personæ in dicto Collegio pro tempore existentes etiam in
nom sacris ordinibus constituti in dicta capella divina officia
etiam cum nota et alta voce hujusmodi celebrare valeant ex
G. A. S. Octavo Series. No. XL. 3
34 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANID CATUS.
hoc profecto scholarium domus et Collegii hujusmodi imibique
existentium commodo plurimum consuleretur ipsique scholares
facilius literis operam dare possent eisque vagandi occasio adi-
meretur et ad pia excercenda cum animarum salute et divini
cultus augmento excitarentur. Pro parte Custodis et sociorum
predictorum nobis fuit humiliter supplicatum ut im domo et
Collegio predictis pro tempore existentes in non sacris ordini-
bus constituti divina officia cum nota et alta voce hujusmodi
celebrare possint statuere et ordinare aliasque in premissis
opportune providere de benignitate apostolica dignaremur. Nos
igitur custodem et socios et eorum singulos a quibusvis excom-
[p. 23] municationis suspensionis et interdicti aliisque eccle-
siasticis sententiis censuris et poenis a jure vel ab homine
quavis occasione vel causa latis si quibus quomodo libet inno-
dati existunt ad effectum presentium dumtaxat consequendum
harum serie absolventes et absolutos fore censentes hujusmodi
supplicationibus inclinati auctoritate apostolica tenore presen-
tium statuimus et ordinamus quod tam Custos et socii Collegii
ac scholares domus hujusmodi quam alii in eis pro tempore
existentes in non sacris constituti divina, officia, in dicta capella
cum nota et alta voce celebrare ipsique custos et socii inibi
Eucharistiam decenter tenere et conservare ac capellanum seu
alium secularem aut quorumvis ordinum etiam Mendicantium
regularem sacerdotem qui eustodi et sociis ac scholaribus et
aliis in Collegio et Domo hujusmodi pro tempore existentibus
ecclesiastica sacramenta ministrare valeat deputare et in ea
pro tempore decedentium corpora ecclesiasticæ sepulturæ tradi
facere libere et licite possint prefati diocesani et cujusvis
alterius licentia super hoc minime requisita sine parochialis
ecclesiæ et cujusvis alterius prejudicio mon obstantibus qui-
busvis apostolicis mec mom bonæ memoriæ Ottonis et Ottoboni
olim in Regno Angliæ apostolicæ sedis Legatorum ac in Provin-
cialibus et Sinodalibus Conciliis editis generalibus vel speciali-
bus constitutionibus et ordinationibus cæterisque contrariis
quibuscunque. Nulli ergo omnino homimum liceat hanc pagi-
mam nostræ absolutionis statuti et Ordinationis infringere vel
ei ausu temerario contraire. Si quis autem hoc attemptare
presumpserit indigmationem omnipotentis Dei ac beatorum
BULLA. A.I.EXANDRI SEXTI. 35
Petri et Pauli Apostolorum ejus se noverit incursurum. Datum
Romae apud Sanctum Petrum Anno Incarnationis Dominica
Millesimo quingentesimo, decimo septimo Kalendarum Junii,
Pontificatus nostri anno octavo.
[p. 24] Eacemplificatio pensionis trium librarum hºwic
Collegio a Principe annuatim impensarum
pro hospitão de Physhivic.
Edwardus sextus Dei gratia Angliae Franciae et Hiberniae
rex fidei defensor et in terra ecclesiae Anglicanae et Hiberniae
Supremum caput omnibus ad quos presentes literae pervene-
rint salutem. Inspeximus inter recorda et irrotulamenta Curiae
augmentationum et reventionum coronae nostrae quoddam decre-
tum per Cancellarium et unum generalem supervisorem ac solici-
tatorem Curiae predictae factum in haec verba. Memorandum.
Whereas the master and fellowes of the halle or howse of our
Ladie called Gonevill hall in the towne and university of Cam-
bridge by their dede made under their Common seale bearing
date the xxixth daye of October in the xxxviiith yeare of the
reigne of our late sovereigne Lorde Kinge Henrie the eight,
gave and granted to the said late Kinge and his heires and
successors for ever their howse or hostle cald Phiswicke other-
wise called Phisicke hostle with the appurtenaunces in the said
towne and universitie, as by the same dede more playnly
appeareth, which howse called Phisicke hostle is of the cleare
yerly valeu of three pounds, upon which grante made to the
said late kinge of the premisses it was promised on the behalfe
of the said late kinge unto the said M" and felows of Gonevill
hall aforesaid, that they should have a sufficient recompence
for the said howse or hostle cald Phisick hostle which hetherto
they have not hadd, nor any parte thereof. Wherefore at the
sute of the said M* and Felows of the said Colledge cald
Gonevill hall, It is ordered and decreed by the Chancellor and
one of the general surveiors and solicitors of the Courte of
thaugmentations and revenues of our Sovereigne Lorde the
Kinges crowne in the absence of S' Thomas Moyle knighte the
other of the general surveyors of the said Court the xiith daye
3–2
36 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
of March in the fourth yere of the reigne of our sovereigne
Lord Kinge Edward the sixt by the grace of God Kinge of
Englande France and Ireland defendor of the faith and of the
Churche of Englande and also of Ireland in earth the supreme
head, that the same M* and felows of Gonevill hall and their
successors shall have of the kings highnes one annuitie or
annual pension of thre pounds of lawfull monye of England, to
[p. 25] be payd to them by the hands of the receiver of the
revenues of the said Courte of augmentations and revenues of
the Kings crowne in the said Countie of Cambridge for the
tyme being, at the fests of thannunciation of our blessed Ladie
the virgin and St Michaell tharchangel by even porcions unty!
suche tyme as they shalbe otherwise recompensed of the kings
highnes or his heires for the said house. And it is also ordred
and decreed by the said Chauncelor general surveior and
solicitor that the said M. and felows shal have tharreareages of
the said annuitie from the said xxixth daye of October in the
said xxxviiith yere of the reigne of the said late kinge hitherto,
to be payd to them by thands of the said receivor of the
revenues aforesaid immediately upon the making of this decree.
And this decree shalbe to the receivor and audytor of the said
Countie and to all other the kings officers and ministres of the
said Courte sufficient warrant and discharge in that behalfe.
Nos autem tenorem decreti predicti duximus exemplificandum
per presentes. In cujus rei testimonium has literas nostras
fieri fecimus patentes. Teste Richardo Sacvil milite apud
tº e º 'º
Bulla Alea’andri seat.
Anno Domini 1502. 1502
Mandatum delegatis de examinando et decernendo jure pro-
curationum in Septentrionali visitatione Episcopi Norwicensis.
Alexander Episcopus servus servorum dei dilectis filiis ab-
bati Monasterii Sancti Edmundi de Bury et Priori Prioratus
Sancti Egidii de Barnewell Norwicensis (sic) Diocesis salutem
et apostolicam benedictionem. Conquesti sunt nobis Custos et
Scholares Collegii Annunciationis beatae Mariae Cantabrigiae
BULLA ALEXANDRI SEXTI. 37
Eliensis diocesis quod venerabilis frater noster modernus Epi-
scopus Norwicensis quasdam procurationes ratione visitationis
per eum in quibusdam ecclesiis Norwicensis diocesis eidem
Collegio perpetuo unitis annexis et incorporatis fieri solitæ sibi
[p. 26] de jure minime debitas ab eisdem Custode et scholari-
bus exigere ac eos super hoc diversimode molestare nixus est et
nititur minus juste, ideoque discretioni vestræ per apostolica
scripta mandamus, quatinus vocatis qui fuerint evocandi, et
auditis hinc inde propositis, quod justum fuerit appellatione
remota decernatis, facientes quod decreveritis auctoritate nostra
firmiter observari. Testes autem qui fuerint nominati, si se
gratia odio vel timore subtraxerint per censuram ecclesiasticam
appellatione cessante compellatis veritati testimonium perhi-
bere. Quod si non ambo hiis exequendis potueritis interesse,
alter vestrum nihilominus exequatur. Datum Romæ apud
Sanctum Petrum Ammo Incarnationis Dominicæ Millesimo quin-
gentesimo secundo, sexto Kalendarum Octobris, Pontificatus
nostri anno undecimo.
[p. 27]
Statutum*° noviter editum, sexto Octobris
anno Domini 1581, per Magistrum et socios pro
exequiis alacrius observandis.
Cum piarum mentium sit beneficii accepti memores esse
veroque illius datori non sine gratiarum actione acceptum
referre quod gratis fuerit, donatum, idcirco nos me ingratitudinis
notam incurrere videamur, posteritati quæ in hoc nostro
Collegio successura est innotescere volumus rei quam scripturi
sumus veritatem. Olim a majoribus nostris nempe a variis
in suis ipsorum ætatibus institutum est ut multæ per anni
curriculum suo quæque tempore ab ipsis ac successoribus suis
imperpetuum celebrentur exequiæ, verum ita jam comparata
natura humana est (labescente semper in pejus seculo et
refrigescente multorum charitate) ut mi fulserit lucelli spes,
socordes, tardi, dormitantiores atque adeo frigidi sumus omnes
in hisce quæ nobis imponuntur oneribus ; id quod in nobis
ipsis (nisi sibi quisque insigniter adblandiri voluerit) plus
38 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANID CAIUS.
satis compertum habemus. Proinde ut alacrius quam antehac
factum vidimus tam a nobis quam ab eis qui successuri sunt
onera subeantur predicta, visum est nobis nimirum Custodi
et sociis donationes aliquot ab amicis quibusdam liberaliter
condonatas, quarum dispositionem applicationemque penes mos
esse voluerunt, emptis prius quibusdam perpetuis redditibus
huic rei destimare. Igitur posthac unusquilibet socius qui ab
inceptione Psalmi Verba mea, auribus percipe etc. presens fuerit
atque ad finem usque moram traxerit (nisi aliud exegerit
urgentis causæ necessitas per Custodem aut ejus locum
tementem approbandæ priusquam recesserit) ex donatione vene-
rabilium virorum Johannis Bayley sacræ Theologiæ Professoris,
Magistri Johannis Carter, et Magistri Albon hujus Collegii
quondam sociorum, ac Magistri Johannis Le Straunge armigeri
in singulis exequiis in quibus hactenus nihil habuerit, quatuor
denarios recipiet: nimirum donante illo cujus nomen illis
pro quibus jam olim institutæ sunt exequiæ ultimo apponitur.
Si vero adhuc eo negligentiæ et inadvertentiæ ventum fuerit
ut ante principium Psalmi Verba, mea minime fuerit presens,
tunc volumus ut pecunia illa in augmentationem prandii aut
coenæ illius vel sequentis diei convertatuit. Custodem vero
hujusmodi cancellis arctari nolumus, sed ipsum quem aliis
[p. 28] omnibus exemplar ad virtutem fore confidimus suæ
conscientiæ relinquemdum duximus, atque (si exequias dicere
minime fuerit dedignatus, etiam sui ipsius negotio qualecumque
fuerit extra Academiam vacans, æque atque si presens esset)
quatuor denariorum summam recepturum decernimus; socium
autem non item ; veruntamen et illum, si in Collegii causa
absens fuerit, suo fraudari jure indignum adjudicamus. Quod
si tanta premat singulos oblivio ut nulli eorum in mentem veniat
exequiarum celebratio quousque statuta dies fuerit prætermissa,
tunc volumus ut in peccati poenam media pecuniæ portione
mulctentur omnes, reliquum vero in prandio aut cœna illius
diei, quo prætermissæ illæ celebrandæ fuerint exequiæ, expen-
datur.
Ad has exequias quam diligentissime observandas, ac po-
tissimum ut officii executori atque adeo singulis innotescat
pro quibus celebrentur suo quæque tempore, omnes in ordinem
EXEQUIÆ BENEFACTORUM. 39
redigi atque hic subscribi curavimus, turpe esse rati pro
veteribus illis Collegii amicis officium facere, ac eorum nomima
pro quibus fit penitus ignorare, id quod non paucis usu venisse
hactenus semel atque iterum experti sumus, utque deinceps
minime contingat hac ratione cavendum operæ pretium esse
duximus. .-
Januarii
Exequiæ in die Epiphaniæ celebrantur pro fundatore Col-
legii et pro anima magistri Johannis Carter quondam socii
hujus Collegii et pro animabus pro quibus tenetur orare. 47*
Januarii
Exequiæ in die Fabiani et Sebastiani pro anima Willelmi
Fyshwik et pro animabus patris et matris suæ et aliorum pro
quibus orare tenetur, et domini Lyhert Norwicensis episcopi
quorum alter hospitium de Fyshwick nobis contulit, alter non
minoribus sumptibus reparavit. 47 » »
Februarii
Exequiæ in crastino Purificationis pro animabus magistri
Thomæ Atwood et Willelmi Warrock, et pro animabus omnium
adjuvantium ad ædificationem novam videlicet aulæ et li-
brariæ, et pro anima magistri Johannis Carter, etc. 47
Eebruarii
Exequiæ 12° die mensis Februarii domini Rogeri Hydon,
sacerdotis, et domini Willelmi Gale sacerdotis, et Margaretæ
Hoore, et pro anima magistri Johannis Carter etc., et Nicholai
[p. 29] Shaxtom quondam episcopi, qui libros plurimos biblio-
thecæ ac ammuatim sociis presentibus in nativitate Christi
xviii* distribuendos voluit.
Februarii
Exequiæ 20 die mensis Februarii pro anima, magistræ
Elizabeth Clere et Roberti sponsi ejus, filiorum, parentum, et
* These figures, repeated after other exequies, are not easy of explanation.
40 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANI) CAIUS.
benefactorum eorumdem et pro anima Johannis Bayard et
Annæ uxoris ejus et pro anima magistri Johannis Carter, etc. 47
IMartii
Exequiæ dominæ Annæ Scroope et sponsorum ejus quinto
die mensis Martii vj", ac unicuique bibliotistarum ij", ac 5 pan. 5".
IMartii
Exequiæ in vigilia Gregorii pro anima magistri Johannis
Beverle et pro anima magistri Johammis Le Straunge armigeri
et pro animabus uxoris suæ et omnium pro quibus orare
tenetur. 47
Pentecost
Exequiæ die veneris infra octavas Pentecostes pro animabus
domini Johannis Wakering episcopi Norwicensis, et domini
Richardi Powle quondam vicarii de Fulldon, et omnium Cus-
todum et sociorum Collegii et omnium benefactorum ejusdem
et pro anima magistri Johannis Le Strange Armigeri, etc. 47
Junii
Exequiæ in die Sancti Bonifacii pro magistro Waltero
Elvedem et, pro domino Willelmo Gale sacerdote et magistro
Johanne Le Straunge armigero, etc., et pro anima Nicholai
Shaxton Theologiæ professoris et quondam ecclesiæ Sarisbu-
riensis Episcopi qui sepulcro conditus est in hoc, ut patet,
sacello, anno 1556, 6° Julii ; qui dona huic Collegio dedit ad
valorem centum marcarum in libris, etc.
Julii
Nono die Julii exequiæ pro doctore Bayley vi° et unicuique
bibliotistarum ij".
Julii
Exequiæ in vigilia Sanctæ Margaretæ pro magistro Ri-
chardo Causton ac domino Stephano Smyth, et magistro
Johanne Carter cujus obitus isto die celebratur. 67
EXEQUIÆ BENEFACTORUM. 4l
Octobris
Exequiæ in die Sanctæ Etheldredæ in mense Octobris
pro anima magistri Johannis Aylwarde et magistri Johannis
Lynsted, et magistri Johannis Le Straunge armigeri, etc. 47
Octobris
Exequiæ im vigilia undecim mille virginum pro magistro
Cossei quondam Custode hujus Collegii et parentibus ac
amicis suis, una cum magistro Johanne Le Straunge armi-
gero, etc. 47
INovembris
Exequiæ in die animarum pro anima Galfridi Knight sacræ
Theologiæ professoris et pro animabus parentum et bene-
factorum suorum, et eorum omnium qui in ejus indentura
continentur vj": item singulis bibliotistarum presentium ij".
[p. 3O]
- INovembris
Exequiæ in vigilia Edmundi episcopi et confessoris pro
domino Willelmo de Huntingfeld et domino Johanne de
Linsted rectoribus de Cawston, et pro quibus orare tementur,
et pro Jóhanne Baly sacræ Theologiæ professore, et pro quibus
orare tenetur, etc. 43 * -
Novembris
Exequiæ in die Sancti Hugonis pro magistro Edmundo
Gumvill sacerdote, magistro Henrico Cossey, Droll, et Browne,
una cum magistro Johanne Bayly sacræ Theologiæ professore,
et dicantur istæ orationes Inclína, et Deus cujus misericordiæ
non est númerus suscipe pro animabus famulorum tuorum
Sacerdotum, preces nostras. 47
Novembris
Exequiæ in vigilia Sancti Edmundi regis pro animabus
42 ANNALS OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS.
dominæ Mariæ de Pakenham et domini Thomæ de Pakenham
filii ejusdem, et Radulphi de Hemmall militis et Katerinæ
uxoris suæ et magistri Albon quondam hujus Collegii socii,
cujus beneficio singuli presentes sive Custos aut socius re-
cipient vj° in die harum exequiarum ex proventibus cujusdam
clausuræ emptæ apud Barningham anno Domini 1518. 67
' Maii
Exequiæ seu commemoratio Thomæ Wemdiem doctoris Medi-
cinæ undecimo Maii, cujus beneficio Custos recipiet xx°, singuli
socii presentes xii°, quod reliquum est viginti solidorum ex-
pendatur in prandium ejus diei. • , '
Exequiæ seu commemoratio Johannis Caii fundatoris
nostri, xxix° die Mensis Julii. Nam eo die moriebatur ammo
Domini 1578. In eis habeat Custos xii", singuli socii magistri
vi°, singuli bachalaurei iiii°, et singuli scholastici ex funda-
tione ij". -
[p. 25]*
Amnalium Collegii de Goneville et Caius
a Collegio condito liber secundus. De
tertia fundatione.
1557
Hactenus de iis quæ primæ et secundæ fundationis tempore
acta sunt retulimus. Jam de tertia, et iis quæ tertiæ'tempore
gesta sunt, referemus. «w - -•
Vivente adhuc Thoma Bacon custode, homine certe gravi,
miti et amabili, sed custode inutili et negligente, visum est
Johanni Caio, doctori medicinæ, et homini per omnem vitam
ccelibi, anno Domini 1557, in honorem dei et utilitatem patriæ,
Collegio huic mostro (quod, velut mater, illum bonis literis
educaverat) prædia seu fundos quosdam suos consecrare, et
socios tres scholaresque minimum duodecim fundare atque
instituere. Qua re cum custode et sociis communicata, et de
fundatione imcorporationeque Collegii sermone habito, quo
securius firmiusque concedantur omnia, ad postremum, fun-
* The paging begins again at 25.
. TERTIA FUNIDATIO. 43
datione per primores jurisperitorum ejus temporis Londini
examinata, animadversum est nullius esse virtutis eam quam
reputabamus Collegii fundationem. Affirmabant enim Juris-
consulti, non fundationem illam sed licentiam tantum esse
concedendi tria ædificia cum hortis in Lurghburni vico ad
manum mortuam, quod hactenus Collegium pro fundatione
habuit. Quo factum est ut nec Caius dare, nec Collegium
quicquam recipere, aut quod concessum prius est retinere
potuit. Horum consilio admoniti custos atque socii, altiusque
pensitantes quod in angusto essent sua omnia, nihilque eorum,
quæ tunc temporis Collegium possidebat, fuisse Collegio firmum,
stabile aut securum, quod incorporatio nulla unquam, fuit, nec
tum existeret, quodque per ante acta tempora bonitati sancti-
tati et simplicitati illius seculi concredita erant potius, quam
virtute legis confirmata omnia, post maturam deliberationem
huic malo quam primum succurrere studuerunt. Ab optimis
igitur principibus et pietate plenis Philippo et Maria tum rege
et regina Angliæ, supplices petiverunt, ut in eorum potestatem
deditis omnibus suis, novam fundationem atque incorporationem
non Aulæ nomine, ut prius, sed Collegii, novamque ex Gonevilli
et Caii nominibus denominationem concederent. Quorum pre-
cibus accedentes suæ naturæ bonitate propensi rex et regina,
per litteras suas patentes datas Westmonasterii quarto Sep-
tembris anno Domini 1557, et anmis regnorum suorum quarto
et quinto, custodi et sociis novam et solam fundationem et
inëorporationem concedebant, momen de Goneville et Caius
Collegio imponebant, Edmundum Goneville, Willelmum Bate-
mam, et Johannem Caium ejus fundatores constituebant.
Johanni Caio statuta, condendi et possessiones ad libras
sexaginta aut centum conferendi potestatem dabant, sigillum
commune, fruitionem possessionum veterum, movorum acqui-
sitionem, et mortificationem centum librarum largiebantur.
Atque hæc quidem et alia, in ea quæ sequuntur verba.
Philippus et Maria Dei gratia rex et regina Angliæ
Hispaniæ Franciæ utriusque Siciliæ Hierosolimi et Hiberniæ,
fidei defensores Archiduces Austriæ Duces Burgundiæ Mediolami
et Brabantiæ comites Haspurgi Flandriæ et Tyrollis, omnibus
ad quos presentes literæ pervenerint salutem.
44 ANNALS OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS.
QVum quæùam ùomu$ sive Aula vocata et nuncupata Colle-
gium sive Aula annunciationis beatæ Mariæ virginis, Anglice
Goneville Halle, alias Gonvell Halle, alias Gonewell Halle, in
villa et universitate nostra Cantabrigiæ modo sit et ad pre-
sens existit ; quæ quidem domus sive Aula, ut Collegium
perpetuum sive Aula perpetua incorporata in universitate pre-
dicta longo jam tempore, viz*. per ducentos ammos elapsos et
amplius, hucusque in omnibus et per omnia usitata recepta et
accepta fuit, ac per idem tempus per magistrum sive custodem
et socios ejusdem Domus sive Aulæ secundum ordinationes
regulas et statuta facta et edita per quendam Willelmum
quondam Norwicensem episcopum gubernata, et ordinata ex-
istit; et qui quidem magister sive custos et socii per momen
magistri sive custodis ac sociorum Collegii sive Aulæ annun-
ciationis beatæ Mariæ Virginis vulgariter nuncupatæ Goneville
Halle in universitate Cantabrigiæ a tempore predicto et per
tempus predictum diversa maneria messuagia rectorias terras
[p. 26] tenementa, et alia hereditamenta, et possessiones sibi
et successoribus suis imperpetuum perquisiverunt, habuerunt et
tenuerunt, ac per idem nomen et sub eodem nomine placitare
et implacitari, defendere et defendi, respondere et responderi,
capere, perquirere, recipere, dare, alienare et dimittere, et cætera
alia et singula facere et exequi a toto tempore predicto usi
fuerunt, prout alia Collegia, sive Aulæ in dicta universitate
Cantabrigiæ facere et exequi consueverint prout certam inde
habemus notitiam ; cumque jam dilectus subditus noster
Johannes Caius Norwicensis, in medicimis doctor, ac dictæ
Domus sive Aulæ olim socius instinctu intuituque charitatis
divina preveniente gratia in animum induxerit suis impensis
certas terras temementa, et hereditamenta, magistro sive custodi
ac sociis predictæ Domus sive Aulæ et successoribus suis dare
et concedere pro perpetua sustentatione duorum sociorum et
duodecim scholarium infra dictam Domum sive Aulam ultra
numerum sociorum et scholarium in eadem Domo sive Aula
modo existentem vel antehac sustentari assignatum, aliaque
multa beneficia et pietatis officia (si Deus ei vitam concesserit)
in honorem Dei et beatæ Mariæ Virginis, ac in publicam utili-
tatem et incrementum tam predictæ Domus sive Aulæ quam
LITERÆ PATENTEs, 1557. 45
predictæ universitatis Cantabrigiæ ac totius reipublicæ nostræ
conferre proposuerit, prout similiter informamur.
$tiati3 igitur quod nos tam pium propositum et intem-
tionem predicti Johannis Caius considerantes, et desiderantes
quod alii subditi nostri ad hujusmodi et consimilia pietatis
officia indies magis accendantur et moveantur, necnon maxime
affectantes bonas literas infra hoc regnum nostrum Angliæ in
honorem Dei et decorationem dictæ universitatis nostræque
reipublicæ augeri, sperantesque quod uberius et fertilius semen
atque fructum virtutis et doctrinæ inde produci, ad humilem
petitionem dilecti nobis Thomæ Bacon clerici, sacræ theologiæ
baccalaurei ac modo magistri sive custodis prædictæ Domus
sive Aulæ, et sociorum ejusdem, de gratia mostra speciali ac
ex certa scientia, et mero motu nostris volumus, ac pro nobis
ac hæredibus et successoribus nostrum prefatæ reginæ per
presentes concedimus constituimus et ordinamus quod pre-
dicta Domus sive Aula antehac vocata Collegium sive Aula
amnunciationis beatæ Mariæ virginis vulgariter nuncupata
Goneville Halle, alias Gonvell Halle, alias Gonwell Halle in
universitate nostra Cantabrigiæ aut quocunque alio nomine
vel cognomine sive aliis nominibus quibuscunque antehac vo-
cetur, nominetur seu appelletur, sit, et deinceps in futurum
erit Collegium perpetuum de magistro sive custode et sociis
imcorporatum et consolidatum futuris temporibus imperpetuum
duraturum. Idemque Collegium Collegium de Goneville et
Caius, fundatum in honorem annunciationis beatæ Mariæ
virginis in universitate Cantabrigiæ, nominamus, facimus,
erigimus, creamus, constituimus, et declaramus per presentes.
Ac sic jam, et posthac, ac in posterum nominari, vocari et
appellari volumus, ordinamus, declaramus, et jubemus per
presentes imperpetuum, et non per aliud nomen sive alia
nomina. Ac predictum Johannem Caius fundatorem ejus-
dem Collegii cum Edmundo Goneville et reverendo Willelmo
Batemam quondam episcopo Norwicensi nominamus, facimus,
declaramus, ordinamus, et per presentes constituimus, ac sic
jam et posthac et in posterum eum nominari, vocari, nuncu-
pari, et appellari volumus, et jubemus per presentes. Ac
etiam volumus ac per presentes pro nobis hæredibus et suc-
46 ANNALS OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS.
cessoribus nostris prefatæ reginæ concedimus et ordinamus,
quod predictus dilectus noster Thomas Bacon clericus sacræ
theologiæ baccalaureus sit et erit magister sive custos mo-
dernus ejusdem Collegii de Goneville et Caius, fundati in
honorem annunciationis beatæ Mariæ virginis in universitate
Cantabrigiæ, ipsumque Thomam Bacon modernum magistrum
sive custodem ejusdem Collegii facimus, nominamus, creamus
et ordinamus per presentes. Ac quod dilectus nobis Johannes
Vincent sacræ theologiæ baccalaureus, Johannes Batemam
artium magister, Hugo Glymne artium magister, Johannes
Cowell artium magister, Willelmus Clarke artium magister,
Thomas Burre artium magister, Sabiamus Smyth in artibus
baccalaureus, Johammes Kettylstom artium magister, Henricus
Diricke in artibus baccalaureus, et Willelmus Barker artium
magister, sint et erunt socii ejusdem Collegii. Ac quod erunt
in eodem Collegio alii duo socii sive plures per predictum
Johannem Caius, seu quamcunque aliam personam seu quas-
cumque alias personas in posterum momimandi, eligendi, et
associandi in eodem Collegio, eosdemque Johannem Vincent,
Johannem Batemam, Hugonem Glymne, Johannem Cowell, Will-
elmum Clarke, Thomam Burre, Sabinum Smythe, Johannem
[p. 27] Ketilston, Henricum Diricke, et Willelmum Barker,
socios modernos ejusdem Collegii facimus, nominamus, consti-
tuimus, et ordinamus per presentes. QÉt ulteriu$ eoncedimus
prefato Johanni Caius, et cuicunque aliæ personæ, vel quibus-
cunque aliis personis, quod ipse idem Johannes Caius, sive
alia quæcumque persona sive personæ, alios duos seu plures in
posterum ad libitum suum nominare eligere et appunctuare
possit aut possint esse socios ejusdem Collegii cum cæteris
supradictis decem sociis. Ac quod illi duo sive plures sic
ut prefertur eligendi et appunctuandi, erunt socii ejusdem
Collegii in consimilibus modo et forma prout predicti decem
per presentes ordinati sunt et creati. Volentes insuper et per
presentes decernentes, quod tam predicti magister sive custos
et socii, quam alii illis in posterum, ut inferius exprimitur,
associandi et eligendi sive adjungendi, in omnibus et per
omnia se gerent exhibebunt conversabuntur et eligentur juxta
et secundum ordinationes regulas et statuta, per predictum
LITERÆ PATENTES, 1557. ' 47
cr
Willelmum quondam episcopum Norwicensem in scriptis facta
habita et redacta, ae juxta ordinationes regulas et statuta per
predictum Johannem Caius, ad incrementum et communem
utilitatem ejusdem Collegii in posterum authoritate subscripta
fienda ; ita quod hujusmodi ordinationes regulæ et statuta
aut eorum aliquod per predictum Johammem Caius sic in
posterum fiendum, mom sint aut erumt repugmantia, sive com-
traria predictis ordinationibus regulis et statutis per predictum
Willelmum nuper episcopum Norwicensem ut prefertur factis
aut habitis, nec contraria prerogativæ nostræ regiæ. 3lt £tiam
volumus ac per presentes pro nobis hæredibus et successoribus
nostris prefatæ reginæ comcedimus, ordinamus, constituimus, et
declaramus, quod predicti magister sive custos, et socii predicti
Collegii de Goneville et Caius fumdati in honorem annuncia-
tionis beatæ Mariæ Virginis in universitate Camtabrigiæ, sint,
et de cetero erunt in re et nomine unum corpus corporatum
et politicum per momen magistri sive custodis et sociorum
Collegii de Goneville et Caius fundatum im honorem annum-
ciationis beatæ Mariæ Virginis in universitate Cantabrigiæ,
habeantque successionem perpetuam, ipsosque magistrum sive
custodem et socios ejusdem Collegii unum corpus corporatum
et politicum in re et nomine facimus, constituimus, ordinamus,
creamus, stabilimus, et declaramus, per presentes: ac eos pro
uno corpore corporato et politico in re et nomime facimus,
ordinamus, acceptamus, acceptarique volumus per presentes
imperpetuum. Et quod ipse magister sive custos et socii
eorumque successores per nomen magistri sive custodis et
sociorum Collegii de Goneville et Caius fundati in honorem
annunciationis beatæ Mariæ Virginis in universitate Canta-
brigiæ, prosequi, clamare, et placitare possint et implacitari,
ac defendere et defendi, respondere et responderi in quibus-
cumque curiis et locis, et coram quibuscunque justiciario et
justiciariis, in et super omnibus et singulis causis, actionibus,
sectis, negotiis et demandis, ac in et super omnibus et singulis
brevibus et querelis realibus, personalibus, spiritualibus, eccle-
siasticis et mixtis et in placitis et querelis tam assisarum et
mortis antecessoris, quam attinctæ erroris, scire facias, et exe-
cutionis quarumcumque ac in omnibus aliis actionibus rebus
48 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANTO CATUS.
causis et materiis quibuscunque seu cujuscunque maturæ seu
speciei fuerint, eidem Collegio quoquomodo pertimentibus sive
spectantibus, aut idem Collegium tangentibus seu concernenti-
bus. Et per idem nomen et sub eodem nomine maneria,
dominia, terras, tenementa, rectorias, decimas, possessiones,
hereditamenta, proficua et emolumenta, tam spiritualia sive
ecclesiastica, quam temporalia et alia quæcunque per mos, per
literas nostras patentes heredes et successores nostrum pre-
fatæ reginæ, aut per predictum Johannem Caius, vel per
quamcumque aliam personam vel alias personas quascumque
eis vel successoribus suis vel aliter, danda comferenda seu
concedenda capere, recipere, perquirere, et appropriare, nec
mon eadem dare, concedere, alienare, et dimittere quibuscum-
que personis in lege capacibus possint et valeant, ac generaliter
omnia alia et singula capere, recipere, perquirere, dare, alienare
et dimittere, ae facere et exequi valeant et possint, prout
cætera Collegia fundata et incorporata infra dictam universi-
tatem Cantabrigiæ seu eorum aliquod capere, recipere, per-
quirere, dare, alienare et dimittere, aut in aliquibus temporibus
[p. 28] retroactis facere consueverunt et exequi possint aut
possit quoquomodo. Et quod prædicti magister sive custos et
socii ejusdem Collegii et successores sui habeant et habebunt
commune sigillum ad omnia et omnimodas causas negotia
evidentia res materias cætera scripta et facta sua fienda, eos
vel idem Collegium aliquo modo tangentia, sive concernentia,
sigillamda, per quod se et successores suos astringere et obli-
gare possint et valeant ad tempus vel imperpetuum juxta et
secundum tenorem ejusdem scripti sic per illos sigillati, ac
juxta predictas ordinationes regulas et statuta per predictum
Willelmum quondam Norwicensem episcopum ante hac habita
facta edita, et usitata ac juxta Ordinationes regulas et statuta
per predictum Johannem Caius in forma subscripta in poste-
rum fienda et constituenda. 3t ulteriu3 volumus ac pro
nobis heredibus et successoribus mostrum prefatæ reginæ per
presentes concedimus et ordinamus quod quandocunque et
quotiescunque contigerit aliquem magistrum sive custodem aut
aliquem socium sive scholarem predicti Collegii de Goneville
et Caius fundati in honorem annunciationis beatæ Mariæ in
LITERÆ PATENTES, 1557. 49
universitate Cantabrigiæ pro tempore existentem obire, rece-
dere, amoveri, vel locum suum quocumque modo vacare, quod
extunc de tempore in tempus electio ejusmodi magistri, socii
et scholaris fiat et erit juxta predictas ordinationes regulas et
statuta predicti Willelmi nuper episcopi Norwicensis, ac juxta
ordinationes regulas et statuta per predictum Johannem Caius
in forma subscripta in posterum fienda et stabilienda. Ac
insuper volumus, ac pro nobis heredibus et successoribus nos-
trum prefatæ reginæ per presentes concedimus et ordinamus
quod predictum Collegium de Goneville et Caius fundatum in
honorem beatæ Mariæ virginis in universitate Cantabrigiæ, ac
Magister sive custos et socii ejusdem imperpetuum uniantur,
annectentur, consolidentur, et incorporentur dictæ universitati
Cantabrigiæ, et ut pars parcella aut membrum ejusdem uni-
versitatis capiantur adjudicentur et sint, ac quod omnibus et
singulis privilegiis, immunitatibus, franchisis et libertatibus
quibuscumque dictæ Academiæ sive universitati Cantabrigiæ
per mos seu per quemeumque progenitorum nostrum prefatæ
reginæ hactenus concessis, libere et integre et ad plenum
gaudeant et fruantur imperpetuum, prout predicta Domus sive
Aula vocata et nuncupata ante confectionem harum literarum
nostrarum patentium Collegium sive Aula amnunciationis
beatæ Mariæ virginis vulgariter nuncupata Goneville Halle,
ac magister sive custos ejusdem Collegii sive Aulæ et socii
ejusdem, fuerunt annexi consolidati et incorporati dictæ uni-
versitati Cantabrigiæ, et ut fuerunt pars parcella et membrum
ejusdem universitatis in omnibus privilegiis immunitatibus
franchisis et libertatibus dictæ Academiæ capti et adjudicati.
Et præterea de liberiore gratia nostra volumus ac pro nobis
heredibus et successoribus nostrum prefatæ reginæ per pre-
sentes concedimus quod predicti magister sive custos et socii
predicti Collegii de Goneville et Caius fundati in honorem
beatæ Mariæ virginis in universitate Cantabrigiæ habeant;
gaudeant teneant et retineant, sibi et successoribus suis im-
perpetuum, totam domum situm septum circuitum ambitum
et procinctum predictæ nuper Domus sive Aulæ antehac vocatae
Goneville Halle in villa sive universitate Cantabrigiæ, cum
omnibus et singulis suis juribus, membris et pertinentibus
C. A. S. Octavo Series. No. XL. 4.
50 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CATUS.
universis, ac cum omnibus antiquis privilegiis libertatibus et
liberis consuetudinibus ejusdem nuper Domus sive Aulæ ante-
hac vocatae Goneville Halle, aut per aliquem magistrum sive
custodem aut aliquos magistros sive custodes et socios ejusdem
nuper Domus sive Aulæ antehac vocatae Gonevill Hall infra
unum annum ante confectionem harum literarum nostrarum
patentium usitatis, Ac omnia et singula messuagia, domos,
aedificia, structuras, capellas, tecta, curtilagia, atria, porticus,
librarias, hortos, pomaria, gardina, Canales, aquagia, aqueductus,
terras, fundum, et solum, cum pertinentiis infra eundem situm
septum circuitum seu procinctum ejusdem nuper Domus sive
Aulae antehac vocatae Gonevill Halle existentia, aut quae ut
pars partes aut parcellae ejusdem situs ambitus seu procinctus
fuerunt usitata reputata seu aestimata, aut quae nuper fuerunt
predicti magistri sive custodis et sociorum ejusdem nuper
Domus sive Aulæ antehac vocatae Goneville Halle, ac omnia
et singula maneria, messuagia, molendina, terras, tenementa,
[p. 29] prata, pascuas, pasturas, redditus, reversiones, servicia,
boscos, subboscos, rectorias, decimas, pensiones, portiones,
annuitates, weras, anglice weres, advocationes, jura patronatus,
et alia hereditamenta, proficua, commoditates, et emolumenta
quaecundue dictae nuper Domui sive Aulæ antehac vocatae
Gonevill Halle, tempore confectionis harum literarum nostra-
rum patentium quoquo modo spectantia sive pertinentia, aut
ut parcellae possessionum reddituum proficuorum seu reven-
tionum ejusdem nuper Domus sive Aulae modo vel infra unum
annum ante confectionem harum literarum nostrarum paten-
tium habita cognita accepta usitata recepta reputata dimissa
seu locata existentia, aut quae fuerunt predicti magistri sive
custodis et Sociorum ejusdem nuper Domus sive Aulæ antehac
vocatae Gonevill Halle infra unum annum ante datam presen-
tium, necnon totum plumbum et vitrum ac omnia campanas,
vasa, jocalia, ornamenta, utensilia, bona, catalla, res et imple-
menta quaecumque predictae nuper Domus sive Aulæ antehac
vocatae Goneville Halle, aut quae fuerunt predictorum magistri
sive custodis et sociorum ejusdem nuper Domus sive Aulae
antehac vocatae Goneville Halle. Et pro majori securitate
predictorum magistri sive custodis et sociorum predicti Collegii
LITERAE PATENTES, 1557. 51
de Goneville et Caius fundati in honorem annunciationis beatae
Mariae virginis in universitate Cantabrigiae et successorum
Suorum de et in premissis, dedimus et concessimus, ac per
presentes pro nobis haeredibus et successoribus nostrum pre-
fatae reginae damus et concedimus prefatis magistro sive custodi
et sociis predicti Collegii de Goneville et Caius fundati in
honorem annunciationis beatae Mariae virginis in universitate
Cantabrigiae, totam predictam domum situm septum circuitum
ambitum et procinctum predictae nuper Domus sive Aulæ ante-
hac vocatae Gonevill Halle in predicta villa sive universitate
Cantabrigiae, cum omnibus et singulis suis juribus membris
et pertinentiis universis, ac cum omnibus predictis antiquis
privilegiis, libertatibus, et liberis consuetudinibus ejusdem
nuper Domus sive Aulae antehac vocatae Gonevill Halle, ac
omnia et singula messuagia, domos, aedificia, structuras, capellas,
tecta, curtilagia, atria, porticus, librarias, hortos, pomaria, gar-
dina, canales, aquagia, aqueductus, terras, fundum et Solum cum
pertinentiis infra eundem situm septum circuitum ambitum seu
procinctum ejusdem nuper Domus sive Aulae antehac vocatae
Gonevill Halle existentibus, aut quae ut pars wel parcella ejus-
dem situs ambitus seu procincti fuerunt usitata reputata seu
aestimata, aut quae nuper fuerunt predictorum magistri sive
custodis et sociorum ejusdem nuper Domus sive Aulæ antehac
vocatae Gomeville Halle infra umum annum ante datam harum
literarum nostrarum patentium, ac omnia et singula maneria,
messuagia, molendina, terras, tenementa, prata, pascuas, pastu-
ras, redditus, reversiones, servicia, boscos, Subboscos, annuitates,
weras, rectorias, decimas, pensiones, portiones, advocationes, jura
patronatus, et alia hereditamenta, proficua, commoditates, et
emolumenta quaecundue predictae nuper Domui sive Aulae ante-
hac vocatae Goneville Hall, quoquo modo antehac infra unum
annum ante datam harum literarum nostrarum patentium spec-
tantia sive pertinentia, autut parcellae possessionum reddituum
proficuorum seu reventionum ejusdem nuper Domus sive
Aulæ modo vel antehac infrasunum annum ante datam harum
literarum nostrarum patentium, habita, cognita, accepta, usi-
tata, recepta, reputata, dimissa, seu locata existentia: aut quae
fuerunt predictorum magistri sive custodis, et Sociorum ejusdem
4–2
52 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CATUS.
nuper Domus sive Aulae antehac vocatae Gonevill Halle infra
unum annum ante datam presentium, necnon totum plumbum
et vitrum, ac omnia campanas, vasa, jocalia, ornamenta, uten-
silia, bona, catalla, res et implementa quaecundue predictæ
nuper Domus sive Aulæ antehac vocatae Gonevill Halle, aut
quae fuerunt predictorum magistri sive custodis et sociorum
ejusdem nuper Domus sive Aulæ antehac vocatae Gonevill
Halle, habenda tenenda et gaudenda: predictam domum et
situm, ac predicta maneria, messuagia, molendina, terras,
tenementa, redditus, reversiones, servicia, boscos, subboscos,
rectorias, decimas, pensiones, portiones, annuitates, advoca-
tiones, jura patronatus, atria, structuras, hortos, pomaria,
gardina, cum omnibus et singulis antiquis privilegiis, liberis
consuetudinibus, libertatibus et pertinentiis, una cum predicto
plumbo, vitro, campanis, vasis, jocalibus, ornamentis, bonis,
catallis, rebus et implementis, ac caeteris omnibus et singulis
premissis superius expressis et specificatis, cum eorum perti-
[p. 3O] nentibus universis, prefatis magistro sive custodi et
sociis predicti Collegii de Goneville et Caius, fundati in honorem
annunciationis beatae Mariae virginis in universitate Canta-
brigiae, et successoribus suis imperpetuum, ad proprium opus
et usum eorundem magistri sive custodis, et sociorum, et suc-
cessorum suorum imperpetuum, tenenda de nobis haeredibus
et successoribus nostrum prefatae reginae, aut de aliqua alia
persona seu aliquibus aliis personis de quo vel de quibus
eaderm maneria, terrae, tenementa, ac caetera hereditamenta,
aut aliqua inde parcella tenentur sive tenetur, ante confec-
tionem harum literarum patentium per eaſlem et consimilia
redditus et servicia, per quae eaden maneria terrae sive tene-
menta tenebantur die confectionis harum litterarum nostrarum
patentium, prout hae literae nostrae patentes factae non fuerunt,
absolue aliquo brevi de ad quod dampnum, inquisitione vel
alio brevi quocunque a nobis aut haeredibus, vel successoribus
nostrum prefatae reginae quoquo modo impetrando Seu prose-
quendo, statuto de terris et tenementis ad manum mortuam
non ponendis, aut aliquo alio statuto, actu, ordinatione, provi-
sione, seu restrictione, aut alia aliqua re, causa seu materia
quacunque in aliquo non obstante. Et ulterius de ampliori
LITERAE PATENTEs, 1557. 53
gratia nostra concessimus et licentiam dedimus, ac pro nobis
heredibus et successoribus nostrum prefatae reginae per pre-
sentes concedimus et licentiam damus specialem prefato Johanni
Caius, quod ipse durante vita sua naturali, quaecumque maneria,
terras, tenementa, rectorias, messuagia, prata, pascuas, pastu-
ras, redditus, reversiones, servicia, boscos, Subboscos, decimas,
pensiones, portiones, et alia hereditamenta quaecungue, tam
spiritualia quam temporalia cujuscumque generis vel naturae
fuerint, cum eorum pertinentiis universis, non excedenda
clarum annuum valorem septuaginta librarum, licet de nobis
teneantur in capite vel per servicium militare vel aliter, et
licet de quacunque alia persona sive aliis personis quibus-
cunque teneantur, dare possit et concedere per feoffamenta
cartam confirmationis seu relaxationis vel recuperationem coram
justiciariis nostris apud Westmonasterium in curia nostra de
Communi Banco, vel per finem in eadern curia levandam, vel
alio quocumque modo prefatis magistro sive custodi et sociis
predicti Collegii de Gonevill et Caius fundati in honorem
annunciationis beatae Mariae virginis in universitate Canta-
brigiae, et successoribus suis imperpetuum. Et eisdem magistro
sive custodi et sociis ejusdem Collegii et successoribus suis
similiter licentiam damus per presentes quod ipsi eadem man-
eria, rectorias, messuagia, terras,tenementa, redditus, reversiones,
servicia, decimas, pensiones, portiones et cetera haereditamenta
predicta, a prefato Johanne Caius recipere possint ac tenere
Sibi vel eis et successoribus suis imperpetuum, ac quaecunque
alia maneria, messuagia, terras, tenementa, rectorias, decimas,
et haereditamenta quaecundue a quacunque alia persona vel
aliis personis quibuscunque eaderm dare volenti vel volentibus,
simili modo recipere possint ac tenere sibi vel eis et succes-
Soribus suis imperpetuum, dummodo eaden maneria, messuagia,
terrae, tenementa, rectoriae, decimae et haereditamenta sic per
quamcunque aliam personam seu quaScunque alias personas
danda et concedenda, una cum hujusmodi maneriis terris
tenementis et hareditamentis per prefatum Johannem Caius
in forma predicta dandis et concedendis, in toto non excedant
clarum annuum valorem centum librarum. Similiter licentiam
damus et concedimus specialem per presentes, et hoc absoue
54 ANNALS OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS.
aliquo brevi de ad quod dampnum, inquisitione, vel alio brevi
quocumque a nobis aut heredibus vel successoribus nostrum
prefatæ reginæ quoquo modo impetrando, obtinendo, faciendo,
prosequendo, predicto statuto de terris et tenementis ad
manum mortuam non ponendis, aut aliquo alio statuto, actu,
ordinatione, provisione, prohibitione, seu restrictione, alia ali-
qua re causa seu materia, quacunque in aliquo non obstante,
Nolentes quod prefati magister sive custos et socii predicti
Collegii de Goneville et Caius fundati in honorem annun-
ciationis beatæ Mariæ virginis in universitate Cantabrigiæ,
aut successores sui, aut predictus Johannes Caius vel hæredes
sui ratione premissorum aut aliquis alius sive aliqui alii quæ-
Cunque maneria, terras, tenementa, aut hæreditamenta eisdem
magistro sive custodi et sociis, et successoribus suis dantes
seu concedentes, per nos hæredes vel successores nostrum
prefatæ reginæ aut per justiciarios, eschaetores, vicecomites,
ballivos seu alios ministros nostros aut hæredes vel succes-
sores nostrum prefatæ reginæ quoscunque, inde occasionentur
molestentur perturbentur vexentur in aliquo seu graventur,
[p. 31] nec eorum aliquis occasionetur molestetur perturbetur
vexetur in aliquo seu gravetur. Ac ulterius volumus ac pro
nobis ac hæredibus et successoribus nostrum prefatæ reginæ
per presentes concedimus et ordinamus quod predictus Johannes
Caius habeat et habebit liberam et licitam ac plenariam potes-
tatem authoritatem et facultatem de tempore in tempus durante
vita sua naturali, faciendi, nominandi, assignandi, appunctuandi,
et stabiliendi duos socios sive plures, et duodecim vel plures
scholares, in predicto Collegio de Goneville et Caius fundato in
honorem annunciationis beatæ Mariæ virginis in universitate
Cantabrigiæ, eosdemque et eorum quemlibet sive aliquem ex
causa legitima de tempore ad tempus amovendi aliosque vel
alium in eorum vel ejus locum sic amotorum vel amoti ponendi
et assignandi. Ac etiam volumus ac per presentes pro nobis
hæredibus et successoribus nostrum præfatæ reginæ concedimus
et ordinamus quod predictus Johannes Caius ulterius habeat et
habebit liberam ac licitam et plenariam potestatem et facul-
tatem de tempore in tempus durante vita sua naturali pro bono
regimine ac communi utilitate et proficuis ejusdem Collegii, ac
LITERÆ PATENTES, 1557. 55
terrarum, tenementorum, hæreditamentorum, bonorum, et cat-
allorum ejusdem, condendi et sanctiendi quæcumque statuta
ordinationes et regulas per magistrum sive custodem ac socios
et scholares ejusdem Collegii et eorum quemlibet, observanda
et perimplenda ac eadem et eorum quodlibet in parte vel in
toto tollendi mütandi augendi, et alia, de novo componendi,
prout eidem Johanni Caius de tempore in tempus durante vita
sua videbuntur necessaria sive opportuna, dummodo et ita quod
hujusmodi statuta ordinationes et regulæ seu eorum aliquod
sic per eundem Johannem Caius condenda, et sanctienda, non
sint aut erunt, contraria, sive repugnantia predictis statutis
Ordinationibus et regulis aut eorum alicui in predicta, nuper
domo sive Aula antehac vocata Gonevill Halle, per dictum
Willelmum Norwicensem episcopum antehac ut prefertur
habitis factis seu editis, nec contraria prerogativæ nostræ regiæ.
Volumus insuper ac per presentes pro nobis hæredibus suc-
cessoribus nostrum prefatæ reginæ constituimus et ordinamus
quod quandocunque et quotiescunque contigerit aliqua dissidia
divisiones lites seu controversias oriri seu moveri in predicto
Collegio de Goneville et Caius fundato in honorem annuncia-
tionis beatæ Mariæ virginis in universitate Cantabrigiæ, in vel
circa electionem nominationem seu admissionem magistri sive
custodis aut alicujus socii sive scholaris ejusdem Collegii, aut
gubernationem ordinationem seu amotionem eorundem seu
eorum alicujus, aut in aliis causis materiis rebus seu negotiis
quibuscumque idem Collegium, aut terras, tenementa, hæredi-
tamenta, possessiones, bona, vel catalla ejusdem Collegii quoquo
modo tangentibus seu concernentibus, ita quod predicti magister
sive custos et socii vel major pars eorundem de hujusmodi
dissidiis divisionibus litibus seu controversiis sic ortis seu
motis inter se minime convenire poterint, eademque infra
duos menses finire et terminare, quod tunc et toties pre-
dictus Johannes Caius durante vita sua naturali habeat, et
habebit plenariam potestatem authoritatem et facultatem de
tempore in tempus virtute harum literarum nostrarum pa-
tentium hujusmodi dissidia, divisiones lites et controversias
audiendi et examinandi, eademque secundum ordinationes
regulas et statuta ejusdem Collegii per predictum Willelmum
56 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANIO CAIUS.
quondam Norwicensem episcopum facta ac per predictum
Johannem Caius in posterum in forma predicta fienda, dum-
modo eadem ordinationes regulæ et statuta, per ipsum Johannem
sic fienda non sint contraria seu repugnantia dictis ordinationi-
bus, regulis, ac statutis seu eorum alicui sive aliquibus per
predictum quondam episcopum Norwicensem antehac factis,
componendi, finiendi, terminandi, et penitus tollendi. Quibus
quidem compositioni, finitioni, et terminationi, sic per eumdem
Johannem Caius fiendis et in scriptis promunciandis, predictos
magistrum sive custodem socios et scholares et eorum quem-
libet firmiter stare et obedire volumus et ordinamus per
presentes, absque aliqua alia, sive ulteriore calumpnia, querela,
actione, secta, sive prosecutione quacumque proinde fienda
movenda, seu prosequenda. 3C etiam volumus ac ex certa
scientia et mero motu nostris per presentes concedimus pre-
fatis magistro sive custodi et sociis predicti Collegii de Goneville
[p. 32] et Caius fundati in honorem annunciationis beatæ
Mariæ virginis in universitate Cantabrigiæ quod habeant et
habebunt has literas nostras patentes sub magno sigillo Angliæ
debito modo factas et sigillatas, absque fine seu feodo magno vel
parvo mobis in hamaperio nostro seu alibi ad usum nostrum
quoquo modo reddendo, solvendo, vel faciendo, eo quod expressa
mentio de vero valore annuo aut certitudine premissorum sive
eorum alicujus aut de aliis donis sive concessis per mos vel
per aliquem progenitorum nostrorum dictæ reginæ præfatis
magistro sive custodi et sociis ante hæc tempora factis in
presentibus minime factis, existit, aut aliquo statuto, actu,
ordinatione, promissione sive restrictione inde in contrario
antehac habita facta edita ordinata seu provisa, aut aliqua
alia re, causa vel materia quacumque in aliquo non obstante.
In cujus rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus
patentes. Testibus nobis ipsis apud Westmonasterium quarto
die Septembris annis regnorum nostrorum quarto et quinto.
E'er breve de privato sigillo et de data predicta etc. P. Hare.
Ad hanc incorporationem sive fundationem assequendam
Johannes Caius libras viginti duas contulit, cum non esset
alioqui unde Collegium ad tantam egestatem redactum, securi-
I)ONATIONES CAII. 57
tati suae et rerum Suarum conservationi justis suis impensis
consuleret. -
Dedit etiam Collegio librum Annalium et statutorum holo-
serico villoso carmesino velatum, umbonibus, laminibusque
argenteis angularibus, cathenaque argentea ornatum. Dono
etiam dedit labrum argenteum ex parte inauratum, cum
gutturnio, pendens uncias Octoginta tres, sculptis in utroque
Collegii insignibus. Ad haec sigillum commune ex argento,
thecam pulvinarem contextam ex bisSo et auro, et caduceum
argenteum, quam virgam argenteam vulgus nominat, conferebat.
In caducei summo quatuor serpentes, prudentiae indices, humeris
Sustinent amaranthos, immortalitatis insignia, per quincuncem
dispositos, ut erant Catonis arbores, in significatione prudentia
perventuros ad immortalitatem literarum studiosos, illisque
sine offensa libertatem esse divagandi per virtutem et omnia
virtutis officia, perque omnes modos quos virtus et Ordo
dederunt. Fit caduceum ex argento foris, ex ferro intus, ad
similitudinem virgae directae. Nam virga regendum ferrea
improbos, argentea probos, hoc est, severius improbitatem
coercendam pro ratione causae et personarum, blandius virtutem
tractandam. Jam vero liber sapientiam et cognitionem, pul-
vinar reverentiam indicat, uti statutorum suorum libro, quo
loco de institutione custodis precepit, exposuit Caius. Hae
omnes virtutis notae scuto in modum insignium ita collocantur
ut duo serpentes complicatis caudis inter amaranthos erecti
consistant, et virtutis petrae quadratae innitentes, pectore librum,
capite sempervivum sustineant. Scuto accessit galea, et galeae
columba, amaranthi florem Sustinens, quo scire liceat com-
mendari literas simplici prudentia. His insignibus Collegii
sui incolis significare voluit literis et prudentia, virtutis petra
firmatis, perventuros eos ad immortalitatem. Haec ut ob oculos
semper habeant penicillo discribi curavit, et virtutis insignia
nominavit. Ministris quatuor ista traduntur, primo caduceum ?
secundo liber cognitionis, tertio pulvinus, et quarto labrum
cum regiis fundationis literis, charta Caii donationis, et sigillo
communi in eo compositis. His ita constitutis, in festo annun-
ciationis beatae Mariae, 1558, cui Collegium est consecratum,
deducunt isti eo quo nunc dixi ordine fundatorem a cubiculo
58 ANNALS OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS.
ad sacellum, comitante primo loco custode solo, dein sociis,
postremo scholaribus omnibus sed ordine binis non singularibus,
coramque altari summo eum constituunt, posito prius pulvino,
quo genibus incumbit, et ante eum scamno, quo brachiis inclinet,
et labrum ponat, cui jam accessit caduceum atque liber. His
cæterisque omnibus rite compositis, celebratur missa per ea
tempora licita, sollemniter, notis vocibusque musicis. Cumque
oblationis causa custos, qui divina officia peragebat, ad populum
se converterat, assurgens fundator, acceptum labrum una cum
iis quæ in eo componebantur, Deo, divæ virgini et patriæ
obtulit, his verbis alta claraque voce prolatis:—
- Offerimus Deo, beatæ Mariæ virgini, et patriæ.
Labrum cæteris non exemptis accepit sacerdos, et altari
summo imposuit, finita missa, precedentibus, ut prius, ministris
quatuor, et gestantibus primo caduceum, secundo librum cogni-
[p. 33] tionis, tertio pulvinar reverentiæ, et quarto labrum
cum iis quæ in eo collocata diximus, reductus ex sacello in
cubiculum eo modo et ordine est fundator, quo a cubiculo in
sacellum productus. Cubiculum autem ejus id erat, quod inter
aulam est et bibliothecam. »
Atque ita Collegio et Collegii omnibus, Deo, divæ virgini,
et reipublicæ consecratis, celebre convivium fundatoris sump-
tibus, ad libras sex solidos sedecim denarios undecim et
dimidium, eodem die institutum est, convivis reverendo viro
Roberto Bracy doctore theologo, docto et eloquenti viro,
procancellario, Johanme Pory, Andrea, Perne, theologiæ doctor-
ibus, et prefectis collegiorum Sancti Benedicti et Petri, Henrico
Walker doctore medico, et prælectore sua facultate publico :
cæterisque principibus totius academiæ viris, et præterea singu-
lorum collegiorum duobus ex primoribus. Finito convivio,
ministri caduceum, librum cognitionis, pulvinar, et labrum
argenteum una cum cæteris in eo, ut ante dixi, positis, eo
ordine ad mensam, quo finita missa ex sacello in cubiculum.
retulerunt, et fundatori mensæ mediæ accumbenti apposuerunt.
Quibus assumptis hinc inde caduceum et labrum disposuit
fundator, ante vero se reverentiæ pulvinum, et super eo
cognitionis librum composuit. Tum ex labro acceptis regiis
literis patentibus, atque ex eis breviter exposita ratione funda-
DONATIONES CAII. 59
tionis, constitutorum fundatorum, denominationis Collegii,
incorporationis, possessionumque firmamenti, et earum morti-
ficationis, Thomam Bacon clericum, theologiæ baccalaureum,
et priorem magistrum, ex adverso in mensa media sedentem
(ut ex æquo ad omnes fundatoris vox pervenire possit), ad
hunc modum novati et jam fundati Collegii magistrum sive
custodem instituit, præfatus eum regiis literis esse nominatum
in custodem, sed mom institutum. Ergo reverentiæ pulvinar
exhibuit dixitque: Damus tibi pulvinar reverentiæ ; tum
caduceum, protulitque hæc verba : Damus tibi caduceum
prudentis gubernationis, declarando omnem materiæ, formæ,
et significationis rationem, ad eum modum quo paulo ante,
cum de eo sermonem instituimus; tertio librum cognitionis,
hoc addito: Tradimus tibi librum cognitionis, ut tu et tui,
quique vobis insequentur omnes, intelligatis, cognitione et
prudenti consilio Collegium istud stare et permanere, staturum
et permansurum. Postremo labrum obtulit, hoc effatus: Damus
Collegio et reipublicæ labrum hoc argenteum cum gutturnio,
literis fundationis patentibus, et charta donationis possessionum
nostrarum quinquaginta unius librarum, in perpetuam funda-
tionem (Deo auspice et favente) nostri Collegii, et in perpetuam
ac puram elemosinam trium sociorum et duodecim scholarium
aut plurium in eodem alendorum, quos Deo, divæ virgini, et
reipublicæ consecramus. Atque ita te in perpetuum magistrum
sive custodem hujus Collegii, ad virtutem, literas, honestos
et civiles mores reipublicæ producendos, creamus et institui-
mus. Quo facto, sublatis eo quo apposita sunt ordine virtutis
insignibus, precatus omnia felicia Collegio, sermonem finivit,
hilariterque postea acceptis vino aromatico, foliato, et cætero
bellariorum genere convivis, transacta sunt omnia ad id negotii
pertinentia.
Verum cum discedendum jam esset, universitatis procancel-
larius totius Academiæ nomine in gratiam benefacti, facultatem
fundatori obtulit, ut sit ex universitatis corpore et gremio
creatus, eo doctoratus gradu, eaque senioritate, qua Patavii in
Italia fuit : id quod insequenti die, vicesimo sexto Martii anno
1558, actum fuit. Prætereo, quam luculentam orationem idem
habuit in frequenti senatu die veneris subsequenti, primo vide-
60 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANIO CAIUS.
licet Aprilis anno supradicto in laudem tam rari facti, ut
dicebat, longe supra dignitatem rei ut nos putamus, ex hac
occasione, quod ex literis patentibus fundationis regiæ pronun-
ciabat universitati, Collegium istud nostrum ex decreto regio
membrum universitatis factum, et ex Aula Collegium institu-
tum, et Collegium de Goneville et Caius esse nominandum.
Neque ingrata fuit Academia, si commemorem quantis ea
orationibus et epulis nos exceperat, cum aliis de causis et megotiis
in alia Collegia concesseramus. Verum id quoque prætereo,
ne gloriæ affectum potius quam gratiæ ac humanitatis acceptum
officium commonstrare videar. A qua re ut sumus alieni, ita
solius Dei, patriæ, et Collegii nostri ratione, quod collocatum
est dedimus, aucturi etiam tum, cum per commoditatem id fieri
licebit.
[p. 34] De Caii tertii fundatoris sociis tribus et
scholaribus duodecim, seu pluribus, et
eorum subsidiis.
Sed cum paulo ante diximus, Caium tertium fundatorem
dedisse quo alantur tres socii et duodecim scholares aut plures
in perpetuum, non abs re fuerit quotum sociorum ac scholarium
nostri Collegii numerum iidem constituent, et quæ prædia in
eorum subsidium contulerit, indicare. Scire igitur licet, tres
ejus socios numerum Collegii sociorum undecimum, duodecimum
et decimum tertium, facere : duodecim autem scholares aut
plures numerum Collegii scholarium decimum, undecimum etc.,
usque ad vicesimum primum, aut plurium, pro ratione incre-
menti, constituere. Quos omnes suos Norfolciences esse voluit;
sed minimum sex Norwicenses, si omnes esse nequeant, et
Robertum Spencer primum suum socium 25° Maii, anno 1562,
instituit.
In suorum omnium subsidium dedit tria uberrima sua
maneria, Crokesley et Snelleshall in parochia, de Riekmersworth
in comitatu Hertfordiæ, annui redditus viginti trium librarum,
Roughton, et Burnham Thorpe seu Burnham Wimondham, in
comitatu Norfolciæ, annui redditus, illud viginti duarum libra-
LITERAE PATENTES, 1557. 61
rum, istud sex librarum—in universum quinquaginta unius
librarum veteris redditus, quae ab illustrissima Angliae Regina
Maria comparaverat, ut ex literis patentibus ejusdem Mariae in
hac verba scriptis, scire licet.
3.3bilippus et ſºlaría Bei gratia 3Rex et 3Regina ångliae,
Hispaniarum, Franciae, utriusque Siciliae, Jerusalem,et Hiberniae,
fidei defensores, Archiduces Austriae, Duces Burgundiae, Medio-
lani et Brabantiae, Comites Haspurgi, Flandriae, et Tirolis,
Omnibus ad quos praesentes literae pervenerint salutem. Cum
Richardus dudum Abbas nuper dissoluti Monasterii Sancti
Albani in comitatu Hertfordiae et ejusdem loci conventus, per
indenturam suam sub sigillo suo conventuali confectam geren-
tem datam ultimo die Septembris anno regni praecharissimi
patris nostrum praefatae reginae Henrici octavi nuper regis
Angliae tricesimo, dimiserint, concesserint, et ad firmam tradi-
derint Willelmo Baldwin de Crokesley infra parochiam de
Ricmersworth in dicto comitatu Hertfordiae, maneria sua de
Crokesley et Snelshall cum domibus in dicto manerio de
Crokesley praedicto, aedificiis, gardinis, curtilagiis, terris arabi-
libus, pratis, lesuris, et pasturis, communiis, viis, semitis et
aquis eisdem maneriis pertinentibus, cum omnibus proficuis bos-
corum crescentium in et supra terras predictorum maneriorum,
cum libero ingressu et egressu ad dicta premissa, ac simul cum
operibus autumnalibus vocatis le Harvest works et aliis ser-
vitiis quibuscunque quae temporibus adtune praeteritis facta et
persoluta fuerunt firmariis predictorum maneriorum, omnibus
perquisitionibus et sectis curiae terrarum, et tenementorum tam
liberorum tenentium quam custumariorum tenentium quae-
cunque et quorumcunque fuerint, omni redditu assiso, redditu
firmae, averagiis, avenis lok, pecuniis vocatis present Sylver,
gallis, gallinis, ovis, wardis, maritagiis, releviis, escaetis, waiviatis,
extrahuris, ac omnibus aliis dicto Willelmo supra non dimissis
et concessis dictis Abbati et conventui et eorum successoribus
per eandem indenturam omnino exceptis et reservatis, exceptis
etiam et reservatis dictis Abbati et conventui et eorum succes-
Soribus centum de Optimis quercubus crescentibus super terras
predictorum maneriorum eligendis et appunctuandis per celler-
arium dicti monasterii pro tempore existentem, et si dictus
62 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANT) CAIUS.'
Abbas sive ejus successores accipiant decem quercus sive plures
ibi crescentes ullo tempore extunc futuro semel in decem amnis
tunc dictus Willelmus et assignati sui relinquent tot pro illis
secundum ratum de tempore in tempus durante termino pre-
dicto, 3£}ab£mùa et tememìa predicta maneria, et cætera præmissa
cum pertinentibus (exceptis ut præante exceptis) dicto Willelmo
et assignatis suis a festo Sancti Michaelis Archangeli adtunc
proxime futuro post datam dictæ indenturæ usque ad finem
et terminum quadraginta et trium annorum adtunc proxime
sequentium et plenarie complendorum, 3ߣùùemùaginde ammuatim
durante termino predicto dictis Abbati et conventui et eorum
successoribus infra dictum monasterium quindecim libras sex
solidos et octo denarios sterlingos ad duos amni terminos usuales
videlicet ad festum ammumciationis beatæ Mariæ virginis, et
Sancti Michaelis Archangeli, per equales portiones, prout per
eandem indenturam inter alia plenius liquebat et apparebat.
[p. 35] Quam quidem indenturam predictus Willelmus pre-
dicto patri nostrum prefatæ reginæ Henrico octavo sursumred-
debat. Super quo idem pater nostrum prefatæ regimæ per im-
denturam suam sub magno sigillo suo nuper curiæ augmenta-
tionum et reventionum coronæ suæ confectam gerentem datam
apud Westmonasterium decimo tertio Julii anno regni sui
tricesimo secundo, recitandam predictam indenturam factam per
predictos nuper Abbatem et, conventum, tradiderit concesserit et
ad firmam dimiserit prefato Willelmo Baldwin totum predictum
manerium de Crokesley et Snelleshall in comitatu predicto, ac
omnia, predicta domos et ædificia gardina curtilagia terras
arabiles prata pascua pasturas communias vias semitas aquas
boscos subboscos ac omnia servitia et opera, autumnalia quæ-
cumque dictis maneriis ab antiquo spectantia et pertinentia, ac
omnia et singula, cætera premissa, cum pertinentibus prefato
Willelmo Baldwin et assignatis suis per predictam priorem
imdenturam in forma predicta per predictum nuper Abbatem et
conventum dimissa cum pertinentibus (exceptis tamen semper
et dicto nuper regi hæredibus et successoribus suis omnino
reservatis omnibus et singulis his quæ per predictam priorem
indenturam in forma predicta præexcepta, et reservata fuerunt)
£}abenùa et temenùa maneria predicta ac cætera omnia et
LITERAE PATENTES, 1557. 63
singula premissa cum pertinentiis (exceptis præexceptis) prefato
Willelmo Baldwin et assignatis suis a festo Sancti Michaelis
Archangeli adtunc proxime futuro, usque ad finem termini et
per terminum viginti et unius annorum extunc proxime sequen-
tium et plenarie complendorum, 38tudentiag inde annuatim
dicto nuper regi haeredibus et successoribus suis quindecim
libras sex solidos et octo denarios legalis monetae Angliae ad
festa Annunciationis beatae Mariae virginis et sancti Michaelis
Archangeli, vel infra unum mensem post utrumque festum
festorum illorum ad curiam praedictam per aequales portiones
Solvendas durante termino predicto, prout per easdem literas
patentes inter alia plenius liquet et apparet. QCumque etiam
precharissimus frater nostrum prefatae reginae Edwardus sextus
nuper rex Angliae per literas Suas patentes sub magno sigillo
Suo nuper suae curiae augmentationum et reventionum coronae
Suae confectas gerentes datam apud Westmonasterium quarto
die Januarii anno regni sui quarto, predictam indenturam dicti
precharissimi patris nostrum prefatae reginae Henrici octavi
recitandam, tradiderit concesserit et ad firmam dimiserit dilecto
servienti suo Roberto Lee unidapiferorum camerae suæ predictos
scitus predictorum maneriorum de Crokesley et Snelleshall cum
pertinentiis ac caetera omnia et singula premissa superius
expressa et specificata cum eorum pertinentiis universis (exceptis
preexceptis) #98 bent.0% et tenemü03 predictos scitus maneriorum
predictorum, ac caetera omnia et singula premissa cum perti-
mentiis (exceptis preexceptis) prefato Roberto Lee executoribus
et assignatis suis a fine dicti termini viginti et unius annorum
prefato Willelmo Baldwin per dictam indenturam gerentem
datam dicto tertio decimo die Julii dicto anno regno predicti
patris nostrum prefatae reginae tricesimo Secundo ut prefertur,
concessam, vel a tempore quo indentura et dimissio illa per foris-
facturam sursumredditionem vel aliter quocumque modo finiri
vacari Seu determinari contigerit, usque ad finem termini, et
per terminum viginti et unius annorum ex tune proxime
sequentium et plenarie complendorum, 3Rºttentaş inde tune
annuatim dicto fratri nostrum prefatae reginae haeredibus et
successoribus suis quindecim libras sex Solidos et Octo denarios
legalis monete Angliae ad festa annunciationis beatae Mariae
64. ANNALS OF GONWITILE AND CATUS.
virginis et Sancti Michaelis Archangeli, vel infra unum mensem
post utrumque festum festorum illorum ad manus ballivorum vel
receptorum premissorum pro tempore existentium, per aequales
portiones solvendas, prout per easdem literas patentes inter
alia plenius liquet et apparet, reversione et reversionibus
omnium et singulorum premissorum superius expressorum et
specificatorum post predictos separales terminos annorum finitos,
nobis ac haeredibus et successoribus nostrum prefatae regimäe
pleno jure spectantibus et pertinentibus, ºtiatig quod nos pre-
fati rex et regina tam pro summa mille triginta trium librarum
duodecim solidorum et sex denariorum legalis monete Angliae
ad receptionem Scaccarii nostri ad manus Nicolai Brigham
servientis nostri ac unius numeratorum ejusdem Scaccarii ad
[p. 36] usum nostrum per dilectum nobis Johannem Caius
in medicinis doctorem prae manibus bene et fideliter persoluta
unde fatemur nos plenarie fore satisfactos et persolutos, eum-
demaue Johannem Caius hæredes executores et administratores
suos inde acquietatos et exoneratos esse per presentes, quam
pro diversis aliis causis et considerationibus nos ad presens
specialiter moventibus, de gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa
scientia et mero motu nostris dedimus et concessimus ac per
presentes pro nobis haeredibus et successoribus nostrum prefatae
reginae damus et concedimus praefato Johanni Caius reversio-
nem et reversiones predictorum maneriorum de Crokesley alias
Croxley et Snelleshall, ac omnium predictorum domorum,
aedificiorum, gardinorum, curtilagiorum, terrarum, pratorum,
pascuarum, et pasturarum, boScorum, et subboscorum, ac caeter-
orum omnium et singulorum praemissorum superius in predictis
recitatis indenturis et literis patentibus expressorum et speci-
ficatorum et cujuslibet earumdem parcellarum, ac prefatis
Willelmo Baldwin et Roberto Lee seperaliter in forma superius
specificata dimissorum et concessorum, ac totum predictum
annualem redditum quindecim librarum sex solidorum et octo
denariorum tam per predictam indenturam gerentem datam
dicto decimo tertio die Julii dicto anno regni dicti patris
nostrum prefatae reginae Henrici octavi tricesimo Secundo quam
per predictas literas patentes gerentes datam dicto quarto die
Januarii predicto anno quarto regni dicti fratris nostrum
LITERAE PATENTES, 1557. 65
prefatae reginae Edwardi sexti (ut praefertur) separaliter reser-
vatum. Pamuş etíam et pro considerationibus predictis pro
nobis haeredibus et successoribus nostrum praefatae reginae
concedimus prefato Johanni Caius omnia illa predicta maneria
nostra de Crokesley alias Croxley et Snelleshall cum eorum
juribus membris et pertinentiis universis in comitatu nostro
Hertfordiae, nuper dissoluto monasterio Sancti Albani in eodem
comitatu Hertfordiae quondam spectantia et pertinentia, ac
parcellas possessionum inde quondam existentium; ac etiam
totum illud manerium nostrum de Rounghton alias dictum
Roughton alias Runton ac advocationes donationes liberas
dispositiones et jura patronatuum rectoriarum et ecclesiarum
de Rounghton alias Roughton alias Runton Holme et Walling-
ton, cum eorum juribus membris et pertinentiis universis in
dicto comitatu nostro Norfolciae, nuper dissoluto monasterio de
Bury Sancti Edmundi in comitatu nostro Suffoleiae quondam
spectantibus et pertinentibus, ac parcellas possessionum inde
existentium; necnon totum illud manerium nostrum de Burnham
Thorpe cum suis juribus membris et pertinentiis universis in
dicto comitatu nostro Norfolcia nuper dissoluto monasterio de
Wimondham in eodem comitatu Norfolciae quondam spectantia
et pertinentia, ac parcellas possessionum inde existentium ; Ac
etiam omnia et singula messuagia, molendina, grangias, domos,
aedificia, horrea, stabula, columbaria, hortos, pomaria, gardina,
terras, tenementa, prata, pascuas, pasturas, lesuras, cursus faldagii
ovium, communias, vastas, jampna, brueras, moras, mariscos,
aquas, stagna, piscarias, piscationes, redditus reversiones et
Servitia, ac redditus et servitia tam liberorum quam custumari-
orum tenentium, nec non redditus servitia et annualia proficua
quaecumque reservata Super quibuscumque dimissionibus et
concessionibus; Ac etiam firmas, feodi firmas, et annuitates ac
feoda militum, Warda, maritagia, escaeta, relevia, herietta, fines,
amerciamenta ac etiam curias letas et visum franc plege ac
omnia ad visum franc plege pertinentia et spectantia, nativos et
nativas, ac villanos cum eorum sequelis; Ac etiam nundinas,
mercata, tolneta, custumas, theolonia, ac omnia et singula alia
jura proficua libertates commoditates emolumenta et haeredita-
menta nostra quaecundue cujuscunque sunt generis naturae seu
C. A. S. Octavo Series. No. XL. 5
66 ANNALS OF GON WILLE AND CAIUS.
speciei Seu quibuscunque nominibus sciantur censeantur vel
cognoscantur, situata jacentia et existentia ac provenientia
crescentia sive renovantia in villis campis parochiis seu hameletis
de Crokesley alias Croxley Snelleshall et Ricmersworth in dicto
comitatu nostro Hertfordiae, ac in Roughton alias Runton et
[p. 37] Burnham Thorpe in dicto comitatu nostro Norfolciae, ac
alibi ubicundue in eisdem comitatibus Hertfordiae et Norfolciae
dictis maneriis seu eorum alicui quoquo modo spectantia vel
pertinentia, aut ut membra partes vel parcellas eorundem
maneriorum, seu eorum alicujus, antehac habita cognita accepta
usitata dimissa locata Seu reputata existentia; Ac etiam
omnes et omnimodos boscos, subboscos, et arbores nostras quas-
cunque de in et super premissis crescentes et existentes, ac
totam terram fundum et solum eorundem boscorum subbos-
corum et arborum, ac reversionem et reversiones quascumque
omnium et singulorum premissorum et cujuslibet inde parcellae,
nec non redditus et annualia proficua quaecundue reservata
super quibuscumque dimissionibus et concessionibus de pre-
missis seu de aliqua inde parcella quoquo modo factis una cum
visum franc plege curiis letis lawdays catallis waiviatis extra-
huris feodis militum ac cum omnibus et Omnimodis illis et
eisdem proficuis commoditatibus et emolumentis quibuscumque
in maneriis predictis ac caeteris premissis, et in qualibet inde
parcella, quae et qualia aliqui Abbates vel priores dictorum
muper monasteriorum aut eorum aliquis vel aliqui aut aliquis
alius sive aliqui alii praemissa aut aliquam inde parcellam
antehac habentes possidentes aut seisiti inde existentes, eaclem
aut aliquam inde parcellam unquam habuerunt tenuerunt vel
gavisi fuerunt, habuit tenuit vel gavisus fuit, seu habere
tenere vel gaudere debuerunt aut debuit in maneriis predictis
et caeteris praemissis aut in aliqua inde parcella, ratione vel
pretextu alicujus chartae doni concessionis vel confirmationis
aut aliquarum literarum patentium per nos seu per aliquem pro-
genitorum nostrorum regum Angliae quoquo modo factarum vel
concessarum seu confirmatarum aut ratione vel pretextu alicujus
legitimae prescriptionis usus seu consuetudinis antehac habitae
seu usitatae vel aliter quocumque legali modo jure Seu titulo.
†Bamuş ºním et per presentes pro nobis haeredibus et successor-
LITERAE PATENTES, 1557. 67
ibus nostrum prefatae reginae concedimus prefato Johanni Caius
predicta maneria, messuagia, terras, tenementa, ac caetera omnia
et singula premissa cum pertinentiis adeo plene libere et integre,
ac in tam amplis modo et forma, prout ea omnia et singula
premissa una cum visum franc plege ac aliis libertatibus supra-
dictis ad manus nostras seu ad manus dictorum precharissimorum
patris vel fratris nostrum prefatae reginae Henrici octavi et
Edwardi Sexti, seu ad manus eorum alterius ratione vel pretextu
alicujus chartae domi concessionis vel confirmationis aut ratione
vel pretextu alicujus actus Parliamenti seu aliquorum actuum
Parliamentorum, seu quocumque alio legali modo jure seu titulo
devemerunt seu devenire debuerunt, ac in manibus nostris jam
existunt seu existere debent vel debuerunt, QBute quitem
maneria ac predicta messuagia terrae tenementa ac caetera
omnia premissa cum pertinentiis modo extenduntur ad clarum
annuum valorem quinquaginta unius librarum novemdecim
denariorum et unius oboli; videlicet predictum manerium de
Crokesley cum pertinentiis ad clarum annuum valorem viginti
trium librarum movemdecim denariorum et unius oboli, ac
predictum manerium de Roughton cum pertinentiis ad clarum
annuum valorem viginti duarum librarum, ac predictum
manerium de Burnham Thorpe ad clarum annuum valorem
sex librarum, Exceptis tamen semper et nobis haeredibus et
successoribus nostrum prefatae reginae extra presenterm conces-
sionem omnino reservatis omnibus campanis et toto plumbo,
de in et super premissis existentibus ac etiam omnibus advoca-
tionibus premissis incumbentibus sive spectantibus simili modo
exceptis et reservatis, praeterquam predicta advocatione de
Runton Holme et Wallington predictis, £abembam tementam
& gautſentam predictam reversionem et reversiones predictas,
ac predictum annualem redditum quindecim librarum sex solid-
orum et Octo denariorum necnon predicta maneria messuagia
terras tenementa prata pascuas pasturas communias advoca-
tionem de Runton cursus faldagii ovium moras mariscos boscos
subboscos redditus reversiones et servitia, Necnon curias letas
[p. 38] visum franc plege catalla waiviata extrahuras ac
castera omnia et singula premissa superius expressa et specificata
cum eorum pertinentiis universis (exceptis preexceptis) prefato
5—2
68 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
Johanni Caius hæredibus et assignatis suis, ad proprium opus
et usum ipsius Johannis Caius heredum et assignatorum suorum
imperpetuum, Øſtmenta de nobis haeredibus et successoribus
nostrum prefatae reginae ut de manerio nostro de Estgrenwiche
in comitatu nostro Kantiae, per fidelitatem tantum in libero
socagio et non in capite, pro omnibus redditibus, servitiis et
demandis quibuscumque proinde nobis haeredibus vel successor-
ibus nostrum prefatae reginae quoquo modo reddendis solvendis
vel faciendis. (Bt ulteriuš de ampliori gratia nostra dedimus
et concessimus ac per presentes damus et concedimus prefato
Johanni Caius omnia exitus redditus reventiones et proficua
omnium et singulorum premissorum superius expressorum et
specificatorum cum pertinentiis a festo Sancti Michaelis Arch-
angeli ultime preterito hucusque provenientia sive crescentia,
#2abemba eidem Johanni Caius ex dono nostro absºlue compoto
seu aliquo alio proinde nobis haeredibus vel successoribus
nostrum prefatae reginae quoquo modo reddendo solvendo vel
faciendo. Q3t ulteriuš de ampliori gratia nostra volumus ac per
presentes concedimus prefato Johanni Caius haeredibus et
assignatis suis, quod nos haredes et successores nostrum pre-
fatae reginae imperpetuum annuatim et de tempore in tempus
exonerabimus ac quietabimus et indemnes conservabimus tam
prefatum Johannem Caius haeredes et assignatos suos, quam
predicta maneria messuagia terras tenementa ac caetera omnia
et singula premissa Superius expressa et specificata cum perti-
mentiis et quamlibet inde parcellam de omnibus et omnimodis
corrodiis redditibus feodis annuitatibus pensionibus portionibus
et denariorum summis et Omeribus quibuscunque per nos seu
nostrum alterum oneratis seu concessis praeterquam de servitiis
superius per presentes reservatis, ac preterquam de dimissionibus
et concessionibus de premissis seu de aliqua inde parcella factis
super quibus antiquus redditus vel plus reservatur, ac praeter-
quam de conventionibus in hujusmodi dimissionibus existent-
ibus, ac preterquam de Oneribus quae aliquis firmarius sive
aliqui firmarii premissorum ratione aliquarum indenturarum et
dimissionum Suarum exonerare tenetur seu tementur, ac preter-
quam de feodis ballivi senescalli et prepositi premissorum. Vo-
lentes enim ac per presentes firmiter injungendas precipient (sic)
LITERÆ PATENTES, 1557. 69
tam thesaurario, cancellario, et baronibus scaccarii nostri
hæredum et successorum nostrum prefatæ reginæ quibus-
cunque pro tempore existentibus, quod ipsi et eorum quilibet
super sola demonstratione harum literarum nostrarum patenti-
ium vel irrotulamenti earumdem absque aliquo alio brevi seu
warranto a nobis hæredibus vel successoribus nostrum prefatæ
reginæ quoquo modo impetrando seu prosequendo plenam inte-
gram debitamque allocationem et exonerationem manifestam
de omnibus et omnimodis hujusmodi corrodiis redditibus feodis
annuitatibus et denariorum summis ac oneribus quibuscunque
per nos seu nostrum alterum oneratis seu concessis (exceptis
preexceptis) prefato Johanni Caius hæredibus et assignatis
suis facient et de tempore in tempus fieri causabunt. QBt
fjae literæ m0$træ patemt£$ vel irrotulamenta earumdem erunt;
annuatim et de tempore in tempus tam dictis thesaurario,
cancellario, baronibus dicti scaccarii nostri hæredum et succes-
sorum prefatæ reginæ, quam omnibus receptoribus auditoribus
et aliis officiariis et ministris nostris hæredum et successorum
nostrum prefatæ reginæ quibuscumque pro tempore existentibus
sufficiens Warrantum et exoneratio in hac parte. %'olumu$ etiam
ac per presentes concedimus prefato Johanni Caius quod habeat
et habebit has literas nostras patentes sub magno sigillo nostro
Angliæ debito modo factas et sigillatas absque fine seu feodo
magno vel parvo nobis in hamaperio nostro seu alibi ad usum
nostrum proinde quoquo modo reddendo solvendo vel faciendo,
QB0 quoù £xpre$$a mentio de vero valore annuo aut de aliquo
alio valore aut certitudine premissorum sive eorum alicujus,
aut de aliis donis sive concessionibus per nos seu per aliquem
progemitorum nostrum dictæ reginæ prefato Johanni Caius
ante hæc tempora factis in presentibus minime facta existit, aut
aliquo statuto, actu, ordinatione, provisione, proclamatione, sive
[p. 39] restrictione im contrarium inde antehac habita facta
edita ordinata seu provisa, aut aliqua alia re causa vel materia
quacumque in aliquo non obstante. Hm tuju$ rei testimonium
has literas fieri fecimus patentes. (Te$tibu3 nobis ipsis apud
Westmonasterium duodecimo die Februarii annis regnorum
nostrorum quarto et quinto, Per breve de privato sigillo etc.
P. Cordell.
70 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANI) CAIUS.
Hactenus charta regia in qua illud obiter admonendum jus
patronatus seu advocationes ecclesiarum de Roughton Holme
et Wallington non esse nostri juris, cum certo constat prius
fuisse eas venditas ab Edwardo sexto 18° Decembris anno regni
sui sexto, Edwardo Fynes, ordinis Garterii militi, domino
Clynton et Say ac magno admirallo Angliæ, et Henrico
Herdesom de Lomdom, ut ex rotulis domini regis certo di-
dicimus, ne quis in quemquam ea de re frustra intendat
litem.
Ex his maneriis jam commemoratis cuique socio [erasure]
cuique scholari quatuor marcas in annos singulos exhiberi
placuit, usque dum majus incrementum census prediorum
fuerit, quo tempore auctum iri numerum tum sociorum tum
scholarium voluit, ut in statutis suis copiosius declaravit. Ut
autem sociorum unus sit theologus, reliqui medici, in eisdem
ordinavit. Carta vero donationis ejus, et indentura pactorum
seu conventionum inter eum et Collegium de sociis et scho-
laribus suis alendis, statutis observandis, et aliis rebus gerendis,
obligatioque magistri et sociorum de pactis prestandis (quarum
una pars in archivis nostri Collegii, altera Collegii Corporis
Christi et beatæ Mariæ asservatur) subsequuntur in hæc
verba. • •
Ommibus Christi fidelibus ad quos hoc presens scriptum
indentatum pervenerit, Johannes Caius doctor artis medicinæ,
ac unus fundatorum Collegii de Goneville et Caius fundati in
honorem annunciationis beatæ Mariæ virginis in universitate
Cantabrigiæ, salutem in domino sempiternam. Sciatis me
prefatum Johannem Caius juxta licentiam illustrissimorum
principum Philippi et Mariæ, dei gratia regis et reginæ
Angliæ, Hispaniarum, Franciæ, utriusque Siciliæ, Hierusalem,
et Hiberniæ, fidei defensorum, Archiducum Austriæ, Ducum
Burgundiæ Mediolani et Brabantiæ, Comitum Haspurgi Flan-
driæ et Tirolis, per literas suas patentes gerentes datam apud
Westmonasterium quarto die Septembris annis regnorum suorum
quarto et quinto, mihi prefato Johanni Caius inter alia in
eisdem literis patentibus facta et specificata, dedisse et con-
cessisse ac per presentes pro me et hæredibus meis dare et
concedere dilectis mihi in Christo Thomæ Bacon clerico, sacræ
CARTA DONATIONIS. 71
theologiæ baccalaureo, magistro sive custodi Collegii de Gone-
ville et Caius predicti fundati in honorem annunciationis beatæ
Mariæ virginis in universitate Cantabrigiæ predicta, et sociis
ejusdem Collegii, maneria mea de Roughton, alias Rounghton,
alias Runtom, et Burnham Thorpe in comitatu Norfolciæ, cum
eorum membris juribus et pertinentiis universis et singulis,
§B£cmom maneria mea de Crokesley alias Croxley et Snelleshall
in comitatu Hertfordiæ cum suis juribus membris et pertinentiis
universis, Ac advocationes donationes et jura patronatuum
rectoriarum et ecclesiarum de Roughton Holme et Wallington,
Ac omnia terras tenementa redditus reversiones servitia
boscos subboscos ac cætera, hæreditamenta mea quæcunque
cum pertinentiis in Roughton alias Rounghton alias Runtom,
Burnham Thorpe, ac in Crokesley alias Croxley, et Snelleshall,
aut alibi ubicumque jacentia et existentia in predictis comi-
tatibus Norfolciæ et Hertfordiæ, Habenda, et tenenda pre-
dicta, maneria terras, tenementa, ac cætera omnia ac singula
premissa, cum suis pertinentiis prefato magistro sive custodi
et sociis ejusdem Collegii et successoribus suis, Ad proprium
opus et usum prefatorum magistri et sociorum Collegii predicti,
et successorum suorum imperpetuum, Ea intentione quod
prefati magister et socii Collegii predicti et eorum successores
imperpetuum disponent, omnia exitus et proficua maneriorum
terrarum et tenementorum predictorum secundum formam
effectum et intentionem declaratam et specificatam in qui-
[p. 4o] busdam indenturis huic presenti scripto annexis, Et
ea intentione quod prefati magister et socii Collegii predicti
et eorum successores de tempore in tempus imperpetuum ob-
servabunt et perimplebunt, ac fieri perimpleri et observari
procurabunt, omnes et singulas conventiones agreamenta et
articulos in predictis indenturis huic presenti scripto annexis
specificata ex parte predictorum magistri et sociorum et eorum
successorum in dictis indenturis perimplenda, et observanda.
Et ego vero predictus Johannes Caius pro me ac hæredibus
meis predicta maneria, terras tenementa, ac cætera premissa
cum pertinentiis prefatis magistro et sociis ejusdem Collegii
in forma, predicta contra meipsum et hæredes meos warranti-
Zabo, et imperpetuum defendam per presentes, Ac insuper
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sciatis me prefatum Johammem Caius fecisse ordinasse consti-
tuisse et in loco meo per presentes posuisse dilectos mihi in
Christo Willelmum Caius et Willelmum Browne meos veros
et legitimos attornatos conjunctim et divisim ad intrandum
in predicta maneria ac cætera premissa cum pertinentiis, ac
plenam ac pacificam possessionem et seisinam inde vice et
nomine meo capiendam, et post hujusmodi possessionem et
seisinam sic inde captam et habitam deinde pro me et in
nomine meo plenam et pacificam possessionem et seisinam
prefatis magistro et sociis Collegii predicti, seu eorum in hac
parte attornato deliberandam, secundum tenorem, vim, formam,
et effectum hujus presentis scripti mei inde confecti, Ratum et
gratum habentem et habiturum totum et quicquid dicti attor-
nati mei vice et nomine meo in premissis fecerint, sive eorum
alter in premissis fecerit per presentes. In cujus rei testi-
monium cuilibet parti hujus presentis scripti mei indentati
ego prefatus Johannes Caius sigillum meum apposui. Datum
primo die Martii dictis annis regnorum dictorum Philippi et
Mariæ Dei gratia regis et reginæ Angliæ, Hispaniarum,
Franciæ, utriusque Siciliæ, Hierusalem, et Hiberniæ, fidei
defensorum, Archiducum Austriæ, Ducum Burgundiæ Medio-
lani et Brabantiæ, Comitum Haspurgi Flandriæ et Tirolis,
quarto et quinto.
This Indenture made the first daye of Marche in the fourth
and fifth yeres of the reygnes of our Soveraym lorde and lady
Philip and Mary by the grace of God kynge and quene of
Englande Spayme France booth Sicillys Hierusalem and Ire-
lande, defenders of the faythe, Archedukes of Austriche, Dukes
of Burgundy Myllayn and Brabant, Counties of Haspurge,
Flanders and Tyroll, Betwene John Caius of London gent,
doctor of physicke, and one of the founders of Goneville and
Caius Colledge, founded in thonor of thamnunciaciom of our
blessed Lady y* virgin in the university of Cambrige on the
one parte, and Thomas Bacon clerke bacheler of divinitie,
and Master or keper of the sayde Colledge, and y° fellowes
of the same of thother partie ; Witmessyth that where our
sayd soveraygne lorde and lady the kinge and quenes majesties
by their letters patents bearing date y* fourth daye of Sep-
CARTA DONATIONIS. 73
tember in the fourth and fiveth yeres of their Majesties reignes
have encorporated the sayde Colledge by the name of the
Master or Keper and fellowes of the College of Goneville and
Caius founded in thonor of thannunciation of our blessed ladye
y” virgin in the universitie of Cambrige, And further by the
Saide letters patents have ordeyned made appoynted and
declared y” sayd John Caius to be one of the founders of the
Sayd College, and also the sayd Thomas Bacon clerke to be
Master or Keper of y” sayd College, and one John Vincent
bacheler of divynitye, John Bateman master of arte, Hughe
Glynn master of arte, John Cowell master of arte, and others
to yº number of ten fellowes named in the sayd letters patents,
to be fellowes of y” sayd College: And also by y” same
letters patents have further granted that ther shalbe two other
[p. 41] fellowes or more in y” sayd College to be named chosen
and appoynted by the said John Caius, And that y” said two
fellowes or more so to be appointed and nominated by y”
said John Caius, shalbe fellowes of the sayd College togither
with the sayd tenne fellowes named in the sayd letters patents,
And that also the said John Caius may make and appoynte
statuts ordinances and rules for y” better governement of the
Sayd College, so that y” same statutes ordinances and rules
be not repugnante or contrary to the ordinances statutes and
rules made by y” reverend father in God William sometyme
bishoppe of Norwiche: And also by the same letters patents
have licenced the sayd John Caius to give manors landes and
tenements (thoughe the same be, or then shalbe holden of
our said soveraign lorde and lady, the kinge and quene, or
of any other person or persones) not excedinge the yerely value
of three score tenne poundes or one hundreth poundes at
the moste, unto the sayd Master and fellowes of the said
College and their successors for ever. And further by the
same letters patents have granted that it shalbe lawfull for
the said John Caius to name and appoynte two fellowes or
more, and twelve scholers or more, to be kepte and mainteyned
within the sayd College. And that as often as it shall happen
the Master or Keper or any the fellowes or scholers of the
Sayde College to die goe awaye or be removed, or change his
74 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
or their places, that at every suche tyme the election of a
new Master fellowe or scholer shalbe had and made according
to the ordinances rules and statutes made by the sayde
William, sometyme bishop of Norwiche, and accordinge to the
ordinances rules and statutes to be made by the sayd John
Caius in forme aforesaide, as by the said letters patentes
more playnly yt doth and may appere. And where the sayd
John Caius by his dede of feofment to these present indentures
annexed hath given and granted unto y” sayd Master or Keper
and fellowes and their successors his manors of Crokesley
and Snelleshall, with their appurtennences in the countie of
Hertford, and his manors of Roughton and Burnham thorpe
with their appurtenances in the countye of Norfolke as by
the same dede more playnly it doth and may appere, And
where also the said John Caius as well for the good order
and governemente of the sayd College, as also for the mayn-
tenance and keapinge of two fellowes and twelve scholers for
ever to be mayntayned and kept within the sayd College hath
made certen rules statutes and ordinances, wherein emongest
other things he hath appointed and declared howe the rentes
yssues and profittes of the sayd manors landes tenements and
hereditaments shalbe for ever employed and bestowed as by
the sayd ordinances rules and statutes made and declared by
the sayd John Caius in a booke by him written or subscribed
more playnly yt doth and may appere; It is nowe covenaunted
and agreed betwene yº sayd parties by these presents, And
the sayd Master and fellowes of the sayd College for them
and their successors do covenant and graunt to and with the
Sayd John Caius his heires and assignes by these presents
that they the sayd Master and fellowes and their successors
do and shall for ever recey've esteme repute and take the said
John Caius for their good and beneficiall founder, and shall
employe and bestowe all the rents yssues and profitts of the
said manors landes and tenements and also shall in all things
order kepe rule and dispose the Sayde yssues manors lands
tenementes and every parte and parcell therof in suche maner
and forme as by the said John Caius in his sayd ordinances
rules and statuts ys or shalbe set furth appoynted and de-
CARTA. DONATIONIS. 75
[p. 42] clared : And that also they the said Master and
fellowes and their successors shall at all tymes hereafter for
ever observe and kepe all the sayde ordinances rules and
statutes now made and declared by the sayde John Caius in
the said booke by him written or subscribed as aforesaide,
And that also they y” sayd Master and fellowes and their
successors shall at all tymes hereafter permitt and suffer the
said John Caius to make ordeyn and appoynte all such other
ordinances statutes and rules for the said College, as he by
authoritie of y" letters patents before mentioned may make
and appoynte. And that they the said Master and fellowes
and their successors after suche ordinances rules and statutes
made by the said John Caius, shall in all things performe and
kepe the same, accordinge to the true meaning and intente
thereof. And the saide Master and fellowes for them and their
successors do further covenaunt and graunt to and with the
said John Caius his heyres and assignes by these presents,
that the said John Caius at all tymes duringe his life shall
and may alter and chaunge all or any of his ordinances
statutes and rules, and to limitte make and appointe other
and suche as he shall thinke mete and conveniente for the
better order and governement of the said College, and for the
disposition of the said mannors landes and tenements, and
the rents profitts and yssues of the same ; And that also they
the sayd Master and fellowes and their successors shall observe
and kepe the sayd orders that the sayd John Caius shall alter
constitute and leave standinge in force, And also shall at all
tymes for ever mainteyn and kepe within the said College two
fellowes and twelve scholers, over and besides the nomber of
the fellowes and scholers that nowe be or ought to be mayn-
teyned and kepte within the said College, in suche maner
and forme as by the said John Caius in his said statutes ys
or shalbe hereafter set furth and appoynted: And further shall
so encrease the nomber of those his fellowes and schollers, as
the rents issues and profytts of the sayd manors landes and
tenements hereafter will and may extende to perfourme the
same, accordinge to suche orders and statutes, as he the said
John Caius hath thereupon made for the tyme to come ; And
76 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
that also they the said Master and fellowes and their successors
shall not at any tyme or tymes hereafter, do, consent or suffer
to be done by them or any others, any acte or thinge whereby
the name of their incorporation that nowe is given by the
sayd kinge and quenes Majesties in the letters patents afore-
Sayd, and bearing the name of Goneville and Caius, shall or
may be by any meane or meanes consent or otherwise altered
chaunged extinguished or determined, But that they and their
successors shall alwaies to their uttermost power use sette
furth and maynteyn the same for ever : And that also they
the said Master and fellowes nor their successors shall not
at any time hereafter alienate morgage chaunge bargayn or
sell the said mannors landes and tenements or any other parte
or parcell thereof, or any other the lands tenements or he-
reditaments of the sayd College or any parte or parcell of the
same, to any persone or persones in fee symple, fee tayle, fee
ferme, or for terme of life or lives, nor shall sette or lette
the same to ferme, for more yeres nor otherwise then shalbe
limitted and appoynted by the rules and statutes of the sayd
John Caius. And that they shall converte the rents and
profitts of the said manors landes tenements and other the
premisses given by the said John Caius, and of every parte
and parcell of the same from time to time to the commoditie
and profitte of the said College for suche uses and intents and
in such manner and forme, as by the said John Caius in his
ordinaunces statutes and rules ys or hereafter shalbe sette forth
and appoynted the rents yssues and profitts of the other landes
[p. 43] and tenements of the said College, to be employed
and bestowed accordinge to the ordinaunces and rules of the
sayd righte reverend father in God William sometime bishop of
Norwiche, and accordinge to the mynde and will of those
benefactors that dyd give the same ; And further that neither
they nor their successors shall use any the mony plate or
other goodes which the sayd John Caius hath given or shall
give unto the said Master and fellowes to other uses intents
or purposes then suche as by the statutes and ordinances of
the said John Caius are or shalbe appoynted. In witnes
whereof the parties aforesaid to either parte of these present
CARTA IDONATIONIS. 77
Indentures have putt their seales the day and yeres before
Written.
Noverint universi per presentes nos Magistrum et socios
Collegii de Goneville et Caius fundati in honorem amnuncia-
tionis beatæ Mariæ virginis in Universitate Cantabrigiæ, teneri
et firmiter obligari Johanni Caius de London generoso doctori
artis medicimæ ac umi fundatorum dicti Collegii, in mille et
quingentis libris bomæ et legalis monetæ Angliæ, solvendis eidem
Johanni Caius executoribus administratoribus sive assignatis suis
in festo paschæ proximo futuro post datam presentium. Ad
quam quidem solutionem bene et fideliter faciendam obligamus
nos et successores mostros firmiter per presentes sigillo nostro
sigillatas. Datum primo die Martii annis regnorum Philippi
et Mariæ Dei gratia regis et reginæ Angliæ, Hispaniarum,
Franciæ, utriusque Siciliæ, Hierusalem, et Hiberniæ, fidei de-
fensorum, Archiducum Austriæ, Ducum Burgundiæ Mediolani
et Brabantiæ, Comitum Haspurgi Flandriæ et Tyrolis, quarto
et quinto.
(TÌjg Qtomùícíom of tbig QBblígatíom is suche that if the above
boumdem Master and fellowes and their successors do at all
tymes from hencefurth observe performe fulfill and kepe all
and singuler the covenauntes grants articles and agrements
which om their parte and behalf are to be observed performed
fulfilled and kepte, and conteyned and specified in one payre
of indentures made betwene the above named John Caius of
the one partie and the sayd Master and fellowes of the other
partie, bearing date the day of the date of these presemts, QTjat
tbem this obligacion to be utterly voyde and of none effect, or
els to stande in full strength force and effecte.
] 559
Post movem menses et dies aliquot quam hæc gesta sunt,
Thomas Bacon custos moriebatur apud Shelfeid (Chelsfield) in
Cantio, primo Januarii anno 1559 viz., multo ære alieno astrictus.
Is quo ereditores fallat, Nicolao Bacon fratri suo, mercatori
Londimensi, omnia sua per chartam fraudemque dedit. Quo
factum ut mon multum abfuit quin libræ 26 et amplius
78 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANID CAIUS.
(quas debuit Collegio) perirent. Reliquit etiam Collegium
multis obæratum grandi pecunia.
In ejus demortui locum, electus et creatus custos est 24°
Januarii ejusdem anni 1559 Joannes Caius medicus, per omnem
vitam cœlebs, et unus ex Collegii fundatoribus. Id officii
admisisset ægre, tum quod nec theologus, nec sacerdos erat,
tum quod semper fere ratione instituti sui abesse cogeretur,
nisi procancellarius universitatis aliique graves viri Collegiorum
præsides, grave alioqui periculum Collegio prævidentes im-
minere, et saniores Collegii nostri socii frequentibus litteris
ad id incitassent, et me quod fundaret Collegium in tanto
discrimine desereret, per ejus salutem commovissent. Itaque
admittebat quidem, sed nullius stipendii gratia (quod per omne
officii sui tempus recusaverat) sed Collegii conservandi causa,
quod jam tum ruinam minitari viderat. Nemo enim novit;
rationem rerum et possessionum Collegii, nemo quid, quantum,
aut unde haberetur quo nostros aleremus, intellexit, nec quid
[p. 44] actum aut gestum sit per longa anteacta tempora, in
memoria habuit. Adhæc evidentiæ scripta seu monumenta
Collegii sacellique ormamenta sublata, et in privatos usus
conversa, divisa, inter eos vestimenta templi, et locationes pre-
dictorum præter fas et jura erant. Quæ in rem erant Collegii
ex parte sociorum facienda, oblita et obliterata fuerunt, quæ in
communem ejus usum, privata facta. Pensiones enim cubi-
culorum quæ tum nostro, tum majorum nostrorum tempore ut
ex vetustis rationum libris intelligimus, in usus Collegii et
sacelli reponebantur, in usus suos converterunt socii, quæque
paulo post ingressum quisque suum in Collegium socii ex
juramento conferre Collegio debuerunt, oblivioni tradebantur.
Quæ autem illa erant, ex jurejurando vetusto adhuc superstite
constat in hæc verba. -
Jurabis quod mappam, manitergium, coclear argenteum, et
ciphum de masuro, vel peciam argenti dabis Collegio infra
medietatem anni post tuum ingressum, bona et decentia, juxta
arbitrium custodis, et duorum sociorum saniorum, seu viginti
$olidos in recompensam et ad effectum prediétorum.
Pecunia etiam Collegii per custodem et tres seniores socios
absumpta est, quorum etiam opera in magnum æs alienum
STATUS COLLEGII, 1559. 79
amplius centum marcarum argenti Collegium incidit, adeo ut
indies ex credito vivendum fuit. Ex libris sexcentis auro puro
cum discederemus anno 1545 relictis, superfuerunt tantum in
reditu nostro 24 Januarii 1559 quatuor libræ et solidi sedecim
in omnes eventus, atque ad omnes Collegii necessarios usus,
usque ad proximos redditus sub festum annunciationis beatæ
Mariæ proxime insequens recipiendos, urgentibus tum vehe-
menter creditoribus Collegii ut debita sine mora persolvantur.
Quibus pecuniis cum parceremus, ut aliqua ex parte creditoribus
satisfieret, ad quotidianum commeatum emendum cum nihil
superfuit, mutuo accipere necessitas compulit. Itaque in tantis
rerum angustiis cum succurrendum fuit presenti necessitati,
cogebamur persolutis Andreæ Perme doctori theologo et Ecclesiæ
Eliensis decano, 26. lib. 13*. 4° quas ei Collegium debuit,
evidentias seu locationum indenturas perlustrare, atque, ita ex
eis rentali conscripto, de integro redditus colligere, et renascenti
jam Collegio quemadmodum consulendum sit discere. Sym-
graphæ porro et obligationes (per quas debita petenda fuerant),
conquirendæ erant, quædam per annos duodecim, quædam per
decem et octo, et quædam per viginti, plus minus, neglectæ.
Sed am vitio vertendum id sit custodi et sociis quod hujusmodi
Collegii bona, contempserant aut neglexerant, an laudanda
fortuna quod non viderant ut in hac rerum necessitate sit quo
Collegio succurramus, nescio. Etenim si vidissent, absumpta
essent omnia. Cogebamur insuper evidentias multas hinc inde
per seniorum sociorum cubicula distractas conquirere, suis locis
ordine reponere, quæ laceris chartis citra ordinem commissa
sunt pergameno ordine rescribere, ad notanda acta seu res
gestas libros instituere, de acceptis et expensis, concreditis
atque debitis, rationum libros componere, statuta in rem hono-
rem et perpetuitatem Collegii præscribere, ne quid ei debeatur
aut id debeat (quoad ejus fieri potest) imperare, atque istis aliis-
que modis Collegii saluti consulere, ejus ruinam antevertere, et
damna reficere. Ad extremum, ad pecuniam, quam custos et
tres seniores socii debuerunt, recuperandam, coacti sumus jure
agere, primo contra illius testamenti executores coram judicibus,
qui a supplicibus libellis reginæ nostræ Elizabethæ fuerunt :
tum contra hos et jure et carcere coram procancellario Academiæ
80 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANID CAIUS.
magna inquietudine nostra, jam tum fere quinquagenarii, sed
foelici successu, etsi propterea habiti duriores et severiores
sumus universitatis juvenibus, ne istud factum nostrum ad eos
castigandos traheretur in exemplum, si suis collegiis idem illi
perpetrarent. Sed eam opinionem contempsimus, omnemque
molestiam devoravimus, avidi labentis Collegii ruinas fulcire,
atque in pristinum eum honorem et dignitatem restituere,
in quibus priores nostri et frugi custodes, magna sua laude
reliquerunt. Contenti etiam ulterius im res ad Collegii com-
moda pertinentes insumere a principio nostræ tertiæ fundationis
quarto Septembris 1557 ad quartum Septembris 1563, libras
[p. 45] quinquaginta movem, solidos tredecim, denarios quin-
que et obolum unum, ultra mille triginta tres libras duodecim
solidos et sex denarios quos expendimus in prædia seu fundos
nostros quos Collegio dedimus, ultra libras viginti duas et
tredecim denarios in labrum argenteum cum gutturnio Collegio
per nos collatum, ultra viginti duas libras in Collegii incorpora-
tionem assequemdam, et ultra sex libras sedecim solidos undecim
denarios et obolum umum in convivium quo tempore tertiæ
erectionis festum celebratum fuit, 25 Martii videlicet 1558, ut
ea de re particulari ratione habita certissime constat. Quæ
summæ collectæ atque additæ, unam efficiunt summam librarum
144 supra mille, et solidorum quatuor. Ut hic non comme-
moremus quantum eundo ac redeundo ad Collegium durante
officio expendimus, quantum mora nostra ibidem erogavimus,
quantum obeundo Collegii negotia in omnem etiam vitam
nostram reliquam insumpsimus, et condonando Custodis sala-
rium vestitum distributiones et dividenda, quantum contulimus,
quantum juris actionibus Collegii causa insumpsimus. Con-
tulimus etiam Collegio ex ære pulcherrimum astrolabium corio
contectum ; libros quidem magni pretii apud nos, manuscriptos,
Diomisium Areopagitam, quem Joannes Clemens medicus habet,
ea conditione ut a morte sua mihi aut meo Collegio restituat,
Hippocratem, Galenum de medendi methodo, de differentiis
febrium, de placitis Hippocratis et Platonis, de usu partium,
de causis morborum et symptomatum, Trallianum, Actuarium,
commentaria in Homerum, et vetus Testamentum Hebraicum ;
impressos vero, testamentum vetus et novum græcum, Galeni
STATUS COLLEGII, 1559. 81
Opera græca, et veterem eorum translationem, libros ut, raros
ita preciosos, Avicennam, Ælianum, Dictionarium græcum,
Nizolium, Budæi commentaria, chiliades Erasmi, Gesnerum de
animalibus, Homerum græcum, Wesalium, Catalogum scriptorum
illustrium, omnia Caii opera, et alia multa in bibliotheca Collegii
omnium usibus cathenis conservanda.
1559
Eodem anno 1559, reparata sunt ædificia Collegii omnia,
tempestatibus ventis et imbribus per negligentiam et incuriam
superioribus temporibus concussa, impensis in id viginti libris.
Emendatum et atrii pavimentum ruptum et inequale est, et
sabulo atque arena obductum, directaque ambulacra, et ferrea
crates in porta atrii septentrionali ad arcendum animalium
ingressum posita. Breviter repurgata sunt omnia. Augiæ
stabulum fuisse prius diceres. Atque hæc mense Martio.
De pecunia edicto perdita.
l55]
Mense autem Julio anno Domini 1551, die nono, quantum
pecuniarum Collegio decesserat edicto publico regnante Edwardo
sexto, cum cupreæ testones a duodecim denariis ad movem, et
grossi a quatuor denariis ad tres, æstimatione diminutæ sunt,
aut quantum 17° Augusti ejusdem anni, imminutis æstimatione
testonibus a novem denariis ad sex, et grossis a tribus denariis
ad duos, et semigrossis a duobus denariis ad unum, et denariis
ad obolum, et obolis ad quadrantem, ideo nescimus, quia me-
moriæ a predecessoribus nostris nihil fuit traditum.
1560
Periisse autem Collegio anno Domini 1560, 28 Septembris,
edicto publico Cantabrigiæ promulgato, libras quinque et solidos
sedecim ratione diminutæ æstimationis testonum cuprearum
a sex demariis ad quatuor et obolum, et semigrossorum (nam
grossi nulli erant ejus monetæ ab anno 1551) a duobus denariis
ad obolos tres, et denariorum ad quadrantes tres, coronatorum
C. A. S. Octavo Series. No. XL. 6
82 ANN ALS OF GONVILLE ANID CAIUS.
item Gallicorum a sex solidis et quatuor denariis ad sex solidos
tantum, et pistoletorum hispanicorum, a sex solidis et duobus
denariis, ad quinque solidos et decem denarios, id scimus.
[p. 46] 1561
Periere etiam ratione cassatorum coronatorum gallicorum
flandricorum et pistoletorum hispanicorum ex edicto regio
novem solidi et sex demarii, 15 Novembris 1561.
Eo etiam anno impura mometa ex cupro et argento mixta,
post liquatam eam, et cupro separatam, ad puritatem rediit.
Ex qua materia, argentea moneta pura excudi coepta est, tum
malleo tum molendino, exque moneta aurea aliena cassata,
ad ignem atque incudem revocata, aucta est moneta aurea
Eritannica. Atque ita tandem ad puritatem per reginam
Elizabetham redacta est moneta, quam prius Henricus Octavus
pater ejus sciens corruperat, quo ea abundaret, cum bellum
contra Gallos im obsidione Bononiæ gesturus esset anno Domini
1544, ratus ut videtur nummorum pretia forma non materia
constare, quamque minimum argenti hac ratione in alienas
partes transportatum iri. Sed am votis regis id responderit,
mescio. Id scio, insecutam magnam rerum omnium caritatem.
Quæ am ex ea pecuniæ corruptione nata sit, mihi non constat.
Mercatores, lanii, firmarii, alifices (sic), cupedinarii, et qui anno-
nam vel aliud quid, quod ad vitæ usum spectat, vendiderunt, mo-
metam sedulo accusarunt, affirmantes mometæ pretium omnium
rerum pretiis moderari, esse enim eam regulam et normam
quibus omnes omnia metiuntur. Itaque si mometa, ut prius,
pura esset, rerum quoque pretia ad vilitatem reditura. Hinc
imminutæ testones seu solidi, ut ante diximus, per Edwardum
sextum primo, quo propius moneta accederet ad justum materiæ
pretium, et mometa aurea ac argentea pura tum primum recudi
coepta est. Eam auxit Maria soror ejus, sed priore et impura
sublata, absolvit nemo ante Elizabeth reginam. Illa enim
cum minuisset æs ad materiæ pretium, in arcem Londimensem
revocavit suo materiæ pretio, et ex argento cupro separato
argentea moneta cusa est anno 1561. Neque imminutus fuit
census pecuniæ universim, unoque momento, sed sensim per
IDE SOCIO TEHOMÆ . WENDIE. 83
interposita spatia, perque ferenda decrementa, me gravius dam-
num quam ut ferre possit patiatur populus, utque damnum per
fortunam dividatur. Ad puritatem tamen redacta pecunia,
non video quid ad utilitatem pretii rerum faciat, presertim,
cum rerum pretia indies crescant. Quo fit ut putem, neque
nummo neque aliis rebus positam caritatem, quam cupiditate
hominum. Tanti enim sint omnia, quanta hominum est
cupiditas. Ea autem hodie immensa est, et eo magis, quod
nemo apud nos contentus vivit sua conditione. Omnes ad
splendorem vitæ per superbiam, et ad generis nobilitatem, per
Vestium sumptum, mensarum apparatum et ædium regalem
ornatum, magis quam per decus et virtutem contendunt, supra
omnem modum. Quo fit ut minus habeant, et plus cupiant, et
quod habent pluris æstimant, vitio suo. Sed hæc mea tantum
est sententia, quæ an veritati consonet tempus ususque indica-
bunt.
De socio Thomæ Wendie.
I 560
Cum de sociis Johannis Caii, tertii fundatoris, tribus dixi-
mus, tertium ejus socium, numerum Collegii sociorum decimum
tertium constituisse ostendimus. Decimus quartus ergo erit,
quem Thomas Wendie, doctor medicus, et hujus olim Collegii
socius, regiusque olim postea medicus, anno 1560 constituit.
Moriebatur is Londini eodem anno, undecimo Maii hora secunda
matutina, apud Sanctam Mariam in Aldermanbury, anno ætatis
suæ sexagesimo primo, Londini collega Collegii medicorum
Johanne Caio præsidente, sepultusque est Haselingfeldi propter
Cantabrigiam oppidi, eodem mense et anno.
Dedit Collegio, incertus veri ejus nominis, ex testamento,
duodecimo Februarii anno 1559 (juxta supputationem Angli-
canam, sed anno 1560 juxta nostram, qui annos supputamus a
primo Januarii) libras decem annui redditus, ex appropriatione
beneficii sui de Haselingfeld in comitatu Cantabrigiæ, in hunc
sensum materna lingua. -
Volo insuper ut post mortem Margaretæ uxoris meæ, rectoria
[p. 47] de Haselingfelde cum pertinentibus integre deveniant,
6—2
84 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANIO CAIUS.
sint, et remaneant Magistro et sociis Aulæ de Goneville et
Collegio de Caius in Cantabrigia, et successoribus suis im-
perpetuum, quocunque nomine aut nominibus imcorporantur,
nominantur et cognoscantur, hac videlicet conditione sequenti,
ut dicti Magister atque socii intra menses sex proxime in-
sequentes mortem dictæ uxoris meæ, legitimis ratiomibus
dimittant ac concedant integram rectoriam predictam cum
pertinentibus hæredibus meis ad feodi firmam in perpetuum,
sic ut solvant annuatim Magistro et sociis predictis et success-
oribus suis, annualem redditum decem librarum ultra omnes
sumptus atque expensas ordinarias atque extraordinarias, ad
certos dies atque festa per eos assignanda in charta sua de
feodi firma : utque largiantur dicto hæredi meo per chartam
suam predictam in perpetuam feodi firmam, nominationem,
presentationem, et liberam dispositionem vicariæ de Haseling-
felde predictæ : utque illi et successores sui bona fide præstent
et perimpleant omnes conditiones et articulos quos testamenti
mei executrix aut testamenti sui executor aut executores præ-
scribent.
Conditiones autem atque articulos paulo ante mortem ipse
præscripsit, et uxori Margaretæ tradidit, quæ eas confirmavit,
et Johanni Caio custodi exhibuit im hanc sententiam.
Constituo unum socium in Collegio de Gomeville et Caius
perpetuo alendum, ex diocesi Norwicensi oriundum, per magi-
strum et majorem sociorum partem secundum statuta Collegii
eligendum, ac eum sacerdotem ac theologiæ studiosum, qui
pro me oret, ac sacris literis diligentem operam impendat :
habeat in omnia vitæ necessaria pro stipendio octo marcas sine
liberatura et distributionibus.
Ordino etiam ut idem meus socius pro opera quater annis
singulis hæredi meo impendenda apud Haselingfelde in festis
natalitiis, paschalibus, Pentecostes, et omnium Sanctorum, ac
pro concionibus quater ibidem amnis singulis in quadragesima,
paschate, autumno, et festo omnium Sanctorum (singulis vide-
licet temporibus singulis concionibus) pronunciandis, habeat
quatuor marcas.
Volo item ut Collegium habeat quotannis in perpetuum
decem solidos; in usus quoque extraordinarios x*.
DE SCHOLAERIBUS. 85
Ad postremum instituo ut viginti solidi distribuantur inter
custodem et omnes socios tum præsentes pro exequiis annis
singulis die meo anniversario celebrandis, si per leges licebit,
aut pro alia commemoratione si illud non licebit, ita ut custos
habeat viginti denarios, singuli socii presentes duodecim de-
narios, et quod superest impendatur in augmentum communis
prandii aut cænæ in mensa communi eodem die. Vide plura
fol. 77.
Dedit etiam Thomas Wendie libros viginti sex, videlicet.
Phavorinum Pindarum
Suidam Sophoclem
Hysichium Commentar, in Homerum
Plutarch. in 2 vol. græcos Platonem græcos
Thucididem Aristotelem, in 3 vol.
Demosthenem Hippocratem et
Ulpianum in Demosth. Dioscoridem
Ptolomæi tabulas. Platonem
Euclidem latinos Aetium latinos
Thesaurum linguæ Ruellium, et •
latinæ, in 3 vol. IPlinium
De propriis Collegìì scholaribus.
1560
Si viginti uni nostrum et aliorum scholaribus adjungas
Collegii duos studentes, promum et dispensatorem, (quos com-
munibus sumptibus Collegium alit, exhibendo singulis viginti
[p. 48] solidos in annos singulos, et in septimanas singulas
quatuor denarios singulis) in universum viginti tres enumerabis.
Ut autem in hunc modum ad literarum incrementa inutilis et
ignavi superioris temporis promi salarium convertatur, per
custodem consensu omnium sociorum constitutum est, anno
1560 mense Septembri.
] 562
Edwardus Crome theologiæ doctor hujus Collegii olim socius,
de quo libro primo, dedit novum testamentum græco-latinum,
et in id annotationes etiam Erasmi Roterodami, munus pro
opibus. Moriebatur jam octuagenarius Londini, 26 Junii anno
Domini 1562, apud Sanctum Antonium, et sepultus apud
86 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
sanctam Mariam antiquiorem, quam Aldermary nominant,
quorum ecclesiis praefuit.
1562
De proprio Collegii socio quem decimum socium ea opinione
collegarum errore matum libro primo diarimus, anno 1562.
Custodis et sociorum omnium consensu constitutus est, et
Collegii socius nominatus est, salario secundum statuta Secundi
fundatoris, ordine sacerdos.
1563
Atque ita diximus de magistris sive custodibus, Sociis et
scholaribus omnibus, qui a Collegio condito ad hunc usque
annum Domini 1563 (quantum scire licet) instituti sunt, in-
dicavimusque fuisse custodes fundationis
Primae
Johannem Colton de Tyrington.
Secundae, -
Eundem Joannem Colton,
Willelmum Rougham,
Richardum Pulham,
Willelmum Somersham,
Joannem Rikinghale,
Thomam Atwoode,
Thomam Bulleyn,
Edmundum Shiref,
Henricum Costesey,
Joannem Barly,
Edmundum Stubbe,
Willelmum Buckenham,
Johannem Skippe,
Johannem Styrmyn, et
Thomam Bacon.
Tertiae hactenus, duos,
Thomam Bacon, et
Joannem Caium.
DE MAGISTRIS ET SOCIIS. 87
Socios item prioris fundationis, novem,
Primorum fundatorum, tres,
Mariæ de Pakenham, unum,
Stephani Smyth, unum,
Elizabeth Clere, unum,
Annæ Scrope, unum,
Willelmi Willowes unum, et
Joannis Bayly, unum.
Posterioris hactenus, quinque,
Caii fundatoris, tres,
Collegii, unum, et
Thomæ Wemdie, unum.
Scholares demum veteris fundationis, novem,
Willelmi [Thomæ] Willowes, unum,
Willelmi Gale, unum,
Willelmi Sigo, unum,
Thomæ Alkyn, tres, et
Petri Hewet, tres.
[p. 49] Novæ et postremæ hactenus, quatuordecim,
Caii fundatoris, duodecim,
Collegii duos.
Ita fuerunt custodes hujus Collegii hucusque persona sede-
cim, numero decem et octo. Sunt socii quatuordecim, scholares
viginti tres. Sed et illud obiter admonendum, cum per ambitum
hujus operis subinde dicimus gesta esse quædam nostro tempore,
scire licet id fuisse inter duodecimum Septembris Anno Domini
1529, quo primum literarum gratia Cantabrigiam venimus, et
vicesimum nonum Septembris anno 1545, quo discessimus,
spatio videlicet annorum sedecim. Neque id prætereundum
est ad cætera intelligenda, electum me hujus Collegii socium
sexto Decembris anno 1533, et socium perstitisse, ad extremum
usque diem jam ante commemoratum, annos scilicet tredecim.
Æque et illud quoque ex precedentibus intelligitur, tres
tantum esse fundatores,
Edmundum Goneville
Willelmum Batemam, et X et eos omnes Norfolcienses.
Joannem Caium.
88 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANI) CAIUS.
Ex quibus Edmundus Goneville Norfolciæ, Willelmus Bate-
mam Nordovici, et Johannes Caius Norwici quoque natus est,
anno Domini 1510, sexto Octobris.
1563
Primo Junii Anno Domini 1563, et reginæ Elizabethæ
quinto, Collegium Sanctæ Trinitatis se obligavit Collegio nostro
in ducentis marcis argenti se per magistrum suum intra menses
quatuor daturos Collegio nostro per chartam suam indentatam
in feodo simplici sine conditione quatuor sua tenementa, posita
in parochia Sancti Michaelis in Cantabrigia ex opposito coemi-
terio ejusdem Ecclesiæ, annuo redditu 6" 13* 4°, solvendorum
in festo paschæ et Sancti Michaelis in Collegio suo postquam
Collegium nostrum obtinuerit a regia majestate potestatem ut
idem Collegium Sanctæ Trinitatis alienare possit nostro eadem
tenementa, et recipere dono aut emptione ad manum mortuam
a quocumque possessiones sibi et successoribus suis annui red-
ditus 6" 13* 4°, sed his conditionibus ut inhabitantes quiete
fruantur jure suo, nisi de eodem cedere ex pacto velint, ut
iidem decimas solvant, ecclesiæ Sancti Michaelis, tantisper dum
per eos habitatio est, postea vero ut nos decem solidos annuatim
solvamus, usque dum conjuncta fuerit ecclesia Sancti Michaelis
alteri cuicumque ecclesiæ. Hæc acta sunt perquirente Joanne
Caio et sumptus faciente.
1563
Libro primo, et Anno Domini 1556, inter benefactores nostri
Collegii reverendum patrem Nicolaum Shaxton, Sarum Epi-
scopum enumeravimus, quod viginti libras inter alia Collegio
dederat, quibus prædia emamus ammui redditus viginti solidorum
ad alendum focum in festis natalitiis et aliis per hyemem,
in aula aut conclavi nostri Collegii. Quam pecuniam etsi
exhaustam inutilitate prædecessoris nostri et sociorum seniorum
ejus temporis restitui curavimus nostro tempore, et ea (additis
aliis viginti una libris nostri Collegii) viginti octo acras terræ
in Steplemourdem in comitatu Cantabrigiæ aliis ibidem nostris
possessionibus vicinas, a Jo. Shermam de Litlyngton in eodem
comitatu comparavimus sexto Julii anno Domini 1563, et regni
DE BENEFACTORIBUS QUIBUSDAM. 89
reginæ Elizabethæ quinto, annui redditus quadraginta solidorum
ultra redditus resolutos vj° 1°. Quorum viginti assignavimus
foco natalitio commemorato, reliquos Collegio in proprios et
privatos usus.
1563
Henricus Holand socius et artium magister sua liberalitate
extruxit ex albo lapide, una cum ferramentis et vitro, fenestram
cubiculi sui meridionalem, ad levam scalarum in bibliothecam
septentrionalem ascendentium positi, anno Domini 1563, mense
Octobri, impensis quinque librarum duorum solidorum et sex
denariorum.
1564
Dominus Humfridus Byshby, juris civilis doctor, et hujus
Collegii pensionarius, sua munificentia ædificavit ex albo lapide
ferro et vitro fenestram extremi cubiculi versus orientem lateris
Collegii veteris borealis, impensis quinque libris, mense Martio
anno salutis humanæ millesimo quingentesimo sexagesimo
quarto.
[p. 5O] - I 563
Joanna Trappes vidua et generosa ex parochia Sancti
Leonardi in vico Sancti Vedasti Londini nuper uxor Roberti
Trappes aurificis et armigeri ex testamento 28 Octobris anno
Domini 1563 condito, legavit Collegio nostro de Goneville
et Caius nobis suadentibus fundos annui redditus undecim
librarum sex solidorum et octo denariorum ad scholasticos
quatuor suo et mariti nomine perpetuo alendos, sic ut scholares
singuli quatuor marcas argenti quotannis in stipendium habe-
ant, Collegium, tredecim solidos et quatuor denarios, in usus
extraordinarios, atque ad curam bonæ educationis suorum
scholasticorum, et sic me loca eorum vacent amplius uno mense :
utque scholares sui filii sint pauperum qui suis impensis
suos educare nequeunt, ut ex eodem testamento scire licet.
Moriebatur 16 Februarii anno Domini 1563, secundum com-
putationem Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ, et sepulta est in ecclesia Sancti
Leonardi Londini juxta maritum. Cujus fundi positi sunt;
in [blank].
90 ANNALS OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS.
1564
Joannes Caius gratia, domini Nicolai Bacom Suffolciensis
custodis magni sigilli Angliæ et Gulielmi Cecilii secretarii regii
singularium amicorum, a serenissima Angliæ regina Elizabetha
gratis obtinuit potestatem ut Collegium Sanctæ et individuæ
Trinitatis alienaret Collegio de Goneville et Caius quatuor illa
sua tenementa in parochia Sancti Michaelis in Cantabrigia
ex opposito ecclesiæ et cœmiterio ejusdem ; atque ut idem
Collegium Gonevilli et Caii eadem possit recipere. Obtinuit
etiam mortisationem centum marearum eidem Collegio de
Goneville et Caius; duo corpora humana, ut ex iis annuatim
duæ fiant amatomiæ ; utque ipse quiete fruatur sine impedi-
mento provisorum dominæ reginæ omnibus quæ ad ædificationem
Collegii sui acquisiverit et acquiret. Demum obtinuit mortisa-
tionem sex librarum tredecim solidorum et quatuor denariorum
Collegio Sanctæ et individuæ Trinitatis quam ex pacto pro
tenementis quatuor debuit, ac sibi potestatem ut omnes tenentes
firmarii et famuli sui ac sui Collegii, currus item eorum et
cætera ad vecturam pertinentia, immunes sint a potestate
cujuscunque provisorum aut officiariorum dominæ reginæ, utque
omnes artifices et operarii sui intendentes ædificationem Collegii
sui, ab eadem potestate liberi sint ad quinque annos a primo
die Augusti anno regni predictæ reginæ sexto, et anno Domini
1564, quo die et anno concessa hæc omnia sunt ut ex sequen-
tibus liquebit.
Licentia dominae Reginæ pro îîîî tenementis, etc.
Elizabeth dei gratia Angliæ Franciæ et Hiberniæ regina
fidei defensor etc. Omnibus ad quos presentes literæ per-
venerint salutem. Sciatis quod ex parte dilectorum nobis in
Christo magistri sociorum et scholarium Collegii Sanctæ et
individuæ Trinitatis infra villam et universitatem Cantabrigiæ
ex fundatione regis Henrici octavi nuper regis Angliæ patris
nostri præcharissimi nobis existit insinuatum quod cum ipsi
ut in jure Collegii predicti seisiti sunt de et in quatuor
tenementis cum pertinentiis insimul situatis jacentibus et
existentibus in parochia Sancti Michaelis in Cantabrigia ex
LICENTIA PRO TENEMENTIS. - 9]
opposito ecclesiæ et cœmiterio ejusdem parochiæ quorum
primum vocatum Ansels nuper fuit in tenura sive occupatione
Willelmi Ball jam defuncti, secundum in tenura sive occupa-
tione Thomæ Houghton, tertium in tenura, sive occupatione
[p. 5 1] Johannæ Talbot viduæ, et quartum in tenura, sive
occupatione Andreæ Smyth, quod jacet juxta tenementum
Roberti Lame pistoris. Quæ quidem tenementa situantur
jacent et existunt inter venellam vocatam Michaell lane ex parte
boreali, et tenementum Roberti Lane predicti ex parte australi,
et abuttant versus orientem super regiam viam sive altam
stratam ibidem, et versus occidentem super gardinum et poma-
rium Collegii de Goneville et Caius fundati in honorem
aununciationis beatæ Mariæ virginis in universitate Canta-
brigiæ. Cumque etiam magister socii et scholares predicti
Collegii Sanctæ et individuæ Trinitatis juxta formam et effectum
quarundam conventionum et agreamentorum specificatorum in
quibusdam indenturis gerentibus datam primo die Junii anno
regni nostri quinto factis inter ipsos magistrum socios et
scholares ejusdem Collegii Sanctæ et individuæ Trinitatis ex
una parte et magistrum sive custodem et socios predicti Collegii
de Goneville et Caius ex altera parte in voluntate existunt, et
intendunt dare et concedere predicta quatuor tenementa ac
cætera premissa, cum suis pertinentiis magistro sive custodi
ac sociis predicti Collegii de Goneville et Caius et successoribus
suis imperpetuum per quoddam scriptum indentatum inter
ipsos magistrum socios et scholares predicti Collegii Sanctæ et
individuæ Trinitatis ex una parte et predictos magistrum sive
custodem et socios predicti Collegii de Goneville et Caius
conficiendum, Tenenda de nobis hæredibus et successoribus
nostris ut de manerio nostro de Eastgrenewich in comitatu
Cantiæ in libero socagio videlicet per fidelitatem tantum et
non in capite pro omnibus redditibus servitiis exactionibus
et demandis quibuscunque nobis hæredibus aut successoribus
nostris proinde quoquomodo reddendis solvendis seu faciendis,
Ac reddendas et solvendas eisdem magistro sociis et scholaribus
predicti Collegii Sanctæ et individuæ Trinitatis et eorum
successoribus imperpetuum pro predictis quatuor tenementis
et cæteris premissis cum suis pertinentiis sex libras tredecim
92 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANID CAIUS.
solidos et quatuor denarios legalis monetæ Angliæ ad festa
Sancti Michaelis Archangeli et Paschæ æquis portionibus
annuatim solvendos infra precinctum predicti Collegii Sanctæ
et individuæ Trinitatis ad manus receptoris vel unius the-
saurariorum ibidem pro tempore existentium, cum clausula
districtionis in eodem scripto indentato sic conficiendo con-
tinenda et specificanda videlicet quod si contingat predictum
redditum sex librarum tredecim solidorum et quatuor denariorum
a retro fore et non solutum in parte vel in toto post aliquod
predictorum festorum Paschæ et Sancti Michaelis Archangeli
quo ut prefertur solvi debeat, per spatium quadraginta dierum
si debite petatur ad vel infra precinctum predicti Collegii
sanctæ et individuæ Trinitatis predictæ, quod ex tunc bene
licebit prefatis magistro sociis et scholaribus predicti Collegii
Sanctæ et individuæ Trinitatis pro tempore existentibus et
successoribus suis in predicta messuagia ac cætera premissa, aut
in manerium de Roughton in comitatu Norfolciæ aut in aliquod
aliud maneriorum terrarum et tenementorum predictorum magi-
stri sive custodis et sociorum predicti Collegii de Gomeville et
Caius et successorum suorum infra regnum Angliæ, modo non
existentium infra scitum Collegii de Goneville et Caius predicti
nec alicujus parcellæ ejusdem scitus, intrare et distringere, et
districtiones sic ibidem captas licite abducere effugare imparcare
et penes se retinere quousque de predicto redditu sex librarum
tredecim solidorum et quatuor denariorum una cum omnibus
[p. 52] inde arreragiis (si quæ fuerint) plenarie fuerint
satisfacti. Quæ quidem donum et concessio tenementorum
predictorum ac cæterorum premissorum quia minus fieri et
debite exequi possunt sine licentia nostra regia in ea parte
primitus concessa et obtenta, Nos non modo supplicationi
dilecti nobis Joannis Caius in medicinis doctoris unius funda-
torum predicti Collegii de Goneville et Caius ac modo magistri
sive custodis ejusdem Collegii nobis pro licentia nostra regia
in hac parte concedenda gratiose annuentes verum etiam
optimam ejusdem Joannis Caius intentionem in bonarum liter-
arum progressum incrementum numeri sociorum scholarium et
ædificiorum Collegii predicti ad honorem Dei et regni nostri
decus atque commodum intelligentes, de gratia nostra speciali
LICENTIA PRO TENEMENTIS. 98
ac ex certa scientia et mero motu nostris concessimus et
licentiam dedimus ac pro nobis hæredibus et successoribus
nostris quantum in mobis est per presentes concedimus et
licentiam damus magistro sociis et scholaribus predicti Collegii
Sanctæ et individuæ Trinitatis et successoribus suis, quod ipsi
iidem magister socii et scholares et successores sui dare possint
et concedere vendere et alienare magistro sive custodi et sociis
predicti Collegii de Goneville et Caius et successoribus suis
imperpetuum predicta quatuor tenementa cum curtilagiis shopis
domibus hortis gardinis pomariis et cæteris pertinentiis suis
universis, 3ßabemùa et (Tememύa eisdem magistro sive custodi
et sociis predicti Collegii de Goneville et Caius et successoribus
suis imperpetuum de nobis hæredibus et successoribus nostris
ut de manerio nostro de Eastgrenewiche in comitatu nostro
|Kantiæ in libero socagio per fidelitatem tantum et non in
capite pro omnibus redditibus servitiis exactionibus et demandis
quibuscumque, %t τβύ£mù03 prefatis magistro sociis et scholaribus
predicti Collegii Sanctæ et individuæ Trinitatis, et successoribus
suis sex libras tredecim solidos et quatuor demarios legalis
monetæ Angliæ annuatim ad festa Paschæ et Sancti Michaelis
Archangeli æquis portionibus solvendos cum predicta clausula
destrictionis pro non solutione ejusdem modo et forma superius
specificata, in eodem scripto ac juxta formam et effectum
predictæ indenturæ, 3ßab£mùa et tememùa predicta quatuor
tenementa cum pertinentiis licet eadem quatuor tenementa
cum pertinentiis teneantur sive eorum aliquod seu aliqua pars
inde teneatur vel teneantur de nobis in libera elemosina, quali-
tercunque seu in capite aut aliter quocumque modo. 3B£ùiimug
etiam et concessimus ac pro mobis hæredibus et successoribus
nostris per presentes damus et concedimus licentiam et facul-
tatem specialem magistro sive custodi et sociis predicti Collegii
de Goneville et Caius quod ipsi omnia predicta quatuor tene-
menta, ac cætera premissa cum pertinentiis a præfatis magistro
sociis et scholaribus Collegii Sanctæ et individuæ Trinitatis
predicti recipere possint et tenere sibi et successoribus suis, de
nobis hæredibus et successoribus nostris, per predicta servitia,
socagii et fidelitatis tantum in his literis nostris patentibus
superius specificatis et mon per aliquod aliud servitium sive
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aliqua alia servitia quæcunque reddendo annuatim magistro
sociis et scholaribus Collegii Sanctæ et individuæ Trinitatis
predicti et successoribus suis sex libras tredecim solidos et
quatuor denarios ut predictum est, Ac prefatis magistro sociis
et scholaribus Collegii Sanctæ et individuæ Trinitatis predicti
et successoribus suis quod ipsi et successores sui super predictum
[p. 53] domum et concessionem per ipsos magistro sive custodi
et sociis predicti Collegii de Goneville et Caius et successoribus
suis de predictis quatuor tenementis ac cæteris premissis cum
pertinentiis in forma predicta fiendum reservent et reservare
possint sibi et successoribus suis redditum superius specificatum
cum clausula districtionis in forma predicta tenore presentium,
Similiter licentiam dedimus ac pro nobis hæredibus et suc-
cessoribus nostris damus specialem per presentes statuto de
terris et tenementis in manum mortuam non ponendis seu
aliquo alio statuto provisione lege seu re quacunque in aliquo
non obstante. ®t @Ãlteriu3 de uberiori gratia nostra speciali
concessimus ac pro nobis hæredibus et successoribus nostris per
presentes concedimus et licentiam damus specialem quantum
in nobis est quibuscunque subditis et ligeis nostris ac hæredum
et successorum nostrorum quod ipsi sive eorum aliquis vel
aliqui maneria terras tenementa redditus reversiones servitia
rectorias pensiones portiones annuitates et advocationes ecclesi-
siarum ac omnia alia hereditamenta et possessiones quascunque,
tam spiritualia quam temporalia, ad clarum annuum valorem
sexaginta sex librarum tredecim solidorum et quatuor denari-
orum per annum ultra omnia onera et reprisas tam de feodo
suo proprio quam alieno, modo de nobis non teneantur in capite,
prefatis magistro sive custodi et sociis predicti Collegii de
Goneville et Caius pro tempore existentibus et successoribus
suis pro meliori manutentione et sustentatione Collegii predicti
dare comcedere assignare vendere et legare possint et valeant,
3£?abemùa- tememùa et gauύεmùa eisdem magistro sive custodi
et sociis Collegii de Goneville et Caius predicti et successoribus
suis imperpetuum de nobis hæredibus et successoribus nostris
in libero socagio per fidelitatem tantum et non in capite ut de
manerio nostro de Eastgrenewich in comitatu Kantiæ pro
omnibus redditibus servitiis exactionibus et demandis quibus-
LICENTIA PRO TENEMENTIS. 95
cunque, Et eisdem magistro sive custodi et sociis et successoribus
suis, quod ipsi maneria terras tenementa redditus reversiones
servitia rectorias pensiones portiones annuitates ac omnia et
omnimoda alia hæreditamenta, et possessiones quæcumque tam
spiritualia quam temporalia ad predictum valorem sexaginta
sex librarum tredecim solidorum et quatuor denariorum per
annum, ultra omnia onera et reprisas a quibuscunque subditis
et ligeis nostris ac hæredum et successorum nostrorum, ea eis
dare concedere assignare vendere et legare volentibus recipere
possunt acquirere ac tenere sibi et successoribus suis imper-
petuum, temenda per fidelitatem tantum sicut predictum est
tenore presentium, Similiter licentiam damus et concedimus
specialem statuto de terris et tenementis ad manum mortuam
non ponendis aut aliquo alio statuto actu ordinatione provisione
sive restrictione inde in contrario facto edito ordinato seu
proviso aut aliqua alia re causa vel materia quacumque in aliquo
non obstante. Et hoc absque aliqua inquisitione sive aliquibus
inquisitionibus inde pretextu alicujus brevis seu mandati nostri
vel aliquorum brevium seu mandatorum nostrorum aut hæredum
vel successorum nostrorum de ad quod damnum seu alicujus
alterius brevis concessionis mandati seu præcepti nostri aut
hæredum vel successorum nostrorum in hac parte quoquo modo
fiendi prosequendi seu capiendi ac in Cancellariam nostram
aut hæredum vel successorum nostrorum seu alibi returmandi,
Et absque aliquibus aliis literis nostris patentibus sive warrantis
nostris aut hæredum vel successorum nostrorum de in sive
pro premissis seu aliquo premissorum quovismodo impetrandis
habendis sive fiendis, aliquibus statutis actibus sive ordina-
[p. 54] tionibus inde in contrario factis editis sive ordinatis
in aliquo non obstante. Nolentes quod predicti magister sive
custos et socii predicti Collegii de Goneville et Caius vel eorum
successores qui pro tempore fuerint aut aliqui subditi sive ligei
nostri aut hæredum vel successorum nostrorum ratione seu
occasione premissorum vel eorum alicujus per nos hæredes vel
successores nostros aut per justiciarios escaetores vicecomites
aut alios ballivos seu ministros nostros aut hæredum vel suc-
cessorum nostrorum quoscumque ullo modo impetantur vexentur
inquietentur molestentur in aliquo seu graventur, nec eorum
96 ANNALS OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS.
aliquis impetatur vexetur inquietetur molestetur in aliquo
seu gravetur. QEomtcìfmtt$ præterea pro nobis hæredibus et
successoribus nostris per presentes prefatis magistro sive custodi
et sociis Collegii de Goneville et Caius predicti quod ipsi et
successores sui vel eorum assignati habeant et accipiant annu-
atim imperpetuum ad discretionem libertatem et voluntatem
suam sine contradictione alicujus duo corpora humana ad
amatomizandum jure publico hujus regni furti aut homicidii
condemnata atque mortua in villa Cantabrigiæ vel castello
ibidem aut alibi ubicumque in comitatu Cantabrigiæ, Et quod
licebit eisdem magistro sive custodi atque sociis et successoribus
suis et aliis quibuscunque eorum assignatis medicinæ profes-
soribus seu expertis eadem corpora secare dividere et aliter
pro voluntate et judicio suo cum ea reverentia quæ humanæ
carni debita est tractare ad incrementum cognitionis medicinæ
experimentum ejusdem et ad salutem ligeorum nostrorum sine
impedimento nostri hæredum et successorum mostrorum et offici-
ariorum nostrorum quorumcunque aut subditorum et hoc absque
ulla pecuniarum summa vel summis pro eisdem solvenda vel
solvendis cuicumque, Salva nobis hæredibus et successoribus
nostris potestate revocandi presentem concessionem nostram
pro predictis duobus corporibus humanis cum nobis hæredibus
vel successoribus nostris visum fuerit vel placuerit. QBt @Ãlteriu3
concedimus prefato Johanni Caius et assignatis suis quod habe-
ant atque gaudeant, quiete libere et pacifice de tempore in
tempus omnia ligna meremia ferra lateres coctos atque lapides
et omnia alia et singula, quæ ad ædificationem Collegii sui sine
dolo acquisivit et acquiret acquisiverint, et acquirent sine
interruptione et impedimento provisorum emptorum seu cap-
torum nostrorum hæredum et successorum nostrorum et aliorum
officiariorum ministrorum seu subditorum nostrorum quorum-
cumque. QBt @älteriu$ bonum propositum et intentionem prefati
Johannis Caius in premissis graciose considerantes volumus
et per presentes concedimus prefatis magistro sive custodi et
sociis Collegii de Goneville et Caius predicti quod habeant
et habebunt has literas nostras patentes de omnibus et singulis
premissis supradictis sub magno sigillo nostro Angliæ debito
modo factas et sigillatas absque fine seu feodo magno vel parvo
MORTIZATIO COTLLEGIO SANCTÆ TRINITATIS. 97
nobis in hamaperio nostro seu alibi ad usum nostrum proinde
quoquo modo reddendo solvendo vel faciendo. QBt bae literæ
nostræ patentes erunt tam custodi magni sigilli nostri quam
clerico hamaperii Cancellariæ nostræ pro tempore existenti et
eorum deputato sive deputatis ibidem sufficiens warrantum
et exoneratio im hac parte pro deliberatione earundem literarum
patentium absque fine seu feodo aliquali pro eisdem ad usum
nostrum aliqualiter reddendo solvendo seu faciendo. Eoque
expressa mentio de vero valore annuo aut de certitudine premis-
sorum sive eorum alicujus aut de aliis donis sive concessionibus
per nos vel per aliquem progemitorum sive predecessorum nos-
[p. 55] trorum prefatis magistro sive custodi et sociis Collegii
de Goneville et Caius predicti ante hæc tempora factis in
presentibus minime factis existit aliquo statuto actu ordinatione
provisione proclamatione sive restrictione inde in contrario facto
edito ordinato sive proviso aut aliqua alia re causa vel materia
quacunque in aliquo non obstantibus. In cujus rei testimonium
has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Teste meipsa apud
Westmonasterium primo die Augusti ammo regni nostri sexto.
per ipsam reginam et de data predicta autoritate Parliamenti.
IMartem.
Mortizatio vj* aeiìì* ìììì° Collegio Sanctæ Trinitatis.
Elizabeth dei gratia Angliæ Franciæ et Hiberniæ regina,
fidei defensor, etc. Ommibus ad quos presentes literæ per-
venerint salutem. Sciatis quod nos de gratia mostra speciali,
ac ex certa scientia et mero motu nostris necnon ad humilem
supplicationem dilecti subditi mostri Johannis Caius in medi-
cinis doctoris concessimus et licentiam dedimus ac pro nobis
hæredibus et successoribus nostris per presentes concedimus et
licentiam damus simul et facultatem ac potestatem specialem
quibuscumque subditis ac ligeis nostris ac hæredum et suc-
cessorum mostrorum quod ipsi vel eorum aliquis seu aliqui
maneria rectorias terras tenementa decimas redditus reven-
tiones servitia ac alias possessiones seu reventiones vel here-
ditamenta quæcunque ad annuum valorem sex librarum tre-
decim solidorum et quatuor denariorum ubicunque infra regnum
nostrum Angliæ modo de nobis hæredibus vel successoribus
C. A. S. Octavo Series. No. XL. 7
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nostris mom teneantur in capite dare possint et concedere
vendere et alienare et legare magistro sociis et scholaribus
Collegii Sanctæ et individuæ Trinitatis infra villam et uni-
versitatem Cantabrigiæ ex fundatione regis Hemrici octavi
patris nostri præcharissimi et successoribus suis imperpetuum,
Et eisdem magistro sociis et scholaribus Collegii Sanctæ et
individuæ Trinitatis predicti et successoribus suis quod ipsi
hujusmodi maneria rectorias terras tenementa decimas redditus
reventiones servitia possessiones et hæreditamenta ad ammuum
valorem predictum de quibuscumque subditis seu ligeis nostris
aut hæredum vel successorum mostrorum habere recipere emere
et perquirere possint et valeant, 3£}abemùa et tememùa sibi et
successoribus suis imperpetuum tenore presentium similiter
licentiam dedimus, ac pro nobis hæredibus et successoribus
mostris damus specialem per presentes, Et hoc absque aliquo
brevi seu aliquibus brevibus de ad quod damnum aut aliqua
inquisitione warranto vel alio brevi quocunque ea occasione
ullo modo prosequendo fiendo capiendo retornando seu re-
cordando, statuto aliquo de terris et tenementis ad manum
mortuam non ponendis edito aut aliquo alio statuto actu
ordinatione provisione seu restrictione inde in contrario facto
edito ordinato sive proviso in aliquo non obstante. Nolentes
quod prefati magister socii et scholares predicti Collegii Sanctæ
et imdividuæ Trinitatis vel successores sui vel aliqui subditi seu
ligei nostri aut hæredum seu successorum nostrorum quicunque
per nos hæredes vel successores nostros aut per justiciarios
escaetores vicecomites ballivos aut alios officiarios ministros
seu subditos nostros aut hæredum vel successorum nostrorum
quoscumque ratione premissorum sive eorum alicujus aliquibus
futuris temporibus occasionentur molestentur impetantur vex-
emtur in aliquo seu graventur nec eorum aliquis occasionetur
molestetur impetatur vexetur in aliquo seu gravetur, Eo quod
expressa mentio de vero valore amnuo aut de certitudine
premissorum sive eorum alicujus aut de aliis domis sive com-
cessionibus per mos vel per aliquem progenitorum nostrorum
prefatis magistro sociis et scholaribus Collegii Sanctæ et in-
[p. 56] dividuæ Trinitatis predicti ante hæc tempora factis in
presentibus minime factis existit, aliquo statuto actu ordinatione
MORTIZATIO COLLEGIO SANCTAE TRINITATIS. 99
provisione sive restrictione inde in contrario facto dicto ordinato
seu proviso aut aliqua alia re causa vel materia quacunque in
aliquo non obstante. In cujus rei testimonium has literas
nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Teste meipsa apud Westmona-
sterium primo die Augusti anno regni nostri Sexto.
per ipsam regimam, etc. Marten.
Commission
Elizabeth by the Grace of God Quene of Englande France
and Irelande defender of the fayth, etc. To all and singular
our Justices of peace mayers sheriffes bailiffes constables hed-
boroughes and all other our officers mynysters and subjects to
whom these presents shall come gretyng. Q&Abertaş we are
gyven to understand that our loving subject John Caius in
our universitie of Cambrige doctor in phisik entendeth with
expedition to buyld up and fynishe the Colledge of Goneville
and Caius in our universitie of Cambrige, for which purpose
he hath prepared tymber stonne lyme bricke slate leade and
other necessaries, and more entendeth to prepare as for the
sayd worke and buyldinge are requysyte, mynding his further-
ance in that behalf, and to take away suche occasions as may
seme to be a lette unto the same, We have ordeyned and by
these presents for us our heires and successors do gyve speciall
charge and commandment that no manner of tymber stonne or
other the premisses, nor any workeman or laborer hired or to
be reteyned in the said worke, nor any cart cariage horses or
other thing whatsoever appoynted and provided for the same,
nor the tenantes servants or fermors of the said College, or
their servants, nor any of their provisions for cariage be in any
wise taken or withdrawne from them attending the said workes
by any of our officers or servants nor any other; but that
suche carts cariages horses tenants and other the premisses
togither with workemen and laborers to remayn and continew
in the said workes so longe as they shalbe hyred or appoynted
in the same. And all other the provisions and necessaries
above mencyoned provided for the causes aforesayd to be free
from all and every our purveyours and servants duryng the
space of the yeares hereafter followyng, if the said College
7–2
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shalbe so longe in buylding, any thyng to the contrary notwith-
standinge. And therefore wee will and command you and
every of you to be ayding helping and assisting the sayd doctor
Caius and all others for him travelinge about the acomplishe-
ment and expedition of the sayd workes and buyldinges, As
ye and every of yow tender our pleasure, and will answeare to
the contrarie. And our pleasure and commandment ys that
this our speciall licence and graunte shalbe good and continue
during fyve yeres next ensuyng the date hereof. In witness
whereof wee have caused these our letters to be made patents.
Witness our self at Westminster the first day of August the
sixt yeare of our reigne. -
per ipsam reginam, etc. Marten.
1564
Sumptibus Johannis Caii acquisita sunt a Collegio Sanctæ
Trinitatis quatuor tenementa vocata Ansells, Houghtons,
Talbots, et Smythes alias Arma Regis, in parochia Sancti
Michaelis, conditionibus in indenturis atque carta consequent-
ibus memoratis.
[p. 57]
- Indentura quatuor tenementorum in parochia Sancti
Michaelis in Cantabrigia.
(Jijig intenture made the firste day of June in the fifte yere
of the reigne of oure soveraigne Lady Elizabeth, by the grace
of God quene of England France and Ireland, defender of the
fayth, etc., Betwene the M* fellowes and scholers of the College
of the holy and indyvided Trynytie within the towne and
universytie of Cambrige of the foundation of Kynge Henry the
eight of the one partie, and the M* or keaper and the fellowes
of the College of Goneville and Caius founded in the honor of
the annunciation of blessed Mary the virgin in the universytie
of Cambrige of the other partie, &Hptmºśith that it is
covenaunted granted condescended and agreed betwene the
said parties, and either of the said parties for them and their
successors covenaunteth and granteth to and with the other of
them their successors and assignes by these presents in maner
and forme following, that ys to say, the said Mº fellowes and
INDENTURA QUATUOR TENEMENTORUM. 101
scholers of the said College of the holy and indy vided Trynytie
doe covenaunt and grant for them and their successors to and
with the said Mº or keeper and fellowes of the said College of
Gonevill and Caius and their successors and assignes by these
presents, that if the said M" or keeper and fellowes of the said
College of Goneville and Caius or their successors shall obteyne
of our saide soveraign lady the quene her heires or successors
one sufficient licence in the lawe for the autorising of lands
tenements and other hereditaments of the yerely valewe of
sixe pounds thirtene shillings and fower pense to the said
Mº fellowes and scholers of the same College of the holy and
indy vided Trynytie, and one other licence that the said M*
fellowes and scholers of the said College of the holy and
indyvyded Trinitie or their successors shall and may give grant
and alienne to the said Mº or keper and fellowes of the said
College of Goneville and Caius and to their successors for ever
in fee symple fower messuages or tenements with the curtelages
Ortesyerdes and gardens to the same belonging with thapper-
tenaunces scytuate and being in the parishe of Sº Michael in
Cambrige aforesaid over agaynst the churche and churcheyerd
of the same parishe betwene the lane called Michaell lane of
the northe and the tenement of Robert Lane baker of the south,
and abuttinge upon the kings high way or high streate there
on the easte, and the gardeynes and Ortesyerdes belonging to
Gonevill and Caius College aforesaid on the west (of the which
fower messuages or tenements the one called Ansels was lately
in the tenure and occupacion of William Ball nowe deceased,
one other in the tenure and occupacion of Thomas Houghton,
one other in the tenure or occupacion of Johan Talbot widowe,
and the fourth in the tenure or occupacion of Andrewe Smyth),
Qſo be bolten of our soveraigne lady the quene her heyres and
successors for ever as of her manor of Easte-Grenewiche in the
countie of Kent by fealtie onely and not in chiefe for all
manner of rents services exactions and demaunds, 3 mb that by
the same licence the same M” fellowes and scholers of the said
College of the holy and indyvyded Trynytie upon their said
alienation gift and graunt so to be made, may reserve for the
same fower messuages or tenements and other the premisses
102 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
[p. 58] with their appurtenaunces unto the said Mº fellowes
and scholers of the sayd College of the holy and indyvyded
Trynytie and to their successors for ever sixe pounds thirtene
shillings fower pense of lawfull mony of England payable at
the feasts of Easter and St Michael tharchangell by even
portiones, with a clause of dystresse to be also specyfied in the
same licence, that if it shall happen the same rent of syxe
pounds thirtene shillings and fower pense to be behinde un-
payde in parte or in all by the space of fourtie daies next after
any of the said feasts in the which the same ought to be payde
and being lawfullie demaunded, that then yt shalbe lawfull to
the said Mº fellowes and scholers of the said College of the
holy and indy vided Trynytie and to their successors into all
the said fower messuages tenements and other the premisses
with their appurtenaunces and into the manor of Roughton
with thappurtenaunces in the county of Norfolk and into all
other the manors lands and tenements of the sayd M" or keper
and fellowes of the sayd College of Goneville and Caius with
their appurtenaunces, not being nowe within the scyte of the
same College of Goneville and Caius nor any parcell of the
Scyte thereof, to enter and distreyne, and the same dystresse
there so taken to leade dryve and carry awaye and with them
to reteyne untyll the said rent of syxe pounds thirtene shillings
and fower pense aforesaid with the arrerages thereof if any
shall happen to be, shall unto them be fully satisfied contented
and payd, QChat then the said Mº fellowes and schollers of the
Sayd College of the holy and indyvyded Trinitie or their
successors within sixtene wekes next after suche licence had
and obteyned upon reasonable request by the M* or keper of
the sayd College of Goneville and Caius for the tyme being or
his assigne or assignes made to the M* of the sayd College of
the holy and indyvyded Trynytie for the tyme being, by one
dede indented sufficient in the lawe to be made betwene the
same M' fellowes and scholers of the said College of the holy
and indyvyded Trynytie of the one parte and the said Mº or
keper and fellowes of the said College of Goneville and Caius
on the other partie, at the onely costes and charges of the same
M" or keper and fellowes of the same College of Goneville and
INDENTURA QUATUOR TENEMENTORUM. I ()3
Caius, shall and wyll geve graunt and assure the sayd fower
messuages or tenements and other the premisses with their
appurtenaunces in the sayd parishe of Sº Michael, together
with all the evydences perteyning to the same only, and
thereof make or cause to be made a good and sufficient estate
and assurance in the lawe in fee simple withowt condicion unto
the M* or keper and fellowes of the sayd College of Goneville
and Caius for the tyme being and to their successors for ever
according to the purporte tenore and effect of the sayd licence,
Qſo babz and to bolt to them and to their successors for ever of
our Sayd soveraigne lady the quene her heyres and successors
as of her said manor of Eastgrenewiche by the service only
before mencyoned, yeldyng and payeng yerely for or owt of
[p. 59] the same fower messuages or tenements and other
the premisses with their appurtenaunces in the said parishe of
S" Michael unto the sayd Mº fellowes and scholers of the sayd
College of the holy and indyvyded Trinitie and to their
successors for ever syxe pounds thirtene shillings and fower
pense of lawfull mony of England at the feaste of Easter and
Sº Michael tharchangell by even porcions within the scyte and
precyncte of the said College of the holy and indyvyded Trynytie
to the hands of the receyver or any of the bursers there for
the tyme beinge with one clause of dystresse to be also con-
teyned in the sayd dede indented, that yf yt shall happen the
Sayd rente of syxe poundes thirtene shillings and fower pens
to be behind unpayd in parte or in all by the space of fourtie
dayes next after any of the sayd feasts in the which the same
ought to be payd and being lawfully demanded at or in the
Sayd College of Goneville and Caius, that then yt shalbe lawfull
to the sayd M' fellowes and scholers of the sayd College of the
holy and indyvyded Trynytie and to their successors into all
the sayd fower messuages tenements and other the premisses
with their appurtenances and into the sayd manor of Roughton
with the appurtenaunces in the sayd countye of Norfolk and
into every other of the manors lands and tenements of the sayd
M" or keper and fellowes of the sayd College of Goneville and
Caius with their appurtenaunces, not being at this present
tyme within the scyte of the same College of Goneville and
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Caius, nor any parcell of the same scyte, to enter and dystreine,
and the same distresse there so taken to leade dryve and cary
away and with them to reteyne, untill the sayd rent of sixe
pounds thirtene shillings and fower pens wyth the arrerages
thereof (yf any shall happen to be) shall unto them be fullye
satisfied contented and payd. &nt the Šaft Mº fellowes and
scholers of the sayd College of the holy and indyvyded Trynytie
do covenaunt and graunt for them and their successors to and
with the said Mº or keper and fellowes of the said College of
Goneville and Caius and their successors by these presents,
that they the said Mº fellowes and scholers of the said College
of the holy and indyvyded Trynytie or their successors shall at
all and every tyme and tymes after lycence as is aforesaid
obteyned, and estate made of the premisses, being in the
parishe of Sº Michael, within three yeres then next following
upon reasonable request to be made to the M” of the sayd
College of the holy and indyvyded Trynytie for the tyme being
by the M* or keper of the sayd College of Goneville and Caius
for the tyme being or his assigne or assignes make do and
suffer to be made or done all and every suche reasonable acte
and actes thinge and thinges for the further and more better
assurance of the said fower messuages or tenements and other
the premisses with their appurtenaunces to the M' or keeper
and fellowes of the said College of Gonevill and Caius and their
[p. 6 O] successors for ever as shalbe advised or devysed by
the learned councell in the lawe of the sayd Mº or keper and
fellowes of the sayd College of Goneville and Caius or their
successors, at the only costs and charges in the lawe of the
sayd Mº or keper and fellowes of the sayd College of Goneville
and Caius and their successors savyng alwayes and preservyng
the sayd yerely rent of vi" xiii" iiii" to the sayd Mº fellowes and
scholers of Trynyty College aforesayd in maner and effect as ys
before expressed. And that the said Mº fellowes and scholers
of the sayd College of the holy and indyvyded Trynytie and
their successors shall from tyme to tyme hereafter save and
keape harmeles as well the M* or keper and fellowes of the
sayd College of Gonevill and Caius and their successors, as the
said fower messuages or tenements and other the premisses
INDENTURA QUATUOR TENEMENTORUM. 105
with their appurtenances, of for and concernyng all former sales
bargaynes gyftes graunts rights titles uses wylles forfaytures
and other encomberaunces and charges whatsoever they be,
had made or done, or hereafter to be had made suffered or done
at any tyme before the makyng of the said assuerance or
conveyance of the sayd fower messuages or tenements with
their appurtenaunces to be had and done as ys aforesayd by
the M' fellowes and scholers of the sayd College of the holy
and indyvyded Trynytie or by their predecessors or successors
(saving and except leases for terme of yeres of the Sayd fower
messuages or tenements with the appurtenaunces or any of
them made and graunted before the death of William Byll
doctor in dyvinitie late M' of the said College of the holy and
indyvyded Trynytie and suche rentes or dewties as shalbe
demaunded hereafter by reason of the said tenements or any
parcell thereof by the maior and bayliffes of Cambrige aforesaid).
3 nt also the said M" or keper and fellowes of the sayd College
of Goneville and Caius do covenaunt and graunt for them
and their successors by these presents to and with the said
M" fellowes and scholers of the sayd College of the holy and
indy Vyded Trynytie that the tenants of the sayd fower messuages
or tenements with their appurtenaunces shall after suche estate
and assurance made thereof as ys aforesayd quyetly and peace-
ably enjoy all suche right and tytle for terme of yeres as they
have by vertew of their said leases during their yeres and
interest in the same so that they pay doe and performe to the
said Mº or keper and fellowes of the sayd College of Gonevil
and Caius and to their successors all suche rents covenaunts
and things as they are charged with or ought to doe by vertew
or by reason of their leases or interests in the same tenements
and premisses in maner and forme as they and every of them
shold or ought to doe to their lessors before the date hereof,
except the Sayd tenants or any of them shalbe otherwise com-
pounded with. &nd algo that the tenants and occupiers of the
said fower messuages or tenements so long as the houses be
inhabyted by the tenants shall yeld and pay to the parson of
the churche of Sº Michael aforesaid all such tythes and other
dewties spirituall for the sayd fower messuages or tenements as
of right ought or hath ben accustomed to be payd for the same
106 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
without any lette or impediment of the M* or keper and fellowes
of the said College of Goneville and Caius or their successors.
[p. 6 11 And that after the sayd fower messuages or tenements
shalbe all pulled downe or brought to be within the precinct
and Scyte of the sayd College of Gonville and Caius, or con-
verted to the proper use and occupacion of the sayd College of
Goneville and Caius, that then the M* or keper and fellowes
of the same College and their successors shall well and truly
content satisfie and paye or cause to be contented satisfied and
payed yerely from tyme to tyme unto the person of the said
churche of Sº Michaell ten shillings in the name of the sayd
tythes and other sayd duties to be payd for the same fower
messuages or tenements with the appurtenaunces untyll suche
tyme as the sayd parishe of Sº Michael be unyted to some other
parishe, and then the payment of the said x* to ceasse. And yf
any one twoe or thre of the sayd fower messuages or tenements
only shall at any tyme hereafter fortune to be pulled downe or
brought to be within the precyncte and scyte of the sayd
College of Goneville and Caius or converted to the proper use
and occupacion of the sayd College that then the M' or keper
and fellowes of the same College and their successors shall well
and truly contente satisfie and paye or cause to be contented
satisfied and payd yerely from tyme to tyme unto the person of
the said church of S. Michael for every of the said fower tene-
ments so pulled downe or converted to their proper use and
occupation in forme followyng, that is to Saye for Ansels thre
shillings, for Johan Talbots thre shillings, for Houghtons
twentie pens, and for Smythes twoe shillings and fower pens,
for and in the name of the tythes and other duties to the said
churche, untyll suche tyme as the said parishe of Sº Michaell
be unyted unto some other parishe and then the paymente of
suche summes of mony to ceasse. Him ſuitmeg whereof the
parties abovenamed have interchaungeably sette to their common
seales the day and yere above wrytten.
Obligatio ejusdem Indenturae.
Noverint universi per presentes nos magistrum socios et
scholares Collegii sanctæ et individua Trinitatis infra villam et
universitatem Cantabrigiæ ex fundatione regis Henrici Octavi
OBLIGATIO EJUSDEM INDENTURÆ. I07
teneri et firmiter obligari magistro sive custodi et sociis
Collegii de Goneville et Caius fundati in honorem annumcia-
tionis beatæ Mariæ virginis in universitate Cantabrigiæ in
ducentis marcis legalis monetæ Angliæ solvendis eisdem
magistro sive custodi et sociis Collegii de Goneville et Caius
predicti aut successoribus suis in festo Nativitatis Sancti
Johannis Baptistæ proximo futuro post datam presentium. Ad
quam quidem solutionem bene et fideliter faciendam obligamus
mos et successores nostros per presentes. In cujus rei fidem et
testimonium sigillum mostrum commune apponi fecimus. Datum
primo die Junii, Anno regni Elizabethæ Dei gratia Angliæ
Franciæ et Hiberniæ regimæ, fidei defensoris, etc., quinto.
[p. 62] The condition of this obligation ys such that if the
within boumdem M" fellowes and scholers of the College of the
holy and indyvyded Trimytie shall performe fulfyll and keape
all and every such covenaunts articles and agrements which are
to be performed fulfylled and kept on their behalf and are
conteyned in a payre of Indentures made betwene them on the
one partie and the M' or keper and fellowes of Goneville and
Caius College aforesayd om thother partie bering date the day
of the making hereof, that then the present obligation to be
void and of mon effecte, or els to stand in his full vertewe
strength aud effecte.
Consimili pecuniarum summa etiam nostrum Collegium
obligatur Collegio Sanctæ et individuæ Trinitatis de pactis
predictæ indenturæ præstandis. Et quia in eadem indentura
mentio est de redditibus prætori et ballivis villæ Cantabrigiæ
ratione quatuor tenementorum solvendis, scire licet (inspecto
per nos et magistrum Collegii Sanctæ et individuæ Trinitatis
ballivorum rentali) ex his ædibus nihil resolvi, et ea de causa
ejus rei mentionem in carta omitti. Atque hæc quidem ut ante
est comprehensum acta sunt primo Junii anno 1563. Post
quem diem assecuta per mos regia facultate mutandi possessionem
quatuor tenementorum et stabiliendi possessiones sex librarum
tredecim solidorum et quatuor denariorum Collegio Sanctæ et
individuæ Trinitatis potestate habita, una cum aliis in usum
Collegii nostri necessariis rebus primo Augusti anni 1564
obtentis, ut ex literis patentibus Dominæ reginæ præscriptis
I08 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANID CAIUS.
patere potest, magister socii et scholares Collegii Sanctæ et
individuæ Trinitatis per cartam suam indentatam nobis ex
pacto concesserunt omnia illa quatuor sua, tenementa cum
pertinentiis 22° Septembris Anno Domini 1564, ac statum
eorum et seisinam per attormatum suum magistrum Bartho-
lomeum Dodyngtom artium magistrum nobis per attornatos
nostros Humfridum Byshby legum doctorem et Thomam Davys
artium baccalaureum, Collegii nostri pensionarios majores,
dederunt decimo die Oetobris anno Domini 1564, ut ex im-
sequenti carta scire licet.
Carta, quatuor tenementorum în
parochia S. Michaelis.
Hæc carta indentata, facta inter magistrum socios et
scholares Collegii Sanctæ et individuæ Trinitatis infra villam
et universitatem Cantabrigiæ ex fundatione regis Hemrici
octavi ex una parte, et magistrum sive custodem et socios
Collegii de Goneville et Caius fundati in honorem annuncia-
tionis beatæ Mariæ virginis in universitate Cantabrigiæ predicta
ex altera parte, QU£$tatur quod prefati magister socii et scholares
predicti Collegii sanctæ et individuæ Trinitatis virtute licentiæ
Dominæ reginæ nunc gerentis datam primo die Augusti anno
[p. 63] regni sui sexto inde obtentæ pro diversis causis et
considerationibus ipsos specialiter moventibus dederunt con-
cesserunt ac per presentes pro se et successoribus suis dant
et concedunt prefatis magistro sive custodi et sociis predicti
Collegii de Goneville et Caius omnia illa quatuor sua messuagia
sive tenementa cum curtilagiis domibus shopis hortis pomariis
et cæteris suis pertinentibus universis insimul jacentibus et
existentibus in parochia Sancti Michaelis in Cantabrigia
predicta ex opposito ecclesiæ et coemiterio ejusdem parochiæ
inter vemellam vocatam Michellane ex parte boreali, et quod-
dam messuagium cujusdam Roberti Lame pistoris ex parte
australi, et capita eorum abbuttant super regiam viam sive
altam stratam versus orientem, et super pomarium et gardinum
predicti Collegii de Goneville et Caius versus occidentem,
Quorum primum vocatum Ansels nuper fuit in temura sive
occupatione Willelmi Ball jam defumcti: secundum est in tenura
sive occupatione Thomæ Houghton : tertium in temura sive
CARTA QUATUOR TENEMENTORUM. IO9
occupatione Joannæ Talbot viduæ : et quartum in temura sive
occupatione Andreæ Smyth, 3ßabemùa £t tememùa predicta
quatuor messuagia sive tenementa ac cætera premissa cum
pertinentiis prefatis magistro sive custodi et sociis Collegii de
Goneville et Caius predicti et successoribus suis imperpetuum
ad proprium opus et usum ipsorum magistri sive custodis et
sociorum Collegii de Goneville et Caius predicti et successorum
suorum imperpetuum, QC£m£mùa de Domina Regina hæredibus
et successoribus suis ut de manerio suo de Eastgrenewiche in
comitatu Kantiæ in libero socagio per fidelitatem tantum et
non in capite pro omnibus servitiis exactionibus et demandis
quibuscunque, Ac reddendo et solvendo prefatis magistro
sociis et scholaribus predicti Collegii Sanctæ et individuæ
messuagiis sive tenementis et cæteris premissis, sex libras
tredecim solidos et quatuor denarios legalis mometæ Angliæ
annuatim ad festa Paschæ et Sancti Michaelis Archangeli æquis
portionibus solvendos pro omnibus redditibus servitiis et
demandis quibuscumque, ad manus unius thesaurarii predicti
Collegii Sanctæ et individuæ Trinitatis pro tempore existentis
infra scitum et precinctum predicti Collegii Sanctæ et indi-
viduæ Trinitatis predictæ. Et prefati magister sive custos et
socii Collegii de Goneville et Caius pro se et successoribus suis
concedunt per presentes prefatis magistro sociis et scholaribus
predicti Collegii Sanctæ et individuæ Trinitatis predictæ et
successoribus suis, quod si contingat predictus redditus sex
librarum tredecim solidorum et quatuor denariorum a retro fore
et non solutus in parte vel in toto post aliquod festum pre-
dictorum festorum Paschæ et Sancti Michaelis Archangeli, quo
ut prefertur solvi debeat, per spatium quadraginta dierum, si
debite petatur apud vel in Collegio de Goneville et Caius quod
extumc bene licebit prefatis magistro sociis et scholaribus
predicti Collegii Sanctæ et individuæ Trinitatis pro tempore
existentibus et successoribus suis in predicta, quatuor messuagia
et cætera premissa, aut im manerium de Roughtom in Comitatu
Norfolciæ aut im aliquod aliud maneriorum terrarum et teme-
mentorum predictorum magistri sive custodis et sociorum
predicti Collegii de Goneville et Caius et successorum suorum,
modo non existentium infra, scitum Collegii de Goneville et
110 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
[p. 64] Caius predicti, nec alicujus parcellae ejusdem scitus,
intrare et distringere, et distrinctiones sic ibidem captas licite
abducere effugare impercare et penes se retinere quousque de
predicto redditu sex librarum tredecim solidorum quatuor
denariorum una cum omnibus inde arreragiis (si quae fuerint)
plenarie fuerint satisfacti. Et predicti magister socii et
scholares predicti Collegii Sanctæ et individuae Trinitatis con-
cedunt et conveniunt pro se et pro successoribus suis cum
prefatis magistro sive custode et sociis Collegii predicti de
Goneville et Caius et successoribus suis, quod ipsi et successores
sui predicta quatuor messuagia sive tenementa ac caetera
premissa cum pertinentiis prefatis magistro sive custodi et
sociis predicti Collegii de Goneville et Caius et successoribus
suis contra se et successores suos warrantizabunt et imper-
petuum defendent per presentes: Ac quod iidem magister socii
et scholares et successores sui tam predicta quatuor messuagia
sive tenementa cum pertinentiis quam predictos magistrum
sive custodem et socios predicti Collegii de Goneville et Caius
et successores Suos de Omnibus et singulis oneribus demariorum
summis et demandis quibuscumque de eisdem quatuor mes-
Suagiis sive tenementis et cæteris premissis seu de eorum aliquo
sive aliquibus aut de aliqua inde parcella exeuntibus seu sol-
vendis aut superinde oneratis sive onerandis preterquam de
predicto redditu vi" xiii" iiii" per presentes in forma predicta
reservato ac preterquam de servitio predicto, Ac preterquam
de decimis sive aliis juribus ecclesiasticis pro predictis quatuor
messuagiis sive tenementis sive eorum aliquo solvendis juxta
formam et effectum cujusdam indenturae gerentis datam primo
die Junii anno Reginae nunc quinto, acquietabunt ac indemnes
conservabunt contra omnes gentes imperpetuum per presentes.
Et predicti magister socii et scholares predicti Collegii Sanctae
et individua Trinitatis per presentes assignaverunt deputaverunt
et in loco suo posuerunt dilectos sibi in Christo Bartholomeum
Dodyngton et Richardum Byll generosos, suos veros et legitimos
attornatos conjunctim et divisim ad intrandum in messuagia
sive tenementa predicta cum pertinentiis, et Seisinam ac pos-
sessionem nomine et jure predictorum magistri sociorum et
scholarium predicti Collegii Sanctæ et individua Trinitatis
inde capiendam et post seisinam sic inde captam et habitam
CARTA QUATUOR TENEMENTORUM. 11I
plenam et pacificam possessionem statum et seisimam vice et
nomine predictorum magistri sociorum et scholarium predicti
Collegii Sanctæ et individuæ Trinitatis liberandam prefato
magistro sive custodi et sociis predicti Collegii de Goneville et
Caius vel eorum in hac parte attormato vel attornatis legitime
deputato vel deputatis secundum vim formam et effectum hujus
presentis cartæ indentatæ. Et predicti magister sive custos
et socii predicti Collegii de Gomeville et Caius per presentes
assignaverunt deputaverunt et in loco suo posuerunt dilectos
sibi im Christo Humfridum Byshby legum doctorem et Thomam
Davys artium baccalaureum suos veros et legitimos attornatos
conjunctim et divisim ad capiendum vice et nomine predictorum
magistri sive custodis et sociorum predicti Collegii de Gomeville
et Caius statum possessionem et seisinam de et im predictis
quatuor messuagiis sive tenementis cum pertinentiis per manus
et liberationem predictorum magistri sociorum et scholarium
predicti Collegii Sanctæ et individuæ Trinitatis vel eorum in
hac parte attornati- vel attornatorum legitime deputati vel
[p. 65] deputatorum secundum vim formam et effectum hujus
cartæ indentatæ. In cujus rei testimonium uni parti hujus
presentis cartæ imdentatæ penes prefatum magistrum sive cus-
todem et socios Collegii de Goneville et Caius predicti remanenti
prefati magister socii et scholares Collegii Sanctæ et individuæ
Trinitatis predicti sigillum suum commune apposuerunt, alteri
vero parti ejusdem cartæ indentatæ penes prefatum magistrum
socios et scholares predicti Collegii Sanctæ et individuæ Trini-
tatis remanenti prefati magister sive custos et socii predicti
Collegii de Goneville et Caius sigillum suum commune ap-
posuerunt. Datum apud villam Cantabrigiæ predictam vicesimo
secundo die Septembris anno regni Dominæ Elizabeth Dei
gratia Angliæ Franciæ et Hiberniæ reginæ fidei defensoris, etc.,
sexto, et anno Domimi 1564.
1564
Incendía.
Dum hæc geruntur 27 Septembris, anno a Christo mato
1564, negligentia cujusdam pueri nostri Collegii, ex emuncta
lucerna periculum fuit incendii, cum lychnus incensus, quem
emunxerat, inter gradus scalarum in juncos scalæ subjectos
112 ANNALS OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS.
inciderat. Sed puer (volente Deo) sive joci causa sive periculi
metu cum esset huic rei paulo attentior, animadverso fumo,
focum acclamavit, magno audientium terrore. Quo factum est
ut concurrente populo, et dissolutis scalis, ante magnam flam-
mam focus extinctus est, nulla alicujus rei offensione. Haud
dissimile quid evenit ante annos tres socio cuidam medicimæ
studioso, herbas in camino perenni foco distillanti, et focum
negligenti, unde per hominis imprudentiam et absentiam
serpens per scirpos flamma, comprehendit lectum et cum bonam
ejus et cubiculi peristromatum partem incendisset, fortuito
fumi inditio deprehensus focus, cito extinctus est, mullo Collegii
damno, quod fœlicitatis tamen Collegii fuit potius quam pru-
dentiæ aut vigilantiæ hominis. Hæc duo exempla admonere
possunt omnes in futurum.
I 564
Ruinosum, refectum.
In pariete finali et orientali veteris Aulæ Gonevilli, qui
herbarium respicit, ruinoso et vetustate concusso, ita ut ruinam
minitari videatur, sublata prius quæ ejus conspectus bonam
partem sustulit adjuncta casa veteri, et sublatis ex eo tribus
femestris ligneis, putridis et ætate jam solutis, ex albo firmoque
lapide tres alias reposuimus Septembri memse 1564, impensis
quidem Collegii duas, sed tertiam Doctoris Busby ut ante dixi
sumptu. Quo fit ut jam marpesia cautes stabit ille in æterni-
tatem favore custodis et collegarum*.
1564
Henricus Walker medicus ex testamento dedit Collegio
omnes libros suos post mortem Georgii filii sui, quorum catalo-
[p. 66] gum una cum legatione referemus fol. 70. Moriebatur
in festo Paschatis, 2° videlicet die Aprilis anno 1564.
- 1565
Jactum fundamentum Collegii Caii.
Die Sabbati quinto Maii, hora quarta mane, anno Domini
1565, post supplicationes Deo habitas ut Collegium nostrum
* Anno 1758 (im quo latus boreale atrii Gonevilli, ab aula usque ad hortum
sociorum, a fundamentis restitutum erat) lapis, apud mediam fenestram finalis
parietis orientalis spectantis hortum, inventus erat hac inscriptione
HVMIFRI • BVSBI FECIT H • FENESTRAVI
JACTUM FUNIDAMENTUM COLLEGII CAII. 113
initum fœlicem habeat exitum et eventum, utque omnes qui
inhabitent probi sint viri, studiosi literarum, utiles reipublicæ
et timentes Deum, primum sacrumque lapidem jecimus funda-
menti istis verbis :
Dico istud ædificium sapientiæ : pono hunc lapidem in
fundamentum ædificii, im incrementum virtutis et literarum,
in nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus sancti.
Lapis iste positus est in ipsa media longitudine parietis
nostri Collegii, qui proximus est horto occidentali, hae figura et
inscriptione

ÂYIT/\
IO CAIVS
PosyIT
(SAPIENTIAE)
3
ANNO 1565
MENSEMAI0
7
C. A. S. Octavo Series. No. XL. 8
II4 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANIO CAIUS.
Area, Collegii Caii.
Area seu atrium Collegii nostri una cum solo ædificiorum
a nobis positorum, prius horti erant, quatuor, tribus parietibus
et uno intercepto ligneo, quod palatus dicitur, inter se divisi:
quorum duo a multis amnis Collegii istius erant, reliqui per nos
a Collegio Sanctæ Trinitatis et Roberto Lane burgensi nostra
pecunia perquisiti, ut ex utriusque concessionibus scire licet,
quorum altera jam precessit, altera mox subsequetur.
[p. 67]
Aquarum Scaturigo.
Id obiter usu deprehendi jaciendo fundamenta, e sabulo per
omne solum Collegii nostri (si id ad sex pedum altitudinem
fodiatur) aquam scaturire.
Ratio temporis jacti fundamenti
Collegii Caii.
Observavi etiam ante quintum diem, quo jactum est funda-
mentum Collegii nostri, perpetuam fere et quotidianam fuisse
pluviam ad menses duos. Eo ipso autem quinto die, et ab eo
ad decimum nonum diem ejusdem mensis (quo temporis spatio
tuta facta sunt omnia ab omni coeli injuria) perpetuam sereni-
tatem : id quod in signum faventis Dei habui.
In primum lapidem Collegii nostri carmina quædam
Thomas Hatcherus artium magister, et Abraham Hartwel
artium baccalaureus, uterque Collegii regalis socius, inter alios
cecinerunt, quæ quia bona precentur Collegio atque exoptent,
ascribere non erit, alienum.
Thomas Hatcherus
O Deus O cujus frustra sine numine tectum
Surgit, et artificum cura laborque jacent:
En hodie placidis Caius fundamina musis,
Musarum sacro ductus amore, locat.
FUNDAMENTUM COLLEGII CAII. 115
Tu Deus auspiciis firmes incoepta secundis,
Conveniat coeptis exitus inde suis.
Cultores olim musarum numine pleni,
Diffundent nomen voce tomante tuum.
Abraham Hartwell
Floreat his, inquit Caius, sapientia tectis,
Et simul, his, inquit, tectis, Sapientia praesit.
1565
Finis occidentalis lateris Collegii Caii.
Summus et ultimus lapis occidentalis lateris Collegii nostri
positus fuit primo Septembris 1565, hora tertia post meridiem.
Initium orientalis lateris Collegii ejusdem.
Secundi lateris et orientalis ejusdem fundamentum effodi
coeptum est 25 Septembris 1565; eodemdue mense, 13 die,
jactum est fundamentum muri interstinguentis fundum magistri
Lane et nostrum quem ab eo emi libris quinquaginta.
[p. 68]
Carta Roberti Lane de Pomario acquisito
quinquaginta libris ad positum Collegii
Cai; amplificandum.
QBmmíbuş Çijtíští fitſelfbug ad quos hoc presens scriptum
pervenerit Robertus Lane unus aldermannus villae Cantabrigiae
in comitatu Cantabrigiae salutem in Domino Sempiternam.
Setiatiº me praefatum Robertum Lane pro summa quinquaginta
librarum legalis monetae Angliae mihi per venerabilem virum
Johannem Caius medicinae doctorem per manus soluta (de qua
quidem summa quinquaginta librarum ego prefatus Robertus
fateor me bene et fideliter fore solutum, dictumque Johannem
Caius haeredes executores et administratores suos inde esse
quietos imperpetuum per presentes) vendidisse barganizasse
concessisse feoffasse liberasse et hoc presenti scripto meo con-
firmasse prefato Johanni Caius parcellam pomarii mei, Anglice
vocatam parcell of my hortyard, pertinentem messuagio sive
8—2
116 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANI) CAIUS.
hospitio meo communiter vocato le Lambe aliter le stomnehouse,
scituato existenti et jacenti in parochia Sancti Michaelis in
Cantabrigia predicta, quæ quidem parcella pomarii predicti
jacet inter tenementum sive hospitium nuper vocatum Sanct
Mary Ostle, modo in temura Thomæ Pede, ex parte australi, et
parcellam tenementi sive domus vocati le Kings armes, quondam
pertinentis domui sancti Michaelis in Cantabrigia predicta ac
modo pertinentis Collegio de Goneville et Caius im Cantabrigia
predicta, nunc in tenura Andreæ Smyth, ex parte boreali, uno
capite inde abuttans super aliam parcellam existentem residuum
dicti pomarii mei versus orientem, ac altero capite inde abuttans
super parcellam horti sive fundi predicti Collegii de Goneville
et Caius predicti versus occidentem, Et quæ quidem parcella
pomarii predicti, Anglice vocata parcell of the hortyarde afore-
said, per presentes superius vendita barganizata, et concessa,
continet in longitudine ab oriente in occidentem ex parte boreali
ejusdem parcellæ sexaginta tresdecim pedes et duas uncias et
dimidium, ac in longitudine ab oriente in occidentem ex parte
australi sexaginta quinque pedes sex uncias et tres quarteras
unius unciæ de standerdo dominæ Reginæ, 3Et quæ quîù£m
parcella pomarii inter alia nuper prioratui de Anglesey in dicto
comitatu Cantabrigiæ modo dissoluto dudum spectabat et
pertinebat, ac parcella, possessionum et reventionum inde
dudum existebat, Qàuam quidem parcellam pomarii predicti
inter alia muper habui et perquisivi mihi et hæredibus meis
ex concessione et scripti confirmatione Willelmi Allinson civis
et unius Aldermannorum civitatis Lincolniensis, prout per
scriptum suum inde inter alia mihi confectum, cujus data est
sexto die mensis Martii Anno regni Henrici octavi nuper Regis
[p. 69] Angliæ tricesimo sexto, plenius liquet et apparet.
3É}abemìa et temεmùa predicta parcella pomarii, Anglice vocata
parcell of my ortyard, prefato Johanni Caius hæredibus et
assignatis suis ad perpetuum opus et usum ipsius Johannis
Caius hæredum et assignatorum suorum imperpetuum, QU£m£mùa
de domina Regina hæredibus et successoribus suis in libero
burgagio et communi soccagio per fidelitatem tantum et non im
capite pro omnibus redditibus exactionibus tenuris et demandis
quibuscunque proinde dictæ dominæ Reginæ hæredibus vel
CARTA ROBERTI IANE. 117
successoribus suis quoquo modo reddendis solvendis vel faciendis.
3Et ego bero dictus Robertus Lame et hæredes mei dictam par-
cellam pomarii predicti prefato Johanni Caius hæredibus et
assignatis suis ad opus et usum supradictum contra me prefatum
Robertum Lane hæredes et assignatos meos non solum War-
rantizabimus et imperpetuum defendemus per presentes, sed
etiam eandem parcellam exonerabimus et acquietabimus de
omnibus et singulis recognitionibus statutis et obligationibus
oneribus et incomberamciis quibuscumque per me seu per ali-
quam personam nomine meo quoquo modo antehac habitis
factis sive cognitis. In cujus rei testimonium huic presenti
scripto meo sigillum meum apposui. Datum secundo die Junii
anno regni Elizabethæ Dei gratia Angliæ Franciæ et Hiberniæ
reginæ fidei defensoris, etc., septimo.
Sigillatum et deliberatum fuit hoc presens scriptum, plena
etiam ac pacifica possessio et seisina, parcellæ pomarii infra
venditi data et deliberata fuit, quarto die Julii anno ultime
infrascripto juxta vim formam et effectum hujus retroscripti in
presentia Willelmi Munsey majoris villæ Cantabrigiæ, Johannis
Hatcher medicinæ doctoris, Richardi Longworth clerici, Henrici
Holland Johannis Staller Jacobi Lynge in artibus baccalaure-
orum, Humfridi Carter, Willelmi Frier, Georgii Bambricke,
Johannis Nashe, Willelmi Henrisom, Galfridi Rowlande, ac mei
Edwardi Ball.
Irrotulatum in curia dominæ reginæ villæ suæ Cantabrigiæ
tenta in le tolbooth ibidem coram Willelmo Munsey majore
villæ Cantabrigiæ, Johanne Goldisborowe semiore, Edwardo
Wallys, Ricardo Ramsey, et Roberto Jenkinsom, ejusdem villæ
ballivis, decimo septimo die Julii anno regni Elizabethæ Dei
gratia Angliæ Franciæ et Hiberniæ Reginæ, fidei defensoris,
etc., septimo. -
Eall.
[p. 7o] Finalis concordia pro pomario predicto.
Curia Dominæ Reginæ ibidem tenta die Martis decimo
septimo die Julii anno regni Elizabethæ Dei gratia Angliæ
Franciæ et Hiberniæ Reginæ, fidei defensoris, etc., septimo. Ad
II 8 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANID CAIUS.
hanc curiam coram majore et ballivis dictæ villæ secundum
consuetudinem ejusdem villæ venit Robertus Lane unus Alder-
mammorum villæ Cantabrigiæ in comitatu Cantabrigiæ, et
profert hic in curia quoddam scriptum feoffamenti sigillo ipsius
Roberti sigillatum et manu sua propria subscriptum, et fatetur
illud scriptum esse factum suum proprium, et petit illud irro-
tulari, et ei conceditur. Et ipso etiam instanti tempore coram
prefato majore et ballivis venit hic in curiam Helena Lane uxor
predicti Roberti, et ipsa per majorem sola examinata libere et
sponte sursumreddidit remisit et relaxavit Johanni Caius
medicinæ doctori, in predicto scripto feoffamenti nominato,
totum jus suum titulum clameum interesse et demandam quæ
habet, seu quovismodo in futurum habere poterit, seu debet
ratione dotis suæ sive aliter de et in una parcella pomarii
anglice vocata, parcell of an ortyard, pertinente messuagio sive
hospitio communiter vocato le Lambe aliter le stomne house
scituato existenti et jacenti in parochia Sancti Michaelis in
Cantabrigia predicta, ac in predicto scripto feoffamenti speci-
ficato, et quod nec dolo vi nec metu ad hoc quovismodo arctata
fuit faciendum, cujus quidem scripti tenor sequitur in haec
verba, QBmmibug QTjri£ti fiùelibu3 ad quos hoc presens scriptum
pervenerit, Robertus Lane, etc., salutem, etc. ut supra pagina
68.
1564
Legatio Henrici Walker, doctoris medici,
eæ testamento secundo Aprîlis anno
1564 comdito.
Do et lego bibliothecæ de Goneville et Caius omnes meos
libros, volo tamen quod Georgius Walker filius meus habeat
eorum custodiam atque usum durante vita sua, hac conditione,
quod ipse, ejus executores, administratores et assignati, obli-
gentur (positis etiam vadibus magistro et sociis Collegii de
Goneville et Caius) ut libros statim post mortem suam integros
et nulla ex parte magis corruptos quam cum acceperit,
reddat.
LEGATIO HENRICI WALKER. . 119
[p. 71]
Catalogus librorum".
Opera Arist. gr. 2 vol.
Opuscula Hippocr.
Galen. de symptom.
Hippocr. de aere etc.
Aphor. Hippocr.
Epistolae Alosii.
Putraneus de p" graece.
De conceptu.
Galenus de locis affect.
Epit. in com. Galen.
Paulus Egineta.
Grammatica Linacri.
Galen. de alimento.
Practica Leonelli.
Practic. Gordonii.
Nicolaus Mirepsis.
Oribasius.
Paulus Aegineta.
Opera Johannis Caii.
Galen. de Sanitate.
Galen. de crisibus.
Celius de ratione victus.
Enchiridion chirurgicum.
Galeotus de homine.
Cornelius Celsus.
Anatom. Fuccii.
Philaretus de pulsis.
De urinis.
Proclus de Sphaera.
Silenus de delapsu.
Averrois; et alii vetusti libri.
Herbarium Fuccii.
Opera Arist. lat. 2 vol.
Epistolae Med. Manardi.
Dioscorides, gr. lat.
Anton. Musa in Hipp.
Alexander Tralianus bis.
Herbarii Brumfelchii tom. primus.
Pomponius Mela cum epit.
Cornelius Celsus.
Opera Galeni, lat., 5 vol.
Opera Galeni, graec., 5 vol.
Consilia Montani.
Gale. de composit. med.
Gale. de compos. sedecim locos.
Mesua super......
Lexicon graecolat.
Antiquae lectiones Celii.
Opus pandectarum.
Opus Isaac.
Soranus de re med. cum al.
Practicae Arnoldi.
Catholicon.
Marcellus de medicam. empiricis.
Galenus de Sanitate cum aliis.
Isagoge Joh. Musii.
Practica. J. Matthaei.
Theop. in Evangel.
Herbarium Dorstenii.
Opuscula fuccii.
Ortus sanitatis.
Salvinorola de febr.
Silvius in Hippocrate.
Galenus de decretis cum aliis.
Sidonii Appelli poema.
Avicenna.
Fernelius de abditis, cum aliis.
Galen. de simpl. cum aliis.
omnes a stimati lib. 14 : Sol : vii : et den. vi.
* For the identification of these books see note 6.
as they stand.
They are printed here
120 ANNALS OF GONVITALE ANT) CAIUS.
1563 et, 1565
Possessîones acquisitæ ad focum.
Acquisitæ sunt a Johanne Sherman de Lytlyngton in comi-
tatu Cantabrigiæ possessiones viginti octo aerarum terræ arabilis
in agris de Steple Mordem magistro et sociis Collegii de Gonevil
et Caius libris quadraginta una per chartam indentatam ejusdem
Johannis datam sexto Julii anno Domini 1563, et anno reginæ
Elizabethæ quinto ; quam in librum evidentiarum ad verbum
transcribi curavimus. Emptæ autem sunt, in usum Collegii
communem et generalem, sic tamen ut domo viginti librarum,
quas dedisse diximus D. Nicholaum Shaxtom, ex his viginti
solidi in perpetuum focum communem custodis et sociorum
quotannis expendantur in festis natalitiis per hiemem. Ex istis
prædiis eximimus etiam viginti solidos, ad usum foci in aula vel
conclavi magistri Collegii quos vemerandus vir Humfridus Busbye
juris civilis Doctor, et nostri Collegii pensionarius, concessit in
commune, expensis viginti librarum, tertio Octobris anno Domini
1565, sic ut focus fiat diebus dominicis ac festis in prandio
atque coena, a festo omnium Sanctorum ad festum purificationis
beatæ Mariæ, et profestis etiam diebus, si penetrabile frigus
adurat : quod penes judicium custodis esto, cum eo tamen ut in
singulis prandiis atque coenis non excedatur modius titionum
aut fasces duo : preterquam in festis Domimi Natalitiis, ab ipso
festo die nativitatis, ad diem posterum Epiphaniæ, in quibus
modus sit pro ratione temporis, modo in reliquum tempus
supersit foci materia, nec desit, nec abundet. Hoc beneficium
istis rationibus contulit venerandus vir, ut sub prandium atque
coenam juventus nostra, aut alii graviores, dicant alternatim hos
Psalmorum versus, cum oratione adjuncta
Benedicam Dominum in omni tempore
Semper laus ejus in ore meo.
Magnificate Dominum mecum,
Et exaltemus nomen ejus in idipsum.
Exquisivi Dominum et exaudivit me.
Et ex omnibus tribulationibus meis eripuit me.
POSSESSIONES ACQUISITÆ AD FOCUM. 121
Qui facit angelos suos spiritus,
Et ministros suos ignem urentem.
Gloria patri, etc.
Oratio.
[p. 73] Familiam tuam quæsumus Domine continua pietate
custodi, ut ab omnibus iniquitatibus te protegente sit libera, et
in bonis actibus tuo nomine sit devota : per Christum Dominum
nOstrum.
Qui istos versus et orationem recitare recusaverit aut neg-
lexerit aut recitatis non interfuerit, recitantibus cedat ad focum
ea vice. At si quando desuetudine longa aut saltem umius
mensis intermittatur ista versuum recitatio et precatio, voluntas
donatoris est, ut beneficium istud cedat in commodum Aulæ
sanctæ Trinitatis, usque dum recitare lubenti animo, etiam cum
gratiarum actione, velint: atque hæc quidem quod ad do-
nationem suam pertimet venerandus vir constituit. Sed cum
ex titionibus aut lignis viginti solidorum hoc universum fieri
præstarique nequeant, utramque donationem reverendi patris
et sui conjungere bona sua vemia dictus domimus Humfridus
concessit. Hæc acta sunt annis supradictis: ante quos nullus in
aula aut conclavi focus erat, nisi sumptu proprio et stipendiario
custodis et sociorum, nullis ante hos ad eum focum construen-
dum benefactoribus existentibus.
1565
Focus Aulæ ferreus.
Ex hac occasione focus novus, grandis, rota mobilis, ex ferro
movo affabre factus, in aula collocatus est mense Oetobri anno
Domini 1565. Pendit libras 358, emptus in singulas libras
senis denariis, in summa octo libris decem et septem solidis,
uno tantum dempto. In eo primus ignis ardebat, in festo
omnium Sanctorum anni ejusdem, nam ante focus nullus in
aula fuit, sed in conclavi, ad vestibulum horti occidentalis
posito: quod in aula caminus erat nullus, nec ignis gratuitus,
nec sociorum et scholarium numerus tantus quin minori illi
loco contineri commode posset : focum hunc ferreum sua libera-
litate donavit. -
I22 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANI) CAIUS.
I 565
Donatîo.
Thomas Barwick artium magister et hujus Collegii com-
mensalis, dedit Collegio quinque libras ad reparationes ejusdem.
[p. 74] 1566
Donatîo.
Johammes Caius Custos hujus Collegii dedit Collegio stipen-
dium officii sui et cætera eidem incidentia ad centum fere
marcas, a festo Nativitatis Domini 1559 ad idem festum anno
1566, in hoc ut ad ostium occidentale Collegii sui, quod in
hortum ejusdem coeli plagæ aperit, ædificentur scalæ seu gradus
ex eodem horto in cubicula tria custodis assurgentes; utque
paries finalis ejusdem cubiculi perpendiculariter in conum
ascendat ad supremum cubiculum amplificandum, atque ut
absolvantur gradus ascendentes e sacello in ærarium. Demum
ut porta nova ex quadrato lapide duroque quo loco porta est
quæ ad scholas aperit extruatur cæteraque fiant quæ ad orna-
tum et formam eorum faciant pro voluntate et judicio suo.
Turris.
Hac pecunia coeptum est construere et absolvere ea omnia
supradicta anno Domini 1566, mense Maio, et primo turris
scalaris occidentalis horti ad custodis cubiculum ascendens una
cum pariete finali adhærente, tignis, tegulis, cæterisque per-
tinentibus absoluta est sumptu...librarum... mense Octobri ejus
à.1] Ill.
Incendium.
Im festo Saneti Thomæ Apostoli 21 Decembris anni 1566,
perpetuo foco in advenarum Custodis cubiculo trabs sub foco
seu foci area latens in camino incensa fuit meridie, sed ex fumo
deprehensum incendium cito eversis lateribus restinguebatur:
quæ res vigilantiores inposterum potest reddere.
Fundi hospitii Sanctæ Mariæ momentum emptum.
Sciant presentes et futuri quod mos Johannes Porey sacræ
Theologiæ professor magister sive custos Collegii Corporis
HOSPITIUM SANCTÆ MARIÆ. ] 23
Christi et beatæ Mariæ in Universitate Cantabrigiæ et socii
ejusdem Collegii pro certa pecuniarum summa nobis præ
manibus persoluta dedimus concessimus et hac presenti charta
nostra confirmavimus pro nobis et successoribus nostris Johanni
Caius medicinæ doctori magistro sive custodi Collegii de Gone-
[p. 75] ville et Caius fundati in honorem amnunciationis beatæ
Mariæ virginis in universitate Cantabrigiæ et sociis ejusdem
unam parcellam horti temementi nostri vocati St Marie hostell
continentem in fine occidentali tres pedes et quatuor uncias, in
orientali fine juxta tenementum tres uncias prout per limeam
ab uno fine ad alterum ductam, terra inter media dividitur,
babemùam et temenùam predictam parcellam terræ magistro sive
custodi et sociis Collegii de Goneville et Caius predicti et
successoribus suis in libero soccagio imperpetuum. Et mos
predicti magister et socii Collegii Corporis Christi et beatæ
Mariæ predictam parcellam terræ continentem ut supra magistro
et sociis Collegii de Goneville et Caius et successoribus suis
contra omnes gentes warrantizabimus et per presentes imper-
petuum defendemus. Et nos predicti magister sive custos et
socii Collegii Corporis Christi et beatæ Mariæ per presentes
assignavimus et loco nostro posuimus dilectum nobis in Christo
Edmundum Edwardes artium magistrum nostrum verum et
legitimum attornatum ad dandum et concedendum vice et in
nomine nostro magistro sive custodi et sociis Collegii de Gone-
ville et Caius predicti et eorum in hac parte attornato legitime
deputato statum possessionem et seisinam de et in predictam
parcellam terræ secundum vim formam et effectum hujus
chartæ. In cujus rei testimonium sigillum nostrum commune
his presentibus apponi fecimus. Datum duodecimo die mensis
Martii Anno Regni Elizabethæ Dei gratia Angliæ Franciæ et
Hiberniæ reginæ, fidei defensoris, etc., nono, et anno Domini
secundum computationem Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ millesimo quin-
gentesimo sexagesimo sexto.
Status seisina et pacifica possessio parcellæ horti et tene-
menti infrascripti traditus et deliberatus fuit per magistrum
Edwards attornatum Collegii Corporis Christi Johanni Caio
magistro sive custodi Collegii de Goneville et Caius his testibus
124 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANIO CAIUS.
presentibus qui propria sua manu huic scripto nomina sua
subscripserunt.
Edwardus Parker filius et hæres Domini Henrici Morley,
Thomas Clere, Willelmus Appletom, Stephanus Valenger.
[p. 76] 1567
Domatio.
Gulielmus Conwaye pharmacopola Londinensis Collegio
dedit `quinque libras in singulare aliquod opus Collegii pro
Caii voto impendendas, et vitra quatuor femestrarum cum im-
signibus suis.
Paries Collegii nostri dividens atrium nostrum ab horto
Hospitij beatæ Mariæ positus est super fundum Collegii nostri,
a parte ulteriori versus orientem, et super momentum fundi
Hospitii beatæ Mariæ a Collegio Corporis Christi per mos
emptum viginti solidis, a parte occidentali proxima portæ
honoris. De quo fundo seorsum in charta perquisitionis diximus
anno Domini 1566.
Ubi olim in Collegii nostri atrio ab orientali parte viæ quæ
dividit in duo atrium nostrum hortus erat, et a nobis assumptus
in usum atrii nostri. Ejus loco alium acquisivimus a Roberto
Lame, cujus bonam partem inclusimus ab occidente Collegio
nostro, ab oriente pariete dividente solum ejusdem Roberti et
nostrum, ab austro et aquilone novis parietibus. Ex eo hortum
presidentis fecimus.
1569
De secundo nihil dico, qui superest eo quo prius modo in
usus custodis in quem descensum fecimus ex turri trium tabu-
latorum, quam illi fecimus. Propter quam, parietem ad summum
tectum extendimus, qui prius ad suggrundia tecti seu stellicidia
tantum pervenerat.
Tertius hortus est qui Coci olim hortulus dicebatur, ubi jam
hortus sociorum est. Eum auximus fere ad duplum accessione
hortorum tenementorum Collegii nostri quæ jacent inter eum et
publicam viam quæ vocatur vicus major quæque extenduntur a
pariete nostro in quo est porta humilitatis ad angiportum Sancti
Michaelis.
IRECTORIA DE HASILINGFELDE. 125
Elwyn dedit Collegio ad augmentum rectoriæ Sancti
Michaelis in Coslomia in Norwico fumdulum a parte orientali
[erasure] positum, et libros aliquot veteres.
A porta humilitatis ad portam virtutis erat olim tenementum
[p. 77] quod dicebatur arma regia. In eo habitabat olim
Johannes Sibertus alias Siberch typographus universitatis, qui
aliquot Erasmi Roterodami (dum Cantabrigiæ ageret, ac divi
Hieronymi epistolas et eundem ad Ruffimum publice præ-
legerit), Johannis Lydgati, aliorumque libros impressit.
I570
Sublatum sacelli ostium est, quod in Gonevilli Collegium
tantum patebat, et translatum in culinæ ostium, quod id et
ruptum vetustate est, et lapides qui ambiebant ætate con-
sumpti sunt ; et ingressus in sacellum ex porticu inter
utrumque collegium communis factus. Ei opposuimus aliud
ostium ex humiliori cubiculo Custodis, ut illi pateat ex cubiculo
egressus in Sacellum, et in utrumque etiam collegium sicco
pede.
Bectoria, de Haslingfelde.
Margareta postrema uxor Thomæ Wendy Suffolciensis,
doctoris medici, mortem obiit 24 Octobris anno 1570. Post
cujus mortem in Collegii potestatem venit rectoria de Hase-
lingfelde cum pertinentiis et advocatio ac libera dispositio
ecclesiæ ejusdem ex testamento predicti Thomæ. Quam rec-
toriam cum advocatione ac libera dispositione prefatæ ecclesiæ
concessimus et dimisimus ad feodi firmam Thomæ Wemdie
nepoti et hæredi ejusdem Thomæ Wendie medici et patrui,
21° Decembris anno 1570, prout per ultimam voluntatem ipsius
Thomæ patrui et testatoris in archivis Collegii nostri asservatam
præceptum est ; cujus verba in latinum sermonem traducta,
hæc sunt : volo insuper ut post mortem Margaretæ uxoris meæ
rectoria de Haslingfelde cum pertinentiis integre deveniant,
sint et remaneant magistro et sociis Aulæ de Gonevill et
Collegio de Caius in Cantabrigia et successoribus suis imper-
petuum, quocunque momine aut nominibus incorporentur,
nominentur et cognoscantur, hac videlicet conditione sequenti
126 ANNALS OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS.
ut dicti magister atque socii intra menses sex proxime in-
sequentes mortem dictæ uxoris meæ legitimis rationibus
dimittant ac concedant integram rectoriam predictam cum
pertinentiis hæredibus meis ad feodi firmam imperpetuum,
[p. 78] Sic ut solvant annuatim magistro et sociis predictis
et successoribus suis annualem redditum decem librarum ultra
omnes sumptus et expensas ordinarias atque extraordinarias ad
certos dies atque festa per eos assignanda in charta sua de feodi
firma : utque largiantur dicto hæredi meo per chartam suam
predictam in perpetuum feodi firmam nominationem presenta-
tionem et liberam dispositionem vicariæ de Haslingfelde pre-
dictæ, utque illi et successores sui bona fide præstent et per-
impleant omnes conditiones et articulos quos testamenti mei
executrix aut testamenti sui executor aut executores præscri-
bent. Præscripsit autem ille ipse ante mortem suam quo modo
prius diximus anno Domini 1560, pagina 46. Licentia autem
Collegio accipiendi a predicto Thoma Wemdie medico et referendi
ad Thomam Wemdie hæredem indulta fuit per indulgentiam
(quam perdonationem vocant) serenissimæ Reginæ Elizabethæ
omnibus concessam in Parliamento suo Westmonasterii habito
secundo die mensis Aprilis, anno regni sui XIII°, sub his verbis
alienationibus sive licentia.
Mameria, de Bincombe et Woburme.
Acquisivimus etiam maneria de Bincombe et Woburne cum
rectoria de Bincombe in comitatu Dorcestriæ a Clemente Sislei
generoso de Estburie Hall in parochia de Barkinge in comitatu
Essexiæ, sic ut eorum fructibus et proventibus Collegium
fruatur post mortem dominæ Margaretæ uxoris Ægidii Alington
militis, ut ex indenturis subscriptis liquere potest ; et primo de
Bincombe postea de Woburne.
Indentura, de Bincombe.
This indenture made the twentith daye Of Aprill in the
twelfthe yeare of the reigne of our sovereign Ladie Elizabeth
by the grace of God of England Fraunce and Ireland Quene
defendor of the faith, &c. Betwene Clement Syseley of Este-
IND ENTURA DE BINCOMBE. 127
burie Hall in the parishe of Barking in the Countie of Essex
Esquier of the one partie; And the master or keper and fellowes
[p. 79] of the College of Gonevill and Caius founded in the
honor of thannunciation of blessed Marie the virgyn in the uni-
versitie of Cambrige of the other partie, Witnessethe that the
said Clement Syseley for and in consyderation of the summe of
three hundred and nyne pounds of good and lawfull money of
England to hym the said Clement Syseley at and before
thensealing hereof, by the said master or keper and fellowes
well and trewlye payed, whereof and where with he knowlegeth
hymselfe well and trewlye contented, satisfied and payed, And
thereof and of everie parte and parcell thereof doth clerlye
acquyte and discharge the said master or keper and felowes and
their successors by theis presents, Hath with lycence in this
behalfe fyrst hadde and obtayned bargayned and solde, geven
and granted, and by theis presentes doe fullye and clerely geve
and graunte bargayne and sell, unto the said master or keper
and fellowes and their successors, all that the mannor or
Lordeshippe of Bincombe with the rightes members and ap-
purtenaunces whatsoever in the countie of Dorset or elswheare,
And all the demeasme landes tenements and hereditaments to
the said mannor belonginge or in anye wise apperteyninge,
scituat lyinge and being in Bincombe or elswheare in the said
countie of Dorsett to the said mannor in anye wyse belonginge
or appertayning, and knowen to be as parte and parcell of the
same, And also all those his messuages, burgages, howses,
buyldings, orchardes, gardeins, landes, tenementes, medowes,
leasures, pastures, feedings, foldecurses, sheepgates, fishings,
fishes, waters, ponds, woodes, underwoods, with the Soyle
thereof, rentes of free and copyholders, rents ferme, services,
rentes charge, rents Seck, comons, waste growndes, common of
pasture, moores, marshes, mosses, mynes, quarreys, profittes,
commodities, courts, leetes, profittes of courts and leetes,
liberties, fraunchesies, harriettes, wards, marriages, releefes,
wayfes, strayes, and all other hereditaments whatsoever they
be to the said mannor belonginge or apperteyning, Scituat lying
[p. 8o] and being in Bincombe or elswheare in the said Countie
of Dorsett, And the reversion and reversions remainder and
128 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
remaynders of the said mannor and of all other the premisses
with their appertenaunces, And all his righte, tytle, intereste,
clayme and demaunde in and to the same, and in and to everie
parte and parcell thereof, together with all and singuler the
evidences, deedes, charters, escriptes, rentalls, surveies, particu-
lers, courtrolles, wrytings and mynyments, touching or con-
cerninge the said mannor and other the premisses, or any parte
or parcell thereof only, Qſo babe amū to bolte the said mannor
of Bincombe and all and singuler the premisses with thapperte-
naunces, and the revercion and revercions, remaynder and
remainders thereof, unto the said master or keper and fellowes
and their successors, to the onlye use and behoofe of the said
master or keper and fellowes and their successors for ever.
And the said Clement Sisley for hym his heyres and assignes
and for everie of them by theis presents doth covenaunte and
graunte to and with the said Master or keper and fellowes and
their successors in manner and forme followinge, That is to saye
that the said mannor, messuages landes, tenements heredita-
ments and all other the premisses with thappertenaunces the
daye of the date hereof, are of the clere yerelie value of fyftene
powndes myne shillings over and above all charges and reprises,
and so shall and maye, from and after the decease of Dame
Margarett Alington wiefe of Sir Giles Alington knighte, con-
tinue and be unto the said master or keper and fellowes and
their successors for ever, Notwithstanding any acte heretofore
hadde made or donne by the said Clement Siseley, or by any
other personne or personnes by his meanes or assente, And that
he the said Clement Siseley is nowe lawfullye seazed, by good
and rightfulle tytell of the reversion of the said mannor and
other the premisses of a good and perfecte estate of inheritance
in fee simple to his owne use to be executed in possession im-
mediatelie after the dethe of the said Dame Margarett, And
hath fulle power, good and lawfulle authoritie to bargaine sell
and assuer the same revereion, and everie parte and parcell
[p. 81] thereof unto the said Master or keper and fellowes of
the said College and their successors in manner and forme
aforesaid, &mb that he the said Clement Siselie his heyres and
assignes shall and will (at all times from henceforth, and from
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tyme to tyme) acquite discharge or otherwise well and suffi-
cientlye save and kepe harmelesse as well all and singuler
the said mannor, messuages, landes tenements and heredi-
taments, and other the premisses before by theis presents
bargained and solde and everie parte and parcell thereof,
And the revercion and revercions thereof, as also the said
Master or keper and fellowes and their successors, of and
from all former bargaines, sales, joynters, dowers, tytell of
douer, estates, statutes merchaunte and of the staple,
judgements, executions, rents, charges, arrerages of rents,
leases, annuities and all other charges and incombraunces
whatsoever hadde, made, knowledgd or donne by the said
Clement Siseley, or by anye other personne or personnes by
the meanes or procuremente of the said Clement, at any
tyme before the date of theis presentes, the rentes and services
from henceforth to be due to the chefe Lordes of the Fee of the
premisses, And the estate for terme of life of the saide dame
Margarett Alington wife to the said Sir Giles Alington knyghte,
of in and to the said mannor and other the premisses onlie
excepted and foreprised, 3 mt, the said Clement Siseley for hym
his heyres executors admynistrators and assignes doth further
covenaunte and graunte to and with the said Master or keper
and fellowes and their successors by theis presents in manner
and forme followinge, that is to saye, that he the said Clement
Siseley and his heires at all tymes from henceforth and from
tyme to tyme by and duringe the space of two yeares next
ensuinge the date of theis presents, at the reasonable requeste
of the said master or keper and fellowes, or their successors or
lawfull attorney, shall and will doe make and knowledge, or
cause to be donne made and knowledged, at the onlie costes
and charges in the lawe, of the said master or keper and
fellowes, All and everie suche further acte and actes thinge
and thinges whatsoever it be, with warrantie onlie against the
said Clement Siseley his heires and assignes, and by the said
[p. 82] master or keper and fellowes and their successors, or
their counsell learned in the lawe, shalbe reasonably devised or
advised, to be hadde made or knowledged by the said Clement
Siseley or his heires for the further assuraunce and sure making
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and conveing of the said revercion, remainder, righte, tytle,
interest, and demaunde, of in and to the said Mannor and all
and singuler the premisses with thappertenaunces unto the said
Master or keper and fellowes and their successors forever,
according to the true meaning and effecte of theis presents, be
it by fyne, feofmente, recoverie, release with warrantie onlye
againste the said Clement Siseley and his heyres, or by all
those wayes or any of them or otherwise. &nt further that he
the said Clement his heires and assignes upon reasonable
requeste to be made by the said Master or keper and fellowes
or their attorney, on this side and before the Feaste of all
Saints nexte ensuing the date hereof, shall and will delyver or
cause to be delyvered unto the said Master or keper and
fellowes or their attorney or assigne requyringe the same, All
such evidences, deedes, charters, escriptes, particulars, Surveyes,
courterolles, mynyments, and wrytinges, concerning onelie the
said premisses or any parte thereof, as he the said Clement
Siseley nowe hathe, or any personne or personnes from hym,
and whiche he withowte suyte in the lawe may or canne come
by and obteyne. &nt that the said Master or keper and
fellowes and their successors and assignes shall and maye
immediatelye after the decease of the saied dame Margarett,
have and enjoye the said Mannor, and all other the premisses
with thappertenaunces withowte any lawfull eviction lett or
interruption of the said Clement Siseley his heires and assignes.
%int mortober that yf and as often as by eviction lett or
interruption charge or incombraunce hadde made done or
knowledged by any personne or personnes other than by the
said Clement Siseley his heires or assignes, or any of them for
and after the decease of the said dame Margarett Alington, any
extente or execution shall fortune to be extended, levied or
executed in or upon the said Mannor and other the premisses.
or any parte thereof, that then and so often the said Master
[p. 83] or keper and fellowes and their successors, shall or
maye in his or their name withowte lett or interruption of the
said Clement Siseley his heires executors or administrators,
pursue, recover, obteyne and have the benefitt and advantage
of all and everie covenaunte and bonde to the said Clement
INDENTURA DE BINCOMBE. 131
Siseley heretofore made, And by any such sute, evyction, lett or
interruption charge or incombraunce forfeited or broken. &md
3|Elorzober the said Clement Siseley doth by theis presents geve
and graunte unto the said Master or keper and fellowes, all
Suche righte, title, and intereste, as he hathe of in or to the
advoution, nomination presentation, free disposition and right
of patronage of the parishe Churche and parsonage of Bincombe
aforesaid: To have and to holde the said righte titell and
interest to the said Master or keper and fellowes and their
successors for ever. In tuitmeg whereof as well the said Clement
Siseley as also the said Master or keper and fellowes to theis
present Indentures, their seales interchangeably have sett.
Dated the daye and yeare above written.
Indentura de Woburne.
Qſìjià Hºmbenture made the fouer and twentith daye of
November in the thirtenth yeare of the reigne of our soveraine
Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God Quene of Englande
Fraunce and Irelande, defender of the faith, &c. Betwene
Clement Siseley of Eastburye hall in the parishe of Barkinge
in the Countie of Essex esquier of the one partie, and the
Master or keper and fellowes of the Colledge of Goneville and
Caius founded in the honor of thannunciation of blessed Marie
the virgyn in the universitie of Cambrige of the other partie;
witnesseth that the said Clement Siseley for and in consideration
of the summe of thirtene scoare pounds of good and lawfull
money of Englande to hym the said Clement Siseley at and
before themsealing hereof by the said Master or keper and
fellowes well and trulie payed, whereof and wherewith he know-
ledgeth himselfe well and trulie contented Satisfied and payed,
And thereof and of everie parte and parcell thereof doth cleerlie
acquyte and discharge the said Master or keper and fellowes
and their successors by theis presents, hath with lycence in this
behalfe first hadd and obteyned, bargained and solde geven and
[p. 84] graunted and by theis presents doth fullye and clerely
geve and graunte bargaine and sell unto the said Master or
keper and fellowes and their successors, All the Mannor or
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I32 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
Lordeshippe of Woborne with the rights membres appurten-
aunces whatsoever in the Countie of Dorsett or elswheare, And
all the demaisne landes tenements and hereditaments to the
said Manmor belonging or in any wise appertayning, Scituate
lying and being in Woborne or elswhere in the said Countie of
Dorsett, And knowen to be as parte and parcell of the same,
And all those his messuages burgages, howses, buyldings,
orchardes, gardeines, landes, tenements, meadows, leasues, pas-
tures, fedings, foldecourses, shepegates, fishings, fyshes, waters,
pondes, woodes, underwoodes, with the soile thereof, rents of
free and coppieholders, rents ferme, services, rentes charge,
rents seck, commons, wastgrounds, commons of pasture, moores,
marshes, mosses, mynes, quarreis, profitts, commodities, courts,
leets, proffitts of courts and leets, lyberties, fraunchesies,
heriotts, wardes, marriages, reliefes, waiefes, strayes, and all
other hereditaments whatsoever they be to the said Mannor
belonging or apperteyning, Scituate lyinge and beinge in
Woburne or elswhere in the said Countie of Dorsett, And the
revercion and revercions, remainder and remaynders of the
said Mannor, and of all other the premisses with thappurten-
aunces, And all his right, tytle, interest, claime, and demaunde
in and to the same, and into everie parte and parcell thereof
together with all and singuler the evidences, deedes, charters,
escripts, rentalles, surveyes, particulers, courte rolles, writings
and myniments whatsoever touchinge or concerninge the said
Mannor and other the premisses, or any parte or parcell thereof
onlye. Qſo babe and to holde the said Mannor of Woburne and
all and singuler the premisses with thappurtenaunces, and the
revercion and revercions, remainder and remainders thereof,
unto the said Master or keper and fellowes, and their successors
to the onely use and behoofe of the said Master or keper and
fellowes and their successours for ever. &nt the said Clement
Siseley for him his heires and assignes and for everie of them
by these presents doth covenaunte and graunte to and with the
said Master or keper and fellowes and their successors in maner
and forme following, that is to saye, that the said Mannor
[p. 85] messuages, landes, tenements, hereditaments, and all
other the premisses with thappurtenaunces, the daye of the
INDENTURA DE WOBURN E. 133
date hereof, are of the clere yerely value of fourtene poundes
seven shillings eighte pence, over and above all charges and
reprises, and so shall and maye from and after the decease of
dame Margarett Alington, wyfe of Sir Giles Alington knighte,
contynue and be unto the said Master or keper and fellowes
and their successors for ever, notwithstandinge any acte here-
tofore hadde made or donne by the said Clement Siseley or by
anye other personne or personnes by his meanes or assente.
àut that he the said Clement Siseley is nowe lawfullye seazed
by good and rightfull tytle of the reversion of the said Mannor,
and other the premisses of a good and perfecte estate of enherit-
aunce in Fee simple to his owne use to be executed in possession
ymmediatelye after the deathe of the said dame Margarett,
And hath full power good and lawfull authoritie to bargaine
sell and assure the same revercion and everie parte and parcell
thereof unto the said Master or keper and fellowes of the said
College and their successors in maner and forme aforesaid.
&nt that he the said Clemente Siseley his heires and assignes
shall and will at all times from henceforthe and from tyme to
tyme, acquyte discharge or otherwise well and sufficiently save
and kepe harmlesse as well all and singuler the said Mannor,
messuages, landes, tenements, hereditaments, and other the
premisses before by theis presents bargained and solde, and
everie parte and parcell thereof, and the revercion and rever-
cions thereof. As also the said Master or keper and fellowes and
their successors, of and from all former bargaynes, sales, jointers,
dowers, estates, statutes merchaunte and of the staple, judge-
ments, executions, rents, charges, arrerages of rents, leases,
annuities, and all other charges and encombrances whatsoever
hadde made knowledged or donne, by the said Clement Siseley
or by any other personne or personnes, by the meanes or pro-
curement of the said Clement, at any tyme before the date of
theis presents, The rents and services from henceforth to be
due to the chiefe Lorde of the Fee of the premisses, and the
state for terme of lyfe of the said dame Margarett Alington
wife to the said Sir Giles Alington knighte, of in and to the
[p. 86] said Mannor and other the premisses onlye excepted
and foreprised. &nt the said Clemente Siseley for him his
134 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
heires executors administratours and assignes doth covenaunte
and graunt to and with the said Master or keper and fellowes
and their successors by theis presents in maner and forme
followinge, that is to saye, that the said Clement Siseley and
his heires at all tymes from henceforth and from tyme to tyme
by and duringe the space of two years nexte ensuing the date
of these presents at the reasonable request of the said Master
or keper and fellowes or their successors or lawful attorney
shall and will doe make and knowledge or cause to be donne
made and knowledged at thomlie costs and charges in the lawe
of the said Master or keper and fellowes, all and everie suche
further acte and actes thinge and thinges whatsoever it be with
warrantie onelie against the said Clement Siseley his heires and
assignes, as by the said Master or keper and fellowes and their
successors or their counsell learned in the lawe shall be reason-
ably devised or advised to be hadde made or knowledged by
the said Clement Siseley or his heires for the further assur-
aunce and sure makinge and conveying of the said reversion,
remainder, right, title, interest and demaund of in and to the
said Mannor and all and singuler other the premisses with
thappurtenaunces unto the said Master or keper and fellowes
and their successors for ever, according to the true meaninge
and effecte of these presents, be it by fyne feofmente recoverie
Release with warrantie onlie, against the said Clement Siseley
and his heires or by all those wayes, or by any of them or
otherwise. &nd further that the said Clement his heires and
assignes upon reasonable request to be made by the said Master
or keper and fellowes or their attorney on this side and before
the feste of Christmas nexte ensuing the date hereof, shall and
will delyver or cause to be delyvered unto the said Master or
keper and fellows or their attorney or assigne requiring the
same, All such evidences, deedes, charters, escripts, particulars,
surveies, courte rolles, miniments and writings concerninge
onlye the said premisses or any parte thereof, as he the said
[p. 87] Clement Siseley nowe hath, or any personne or per-
sonnes for him, and which he withowte sute in lawe maye or
can come by or obteyne. And that the said Master or keper
and fellowes and their successors shall or maye ymmediatlye
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after the decease of the said dame Margarett have and enioye
the said Mannor and all other the premisses with thappurten-
aunces withowte any lawful eviction lett or interruption of the
said Clement Siseley his heyres or assignes. 3 nt moreover
that yf and as often as by eviction lett or interruption charge
or incombraunce hadde made donne or knowledged by any
personn or personnes, other then by the said Clement Siseley
his heires or assignes or of any of them, from and after the
decease of the said dame Margarett Allington, any extente or
execution shall fortune to be extended levied or executed in or
upon the said Mannor and other the premisses, or any parte
thereof, That then and so often the said Master or keper and
fellowes and their successors shall or maye in his or their name,
without lett or interruption of the said Clement Siseley his
heires executors or administrators, pursue, recover, obteine,
and have the benefitte and advantage of all and everie cove-
maunte and bonde to the said Clement Siseley heretofore made,
and by any such suite, eviccion lett or interruption, charge or
incombraunce forfeited or broken. Hin ſuitme;32 whereof as well
the said Clement Siseley as also the said Master or keper and
fellowes to theis present indentures their seales interchaunge-
ably have sett. Dated the daye and yeare first above written.
Rectoria de Bincombe.
Qſì)íg #mbenture made the twentieth daye of Aprill in the
twelfthe yearſe of the raigne of our soveraigne Ladie Elizabeth
by the Grace of God Quene of England France and Ireland,
defender of the faith, etc. Betwene John Argall and Rowlande
Argall gentlemen, Sonnes of Thomas Argall late of London
esquier deceased of the one partie, and the Master or keper
and fellowes of the Colledge of Gonevill and Caius founded in
the honor of thannunciation of blessed Marie the virgyn in the
[p. 88] universitie of Cambrige of the other partie, CCHitmeggetb
that the said John Argall and Rowland Argall as well for and
in consideration of the summe of twentie poundes of good and
lawfull money of Englande, to them the said John and Row-
lande by the said Master or keper and fellowes in hande paide
136 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
before thensealinge of these presents, The which summe of
twentie poundes they the said John and Rowland doe acknow-
ledge themselves to have receyved, and thereof and of everie
parte and parcell thereof, do clerelie acquite and discharge the
said Master or keper and fellowes and their successors by theis
presents, as also for diverse other good causes and considera-
tions, the said John and Rowlande thereunto especiallie moving,
have bargained and solde geven and graunted, and by these
presents and with the Quenes Majesties licence before hadde
and obteyned, doe fully clerely and absolutelie bargaine, sell,
geve and graunte, unto the said Master or keper and fellowes,
All that the advouzon, nomination, presentation, free disposi-
tion, and right of patronage of the Churche and parsonage of
Bincombe in the Countie of Dorsett, and all their righte tytle,
estate, and interest of and in the same, and the revercion and
revercions of the same, together with all the evidences, deedes,
charters, wrytings and miniments onlie concerninge the pre-
misses, which the said John and Rowlande, or any of them
hath in their, and either of their handes, custodie or possession,
or which anye other personne or personnes hath to their or any
of their uses, which thei or any of them maye come bye
withowte sute in the lawe. All whiche evidences, deedes,
charters, writings and miniments aforesaid the said John and
Rowland, for themselves, their heires, executors and assignes,
and for the heires executors and assignes of everie of them doe
covemaunte and graunte to and with the said Master or keper
and fellowes and their successors, and everie of them by these
presents to delyver or cause to be delivered unto the said
Master or keper and fellowes and their successors or to some of
them or their attorney or assigne before the feste of Saynte
Michaell tharchangell nexte cominge after the date of theis
presents, withoute any further delaye, (ſo habe and to holde
the said advouzon nomination, presentation, free disposition
[p. 89] and righte of patronage of the Churche and personage
aforesaid, and the revercion and revercions thereof unto the
said Master or keper and fellowes and their successors and
assignes, to the onlie and proper use and behoofe of the said
Master or keper and fellowes, and of their successors for ever in
RECTORIA DE BINCOMBE. 137
as large and ample maner and forme as the said Thomas Argall
hadde the same, and as the said John and Rowlande have or
oughte to have the same. &mb the said John and Rowlande
for themselves their heires executors and assignes, and for the
heires executors and assignes of either of them, doe further
covenaunt and graunt to and with the said Master or keper and
fellowes and their successors by these presents, that the said
premisses and everie parte and parcell thereof, are at this
present, and so shall contynue, and be unto the said Master or
keper and fellowes and to their successors, acquieted and dis-
charged, or otherwise saved harmelesse, by the said John and
Rowlande of and from all maner of former sales, gyftes, graunts,
mortgages, graunt or graunts of any avoydaunce or avoy daunces,
or presentations, leases, and of and from all other charges and
incombraunces whatsoever hadde made donne or suffered or
knowledged by the said John and Rowlande or by either of
them, or by any other personne or personnes whatsoever by
their or by any of their meanes, consente, or procurement:
&nd that the said Master or keper and fellowes and their
successors by vertue of theis presents, shall or may have holde
and quietlie enjoy the premisses and everie parte and parcell
thereof, withowte any lett, disturbaunce, contradiction or evic-
cion of the said John and Rowland, or any of them their heires
or assignes, and the heires and assignes of everie of them, or
any other personne or personnes havinge any righte tytle or
interest from them or everie of them. And moreover that the
said John and Rowlande and either of them have good and
lawfull power and auctoritie to bargaine sell geve graunte and
assure the foresaid premisses to the said Master or keper and
fellowes and their successors for ever. And that the said John
and Rowlande and either of them, and the heires of either
of them, shall and will at all tyme and tymes within two
yeares hereafter following, doe, knowledge and suffer to be
donne, all and everie suche acte and actes thinge and thinges
for the more perfecte assuraunce and sure makinge of the pre-
[p. 90] misses to the said Master or keper and fellowes and
their successors for ever, as by the said Master or keper and
fellowes or by their learned counsell in the lawe shall be
138 ANNALS OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS.
advised devised and required, at the costes and charges in the
lawe of the said Master or keper and fellowes and their
successors. Jim mitne33g whereof as well the said John and
Rowlande Argall, as also the said Master or keper and fellowes
aforesaid to theis presente indentures their seales inter-
chaungeably have sett. Dated the daye and yeare firste above
written.
Relaxatio Johannis et Rowlandi Argall juris sui in Manerio de
Bincombe et rectoria eiusdem, Magistro et sociis Collegii
de Gonvill et Caius.
GPmnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos presens scriptum per-
venerit, Johannes Argall et Rowlandus Argall, generosi, filii
Thomae Argall nuper de London armigeri defuncti, salutem in
Domino sempiternam. Noveritis nos prefatos Johannem et
Rowlandum, pro diversis bonis et rationalibus causis et com-
siderationibus nos specialiter moventibus, remisisse, relaxasse,
et omnino pro nobis et haeredibus nostris quietum clamasse,
Magistro sive custodi et sociis Collegii de Goneville et Caius
fundati in honorem annunciationis beatae Mariae Virginis in
universitate Cantabrigiae, totum jus titulum clameum in-
teresse et demandam nostra quaecunque de et in Manerio de
Bincombe cum pertinentiis in Comitatu Dorsettiae, ac de et in
omnibus et singulis, messuagiis, terris, tenementis, redditibus
et haereditamentis quibuscunque in Bincombe seu alibi in dicto
Comitatu Dorsettiae, antehac occupatis habitis cognitis acceptis
usitatis sive reputatis, ut pars et parcella eiusdem Manerii, et
eidem Manerio spectantibus aut pertinentibus, Petmon de et
in omnibus et singulis terris, tenementis et hereditamentis in
Bincombe predicto, ac de et in advocatione, nominatione,
presentatione, libera dispositione et jure patronatus, ecclesiae
et rectoriae de Bincombe predicto cum suis juribus et per-
tinentiis universis, ºabemium et temenùum predictum Manerium
una cum advocatione, libera dispositione, nominatione presen-
[p. 9 il tatione, et jure patronatus ecclesiae predictae ac catera
omnia et singula premissa cum pertinentiis prefato Magistro
MANERIUM DE BINCOMBE. 139
sive Custodi et sociis Collegii predicti et successoribus suis im-
perpetuum, ad proprium opus et usum ipsius Magistri sive
Custodis et sociorum et successorum suorum imperpetuum, Ita
quod nec nos prefati Johannes et Rowlandus, nec hæredes
nostri, nec aliquis nostrum, aut eorum, nec aliquis alius per
nos, pro nobis seu nominibus nostris, aut nomine alicujus
nostrum, aliquod jus, titulum, clameum, interesse, seu de-
mandam de et in predicto Mamerio de Bincombe cum pertinen-
tiis, aut in predicta advocatione cum pertinentiis aut cæteris
premissis omnibus et singulis, aut in aliqua parte, parcella, seu
membro eorundem premissorum, de cætero exigere clamare seu
vindicare poterimus nec debemus, nec aliquis nostrum poterit
aut debet quovis modo in futurum, sed ab omni actione jure,
titulo, clameo, interesse et demanda quibuscunque inde sumus
penitus exclusi imperpetuum per presentes. Hfm cuju$ rei
testimonium predicti Johannes et Rowlandus huic presenti
scripto sigilla sua apposuerunt. Datum vicesimo quarto die
Aprilis Anno regni dominæ Elizabethæ Dei gratia, Angliæ
Pranciæ et Hiberniæ Reginæ, fidei defensoris, etc., duodecimo.
Obligatio Clementis Siseley pro pactis
præstandis quoad Manerium de
Eimcombe.
3Boberínt universi per presentes me Clementem Siseley de
Eastburye in parochia, de Barking in Comitatu Essexiæ, armi-
gerum, temeri et firmiter obligari Magistro sive Custodi et sociis
Collegii de Gonevill et Caius fundati in honorem annunciationis
beatæ Mariæ virginis in universitate Cantabrigiæ, in quadrin-
gentis libris bonæ et legalis monetæ Angliæ solvendis prefatis
Magistro sive Custodi et sociis Collegii predicti vel successori-
bus suis. Ad quam quidem solucionem bene et fideliter facien-
dam obligo me hæredes executores et administratores meos per
presentes sigillo meo sigillatas. Datum vicesimo die Aprilis,
Amno regni dominæ nostræ Elizabethæ dei gratia Angliæ
[p. 92] Franciæ et Hiberniæ Reginæ fidei defensoris, etc.,
duodecimo.
140 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
The condicion of this obligation is suche, that yf the within
bounden Clement Siseley his heires executors administrators
and assignes and everie of them do well and truelie observe
performe fulfill and kepe all and every the covenauntes graunts
and agrements which on his and their parties are or ought to
be observed performed fulfilled and kepte, conteyned and speci-
fied in a payer of Indentures bearinge the date within written
made betwene the said Clemente of the one partie and the
within named Master or keper and fellowes of the College of
Gonevill and Caius of the other partie, according to the pur-
porte effecte and true meaning of the same Indentures, That
then this present obligacion to be voide and of none effecte, or
els to stande in full force and strengthe.
Obligatio Clementis Siseley pro pactis
praestandis quoad Manerium de
Woborne.
j}oberint universi per presentes me Clementem Siseley de
Eastburye hall in parochia de Barking in Comitatu Essexiae
armigerum teneri et firmiter obligari Magistro sive Custodi et
sociis Collegii de Gonevill et Caius fundati in honorem annun-
ciacionis beatae Mariae virginis in universitate Cantabrigiae, in
quadringentis libris bonæ et legalis monetae Angliae solvendis
prefatis Magistro sive Custodi et sociis Collegii predicti et suc-
cessoribus suis: Ad quam quidem solucionem bene et fideliter
faciendam obligo me haeredes executores et administratores
meos per presentes sigillo meo sigillatas. Datum vicesimo
quarto die Novembris Anno Regni dominae nostrae Elizabethae
Dei gratia Angliae Franciae et Hiberniae Reginae, fidei defensoris,
etc., decimo tertio.
The condicion of this obligacion is suche that yf the within
bounden Clement Siseley his heires executours Administrators
and assignes and everie of them, doe well and truelye observe
performe fulfill and kepe, all and everie the covenaunts, graunts,
[p. 93] articles, and agrements which on his and their parties
are or ought to be observed performed fulfilled and kepte, con-
teyned and specified in a payer of Indentures bearing the date
MANERIUM DE WOBURNE. I 41
within writtem made betwene the said Clement om the one
partie, and the withim named the Master or keper and fellowes
of the College of Gonvill and Caius of the other partie accord-
ing to the purporte effecte and true meanimge of the same
Imdentures, that them this present obligacion to be voide amd
of mone effecte, or els to abide in his full force strength and
Vertue.
Copia recognitionis obligatoriæ Johannis et
Rowlandi Argall Magistro et sociis Collegii
de Gonevill et Caius pro pactis
præstandis in concessione rectoriæ de
Bincombe.
Memorandum quod vicesimo sexto die Aprilis Anno regni
dominæ nostræ Elizabethæ Dei gratia Angliæ Franciæ et
Hiberniæ Reginæ fidei defensoris, etc., duodecimo, coram
Roberto Catelyn milite capitali Justiciario dictæ dominæ
Reginæ ad placita coram ipsa Regina tenenda assignato, apud
Sergeantes Imme in Fletestrete London venerunt Johannes
Argall et Rowlandus Argall generosi, filii Thomæ Argall nuper
de Londom armigeri defuncti, in propriis personis suis et recog-
moverunt se debere et uterque corporaliter recognovit se debere
Magistro sive Custodi et sociis Collegii de Gomevill et Caius
fundati in honorem Annunciationis beatæ Mariæ virginis in
universitate Cantabrigiæ quingentas libras legalis monetæ
Angliæ solvendas eisdem Magistro sive Custodi et sociis aut
suis certis Attornatis vel successoribus suis, et nisi fece-
rint etc.
The condiciom of this recognizaunce is suche that yf the
above boumdem John Argall and Rowland Argall and eyther of
them their heires and executours amd everie of them, doe well
and truelie observe performe fulfill amd kepe all amd everie the
covenaunts articles graunts agrements and things specified and
comprized in ome payer of Indentures made betwene the said
[p. 94] John Argall and Rowland Argall of the one partie,
and the above mamed the Master or keper and fellowes of the
College of Gonevill and Caius aforesaid of the other partie,
142 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
bearing date the xx" daye of Aprill abovesaid in the twelfthe
yere aforesaid, which on the parte and behalfe of the said John
and Rowlande and either of them, their heires executors and
Administratours and everie of them are to be observed per-
formed fulfilled done and kepte according to the purporte
tenore true meaning and effecte of the said Indentures, that
then this presente Recognisaunce to be utterlye voide and of
none effecte, or els the same to stande remaine and abide in his
full strength force and vertue.
Irrotulata coram Domina Re- Capta et recognita apud Ser-
gina apud Westmonasterium ter- geantes Inne predicto die et Anno
mino Paschae anno regni dominae supradictis coram me Roberto
Elizabethae nunc Reginae Angliae Catelyn.
xiie, Rot. xxio.
Per me Johannem Argall : per me Rowlandum
Argall.
Copia finis Clementis Siseley, et Annae uxoris ejus, Johannis
et Rowlandi Argall, Magistro et sociis Collegii de Gonevill
et Caius pro Bincombe et Woburne, recognitae coram
Roberto Catelyn primario Angliae Justiciario.
Praecipe Clementi Siseley Armigero et Annæ uxori ejus
Johanni Argall et Rowlando Argall generosis, filiis Thomas
Argall Armigeri, nuper defuncti, quod temeant Magistro sive
Custodi et sociis Collegii de Gonevillet Caius fundati in honorem
Annunciationis beatae Mariae virginis in universitate Canta-
brigiae conventionem etc., de Manerio de Bincombe cum per-
tinentiis, Ac de quadraginta Messuagiis viginti Toftis triginta
Cotagiis duobus molendinis tribus columbariis, xl gardinis,
quadraginta pomariis mille et quingentis acris terræ centum
Jampnorum, et bruere, quadraginta acris alneti quadraginta
acris morae, quadraginta acris marisci, sexaginta sex solidis et
octo denariatis redditus cum pertinentiis in Bincombe, nec non
de advocatione Ecclesiae parochialis de Bincombe predicto. Et
nisi, etc.
Et est concordia talis scilicet quod predicti Clemens
MANERIUM DE WOBORNE. 143
[p. 95] et Anna Johannes et Rowlandus recognoverunt
Manerium tenementa redditus et advocationem predictam
cum pertinentiis esse jus ipsorum Magistri sive Custodis et
sociorum ut illa quae iidem Magister sive Custos et socii
habent de dono predictorum Clementis et Annæ Johannis et
Rowlandi. Et illi remiserunt et quietum clamaverunt de se
et haeredibus suis predictis Magistro sive Custodi et sociis et
successoribus suis imperpetuum, Et preterea iidem Clemens et
Anna concesserunt pro se et haeredibus ipsius Clementis quod
ipsi warrantizant Manerium tenementa redditus et advoca-
tionem predictam cum pertinentiis predictis Magistro sive
Custodi et Sociis et successoribus suis contra ipsos Clementem
et Annam et haeredes ipsius Clementis imperpetuum. Et
ulterius Idem Johannes concessit prose et haeredibus suis quod
ipsi warrantizant Manerium tenementa redditus et advocationem
predictam cum pertinentiis predictis Magistro sive Custodi et
Sociis et successoribus suis contra ipsum Johannem et haeredes
Suos imperpetuum. Ac etiam idem Rowlandus concessit prose
et haredibus suis quod ipsi warrantizant Manerium tenementa
redditus et advocationem predictam cum pertinentiis predictis
Magistro sive Custodi et sociis et successoribus suis contra
ipsum Rowlandum et haeredes Suos imperpetuum, Et pro hac
etc.
Johannes Capta et recognita apud Sergeants Inne in
*:::::::: Fletestrete London XXVI” die Aprilis Anno XII°
predictas. Elizabethae Reginae coram me Roberto Catelyn.
Per me Clementem Siseley: Anne Siseley.
per me Johannem Argall: per me Rowlandum Argall.
Copia finis Clementis Siseley et Annae uxoris ejus pro
Manerio de Woburne in Comitatu Dorssettiae.
Praecipe Clementi Siseley Armigero et Annae uxori ejus quod
teneant Magistro sive Custodi et sociis Collegii de Goneville et
Caius fundati in honorem Annunciationis beatae Mariae virginis
in universitate Cantabrigiae conventionem etc. de Manerio de
Woborne cum pertinentiis, Ac de Octoginta Messuagiis, quadra-
ginta Cotagiis, quinque molendinis, quatuor columbariis, Octo-
144 ANNALS OF GONVII,ILE AND CAIUS.
ginta gardinis, octoginta pomariis, mille acris terre, centum
acris prati, quingenta acris pasturae, sexaginta acris bosci,
centum acris jampnorum et bruere, quadraginta acris morae,
quadraginta ſp. 96] acris marisci, et quatuor libratis
redditus cum pertinentiis in Woborne et Sherborne. Et
nisi etc.
Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod predicti Clemens et
Anna recognoverunt Manerium tenementa et redditus predictos
cum pertinentiis esse jus ipsorum Magistri sive Custodis et
sociorum utilla quae iidem Magister sive Custos et socii habent
de dono predictorum Clementis et Annae. Et illi remiserunt
et quietum clamaverunt de se et haeredibus suis predictis
Magistro sive Custodi et sociis et successoribus suis imper-
petuum, Et preterea iidem Clemens et Anna concesserunt pro
se et haeredibus ipsius Clementis quod ipsi warrantizant
Manerium tenementa et redditus predictos cum pertinentiis
predictis Magistro sive Custodi et sociis et successoribus suis
contra ipsos Clementem et Annam et haeredes ipsius Cle-
mentis imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc.
Capta et recognita apud Ive Lane juxta
yº. Paules London xxvi" die Novembris anno xiii”
novit partes Elizabethae Reginae coram me Roberto Catelyn.
predictas. Per me Clementem Siseley: Anne Siseley.
Memorandum.
Be it remembred that M* Gilbert Gerarde Attorney
generall to our Soveraigne Ladye quene Elizabeth, a great
frende and wellwiller to this College, advised me Caius not
to sewe oute theis fines of Clemente Siseley gent. and Anne
his wife, nor of John and Rowland Argall gent, recognised
before my Lorde chefe Justice to the Master and fellowes of
Gonevill and Caius College, for that it shoulde be a vayne
expense of ix or x" and not necessarie for the assuraunce:
bycause the two Manors Bincombe and Woborne be in fee
simple, and not in fee tayle, and never in the possession of
anye of them mentioned in the fines, but in reversion to
MANERIA DE BINCOMIBE ET WOBORNE. 145
M* Clement Siseley and his heires: And further saith that the
fyne of the Lorde Buehurste beinge but the yeare before
obteyned and passed (the Copie whereof in this boke enseweth)
is sufficient to debarre all mem after fyve yeres, and is as good
to all purposes for the College as if other fines from M* Clement
Siseley and Anne his wife, John and Rowlande Argall, Ware
sewed Owte and hadde : And that this his Counsell was suche,
[p. 97] as he himselfe wolde followe ifthe case were his. This
I Write to doe yow and your successours understande, whie this
fine above written of M* Clemente, and Anne Siseley, and of
John and Rowland Argall, was mot sewed out, and to the intent
that neyther you nor your successors should hereafter loke for
the fine, and seke for the same in the office of the Quenes fynes
to have the copye thereof, to your Or their losse of tyme monye
and travayle.
Tenura et vetus possessio Manerii de
Bincombe, et Rectoriæ ejusdem.
3fílamerium de Bincombe in Comitatu Dorsettiae tenetur
in capite de domino Rege per vicesimam partem feodi militis:
et rectoria ejusdem in socagio per fidelitatem tantum : ut ex
his verbis in sequentibus transcriptis ex literis patentibus
dominæ Reginæ apud Dominum de Buchurste remamentibus
scire licet. Elizabeth Regina, etc., dedit et concessit Ricardo
Baker armigero et Ricardo Sackville militi per literas suas
patentes gerentes datam 3° die Februarii, anno regni sui 2°,
inter alia, dominium et manerium de Bincombe cum suis
juribus membris libertatibus privilegiis et pertinentiis universis
in dicto comitatu Dorssettiæ quondam parcellam possessionum
seu reventionum nuper Collegii Sancti Stephani Westmonasterii
in comitatu mostro Middlesexiæ modo dissoluti, Necnon ad-
vocationes, donationes, liberas dispositiones et jura patronatus
rectoriarum et ecclesiarum de Bimcombe Poxwell et Knighton
in dicto Comitatu Dorsettiae etc., Tememdum de nobis hæredibus
et successoribus nostris Manerium de Bimcombe per vicesimam
partem unius feodi militis, et advocationes donationes et liberas
G. A. S. Octavo Series. No. XL. I0
146 ANNALS OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS.
dispositiones et jura patronatus rectoriae et ecclesiae de Bincombe
etc. de Manerio nostro de Estgrenewiche in Comitatu nostro
Cantiae per fidelitatem tantum in libero socagio et non in capite
pro omnibus redditibus servitiis exactionibus decimis et de
mandis quibuscunque pro premissis seu aliquo premissorum
nobis haeredibus et successoribus nostris quoquo modo reddendis
solvendis vel faciendis etc.
Tenura et vetus possessio
Manerii de Woborne.
sſ lametium de Woburne parcella quondam possessionum
nuper dissoluti Monasterii de Shirburne in Comitatu Dorssettiae
[p. 98] tenetur de Domino Rege in capite per vicesimam
partem feodi militis.
De valore Maneriorum predictorum
cum Rectoria de Bincombe.
Manerium de Bincombe) valet per annum) Xvº. ix".
Manerium de Woborne l ultra reprisas | xiiiili viº, viiiº.
Rectoria de Bincombe
in Decanatu Dorsettiae ut valet per annum ix". xviiº.
in libris Domini Regis
Copia placiti Magistri sive Custodis et sociorum Collegii
de Gonevill et Caius pro exoneratione homagii et fidelitatis,
et de perdonatione licentiae alienationis ad manum mortuam
pro Maneriis de Bincombe et Woborne in Comitatu Dorssettiae
in scaccario Dominae Reginae Elizabeth apud Westmonasterium
videlicet inter Recorda de Termino Paschae anno tertio decimo
ejusdem Reginae Elizabeth ex parte Rememoratoris Thesaurarii
remanentis.
Memorandum quod preceptum fuit vicecomiti dicti Comi-
tatus Dorssettiae per breve Dominae Reginae nunc hujus scac-
carii datum xiiº die Novembris anno Regni prefata Dominae
Reginae nunc Elizabeth xiiº, quod non omitteret etc., quin eam
MANERIA DE BINCOMIBE ET WOBORNE. 147
etc., Et quod distringeret Thomam Sackvile militem dominum
Euchurst per terras etc., ita etc. in octavis Sancti Hilarii ad
faciendum prefatæ Dominæ Reginæ nunc homagium et fidelita-
tem pro Mameriis de Bincombe et Woborme cum pertinentiis in
dicto Comitatu Dorssettiæ ac omnibus messuagiis terris tene-
mentis et hereditamentis quibuscumque in Bincombe Woborne
et Sherborne in dicto Comitatu Dorssettiae dictis Mameriis de
Bincombe et Woborne quoquo modo spectantibus sive pertinen-
tibus, quæ de prefata domina Regina tenentur in capite, et de
quibus prefatus Thomas seisitus existit in dominico suo ut de
feodo, Et quod idem vicecomes haberet hic tumc breve predictum
sibi in premissis directum, sicut continetur in parte...originalium
de Anno reginæ nunc...rotulo.... Ad quem diem vicecomes
dicti Comitatus Dorsset tiæ videlicet Willelmus Hoddye armiger
retornavit, hic breve predictum sibi in premissis directum. Et
mandavit per indorsamentum ejusdem brevis quod prefatus
Thomas Sackvile miles dominus Buckhurst nihil ad tunc
habuit in maneriis predictis cum pertinentiis per quod potuit
[p. 99] distringi. Super quo preceptum fuit eidem vice-
comiti dicti Comitatus Dorssettiæ per aliud breve prefatæ
Dominæ Reginæ nunc hujus scaccarii datum xii° die Februarii
dicto amno regni sui xii° quod non omitteret etc., quin eam
etc., et quod distringeret tementes Mameriorum predictorum de
Bincombe et Woborne cum pertinentiis per terras, etc. ita
etc. in crastino Clausi Paschæ ad faciendum prefatæ Dominæ
Reginæ nunc homagium et fidelitatem pro premissis, necnon ad
ostendendum eidem Dominæ Reginæ nunc qualiter et quo
titulo ingressi sunt et tenent premissa, Et quod idem vicecomes
haberet hic tunc nomina tenentium predictorum et breve pre-
dictum sibi in premissis directum. Ad quem diem vicecomes
dicti Comitatus Dorsset;tiæ, videlicet prefatus Willelmus Hoddye
armiger, retornavit hic breve predictum sibi in premissis direc-
tum. Et mandavit per indorsamentum ejusdem brevis quod
AEgidius Alington miles et domina Margareta uxor ejus, ac
Magister sive Custos et socii Collegii de Gonevill et Caius
fundati in honorem Ammunciationis beatæ Mariæ virginis in
universitate Cantabrigiæ fuerunt tenentes dictorum Maneriorum
de Bincombe et Woborne cum pertinentiis in dicto Comitatu
10—2
148 ANNALS OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS.
Dorssettiæ. Et quod iidem Ægidius Alington miles et domina
Margareta uxor ejus et Magister sive Custos ac socii Collegii
predicti districti fuerunt, unde exitus etc. Et modo scilicet ad
predictum erastinum Clausi Paschæ hoc termino, venerunt hic
prefati Ægidius Allington miles et domina Margareta uxor
ejus, ac quidem Johannes Caius in medicinis doctor nunc
Magister sive Custos predicti Collegii de Gonvill et Caius in
dicta universitate Cantabrigiæ et socii ejusdem Collegii per
T. L. eorum Attornatum, et petunt auditum premissorum et eis
leguntur. Quibus literis sic (?) per ipsos auditis et intellectis
iidem Ægidius Allington miles et domina Margareta uxor ejus et
Magister sive Custos et socii Collegii predicti queruntur se in
terris et catallis suis colore premissorum pro ingressu suo pre-
dicto graviter districtos vexatos et inquietatos fore et hoc minus
juste. Quia quoad eundem ingressum suum dicunt, quod
verum est quod diu antequam ipsi aliquid habuerint in pre-
dictis Mameriis de Bincombe et Woborne cum pertinentiis in
dicto Comitatu Dorssettiæ prefatus Thomas Sackvile miles
dominus Buckhurste fuit, seisitus de et in eisdem Mameriis de
[p. 1οο] Bincombe et Woborne cum suis juribus membris et per-
tinentiis universis in dicto Comitatu Dorsset;tiæ (im) domimico suo
ut de feodo. Et idem Thomas Sackvile miles dominus Buckhurste
sic inde seisitus existens per quoddam scriptum suum inden-
tatum gerens datam vii° die Februarii anno regni prefatæ
Dominæ Regimæ nunc Elizabethæ xii° certis de causis et con-
siderationibus ipsum tumc moventibus, dedebat (sic) concedebat,
barganizabat vendidebat per idem scriptum suum prefatis
AEgidio Allington militi et dominæ Margaretæ uxori ejus et
cuidam Clementi Siseley armigero, predicta Maneria de Bim-
combe et Woborne cum suis juribus membris et pertinentiis
in dicto comitatu Dorsset;tiæ, per nomina omnium illorum
Maneriorum suorum de Bincombe et Woborne in Comitatu
Dorsettiæ cum suis juribus membris et pertinentiis, Ac omnium
messuagiorum burgagiorum terrarum tenementorum pratorum
pasturarum communarum faldagiorum ovium boscorum subbos-
corum reddituum reversionum curiarum letarum lawdays et
omnium et singulorum aliorum jurium jurisdictionum pre-
hemenentiarum privilegiorum commoditatum et hereditamento-
MANERIA DE BINCOMBE ET WOBORNE. 149
rum cum eorum pertinentiis dictis dominiis et Maneriis de
Bincombe et Woborne vel eorum alteri pertinentibus sive
spectantibus, Ac reversionis et reversionum omnium et singu-
lorum dominiorum et Maneriorum predictorum, Habenda
tenenda et gaudenda predicta Maneria de Bincombe et
Woborne cum suis juribus et pertinentiis universis prefato
AEgidio Allington et dominae Margaretae uxori ejus pro et
durante vita naturali ipsius dominae Margaretae absolue im-
petitione alicujus vasti, Et post decessum ipsius dominae
Margaretae remanerent predicta Maneria de Bincombe et
Woburne cum suis juribus membris et pertinentiis prefato
Clementi Siseley haredibus et assignatis suis imperpetuum
ad usum ejusdem Clementis haeredum et assignatorum suorum
imperpetuum, prout per unam partem scripti predicti Sigillo
ipsius Thomae Sackevile militis domini Buckhurste sigillatam ac
in dorso clausarum Cancellarii ipsius dominae Reginae infra sex
menses irrotulatam, Curiaeque hic ostensam et prolatam inter
alia apparet. Et dicunt ulterius prefati AEgidius Alington miles
et domina Margareta uxor ejus et Magister sive Custos et socii
Collegii predicti de Gonevill et Caius in dicta universitate
Cantabrigiae, quod postea quidem finis levata fuit in Curia
prefatae Dominae Reginae nunc apud Westmonasterium a die
Paschae in xv dies anno regni prefatae Dominae Regina munc
[p. loll Elizabeth a conquestu xii” coram Jacobo Dier
Richardo Weston Johanne Walshe et Ricardo Harpur Justici-
ariis et aliis Dominae Reginae fidelibus tune ibi presentibus
inter prefatos Egidium Alington et Margaretam uxorem ejus
ad tunc querentes et prefatum Thomam Sackvile militem
dominum Buckhurste et Ceciliam uxorem ejus deforciantes de
dictis Maneriis de Bincombe et Woborne cum pertinentiis per
nomina Maneriorum de Bincombe et Woborne cum pertinentiis,
Ac centum messuagiorum quadraginta cotagiorum decem
molendinorum centum gardinorum, centum pomariorum trium
millium acrarum terrarum centum acrarum prati quingenta
acrarum pasturae centum acrarum bosci Sexaginta acrarum
jampnorum et bruere et quatuor libratarum redditus cum
pertinentiis in Bincombe Woborne et Sherborne in dicto
Comitatu Dorsettiae unde placitum conventionis ad tune
I 50 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANI) CAIUS.
summonitum fuit inter eos in eadem curia, Scilicet quod pre-
dicti Thomas et Cecilia ad tunc concesserunt predictis Egidio
et Margaretæ predicta Mameria et tenementa, et illa eis
reddiderunt in eadem curia, Habenda, et tenenda eidem
Egidio et Margaretæ de capitalibus dominis feodi illius per
servitia quæ ad predicta Maneria, et tenementa pertinent
tota vita ipsius Margaretæ, Et post decessum ipsius Mar-
garetæ predicta Maneria et tenementa cum pertinentiis integre
remanerent prefato Clementi Siseley armigero et hæredibus
suis, Tenenda de capitalibus dominis feodi illius per servicia
quæ ad predicta Mameria, et tenémenta pertinent imperpetuum.
Et predictus Thomas et hæredes sui warrantizabunt, predictis
Ægidio et Margaretæ tota vita ipsius Margaretæ, et etiam
predicto Clementi et hæredibus suis, predicta Mameria et teme-
menta cum pertinentiis sicut predictum est contra predictum
Thomam et hæredes suos imperpetuum : prout in chirographo
fimium illius Curiæ hic ostensum et prolatum inter alia plene
apparet. Quorum premissorum pretextu, prefati Egidius
Alington miles et domina Margareta, uxor ejus fuerunt seisiti
de et in predictis Maneriis de Bincombe et Woborne cum suis
juribus membris et pertinentiis universis predictis in dominico
suo ut de libero tenemento pro termino vitæ ipsius Margaretæ,
reversione feodi simplicis inde post decessum ipsius Margaretæ
prefato Clementi Siseley armigero et hæredibus suis ut predi-
citur spectante et pertinente. Et predictus Clemens Siseley
[p. 1o2] armiger sic de reversione feodi simplicis Mameri-
orum de Bincombe et Woburne cum pertinentiis juribus et
membris suis predictis in forma predicta seisitus existens, per
quoddam scriptum suum indentatum, gerens datam xx° die
Aprilis anno Regni prefatæ dominæ Reginæ nunc Elizabeth
xii°, inter ipsum Clementem Siseley per nomen Clementis
Siseley de Eastburie Hall in parochia de Barkimge in Comitatu
Essexiæ armigeri ex una parte, et predictos Magistrum sive
Custodem et socios predicti Collegii de Gonevill et Caius, per
nomina Magistri sive Custodis et sociorum Collegii de Gonvill
et Caius fundati in honorem Annunciationis beatæ Mariæ vir-
ginis in universitate Cantabrigiæ, ex altera parte confectum,
idem Clemens Siseley pro et in consideratione summæ tre-
MANERIA DE BINCOMBE ET WOBORNE. 151
centarum novem librarum bonæ et legalis monetae Angliae sibi
prefato Clementi ad sigillationem scripti predicti per prefatos
Magistrum sive Custodem et socios bene et fideliter solutae
barganizabat vendidebat et concedebat per idem scriptum suum
prefatis Magistro sive Custodi et sociis et successoribus suis
predictum Manerium de Bincombe cum pertinentiis in dicto
comitatu Dorssettiae per nomen totius illius Manerii, sive
dominii Sui de Bincombe cum suis juribus membris et perti-
mentiis universis in dicto Comitatu Dorssettiae vel alibi, Ac
omnium terrarum dominicalium tenementorum et haeredita-
mentorum dicto Manerio pertinentium vel aliquo modo spec-
tantium Scituatorum jacentium et existentium in Bincombe vel
alibiin dicto comitatu Dorssettiae dicto Manerio spectantium sive
pertinentium ac ut pars sive parcella inde habitorum et cogni-
torum sive existentium, Ac etiam omnium illorum messuagiorum,
burgagiorum, domorum, aedificiorum, hortorum, gardinorum,
terrarum, tenementorum, pratorum, pasturarum, pascuarum,
faldagiorum ovium, piscium, piscationum, aquarum, piscinarum,
boScorum, subboscorum, cum solo eorundem, reddituum liberorum
tenentium et tenentium per copiam rotulorum curiarum, reddi-
tuum firmarum serviciorum, reddituum oneratorum, reddituum
Seck', communiarum terrarum vastarum, communiarum pastura-
rum, morarum, mariscorum, minerarum, quarrerarum, proficuorum
commoditatum, curiarum letarum, proficuorum curiarum et leta-
rum, libertatum, franchessarum herietorum Wardorum marita-
giorum releviorum waiviatorum extrahurarum et Omnium aliorum
haereditamentorum quorumcunque dicto Manerio spectantium
sive pertinentium, Scituatorum et existentium in Bincombe vel
[p. 1 O3] alibi in dicto comitatu Dorssettiae, Ac reversionem
et reversiones Manerii predicti et omnium aliorum premissorum
cum pertinentiis ac totum jus titulum interesse clameum et
demandam sua in et ad idem Manerium et quamlibet inde
partem et parcellam, Habendum et tenendum predictum
Manerium de Bincombe ac omnia et singula premissa cum
pertinentiis ac reversionem et reversiones inde prefatis Magistro
sive Custodi et sociis et successoribus suis ad proprium opus et
usum eorundem Magistri sive Custodis ac Sociorum ac success-
orum suorum imperpetuum, prout per unam partem dicti Scripti
152 ANNALS OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS.
indentati sigillo ipsius Clementis Siseley sigillati manuque sua
propria subscripti, ac coram domina Regina apud Westmona-
sterium termino Paschæ anno Regni prefatæ dominæ reginæ
nunc Elizabeth xiimo rotulo xxii° irrotulati, curiæque hic
ostensi et prolati inter alia plene apparet. Cujus quidem scripti
donationis concessionis et irrotulamenti predicti pretextu prefati
Magister sive Custos et socii dicti Collegii de Gonvill et Caius
in dicta universitate Cantabrigiæ fuerunt seisiti de et in rever-
sione feodi simplicis dicti Manerii de Bincombe cum suis juribus
membris et pertinentiis universis in dicto Comitatu Dorssettiæ
et cæterorum premissorum omnium et singulorum superius
specificatorum eidem Manerio spectantium sive pertinentium
in domimico suo ut de feodo et jure Collegii sui predicti. Et
dicunt ulterius prefati Ægidius Alington miles et domina Mar-
gareta uxor ejus ac Magister sive Custos et socii dicti Collegii
de Gonevill et Caius fundati in honorem Ammunciationis beatæ
Mariæ virginis in dicta universitate Cantabrigiæ quod prefatus
Clemens Siseley armiger similiter sic de et in reversione feodi
simplicis dicti Mamerii de Woborne cum suis juribus membris
et pertinentiis universis in dicto Comitatu Dorssettiæ per et
post mortem dictæ dominæ Margaretæ uxoris dicti Egidii
Alington militis seisitus existens per quoddam aliud scriptum
indentatum gerens datam xxiiii° die mensis Novembris Anno
Regni prefatæ dominæ reginæ nunc Elizabeth xiii*° inter ipsum
prefatum Clementem Siseley per momen Clementis Siseley de
Eastburye Hall in dicta parochia de Barkinge in dicto Comitatu
Essexiæ armigeri ex una parte et prefatos Magistrum sive
Custodem et socios predicti Collegii de Gonevill et Caius
[p. 1O4] fundati in honorem Annunciationis beatæ Mariæ
virginis in universitate Cantabrigiæ ex altera parte confectum,
idem Clemens Siseley armiger pro summa ducentarum sexa-
ginta librarum bonæ et legalis monetæ Angliæ sibi prefato
Clementi Siseley ad sigillationem scripti predicti per prefatos
Magistrum sive Custodem et socios Collegii predicti soluta bar-
ganizabat vendebat dedebat, (sic) et concedebat prefatis Magistro
sive Custodi et sociis Collegii predicti et successoribus suis,
predictum Manerium de Woborne cum suis juribus membris et
pertinentiis universis in dicto Comitatu Dorssettiae per nomen
MANERIA DE BINCOMBE ET WOBORNE. 153
totius illius Manerii sive dominii sui de Woborne cum suis
juribus membris et pertinentiis universis in dicto Comitatu
Dorsettiae vel alibi. Ac omnium terrarum dominicalium terra-
rum tenementorum et haereditamentorum dicto Manerio spec-
tantium seu aliquo modo pertinentium Scituatorum jacentium
et existentium in Woborne vel alibi in dicto Comitatu Dorsettiae,
ac ut pars et parcella Manerii predicti cognitorum reputatorum
sive occupatorum existentium, Ac omnium illorum messuagiorum
burgagiorum domorum aedificiorum hortorum gardinorum ter-
rarum tenementorum pratorum pasturarum pascuarum cursuum
faldagii ovium piscariarum piscium aquarum boscorum subbosco-
rum cum solo eorundem, reddituum liberorum tenentium, et
tenentium per copiam rotulorum curiarum, reddituum firma-
rum, serviciorum, reddituum oneris, reddituum siccorum, com-
muniarum terrarum vastarum, communiarum pasturarum,
morarum, mariscorum, minerarum, quarrerarum, proficuorum
commoditatum, curiarum letarum, proficuorum curiarum et
letarum, libertatum, franchessiarum, herietorum, wardorum,
maritagiorum, releviorum, waiviatorum, extrahurarum, ac
omnium aliorum hareditamentorum quorumcunque dicto Ma-
nerio spectantium sive pertinentium Scituatorum jacentium et
existentium in Woborne vel alibi in dicto Comitatu Dorsettiae,
Ac reversionem et reversiones predicti Manerii et cæterorum
premissorum cum pertinentiis, Ac totum jus titulum interesse
clameum et demandam sua in et ad idem Manerium ac ad
quamlibet inde partem et parcellam, Habendum et tenendum
predictum Manerium de Woborne ac omnia et singula premissa
cum pertinentiis ac reversionem et reversiones predicti Manerii
prefatis Magistro sive Custodi et sociis ac successoribus suis ad
opus et usum predictorum Magistri sive Custodis et sociorum et
successorum suorum imperpetuum, prout per unam partem
scripti predicti sigillo ipsius Clementis Siseley sigillati manugue
sua propria subscripti ac irrotulati coram domina Regina apud
Westmonasterium de termino Sancti Michaelis Anno regni
prefatae dominae reginae nunc Elizabeth xii” et xiii”, Rotulo
xxiiii”, curiaeque hic ostensi et prolati inter alia plene apparet.
[p. 1 O5] Cujus quidem scripti doni concessionis et irrotula-
menti predicti pretextu, prefati Magister sive Custos et socii
154 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANID CAIUS.
dicti Collegii de Gonevil] et Caius in dicta universitate Canta-
brigiæ fuerunt seisiti de et in predicta reversione feodi simplicis
dicti Mamerii de Woborne cum pertinentiis suis universis pre-
dictis, et cæteris premissis in domimico suo ut de feodo in jure
Collegii sui predicti. Et dicunt, ulterius prefati Egidius Alington
miles et domina Margareta uxor ejus, et Magister sive Custos et
socii dicti Collegii de Gonevill et Caius in dicta, universitate
Cantabrigiæ quod prefata domina Regina nunc Elizabeth postea
per quemdam Actum parliamenti in Parliamento suo apud
Westmonasterium secundo die mensis Aprilis anno regni sui
xiii*° inchoato et ibidem continuato ad et usque dissolutionem
ejusdem, bene placata et contentata fuit quod authoritate
ejusdem Parliamenti inactitaretur modo et forma sequente,
videlicet quod omnis et quilibet subditorum suorum tam
spiritualium quam temporalium hujus regni sui Angliæ Walliæ
Insularum de Jernesey et Garnesey ac villæ Barwici hæredes
successores executores et administratores sui et eorum cujuslibet
ac omnia et singula corpora aliquo modo corporata, civitates,
burgi, comitatus, ridingæ, hundredi, lathæ, rapæ, wapentagia,
villæ, villatæ, hamletæ et tythingæ et eorum quilibet, ac
successor et successores eorum cujuslibet, authoritate ejusdem
parliamenti essent acquietati perdonati relaxati et exonerati
erga eamdem dominam reginam nunc hæredes et successores
suos et eorum quemlibet de omnimodo proditionibus feloniis
robariis offensis contemptibus alienacionibus communibus sine
licentia transgressionibus intrusionibus infractionibus injuriis de-
ceptionibus malegesturis forisfacturis penalitatibus et denariorum
summis, penis mortalibus, penis corporalibus et pecuniariis, ac
generaliter de omnibus aliis rebus causis quærelis sectis judiciis
et executionibus in predicto Actu postea non exceptis neque
forprizatis quæ per ipsam dominam Reginam in aliquo modo
sive medio perdonari potuissent ante et usque xiiii° diem
Februarii tunc ultimum preteritum eodem anno xiii°, cuilibet
aut alicui dictorum subditorum suorum corporum corporatorum
civitatum burgorum civitatum ridingarum hundredorum
latharum raparum wapentagiorum villarum villatarum et
tythingarum aut eorum alicujus et quæ in predicto actu liberæ
[p. 1o6] perdonationis non excipiuntur neque forprizantur.
MANERIA DE BINCOMIBE ET WOBORNIE. I 55
Et eadem Domima Regina ex sua liberalitate authoritate Parlia-
menti predicti libere dedit cuilibet dictorum subditorum suorum
corporum corporatorum et eorum cuilibet omnia bona, et catalla
debita fines exitus proficua amerciamenta forisfacturas et de-
nariorum summas per eorum aliquem forisfacta quæ prefatæ
dominæ Reginæ spectabant, sive pertinebant ratione alicujus
offensionis comtemptus transgressionis intractionis malegesturæ
materiæ causæ vel quærelæ factæ sive commissæ per ipsos
vel eorum aliquem ante predictum xiiii"" diem Februarii quæ
in predicto Actu plane nec forprizantur neque excipiuntur
prout in tenore Actus illius Thesaurario et Baronibus hujus
scaccarii per breve Dominæ Reginæ mune de * mittimus ' hic
misso et irrotulato in memorandis ejusdem scaccarii de pre-
dicto anno xiii° Reginæ nunc videlicet inter...de termino
...ex parte Rememoratoris Reginæ inter alia plenius com-
tinetur. Et dicunt, ulterius prefati Egidius Alington miles et
domina Margareta uxor ejus, Magister sive Custos et socii dicti
Collegii de Gonevill et Caius fundati in honorem beatæ Mariæ
virginis in dicta, universitate Cantabrigiæ, quod ipsi tempore
confectionis Actus predicti fuerunt ac modo sunt subditi dictæ
dominæ Reginæ nunc hujus Regni sui Angliæ, necnon quod ipsi
nee hujusmodi offensiones contemptus alienaciones sime licem-
cia, transgressiones intrusiones infractiones injurias deceptiones
malegesturas forisfacturas penalitates et proficua denariorum
summis ante predictum xiiii° diem Februarii dicto anno xiii°
Reginæ nunc in forma predicta facta et in predicto placito
superius specificata, in predicto Actu liberæ perdonationis non
excipiuntur neque forprizantur, prout in exceptionibus Actus
illius inter alia plenius continetur. Et dicunt ulterius prefati
Johannes Caius Magister sive Custos dicti Collegii de Gonevill
et Caius in dicta universitate Cantabrigiæ et socii ejusdem,
quod ex quo ipsi sunt unum corpus corporatum et politicum in
re nomine et facto incorporatum, ideo ipsi homagium aliquod
seu fidelitatem aliquam prefatæ dominæ Reginæ nunc pro dictis
Maneriis de Bincombe et Woborne facere non possunt, nec
debent. Quæ omnia et singula prefati Egidius Allington miles
et domina Margareta, uxor ejus, Magister sive Custos et socii
Collegii de Gonevill et Caius fundati in honorem Annuncia-
ç*
156 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANID CAIUS.
cionis beatæ Mariæ virginis in dicta universitate Cantabrigiæ
parati sunt verificare prout Curia etc, unde non intendunt quod
dicta domina Regina nunc ipsos ulterius in premissis impetere
[p. 1O7] seu occasionare velit. Et petunt judicium quod
ipsi quoad ingressum suum predictum eant ad presens sine die
pretextu premissorum. Et quod ipsi prefati Johannes Caius
Magister sive Custos Collegii predicti et socii ejusdem quoad
aliquod homagium seu fidelitatem pro Mameriis predictis in hac
curia faciendum ab hac curia dimittantur.
Et visis premissis per Barones, habitaque matura delibe-
ratione inde inter eosdem, dictum est per eosdem Barones
prefato Ægidio Allington militi et Dominæ Margaretæ uxori
ejus ac prefatis Johanni Caius in Medicinis Doctori Magistro
sive Custodi dicti Collegii de Gonevill et Caius in dicta univer-
sitate Cantabrigiæ et sociis ejusdem, quod ipsi quoad ingressum
suum predictum eant ad presens sine die pretextu premissorum,
Ac quod iidem Magister sive Custos et socii Collegii predicti
quoad homagium aliquod seu fidelitatem aliquam prefatæ
Dominæ Reginæ nunc pro Mameriis de Bincombe et Woborne
predictis in hoc scaecario faciendum ab hac curia dimittantur,
salva fidelitate prefati Egidii Alington militis et dominæ
Margaretæ uxoris ejus Dominæ Reginæ mune in premissis
debitis.
Licentia, alienationis dominæ Reginæ Thomæ
Domino Buckhurste ut alienare liceat Ma-
meria de Bincombe et Woborne Clementi
Siseley armigero.
Elizabeth dei gratia Angliæ Franciæ et Hibermiæ Regina
fidei defensor etc. Omnibus ad quos presentes literæ pervene-
rint salutem. Sciatis quod mos de gratia nostra speciali ac pro
novem libris et decem et septem solidis nobis solutis in hama-
perio nostro, concessimus et licentiam dedimus, ac per presentes
concedimus et licentiam damus pro nobis hæredibus et succes-
soribus nostris quantum in nobis est, prædilecto et fideli nostro
Thomæ domino Buckhurste quod ipse omnia illa Mameria sua
MANERIA DE BINCOMIBE ET WOBORN E. 157
de Bincombe et Woborne cum omnibus et singulis suis juribus
membris et pertinentiis universis in Comitatu nostro Dorsettiae
(quæ de nobis tenentur in capite ut dicitur) dare possit, et
concedere vendere alienare aut cognoscere per finem sive
recuperationem in curia nostra coram Justiciariis nostris de
Banco apud Westmonasterium levandam seu aliter aut alio modo
quocunque ad libitum ipsius Thomæ Domini Buckhurst dilecto
nobis Clementi Sisely de Estbery Hall infra parocbiam de
Barking in Comitatu Essexiæ armigero, Habenda et tenenda
Maneria predicta cum pertinentiis universis prefato Clementi
hæredibus et assignatis suis ad solum et proprium opus et
[p. 1o8] usum ipsius Clementis hæredum et assignatorum
suorum imperpetuum de nobis hæredibus et successoribus
nostris per servitia inde debita et de jure consueto. Et eidem
Clementi quod ipse Maneria, predicta cum pertinentiis a prefato
Thoma Domino Buckhurst recipere possit et tenere sibi et
hæredibus et assignatis suis predictis de nobis hæredibus et
successoribus nostris predictis per servitia predicta sicut pre-
dictum est tenore presentium similiter licentiam dedimus ac
per presentes damus speciale. Nolentes quod predictus Thomas
dominus Buckhurste vel hæredes sui, aut prefatus Clemens
hæredes vel assignatores sui ratione premissorum sive eorum
alicujus per nos vel hæredes nostros Justiciarios Escaetores
vicecomites Ballivos aut alios Ministros seu subditos nostros
quoscunque inde occasionentur molestentur vexentur pertur-
bentur in aliquo seu graventur nec eorum aliquis inde occa-
sionetur molestetur vexetur perturbetur in aliquo seu gravetur.
In cujus rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus
patentes. Teste meipsa apud Westmonasterium tertio die
Februarii anno regni nostri duodecimo
Clemens Siseley ju- xx° iiiid pro sigillo
ratus coram Thoma » Solutum Xixli xvii° pro fine Cottom
EHuick. iiiis iid pro irrotulatione
158 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
Exemplificatio Indenturae tripartitae per quam Thomas dominus
de Buckhurste vendidit Manerium de Bincombe et
Woborne in Comitatu Dorsettiae Egidio Alington militi
et dominae Margaretae uxori ejus pro termino vitae ejus-
dem Margaretae, et post mortem ejus Clementi Siseley
et haeredibus suis: et per quam vicissim Thomae domino
Buckhurste venduntur Maneria de Imberhorne et Sharne-
fold in Comitatu Sussexiæ et Surrey, cum mutua exone-
ratione pro eisdem etc. prout sequitur.
This Indenture tripartite made the xii" daye of February
in the xii” yere of the reigne of our soveraigne Ladye Elizabeth
by the Grace of God of England Fraunce and Ireland Quene,
defender of the Faith, etc. 36ettment the right honorable Sir
Thomas Sackvill Knight Lord Buckhurste on the first parte,
Sir Giles Allington Knight and the Lady Margaret his wyfe,
Richard Argall Gabriel Argall Edmund Argall John Argall
Rowland Argall and Lawrence Argall sonnes of the said
ſp. looj Margaret on the secunde partie, And Clement
Siseley of Eastburie hall in the countie of Essex Esquier on
the thirde partie: @@Hitmeggetſ) that the said Sir Gyles Allington
Knight and the Ladie Margaret his wyfe, the said John Argall,
Rowland Argall, and Lawrence Argall for dyverse good causes
and consideracions them and everye of them movinge, and by
vertue of the Quenes Majesties licence in this behalfe first
hadde and obteyned, have geven granted bargained and solde
and by theis presents for them and their heires and the heires
of everie of them doe by these presents geve grante bargaine
and sell unto the said Sir Thomas Sackvill Knighte Lorde
Buckhurste his heires and assignes for ever all that the Mannor
of Imberhorne with the rights members and appurtenaunces
thereof in the counties of Sussex and Surrey, And also all and
singuler messuages burgages edifices millnes orchardes gardens,
landes tenements medowes, leasues, pastures, commons, and
common of pasture, shepegates foldcurses woodes underwoodes
tenthes tythes waters fishings streames, ponds, rivers, heth,
firse and also all and singular Courts leets profitts of Courts
and leets, fines amerciaments rents of copiholders fre tenants
MANERIA DE BIN COMBE ET WOBORNE. 159
rents of Assise wayves strayes heriotts wards mariages eschetes
and all other rights roialties, jurisdictions preheminences com-
modities advantages profitts and hereditaments whatsoever in
Imberhorne Filtibridge Estgrensted Westhothely Horsted
Keynes Tauridge and Godstone in the counties of Sussex and
Surrey and elswhere to the said Manor in any wise belonginge
or apperteyninge, or as parte or parcell thereof knowne taken
estemed and reputed, and with the same or any parte or parcell
thereof demised, and all that the tythe hay of Estgrinsted in
the said countie of Sussex and other tythes whatsoever: And
the reversion and reversions of all and singular the premisses
and of everie parte and parcell thereof: And all rents services
and yerely profitts whatsoever reserved upon whatsoever lease
or graunt made of the said premisses or any parte thereof,
together with all and singular the evidences escripts charters
[p. I lo) writings and muniments, Courte rolles, terrars and
rentalls concerninge the said premisses or any parte or parcell
thereof. (ſo fabe and to holde the said Manor of Imberhorne
with the rights members and appurtenances thereof tythe haye
and all and singular other the premisses with the appurte-
nances whatsoever to the said Lorde Buckhurste his heires and
assignes for ever to the onlye use of the said Lorde Buckhurste
his heires and assignes for ever. And also the said Sir Giles
Allington and the Ladie Margaret his wyfe the said Gabriel
Argall and Edmunde Argall sonnes of the said Ladie Margaret
for diverse good causes and considerations them specially
moovinge, by vertue of the Quenes Majesties licence in this
behalfe first hadde and obteyned have geven graunted bar-
gained and solde, and by these presents for them and their
heires and the heires of everie of them doe geve graunte bar-
gaine and sell unto the said Sir Thomas Sackville knight
Lorde Buckhurste his heires and assignes for ever all that the
Manor of Sharneforde with the rights members and appurte-
naunces thereof in the said countie of Sussex or elswhere, and
also all and singular messuages burgages milmes, edifices,
orchards gardens, lands tenements medowes leasues pastures
commons common of pasture tythes shepegates foldcurses
wodds underwoods waters fishings streames ponds rivers heth,
I60 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
firse and also all and singular Courts leets, profitts of courts
and leets, fines, amerciaments, rents of copiholders, fre tenants,
rents of assise, mores marshes waives strayes heriotts wards
mariages eschets and all other rights royalties jurisdictions
preheminences commodities advantages profitts and heredita-
ments whatsoever thei be in Shernefold Arlington Hailsam
Willingdon Pevensey Westham and Filtibridge in the said
Countie of Sussex or elswhere to the said Manor of Shernefolde
or any parte or parcell thereof belonginge or apperteyning, or
accepted reputed knowen used or letten with the same or any
parte thereof: and the reversion and reversions of the said
Manor of Sharnefold and of all other the premisses and of
everie parte and parcell thereof, and all rents services and
yerely profitts whatsoever reserved upon whatsoever lease or
graunte made of the said Manor of Shernefold or any parte or
parcell thereof together with all writings charters escripts
[p. I I Il miniments courte rolles terrars and rentals con-
cerninge the said Manor of Shernefold or any parte or parcell
thereof. (ſo jabſ and to hold the said Manor of Sharnfold
with the rights membres and appertinaunces thereof and all
and singular other the premisses with thappertenaunces last
before bargained and solde unto the said S' Thomas Sackvile
Knight Lorde Buckhurste his heires and assignes for ever to
the onely use and behofe of the said Sº Thomas Sackvill Knight
Lorde Buckhurste his heires and assignes for ever. &nd the
said Lorde Buckhurste for diverse good causes and considera-
tions him movinge by vertue of the Quenes Majesties license
in this behalfe obteyned hath geven graunted bargained and
solde and by these presents doth geve graunte bargaine and
sell unto the said Sir Giles Alington and the Ladie Margaret
his wife and the said Clement Siseley Esquier all those his
manors of Bincombe and Woborne in the Countie of Dorset
with their rights members and appertenaunces and also all
messuages burgages lands tenements medows leasues pastures
commons foldage of shepe, woods underwoods rents reversions
services courts leets lawdayes and all and singular other rights
jurisdictions preheminences priviledges commodities and here-
ditaments with their appertenaunces to the said Lordshippes
MANERIA DE BINCOMBE ET WOBORNE. 161
and Mannors of Bincombe and Woborne belonging or apper-
teyninge and all rents services and yerely profits reserved upon
whatsoever lease or graunte leases or grauntes made of the said
Manors of Bincombe and Woborne or of any parte of them,
Qſo babe holde and enjoye the said Manors of Bincombe and
Woborne with their rights members and appurtenaunces to the
said Sir Giles Alington and the Ladie Margaret his wife for
and duringe the naturall lyfe of the said Ladie Margaret with-
oute impechment of any waste, and after the decease of the
said Ladie Margaret the remainder of the said Manors of
Bincombe and Woborne with their rights members and appur-
[p. 112] tenaunces to the said Clement Siseley his heires
and assignes for ever to the use of the said Clement Siseley his
heires and assignes for ever. And the said Clement Siseley
Richarde Argall Gabriell Argall Edmunde Argall John Argall
Rowlande Argall and Lawrence Argall for them and either of
them their heires executors and administratours, and for the
heires executors and administrators of them and either of
them, and the said Sir Giles for himselfe onlye for and duringe
the lyfe of the said Ladie Margaret, for and in respecte and
consideration onelie of the tytle intereste and estate of the said
Sir Giles Alington which he hathe and now doth enjoye and
possesse for and duringe the lyfe naturall of the said Lady
Margaret his wife, do covenaunte and grante to and with the
said Lorde Buckhurste his heyres and assignes by theis presents
in maner and forme followinge, that is to saye, that thei the
said Sir Giles and Ladie Margaret his wyfe ben seased of a good
and perfitt estate of the said Manor of Imberhorne for terme of
the lyfe of the said Ladie Margaret, withoute any maner of
condicion, the remaynder thereof after hir decease unto the said
John Argall and Rowland, and to the heires of their two bodies
lawfully begotten, and for defalte of suche issue unto the said
Lawrence Argall and his heires for ever. And that thei all
have or summe of them hath full power and lawfull righte and
authoritie to geve graunte bargaine and sell to the said Lorde
Buckhurste his heires and assignes for ever, to his and their
onlye use, in maner and forme aforesaid the said manor of
Imberhorne and the tythe haye aforesaid and other the
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162 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
premisses to the said manor belonginge and apperteyninge.
&mb that the said Sir Giles and the Ladie Margaret his wyfe
ben seased of a good and perfect estate of the said manor of
Sharnefolde for tearme of the lyfe of the said Ladie Margaret,
withoute any maner of condicion the remainder thereof after
the decease of the said Ladie Margaret to the said Gabriell
Argall and Edmunde Argall and to the heires of the two bodies
lawfullye begotten, and for defalte of suche issue, unto the said
[p. 113] Thomas Argall and his heires for ever. And that
thei all have or summe of them hath as aforsaid full power and
lawfull authoritie to geve grante bargaine and sell the said
Manors of Sharnefolde and Imberhorne and all other the
premisses thereto belonginge or apperteyning with the appur-
tenaunces to the said Lorde Buckhurste his heires and assignes
in maner and forme aforesaid. &ntſ that the said Lorde
Buckhurst his heires and assignes shall and maye from
henceforthe for ever have hold occupie and enjoye the said
Manors of Sharnefolde and Imberhorne and the tythe of haye
and corne in Estegrensted aforesaid and all and singular other
the premisses with thappurtenaunces before bargained and
solde unto the said Lorde Buckhurst his heires and assignes as
aforesaid withoute any lawfull eviction expulsion troble impedi-
ment vexation or disturbance of the said Sir Giles Alington the
Ladie Margaret his wife, Richarde Argall, Gabriel, Edmunde,
John, Rowland, and Lawrence, or any of them their heires and
assignes or the heires or assignes of any of them. And with-
oute any lawfull disturbance interruption eviction or expulsion
of any person or persones whatsoever anything of in or to the
said premisses or any parte thereof clayming in by or from
them or any of them their heires and assignes or the heires or
assignes of any of them, or by from or under Thomas Argall
esquior deceased late husbande of the said Ladie Margaret.
&nt that thei the said Clement Siseley, Richard Argall,
Gabriel, Edmunde, John, Rowland and Lawrence, and everie of
them their heires and assignes and the heires and assignes of
everie of them, and the said Sir Giles and Ladie Margaret
duringe the lyfe of the said Ladie Margaret for and in con-
sideration and respecte onelie of the title interest and estate of
MANERIA DE BINCOMBE ET WOBORNE. I 63
the said Sir Giles Alington which he hath and nowe doth
enjoye and possesse for and during the lyfe naturall of the said
Ladie Margaret his wyfe, shall and will discharge acquite or
els sufficientlye save harmeles as well the said Lord Buckhurst
his heires and assignes as also the said Manors of Sharnefolde
and Imberhorne with their appurtenaunces and the said tithe
haye of Estgrinsted, and all and singular other the premisses
with the appurtenaunces geven granted bargained and solde
[p. 114] unto the said Lord Buckhurst his heires and
assignes as aforsaid of and from all former bargaines, sales,
joynters, dowers, gifts, grants, leases, rents, services, rents
charge, rents seck, recognisances, statutes, executions, troubles,
and demands whatsoever hadde made suffred or done by them
or either of them and by the said Thomas Argall deceased.
&mb that thei the saide Sir Giles and the Ladie Margaret
duringe the lyfe maturall of the said Ladie Margaret for and in
respecte and consideration onlie of the title interest and estate
of the said Sir Giles Alington which he hath and nowe dothe
enjoye and possesse for and during the lyfe naturall of the said
Ladie Margaret his wife, the said John, Rowland, and Lawrence
Argall, and everie of them and the heires of the said John
Rowland and Lawrence, and the heires of everie of them and
all other person and persones anything havinge or lawfully
pretendinge to have in or to the said Manor of Imberhorne at
all tymes hereafter upon request to them or any of them to be
made by the said Lord Buckhurst his heires or assignes shall
and will make or cause to be made suffer knowlege and execute
unto the said Lord his heires and assignes suche further
assurance and conveyance in the lawe of and in the said Manor
of Imberhorne with the rights members and appurtenaunces
thereof and the said tithe haye Estegrensted and other the
premisses to the said Manor of Imberhorne belonginge, and
with the same used and to ferme letten be yt by fyne recoverie
feofment with single or doble vowchars, relese with warantie,
confirmation, and otherwise, and by all those wayes and means
or as many of them as by the said Lord Buckhurst his heires
or assignes or his or their learned counsell shalbe devised.
The same to be done at the onely costs and charges in the
11—2
I64 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
lawe of the said Lord his heires and assignes. And that thei
the said Sir Giles and Ladie Margaret during the lyfe naturall
of the said Ladie Margaret for and in respecte and consideration
onely of the tytle interest and estate of the said Sir Giles
Alington whiche he hath and now doth enjoye and possesse for
and during the lyfe naturall of the said Ladie Margaret his
wife Gabriel Argall and Edmunde Argall and either of them
and the heires of the said Gabriell and Edmunde and the
[p. 115] heires of eyther of them, and all other person and
persones and anythinge clayming or pretendinge to have in
and to the said Manor of Sharnefolde with the appurtenaunces,
shall and will upon lyke request to be made to them or any of
them do knowledg suffer make and execute or cause to be
done knowledged made and executed such further act and acts
thing and things assurance and conveyance in the lawe, be yt
by fyne feoffment recovery with single or doble vouchers, relese
with warrantie, confirmation, dede enrollyd and otherwise, and
by all those wayes and meanes or as many of them as the said
Lorde his heires and assignes or his or their learned counsell
shall be devysed and advised the same to be done at the only
costs and charges in the lawe of the said Lord his heires and
assignes. And that all and everie such fynes feofments con-
veyances and assuraunces so to be made executed suffred
knowleged or don of the said Manors of Sharnefolde and
Imberhorne and everie of them shalbe to the onelie and proper
use of the said Lord his heires and assignes for ever. &nt the
said Lord Buckhurste for him and his heires doth covenaunte
and grante by these presents to and with the said Clement
Siseley his heires and assignes that he the said Lord his heires
and assignes shall and will acquite discharge or save harmeles
as well the said Sir Giles Alington and the Ladie Margaret his
wyfe and the sayd Clement Siseley and everie of them and the
heires and assignes of the said Clement Siseley as also the said
Manors of Bincombe and Woborne with their rights members
and appurtenaunces and everie parte and parcell of them of
and from all former bargaines sales joynters dowers leases,
rents seck, rents charge, statutes marchant, and of the staple,
recognizances judgements executions and other charges what-
MANERIA DE BINCOMBE ET WOBORNE. 165
soever made or done by the said Lorde Buckhurste at any
tyme before the ensealinge and dely verie of theis presents.
And also that the said Lord and his heires and the Ladie
Cicelye his wife at all tymes hereafter upon reasonable request
to him to be made by the said Clement Siseley or his heires
shall and will do suffer execute and knowledge or cause to be
don suffred executed and knowledged, at the costs and charges
of the said Clement Siseley, suche further acte and acts thinge
[p. 1 16] and thinges assurance and conveyance in the lawe
for the assuringe and sure makinge of the said Manors of
Bincombe and Woborne with the appurtenaunces and everie
parte and parcell thereof to the said Clement Siseley and his
heires, be it by fine feofment recovery relese confirmation with
warrantie and otherwise as by the said Clement Siseley and his
heires shalbe devised advized and requyred, and that all such
fynes feofments and assuraunces so to be made of the said
Manors of Bincombe and Woborne and everie of them shall be
to the use of the said Sir Giles and Ladie Margaret during the
lyfe of the said Ladie Margaret, and after to the onely use of
the said Clement Siseley his heires and assignes. Hin ſuitmeg
whereof to the fyrste parte of theis presents remayning with
the said Lorde Buckhurste the said Sir Giles Alington the
Ladie Margaret his wife Richard Argall Gabriell Argall
Edmunde Argall John Argall Rowland Argall Lawrence
Argall and Clement Siseley have sett their seales, And to the
second parte of theis presents remayning with the said Sir
Giles Alington and the Ladie Margaret his wife Richard Argall
Gabriell Argall Edmunde Argall John Argall Rowland Argall
and Lawrence Argall the said Lord Buckhurst and Clement
Siseley have sett their seales: And to the third parte of theis
presents remayning with Clement Siseley the said Lord
Buckhurst Sir Giles Alington the Ladie Margaret his wife
Richard Argall Gabriell Argall Edmunde Argall John Argall
Rowland Argall, and Lawrence Argall have set their seales the
daye and yere above said.
Tho. Buckhurst, Rich. Argall, Giles Alington,
Mº John Argall, Rowlande Argall, Lawrence Argall.
166 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
Recognita coram me Johanne Gibon, in Cancellaria magistro,
die et anno suprascriptis per omnes Septem qui sigilla-
Verunt.
[p. 117] Exemplificatio relaxationis Johannis et
Rowlandi Argall Clementi Siseley pro
Maneriis de Bincombe et Woborne
To all and singular to whom this present writinge shall
come, John Argall and Rowland Argall two of the sonnes of
Thomas Argall esquyer deceased send greting in our Lord God
everlasting, C&Hijerta; the said Thomas Argall and Margaret his
wife nowe Ladie Allington, were seized for terme of their lyves
and of the longest lyver of them (amongest others) of the Manor
of Imberhorne in the Countie of Sussex and Surrey withowte
impechment of waste the remaynder of the said Manor of
Imberhorne after the decease of the said Thomas and Margaret
to the said John and Rowland and the heires of their two
bodyes lawfully begotten, And for lacke of such issue the
remainder of the same manor of Imberhorne to Lawrence
Argall (one other of the sonnes of the said Thomas and
Margaret) and his heires for ever. Élmly also the said Thomas
and Margaret by Indenture bearing date the third daye of
Marche in the seconde yere of the reigne of our Soveraigne
Ladie the Quenes Majestie that nowe is, enrolled in the
Quenes Majesties high corte of Chancerie, dyd geve grante
exchange bargaine and sell to the right honorable Sir Richard
Sackvile knight deceased and his heyres for ever the said
Manor of Imberhorne amongest other Manors lands and tene-
ments in the said Countie of Sussex upon condicion mentioned
and expressed in the same Indentures. In consideracion
whereof the said Sir Richard Sackvile lykewise by Indenture
of bargaine and sale bearing date the said third daye of Marche
in the said seconde yere of the reigne of our said sovereigne
Ladie the Quenes Majestie enrolled in the said Courte of
Chancerie, did geve grante exchange bargaine and sell to the
said Thomas Argall and Margaret his wife nowe Ladie Allington
MANERIA DE BINCOMBE ET woboRNE. 167
[p. 118] (amongst other Manors landes and tenements) all
that his Mamors of Bincombe and Woborne with the appurte-
naunces in the Countie of Dorset, Qſo babe and to holde the
Said Manors of Bincombe and Woborne to the said Thomas and
Margaret for terme of their lyves and the longer lyver of them
without impechment of waste, the remaynder of the said
Manors of Bincombe and Woborne after the decease of the said
Thomas and Margaret to the said John and Rowland and the
heires of their two bodies lawfully begotten, and for defalte of
Suche issue the remaynder to the right heires of the said
Thomas Argall the father for ever, with such lyke remaynder
of other the Manors lands and tenements mencioned and con-
teyned in the said Indentures to Gabriell Argall and Edmunde
Argall two other of the sonnes of the said Thomas and Margaret,
and the heires of their two bodies lawfully begotten; with and
upon condicion in the same Indentures conteyned, that is to
saye, that yf the said Gabriell Edmund John Rowland and
Lawrence, or any of them after suche tyme as thei shalbe of the
full age of xxi” yeres, should refuse to do, or wold not do make
or suffer farther assurance to the said Sir Richard and his heires
of the said Manors of Imberhorne and Sharnefold in the Countie
of Sussex: or yf it should fortune the said Manors of Sharnefold
and Imberhorne or any parte thereof to be evicted or had from
the said Sir Richard or his heires by the said Margaret Gabriell
Edmund John Rowland and Lawrence or by any of them, that
then the said Indenture of bargaine and sale of the Manors of
Bincombe and Woborne and other lands mencyoned in the said
Indentures should be utterly voyd and of none effecte. And
that then and from thenceforthe it sholde and mighte be lawfull
to and for the said Sir Richard and his heires into the said
Manors of Bincombe and Woborne and other the lands tene-
ments and hereditaments in the same Indentures mencyoned,
to reenter as by the same Indenture at large apperes. 3m,
[p. 1191 mbert the said Margaret (nowe Ladie Alington,)
together with Sir Giles Alington her husband hath by writte of
Cui in vita recovered againste the Lord Buckhurst, sonne and
heire of the said Sir Richard Sackvile, the said Manor of Imber-
horne and diverse other lands and tenements conteined and
168 ANNALS OF GONWII,ILE AND CAIUS.
mentioned in the said Indentures, and have execution thereof
as well by entre and also by writte of habere facias Seisinam
directed to the Sheriffe, And the said Lord Buckhurste for breche
of the said condicion hath lately entred into the said Manors of
Bincombe and Woborne with thappurtenaunces in the Countie
of Dorset, and sythens agayn by Indenture tripartite indented
bearing date the seventh daye of Februarie in the xii” yere
of the reigne of our Sovereigne Ladie the Quenes Majestie
enrolled in the Quenes Majesties Courte of Chauncerie in
consideracion of the Manor of Imberhorne with thappurte-
naunces assured and conveyed by the said Sir Giles, Ladie
Margaret, John Argall, Rowland Argall, and Lawrence Argall,
to the said Lord Buckhurst his heires and assignes for ever,
and for other considerations mencyoned and expressed in the
said Indentures, hath geven granted bargained and sold the
said Manors of Bincombe and Woborne with thappurtenaunces
to the said Sir Giles Alington knight the said Ladie Margaret
his wife and Clement Siseley, Qſo babe and to hold to the said
Sir Giles and Ladie Margaret for terme of lyfe of the said
Ladie Margaret the remainder of the said Manors of Bincombe
and Woborne after the decease of the said Ladie Margaret to
the said Clement Sisely and his heires for ever, which bargaine
and sale of the said Manors of Bincombe and Woborne to the
said Sir Giles and Ladie Margaret for lyfe of the said Ladie
Margaret, and after to remayne to the said Clement Sisely
and his heires for ever, did growe and was made as well at the
speciall requeste and instance of us the said John and Rowland,
as also in consideracion of the acquyttal and discharge of divers
detts wherein we ware severally indetted to diverse persons
[p. 12O] alredie discharged by the said Clement Siseley, as
for other recompence to us by him made. And therfore for
the further assurances of the said Manors of Bincombe and
Woborne with the appurtenaunces to the said Clement Siseley
and his heyres for ever, we the said John and Rowland do by
these presents for us and either of us, our heires and assignes,
and for the heires and assignes of either of us, remyse, release,
and quit clayme to the said Clement his heires and assignes
for ever all the right title estate reversion remainder interest
MANERIA DE BINCOMBE ET WOBORNE. I69
and demande of in and to the said Manors of Bincombe and
Woborne and of in and to every parte and parcell thereof, so as
neyther we the said John and Rowland or eyther of us our
heyres or assignes, or the heires or assignes of either of us, shall
or maye at any tyme hereafter anythinge in or to the said
premisses lawfullye claime or have, but thereof and of everie
parte and parcell thereof be for ever forclosed and barred by
these presents. &nt further wee the said John and Rowland
for us and either of us oure heires and assignes, and the heires
and assignes of either of us do by these presents covenante and
grante to and with the said Clement Siseley his heires and
assignes, that wee the said John and Rowland our heires and
assignes, and the heires and assignes of either of us shall and
will acquyte, discharge, or els sufficientlye save harmeles the
said Clement Siseley his heires and assignes from all forfetures
losses and damages which the said Clement Siseley his heires
and assignes or any of them shall susteyne be charged hindred
or indamaged by or with, by reason of any action of covenaunte
to be broughte by the said Lord Buckhurst his heires or
assignes or any of them against the said Clement Siseley his
heires or assignes, for breache of any covenaunts mencyoned
and conteyned in the said tripartite Indenture, wherein he the
said Clement hath joyntlye covenaunted with us and for us
and either of us our heires and assignes and the heires and
[p. 121] assignes of either of us, in and by the said tripartite
Indentures. Hin ſuftmeg whereof we the said John Argall and
Rowland Argall to this our present writinge have sett our
seales. Geven the viii" daye of Februarie in the xii" yere of
the reigne of our sovereigne Ladye Elizabeth by the grace of
God Quene of England France and Ireland defender of the
Faith, etc, 1569.
John Argall, (seale). Rowland Argall, (seale).
Recognita coram me Johanne Gibon in Cancellaria magistro
die et anno Supra scriptis.
170 ANNALS OF GONVITALE ANID CAIUS.
Recognitio obligatoria Johannis et Rowlandi Argall in mille
marcis Clementi Siseley pro pactis præstandis eidem
heredibus et assignatis suis, in relaxationem Mamerio-
rum de Bimcombe et Woborne.
3£lemoramùum quod octavo die Februarii anno regni
dominæ nostræ Elizabethæ dei gratia Angliæ Franciæ et
Hiberniæ reginæ fidei defensoris, etc, duodecimo, Johannes
Argall de civitate London generosus, et Rowlandus Argall de
civitate Londom predicta generosus, filii Thomæ Argall armigeri
defuncti venerunt personaliter coram dicta domina Regina in
Cancellaria sua, et recognoverunt se debere et eorum uterque
pro se recognovit se debere Clementi Siseley de Barkinge in
Comitatu Essexiæ armigero summam mille marcarum legalis
monetæ Angliæ solvendam eidem Clementi aut suo certo
attornato vel executoribus suis in festo Paschæ proximo futuro
post datam hujus recognitionis. Et nisi fecerint volunt et
concedunt et eorum alter per se vult et concedit per presentes
quod tunc dicta pecuniæ summa levetur et recuperetur de bonis
catallis terris tenementis et hæreditamentis suis ad solum et
proprium opus et usum dicti Clementis hæredum executorum
et assignatorum suorum ubicumque inventi fuerint. Teste
[p. 122] dicta domina Regina nostra apud Westmonasterium
die et anno supradictis, 1569.
The Comdiciom of this recognizance is suche that where the
above boumdem Johm Argall amd Rowland Argall by there dede
pold bearing date the daye and yere above said have remised
realeased and quyte claymed to the above mamed Clement
Siseley Esquior and his heires for ever all their right title
remaynder revercion and demande of in and to the Manors of
Bincombe and Woborme in the Countie of Dorset, And have in
and by the same dede covenanted for them and either of them
their heires and assignes amd the heires and assignes of either
of them to and with the said Clement Siseley his heires and
assignes as in the said dede at large apperes, If thei the said
John and Rowland and either of them their heires and assignes
MANERIA DE BINCOMBE ET WOBORNE. 171
and the heires and assignes of either of them do well and truly
holde performe fulfill observe and kepe the said covenaunte
and covenauntes mencioned and expressed in the said dede
which on the parte and behalfe of the said John and Rowland
and either of them their heires and assignes, and the heires and
assignes of either of them, are to be performed fulfilled and
kepte, That then this presente recognizance to be utterly voide
and of none effecte, or els to stand and abide in full force and
strengthe.
Convenit cum recordo, etc, per me Thomam Powle.
Finalis concordia facta a domino de Buckhurst
AEgidio Alington militi et dominae Margaretae
uxori ejus et Clementi Siseley.
£2act est finalis concordia facta in Curia dominae Reginae
apud Westmonasterium a die Paschae in quindecim dies anno
regni Elizabethae Dei gratia Angliae Franciae et Hiberniae
Reginae fidei defensoris etc, a conquestu duodecimo, coram
Jacobo Dier, Ricardo Weston, Johanne Walshe et Richardo
Harpur Justiciariis et aliis dominae Reginae fidelibus tune ibi
presentibus, inter Ægidium Alington militem et Margaretam
[p. 123] uxorem ejus quaerentes et Thomam Sackvile militem
dominum Buckhurst, et Ceciliam uxorem ejus deforciantes, de
Maneriis de Bincombe et Woborne cum pertinentiis, ac de
centum messuagiis, quadraginta Cotagiis, decem molendinis,
centum gardinis, centum pomariis, tribus millibus acrarum
terris, centum acris prati, quingentis acris pasturae, centum
acris bosci, sexaginta acris jampnorum et bruere, et quatuor
libratis redditus, cum pertinentiis, in Bincombe Woborne et
Sherborne unde placitum conventionis summonitum fuit inter
eos in eaden Curia, Scilicet quod predicti Thomas et Cecilia
concesserunt predictis AEgidio et Margaretae predicta maneria
et tenementa cum pertinentiis, et illi eis reddiderunt in eaden
Curia, Habenda et tenenda eisdem AEgidio et Margaretae de
capitalibus dominis feodi illius per servitia quæ ad predicta
Maneria et tenementa pertinent tota vita ipsius Margaretae, et
172 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANI) CAIUS,
post decessum ipsius Margaretæ predicta Maneria et tenementa
cum pertinentiis integre remanere Clementi Siseley armigero et
hæredibus suis, Temenda de capitalibus dominis feodi illius per
servitia, quæ ad predicta Mameria et tenementa pertinent
imperpetuum. Et predictus Thomas et hæredes sui Warran-
tizant predictis Ægidio et Margaretæ tota vita ipsius Margaretæ
et etiam predicto Clementi et hæredibus suis predicta Mameria
et tenementa cum pertinentiis sicut predictum est contra
predictum Thomam et hæredes suos imperpetuum. Et pro
hac concessione, redditione warrantizatione fine et concordia,
iidem Ægidius et Margareta dederunt predictis Thomæ et
Ceciliæ quingentas octoginta, et umdecim libras sterlingorum.
Deliberata per proclamationem secundum formam Statuti.
Obligatio Clementis Siseley Magistro et sociis pro
pactis præstandis pro Manerio de Byncombe.
Noverint universi per presentes me Clementem Siseley de
Estbury hall in parochia de Barking in Comitatu Essexiæ
armigerum teneri et firmiter obligari Magistro sive Custodi et
sociis Collegii de Gonevill et Caius fundati in honorem Annum-
ciationis beatæ Mariæ Virginis in universitate Cantabrigiæ in
quadringentis libris bonæ et legalis monetæ Angliæ solvendis
prefatis Magistro sive Custodi et sociis Collegii predicti vel
successoribus suis. Ad quam quidem solutionem bene et
[p. 124] fideliter faciendam obligo me heredes executores
et administratores meos per presentes sigillo meo sigillatas.
Datum vicesimo die Aprilis anno regni dominæ nostræ Eliza-
bethæ dei gratia Angliæ Franciæ et Hiberniæ Reginæ fidei
defensoris, etc. duodecimo.
Per me Clementem Siseley.
Sigillata et deliberata in presentia, Johannis Yarrowe
et Willelmi Conwaye et mei Willelmi Sparke
servientis Anthonii Higgons notarii.
The Condiciom of this obligaciom is such that if the withim
bounde Clement Siseley his heires executors or administrators
MANERIA DE BINCOMBE ET WOBORNE. 173
and assignes and every of them do well and trewly observe
performe fulfill and kepe all and every the covenaunts graunts
and agrements which on his and their partes are or oughte to
be observed performed fulfilled and kept conteyned and specified
in a payer of Indentures bearing the date within written made
betwene the said Clement on the one partie and the within
named the Master or Keper and felowes of the College of
Gonevill and Caius of the other partie, according to the purporte
effecte and true meanyng of the same Indentures, that then
this present obligacion to be voide and of none effecte or els to
stande and abyde in full force and strength.
Obligatio Clementis Siseley Magistro et
sociis pro pactis praestandis pro Manerio
de Woborne
Noverint universi per presentes me Clementem Siseley de
Estbury Hall in parochia de Barking in Comitatu Essexiæ
armigerum teneri et firmiter obligari Magistro sive Custodi et
sociis Collegii de Gonevill et Caius fundati in honorem Annun-
ciationis beatae Mariae virginis in universitate Cantabrigiae in
quadringentis libris bonæ et legalis monetae Angliae solvendis
prefatis Magistro sive Custodi et sociis Collegii predictivel suc-
cessoribus suis. Ad quam quidem solutionem bene et fideliter
faciendam obligo me haeredes executores et administratores
[p. 125] meos per presentes sigillo meo sigillatas. Datum
vicesimo quarto die Novembris anno Regni Dominae nostrae
Elizabethae Dei gratia Angliae Franciae et Hiberniae Reginae
fidei defensoris, etc, decimo tertio.
Per me Clementem Siseley
Sigillata et deliberata in presentia
Rowlandi Argall, Johannis Bromley,
Willelmi Allington.
The condicion of this obligacion is suche that if the within
bounden Clement Siseley his heires executors administrators
and assignes and every of them doe well and treuly observe
174 ANNALS OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS.
performe fulfill and kepe all and every the covenaunts graunts
articles and agrements which on his and their parties are or
ought to be observed performed fulfilled and kepte, conteyned
and specified in a payer of Indentures bearing the date within
Wrytten, made betwene the said Clement, on the one partie and
the within named the Master or keper and felowes of the
College of Gonvill and Caius of the other partie according to
the purporte effecte and trewe meaning of the same Indentures,
that them this present obligacion to be voide and of nome effecte
or els to abide in his full force strength and vertue.
I 570
Gulielmus Barker artium Magister ex civitate Norwicensi
oriundus, et una nobiscum olim hujus Collegii socius, fecit
sedilia in choro duplicia sumptibus suis viginti librarum
anno Domini 1570, veteribus et eis simplicibus ac humilibus
jam ætate dissolutis, et partim in imum sacellum juventuti
sedendæ translatis. Ea sacris dicavit. Inditium est, quod
ascribitur: Gulielmus Barker sacris.
I 571
Idem procuravit Collegio ab amicis ad sacellum novo vitro
in fenestris illustrandum tres libras argenti.
1571
[p. 126] Ad chori item fenestras novo vitro reficiendas
Gulielmus Rugge generosus Norwici natus et hujus Collegii
olim pensionarius dedit quadraginta solidos anno Domini 1571.
I 571
Henricus Dethic alias Deric Norfolciensis sacræ Theologiæ
Baccalaureus et hujus Collegii quondam socius, in redemp-
tionem libertatis suæ e carcere (quo detinebatur mandato
reverendissimi Matthei Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi, Com-
missarii Reginæ summi in causis ecclesiasticis et suorum
assistentium, propter offensas) aliquo charitatis opere, atque
ut obtineret ejusdem Reverendissimi favorem me sibi adversetur
si a Majestate regia consequi conaretur facultatem, ut sibi
liceat in partes ultramarinas se transferre, Collegio domo dedit;
(ita suadente Reverendissimo) gratis et sine conditione atque
onere quadraginta libras argenti mense Julio anno 1571.
IDE SCHOLARI DOCTORIS BYSEIBIE. 175
1571
De Scholari Doctoris Byshbie
Sciant presentes et futuri nos Magistrum sive Custodem et
socios Collegii de Gonevill et Caius in universitate Cantabrigiæ
recepisse a venerabili viro Humfrido Byshbie Legum doctore
et hujus Collegii pensionario majori vicesimo tertio Julii anno
Domini 1571 quadraginta libras legalis mometæ Angliæ (quas
expendimus in emptionem Mamerii de Woborne in comitatu
Dorsettiae) ea intentione ut alatur imperpetuum in Collegio
predicto unus scholaris indigus ex schola de Eye in comitatu
Suffolciæ, aut aliquis alius honestus et studiosus juvenis ex
comitatu Norfolciæ aut Suffolciæ proximior Eye predicto cujus
parentes ex se non sufficiunt illi sumptus facere in universitate
predicta, atque ut idem scholaris nominetur scholaris Doctoris
Byshbie in perpetuum ; et si contingat aliquando eum fore
sacerdotem ut oret im concionibus pro Humfrido Byshbie Legum
doctore, Roberto et Elizabetha parentibus ejus, aut aliis rati-
onibus prout leges hujus regni patientur, honestam eorum faciat
mentionem. Recitet etiam singulis diebus tres Psalmos Davidis
ultra omnia alia officia divina ordinaria publice peragenda
[p. 127] atque in eis meminerit predictorum Humfredi
Roberti et Elizabethæ, habeatque idem scholaris annuatim pro
stipendio suo triginta quinque solidos ex Mamerio de Woborne
predicto postquam reversio ejusdem inciderit in possessionem
nostrum Magistri et sociorum aut successorum nostrorum.
Interea vero temporis si idem Humfridus Byshbie favebit
alicui honesto et docto juveni, et requiret, ut ante reversionem
Manerii predicti recipiatur in aliquem scholariatum vacuum
iidem Magister et socii bene sunt contenti ut idem scholaris
ponatur in eo scholariatu tunc vacuo, ut gratum faciant pre-
dicto Magistro Doctori Byshbie. Contenti etiam sunt, ut
postquam predicti Mamerii reversio in eorum potestatem et
usum venerit, ne predicti Humfridi scholariatus vacuus sit
ultra unum mensem, voluntque eundem scholarem eligi per
predictum Magistrum Doctorem Byshbie durante vita sua
maturali; at post mortem ejus per Magistrum sive Custodem
et majorem sociorum partem Collegii. Convenit etiam inter
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Magistrum et socios Collegii predicti et predictum venerabilem
virum, scholarem suum receptum eleetum et gubernatum iri,
in omnibus secundum statuta Collegii predicti, et omnibus aliis
perfuncturum excercitiis scholasticis quibus alii scholastici ex
fundatione solent. Atque ut Magister Aulæ sanctæ Trinitatis
de Norwico (sic) in Cantabrigia semel in anno supervideat, ut
idem scholaris habeat stipendium illi superius constitutum, nos
Magister et socii libenter concedimus: demptis tamen pro
absentia, ultra unius mensis spatium et pro aliis offensis, si quæ
inciderint, quæ ex statutis Collegii demenda sunt. Nos iidem
Magister et socii contenti etiam sumus pro nobis et succes-
soribus nostris ut in electione scholaris ejusdem Domini EIum-
fridi Byshbie preferantur qui ejus nomen gerunt vel matris suæ
ex familia de Lacys aut qui aliqua consanguinitate illi juncti
sunt, in hoc videlicet, ut eos excitet ut suos liberos literis
tradant : contenti etiam, ut postquam scholariatus ejus vacuerit
per unum mensem, is qui insequetur scholaris integrum inse-
quentis anni habeat stipendium, nisi interim morte aut alia de
causa amotus fuerit aut nisi propter offensas absentiam aut
[p. 128] aliam causam aliquid de stipendio demere statuta
præcipiant, excepto stipendio ejus mensis quo vacaverit.
1571
De Scholari Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis
et aliis ejus donis.
Reverendissimus Mattheus Parker Nordovici oriundus, sed
providentia divina Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus, contulit Col-
legio nostro in pecuniis numeratis sexaginta libras tredecim
solidos et quatuor denarios vicesimo Januarii anno Domini
1571, ad sustentationem unius scholastici medicimæ studiosi
imperpetuum, prout patet per indenturam Reverendissimi
datam primo Januarii anno quidem Christi 1571 ac Reginæ
Elizabethæ decimo quarto, sic ut scholasticus habeat annuatim
ex Collegio in stipendium tres libras et octo denarios. Ea
Reverendissimi pecunia, quod acquisitum sit Manerium de
Woborne, ex eo Manerio habeat scholaris stipendium. Eum
eligat Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis qui pro tempore fuerit aut
DE SCHOLARI ARCHIEPISCOPI. ] 77
sede vacante Decanus et Capitulum Cantuariensis Ecclesiæ.
Sit autem in scholis Cantuariensibus educatus et ex civitate
Cantuariæ oriundus. Magister et socii per literas missivas intra
mensem significabunt Domino Archiepiscopo, aut sede vacante
Decano et Capitulo, locum scholastici vacare. Dominus autem
Archiepiscopus aut Decamus et Capitulum eligent aliquem
honestum habilem et doctum juvenem intra mensem proxime
insequentem ex scholis Cantuariensibus et civitate Cantuariæ
oriundum, et sic electi nomen et cognomen per literas suas
exprimendo, eum presentabunt Magistro atque sociis quem ipsi
sine longiore mora admittent in Coilegium. In quo Collegio
licebit unumquemque scholarem sic electum permanere ad
annos sex proxime insequentes admissionem suam, nisi aliter
interim provisum illi fuerit, aut propter malos mores aut naturæ
ineptitudinem a Collegio removeatur secundum statuta ejus-
dem Collegii. Stipendium autem habeat sine deductione
cubiculi aut lectionum domesticarum. Sit educatus primum
in his quæ ad medicinam pertinent, tum in iis quæ ad medici-
nam ipsam faciunt.
Idem Reverendissimus dedit etiam huic Collegio unum
[p. 129] craterem magnum, argenteum et inauratum, cum
operculo ejusdem operis et materiei, pendentem uncias quadra-
ginta, cum hac inscriptione in operculo: Matthæus Cantuari-
ensis dedit Collegio Gunwelli et Caii Cantabrigiæ primo
Januarii anno 1569, consecrationis suæ undecimo, et ætatis suæ
sexagesimo sexto.
Idem dedit et aliud poculum minus, argenteum et inaura-
tum pendens uncias quindecim et tres quartas cum insignibus
suis in fumdo, et hac inscriptione in eodem : Matthæus Archi-
episcopus Cantuariensis dedit Collegio Gunwelli et Caii Canta-
brigiæ primo Januarii ammo Domini 1571.
Hæc dedit ea conditione ut non vendantur nisi necessitas
principis aut incendium (quod absit) ædificiorum id postula-
verit.
Distributio fructuum Mamerii de Woborne.
Secretario stipendium viginti solidorum ex statuto assig-
natur. Hi ex Manerio de Woborne illi conferantur. Itaque
0. A. S. Octavo Series. No. XL. 12
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octo libris Domini Petri Hewett scholasticis tribus, tribus libris
et octo denariis scholari Domimi Cantuariensis; et triginta
quinque solidis scholastico Doctoris Byshby assignatis, super-
sunt in usus communes Collegii ex Mamerio de Woborne
duodecim solidi.
Usus Mamerii de Bincombe.
Mamerium autem de Bincombe reservamus in consimiles
usus ubi inciderint.
Charta, Indentata, Richardi Hill et Roberti Doon Nicholao
Mynne de Walsingham parva in comitatu Norfolciæ
armigero pro portione decimarum de Burnham Overy in
eodem comitatu.
QBmmibu3 Christi fidelibus ad quos hoc presens scriptum
nostrum indentatum pervenerit, Richardus Hill de Heibridge
im Comitatu Essexiæ generosus et Robertus Doom de villa
Gipswich in comitatu Suffolciæ generosus salutem in Domino
sempiternam. Noveritis nos prefatos Richardum Hill et
Robertum Doom pro quadam pecuniarum summa nobis ante
datam presentium bene et fideliter persoluta per Nicholaum
Mynne de Walsingham parva in Comitatu Norfolciæ armige-
rum, vendidisse, barganizasse, feofasse, et hoc presenti scripto
[p. 13O] nostro indentato confirmasse, prefato Nicholao
Mymne totam illam portionem decimarum in Burnham Overy
alias Burnham Sancti Clementis im dicto comitatu Norfolciæ
modo vel nuper in temura Willelmi Peppes generosi, nuper
Monasterio de Wymondham in eodem comitatu Norfolciæ
dudum spectantem et pertinentem ac parcellam ejusdem nuper
Monasterii dudum existentem, ac revertionem et revertiones
quascunque omnium et singulorum premissorum superius per
presentes preconcessas et, cujuslibet earumdem parcellarum nec
non redditus, servicia, conditiones, commoditates, emolumenta,
et annualia proficua, quæcunque reservata super quibusdam
demissionibus seu concessionibus premissorum aut alicujus inde
parcellæ adeo plene libere et integre ac in tam amplis modo et
DECIMÆ DE BURNEIAM OVERY. 179
forma prout serenissima in Christo princeps Domina nostra
Elizabetha Dei gratia Angliæ Franciæ et Hiberniæ Regina
fidei defensor, etc., per literas suas patentes sub magno sigillo
suo Angliæ sigillatas gerentes datam apud Westmonasterium
undecimo die Junii anno regni sui decimo tertio dedit et con-
cessit portionem decimarum predictam cum pertinentiis, ac
cætera omnia et singula premissa superius expressa et per
presentes preconcessa inter alia, nobis prefatis Ricardo Hill et
Roberto Doom heredibus et assignatis nostris in feodi firma
imperpetuum ad solum et proprium opus et usum nostrorum
prefatorum Richardi Hill et Roberti Doom heredum et assigna-
torum nostrorum imperpetuum. 3£}abemúum tenendum et
gaudendum predictam portionem decimarum in Burnham
Overy alias Burnham Sancti Clementis in dicto comitatu
Norfolciæ cum pertinentiis ac omnia et singula premissa
superius expressa et per presentes preconcessa cum eorum
pertinentiis universis prefato Nicholao Mynne heredibus et
assignatis suis in feodi firma imperpetuum ad solum et pro-
prium opus et usum ipsius Nicholai Mynne heredum et assigna-
torum suorum imperpetuum. QÜememùum de dicta Domina
Regina heredibus et successoribus suis ut de Manerio suo de
Estgrenewich in comitatu Kantiæ per fidelitatem tantum et
non in capite, 3(t Reddendum inde predictæ Dominæ regimæ
heredibus et successoribus suis ad festum Sancti Michaelis
Archangeli proxime post datam presentium singulis annis
receptori suo generali heredum et ^ successorum suorum in
comitatu Norfolciæ predicto pro tempore existenti duodecim
denarios pro omnibus et singulis aliis redditibus servitiis exac-
tionibus et demandis quibuscumque proinde dictæ dominæ
Reginæ heredibus et successoribus suis quoquo modo reddendis
[p. 131] solvendis seu faciendis. Et nos prefati Richardus
Hill et Robertus Doom et heredes nostri predictam portionem
decimarum cum pertinentiis ac cætera omnia et singula pre-
missa per presentes preconcessa cum eorum pertinentiis uni-
versis contra nos heredes et assignatos nostros prefato Nicholao
Mynne heredibus executoribus et assignatis suis ad opus et
usum supradicti warrantizabimus et imperpetuum defendemus
per presentes. Et insuper nos prefati Richardus Hill et
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I80 ANNALS OF GONWII, LE AND CAIUS.
Robertus Doon pro nobis heredibus executoribus et administra-
toribus nostris concedimus et convenimus ad et cum prefato
Nicholao Mynne heredibus et executoribus suis quod nos
prefati Richardus Hill et Robertus Doon et heredes nostri de
tempore in tempus post datam presentium tam prefatum
Nicholaum Mynne quam omnia et singula premissa predicta
per presentes preconcessa et quamlibet inde parcellam de
omnibus et omnimodis prioribus barganiis venditionibus domis
concessionibus dimissionibus feoffamentis recognitionibus sta-
tutis dotibus et aliis incumbrationibus quibuscunque per nos
Richardum Hill et Robertum Doon heredes vel assignatos
nostros antehac cognitis habitis permissis seu perpetratis
exonerabimus et quietabimus ac indempnes conservabimus per
presentes, 3Rºbbitu duodecim denariorum pro predicta portione
decimarum in Burnham Overy alias Burnham Sancti Clementis,
reservato in literis patentibus predictis, necnon omnibus et
omnimodis conditionibus in dictis literis patentibus conservatis
predictum redditum duodecim denariorum aut aliquam inde
parcellam tangentibus sive aliquo modo concernentibus excep-
tis, Q&t ulteriuš mož prefati Richardus Hill et Robertus Doon
pro considerationibus predictis damus ac pro nobis heredibus
executoribus et assignatis nostris concedimus prefato Nicholao
Mynne heredibus executoribus et assignatis suis omnia exitus
redditus et annualia proficua quaecundue ac arrearagia eorundem
exituum reddituum et omnium annualium proficuorum pre-
dictorum a tempore vel temporibus quo vel quibus eadem
exitus redditus et annualia proficua predicta ac arrearagia
eorundem ad manum dominae Reginae nunc devemerunt seu
devenire debuerunt aut ad manus patris fratris vel sororis
predictae dominae Reginae nunc seu ad manum aliquorum nuper
progenitorum dictae dominae Reginae nostrae prius devemerunt
seu devenire debuerunt hucusque provenientia sive crescentia,
[p. 132] £abenbum tenenbum et gaunenbum predicta exitus
redditus et annualia proficua predicta ac arrearagia eorundem
prefato Nicholao Mynne heredibus executoribus et assignatis
suis ex dono nostro absolue compoto seu aliquo alio proinde de
nobis heredibus executoribus vel administratoribus nostris quo-
quo modo reddendo solvendo seu faciendo. In tujuş rei testi-
DECIMÆ DE BURNHAM OVERY. I 81
momium huic presenti scripto nostro indentato mos prefati
Richardus Hill et Robertus Doon sigilla nostra apposuimus.
Datum decimo quinto die Junii anno regni Dominæ nostræ
Elizabethæ dei gratia Angliæ Franciæ et Hiberniæ Reginæ
fidei defensoris, etc., decimo tertio suprascripto.
Per me Richardum Hill. Per me Robertum Doom.
Capta et recognita coram me Johanne Orphinstramge Can-
cellariæ Dominæ reginæ magistrorum uno, vicesimo sexto
die Junii, et anno suprascripto.
Irrotulata in dorso clausarum Curiæ Cancellarii dominæ
Reginæ infrascripto mense et anno similiter infrascripto
per Ed. Cordell.
Charta indentata Nicolai Mynne magistro et sociis
Collegii de Gonevill et Caius pro portione decimarum
de Burnham Overy.
QBmmibug QTjrigtí fidelibus ad quos hoc presens scriptum
indentatum pervenerit, Nicholaus Mynne de Walsingham parva
in Comitatu Norfolciæ armiger salutem in Domino sempi-
ternam, Noveritis me prefatum Nicholaum Mynne pro diversis
bonis et rationalibus causis et considerationibus me specialiter
moventibus, dedisse et concessisse, et hoc presenti scripto meo
indentato confirmasse magistro sive custodi et sociis Collegii
de Gonevill et Caius fundati in honorem amnunciationis beatæ
Mariæ virginis in universitate Cantabrigiæ, totam illam por-
tionem decimarum et quamlibet inde parcellam in Burnham
Overy alias Burmham Sancti Clementis in dicto Comitatu
Norfolciæ, modo vel nuper in tenura, sive occupatione Willelmi
Peppes generosi vel assignatorum suorum, et nuper Monasterio
de Wymondham in eodem Comitatu Norfolciæ dudum spectan-
tem et pertinentem ac parcellam ejusdem Monasterii dudum
[p. 133] existentem, et reversionem et reversiones quascunque
omnium et singulorum premissorum superius per presentes et
cujuslibet earundem parcellarum, necnon redditus servicia
I 82 ANNALS OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS.
revertiones commoditates emolumenta, et annualia proficua
quæcumque reservata super quibuscunque dimissionibus seu
concessionibus premissorum aut alicujus inde parcellæ, 3£}ab£m-
íìum tenendum gaudendum et percipiendum predictam por-
tionem decimarum et quamlibet inde parcellam in Burnham
Overy alias Burnham Sancti Clementis in dicto comitatu
Norfolciæ cum pertinentiis; ac omnia, et singula premissa
superius per presentes preconcessa, cum eorum pertinentiis
universis prefatis magistro sive custodi et sociis Collegii de
Gonevill et Caius fundati in honorem annunciationis beatæ
Mariæ virginis in universitate Cantabrigiæ et successoribus suis
in feodi firma imperpetuum ad solum et proprium opus et
usum ipsorum magistri sive custodis et sociorum Collegii
predicti et successorum suorum imperpetuum in tam amplis
modo et forma, et adeo libere prout ego prefatus Nicholaus
Mynme ex domo et concessu Richardi Hill de Heibrige in
comitatu Essexiæ, et Roberti Doom de Gippevico in comitatu
Suffolciæ ea habui et acquisivi, et prout prefatus Richardus
Hill et Robertus Doom seu aliquis eorum habuit et tenuit ex
dono et concessu Serenissimæ principis Dominæ nostræ Elisa-
bethæ dei gratia Angliæ Franciæ et Hiberniæ Reginæ fidei
defensoris, etc., per literas suas patentes sub magno sigillo
Angliæ confectas et sigillatas gerentes datam apud West-
monasterium undecimo die mensis Junii anno Regni sui decimo
tertio, QU£m£mùum de dicta Domina Regina heredibus et succes-
soribus suis ut de Manerio suo de Eastgrenwiche in Comitatu
JKantii in socagio per fidelitatem tantum et non in capite, ac
reddendum inde dictæ dominæ Reginæ hæredibus et successori-
bus suis ad festum Sancti Michaelis Archangeli singulis amnis
receptori suo generali heredum et successorum suorum in
comitatu Norfolciæ predicto pro tempore existenti duodecim
denarios pro omnibus et singulis redditibus serviciis exactioni-
bus et demandis quibuscumque proinde dictæ Dominæ Reginæ
heredibus et successoribus suis quoquo modo reddendis solvendis
seu faciendis prout in dictis literis patentibus plenius con-
[p. 134] timetur. Q£t ego prefatus Nicholaus Mynne et
heredes mei predictam portionem decimarum et quamlibet
inde parcellam cum pertinentiis ac cætera omnia et singula
DECIMAE DE BURNHAM OVERY. 183
premissa per presentes preconcessa cum eorum pertinentiis
universis contra meet heredes meos et contra prefatos Richar-
dum Hill et Robertum Doon et heredes suos et utriusque
eorum prefatis Magistro sive Custodi et sociis Collegii predicti
et eorum successoribus ad opus et usum supradictum warranti-
Zabimus et imperpetuum defendemus per presentes, (Bt inguper
ego prefatus Nicholaus Mynne pro me heredibus et executoribus
meis concedo et convenio et ad et cum prefatis Magistro sive
Custode et sociis Collegii predicti successoribus et assignatis
suis, quod ego prefatus Nicholaus Mynne et heredes mei de
tempore in tempus post datam presentium tam prefatos
Magistrum sive Custodem et socios Collegii predicti et succes-
Sores Suos quam omnia et singula premissa per presentes
praeconcessa et quamlibet inde parcellam de omnibus et omni-
modis prioribus barganiis venditionibus donis concessionibus
dimissionibus feoffamentis recognitionibus statutis dotibus et
aliis incumbranciis quibuscunque per me Nicholaum Mynne
aut per dictum Richardum Hill et Robertum Doon vel alicujus
eorum antehac cognitis habitis premissis sive perpetratis
exonerabimus acquietabimus ac indempnes conservabimus per
presentes, redditu duodecim denariorum pro predicta portione
decimarum in Burnham Overy alias Burnham Sancti Clementis
reservato in literis patentibus predictis necnon omnibus et
omnimodis conditionibus in dictis literis patentibus reservatis,
predictum redditum duodecim denariorum aut aliquam inde
parcellam tangentibus sive aliquo modo concernentibus ex-
ceptis, Q&t ulteriuš ego prefatus Nicholaus Mynne do et pro me
heredibus et executoribus et assignatis meis concedo prefatis
Magistro sive Custodi et sociis Collegii de Gonevill et Caius
fundati in honorem Annunciationis beatae Mariae Virginis in
universitate Cantabrigiae, omnia exitus redditus et annualia
proficua quaecumque et arrearagia eorundem exituum reddituum
et omnium proficuorum annualium predictorum a tempore vel
temporibus quo vel quibus eaderm exitus redditus et annualia
proficua ac arrearagia eorundem ad manus dictae Dominae
[p. 135] Reginae nunc devemerunt seu devenire debuerunt,
aut ad manus patris fratris vel sororis predictae Dominae
Reginae nunc Seu ad manus aliquorum nuper progenitorum
184 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANID CAIUS.
dictæ Dominæ Reginæ nostræ prius devenerunt, seu devenire
debuerunt hucusque provenientia seu crescentia. 3ßabemùum
tenendum percipiendum et gaudendum predicta redditus,
exitus, et ammualia proficua predicta ac arrearagia eorumdem
prefatis Magistro sive Custodi et sociis Collegii predicti et
successoribus suis ex domo meo absque compoto seu aliquo alio
proinde mihi heredibus executoribus administratoribus vel
assignatis meis quoquo modo solvendo seu faciendo. Htm tttju3
rei testimonium huic presenti scripto meo indentato ego
prefatus Nicholaus Mymne sigillum meum apposui. Datum
vicesimo die Februarii anno regni dictæ Dominæ nostræ
Elizabethæ dei gratia Angliæ Franciæ et Hiberniæ reginæ
fidei defensoris, etc., decimo quarto.
Nycholas Mynne.
Sigillata et deliberata in presentia nostrum Willelmi
Gerrard, Erasmi Saunder, et Richardi Grene, Capta et recognita
coram me Thoma Huick Legum Doctore uno magistrorum Cam-
cellariæ Dominæ Reginæ supradictæ, sexto die mensis Martii
anno suprascripto. Thomas Huycke. Irrotulata in dorso
clausarum Cancellariæ Dominæ Reginæ infrascriptæ duodecimo
die Martii ammo infrascripto per Thomam Powle.
Hanc decimarum de Burnham Overy pensionem dedit
Collegio Nicholaus Mynne : Et Collegium vicissim ei in
compensationem dimisit Mamerium suum de Burnham Thorpe
seu Burnham Wymondham ad annos xxi sine fine, ut vocant,
in ingressu suo, pro annuo redditu octo librarum et cætera
facienda quæ pactus est per indenturam datam primo Martii
anno xiiij Reginæ Elizabethæ, et cum hac etiam conditione ut
ipse suis sumptibus et laboribus jure agat contra Richardum
Southwell armigerum, et omne jus ejus aut alterius cujus-
[p. 136] quam in priori dimissione data xx° Julii anno
tricesimo Henrici Octavi ad annos octoginta, frustretur im
aeternum.
DE COMBUSTIS SACELLI ORNAMENTIS. 185
I 572
De combustis Sacelli ornamentis.
Anno Domini 1572, 13° Decembris, discerpta dissecta et
lacerata prius combusta sunt omnia ornamenta Collegii hujus
privata authoritate Thomæ Bynge Procancellarii (ut ipse
dicebat) [ome line erased] nec æque invisum erat illi quicquam
quam momen et imago Christi crucifixi, beatæ Mariæ et Sanctæ
Trinitatis. Nam has indignis modis tractavit dissecando et in
ignem projiciendo et abominandis titulis et epithetis prose-
quendo. Nec hoc factum est nisi instigantibus quibusdam male
affectis sociis ; quorum alii rem procuraverunt convivio, alii ne
conserventur aut noctu sustollantur pervigiles extiterunt. Sed
ex his alios Deus morte sustulit, alios aliis modis subduxit non
sine ignominia. Ut celarent tamen culpam suam dissimularunt
sedulo, et omnem culpam in Dinsdallum quendam pensionarium
[one line erased] Collegii nostri transtulerunt, cum tamen ipsi
omnis mali authores extiterunt. Ad hæc prefuerunt foco et
multum defatigati comburendo, ab hora xii* ad tertiam, idem
Thomas Binge, Johannes Whitegifte prefectus Collegii Sanctis-
simæ Trinitatis, et Gulielmus Gode Prefectus Collegii Regalis.
Postremo quæ comburere nequiverunt malleis contuderunt, et
violarunt, et tantus erat illis fervor in religionem ut nec bene-
ficia personarum, nec gratia in Academiam ædificio et editis
libris suadere potuit moderatum.
1573
De resignatione officii Custodis.
Johannes Caius Medicimæ Doctor electus et creatus est
Custos Collegii de Gonevill et Caius 24° Januarii anno Domini
1559, et postquam functus est officio Custodis ad annos tre-
decim, menses quinque, et dies quatuordecim, resignavit officium
suum Custodis Thomæ Legge, artium magistro viro gravi atque
docto et Custodi decimo nono, vicesimo septimo die Junii hora
sexta mane statim a precibus anno Domini 1573.
[p. 137] Idem Johannes Caius 2°, 3°, et quarto Julii anno
Domini 1578°, curavit ut sepulchrum ejus concameratum, in quO
reponeretur corpus ejus, construeretur sub tabernaculo annun-
ciationis beatæ Mariæ, ex parte septentrionali summi altaris in
186 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
sacello Collegii sui, expectans Dei voluntatem gravis annis et
morbo.
A Table summarie of all the expenses
of our Founders M* Doctor Caius
buyldings from the feste of Ester 1564,
untill the nativitie of Sº John Baptist, 1573.
In primis for trees bought of St Henrie Cromwell out of
Warboys and Ramsey woods in number 510
Item for vewing marking felling lopping squaring drawing
and carriage by land and water from thens to
Cambridge tº e e º e º • * * © tº - tº e - tº gº tº
Item to Thorne Raynsforth and Rothery for the fyrst
and Weste frame part by greate parte by daye
Item to Rotherey and his men for their worke by daye
from Midsomer 1566 untill Midsummer 1573
Item for bourdes bought and brought into the Colledge
Item for staging tymber, hardles, lathes, lyne, cordes and
nayles ... º º tº © a e & © tº & © & & Cº º º º º
Item for Ramsey stone free and ragge, cutting and
carriage by land and water ... & © º tº º º © tº e
Item for free stone from Kyngs Clyffe and Welden,
digging and carryage parte by lande parte by water
Item for whyte stone from Haslingfeld and Barrington
digging and carriage ... e e e - © tº e - e.
Item for stone from Barnewell, digging and carriage
[p. 138] Item for lyme from Reche, Hinton and
otherwhere tº e e • * * e - e. tº e e e Q -
Item for Sande and Claye by Barnes, Thompson, and
others e e e e tº º tº º e - e. e.
Item for Iron worke for wyndowes dores etc. tº º tº
Item for Leade and to the plommer for casting an
laying it ... tº º º © e e e G e e - e. • * * G - e.
Item to free Masons from Michaelmas 1564 untill Mid-
somer 1573
Item to the Carver
Item to roughe Masons
Item to Laborers tº G & & © tº * - e. tº e e & © tº
Item to Slatters for Slatte, tyle, and the workeman-
shippe ... e - e. © e tº tº º º
Item for charges extraordinarie ... e - tº - e º © tº Q
The hole summe of theis expences ordinarie and
extraordinarie © tº o
li.
66
46
84
123
29
31
254
101
91
54
11
24
46
337
O7
97
219
161
37
1834
16
19
19
l
:
15
PORTA HONOR.I.S. 187
Besydes the expences omytted by neglygence and expences
also yet to come for the perfection of the building of the College
and paving of the Courts of the same.
A further summarie table of the whole
charges about the buildings of Porta
Honoris, the Chappel towere, and
our founders Mº Doctor Caius Tombe
a 27° Junii 1573 unto the fynishing
of the same 1575.
li 8 d
Item for free Stone from Kings Clyffe and white Stone
from Haselingfeilde, digging and carriage ... tº tº tº 18 9 4
Item to free Masons and rough Masons for porta honoris
and the tower ... ſº tº . tº º º tº tº G tº es e tº º º 73 7 4
Item for Lyme from Hinton s tº º tº e e tº º º gº tº e 8 18
Item for Sande tº º ſº tº ſº tº tº º º gº º ºs tº tº , e tº e 39 6
Item Iron worke for porta honoris ... e & ſº e & © e tº º 27
Item to Laborers ... tº e e § - e. & © º e º e tº e º 24 8 3
128 9 5
[p. 139] The severall charges of the Tombe.
li. s. d.
Imprimis for Alabaster and carriage tº º ºs tº tº º 10 10
Item to Theodore [Haveus] and others for Carvinge ... 33 16 5
Item to Laborers ... & © tº º º tº e e e tº e © tº º OO 18 1
Item charges extraordinarie tº º e tº tº ſº tº ſº º tº @ & O2 00 2
The whole summe of theis expences last recyted ... 175 14 1
Idem Johannes Caius natus 6° die Octobris anno Domini
1510, et postguam vixisset annos 62° menses 10 et dies 16,
resignassetGue officium suum custodis Collegii predicti Thomae
Legge infrascripto homini Norwici oriundo et professione juris-
perito, languido morbo correptus, exhaustis viribus in magna
imbecillate obiit mortem Londini 29° Julii anno Domini 1573.
Proximo die Martis post obitum ejus cadaver per magistrum
Willelmum Gerrarde armigerum et Willelmum Conway civem
Londinensem comitante famulorum caterva Cantabrigiam trans-
vectum fuit : quod primo a Custode et omnibus Sociis Collegii
sui, deinde a Vicecancellario et doctoribus in ipso ingressu
188 ANNALS OF GONVII,LE ANI) CAIUS.
oppidi non sine magno totius Academiæ concursu receptum,
sequenti die ab iisdem magna cum sollemitate post concionem
habitam in Academiæ templo, in Sacello Collegii sui sepultum
est. Quibus peractis, moderatum convivium in Aula Collegii
celebratum fuit, quo Vicecancellarius, Collegiorum prefecti, et
quidam alii invitabantur.
1574
Undecimo Decembris 1574 pecuniis Doctoris Caii emptum
fuit a Magistro Thoma Altham generoso et fratre ejus predium
sive Manerium vocatum Swanesley situm in parochia de Caxton
in Comitatu Cantabrigiæ, cujus amnuus redditus est decem
librarum, ut juxta ultimam voluntatem ejusdem Doctoris Caii
omnes ex fundatione quantum fieri potest ab impensis focalium
liberentur, et ut janitor annuatim liij* iiij° percipiat pro
stipendio. Sed quia postea deprehendebatur expositum esse
litibus, reverendissimo viro Ambrosio Equiti aurato præcipuo
Domino ejusdem villæ de Caxtom [blank] 1575 ...... alienare
statuimus sed nihil actum est.
1575
Reverendissimus in Christo pater Matthæus Archiepiscopus
Cantuariensis vita defunctus est, qui cum prius Collegio nostro
Benefactor extitisset, tum in testamento suo vasa quædam
[p. 14O] deaurata affabre celata viz. le neste of Gobletts
under a cover, præterea libros quosdam dedit Bibliothecæ
quorum nomina sequuntur.
Catalogus Librorum Archiep. Cantuar.
Biblia, Pagnini Decretum Gratiani
Hillarii opera Decretalia Gregorii
Βasilii opera, cum Hesichio Sextus cum Clementinis
Epitome Augustini Vita, Christi per Ludolphum
Calvini Institutiones Chronica, Æneæ Silvii, cum
Calvini Harmonia, Chronica, Theodorici
Musculi loci com. Chronica, Matthæi Paris
Onus Ecclesiæ cum canone Apo- Chronica, Matthæi Westmonasteri-
stolorum ensis
De verbo mirifico, Reuchlinus Chronica Thom. Walsingham
CATALOGUS LIBERORUM ARCHIEP. CANTUAR. 189
Tho. Aquinas in 40* Evangelistas De Antiquitate Cantabrigiæ Libri
Idem Tho. in Epistolas Pauli duo.
Summa, Tho. in 2 vol.
Bonaventura, in Magistrum Sen-
tertiarum in 2 vol.
Non ita multo ante obitum predicti Archiepiscopi Cantuari-
ensis missi sunt Collegio nostro ab eodem Archiepiscopo tres
libri Statutorum mostrorum cum interpretationibus suis (nam
in testamento suo Doctor Caius hanc ei potestatem fecerat ut
obscuriora quæque interpretarentur) quos ille nostro sumptu
scribendos et sigillis Archiepiscopatus sui et Prerogativæ et
Collegii nostri sigillandos curaverat: quorum unus in Collegio
Regis, alius in Collegio Corporis Christi, tertius in Thesaurario
nostro juxta statuta ejusdem Doctoris Caii reponitur et custo-
ditur. vs
Porta (quæ Honoris dicitur et ad scholas publicas aperit) e
lapide quadrato duroque extruebatur, ad eam scilicet formam
et effigiem quam Doctor Caius dum viveret Architecto pre-
scripserat, elaborata: In cujus cacumine ventilabrum habetur
ad formam serpentis et columbæ fabricatum, cujus impensæ
referuntur pagina 138*.
Turris etiam illa scalaris quæ ducit e Sacello in ærarium
absolvebatur, adjecta nimirum superiori parte cum antea ad
tegulas tantum infimas erigebatur; cujus in summo vertice
ventilabrum ad imaginem Mercurii effictum positum est. Hanc
a loco sacram turrim appellari D. Caius voluit.
Positum est Johanni Caio ex alabastro monumentum summi
[p. 141] decoris et artificii, eodem in Sacelli loco, quo corpus
ejus antea sepeliebatur. Cui præter insculpta illius insignia,
et annotatum ætatis obitusque diem et annum (uti vivus
executoribus ipse præceperat) duas tantummodo sententiolas
inscripsimus.
%ribit po$t fumera birtu$.
f}ui QTaiu$.
Utrumque atrium Gonevilli et Caii undique lapidibus
partim veteribus partim post extructa Collegii Caii moenia
relictis et novis etiam quibusdam emptis, ea qua jam est forma,
190 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANI) CAIUS.
stratum ac munitum est. Cum jam antea in medio atrii
Gonevilli via quædam lapidea ac lata ducebat a Sacelli ostio ad
valvulam portæ Gonevillianæ. - -
Vetus illa campana solita pulsari ac appendi in inferiori loco
intra cancellos inter culinam et promptuarium, postea appensa
est in Aulæ tecto, ac ibi confracta ; in cujus locum posita nova
est Collegii sumptu comparata, tam in usum sacelli quam aulæ.
Christopherus Heydon miles et Domina Temperantia uxor ejus
concesserunt Collegio Rectoriam suam sive liberam Capellam
de Pattesley in Comitatu Norfolciæ.
I576
In atrio Doctoris Caii Columna erecta est, eique lapis miro
artificio elaboratus, atque in se 60 horologia complexus imponi-
tur, quem Theodorus Haveus Cleviensis artifex egregius et
insignis Architecturæ professor confecit, et insigniis eorum
generosorum qui tum in Collegio morabantur, depinxit, et
velut monumentum, suæ erga Collegium benevolentiæ eidem
dedicavit. Hujus in summitate lapidis constituitur ventilabrum
ad formam Pegasi efformatum.
I 578
Cum mira siccitas æstatem invasisset, aqua quæ juxta
culinam hauritur, illico corrupta est. Itaque cum aquæ penuria
premeretur Collegium in medio atrii Gonevilli aquæhaustus
erigebatur, unde aqua ad usus necessarios deinde peteretur.
In cujus summo fastigio Aquarii forma depicta constituitur.
Idemque ad majorem ipsius atrii nitorem et elegantiam lig-
meis quibusdam cancellis (anglice le Rayles) circumseptum
fuit. Postea vero fons ille culinarius, me deinceps rebus injectis
aut casu incidentibus inquinaretur, conclusus est, et in aquæ-
haustum conversus.
Quoniam promptuarium illud quo prius utebamur, tum
ob aeris ingredientis impuritatem, tum ob loci angustiam non
satis commodum videbatur, novum ex adverso constructum est :
idque (quo esset ad usum aptius) in duo divisum domicilia,
totum illud spatium ab introitu usque ad conclave complexa.
IDONATIONES. 191
1579
[p. 142] Visum est, Custodi et sociis in rem fore totius
Collegii, si deinceps mon ab oppidanis pistoribus panem eme-
remus, sed nobis ipsi pistrinum in Collegio conficeremus.
Itaque ad eam rem fornax in coquina, auctior et amplior
construebatur, cæteraque parabantur instrumenta, necessaria.
Domus illa preterea quæ culinæ ostium respicit intus tabulata
ad farinam subigendam accommodata est: cui etiam postea
ædificium quoddam minutulum adjungebatur, ad libram et
pondera reservanda.
Gulielmus Barker quondam socius hujus Collegii, cujus
antea mentionem fecimus, non ita multo ante mortem suam
domo dedit Bibliothecæ libros quosdam, quorum nomina se-
quuntur.
Biblia sacra Lat. cum annotation. Joan. Benedicti.
Alexandrinus Rom. Historiæ.
Appianus, Græce.
Appiamus, Latine.
Epigrammata antiquæ urbis.
I58]
Henricus Holland S. Theologiæ Baccalaureus, quondam
socius hujus Collegii, 5° Julii 1581° dedit quinque solidos ad
vitream fenestram in cubiculo sitam, ubi quondam Comes de
Bath pensionarius hujus Collegii per aliquot annos commo-
rabatur.
1582
Franciscus Dorrington S. Theologiæ Professor ac quondam
hujus Collegii Præses, ad orientalem Sacelli fenestram novo
vitro reficiendam, eamque quatuor pulcherrimis, scilicet, Ed.
Gonevill, Gulielmi Batemam, et Johannis Caii, fundatorum, ac
sui ipsius insigniis illustrandam, [blank] libras argenti im-
pendendas amice dedit, ut patet ex inscriptione in inferiori
fenestræ parte inscripta.
192 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANID CAIUS.
I 583
Unanimi Custodis et sociorum consensu decretum est, ut
in majorem atrii Collegii Caii splendorem ac formam elegan-
tiorem, atrium illud totum cancellis quibusdam ligneis eisque
majoribus et editioribus ordine quo nunc positis, ornaretur.
Quod quidem deinceps communibus Collegii sumptibus abso-
lutum est decimo quinto die Julii anno Domini 1583.
Ejusdem Collegii sumptibus crates ferrea decolorata in
tutiorem monumenti fundatoris Caii a nocumentis incidentibus
custodiam et defensionem fabrifacta est, ac in sacello circum
idem monumentum posita.
1583
[p. 143] In cubiculo quodam Custodis supra Bibliothecam
Collegii decem musea, ædificata sunt in usum studiosorum
Collegii sumptibus quorundam pensionariorum ea conditione
ut quicumque eis frueretur tertiam partem pretii amitteret
in ejus discessu, et ut tandem Custos eorum redditum per-
ciperet, cujus erat cubiculum.
1584
I 585
1586
20 Februarii 1586 mortua est, Jocosa, Franckland vidua filia,
Johannæ Trapps viduæ femina preclarissima, quæ inter beneficia
in pios usus tot tantaque triduo ante mortem testamentum suum
ordinavit, viz. 20 Feb. 1586, in quo relictis executoribus
Thoma Legge Legum Doctore hujus Collegii Custode sive
Magistro, Thoma Smalemam de interiore templo Londini ar-
migero, et Johanne Burr Londinensi scriptore, legavit Collegio
principale suum messuagium cum duobus tenementis in vico
vocato Philip Lane Londom annui redditus 33". 6*. 8°. et in
pecunia numerata 1540" ad fundos emendos ammui redditus
70 librarum, ita in toto dedit Collegio annuum redditum
103". 6°. 8°., ut inde sex socii alerentur quorum singuli an-
nuatim septem libras reciperent, et duodecim scholares quorum
annuum stipendium esset quinque marcarum. Constituit
etiam ut in Collegio singulis annis Hebraica lectio esset,
TESTAMENTUM JOCOSÆ FRANKLAND, I93
atque ut ejus linguæ prælector quatuor libras auferat. Voluit
etiam ut sacellanus esset in Collegio qui quotannis decem
libras habeat, atque ut octo communes locos singulis amnis in
sacello tractaret in quibus sui mentionem faceret, et Willelmi
Saxey filii ejus; et ut in ejus admissione tactis Evangeliis
juramentum subiret qui duodecim conciones sive exhortationes
quotannis in Sacello sive oratorio Collegii faceret, et qui in
singulis hujusmodi concionibus sive exhortationibus suis men-
tionem faceret charitatis et piæ devotionis Jocosæ Franckland
[p. 144] filiæ Roberti Trappes nuper de London aurificis
defuncti et Willelmi Saxey filii ejus. Voluit etiam ut quatuor
scholares ex fundatione Johannæ Trappes matris suæ habeant
annuatim singuli xiii°. 4°. in perpetuum incrementum prioris sti-
pendii sui quatuor marcarum a matre sua illis indulti. Postremo
constituit ut tam capellamus ejus quam socii et scholares suæ
fundationis nominentur sive nominetur capellanus sive socius
aut scholares ejusdem Jocosæ Trapps [Frankland] filiæ predicti
Roberti Trapps et filii ejus predicti Willelmi Saxey.
Eadem etiam Jocosa Franckland in dicto suo testamento
sive ultima voluntate dedit Collegio vasa quædam aurea et
argentea, viz*.
Imprimis her greatest meast of Gobletts waying one
hundred tem ounces and a half.
One high costed salt.
Three guilt pottes with dolphins eares.
Six saucers parcell guilt.
Her greatest basom with a rose in the bottome.
Two quart, wine potts.
One dozen of plate tremchers.
One guilt, standing eup with a cover.
Her greatest flatt fruite boule.
Dedit etiam picturas tres quarum una est pictura Roberti
Trappes patris sui, altera Johannæ Trappes matris suæ, et
tertia sui ipsius pictura, quas in sacello suspendi curavimus.
Verum cum facultates predictæ Jocosæ Franckland fœminæ
nunquam satis laudatæ pene in nominibus debitorum contine-
rentur et plures debitores essent a quibus hujusmodi debita
exigerentur et ab illis sine lite debita illa recuperari non
C. A. S. Octavo Series. No. XL. 13
I94. ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
possunt et lites hujusmodi inceptae morte duorum executorum
iterum atque iterum interrumperentur, ea pecunia tandem per
predictum Thomam Legge superstitem executorem ejusdem
[p. 145] Jocosae Franckland empta est reversio Manerii De
Dabernons in Duxford in Comitatu Cantabrigiae sibi et heredi-
bus suis a Johanne Browne de Pritlewell in Comitatu Essexiæ
armigero quod non ita multo [antea] devenit in manus Suas
morte Jane Myldmey uxoris Henrici Myldmey armigeri, et
matris predicti Johannis Browne et interim ab emptione hujus-
modi Collegium a predicto Thoma Legge annuum redditum
lxx" recepit donec ad eorum possessionem devenisset. Et
postea, videlicet 24 Maii anno reginae Elizabethae 21, idem
Thomas Legge vendidit predictum manerium Roberto Church
Theologiae professori, Stephano Pierse in Medicina doctori,
Georgio Estey Theologiae baccalaureo et Johanni Gostlin artium
magistro, et heredibus suis ad usum testamenti sive ultimae
voluntatis predictae Jocosae Franckland ut infra patebit.
[p. 148] Exemplificatio Indenturae per quam Thomas Legge
Degum Doctor vendidit Manerium de Dabernons in Duxford
in Comitatu Cantabrigiae Roberto Church. Theologiae professori
Stephano Perse doctori in Medicina Georgio Estey in Theo-
logia baccalaureo Johanni Gostlin Artium magistro.
Qſì)íg Hintenture made the foure and twenteth day of Marche
in the xli" yeare of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lady Elizabeth
by the grace of God of England France and Ireland queene
defender of the fayth &c., Betweene Thomas Legge Master of
Gonevill and Caius Colledge in Cambridge on thone part and
Robert Church Doctor of Divinity Stephen Perse Doctor of
Physicke, George Estey bachelour of Divinity and John Gostlin
Master of Arts fellowes of the said Colledge on the other part,
C&Hitmeggetſ) that whereas the sayd Thomas Legge did of late
purchase to him and to his heires the reversion of the Mannor
of Dabernons with thappurtenances sett lyinge and beinge in
Duxworth John, Duxworth Peter, Hinxson, Triplow, and Wittles-
ford, or els where in the County of Cambridge together with all
MANERIUM DE DABERNONS. I95
the said landes tenements services courts leetes royalties juris-
dictions liberties profitts easements hereditaments and commo-
dityes to the said Mannour or reversion belonginge or in anie-
wise apperteyninge of one John Browne of Prittlewell in the
County of Essex Esquire which said Mannor one Jane Mildmay
wife of Henry Mildmay Esquire mother of the said John
Browne now hath and holdeth for tearme of her life. Now the
said Thomas Legge for divers good causes and considerations
him especially moovinge and for a certaine competent somme of
money to him beforehand paid hath geaven graunted bargained
sold alienated and confirmed and by these presents for him and
his heires doth fully and absolutely and clearly geave graunt
bargaine sell alien and confirme unto the said Robert Church
Stephen Perse George Estey John Gostlin and their heires for
ever all that the said Mannour of Dabernons with thappurten-
ances and all the landes tenements rents services leets courts
royalties jurisdictions liberties profitts easements hereditaments
and commodities whatsoever to the said Mannour or any part
or parcell thereof belonging or in anie wise appertayninge,
[p. 149] Together with all his right title interest possession
use reversion remainder and demand of in and to the said
Mannour with thappurtenaunces and every part and parcell
thereof. Together also with all the deedes charters myniments
Court rowles wrytings and evidences which the sayd Thomas
Legge hath or may lawfully come by without suite in Lawe
touching or concerning the said Mannour or any part or parcell
thereof, To have and to hold the said Mannour with thappurten-
aunces and all other the premisses before by these presents
bargained and graunted or ment or intended to be bargained
and graunted together with all the right title interest posses-
sion use reversion remainder and demaund of the said Thomas
Legge of in and to the said Mannour and every part and parcell
thereof with thappurtenaunces unto the said Robert Church
Stephen Perse George Estay John Gostlin their heires and
assignes to the onely proper use and behoofe of them their
heires and assignes for ever. And the said Thomas Legge doth
by these presents for himself his heires executores and admini-
strators covenaunt promise and graunt to and with the said
13—2
I96 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
Robert Church Stephen Perse George Estay John Gostlin and
every of them and with the heires and assignes of the survivors
of them that he the said Thomas Legge hath lawfull power and
authority to give graunt bargaine sell and alien the premisses
in manner and forme aforesaid, and that it shall and may be
lawfull to and for the said Robert Church Stephen Perse George
Estay John Goslin their heires and assignes and the heires and
assignes of the survivors of them peaceably and quietly from
time to time and all times hereafter for ever to have hold
occupy and enjoy the reversion of the said Mannour and all
other the aforesaid bargained premisses with thappurtenaunces
fully and freely acquited and discharged or otherwise sufficiently
saved harmeless of and from all former feoffenents bargaines
sales judgments condemnations executions fines for alienations
statuts merchaunt and of the statute recognizaunce joynters
dowers rents charges rents secke and all other estates in fee
simple fee taile for life or for lives whatsoever had made
suffered or done by the said Thomas Legge or by any other
person or persons whatsoever by his meanes assent or procure-
ment the rents and services dew to the cheif lord or lords of the
[p. 15O] fee or fees hereafter and the estate for life of the
said Jane Myldmay onely excepted and foreprized. And also
that the said Thomas Legge and his heires shall warrant and
defend against him and his heires for ever all the foresaid
bargained premisses and every part thereof unto the said
Robert Church Stephen Perse George Estay John Gostlin their
heires and assignes for ever by these presents. Him mitmeååt
whereof the parties abovesaid interchaungeably have sette their
seales and subscribed their names the day and yeare first
abovewritten.
Recognitio Roberti Church Stephani Perse Georgii Estay et
Johannis Gostlin pro praestandis pactis Collegio in relaxa-
tione Manerii de Dabernons.
To all Christian people to whome this presente writinge
shall come Robert Church Doctor of Divinity Stephen Perse
Doctor of Phisicke George Estay Bacchelor of Divinity and
MANERIUM DE DABERNONS. 197
John Gostlin Master of Arts fellowes of Gunvill and Caius
Colledge in the university of Cambridge send greetinge.
Whereas Thomas Legge Doctor of the Civill Law and Master
or Keeper of the sayed Colledge in Cambridge by his deed
indented bearinge date the 24* day of March in the XLI”
yeare of the raigne of our soveraigne Lady Elizabeth the
queenes Majestie that now is did geave graunt bargaine sell,
alien and confirme unto us and to our heires and assignes the
reversion of the Mannor of Dabernons with thappurtenaunces
sett lying and beinge in Duxworth in the County of Cam-
bridge together with all the landes tenements rents services
courts leetes royalties jurisdictions liberties profitts easements
commodityes and hereditaments whatsoever to the Sayed
Mannour and reversion belonginge or in any wise apperteyning
as in and by the sayed deed indented more at large it may
appeare. &nd ſubprea; it was fully clearly and absolutely ment
concluded intended and agreed by and betweene the Saied
Thomas Legge Master of the saied Colledge and us the said
Robert Church Stephen Perse George Estay and John Gostlin
at the makinge sealing and delivery of the Sayed indenture
of gifte graunt bargaine and sale of the Sayed premisses by the
said Thomas Legge unto us that neither wee nor any of us nor
the heires or assignes of the survivors of any of us should or
ought to have take receive or enjoy any benefitt profitt or
[p. 151] commodity by vertue of the said bargaine sale and
conveyaunce to us or any of us or to any of our heires or
assignes to our or any of our owne proper use and behoof but
onely to such benefitt use intent and meaninge as was expressed
limited meant or appointed by the last will and testament in
wrytinge of Joyce Franckland widowe late deceased and for the
maintenaunce and better encrease of livinge of certaine schollers
and fellowes in the sayed Gunvill and Caius Colledge by her
sayed last will and testament appointed ordeyned and devysed.
$20tm #nome yee that we the saide Robert Church Stephen
Perse George Estay and John Gostlin for and in performance
and accomplishment of the Sayed trust true intent and meaning
of the Sayed Thomas Legge and of his saied bargaine and sale
of the said premisses as aforesayed made unto us and for the
198 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
full satisfying of the good and charitable meaninge of the Sayed
Joyce, Franckland in her sayed last will and testament expressed
specified and declared do by these presentes for us and every of
us and for the heires and assignes of every of us and of the
survivors of us absolutely and fully covenaunt promise and
graunt to and with the sayed Master and fellowes of the sayed
Colledge that neyther we nor any of us nor the heires or
assignes of any of us shall or will at any time make any title
clayme challenge or demaund to the said bargained premysses
or to any part or parcell thereof as in our owne proper right or
to any of our owne proper uses by vertue of the Sayed bargaine
and sale, but onely according to the true intent and meaning of
the last will and testament of the 'sayed Joyce Franckland, shall
and will at all and every time and times hereafter, whensoever
the Master and fellowes of the sayed Colledge shall think meete
and convenient or shall make request or demaund to that effect
and purpose assure convey alien assigne and sett over at the
chardges of the Sayed Master and fellowes all that our interest
right and title which we have or may have in the foresayed
bargained premises with thappurtenaunces to all and every
such person or persons or body politicke and to such uses
intents and purposes as the Master and fellowes of the Sayed
Gunvill and Caius Colledge shall nominate appoint limit or sett
downe under their seale in wrytinge without any contradiction
fraud or delay and without taking receyving detayninge em-
ploying or converting any the rents issues profitts or commodi-
ties of the Saied bargayned premysses or of any parte or parcell
[p. 152] thereof to our or any of our owne private and proper
uses, So that the Sayed Master and fellowes may enjoy dispose
or employ the whole issues rents profitts and commodities
thereof for ever accordinge to the good and true intent limita-
tion and purpose specified and sett downe in the sayed last will
and testament of the Sayed Joyce Franckland for the use and
benefitt of the Saied Colledge and, to no other use intent limita-
tion or purpose. Him ſuitmeg whereof the saied Robert Church
Stephen Perse George Estay and John Gostlin have unto these
presents sett every of our seales severally and subscribed our
names the XXV* day of March in the XLI* yeare of the
MANERIUM DE SWANNESLEY. 199
raigne of our soveraigne Lady Elizabeth by the grace of
God of England Fraunce and Ireland queene defender of the
fayth, &c.
Exemplificatio Indenturae per quam Jacobus Altham de Latton
in Comitatu Essexiæ armiger et Thomas Altham de civi-
tate London vendiderunt Manerium de Swannely alias
Swannesley jacens in Caxton in Comitatu Cantabrigiae
Magistro sive Custodi Collegii de Gunvill et Caius in
universitate Cantabrigiae et sociis ejusdem Collegii.
Qſì)íg #mbenture made the eleaventh day of December in the
sixteenth yeare of the raigne of our soveraigne Lady Elizabeth
by the grace of God Queene of England Fraunce and Ireland,
defender of the faith, &c., Between James Altham of Latton in
the County of Essex Esquire and Thomas Altham of the citty
of London of the one party, And the Master or keeper of the
Colledge of Gonvill and Caius founded in the honour of than-
nunciation of the blessed Marie the virgin in the university of
Cambridge and the fellowes of the same College on the other
party, CGHitmeggetſ) that we the sayd James Altham and Thomas
Altham for and in consideration of the somme of two hundred
and forty poundes of lawfull money of England to them before
themsealing hereof well and trulie contented and payed by the
[p. 153] hands of William Gerrard of Harrow upon the Hill
in the County of Middlesex Esquire and William Conway
Citizen and grocer of London executors of the last will and
testament of John Cayius Doctor in phisicke deceased late
Master of the sayed Colledge, whereof they the said James
Altham and Thomas Altham knowledge themselves fully payed
and satisfied, and thereof clearelie acquite and discharge as well
the sayed William Gerrard and William Conway as also the
Sayed Master or keeper and fellowes and their successors, by
these presents have bargained and sold and by these presents
do clearlie and absolutelie bargaine and sell unto the Saied
Master or keeper and fellowes their successors and assignes for
ever, all those their Landes tenements meadowes pastures and
hereditaments commonly called or knowne by the name of
200 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
Swannely otherwise Swannesly with all and singuler their
members and appurtenaunces Scituate lying or being in Capton
alias Caxton in the County of Cambridge now or late in the
Tenure use manuraunce or occupation of one John Aldwyn and
sometimes in the tenure and occupation of one William Hawle
and sometimes belonging and apperteyning to the late dissolved
Monastery of St Neotts in the County of Huntingdon and
parcell of the possessions of the same Monastery, And also one
tofte and all the landes tenements meadowes commons and
hereditaments of the saied James Altham and Thomas or
either of them with their appurtenaunces to the sayed tofte
belongyng Scituate and being in Capton alias Caxton aforesayed
now or late in the tenure and occupation of the sayed John
Aldwen and sometime in the tenure and occupacion of the
Sayed W* Hall and to the saied late dissolved Monasterie
sometime belonging and apperteyning, and parcell of the pos-
sessions of the Saied Monastery then being, And also all other
woods underwoods and trees standing growing and being in
[p. 154] and upon the Saied premisses, And all the soyle
and herbage of the same woods underwoods and trees, And
the reversion and reversions of all and singular the premisses
and of every part and parcell thereof, And also all rents and
yearlie profitts whatsoever reserved upon anie demise lease
or graunt made of the premisses or of any part parcell or
member thereof. All which premisses the sayed James Altham
and Thomas Altham late bought and purchased to them the
Sayed James and Thomas and to the heires and assignes of the
Sayed James for ever of one Richard Tryse of Stewkely magna
in the County of Huntingdon gentleman, as by his deed in-
debted of the bargaine and sale thereof to them made by the
Sayed Richard bearinge date the XX* day of Aprill in fifteenth
yeare of the raigne of our Sayed soveraigne lady queene Eliza-
beth more plainelie and at large it doth and may appeare.
And further the said James Altham and Thomas Altham for
the consideration aforesaied do by these presents clearly bar-
gaine and sell unto the said Master or keeper and fellowes and
their successors all and singular deeds evidences wrytings
charters escripts and myniments whatsoever touching or con-
MAN ERIUM DE SWANNESLEY. 201
cerning onely the saied lands tenements and premisses before
by these presents bargained and sold or onely any part parcell
or member of the same, As many of which sayed deeds evidences
Writings charters escripts and myniments as they the Sayd
James Altham and Thomas Altham or either of them now have
or hath in their or either of their handes custodie or possession,
or which they or either of them may lawfully come by without
suite in the Law, together with true copies of all such other
deeds evidences writings charters escripts and myniments as do
concerne the premisses together with other lands tenements or
[p. 155] hereditaments. The said James Altham for him
his heires executours and administrators doth covenaunt and
graunt by these presents to deliver or cause to be delivered
unto the Sayed Master or keeper and fellowes at their Colledge
of Gunvill and Caius aforesayed at or before the feast of the
Annunciation of our Lady St Mary the virgin next ensuing
after the date hereof, To have and to hold the sayed lands
tenements tofte meadows pastures woods underwoods and here-
ditaments deeds evidences wrytinges charters escripts and
myniments and all and singular other the premisses with
thappurtenaunces unto the sayed Master or keeper and fellowes
their successors and assignes for ever to the sole onely and
proper use and behoof of the sayed Master or keeper and
fellowes and of their successours and assignes for ever absolutely
without any condicion or mortgage. And the Sayed James
Altham for him his heires executors and administrators cove-
naunteth and graunteth to and with the saied Master or keeper
and fellowes their successours and assignes by these presents
that the Saied lands tenements tofte meadowes pastures and
hereditaments, and all and singular other the premisses before
bargained and sold with their appurtenaunces and every part
and parcell thereof at thensealinge and delivery of these presents
are and ben and at all times hereafter shall or may continue
and bee unto the sayed Master or keeper and fellowes their
successors and assignes clearly acquited exonerated and dis-
charged or sufficiently saved and kept harmeles by the sayed
James Altham his heires executors and administrators of and
from all former bargaines sales gifts graunts leases joyntures
202 ANNALS OF GONWIT TIE AND CAIUS.
dowers recognizances statutes marchaunt and of the staple
entailes judgements executions extents and of and from all
other charges titles troubles and encombraunces whatsoever
[p. 156] had made or done by the said James Altham and
Thomas Altham or either of them (the rents and services from
henceforth to be due to the cheif lord or lords of the fee or fees
of the premisses and one lease of the premisses, bearing date
the eight and twenteth day of November last past before the
date hereof made by the sayed James Altham and Thomas
Altham to the foresayed John Aldwen for the tearme of fiftie
and six yeares from the feast of St Michael tharchangell last
whereupon the yearly rent of tenn poundes and one boare or
thirteene shillinges foure pence in lieu thereof is reserved and
shall or may continew payable unto the Sayed Master or keeper
and fellowes their successors and assignes during the continu-
aunce of the same lease onely excepted) And further the sayed
James Altham for him his heires executors and administrators
doth covenaunt and graunt to and with the sayed Master or
keeper and fellowes and their successors by these presents,
That they the saied James Altham and Thomas Altham and
the heires of the Sayed James Altham and all and every other
person and persons and their heires which may lawfully have
claime chalenge or demaund any estate right title or interest in
or to the premisses by from or under the sayed James and
Thomas or either of them (other then the sayed John Aldwen
for his lease and interest before excepted) shall from time to
time and at all times upon request to them or any of them to
be made by the Sayed Master or keeper and fellowes their
successors and assignes do make knowledge and suffer or cause
to be done made knowledged and suffered all and every such
lawfull and reasonable act and acts devise thing and things
whatsoever for the further more better and perfect assuraunce
[p. 157] sure making and conveyance of all and singular the
premisses with thappurtenaunces unto the saied Master or
keeper and fellowes their successors and assignes for ever, bee
it by deed or deeds enrolled, thenrolment of theise presents
fyne or fynes feoffment recovery release with warrantie against
the Saied James Altham and Thomas Altham and the heires of
SCOLARES RICHARDI WILLISON. 203
the sayed James Altham or otherwise, and by all any or as
many of the wayes meanes and devises aforesaied or by anie
other reasonable way or meanes, as by the said Master or
keeper and fellowes their successors or assignes or their learned
counsell and at their proper costs and charges in the law shalbe
reasonably advised devised and required, with warrantie onely
against the sayed James Altham and Thomas Altham and the
heires of the Sayed James Altham as is aforesaied. Jin mitmeº
fobereof to the one part of these presente indentures remayning
with the sayed Master or keeper and fellowes the sayed James
Altham and Thomas Altham have sett their seales, and to the
other part remayning with the sayed James and Thomas the
saied Master or keeper and fellowes have sett their common
seale the day and yeare first above written.
James Altham. Thomas Altham.
Recognita coram Richardo Read milite, magistro in Can-
cellaria, secundo die Februarii anno suprascripto apud aedes
suas in Chancery Lane.
Richardus Willison de Sugwas in Comitatu Herefordiensi
armiger quondam socius hujus Collegii quasdam terras suas in
Haglo et Pulton in parochia de Awre in Comitatu Glocestriae
in forresta vulgo vocata the forrest of Deane quas Sabrina
fluvius ex altera parte aluit Collegio testamento suo sive ultima
voluntate data 25° Januarii 17° Elizabeth, legavit, Custode sive
Magistro Thoma Legge Legum Doctore, quarum annuus redditus
[p. 158] est vi". xvjº, ut inde duo scolares alerentur quorum
singuli annuum stipendium Iblank] auferantita ut cognati eius
preferantur, alioqui in comitatu Suffolciae oriundi; sed quia terrae
in testamentis jure communi hujus regni corpori civili relinqui
non possunt, Margareta [Anna] Willison uxor ejus foemina num-
quam satis laudata, quae virtute testamenti mariti sui defuncti
terris illis durante vita sua naturali fruebatur, hoc anno una cum
Johanne Skipp de Clifford in Comitatu Herefordiensi predicto
generoso cognato et proximo harede praecipianti Richardi
Willison indentura sua data 27° Maii Anno Regni Elizabethae
29° predictas terras Collegio concesserunt, quarum tamen reddi-
204 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
tus et emolumenta predictæ Margaretae [Annae] pro termino
vitae suæ juxta testamentum mariti sui percipere Collegium
promisit, quae postea quarto Augusti 1596 ex hac vita migravit.
Exemplificatio indenturae per quam Anna Willison de Sugwas
in Comitatu Herefordiensi et Johannes Skippe de Clifford
in Comitatu predicto generosus concesserunt terras Suas in
Pulton et Haglo Magistro sive Custodi Collegii de Gunvill
et Caius in Academia Cantabrigiae et sociis ejusdem
Collegii.
(ſpíg #mbenture made the seaven and twenteth day of May
in the nine and twenteth yeare of the raigne of our soveraigne
Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God of England Fraunce and
Ireland queene, defender of the Faith, &c., Between Anne
Willison of Sugwas in the countie of Hereford late wife of
Richard Willison late of Sugwas aforesaid esquire deceased and
John Skippe of Clifford in the county aforesayed gentleman
cosin and heire of the same Richard Willison of thone partie,
and Thomas Legge Doctor of the Law Master or keeper of
Gunvilland Caius Colledge founded in the honor of thannuncia-
tion of the blessed Virgin Mary in the Universitie of Cambridge
and the fellowes of the same Colledge of thother partie
Witnesseth that the sayed Anne Willison and John Skippe as
[p. 159] well for and in consideration of a certaine Somme
of mooney to them in hand before themsealing hereof by the
sayd Master and fellowes of the Colledge well and truly
contented and payed, (whereof and wherewith the Sayed Anne
and John Skippe do acknowledge themselves fully satisfied and
payed and thereof do fully and clearly acquit and discharge the
sayd Master and fellowes and their successors by these presents)
as also for the accomplishment and perfourmance of the last
will and festament of the sayed Richard Willison have geaven
graunted bargained and sold and by these presents do fullie
and clearly give graunt bargaine and sell unto the Saied Master
and fellowes of the Colledge aforesaid all and singular the
messuages landes tenements meadowes pastures feedings woodes
underwoodes rents reversions services and hereditaments what-
SCOLARES RICHARDI WILLISON. 205
soever with all and singular their appurtenaunces commonly
called and reputed the customarie landes of Pulton sett lying
and being in the townes feilds and parishes of Awre Haglo and
Poulton in the county of Glocester, And all the right title
interest reversion remainder claime and demaund of them or
either of them which they or anie of them may might should or ,
ought by anie way or meanes have claime chalenge or demaund
of in or to all and singuler the premisses above written or of in
and to anie part and parcell thereof together with all and
singuler deeds evidences charters writings miniments touching
and concerning the same or anie part or parcell thereof. To
have and to hold all and singuler the sayed messuages lands
tenements meadowes pastures feedings woods underwoods rents
reversions hereditaments and all and singular other the pre-
misses with thappurtenaunces to the sayed Master and fellowes
of the Colledge aforesaied and their successors to thonely use
and behoof of the Saied Master and fellowes and their successors
for ever. To hold of the Cheif Lord and Lords of the same fee
[p. 16O) or fees by the services thereof due and accustomed,
And the Sayed Anne and John Skippe for them and every of
them and for the heires and assignes of the same John Skippe
do covenaunt and graunt to and with the sayed Master and
fellowes and their successors by these presents that they the
Saied Anne and John and every of them and the heires and
assignes of the Sayed John all the Sayed messuages landes
tenements and other the premisses with their appurtenaunces
to the Sayed Master and fellowes and their successors against
the saied Anne and John Skippe and the heires of the saied
John shall at all times hereafter warraunt and defend for
ever. In witnes whereof to these present indentures either
of the parties aboveSaied enterchangeably have sett their hands
and seales the day and yeare first above written.
Anne Willison. J. S.
Sealed and delivered in the presence of Edward Cooper
treasurer of the Cathedrall Church of Hereford, James Yayden
notarie publique, Edmund Skippe, Thomas Brugge, Thomas
Stevens. -
206 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANIO CAIUS.
Recognita per breve de Dedimus potestatem, similiter
irrotulata per W. Herd et Joh. Baylie deputatos clericos.
I 588
I 589
Aulæ fenestræ oblongiores dempta parte aliqua inferiore,
quæ nullo vitro obducta fuit, breviores factæ sunt sed luci-
diores quarum vitrum diversorum sumptibus emptum fuit:
vitrum fenestræ ex adverso mensæ sociorum sumptibus Thomæ
Martim legum doctoris in quo sua insignia sive arma, et duarum
uxorum ejus depicta sunt : vitrum vicinæ fenestræ impensis
Francisci Dorrington Theologiæ Professoris quondam præsidis
hujus Collegii ejus armis decoratum : vitrum tertiæ fenestræ
impensis Thomæ Stuteville de Dalham in comitatu Suffolciæ
armigeri quod ejus insignia testantur. Ex adversa parte prioris
fenestræ vitrum emptum fuit sumptibus Thomæ Legge legum
[p. 16 1] doctoris Custodis sive Magistri Collegii suis armis
ornatum: vitrum alterius fenestræ pecunia Richardi Swale legum
doctoris nuper presidis Collegii, in quo ejus arma spectantur.
1590
I 591
I 592
I 593
I594
Henricus...... de Buria, sancti Edmundi in comitatu Suffolciæ
clericus vir gravissimus et doctissimus opera divi Chrisostomi
latine Collegio dedit quæ in bibliotheca reponuntur. Hoc
anno Stephano Perse in medicina doctore bursario ob incre-
mentum numeri sociorum et studiosorum Collegii cum cætera
ædificia commode tantum numerum capere non possent, decreto
custodis et sociorum tria illa tenementa in parochia Sancti
Michaelis quæ a Collegio Trinitatis empta sunt, ut supra
dictum est, in usum Collegii convertuntur, a Porta Humilitatis
usque ad vicum sive venellam vocatam Find Silver lane, relictis
quibusdam officinis locandis oppidanis, atque ea, de causa porta
extructa est in muro longo septemtrionali inter Portam Virtutis
et Portam Humilitatis.
SCOLAIRES WILLIELMI CUTTING. 207
Thomas Martim legum doctor de quo supra diximus dedit
Collegio quosdam libros quorum nomina sequuntur.
Flavius Blondus de Roma triumphante
Titelmannus in Psalmos
Sabellici pars posterior
Senecæ philosophia
Dionysius Halicarnasseus
Btolomæi Geographia
Julius Frontinus de re militari
Thomas Reeve artium magister nuper socius Collegii
moriturus dedit Collegio cochlear deauratum valoris 20* quod
in ærario reponitur.
Hoc anno scholares magistri Willison primum electi sunt
[p. 162] quia tum magistra Willison vidua, cui durante
vita sua naturali terræ in comitatu Glocestriæ, ex hac vita
migravit.
1596
I597
1598
I 599
2° Augusti Johannes Wright filius Thomæ Wright de
Weeting in Comitatu Norfolciæ alumnus hujus Collegii
adolescens ætatis suæ 19 annorum in pauperes liberalis et
suis munificus, moribundus et nunc sepultus in ecclesia Sancti
Michaelis Cantabrigiæ, dedit Collegio poculum argenteum
valoris 4°* librarum cui nomen ejus et patris sui inscriptum
est, quod termino paschalis 1601 Thomas Wright frater et
alter executorum ejusdem Johannis tradidit Custodi Londini
in usum Collegii quod nunc possidet illud.
Quarto die Martii Willielmus Cutting generosus mortuus est
qui testamento suo sive ultima voluntate relictis executoribus
Gulielmo Bereblocke aurifabro et Henrico Mattim alias Gisborne
fabro ferrario civibus Londonensibus dedit Collegio annuatim
xiii". vi*. viii°. in perpetuum ex omnibus terris et tenementis
suis vocatis Allyns alias Rumbalds cum suis pertinentiis in
parochiis de West Tilbury et Chadwell in Comitatu Essexiæ
ad alendos quatuor pauperes scholares ita ut singuli annuatim
208 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
habeant quinque marcas et preferantur illi qui in comitatu
Norfolciae oriundi essent, et voluit ut nomine poenae 40° nume-
rentur si predicta summa xiii". viº. viii" debitis temporibus non
persolveretur: cujus legati tenor sequitur et est talis.
Legatum Magistri Cutting.
And concerning all my landes and tenements in Essex
and Kent. Imprimis I do geave and bequeath unto the
Master and fellowes of the Colledge in Cambridge commonly
called Gunvill and Caius Colledge twenty marks sterling
English money yearelie for ever to be issuing and going out
[p. 163] of all my lands and tenements commonly called
or knowne by the name or names of Allyns alias Rumbalds
with their appurtenaunces in the parrishes of West Tilbury
and Chadwell in the County of Essex and which I purchased
and bought of Justinian Champneyes esquire and Ugeny
Gatton gent, And the first painment to beginne at the feast
of St Michael tharchangell next after my decease, and that
for and upon every default of painment shalbe forfeited and
paied unto the Saied Master and fellowes and their successors
for every such default xl” (nomine poenae). And that upon
every default of painment of the Saied xx” marks it shalbe
lawfull to the sayed Master and fellowes for the time being
and their successors for to enter and distraine in and upon
the same lands and tenements as well for the sayed twenty
marks with the arrerages thereof, as for the saied sommes
to be forfeited (nomine poenae). And the distress and distresses
to impound and detaine untill the same xx* marks and the
arrerages thereof with the Saied somme of x1' (nomine poenae)
as aforesaied shalbe fully satisfied and payed unto the said
Master and fellowes and their successors for ever as aforesaid.
Which saied yearly painment of twenty marks and the saied
Sommes to be forfeited (nomine poenae) as aforesaied I doe
will give and devise for and towards the maintenaunce of such
foure poore schollers there, as by the Master and fellowes of
the Saied Colledge for the time being or the most parte of them
shalbe thought meete. And that schollers borne within the
SCEIOLAIRES WILLELMI CUTTING. 209
Countie of Norfolk shall be relieved therewith before anie
others, And the saied schollershipps shalbe called Cuttings poore
schollerships. •
Hac annuali pensione Collegium hactenus non fruebatur
quod jure communi Angliæ hujusmodi legata corpori civili in-
utiliter relinquuntur: sed quia magno senatu regni, quem
Parliamentum vocant, cautum est, anno Regni Elizabethæ 39°,
[p. 164] quod sine licemtia regia licebit, cuivis in pauperum
usum terras annui redditus decem librarum et ultra largiri,
hujusmodi donatio fortassis non erit inutilis.
1600
(Gilbertus) Willoughby generosus quondam pensionarius
minor hujus Collegii poculum argenteum eidem dedit cui nomen
ejus inscriptum est, quod termino Trinitatis 1600 executores
ultimæ voluntatis suæ tradiderunt, Custodi in usum Collegii.
25 Aprilis 1600 Antonius Duisborough artium magister et
socius Collegii comparavit suis impensis aeneam aquilam quam
dedit Collegio, qua mune utimur ad ferendos sacros libros in
sacello, cum hac inscriptione, Æternum Antonii Duisburgi
testor amorem. Mense Junii, Roberto Church Theologiæ Pro-
fessore bursario, atrium Collegii de Gunvill totum in majorem
ejusdem splendorem ligneis iisque majoribus et editioribus
cancellis ordine quo nunc sunt positis ornatum est atque
depictum Collegii sumptibus, excepta tantum impensa ædifica-
tionis per predictum D. Church exonerata.
Sexto Julii Thomas Hyrne senator sive aldermannus civi-
tatis Norwicensis, pro ingressu et admissione filii Clementis
Hyrme in sociorum commeatum, deauratam stateram cum
operculo valoris xiii". vj*. dedit, in qua insignia, sive arma sua
imprimuntur.
I60]
2° Aprilis Thomas Grimeston in medicima doctor nuper
socius in Collegio publice amatomiam sive dissectionem humani
corporis fecit, non sine summa ejus laude et maximo auditorum
fructu, humano corpore prius obtento juxta licentiam regiam
Collegio concessam et ostensam Johanni Popham summo justi-
ciario Angliæ.
C. A. S. Octavo Series. No. XL. 14
210 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANID CAIUS.
1602
(Johannes) Porie artium magister hujus Collegii alumnus
Collegio dedit librum descriptionis totius Africæ ab eo lingua
[p. 165] Anglica donatum, cum epistola dedicatoria.
1603
Willelmus Hearle socius Collegii cum uxore ducta relin-
queret Collegium in testimonium amoris sui dedit eidem
Historiam Sabellici tribus voluminibus, quæ in bibliotheca
reponitur.
[p. 154] 'Ab eo anno quo a Caio fundatore destitum est,
dignissimi viri Thomæ Legg Collegii Custodis fideli procuratione
Annales hujus Collegii usque ad amnum 1603 deducti fuerunt.
A quo tempore, per annos quinquaginta intermissam continua-
tionem aggressus est Gulielmus Moore quondam socius Caio-Gon:
eamque ex actis et transactionibus Collegii, aliisque monumentis
rerum gestarum veritatem attestantibus, ad amnum Domimi
1648 perduxit, industria qua poterat summa et fide inteme-
rata, non enim incertis aliorum relationibus temere confisus
est, sed aut ex authenticis scriptis aut propria notitia, hausit
ea quæ traderet posteritati. Cumque ab anno 1606 ad annum
1647 hic commoratus, et im tractandis Collegii negotiis annos
plus minus triginta versatus fuerit, noluit ea celare quæ poste-
rorum maxime intererat scriptis mandari, nec deesse beatæ
memoriæ tot piorum manium, quorum munifica charitas studiis
nostris tam ampla ministrabat subsidia, non ut mobis vivamus
sed ut prosimus posteris. In testimonium itaque gratitudinis
suæ, et officii debiti, opus istud aggreditur, impeditum quamvis
et præruptum, Deo tamen duce confidit superandum.
Anno 1603
[p. 155] Edwardus Bourgehier Dominus Fittzwarrem, filius
honoratissimi celeberrimique viri Domini Gulielmi Bourgchier
Comitis Bathoniensis, de Tastocke in Comitatu Devoniensi, in
admissione sua Collegio domo dedit poculum argenteum
deauratum ponderis 3 xxv, cum hac inscriptione, Edward
Bourgchier Lord Fittzwarrem; et insignibus.
1 Up to this point we have followed the vellum copy. Hemee onward the
paper copy is the original, and in fact the only authority.
IPESTIS IN CANTABRIGIA. 211
Octo. 24 in loco Capitulari decretum est per Custodem,
cum consensu omnium sociorum præsentium, propter imminens
periculum pestis grassantis, ut liceat omnibus ex fundatione
abesse usque ad duodecimum diem Januarii proximum (si iis
visum fuerit) ita ut nihil detrahatur illis pro absentia singulis
septimanis, licet diutius abfuerint, mensa, atque ut omnium
sociorum disputationes interim intermittantur, atque exercitia,
ac si non terminus esset: præterea ut electio scholarium ex
fundatione differatur usque ad tempus predictum, ita tamen
ut illi qui tum electi fuerint, habeant stipendium prioris tem-
poris elapsi. Decretum hoc extractum est ex Actis Collegii
a Festo Mich. 1603.
Jan. 18. Concessum est unanimi Custodis et sociorum con-
sensu ut Robertus Curson, modo tenens Collegii, habeat et
teneat, durante vita sua naturali et Annæ mune uxoris suæ,
eam partem tenementi nostri juxta Portam Humilitatis quam
nunc possidet, eo modo quo jam habet, cum pertinentiis in
usu et occupatione sua existentibus, pro redditu annuo quem
nunc solvit, l'. 10°.; sed ea, tamen conditione ut si Magister
sive custos et socii predictam partem tenementi interim ali-
quando velint in usum Collegii quoquomodo, aut aliquam
parcellam predictæ partis convertere, extunc liceat iis in
eandem partem aut parcellam ejusdem intrare, et ad suum
usum transferre, non obstante hac concessione nostra.
Martii duodecimo 1603, unanimi consensu Custodis et
sociorum tunc presentium, superiori omnino similis concessio
facta est Johanni Bell et Jamæ uxori suæ, ut tenementum
Collegii quod nunc occupant obtineant durante vita utriusque
eodem redditu quem nunc solvunt, modo in usum Collegii im-
terea non transferatur, ut supra cautum est in concessione
mostra Roberto Cursom et uxori suæ. Utraque hæc concessio
habetur inter Acta Collegii a Festo Mich. 1603.
Anno 1604
Henricus Pratt Collegii hujusce socius, et vir inter doctos
clarus, discedens dono dedit Bibliothecæ publicæ, Anselmi
14—2
212 ANNALS OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS.
opera, S* Cyrilli Alexandrini opera varia, Fernelii opera,
Eibliothecam Vaticanam.
[p. 156] Anno 1605
60 Novembris 1605, in Sacello socii tunc in Collegio
præsentes, cum assensu Custodis in suis literis expresso, de-
creverant ut peste sæviente ac magis in oppido grassante,
liceret sociis et scholaribus Collegii (qui per Statuta possunt)
abesse usque ad decimum tertium Januarii, sine ulla stipendii
sui detractione ratione hujus suæ absentiæ, præsertim hac
periculi urgente mecessitate, prout videre est in Actis Collegii a
E'esto Mich. 1605.
Hoc anno locatio manerii de Mortimers olim facta Majori
et Ballivis villæ de Cantabrigia pro termino nonaginta et
movem annorum, tandem expiravit. Hi vero quo fraudarent,
Collegium suo emolumento et ad iniquas conditiones cogerent,
Aulam petebant, et a regia Majestate literas obtinuerant man-
datorias, pro renovatione locationis prædictæ, quibus mature
et provide occursum est per Collegii socios. Missis enim ali-
quot Collegii nomine, qui oppidanorum fraudes et injurias
palam facerent, statim rex æquissimus Jacobus, rejecta Bur-
gensium petitione, collegio concessit, liberam potestatem quibus
velint locandi has terras, et ut suo jure fruerentur jussit. Ea
autem erat oppidanorum iniquitas, ut terras totumque jus
Collegii in integrum restituere noluerunt, permistis enim
manerii hujus simul et illorum fundis, deletis finibus, teme-
mentorum mutatis nominibus, &c., tam longo temporis tractu
tanta rerum et fundorum orta est confusio, ut Collegii totum
periit faldagium, insuper redditus e tenementis aliquot juxta
Newnam et alibi exeuntes et huic Mamerio annexi (ut patet,
ex evidentiis eo spectantibus) ulterius solvi Collegio desierunt,
nec spes ulla restat Collegio jus suum in iis recuperandi,
nisi constiterit, quæ tenementa, qui fundi, et quibus in locis
siti fuerunt, quod, in tanta rerum confusione detestanda oppi-
danorum tenentium fraudulentia facta, perquam arduum, ne
dicam impossibile fuerit, Hæc posteris nota esse cupimus ut
MORS DOCTORIS LEGGE. 213
iis constaret quomodo jus et commodum Collegii in hoc manerio
de Mortimers plurimum diminutum sit.
Sept. 30. 1605
Rejectis oppidanis locatio facta est Sep. 80 1605 Gulielmo
Pagett ad usus Custodis Th. Legg pro termino viginti annorum
a festo Sancti Michaelis 1605. Cui Gul. Paget 12°. Aprilis
1606 facultas facta est, ut alienare possit dictas terras de
Mortimers sibi locatas, ut patet ex Actis Collegii a festo
Ammunciationis 1606.
[p. 157] Anno 1606
Gulielmus Pastom de Oxmitte im Comitatu Norfolciæ Eques
Auratus, in testimonium pietatis suæ ac munificentiæ in
Collegium hoc nostrum, domo dedit centum libras, ad ædifi-
cationem movæ Aulæ, quas Dr Gostlym Collegii socius retulit
in ærarium 16 Decemb. 1606.
Anno 1607
Thomas Grymstom Norffolciensis quondam socius hujus
Collegii Medicinæ Doctor testamento suo Jam. 17 1607 Biblio-
thecam publicam instruxit libris sequentibus : Savonarolæ
Practica major: Vesalii Anatomia: Ruellius de Natura Stirpium:
Principia Medicorum (?): Gerardi Herbarium.
Thomas Legge Nordovicensis, socius primo Collegii Trinitatis,
secumdo Jesu, inde a fundatore Johanne Caio, jam vivente,
constitutus est hujus Collegii Custos decimus nonus anno
1573 (prout videre est Annal. pag. 135). Legum Doctor,
unus magistrorum Cancellariæ, Curiæ de Arcubus Doctor,
Academiæ Commissarius, et bis Procancellarius, annis scilicet
1587 et 1592, obiit Julij 12, 1607 anno ætatis 72° postquam
Collegii regimini foeliciter præfuisset annis 34 et septimanis
2°. Hunc virum placidissimi mores plurimum ornabant, unde
sibi Collegii socios omnes, amoris atque observantiæ vinculo,
habuit semper devinctissimos, studiumque ejus promovendi
bonas literas, et remunerandi conatus juvenum eo aspiran-
tium, spectandum valde simul et amabilem reddidit : solebat
vir alioqui gravis, et continuis fori negotiis occupatissimus,
214 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANID CAIUS.
spectandis et componendis fabulis, præsertim tragediis, fes-
sum animum recreare, quarum una, quæ truculentos mores
Ricardi tertii repræsentabat, publice olim acta erat in Aula
Collegii Divi Johannis Cantabrigiæ summo cum Academicorum
applausu ; altera de excidio Hierosolymitano, quamdiu vixit,
horis subsicivis sub lima polivit, quo elimatiorem eam tandem
proponeret spectandam ; cumque jam omnibus numeris abso-
luta esset, plagiarii nescio cujus piceatis manibus spes nostra
misere frustrata erat. Leggo, executorum sumptibus, extrue-
tum est monumentum pensile, ad australe latus sacelli, infra
quod ejus conditur depositum. Superiorem partem monumenti
ornant arma Gentilicia, cum lemmate epigraphico: Coll legame
della legge ; tum nomini, tum professioni, alludente. Infra
statuam (orantis speciem referentem) monumento titulus
ascriptus: Thomas Legge Legum Doctor quondam Custos
hujus Collegii obiit ammo Domini 1607, 12° die Julii, ætatis
suæ 72°. Et Gostlinus (qui cum eo conjunctissime vixerat)
titulo subjunxit hoc disticon ;
[p. 158]
Junxit Amor vivos, sic jungat terra sepultos;
Gostlini reliquum ; cor tibi Leggus habes:
subscripto symbolo, Christiano homine dignissimo, Moriendo
vivit. Quanto in honore claruit Leggus apud alios satis con-
stat ex elogio illo celeberrimo eruditi cujusdem viri literis ad
eum datis Calendis Jan. 1585 ubi hæc habentur: In antiquitatis
studio, tam egregie versatus es, ut id de te ipso potes quod de
se Apollo Emmii:
A me omnes Cantabrigienses consilium expetunt in literis
incerti, quos ego mea ope ex incertis certos compotesque consili
dimitto.
Abest a meis scriptis vanitas et...
Quæ Collegio legavit videantur in ejus testamento infra
scripto. (Testamentum Doctoris Legge hic omissum: Quaere
pag.) ¢ � *
Benefactoris hujus dignissimi nummis e Mamerio nostro de
Mortuo mari, Cantebrigiæ sito, illique a mobis sub persona
1ELECTIO CUSTODIS. 215
Gulielmi Pagitt ad terminum annorum concesso a Festo
Mich. 1605 (ut patet in Annalibus hujus amni), cujus redditus
Collegii cistæ jam moriens Julii 12. 1607 pie restituit, ac-
crescentibus ad valorem 600", novi ædificii latus orientale
extructum erat, ex latere cocto. E bonis testamento non
legatis, quorum fit mentio ultima clausula testamenti, ulte-
rius accesserunt Collegio libri, numero 147, quorum Catalogus
habetur in publica Collegii Bibliotheca.
Cum Leggus diem obiit, feriæ erant solennes Academicæ,
vacationes vulgo nominatæ; quo tempore in more erat sociis,
vel relaxandi animi gratia, vel ad propria obeunda negotia,
a studiis et libris vacare: hinc contigit plures a Collegio
tunc temporis abfuisse, quod futuræ electioni novi Custodis
plurimum obfuit ; præsentes tamen socii statim se accingunt
operi, et ea de re conveniunt in loco capitulari, Doctore Perse
et Magistro Fletcher se sistentibus in scrutinio ; quo conventu
Johannes Gostling Norwicensis et Medicinæ Doctor designatus
est Custos, per sex suffragia rata et indubia ; septimo non-
nihil inerat ambiguitatis, quod tamen ad suas partes accedere
reliqui interpretabantur ; neque ulterius soliciti fuerant de ite-
randa electione, quod per statuta licuit, et e re eorum fuisset,
sive ex imprudentia, sive ex absentia sociorum qui nondum
rediere. Sed interim rumores sparguntur electionem hanc
non esse undequaque validam, qui (elapso tempore electioni
per statuta prefixo) ad aures Cancellarii Academiæ delati, is
[p. 159] ne deesset sibi aut officio suo, in electionem inquirit;
et Doctore Perse et Magistro Fletcher qui in scrutinio sta-
bant Londinum accitis, discussa, et cassata priore electione, a
Gostlimo abjudicavit officium Custodis, et Gulielmo Branthwaite
Nordovicensi sacræ Theologiæ Doctori et tunc temporis (spe-
ciali gratia) Collegii Emmanuelis socio, commisit hujus Collegii
regimen: quo sane facto, suo usus est jure Cancellarius; sed
summa cum injuria, posthabito nimirum Reverendi patris
Eatemammi statuto, quo cautum est, si ad Cancellarium facta
fuerit devolutio, ut is aliquem Collegii socium idoneum præ-
ficiat in Custodem ; cui muneri omnium judicio perquam
idoneus visus est Gostlinus, qui amotus Custodis munere (ne
dicam fraudatus suo jure), subducens se Collegio, contulit se
216 ANNALS OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS.
Vid. Ijib.
Act. &
Gesta, a,
1592 ad
finem.
in Devoniam ubi ad multos annos medicimam foeliciter exer-
cuit. Hinc prima jacta fuere teterrimæ discordiæ semina, unde
ingens malorum seges in sequenti tempore Collegio aborta est ;
quo modo, tempore et comitatu Gulielmus Branthwaite intro-
ductus est ad capessendum Collegii regimen, testantur Acta
Collegii a festo Sancti Michaelis 1607 his verbis 14 Novemb.
1607
Gu. Branthwayt admissus est 14 Dec. 1607 virtute determinationis et
nominationis a Cancellario factæ. Totum admissionis et electionis nego-
tium in libro Gratiarum Universitatis habetur sub testimonio Jacobi
Tabor Registrarii Acad. pag. 235. a. b., 236 a. b., 237, et in fine libri
Exituum et Actorum Collegii ab anno 1592 ad annum 1618.
Gulielmus Branthwaite Sacræ Theologiæ Doctor provisus est
et designatus Magister sive Custos hujus Collegii vicesimus per
literas Roberti Comitis Sarisburiensis, hujus Academiæ Cam-
cellarii, penes quem, per devolutionem ex præscripto Statuti,
provisio Custodis fuit, et dato juramento per Doctorem Perse,
seniorem socium, in loco Capitulari, ab eodem fuit creatus,
admissus, et in realem et corporalem possessionem inductus
in præsentia Rogeri Goad, Sacræ Theologiæ Doctoris, Academiæ
procancellarii, et prefectorum Collegiorum Doctorum Nevill,
Barwell, Duport, Clayton, Smyth, Magistri Chaddertom et
sociorum aliquot atque scholarium hujus Collegii.
April 23. 1608
Decretum est per Custodem, et majorem partem Sociorum,
ut qui ad gradum Magisterii in Artibus fuerint promoti in
hac Academia hujusque Collegii alumni extiterint ante illum
gradum susceptum, per aliquot annos possunt in Sociorum
commeatum admitti, si solvant in Collegii usus, pro ingressu,
viginti solidos, si eorum mores fuerint, a Custode et sociis
approbati; quæ pecuniæ summa destinata est unanimi com-
sensu comparandis poculis argenteis, in usus mensæ communis,
ut patet ex Actis Collegii, a festo An. 1608.
OctO. 13. 1608
Per Magistrum, sive Custodem, et omnes socios domi præ-
sentes, licentia concessa est, sub communi Collegii sigillo,
INIDENTURA TEHOMÆ WENIDY. 217
[p. 16o] Thomæ Spicer firmario Mamerii nostri de Aymells,
ut possit ædificium quoddam prope collapsum, jamque ruinam
minitans, positum super terras vocatas Samsells, diruere et
demoliri, ea lege, ut intrà biennium a tempore concessionis
suis sumptibus extruatur et reædificetur, forma fabricaque
multo melioribus magisque spaciosis, quemadmodum cautum
est in carta, concessionis.
Anno 1609
Thomas Wendy Suffolciensis, Medicinæ Doctor, quondam
socius, præses Aulæ de Gonville, quatuor augustissimis principibus
Henrico octavo, Edwardo sexto, Mariæ et Elizabethæ, a consiliis
medicis, ex testamento, duodecimo Februarii anno 1559, dedit
Collegio libras decem annui redditus, ex appropriatione bene-
ficii sui de Haslingfeild, in Comitatu Cantebrigiæ, ita tamen
ut redditus iste annuus Collegio meutiquam accederet ante
obitum Margaretæ uxoris suæ, prout latius patet pag. 60 hujus
libri Ammalium. Margareta uxor ejus diem obiit 24° Octob. 1570,
post cujus mortem in Collegii potestatem venit Rectoria de
Haselingfeild cum pertinentiis, quam concessimus ad feodum
Thomæ Wendy nepoti predicti Doctoris 21 Dec. Anno 1570
secundum testamentum predicti Doctoris: quæ omnia fusius
enarrantur pag. 91 hujus libri Annalium : ex quo tempore
annuus redditus prædictus decem librarum Collegio meutiquam
persolutus est per annos 88, sc. usque ad annum 1609, quo
temporis spatio debitum excrevit ad 380": eo itaque anno, sc.
1609, convenit inter Collegium et Thomam Wendy armigerum
de Haselingfeild in Comitatu Cantabrigiæ, dicti Doctoris et
nepotem et hæredem, de relaxatione prioris annui redditus,
ut et totius debiti superius nominati, hac lege, ut idem
Thomas Wendy et hæredes ejus solverent Collegio, de futuro
in perpetuum, annuum redditum viginti marcarum, exeuntem
e terris suis in Barrington im Comitatu Cantabrigiæ, prout
patet in Indentura infra scripta.
Qjíg ímúemture made the mimeteenth day of March im the
seaventh yeare of the reigne of our sOveraigne Lord James
by the Grace of God King of England Fraunce and Ireland
defender of the Faith &c. and of Scotlamd the three amd fortieth
218 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
betweene Thomas Wendy of Haslingfeild in the County of
Cambridge Esqr. of the one part and William Branthwaite
Dr of Divinitie, and Master or Keeper of Gonvile and Caius
Colledge founded in the honour of the Annunciation of the
blessed virgine Marie and the Fellowes of the same Colledge
on the other part &aitnessetb that whereas the Master or
[p. 161] Keeper and Fellowes of the said Colledge by their
Indenture, bearing date the First day of December in the
thirteenth yeare of the Reigne of our Soveraigne Lady Eliza-
beth of famous memory Queen of England, and in the yeare
of our Lord God one thousand five hundred and seaventie,
did demyse and graunt to the said Thomas Wendy the Rec-
torie or Parsonage of Haselingfeild together with the Mannor
of Melforde in Haselingfeild aforesaid in the said Countie of
Cambridg with all and singular their appurtenaunces and the
nomination presentation and free disposition of the vicaridge
of Haselingfeild aforesaid in as free large and ample manner
as the said Master and Fellowes of the said Colledge had and
enioyed the same by vertue of the gift graunt and bequest
of the last will and testament of Thomas Wendy Doctor of
Physick deceased, To have and to hold to the said Thomas
Wendy and to his heyres and assignes for ever, Yeilding
and paying therefore yearely the summe of ten pounds of
lawfull English money at two tearms or Feasts in the yeare
that is to say, at the Feast of the Annunciation of our Lady
and of St Michael the Archangel, by equall portions in the
hall of the said Colledge betweene the houres of nine and eleven
in the forenoone with a nomine poenae of twenty shillings, if
the said Rent of ten pounds were behind and unpaid in part
or in all by the space of eight dayes after any of the said
Feast dayes of payment as aforesaid, and with a Clause of
distresse for the same Rent and nomine poenae. And if it
shall happen the said yearely rent of Tenne pounds or any
part thereof to be behind and unpaid by the space of Twenty
dayes next after either of the said Feasts as aforesaid being
lawfully demaunded that then and from thenceforth it should
and might be lawfull to and for the said Master and Fellowes
of the said Colledge and their successours to enter in and
INDENTURA THOMAE WENDY. 219
upon the said Rectory or Parsonage of Haselingfeild afore-
said and in and upon the said Mannour of Melforde and the
presentation of the said vicaridge of Haselingfeild aforesaid
and the same to deteyne possesse and enjoy untill such time
till the said yearely rent of Tenn pounds and everie part
thereof together with the arrearages, if any were, should be
to the said Master and Fellowes of the said Colledge fully
Satisfied and paid, anything in the said recyted Indenture
mentioned or expressed to the contrary thereof or in anywise
notwithstanding.
[p. 162] Now this Indenture witnesseth that the said
Master or keeper and Fellowes of Gonevile and Caius College
aforesaid now parties to these presents, for divers good causes
and considerations, for them and their successors for ever doe
remyse release and quyt clayme by these presents unto the said
Thomas Wendye partie to these presents, and to his heyres and
assignes being in peaceable and quiet possession of the said
Rectory and parsonage and the said Mannor of Melford as well
the said yearely rent of Tenn pounds and the said nomine
poenae, As also all the Estate right title interest claime and
demaund which they the said Master and Fellowes or their
successours have had or ought to have shall or at any time
hereafter may have of and in the said yearely rent of tenn
pounds and the said nomine poenae of twenty shillings and
every part thereof and all distresses actions and remedyes for
and concerning the same or any part thereof, and all and every
arrearages thereof, and of in and to the said Parsonage and
Rectorie of Haselingfeild aforesaid and the said Mannor of
Melforde with the appurtenaunces, In such sort and to the end
that the said Master and Fellowes and their successours for ever
shall and may be barred and excluded of and from the premisses
of every part thereof for ever, And in consideration of the said
Release by these presents made by the said Master and Fellowes
of the said Colledge as aforesaid to the said Thomas Wendy,
partie to these presents, And for that so much yearely Rent and
benefitt may be to the said Master and Fellowes of the said
Colledge and their successours for ever as was truely intended and
meant in and by the said last will and testament of the said
220 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
Thomas Wendye deceased, and for other good and special causes
and considerations him thereunto mooveing the said Thomas
Wendye for him his heyres and assignes hath given granted
assigned delivered and confirmed, and by these presents doth
give grant assigne deliver and confirme to the said Master or
keeper and Fellowes of Gonvile and Caius Colledge, founded in
the honour of the Annunciation of blessed Mary the Virgine in
the Universitie of Cambridge and to their successours for ever,
one annuall payment or yearely Rent of Twenty Marks of
lawfull English money to be issuing and going forth out of all
the Messuages lands tenements and hereditaments of the said
Thomas Wendye sett lying and being in Barringtonn in the said
Countie of Cambridge.
[p. 163] QTO babe bolt receive perceive take and enjoy
the said annuall payment or Yearely Rent of Twenty Marks as
aforesaid to the said Master and Fellowes of Gonevile and Caius
Colledge aforesaid and to their successours for ever Qſo be paid
yearely at two Tearmes or Feasts in the yeare (that is to say)
at the Feast of the Annunciation of the blessed Virgine St Mary
and St Michael the Archangel by equall and even portions in
the common hall of the said Colledge the first payment thereof
to beginn at the Feast of the Annunciation next coming after
the date hereof, And the said Thomas Wendye for him his
heyres and assignes doth graunt and agree to and with the said
Master and Fellowes of the said Colledge and their successours
by these presents, That if it shall happen the said annuall
payment or yearely rent of twenty marks or any part thereof
to be behind or unpaid by the space of fourteene dayes next
ensuing after any of the Feast dayes of payment on which the
said ought to be paid as aforesaid, that then and so often as the
said yearely rent or annuall payment or any part thereof shall
happen to be so behinde and unpaid by the said time of
fourteene dayes, The said Thomas Wendye his heyres and
Assignes shall forfeit for every such default of payment of the
said summe of twenty marks or any part thereof to the said
Master and Fellowes of the Colledge aforesaid and to their
successours forty shillings of lawfull English money in the name
of a penaltie or forfeiture for not paying of the same, And that
INDENTURA THOMAE WENDY. 221
if it shall happen the said annuitie or annuall rent of Twenty
marks or any part thereof or the said penaltie of forty shillings
or any part thereof to be behind and unpaid in part or in the
whole after any of the said Feasts and daies of payment respec-
tively before lymitted for the payment thereof that then and
from thenceforth and so often it shall and may be lawfull to and
for the said Master and Fellowes and their successours to enter
and distreyne in and upon all and everie the said Messuages
lands tenements and hereditaments in Barrington aforesaid and
the distresse and distresses there so found and taken to leade
drive and carry away and the same to deteyne and withholde
untill they the said Master and Fellowes and their successours
shall be as well of the said annuall rent or yearely payment of
Twenty Marks and every part thereof with the arrearages
thereof and the said penaltie of forty shillings with the arrear-
ages thereof, fully contented and paid. And the said Thomas
Wendye hath put the said Master or keeper and Fellowes of the
[p. 164] said Colledge in seisin and possession of the said
annuall payment or yearely rent of Twenty Marks by the
payment of the summe of six pence of lawfull money of England
at the ensealing and deliverie of these presents, Provided alwayes
that if it shall fortune at any time hereafter that the said
Master and Fellowes of Gonvile and Caius Colledge aforesaid or
their successours shall by way of distresse action or suit in Law
clayme challenge or demaund the said first recited annuall
payment or yearely rent of tenn pounds or any part thereof or
any arrearages thereof, or the said penaltie of twenty shillings
or any the arrearages thereof, or in and to the said Rectory and
Parsonage of Haselingfeild aforesaid or in or to the said Mannor
of Melforde, That then and from thenceforth this present grant
of the said annuall payment or yearely rent of twenty marks to
cease determine and be utterly void and of no effect anything
in these presents conteyned to the contrary thereof in any wise
notwithstanding, And it is mutually Covenaunted agreed and
declared by and betweene the said parties to these presents
that the summe of tenn pounds parcell of the said annuall
payment or yearely rent of twenty marks shall be yearely
employed and bestowed onely for and towerds the maintenance
222 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS,
of one fellow in the said Colledge of the foundation of the said
Thomas Wendy deceased, and the rest and residue of the said
summe of Twenty Marks shall be to the said Colledge and to
such other uses as are limitted and declared in and by the last
will and Testament of the said Thomas Wendy deceased, &nt
the said Thomas Wendy party to these presents for him his
heyres executours and administratours doth covenaunt promise
and graunt to and with the said Master or keeper and Fellowes
of the said Colledge and their successours by these presents
that the Fellow that shall be chosen in the said Colledge into
the said Fellowshipp founded by the said Thomas Wendy
deceased shall not have or expect in the said Colledge by reason
of his said Fellowshipp anie profitt or commoditie of the said
Colledge more then yearely the said summe of tenn pounds so
to him allowed as aforesaid, and not anie dividencye or other
profitt peculiar or proper to the twelve senior places or Fellow-
shipps of the foundation of the same Colledge, but shall be in
all things of the like order and sort as the Fellowes of Joyce
Franklins foundation within the said Colledge, and as is sett
downe and fully expressed in an order made by the executour
[p. 165] of the last will and testament of the said Joyce
Franklin and the Master or keeper and Fellowes of the said
Colledge touching the ordering and direction of the Fellowes
and fellowshipps of the foundation of the said Joyce Franklin.
&nt the said Thomas Wendy for him his heyres executors and
administrators doth also covenant promise and grant to and
with the said Master or keeper and Fellowes of the Colledge
aforesaid and their successours by these presents that the said
Messuages lands tenements and all and singular the premisses
in Barrington aforesaid are and be and at all times hereafter
shall continue and be cleere and cleerely acquitted and dis-
charged of and from all manner of former leases, intailes, uses,
devices, condicions, lymitations, titles, troubles and incumbrances
whatsoever, whereby or by reason whereof the said Messuages
lands tenements and premisses shall not or may not stand and
be immediately continually and absolutely and for ever charged
and chargeable to and for the payment of the said yeerely rent
of twenty marks and to and for the distresse and distresses of
THOMAS WETEIERELL SOCIUS. 223
the said Master or keeper and Fellowes of the said Colledge and
their successours if default be had or made in anie of the
payments aforesaid. JEm ęHitm£% whereof to the first part of
these Indentures remayning with the said Master or keeper and
Fellowes of the said Colledge the said Thomas Wendye partie
to these presents hath set his hand and seale and to the other
part of these Indentures remayning with the said Thomas
Wendye the said Master or keeper and Fellowes of the said
Colledge have set their common seale of the said Colledge
of Gonvile and Caius dated the day and yeare first above
written.
1610
Thomas Wetherell Norfolciensis de Lynna Regis Bacca-
laureus Theologiæ, primus electus est in sodalitium, et
admissus ex fundatione Doctoris Wendy, sub iisdem con-
ditionibus quibus cautum est de sociis Jocosæ Franklyn ; vir
vere pius et egregie doctus ; eum præ cæteris excercitiis
scholasticis ornavit disputatio habita in Templo beatæ Mariæ
coram serenissimis principibus Carolo Walliæ et Comite Pala-
tino ad Rhenum, in eorum adventu ad visendam Academiam ;
in qua, argumentorum pomdere et ingenii acumine quibus
pollebat, multum facessebat negotii respondenti nec minus
[p. 166] famæ ei accrevit ex concionibus frequentibus, quibus
per totam pene Angliam claruit, presertim hic Cantabrigiæ,
et Londini, ubi per aliquot annos comcionatoris munus, summa
sua cum laude, exercuit in Parochia Sancti Gregorii juxta
ædes Divo Paulo sacras: inde avocatus ad Rectoriam de Newton
in Comitatu Suffolciæ (patrocinio Mauritii Barrow armigeri cui
tales vere cordi erant) fideliter operi Domini se accingebat, et
dum vires tolerarent, rectoris munere cum omnium bonorum
laude et applausu functus est : sed continuis laboribus et
quartana febre attritus, ætatis flore nondum penitus exacto, im-
maturus obiit. Ex ejus scriptis tantum extant quinque conciones
posthumæ editæ cura Francisci Quarles in rectoria successoris,
cui quæ in scriptis habuit testamento legavit. Hic ipse Fran-
ciscus Nordovicensis fuit Collegii hujusce primo alumnus, dein
capellanus fuit: et hoc ipso quo hæc scribimus scilicet anno
224 ANNALS OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS.
1655 muneris sui fideliter in predicta Rectoria pastoris boni
fungitur officio.
Anno 1611
Richardus Parker ex generosa stirpe oriundus, patre Johanne
Archidiacono Eliensi, sacræ Theologiæ Baccalaureus et hujus
Collegii socius, hoc anno discedens Collegio, ad rectoriam
Parvoburgensem (vulgo Littlebury) juxta Ædes Audlianas, se
contulit, ubi Deo et Musis litans coelebs consenuit, et obiit ;
vir erat apprime doctus tum in Sacræ Theologiæ facultate
tum in Britannicis antiquitatibus, quarum erat perquam
studiosus indagator; quo nomine, celeberrimo illi Cambdeno
multis etiamque viris illustribus erat acceptissimus; Thomæ
Milles (sive Roberti Glover) errores in Catalogo Honoris
admissos, et notavit et copiosis ad marginem libri scholiis
reformavit ; et ad pleniorem hujus Catalogi emendationem
scripsit alios duos tractatus, quorum primo titulus hic imscri-
bitur, Censura Parvoburgensis in Catalogum Millesium No-
bilitatis Anglo-Britanicæ, alteri, Appendix Parvoburgensis cum
supplemento ; quæ scripta non contentionis studio ductus
composuit, sed ad genuinam nobilitatem Britannicam melius
asserendam. Hi codices una cum aliis eo spectantibus tuto jn
scrimiis Bibliothecæ nostræ reconditi servantur. Scripsit in-
[p. 167] super Parkerus hic noster >/ceXeTòv Cantabrigiense,
sive Collegiorum umbratilem delineationem, in qua habemus a
fronte, Hospitia Academiæ antiqua ; a tergo vero episcopos qui
ab hac Academia prodierunt, supra annum (ab eo tempore quo
scriptus est liber) centenarium. Alia vir diligens procul dubio
scripsit quæ ad nostram notitiam non pervenerunt, at hæc quæ
habemus satis testantur Parkerum virum fuisse doctum nec
inutiliter vixisse.
Hoc eodem anno Johannes White, alumnus moster, docto-
ratus gradum in Sacra Theologia assecutus est: patrem habuit,
Petrum de Eatom in comitatu Bedfordiensi, virum, tum ob
concionatoris munus fideliter prestitum, tum etiam ob scripta
edita clarum. Hic noster paternæ virtutis imitator haud de-
generem filium se præstitit; nam fideliter laborans in Vinea
Domini, Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ plurimum profuit concionando ; et
FRANCISCUS WHITE, EPISCOPUS. 225
scriptis editis strenue egit partes Ecclesiæ reformatæ adversus
pontifices; scripsit vir doctissimus Anglice Viam ad orthodoxam
Ecclesiam, uma cum ejus defensione et comcionibus aliquot quæ
omnia uno volumine extant 1624 edito. Alia meditatus vir
optimus, immatura morte abreptus, perficere non potuit: obiit
Rector de Barnham in Diocoesi Norwicensi, ingenti ejus desiderio
bonis omnibus relicto.
Johannes hic noster fratrem habuit seniorem Franciscum,
hujus quoque Collegii alumnum, et Sacræ Theologiæ docto-
rem, decanum Carliolensem, Episcopum primo Norwicensem,
dein Eliensem, regique Carolo ab eleemosynis; hic fratris
defuncti famam, turpiter a quodam Pontificio anonymo macu-
latam, scripto vindicavit, quo famæ candorem restituit suum,
et tenebrionem illum Romanensem, prout meritus est, deni-
gravit : nec diu post de Jesuita Fishero tum colloquio tum
scripto summi acuminis edito, triumphavit; postea vero
Theophilum Brabourme aliumque amonymum, de Sabatho
Christiano, sive die dominico, haud recte sentientes, scriptis
redarguit et compescuit. Quantus hic vir erat, libri ejus
editi in æternum testabuntur. Tandem tot laboribus exant-
latis, tum orthodoxam fidem seriptis asserendo, tum res ec-
clesiasticas (quibus fideliter prefuit) foeliciter administrando;
senio morboque confectus, in ædibus Eliensibus Londini,
placide in Domino obdormivit pius senex et reverendus pater.
[p. l68] Utrique hi fratres candore morum adeo erant con-
spicui ut inde cognomen traxisse videantur: summæque sane
malignitatis esset si quis malevolus viris adeo candidis ni-
gram aspergere maculam conaretur.
Hoc anno dignissimus vir Petrus Manwood Cantiamus de
sancto Stephano, Eques Balnei auratus, quem Richardus
Parkerus noster agnoscit fuisse summum venerandæ antiquitatis
cultorem et literatioris gentis fautorem, in subsidium eorum,
qui Historiæ modernæ sunt studiosi, instruxit Bibliothecam
hanc nostram his libris, videlicet.
John Seres, Inventary of France.
The history of Netherlands, by Edward Grimstom.
The Turkish history, by Knolles,
G. A. S. Octavo Series. No. XL. ' I5
226 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANID CAIUS.
Anno 1612
Donatio Gulielmi Cutting (cujus prius fit mentio pag: 151
hujus libri Annalium) ab ipso doni tempore, anno videlicet 1599,
ad hunc presentem annum, inutilis fuit Collegio ob solutiones
nullas hucusque factas, sed tandem lite contestata, in curia Can-
cellariatus, decretum fuit, per Honº^: Dominum Cancellarium
Thomam Dominum Elesmere 11° die Octobris anno Domini
1612, ut annua pensio viginti marcarum, secundum voluntatem
testatoris, exeuntium terris et tenementis de Allyns alias
Rumbalds, de West, Tilburie et Chadwell in Comitatu Essexiæ,
in perpetuum Collegio solverentur ; utque insuper annui
redditus ab integro tempore a morte uxoris testatoris usque
ad annum presentem viz. 1612 nondum soluti Collegio solve-
rentur, ad usus a benefactore Cuttings testamento statutos.
Quæ omnia fusius patent in ipso decreto subscripto.
Jacobus Dei gratia Angliæ Scotiæ Franciæ et Hiberniæ
Rex fidei defensor &c., Johanni Stotheridge patri et Johanni
Stotheridge filio ac omnibus aliis personis aliquod Juris status
tituli clamei vel demandæ de vel in tribus tenementis et
hereditamentis inferius mentionatis per vel subtus vos prefatos
Johannem et Johannem habentibus clamatum vel vendicatum
et eorum cuilibet salutem. Cum quoddam finale Judicium sive
decretum coram nobis in Curia Cancellariatus nostra, nuper
[p. 169] redditum extitit sub hoc qui sequitur verborum tenore,
Whereas heretofore the Master amd fellowes of Gonvile and
Caius Colledge withim the Universitie of Cambridge complainant
exhibited their Bill of Complaints into this honourable and
high Court of Chancery against John Stotheridge the father
and John Stotheridge the somne defendants declaring by the
same, QÜbat fmberga3 William Cuttimg them late of West
Tilburie in the Countie of Essex deceased was in his life time
lawfully seized in his demeasmes as of Fee of and in certaine
lands and Tenements in West Tilburie aforesaid and Chadwell
called or knowne by the name ornames of Allens alias Rumbold
by him purchased of Justinian Champneys and Hugo Gatton
gent. of the cleare yearely value above all things and reprized
of . . . . . and the same held by Soccage tenure of the
DONATIO GULIELMI CUTTING. 227
Lord of the Fee thereof and being so seized the twentieth day
of June in the yeare of our Lord One thousand five hundred
four score and nineteene did declare and make his last will and
testament in writing, and of his charitable and good minde and
for and towards the mayntenaunce of foure poore Schollers in
the said Colledge for ever in and by his said last Will and
Testament he the said William Cutting did will and bequeath
to the said Complainants and their successours for ever twenty
marks yearely to be issuing and going out of the said Lands
and Tenements, the first payment to beginn at the Feast of St
Michael the Archangel next after his decease, and that upon
every default of payment there should be forfeited to the said
Complainants and their successours forty shillings nomine
poenae with a power to distreyne as well for the arrearage of
the said twenty marks yearely as also for the nomine poenae
aforesaid. And by the same his last will and testament as well
for the free advancement of one John Stotheridge the first borne
sonne of Eleanor the wife of John Stotheridge of London car-
penter with the residue and surplusage of the rents issues and
profitts of the said Lands and tenements over and above the
said twenty marks yearely and upon speciall trust and con-
fidence that he did repose in the said John Stotheridge the
sonne that he would performe such his charitable purpose and
intention for or towards the maintenance of foure poore Schollers
in the said Colledge by the yearely payment of the said summe
of twenty marks for ever, he the said William Cutting amongst
divers other lands and tenements did will and bequeath the
[p. 17O] said Lands and tenements so by him charged or
meant to be charged with the said payment of twenty marks to
the said Complainants as aforesaid. And that immediately
after his decease for part and after the determination of the
Estate of his wife for the rest to the said John Stotheridge the
sonne and to the heyres of his body lawfully begotten as by the
said last will and Testament in writing more fully did and might
appeare. And that the said William Cutting as being seized
and having declared his last will and testament as aforesaid
shortly after died. And that since the death of the said
William Anne alias Tamakin wife of the said William Cutting
15–2
228 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
about the Feast of the birth of our Lord which was in the yeare
of our Lord one thousand six hundred and eight also dyed.
And that by and after her decease and by reason of the last
Will and Testament of the said John Stotheridge the sonne or
the said John Stotheridge the Father for and to the use of his
said sonne into all and every the said lands and tenements had
entred and all and everie the rents issues and profitts of the
same had taken and had as the same disposed and converted
to their or one of their uses. And that although they had
been often required on the behalfe of the said complaynants to
make payment of the said twenty marks yearely according to
the true meaning of the said last Will and testament yet they
and either of them had altogether refused so to doe. And upon
pretence that there was some defect or imperfection in Law in
the assurance and conveyance of the said yearely rent of twenty
marks as aforesaid made to the said complaynants it being
onely by the last will and Testament of the said Cutting as
aforesaid they the said defendants had and still minded to
defraud the said trust and misimploy the said twenty marks
yearely meant to the charitable use and purpose aforesaid con-
trary to Equitie and good conscience. And for that the charitable
uses might be established and for reliefe herein the said Com-
playmants humbly prayed processe of subpoena out of this
honourable Court against the said defendants for their answer
to the said Bill which being awarded and the said defendants
therewith served the said John Stotheridge the father appeared
accordingly, And for answer to so much thereof as touched him
this defendant and his sonne John Stotheridge in the Bill
named who was an infant of the age of fourteen yeares and for
the better satisfaction of this honourable Courte said that the
said William Cutting in the Bill named was in his life time
[p. 171] seized in his demeasne as of Fee of and in the Lands
and Tenements in West Tylburie and Chadwell in the Countie
of Essex called or knowne by the name of Allens and Rumbolds .
by him purchased of Justinian Champneyes and Eugenie Gatton
held by soccage tenure as in the Bill was sett forth as the
defendant tooke it and being so seized made his last will and
testament in writing to such or the like effect for that part
DONATIO GULIELMI CUTTING. 229
..e.
thereof as in the said Bill was alledged, wherein for further
certainty this defendant referred himselfe to the said will, and
that the said William Cutting afterward that is to say the
fourth daie of March in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand
five hundred nynety nine as this defendant took it dyed and
departed this life. And that after his death this defendant
resorted to Maister Doctor Legge then Maister of the said
Colledge and acquainted him with the said Will but all the life
of the said Anna alias Tamakyn the Master and fellowes of the
said Colledge (upon what private agreement betweene her and
them or in what respect this defendant knoweth not) did not
destreyne for the said rent. And as this defendant was verily
perswaded that in case the said Anne should have held the
premisses subject unto and charged with the same rent that
then shee would not have accepted of the said devyse but would
have forsaken the same and her jointure therein and have
resorted to the Customes of London, the same Cutting being a
Freeman of the same Cittie, which would have been more
beneficiall unto her (as the said defendant alledged) then the
said jointure or devise charged with the said rent. And that
howbeit shee lived many yeares after her husband yet all
that while the said Master and Fellowes though they were
made acquainted with the said will would not take any benefitt
thereby or distreyne for the said rent or the arrearages thereof
and that the said Anne about two yeares then last past dyed
and left a good personall Estate behind her (as this defendant
had heard) with whose executours the said Maister and fellowes
had made some composition and agreement (as this defendant
verely thought). And this defendant further said that as he
tooke it a devyse to a Corporation or body politique was
utterly voyd and not warranted by the statute that enhableth
devyses of landes. And that the said lands out of which the
said rents should Issue were not within any borough where the
said Land by Custome might be devysed. And that this
defendant sithence the death of the said Anne Cutting had
taken the profitts of the said lands so thought to be charged
in the behalfe of his said sonne John Stotheridge being an
[p. 172] infant to whom the same rightfully apperteyned (as
230 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
he tooke it) And this defendant traversing the rest of the said
Bill of complaint concluded his said Answere as by the said Bill
and answear, remaining of record in this honourable Court
doth and may more at large appeare. &nt foragmuti) as this
Courte was afterwards that is to say the fourth daie of June
last past informed by Mr Sergeant Mountayne being of the
Plaintiffe Counsell that the defendant had by his aunswer
confessed that William Cutting deceased did by his will devyse
certeyne lands in the Bill mencioned unto his wife for life and
after to the said John Stotheridge and the heyres of his body
with remaynders over, and did out of the said lands devyse to
the Plaintiffes twenty marks a yeare for ever towards the
maintenance of foure poore Schollers there which rent charge
was paid by the said wife during her life accordingly as it was
alledged, but the defendants did then refuse to pay the same for
that they supposed the said devyse to be void for that the said
Colledge was not capable thereof by the said devise. Hºt mag
therefore ordered that a subpoena should be awarded against
the defendant to shew cause the first day of the then next
Tearme wherefore they should not pay to the said Plaintiffes
the said rent charge or annuity according to the said will. And
wherefore the said John Stotheridge the younger should not at
his coming of full age make assurance thereof to some indifferent
persons for payment thereof accordingly, Bom forasmuch as Mr
Thomas Crewe being of the defendants Counsell came according
to the said order and endeavoured to shew cause for stay of
payment of the said rent and arrearages but shews no such
cause at this Courte allowed of, it is therefore this present
tearme of St Michael the Archangel that is to say on Fryday
being the eleventh day of October in the yeare of the reigne
of our Soveraigne Lord James by the Grace of God King of
England Scotland France and Ireland defender of the Faith &c.,
That is to say of England France and Ireland the ninth, and of
Scotland the five and fortieth, by the right honourable Thomas
Lord Ellesmere Lord Chauncellour of England and the high
Courte of Chauncery aforesaid, QBrücret abjunggū and #Becrett
that the defendant shall from henceforth pay unto the plain-
tiffes the said rents of twenty marks a yeare according to the
GUILIELMI WEBB MONUMENTUM. 231
will and devise of the said William Cutting, And that the said
defendant shall also pay to the plaintiffes all the arrearages
[p. 173] thereof incurred simce the death of the wife of the
said Cuttimg, The one halfe thereof to be paid at or upom the
Feast daie of the Annunciation of our Lady next coming and
the other halfe thereof at Christmas next after.—Vobis igitur
prefato Johanni Stotheridge patri et Johanni Stotheridge filio
ac aliis personis prememoratis firmiter injungendum precipimus
quod omnia et singula in Judicio sive Decreto predicto contenta
et specificata quatenus vos seu vestrum aliquem tangunt seu in
aliquo concernunt faciatis perimpleatis et exequamini indilate
cum effectu et hoc sub periculo incumbente nullatenus omittatis
nec omittat vestrum aliquis, (Te£t£ me ipso apud Westmonaste-
rium, decimo die Februarii Anno Regni Nostri Angliæ Franciæ
et Hiberniæ nono et Scotiæ quadragesimo quinto.
Phelips C.
Scholares primi ex fundatione Domini Cuttings fuere
Dominus Tylnie, Ds Blanks, Ds Prujean, Clemens Vincent, ut
patet ex actis Collegii a festo Michaelis 1612.
Anno 1613
Gulielmo Webb, hujus Collegii commensali, ponitur ex
marmore Cippus, in forma rhombi, media in area interioris
sacelli cum hac inscriptione.
Marmore si quæras cujus latet urna sub isto,
A dextra paries nomen cum stemmate monstrat.
Cui ex adverso ad *australem parietem figitur monumentum
aliud, nomine stemmate inscriptis his verbis.—Tela Præcio-
sissima est homo, fide in Christo intextus.
Inhumatur sub marmore et regione posito Gulielmus Webb,
filius et hæres Gulielmi Webb Equitis Aurati, in Comitatu
Dorcestriæ; quem genuit ex dilectissima conjuge sua Elizabetha
Branthwayte, germana sorore Gulielmi Branthwayte Magistri
* Monumentum hoc ad borealem parietem translatum fuit am. D. 1755 quo
Monumentum Rev"* admodum Thomæ Gooch S. T. P. Episcopi Eliensis et
Custodis ex adverso ejus ad australem parietem figebatur.
232 ANNALS OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS.
hujus Collegii, a quo ascriptus est in hoc Collegium, annum
agens aetatis suae decimum tertium, atoue postguam annos
quatuor hic et Oxoniae summa cum laude complevisset, pie et
placide obdormivit in Domino Junii viºAnno Domini 1613.
Mors sua tela rotans telam contorsit in istam,
Tela viget telo, moriens sit morte perennis.
[p. 174] A richer Webb then any art can weave,
The soule that faith to Christ makes firmely cleave.
This webb can death, nor devills sunder, or untwist
For Christ and grace both groundworke are and list.
Hoc eodem anno, apoplexia nobis eripuit Johannem
Fletcher, ex agro Eboracensi nativum, et hujus Collegii socium,
vir sane hic communi literatorum sorte eximendus, supra vulgus
enim eruditorum sapuit, et in arcana naturae penetrare ausus
est, abstrusioribus nimirum studiis (Astrologicis presertim)
addictissimus, non absque famae dispendio apud iniquos quos-
dam censores. Hujus institutioni, Henricus Brigges Johannensis,
celeberrimus Mathematices Professor, primo Gresshamiensis
postea Oxoniae Savilianus debet, tum initia tum progressus
foelices in literis mathematicis, et etiam e Collegio Jesu
Dominus Gulielmus Boswell postea Eques Auratus aliique
plurimi sub eius institutione claruere, Domino Christophero
Heydon in opere suo edendo de defensione Astrologiae Judicialis,
non levi fuit adjumento, imo corrigendo, mutando, addendo,
integra capita, etc., effecit ut opus illud suum pene dici merea-
tur, sicut testantur et agnoscunt literae Domini Christophori
frequentes de hac re ad Fletcherum datae, quas saepius inspexi-
mus; ob medicam peritiam inter fiorentissimos tunc temporis
medicos in honore habitus est ; sed de scriptis ejus extat
tantum unum anglice de Indiciis seu probationibus urinarum ;
post mortem plurima reliquit in scriptis, quae non sine magno
reipublicae literariae damno (at haeredis commodo) ad aliorum
privatos usus transiere. Ex eius dono Collegium possidet
sphaeram aeneam armillatam, in bibliotheca publica repositam.
Haeres ei posuit monumentum marmoreum, in ipso aditu ad
MONUMENTA IN SACELLO. 233
sacellum interius; unde continuo pedum attritu Epigraphes ad
marginem monumenti insculptæ quædam verba detrita et
deleta sunt. Hoc anno quo hæc scribimus, scil. 1655, inscrip-
tionis quod restat quaque adhuc legentium oculis patet, sic se
habet. -
Hic jacet Johannes Fletcher Eboracensis Artium Magister
quondam hujus Collegii socius, multiplici ę ¢ … �
ę ę ę obiit 14° die Octob. Ammo Domini 1618 ætatis
suæ 58°.
Eo ipso tempore, quo Fletchero monumentum fabricaretur,
aliud aliquantulum ad boreale latus sacelli exterioris vergens,
et pavimento æquum juxta positum, erat a Johanne Browne,
socio hujus Collegii in memoriam amici sui desideratissimi
Thomæ Orrell ubi im lamima ænea cippo superfixa talis legitur
inscriptio una cum Stemmate Gentilitio.
[p. 175] Memoriæ Sacrum,
Thomas Orrell de Walsoken in Norff. hujus Collegii olim Socius.
Ingenio mirus, virtute insignis, et arte
Clarus, amicitia candidus, Orrell obiit
Feb. 21, 1602.
Quæ quidem encomia egregia quamvis, tamen infra famam,
si mom et merita viri undequaque ornatissimi fuere ; hic ipse
Johannes Browne Juris Civilis studiosus et in absentia Doctoris
Porter Professor substitutus, qui Procuratoris Academiæ
munere, summa cum laude functus, non diu supererat. Et
quam prope hujus Thomæ Orrell monumento sepultus jacet,
quasi in fatis esset, ut qui im vita essent eonjunctissimi etiam
post fata ossa permiscerent et cineres.
1614
Gratia comcessa est magistro Olivero Greem, quondam hujus
Collegii alumno, ut possit incipere in Medicina. Is arti medicæ
studia mathematica adjunxit, et sub adventum Jacobi Regis
Cantebrigiam, perhumaniter impendit operam suam in re-
ficiendis solariis ad Portam Honoris, alibique per Aream Caii
delineatis, sed pæne detritis; viz. ad boreale illius ædificii latus;
sub Custodis cubiculo ; et etiam circa colummam in illa area
234, ANNALS OF GONVIT, LE ANID CAIUS.
erectam, cujus capiti impositum erat execontahedrum, tot
solariis decoratum, quæ omnia longo temporis tractu deformata
et pene deleta, pristino splendori et usui restituit. Hujus e
prædiis est vicus ille apud nos illius de nomine dictus, Greene
street, et ab ipsis fundamentis totus recenter extructus ; quo
opere Cantebrigiæ prospexit, non defore incolas, nec hæredibus
suis auctiores redditus.
. Hoc ammo convenit inter Edwardum Foxtom, Nathanielem
Cradocke, et Agnetam Rogers ex una parte, et inter Gulielmum
Branthwaite sacræ Theologiæ doctorem Magistrum sive Custo-
dem Collegii de Gonvile et Caius, fundati in honorem Annun-
ciationis beatæ Mariæ virginis, im universitate Cantebrigiæ, et
socios ejusdem Collegii ex altera parte, de emptione Mamerii et
terrarum dominicalium, una cum annexis in Shelford magna,
cujus conventionis exitus hic erat, viz. ut ob summam bis mille
librarum per dictos Custodem et socios, in manus predictorum
Edwardi, Nathanielis et Agnetis, solutam, hi, omne jus suum
et interesse vendiderunt, concesserunt etc. prænominatis Custodi
sociis et successoribus suis, in predicto manerio cum omnibus
pertimentiis, (exceptis domo mansionis cujusdam Christopheri
[p. 176] Rogers defuncti et decem acris terræ arabilis, etc. in
dicta, villa de Shelford magna) habendis, temendis, sibi et
successoribus suis, ex domino Rege, ut ex Mamerio ejus de East
Greenwych, in comitatu Cantii, in libera temura de soca, ob am-
muum redditum sex librarum, regi ejusque successoribus pro
molendino perpetuo solvendarum. Quæ omnia fusius patent ex
eorum scripto indentato et dato vicesimo sexto Septembris
annoque Domini 1614. Quod scriptum, ex parte, huc transcribi
curavimus.
(Tbíg Émù£mture made the six and twentieth day of Septem-
ber in the twelfth yeare of the Reigne of our Soveraigne Lord
James by the grace of God king of England France and Ireland
defender of the Faith etc. and of Scotland the eight and
Fortieth, 1614, 33etfmeeme Edward Foxtom of the Towne of
Cambridge in the Countie of Cambridge Gentlemam Nathaniel
Cradocke the Elder of the Towne and Countie aforesaid Draper
and Agnes Rogers widdow ]ate wife of Ghristopher Rogers late
of great Shelford in the said Countie of Cambridge Gent.
MANERIUM TXE SHELFORD. 235
deceased on the one parte, And the right worshipfull William
Branthwayte D* of Divinity Master or keeper of the Colledge
of Gonvile and Caius founded in the honour of the Annunciation
of the blessed Mary the Virgine in the Universitie of Cambridge
and the Fellowes of the same Colledge on the other parte,
&Hitmeggetſ) that whereas the said Christopher Rogers by his
last will and testament in writing made the eight day of May
last past before the day of the date above written did will
devyse and bequeath to the said Edward Nathaniel and Agnes
his Mannor of Shelford alias Greate Shelford and all his houses
lands and tenements and hereditaments in Greate Shelforde
aforesaid or elswhere in the said Countie of Cambridge (except
his then Mansion house and all the lands by him purchased of
John Goldwell Esquire) to the purpose and intents that the
same should be sold for valuable consideration within foure
yeares after his decease as by the said last will and testament
prooved before Sir John Bennet Knight Judge of the Preroga-
[p. 177] tive Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury more
fully doth and may appeare, JBoſn the said Edward Foxton
Nathaniel Cradocke and Agnes Rogers for and in consideration
of the summe of two thousand pounds of lawfull money of
England to them in hand by the said Master or keeper and
Fellowes of Gonvile and Caius Colledge aforesaid well and
truely contented and paid, whereof and wherewith the said
Edward Nathaniel and Agnes doe acknowledge themselves and
every of them to be satisfied and the said Master or keeper and
fellowes and their successors to be thereof clearely acquitted
and discharged for ever by these presents, #2abe bargained sold
aliened granted conveyed and confirmed and by these presents
doe fully clearely and absolutely bargaine and sell alien graunt
convey and confirme to the said Master or keeper and fellowes
of Gonvile and Caius Colledge founded in the honour of the
Annunciation of blessed Mary the virgine in the Universitie of
Cambridge åll that the Mannor of Shelford alias Great Shelforde
in the said Countie of Cambridge and all lands tenements rents
and hereditaments whatsoever in the said Countie of Cambridge
called or knowne by the name of the Mannor of Shelford alias
Great Shelford sometimes parcell of the possessions of the late
236 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS,
Bishop of Ely, £int all that watermill within the said Mamnor
of Shelford alias Great Shelford late parcell of the said Mannor,
ànt all and singular Messuages houses edifices buildings barnes
stables dovehouses orchards gardens lands tenements meadowes
pastures feedings commons demeasme lands glebe lands void
grounds waies paths the rights of yeereholts wares milldames
floodgates waters watercourses river bankes pooles bonds wastes
heathes furres moores marches woods underwoods and trees and
all the lands grounds and soyle of the same woods underwoods
and trees and everie of them and everie parcell of the same and
also all oblations offerings profitts fishing places fishings suits
sokes suit to mill customes moulture warrens mynes quarries
rents revertions and services rents charge rent secke and the
rents and services as well of free as of customary tenants the
workes of tenements farmes fee farmes annuities knights fees
wards marriages escheates reliefes herriotts fines amerciaments
court leetsviewes of franckpledge perquisites and profitts of courts
and leets and all that doth belong to courts and leets and view
[p. 178] of franckpledge and goodes waved bondmen bond-
weomen villaines with their sequell estovers and common of
estovers fayres marketts tolles customarie tolles rights jurisdic-
tions franchises priviledges liberties profitts advantages emolu-
ments and hereditaments whatsoever with everie their appurte-
naunces of whatsoever mature kind or sort they bee or by
whatsoever names they are knowne or called to the said
Mannour mill and premisses by these presents bargained and
sold or any of them or to any parcell of the same by any meanes
belonging or appurteyning incident or appendant or as member
part or parcell of the same being heretofore had knowne and
accepted occupied used or reputed, &nt all other courtsleets
viewes of franckpledge profitts lawdayes assessies and assize of
bread wine beere and ale fellons goods goods of fugitives and
felons of themselves and of outlawes deodands knights fees
wards marriages escheats releifes harriotts free warren and all
other rights jurisdictions liberties franchises priveledges cus-
tomes profittes commodities emoluments and hereditaments
whatsoever within the said Mannor Mill lands tenements and
premisses aforesaid in as large ample and beneficiall manner
MANERIUM DE SHELFORD. 237
and forme as the said Christopher Rogers late held and enjoyed
the same or of right ought to have held and enjoyed
the same and as the same are devised to the said Edward
Nathaniel and Agnes in and by the last will and Testament of
the said Christopher aforesaid. &nt the revercion and revercions
of all and singular the premisses before mencioned to be bar-
gained and sold and of every parcell of the same depending or
expecting of in or upon any demyse or graunt for tearme of life
lyves or yeares or otherwise of the premisses above by these
presents mencioned to be bargained and sold or of any parcell
of the same, And also all and singular rents and yearely profitts
whatsoever reserved upon any demyse or grant made of and
upon the premisses or of and upon any parcell of the same, And
the rents and yearely profitts of all and singular the premisses
above by these presents bargained and sold and everie parcell
thereof. 35xcept and alwayes reserved the Mansion house above
mencioned wherein the said Christopher Rogers dwelled at the
time of his decease and the tenements arable lands pasture and
meadow being sometimes the Coppyhold of John Goldwell
Esq.” parcell of the said Mannor of Shelford alias Greate
Shelford and late purchased by the said Christopher Rogers of
[p. 179] the said John Goldwell, Qſo babe and bolt, the said
Mannour Mill messuages lands liberties franchises priviledges
profittes commodities hereditaments and premisses all and
singular with their and everie their appurtenaunces (except
before excepted) to the said Master or keeper and fellowes of
Gonevile and Caius Colledge founded in the honour of the
Annunciation of blessed Mary the Virgine in the Universitie of
Cambridge and their successours to the onely use and behoofe
of the said Master or keeper and Fellowes and of their succes-
sours for ever. Qſo bolt of our Soveraigne Lord the Kings
Majestie that now is his heyres and successours as of his
Mannour of East Greenwych in the Countie of Kent by fealtie
onely in free and common soccage and not in cheife or by
knights service, ànd rendring and paying yearly to the same
our soveraigne Lord the King his heyres and successours of and
for the said Mill with the appurtenaunces Six pounds of lawfull
money of England at the receipt of his Exchequer at West-
238 ANNALS of GON VILLE AND CAIUs.
minster and of his heyres and successours or to the hands of the
Bayliffes or receivers of the premisses for the time being at the
Feast of St Michael the Archangel and the Annunciation of
blessed Marie the virgine by equall portions yearely to be paid
for ever for all other rents services exactions and demaunds
whatsoever for the same Mill or premisses to the same our
Soveraigne Lord our king his heyres or successours by any
meanes to be rendered paid or done. &nt the said Edward
Foxton Nathaniel Cradocke Agnes Rogers for them their
heyres Executors and Administrators and everie of them doe
Covenaunt promise and grant to and with the said Master or
keeper and fellowes of Gonvile and Caius Colledge founded in
the honour of the Annunciation of blessed Mary the virgine in
the Universitie of Cambridge and their successours by these
presents that for or notwithstanding any act or acts thing or
things had made suffered or done or to be had made suffered
or done hereafter by them the said Nathaniel Agnes or any of
them or the said Christopher Rogers or any of the deceased
they the said Edward Nathaniel and Agnes or some of them
now are and bee and so shall continue and bee untill the first
execution of an estate had and made by the said Master or
keeper and fellowes of Gonvile and Caius Colledge and their
successours by or upon these presents according to the Cove-
naunts and agreements hereafter in these presents conteyned
lawfully and rightfully according to the said will seised of the
said Mannour Mill messuages lands tenements liberties franchises
priviledges profitts commodities hereditaments and premisses
[p. 18O] all and singular above mentioned to be bargained
and sold with their and everie their appurtenaunces of a good
and perfect and lawfull estate in fee simple to them conveyed
and devised in and by the last will and testament of the said
Christopher Rogers deceased without any condicion limitation
use or devise to alter change or make void the same other then
in the said will is conteyned. And that there is no reversion
or reversions remaynder or remaynders of the said Mannor Mill
lands tenements hereditaments and premisses all and singular
of any part or parcell of the same in the kings Majestie his
heyres and successours by their act consent or procurement or
MANERIUM DE SHELFORD, 239
by the act consent or procurement of any of them. &nt that
the said Edward Nathaniel and Agnes or some or one of them
have for anything done or suffered to the contrarie by them or
anie of them or the said Christopher Rogers deceased full power
good right and lawfull authority to bargaine and sell convey
and assure the said Mannour Mill messuages lands tenements
liberties franchises priviledges profitts commodities heredita-
ments and premisses all and singular with their and everie
their appurtenaunces except before excepted to the said Master
or keeper and fellowes of Gonvile and Caius Colledge aforesaid
and their successours in manner and forme aforesaid. &nd that
they the said Master or keeper and fellowes of Gonvile and
Caius Colledge aforesaid and their successours shall and may for
ever hereafter for or notwithstanding any act or acts thing or
things had made done or suffered by them the said Nathaniel
and Agnes and the said Christopher Rogers deceased or anie of
them peaceably and quietly have hold possesse and enjoy the
said Mannor Mill messuages lands tenements liberties franchises
priviledges profitts commodities and hereditaments and pre-
misses all and singular with their and everie of their appurte-
naunces (except before excepted) cleere and clearely acquitted
and discharged or otherwise upon reasonable request from time
to time for ever hereafter sufficiently saved and kept harmelesse
by them the said Edward Nathaniel and Agnes their heyres
executours and administrators and everie of them and from all
and all manner of former bargaines sales gifts grants leases
joyntures dowers intayle uses devises condicions lymitations
forfeitures seisures clauses of forfeiture and seisure intrusions
rents-charge rents-secke arrearages of rent statutes marchaunt
and of the staple recognizances judgements executions and all
[p. 181] other tytles troubles charges and incumbraunces
whatsoever had made suffered or done by the said Christopher
Rogers deceased or them the said Edward Nathaniel and Agnes
or any of them the said fee farme rent of six pounds yearely
and other the rents and services hereafter to be due to the
cheife Lord or Lords of the fee or fees thereof onely except and
foreprized. &nd the said Edward Nathaniel and Agnes for
them and everie of them and the heyres executors and adminis-
240 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND . CAIUS.
trators of them and everie of them doe further covenaunt
promise and graunt to and with the said Master or keeper and
fellowes of Gonvile and Caius Colledge founded in the honour
of the Annunciation of blessed Mary the virgine in the Univer-
sitie of Cambridge and their successours by these presents that
they the said Edward Nathaniel and Agnes at all times here-
after during the tearme of three yeares and halfe next ensuing
the day of the date above written upon reasonable request and
at the costs and charges in law of the said Master or keeper and
fellowes and their successours shall and will acknowledge doe
suffer make and execute or cause to be acknowledged suffered
made and executed all and every such other and further act and
acts thing and things devise and devises in the law for the
further and better conveying assuring and sure making of the
said Mannor Myll messuages lands tenements liberties fran-
chyeses priviledges profitts commodities hereditaments and
premisses all and singular above mencioned to be bargained and
sold with their and everie their appurtenaunces unto the said
Master or keeper and fellowes and their successours for ever
be it deed of feofment deed inrolled the enrollment of these
presents fyne with proclamacions recoverie with voucher or
vouchers release confirmation with warranty against them the
said Edward Foxton Nathaniel Cradocke and Agnes Rogers
their and everie of their heyres and the heyres of the said
Christopher Rogers deceased and everie of them and by all the
said wayes and meanes and by such and so many of them
or otherwise with warranty onely as aforesaid as shall be
reasonably advised or devised by the said Master or keeper and
fellowes and their successors or by their or any of their learned
counsell in the law, $50 ag they the said Edward Foxton
Nathaniel Cradocke and Agnes Rogers nor any of them be
compelled thereabouts to travaile from their dwelling places
further then to Great Shelford and the towne of Cambridg
aforesaid, Éint for the consideration aforesaid the said Edward
[p. 182] Nathaniel and Agnes have bargained and sold
granted and confirmed and by these presents doe bargaine sell
grant and confirme to the said Master or keeper and fellowes
of the Colledge aforesaid and their successours, All deeds
MANERIUM DE SHELFORD, 241
charters letters patents exemplifications court rolles rent rolles
bayliffes accompts fynes transcripts of fynes and all other
writings and muniments whatsoever concerning the said Mannor
mill and premisses or any part or parcell of the same, with all
and singular in the possession of them or any of them, they
the said Edward Nathaniel and Agnes for them their heyres
executors and administrators and every of them doe covenaunt
promise and grant to and with the said Master or keeper and
fellowes of the said Colledge and their successours to delyver
or cause to be delivered to them the said Master or keeper
and fellowes at the ensealing and delivery of these presents
whole and uncancelled, or in such sort as the said Edward
Nathaniel or Agnes or any of them late had and enjoyed the
same. Him ſmitme;52 whereof the parties first above named to one
part of these presents severally have sett their seales and to the
other part of these presents the said Master or keeper and
fellowes of the said Colledge have sett their common seale the
day and yeare first above written.
Capta fuit et recognita die mense et anno Suprascriptis,
videlicet 26 Septembris 1614, Goram me Henrico Moweldur
uno magistrorum Cancellariae extraordinariorum. Recognitores
Cognosco.
Noverint universi per presentes nos Edwardum Foxton de
villa Cantebrigiae in Comitatu Cantabrigiae generosum, Na-
thanielem Cradocke de eisdem villa et Comitatu pannarium,
et Agnetam Rogers de Shelford magna in Comitatu predicto
viduam, teneri et firmiter obligari Willelmo Branthwayte sacrae
Theologiae Professori Magistro sive Custodi Collegii de Gonvile
et Caius fundati in honorem annunciationis beatae Mariae
Virginis in Universitate Cantabrigiae et sociis ejusdem Collegii
in tribus mille libris bonæ et legalis monetae Angliae solvendis
eisdem Magistro sive Custodi et sociis Collegii predicti aut
eorum certo attornato vel successoribus Suis, ad quam solu-
tionem bene et fideliter faciendam obligamus nos et quemlibet
nostrum per se pro toto ac in solido haeredes executores et
[p. 188] administratores mostros per presentes sigillis nostris
sigillatas. Datum vicesimo sexto die Septembris anno Regni
C.A. S. Octavo Series. No. XI. -- 16
242 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS,
Domini nostri Jacobi Dei Gratia Angliae Francia et Hiberniæ
Regis, fidei defensoris, etc., duodecimo.
Sigillata subscripta et tradita in presentia
Gilberti North.
Philippi Tylney.
The condicion of this obligacion is such that if the within
bounden Edward Foxton Nathaniel Cradocke and Agnes Rogers
their heyres executours and administratours and everie of them
doe well and truelie observe performe fulfill and keep all and
singular the covenaunts grants articles and agreements which
on their and everie of their parts are to be observed performed
and kept, mencioned and expressed in one paire of indentures
of bargaine and sale bearing date the day of the date within
written, made between them the said Edward Nathaniel and
Agnes on the one part and the within named Master or Keeper
and fellowes of Gonvile and Caius Colledge founded in the
honour of the annunciation of blessed Mary the virgine in the
Universitie of Cambridge on the other part, in and by all
things according to the tenor effect and true meaning of the
same, then this present obligacion to be void and of none effect
or els shall bee and remayne in all force strength and vertue.
Quod ad distributionem spectat reddituum Manerii de
Shelforde magna memorandum quod conventum erat inter
Custodem et socios ut Custos reciperet decem libras, et quilibet
e sociis senioribus quinque libras quotannis; quod superesset
cederet cistae communi.
Anno 1615
Hoc anno Londini fatis cessit Edwardus Wright Norfol-
ciensis, de Garveston, et hujus Collegii olim socius, vir morum
simplicitate et candore omnibus gratus, et ob peritiam in
mathematicis disciplinis celeberrimus, it a ut a Richardo Hackluit
Anglicarum navigationum scriptore non in merito audit mathe-
maticus præstantissimus et machinalis Scientiae peritissimus:
quibus studiis quantum inservivit publico et privatorum com-
modo abunde constat, tum ex ejus scriptis editis, tum ex
EDWARDUS WRIGHT, MATHEMATICUS. 243
mechanicis operationibus quamplurimis, quæ passim extant
certissima monumenta industriæ summæ et ingenii non vulgaris.
Is primus agressus est opus illud arduum sed utile quo rivulus
ille ab oppido Ware, novo canali deductus, Londinum irrigat,
sed aliorum fraudibus inchoatum opus quo minus perficeret
impeditus erat ; hic mente manuque valens, me vel ingeniosissimo
mechanico cedebat in instrumentis, vel ex ære, vel alia quavis
materia, fabricandis; hujus inventioni debetur quicquid Hom-
dianæ chartæ Geographicæ cæteris præstant, Wrightus enim
[p. 184] noster Jodochum Hondium edocuit modum, hac-
tenus incognitum, illas conficiendi; sed ingratus Homdius, nomine
authoris veri celato, sibimet inventionis gloriam aucupatus est ;
de cujus fraude non immerito conquestus est vir optimus, in
præfatione ad librum de erroribus in arte navigandi; quem
longa fidaque experientia summo cum judicio scripsit magno
cum commodo rei nauticæ; ad quam promovemdam, prelector
mathematices a societate Indica in ædibus dignissimi equitis
Thomæ Smith conductus est, salario in singulos annos quinqua-
ginta librarum ; quo munere, nec suæ famæ nec auditorum
commodo deerat ; edidit, quoque Anglice librum de sphæra
aliumque de arte conficiendi sciotherici, et doctissimi Gulielmi
Gilberti libro de magnete præfationem præposuit eruditam ;
his aliisque scriptis posteritati famam sui commendavit. Hic
adhuc Collegii socius latere privato Musæo non poterat, quin
ad publica regni negotia obeunda regiis literis accersitus est;
jussusque ut Comiti Cumberlandiæ in maritimis quibusdam
expeditionibus præsto esset, harum unam fideliter enarravit,
ad modum Diarii seu Ephemeridis ; cui præfixit chartam
hydrographicam elegantem et a se inventam. Paulo ante
obitum, impendit operam versioni Anglicanæ Logarithmorum
ex nupera inventione honoratissimi Domini Napier Scoti, qui
hunc virum ardentissimo affectu amplexus est. Hunc librum
posthumum paulo post edidit filius ejus unicus Samuel Wright,
et ipse hujus quoque Collegii alumnus. Alia quam multa et
perutilia meditatus, morte preventus perficere non potuit. De
hoc viro vere dici potest quod publico commodo suum post-
habuit commodum ; quo fit ut fama tantum clarus, et aliorum
promissis dives, re pauper, obiit, non suo sed ingrati seculi
16—2
244 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS,
vitio; literas regias supra memoratas, quibus illud munus capes-
sere jussus est, in Annalibus hucusque omissas, et in Collegii
Actis a festo Annunciationis 1593 repertas, ut et Collegii
concessionem huic elogio, subjungere aequum esse duximus, viz.
11° Maii. In sacello litterae Regineae Majestatis lectae
erant in Collegio coram omnibus sociis presentibus, ut magister
Wright abesse Collegio possit, quamdiu Comiti Cumberlandiae
in regni negotiis inserviret, et aliter; et ut interim omnes
fructus sodalitii et emolumenta reciperet ac si ipse perpetuo
in Collegio permansisset ; quarum litterarum tenor sequitur
verbatim.
[p. 185] ©lizabetha 3Regina. 36p the QButem.
Trustie and welbeloved wee greet you well.
Forasmuch as wee have occasion to use the service of our
welbeloved subject Edward Wright Master of Arts, and fellow
of that house of Gonvile and Caius Colledge under the charge
of our right trustie and right welbeloved cosin the Earle of
Cumberland, whom we doe presently employ in speciall affaires
for the service of us and our Realme, and understanding that
by the Statutes of the said Colledge, the said Wright may not
be absent without the losse of such benefitts as groweth unto
him by the place he hath there, Our will and pleasure is not
onelie to license him to depart out of this our Realme, for our
service with our said cousin of Cumberland, but that also he
shall retaine and enjoy his fellowship, and receive all such
benefitts and commodities which he hath or ought to have in
the said Colledge, and otherwise as largely and amply as if he
were present and resident and in commons there for and during
the time that he shall be employed anywaie in our service,
by our said cousin or otherwise, and for and during the said
time to be freed and dispensed with for and from disputations
or anie exercises of learning to be done by the said Wright
in the Colledge, or in the Universitie. And to that end wee
doe by these presents, of our power and prerogative royall,
not onlie dispense with him the said Wright for his absence
and all other the premisses and with the Statutes and ordi-
TESTAMENTUM STEPHANI PERSE. 245
nances of the Colledge and other Statutes whatsoever in his
behalfe, but also will and command you the Master and
fellowes of the house for the time being, or anie others to whom
it doth or maie appertaine, to cause all such allowances and
commodities as are or shall be due unto him to be duely made
and answered to him the said Wright, or to such as he shall
assigne to his use during all the time of his absence or employ-
ment as aforesaid, in as ample and beneficiall manner as
otherwise being present should receive the same. Hereof faile
not as you tender our pleasure, and will answer the contrarie
at your perill. Given under our signet at our mannour Nonsuch
the sixt day of June 1593, in the five and thirtieth year of
our Reigne.
1615
[p. 186] Pridie Calendarum Octobris hujus anni obiit
Stephanus Perse Norfolciensis medicinae doctor, et hujus
Collegii socius spatio quadraginta annorum et quod excurrit.
Frugi erat hic homo et providus, unde longo temporis tractu
haud exiguus divitiarum cumulus longeque ultra communem
Academicorum sortem ei accrevit: quarum magnam partem
impendi voluit operibus publicis; partim Collegii, partim oppi-
danorum aliorumque commoditatibus destinatis; ille etenim
moriens quinquies mille libras testamento legavit, quibus ejus
executores Collegio compararent annuos redditus ducentarum
et quinquaginta librarum, quingentis insuper libris legatis
quibus sociis et scholaribus ex ejus fundatione commode pro-
visum esset de habitatione. Quae ad istorum reddituum distri-
butionem spectant fusius hic enarrare supersedemus, quia
multo clarius ex ipsis testamenti excerptis infrascriptis peti
possunt.
#n the name of Girot & men. The seaven and twentieth daie
of September in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand
six hundred and fifteene, And in the yeare of the reigne of our
Soveraigne Lord King James of England the thirteenth and of
Scotland the nine and fortieth, I Štepjen 33erge of Cambridge
in the Countie of Cambridge, Doctor of Physicke and one of
the fellowes of Gonvile and Caius Colledge in the Universitie
246 ANNAf,S OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
of Cambridge, being in good and perfect remembrance thanks
be given to God, doe make and ordeyne my last will and
testament in manner and forme following, My Soule I commend
to God that gave it hoping that through the mercyes of God
in the meritts of Jesus Christ I shall receive remission and free
pardon of all my sinnes; and my body to decent buriall at the
discretion of my executours, where I desire some monument
may be erected for mee at the discretion of my executours,
and my worldly goods I bequeath as followeth.
#mptimiş I give and bequeath to the corporation of the
cittie of Norwych in the Countie of Norfolke the summe of
two thousand pounds upon condicion that the said corporation
shall upon payment thereof give such sufficient securetie as
my executours or the survivour of them and in their default
as my supervisours shall thinke fitt, to pay to the Master
[p. 187] fellows and schollers of Gonvile and Caius Colledge
in Cambridge, whom I appoint to be supervisours of this my
will, to be paid to my said supervisours to the use of my Will
the summe of one hundred pounds yearely for ever at two
usuall feasts, of St Michael the Archangel and the annum-
ciation of our blessed Virgine Marie, by even portions or within
fourteene dayes next after any of the said feasts, at or in the
Hall of the said Colledge, and also to lend out of the said two
thousand pounds to severall young tradesmen of the said cittie
by several summes of xxx" or xl" at the most upon good securitie
whereupon there shall not be reserved above the rate of five
pounds in the hundred for one whole yeare, and that moe
summe so lent shall remayne in the hands of anie one person
above tenn yeares. Item I give to the corporation of the
towne of Cambridge in the countie of Cambridge the summe
of one thousand pounds. To the corporation of St Edmunds
Burie in the County of Suffolke the summe of one thousand
pounds. And to the corporation of the Towne or Borough of
Kings Lin in the County of Norfolke the summe of one
thousand pounds upon condicion that the three last mencioned
corporations doe respectivelie everie one for themselves give
such sufficient assurance as my executours or the survivours
of them or in their default my supervisours shall thinke fitt,
TESTAMENTUM STEPHANI PERSE. 247
*
to pay to my said supervisours in the Common Dining Hall
of Gonvile and Caius Colledge in Cambridge to the use of this
my will the severall summes of fiftie pounds apeice yearely
for ever at the two feasts of St Michael the Archangel and
the Feast of the Annunciacion of the blessed virgine Marie
by even portions or within fourteene dayes next after either
of the said feasts, and also to lend out of the said severall
Summes of three thousand pounds from time to time by
severall summes of thirtie or forty pounds at the most to
Severall honest young tradesmen of their severall Corporacions
upon good securitie, whereupon there shall not be reserved
for use above the rate of five pounds for everie hundred for
one whole yeare, and that no summe so lent shall remayne in
the hands of any person above ten yeares, which said severall
payments so to be assured and paid to my said supervisours
as is aforesaid in lewe or consideration of the said first thousand
pounds, amounting to two hundred and fiftie pounds per annum,
shall yearely be laid out distributed and bestowed by my
supervisours to such uses of perpetuity as by this my will is
hereafter appointed and declared. Hºtem I give and devise to
my executours hereafter named and to Isaac Barrow gentleman
of Spinney Abbey, Thomas Brocke, Richard Ridding, and
John Wiseman, gentlemen, Robert Lukin gentleman, Na-
thaniel Cradocke, and Henrie King, and their heyres, all those
houses and tenements with the appurtenaunces in the parish of
St Sepulchres in Cambridge sometyme called by the name of
the Horne, and of late by the Antelopp, and which I late bought
[p. 188] and purchased of the aforenamed Isaac Barrow, to
the use and intent that my executours or the survivor of them
shall sell the same to performe the bequests and purposes of
this my will. Hſtem I give and bequeath to my executours and
the other devises of the houses above named, and to their
heyres for ever, all those gardens grounds parcell of the Fryars
now in the occupacion of John Paske Mr . . . . Smithson and
Benjamin Prime or either of them, and also all that parcell
of ground lying betweene the said gardens and the wallnut
trees in the Fryars close, to the intent that my executours
purchasing in such leases as be out of any part of the said
248 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
ground, and purchasing in the garden grounds and tenements
now Mr Wards adjoyning upon the said gardens (if they shall
not be bought in my life time) shall in convenient time, and
within three yeares (if it may be) after my death, erect and
build a convenient house to be used for a Grammer Free
Schoole with one lodging chamber for the master and another
for the usher. And I will that my executours, for the better
effecting thereof, use the best meanes for the obteyning the
two hundred markes heretofore devised by Mr Thomas Cropley
and Mr Bridon to such an use and action when it shall go
forward. &mö I will that a Free Grammar Schoole be there
founded settled and established, with such ordinances as my
executors with the approbacion of the Justices of Assize for
the County of Cambridge then being shall thinke fitt, to which
Free Schoole I will there be elected by my executors during
their lives, and the survivour of them, and after by my super-
visours when it shall fall void, one schoolemaster and one usher
graduates in the Universitie of Cambridge, whereof the schoole-
master to be of the degree of Master of Arts and the Usher a
Batchelour of Arts at least. &nt. I will that after any voidance
of the place of master or usher whensoever any that have
been educated in the same schoole may be found fitt, that
such have the preferment to these places before others. &nt
I will that five score schollers borne in Cambridge Barnewell
Chestertoun and Trumpingtoun, and no more nor any other,
be in the said Free school taught and instructed, and those
freely. And I give to such schoolemaster and usher such
yearely fee and stipend as hereafter in this my will is sett
downe. Hſtem I will and devise that within the circuit of the
[p. 189] grounds last devised where my executours shall
thinke fitt my executours and the survivour of them and in
their default my supervisours after the death of my executours
shall there build with bricke on the forefront six severall low
tenements of one room apeice for habitation of six severall
poore Almesfolkes. £int. I will there to be elected and chosen
by my Executours during their lives and the survivour of
them, and after by my supervisours from time to time, six
poore aged people single and unmarried persons of the age
TESTAMENTUM STEPHANI PERSE. 249
of 40 yeares apeice at the least, out of the parish of St Edwards
and St Michael in Cambridge, and in defaulte of a competent
member there, of the parish of St Bennet, to be placed in the
said Almeshouses to inhabit there during their lives if they
shall well governe and behave themselves; and as any of them
shall dy or be displaced other to be chosen as aforesaid in their
roome. And if any person placed in the said Almshouses shall
by my executours during their tymes, and after by my super-
visours, be founde to be disorderly, or not fitt to continue in
their houses, then the same persons to be displaced and another
to be chosen in their roome, and the yearely stipend to be paid
them as is appointed by my Will. Hºtem I will and ordeyne
six fellowshipps and six scholarships to be founded and settled
in Gonvile and Caius Colledge aforesaid to be called Dr Perses
fellowes and schollers, to be elected and chosen and to have
such stipend as by this my will is appointed. &nt therefore
I will that after the said two hundred and fifty pounds per
annum shall be settled to the performance of my will, there
be chosen by my executours from time to time during their
lives and the survivour of them, and after by my supervisours
from time to time for ever when the places shall fall voide,
six towerd fitt schollers to have scholerships in the said Colledge,
and also six toward fitt schollers, Batchelour of Arts at the
least, to be and have fellowshipps in the said Colledge; and I
will that when any such place of a scholler shall become voyde
that such as have beene of my free schoole instructed and
taught there by the space of three yeares at the least, being
fitt schollers, shall be elected and advaunced to have my places
of schollerships in the said Colledge before any other; and
that when any such place of fellowship shall become voide
I will that such as have beene my schollers in the said Colledge
being fitt schollers be elected and preferred to have my fellows
places there before any other, 33robited that no such fellow
and scholler so to be elected shall for or by reason of such their
[p. 190] places have or claime any benefitt of divident or
other priviledge but shall bee contented with their stipend,
except it shall be hereafter thought fitt by some supreame
authoritie or by the said Colledge to incorporate my said
250 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
fellowes into the body of the said Colledge, and yet notwith-
standing they and every of them shall be holden and bounde
to observe and bee obedient to the statutes of the said Colledge,
upon paine to forfeyte his or theire place or places and thence
to be expelled, if they or any of them shall bee by the Master
and most part of the twelve senior fellows of the ancient
foundation of the said Colledge for the time being found to be
disobedient to the orders and statutes of the said Colledge.
#tem I will that my executours and the survivours of them
shall within three yeares next after my decease make a
sufficient Causey from the further end of Jesus Lane to the
hither end of Barnewell and from the further end of Barnewell
to Qui Causey called Dr Harvies Causey. And I give to the
maintenaunce thereof and to the New Current or River the
yearely summe appointed by this my Will. And I will that
my executours for their lives times and also my supervisours
take yearely a due accompt of the bestowing of those summes
and the due ordering of them ; And I will that my servant
Peter Thatcher putting in good securitie for so much money
as he shall receive, be imployed in the mainteyning of the
said Causey and the bancks for the new River, and have due
allowance for his paines. #tem I will and ordeine the Master
and fellowes of the foundation of the said Colledge called
Gonvile and Caius Colledge for the time being, or by what
names soever they are or shall hereafter be called or knowne,
to be the supervisours of this my will. 35ut I will that onelie
the Master and foure senior fellowes of the said Colledge which
shall be from time to time doe att all times execute and
performe everie thing herein appointed to be done by my
supervisours, and I give to the said Master and foure senior
fellowes for their paines yearely for ever the summes of money
appointed them by this my will, desiring them to see the uses
of this my will duely performed, and to make choice of some
sufficient man from time to time as they doe of their Burser
of their Colledge (for whom they will answer) who will both
receive the money and disburse the same appointed to be paid
to my supervisours to the uses of my will, who shall everie
yeare ingrosse into parchment all the receipts aud disburse-
TESTAMENTUM STEPHANI PERSE. 251
[p. 191] ments of the precedent yeare whereby the same
may be seene and examined on my mortuary day. 3 mt, Hf ſpill
that upport that day fourty shillings per annum be bestowed
and allowed by my supervisours on a dinner to be kept in
Caius Colledge parlour, where I desire may be invited the
Vice Chancellour for the time being, the three Esquire Beadles,
and my executours so long as any of them shall live, and that
after dinner my Register or receiver doe exhibite and accompte
in writing ingrossed into parchment by the said person so
chosen for receipt and disbursement of the money to be paid
to my supervisors to the use of this my will of all the receipts
and disbursements for the yeare precedent, and to such person
so ingrossing the accompt (who I appoint to be called my
Register) I give the yearely fee of fourtie shillings for his
paines to be deducted from time to time out of his receipts.
And I appoint my sollicitour Robert Spicer to have the receipt
of the money and disbursement thereof and the registring of
thé accompte for his life time, and to have the said yearely
fee of fourtie shillings for his paines thereof. And I will the
said accompt to be yearelie kept in Caius Colledge Treasury,
and I will the Vice Chancellour or his deputy, and the three
Beadles, be yearely at that dinner, to whom I give the summe
appointed them by this my will. &mb # ſuill there be on
that day before dinner a Sermon yearely preached in the
Colledge Chapell, &nd # give to the Preacher thereof to be
appointed by the Master of the said Colledge xiii. iiii". And
I give yearely on that day xx” to be bestowed in exeedings
amongst the schollers of the said Colledge. Hitem I will that
the said cel" per annum, to be received as aforesaid yearely
by my supervisours, be by them yearely paid out in such sort
to such persons and purposes as by this my will is appointed,
to be paid in perpetuity at the two feasts of St Michael and
the Annunciation yearely, or within twenty dayes next after
either of the said feasts by equall porcions, viz", Himprimig to
the schoolemaster of my free schoole xl" per Annum and to
the usher xx" per Annum for ever, lx"; };tem to the said
252 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
dation in the said Colledge to either of them x" per annum
for ever, lx"; ſtem to the six schollers of my foundation in
the said Colledge to each of them iiij" per annum for ever,
xxiiij"; };tem I give to the Master fellowes and schollers of the
said Colledge towerds the reparacions of the buildings of the
said Colledge now built and hereafter to be built, and increase
[p. 192] of their stocke, vi". xiijº. iiij". Hſtem I give to the
two morning under lecturers of the said Colledge for the time
six fellowes of the Colledge called Mr Francklands fellowes to
either of them three pound yeerely for ever toward the increase
of their fellowshipps, xviij"; };tem to the master cooke, to the
butler, to the caiter, and to the porter of the said Colledge
which shall bee from time to time xx" apeice, yearely for ever,
shall be from time to time yearely for ever x". Hitem to the
three almes folkes of the Almes houses belonging to Gonvile
and Caius Colledge which shall be from time to time there
dwelling xv.j" apeice yearely for ever, xlviij"; };tem to the main-
tenance and repairing of the bankes and current of the new
river brought into Cambridge to be paid yearely vilj"; };tem
to the maintenance of the causey appointed by my will to
be made between Jesus Lane and Qui cawsey, and to the
maintenance of the cawseye already by mee made in Jesus Lane
yearely for ever x"; }{tem I will there be yearely paid to the
churchwardens of the parish of great Massingham and Harpley
in the Countie of Norfolke, for either of the said towneshippes
to be bestowed at the feast of the Nativitie of our Lord God
amongst the poore of their severall parishes, with the assistance
of the Master for the time being, to either of the said parishes
xxx" apeice yearely for ever, iij"; }{tem to the Master of Gonvile
and Caius Colledge for the time being iij" yearely for ever and
to the foure senior fellowes of the ancient foundation of the said
Colledge from time to time xxx" apeice yearely for ever, ix";
Hſtem to my register appointed by my will for his fee yearely
for ever fourty shillings; ſtem to be bestowed on a dinner
appointed yearely on everie mortuary day XI*; Hºtem in ex-
ceeding in diett amongst the schollers in the same Colledge
TESTAMENTUM STEPHANI PERSE. 253
on that day xx"; }ſtem to the Vice Chancellour of the Uni-
versitie of Cambridge for the time being xx" yearely, xx";
#tem to the three Esquire Beadles for the time being to either
of them iij" iiij" yearely, x*; Hºtem to a preacher yearely to
preach a sermon on my mortuary day xiij" iiij"; };tem to the
maintenance of that charitable worke intended to be performed
[p. 193] and settled at Barley in the Countie of Hertford to
be paid yearely for ever by my supervisours after they shall
see the worke perfected and settled, the summe of iij" yearely
for ever, iij"; the remainder of the said cel" per annum I will
shall be from time to time bestowed in such charitable uses
as my executours for their times, and after my supervisours,
shall thinke fitt. 33robſtet alwayes that no bequest hereby
given to any, or bequeathed to be paid to any fellow scholler
schoolmaster usher or preacher or almes folke shall be paid
for any longer time then they remaine in their severall places
or offices, but as they or any of them shall die, leave of, or be
remooved from their severall places there portion to be paid
to their successours; 33robiott alwayes and my minde is that
if any inconvenience be by my executours and supervisours
seene into that the said cel" per Annum shall not be sufficiently
assured to continue in perpetuity by such assurances as may
be taken from the said corporations, which I desire may be
for the good of many of the said corporations, then I will
that the said five thousand pounds so bequeathed as aforesaid
to the said Corporations of Norwych Cambridge Burie and Lin,
or so much thereof as shall not be secured, be by my executours
or the survivour of them, or if my executours be dead then
by my supervisours, bestowed and layed out in purchase of
lands to raise or make up the revenue of cel" per annum ultra
reprizas to be purchased and taken in Mortmayne, or to such
uses, and to such feoffes or in such manner as my executours
or the survivour of them, and after their time in their default
by my supervisours, shall be thought fitt. Sºot alwayes as the
yearely revenue thereof be yearely from time to time received,
layd out, and paid in such manner uses intents, and purposes,
and to such persons as before in this my will is appointed to
be paid in perpetuity. Hitem I give and bequeath to the Master
254 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CATUS.
and fellowes of Gonvile and Caius Colledge in Cambridg the
summe of forty pounds to be paid to my executours within
five yeares after my decease if the said Master and fellowes
shall happen within the said tearme to new build the Hall
of the said Colledge. Hſtem I will that my executours shall
disburse to the use of the said Master and fellowes of Gonvile
and Caius Colledge the summe of five hundred pounds to be
bestowed about the making and building of a convenient
[p. 1941 building for lodgings and chambers for fellowes and
schollers within the said Colledge, in such convenient place
either within or adjoyning to the said Colledge where the
Master and fellowes of the said Colledge shall appoint, so that
the said Master and fellowes doe continually allow to my
fellowes and schollers within the said Colledge sufficient and
convenient lodging within the said building rent free, and doe
give their covenantes therefore to my executours before they
shall lay out the said money. &nt my will is that if any
doubte or ambiguity shall rise about the construction or expo-
sition of any word clause or sentence in this my Will, then
I will and earnestly desire the same may be construed ordered
and determined by the Vice Chauncellour of the Universitie
of Cambridge for the time being, and the ancient judge of
Assize for the Countie of Cambridge together with the Master
of Caius College for the time being. And I will and ordeine
that after the death of my executours before named the Master
and fellowes of Gonvile and Caius Colledge by what name
soever they are called be executours of this my last Will and
testament, And shall performe whatsoever any former executours
shall leave unperformed touching or concerning this my Will,
33robfuct that onely the Master of the said Colledge and the
foure senior fellowes for the time being from time to time, after
the first named executours be dead, have the ordering disposing
election and appointment of all things appointed to my exe-
cutours or supervisours by this my Will. And I revoke all
former Wills and have sett hereto my hand and seale the day
and yeare first above written. Stephen 332irge: published to
be his last will and testament and subscribed in the presence
of Robert Curson, Robert Sparkes, Richard Godfrey.
TESTAMENTUM STEPHANI PERSE. 255
Tenore presentium Nos QBſuen (ſtupn sacrae Theologiae
Professor Almae Universitatis Cantabrigiae Procancellarius notum
facimus universis et singulis quod vicesimo secundo die mensis
Decembris anno Domini millesimo sexcentesimo decimo quinto
in camera quadam superiori in Collegio Divi Johannis Evan-
gelistæ infra Universitatem, -
[p. 195] }}robatum fuit hujusmodi presentibus annexum
testamentum Stephani Peirse muper dum vixit Medicinae Doc-
toris et socii Collegii Gonvilli et Caii, in alma Universitate
predicta ac nostra jurisdictione defuncti, habentis vitae et
mortis Suarum tempore nonnulla bona, jura, credita et chattalla
infra Universitatem Cantebrigiae predictam seu suburbia ejus-
dem et jurisdictionem nostram predictam, cujus quidem
pretextu dicti testamenti probatio, approbatio et insinuatio et
administrationis omnium et singulorum bonorum, jurium, credi-
torum et chattallorum predictorum commissio sive concessio
(quoad illa bona, jura, credita seu chattalla ipsius defuncti infra
Universitatem Cantebrigiae predictam seu suburbia ejusdem et
jurisdictionem nostram predictam existentia et remanentia)
necnon computi, calculi sive ratiocinii administrationis hujus-
modi auditio finalisque liberatio sive dimissio ab eaderm ad nos
Solum et in solidum notorie dignoscitur pertinere, Ac per nos
approbatum et insinuatum necnon pro vero valore et validitate
ejusdem legitime pronunciatum et declaratum, commissaque
fuit ac est administratio omnium et singulorum bonorum, jurium,
creditorum et chattallorum dicti defuncti, et ejus testamentum
hujusmodi qualitercunque concernentium infra Universitatem
Cantebrigiae praedictam et suburbia ejusdem et jurisdictionem
nostram predictam existentium et remanentium, Martino Peirse
generoso uni executorum in hujusmodi testamento nominatorum
primitus de bene et fideliter administrando eadem ac de plano
et fideli inventario omnium et singulorum hujusmodi bonorum,
jurium, creditorum, et chattallorum dicti defuncti, infra Uni-
versitatem Cantebrigiae predictam seu suburbia ejusdem et
jurisdictionem nostram remanentium conficiendo, et illud in
officium Registrarii Alma Universitatis Cantebrigiae predictæ
citra 2* diem Mensis Februarii proximum futurum exhi-
bendum, nec non de plano et fideli computo, calculo sive
256 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANID CAIUS.
ratiocinio, in ea parte reddendo cum ad id legitime, vocatus
fuerit, ad sancta Dei Evangelia personaliter juratus tactis, etc.,
reservata potestate similem commissionem faciendi Venerabili
viro Magistro Walentine Carey sacræ Theologiæ Professori
Decano Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Divi Pauli Londonensis, et Roberto
Spicer generoso cæteris executoribus in hujusmodi testamento
nominatis cum venerint eum petituri, in debita juris forma
admissuris. Datum die mense anno Domini et loco supradictis.
Monumento pensili ab hæredibus ei posito, ad boreale latus
interioris Sacelli, is ipse sibi titulum hunc composuit quem
adscribi voluit,
Præmomen Stephanus, cognomen Perse vocatur.
Sola Deo soli vita, corona, fuit.
[p. 196] Cum vivente Deo remanet mihi vita perennis
Jamque cano soli TóvToTe δδάa 6eó.
Hæc moriens cecini lecturo Perseus ipse,
Non ulli melius quam mihi motus eram.
Christiam surnamed Stephen Perse I hight.
Sole life with God alome, my crowne my light.
With living God eternall life I live
This now my somg: to sole God praise I give.
This Epitaph by me Perse was devized,
To mone else my thoughts better were comprizd.
Hic Stephanus Perse medicinæ doctor per quadraginta
annos socius hujus Collegii requiescit, qui moriens donavit;
quinque mille librarum, quibus annui redditus ducentorum et
quinquaginta librarum emerentur ut ex iis socii sex, sex
scholares, sex eleemosinarii, ludimagister et hypodidascalus
alerentur, et stipendia Custodis hujus Collegii, et quatuor
seniorum sociorum et sex sociorum Jocosæ Franclandæ auge-
rentur, qui legavit quingentas libras ad cubicula suis sociis et
scholaribus in Collegio edificanda, qui grammaticam scholam
ad centum discipulos recipiendum idoneam et domum ad suorum
elemosynariorum habitationem extrui, viamque a villa Canta-
brigiæ ad pontem Sturbrigiensem ex relictis bonis Persea ultima
voluntate mandavit: vixit annos 65, mortuus est ultimo Sept.
I 615.
LITIGATIO DE ELECTIONE SOCII. 257
In locum Doctoris Perse ex fundatione Caii, Robertus Wells
Norfolciensis Medicinæ Doctor, unamimi Custodis et sociorum
consensu per translationem (ut loquuntur) subrogatus est; et
ad supplendum locum dicti Doctoris Wells ita vacantem, per
viam scrutinii proceditur ad movam electionem. Major pars
sociorum contulerunt sua suffragia in Johannem Allem Devoni-
ensem, artium magistrum, et tunc temporis socium ex fundatione
Jocosæ Franclandæ, sed Custos voce sua negativa sociorum
electionem ratam habere noluit. Custode et sociis suis in
sententiis immotis persistentibus, mensis (spatium per statutum
electioni destinatum) elabitur, quo elapso Custos contendit
provisionem de socio pro illa vice per devolutionem ad se solum
spectare, et in locum vacantem nominavit et admisit, Thomam
Cooke Norfolciensem, artium magistrum, tunc quoque temporis
socium ex fundatione Franclandiana, sociorum majori parte
quibus possit modis huic Custodis facto obsistente. Hinc illæ
discordiarum scimtillæ quæ diu latuere quasi sub cineribus
[p. 197] sepultæ in ingentem flammam emicuere, quæ non
nisi sententia Cancellarii visitatoris extingui poterant.
Anno 1616
Toto hoc anno litigatur de nupera facta, electione, et ad
jurisperitos utrinque concurritur, sed frustra, noluerunt enim
socii Custodi cedere nec custos ad partes sociorum accedere,
ante sententiam latam per Cancellarium Academiæ, ánno
insequenti. Opportuna hic sese offert occasio enarrandi, quid
utrimque a jurisconsultis in presenti lite assertum erat, sed
(quod dolemus) ex utraque parte hoc prestare non possumus,
quæ enim fuerit sententia eorum qui a parte stabant Custodis,
nos prorsus latet ; at sane, si illius sententiæ nobis unquam
facta fuisset, copia, nullo modo eam huc referre omitteremus,
ne studio partium seduci, nec bona fide prout res transacta fuit;
enarrare videamur ; interim, quamvis ex hac parte silere cogimur,
tamen cum plurimum interesse Collegio et futuræ ejus tran-
quillitati, optime prospici existimamus, si rationes hic adducantur
jurisperitorum, a quorum partibus stetit victoria; has penitus
omittere (quia alteras non possumus exhibere) haud æquum
esse judicamus, proinde hic subjunximus sententias eorum qui
C. A. S. Octavo Series. No. XL. I7
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ratam habuerunt electionem sociorum, in quibus non muda
sententia spectanda sed rationes quibus ad partes sociorum
accedere moti sunt, ponderandae, eoque magis quod ex hac
parte per Cancellarium facta erat decisio litis; scripta Sequuntur
jurisconsultorum proprias sententias subscriptis nominibus attes-
tantium. . - -
I am of opinion that the election of Mr Allen by the greater
part of the Fellowes in the presence of the Master, though he
dissented, was lawfull, and ought to stand; for since the
Founder whose statute in the letter is urged by the Master
hath himselfe clearely interpreted the same as is afore ex-
pressed viz. Quod in electione Socii, Custodis praesentia necessario
requiritur, non tamen quod votum suum necessario conveniat
votis majoris partis Sociorum, there is no reason to presse the
Founders words against his owne interpretation, soe evident ;
and if it be replyed that the interpretation was upon an
occasion fallen out in Trinitie Hall not in this colledge, it
must be remembred that the statute itselfe alsoe was originally
given to the same Trinitie Hall and therefore if the statute
itselfe by the pleasure of the Founder be made the Statute of
Gonvile and Caius Colledge of necessitie it followeth that the
interpretation thereof (which is the life of the statute) be the
same there alsoe.
Hem. Marten.
[p. 198] I am of the same opinion with Dr Marten, especially
because the founder hath soe interpreted the statute of Trinitie
Hall, (for seeing this statute of Caius Colledge is made by
relation to the statute of Trinitie Hall), it is all one as if the
founder had made this interpretation expressely to the Statute
of Caius Colledge, for a law or statute is not the bare words
thereof, but the sense and meaning, and thereupon is grounded
that rule of law, Is committit in legem qui verba legis complec-
tens contra legis mititur voluntatem; and this interpretation
is not a new statute nor addeth anything to the statute of
Trinitie Hall, but onelie declareth what the statute was from the
beginning, and if by any other meanes it could have been knowne,
that had been to be followed, as if the custome or practice
LITIGATIO DE ELECTIONE SOCII. 259
of the house had so declared it without anie interpretation at
all, so that this relation to the statute of Trinitie Hall is to
be taken in that sense which Trinitie Hall statute is interpreted
to bee, because hee that made the law can best interpret it.
But suppose there had been no interpretation at all yet I
am of opinion that in this case there should never have been
anie devolution to the Master, for that it were a great absurditie
that in a Colledge where it is intended that there should be a
free election of fellowes by the major part it should be in the
power of the Master to bestow every fellowship where he liketh,
and so frustrate the meaning of the founder.
Againe, a devolution from one to another groweth ever for
the supply of some negligence or fault in the electours, and
as it were for a punishment of them who offend; but in this
Cause the diligent persons who peradventure have chosen dig-
missimum should be punished, and he who peradventure would
thrust in indignum should make gaine of his owne fraude,
whereas eligendo indignum he looseth his voice, et potestas
eligend; in ejus poemam devolvitur in alium.
Againe, this may be likened to the case of a benefice, where
generally if the benefice be litigious above 6 months, the ordinary
may collate by lapse. Now if the true patron present his clerke
to the bishop of the Diocesse, who makes title himselfe to
collate, whereby the benefice is now growne litigious, the bishop
in this case shall never take benefice as by lapse;
Againe the law generally was that eacommunicatus in judicio
mon eral audiendus, but it must be thus understood agendo mon
defendendo, and the reason is for that it were an absurd thing
that a man should be called in question and not permitted to
defend himselfe. -
Quere how the Master comes to be one of the scrutinie and
how he gives his voice, for if he gives his voice but as an
elector, he should have no negative voice.
Nyc. Styward.
[p. 199] In the cause propounded I am of the same opinion
with Mr Doctor Martin, and Mr Doctor Styward, that the
election of Mr Allen, made by the major part of the fellowes,
17–2
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motwithstanding the Master consented mot, is good, and avail-
able in law ; for it is apparent in the words of the Statute,
Sed si locus alicujus dictì Collegîî, &c., that the meaming of the
Statute is that the Master, amd greater part of the fellowes,
should consent to the election of a new fellow, in the roome
that is voide, Et cum de contraria mente legis evidenter constare
nom potest a propria, verborum sîgnîfîcatîone mom receditur, et
mom aliter (69 de Legatis 3). In the ease propounded, the
greater part of the fellowes have givem their uniforme consent,
the Master omelie refuseth to give his consent and objecteth
three things ; first because he did not consent there was mot
concors electio Custodis et sociorum ; the second, and therefore
the provisiom for this time to be devolved unto him ; 3. that
he the Master hath the grammaticall sense of the statute to
justifie his proceedings.
To the first, by law One mans act cammot prejudice another,
INon debet aliquis alterius odio prægravarì. c: non debet (22 de
Reg. Juris. in 6° etc.) non debet (74 Ff de Reg. Juris.) et omnibus
modis proconsul ìd agit me cujus deterìor fiat condîtîo eæ alieno
facto etc. (Ff. de alienatione Judicii mutandi causa facta,) which
lawes I hold to be strong arguments ; the Master his dissent,
may not abridge the fellowes of the election and so prejudice
them, much lesse gain unto himself a devolution. Nemo enim
ea, suo delicto meliorem suam conditionem facere potest, etc.,
non fraudantur 176 § nemo Ff de Reg. Juris, et longe æquum
est ea, eo quod per fide gestum est actorem nihil consequi
(l. apud 4 § Marcellus Ff de doli exceptione gloss. l. finalis Ff
de dolo). And the Law saith si sine dolo malo stipulantis
factum est : Sub hac enìm conditione committitur stipulatio me
quis doli sui præmium ferat (1. ita demum 26 Ff de receptis:
qui arbitrium etc.). lea, dans potestatem fratri majori dividendi
bona íntelligenda est voluisse eœcipere dolum, et captiosam
divisionem (Stephan. de Phedris (sic), De interpretatione legum
parte 2* p. 162). And in the Case propounded because it was
in the Masters powerto perfect the election, and he did it not,
I take it the election made by the greater part of the fellowes
standeth good in law, et in Jure Civili receptum est (122 Ff
de reg. Juris. c. cum non 66 de Reg. Juris, in 6°).
gè-
LITIGATIO ID E ELECTIONE SOCII. 261
[p. 2OO] To the third, to helpe the Master, admitt further
there be a statute in the Colledge, that their statutes are to
be understood literallie, and according to the grammaticall
sense, and not otherwise, yet the Founders meaning and motive
must be observed (Baldus l. omnes populi 9 Ff de Justitia et
Jure nu. 57), which was, that a fellow must be chosen cum,
consensu, Custodis et majoris partis Socìorum ; ita est enìm,
propria signìficatio per quam omnes casus in oratione contenti
pariter determinantur, et quam major effectu8 sequitur, et quœ
plana, et secundum litteram, legis est (Stepham. de Phedris (sic)
de interpretatione legum, parte 2° p. 113 et 114) et ille sensus
legis recîpîendus est, ea, quo non $equitur aliquod repugnans cum
antecedenti ; Item ea, quo non sequitur aliquod absurdum, (idem
eadem parte 2* p. 191). Againe sì statutum, dicat quod statuta,
intelligantur ad literam, sine aliqua, interpretatione finitiva, vel
eatensiva, non de înterpretatione declarativa, (Steph. de Phedris
ubi supra parte 2* 115 et 264) ubi dicit, doctores communiter
tenere quod statuta, poterunt ínterpretari, declarando et dis-
tìnguendo non autem restringendo vel ampliando.
As this case standeth all that I have said needeth not, for
as it is sett forth in the case propounded the founder himselfe
hath resolved this doubt by am interpretation givem in Trinitie
Hall, and (dato sed non, concesso) that the Founders interpre-
tation concernes Trinitie Hall omelie, provìsìo testatoris facta,
uno casu eatenditur ad alîum, quem testator verisimiliter provî-
disset, si de eo fuisset interrogatus ; et hoc prestat argumentum,
quod statutum, debet eœtendi ad casum de quo verîsîmîlîter idem
providissent statuentes, si interrogati fuissent (Alex. l. Titius 25 §
Lucius Ff. de liberis et posthumis; et ibi Castrensis et Jason,
et Jason l. si extraneus 6. mu. 7 Ff. de Condictione causa data
etc. ; et l. sive apud 28 c. de transactionibus).
Againe glosse l. tale pactum 40 § finalis, verbo exceptionem
Ff. de pactis ; et ibi Bartolus Castrensis Baldus et Jason. Item,
mota, îd esse de jure servandum licet non sit statutum, quod verì-
simile est statuendum fuisse si hoc quæsitum fuisset. Now it
is verie likely that the founder having made his interpretation
in Trinitie Hall, that if this doubt had likewise falne out in
Caius Colledge, and this resolutiom had beene asked, in all
262 ANNALS OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS.
likelyhood he would have given the same interpretation in Caius
Colledge, mutatio enim voluntatis non presumitur 1. Quingenta
[p. 2o 1] 14 et l. eum 22 Ff. de probationibus maæime
quando considerate loquutus est autentica de conjectura ulti-
marum voluntatum c. 15 cum 4. by interpretation therefore of
these Doctours the Founders interpretation made in Trinitie
Hall upom the like Statute must be received in Caius Colledge,
though it be not part of the statute there.
Ita censeo, J. Hone.
Anno 1617
Hactenus prælusoriis telis dimicatur, hoc vero anno ad
decretoria ventum est, sociorum enim duæ partes admonuerunt
Custodem Gulielmum Branthwayte statuti de inhabili Custode
et de mala administratione officii sui, idque declararunt qui-
busdam articulis quibus inhabilitatem ejus ad regimen Collegii
probare in se susceperunt ; quos articulos una cum admonitione
exhibuerunt simulque invitatur Custos ut officio suo sponte
cedere voluerit, prout statutum monet faciendum ; sed is re-
nuens, Cancellarius Academiæ, honoratissimus Dominus Thomas
Howard, consulitur, qui in ædibus Audlianis adscitis sibi viris
aliquot gravibus et prudentibus, Custode et sociis presentibus,
plenariam habuit causæ cognitionem, et sententiam suam certis
quibusdam articulis declaravit ; quos articulos scripto quodam
authentico in registro Universitatis Cantebrigiæ servando tra-
didit, eosque ad perpetuam rei memoriam tuto reponi et servari
plurimum interest Collegio.
Hujus Decreti tenor hic est : -
3 37B£claratíom of the order and decree of me Thomas Earle
of Suffolke, Lord High Treasurer of England and Chauncellour
of the Universitie of Cambridge, touching divers points of
differences betwixt Mr Doctor Branthwaite Master of Gonvyle
and Caius Colledge within that Universitie and the fellowes
there upon a full hearing of both parties as followeth.
3}írgt that Doctor Harvies 100'' be brought in by the
Master into the Colledge chest and imployed with all convenience
and speed to provide land for the maintemance of a scholler.
DECRETUM CANCELLARII. 263
2. That the 30" paid by the tenants of Caxton shall be
brought into the Colledge chest by the Master there to
[p. 202] remayne untill the difference betweene the Colledge
and tennants be determined. - -
3. That the Master and fellowes shall joyne to sue the
tennant Mr Cradocke in an action of wast committed in the
grounds.
4. That Allen shall have the place to which he was elected
by the major part of the fellowes, although the Master did
denye him by his negative voice three times and after the
end of the moneth devolved it and elected Cooke; because he
denyed him as it seemed upon his owne negative voice by the
space of a moneth that so he might devolve it to himselfe and
elect alone, not giving any just cause or reason of the Statute
why Allen was not eligible ; which I the rather determine thus
because it agreeth with the exposition made by the Founder,
Bishopp Bateman, of the same Statute in Trinitie Hall of his
owne foundation. -
&nt because hereafter there may be peace and quietnesse
betweene the Master and the fellowes, I doe further order
that the Master and fellowes shall consent by way of prenomi-
nation or preelection that Mr Cooke shall have the next
fellowes place that shall become void.
5. Qſbat the Master shall not keep courts without the
consent of the major part of the fellowes first had.
6. Qſbat it is fitt the Master with the consent of the
fellowes doe yearely according to statute renew the choyce of
their steward, if they shall be found fitt and sufficient for the
places, yet notwithstanding to continue them that they may
have the better knowledge, and experience to execute their places.
7. (That there be yearely one of the fellowes chosen Bowser
with the Master according to the statute and that the Maistres
oath concerning the bowsershipp shall be taken once for all.
8. Qſbat the Master shall neither declare nor pronounce
any place voide, nor censure and punish anie fellow with the
losse of the rights and profitts of his fellowshipp without the
consent of the major part of the fellowes according to the
Statute.
264 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
9. That the elections of Mr Randall and Mr Cruso shall
be taken to be good and sufficient, because the Master did
consent upon condition, which condition being eatra statutum.
his consente was good.
Subscribed, T. Suffolke.
Inter Acta Collegii ad festum Annuntiationis 1617 reperimus
protestationem, &c. (which is to bee found in the next folio,
and heere immediately to follow).
[p. 203] 1. Docter Branthwaite Master of Gonvile and
Caius Colledge in the Universitie of Cambridge doth promise
that he will bring the 100" into the Colledge Chest at the next
auditt, or before the end of November next, so that he may
be free from his Covenaunt made to Dr Gostling Dr Legg
Executours. --
2. Hºtem he will deliver the 30" at the same time, so that
he may be secured by the Colledge from the tenants of Caxton.
3. Hºtem he is contente to give consent with the fellowes
to sue Cradocke in an action of Waste.
4. Hitem he is willing for his parte that Mr Allein shall
be fellow and have all right belonging thereunto; but for
admission he humbly craveth pardon, because he verily thinketh
he cannot doe it with safety of his oath : yet having a most
affectionate desire to performe all offices of duty and respect
to your Lordship, being so noble a Peer and Patron of our
Universitie, he doth yeild that your Lordship as Chauncellour,
or Mr Vice Chauncellour, shall admitt him, as in causes of this
nature is usuall.
5. Hſtem he is content courts shall be kept by consent of
the Master and greater part of the fellowes, neither did he ever
as he saith keep any otherwise.
6. Aftem he consenteth that the Master with the consent
of the fellowes doe yearely according to the statute renew the
choyce of their Steward and Bayliffes if they shalbe found fitt
and sufficient for the places, yet notwithstanding to continue
them that they may have the better knowledge and experience
to execute their places.
DECRETUM CANCELLARII. 265
7. #tem he yeildeth that there be yearely one of the
fellowes chosen Burser with the Master according to the statute,
and that the Masters oath concerning the bursarship shall be
taken once for all.
8. Hitent he neither will declare nor pronounce any fellowes
place voyde nor punish any fellowes with the losse of the
profitts of his fellowshipp without consent of the major parte,
but in such causes where the statute saith eaſpellatur ipso facto,
and in those when the fact shall be made apparaunt in the
presence of the Master, and the major part of the fellowes,
aut ea concessione rei, aut per probationem duorum idoneorum.
testium.
9. Hitem he acknowledgeth Cruso to be fellow, and so he
is already admitted. And for Mr Randall his election shall be
taken to be good and sufficient for his part and to be admitted
as Mr Allein. - -
[p. 204] &nt in all and everie of these humbly submitteth
himselfe in manner aforesaid so as he shall not be adjudged
hereafter either to have incurred perjury or the Colledge (by
his facte) to forfeite a bonde of 1500", and this is the onely
intent of all his former protestations, since the publication
of the orders.
W* Branthwaite.
Concordat cum originali in Registro Universitatis Canta-
brigiae. -
Ita testor, Jacobus Tabor, Universitatis Cantebrigiae Regi-
strarius.
Inter Acta Collegii ad festum Annunciationis 1617 re-
perimus protestationem factam per Doctorem Branthwaite
Custodem, quam suis verbis, prout ibidem habetur, hic referri
Curavlmus, viz.
The orders being published the nine and twentieth of July
by the Vice Chauncellour, the Master spake publickely in the
presence of those assembled; that he would assent unto them
So farre as they were agreeable to his oath, to Dr Caius Statutes,
and the covenauntes between Dr Caius and the Colledge;
266 ANNALS OF GONWILLE AND CAIUS,
otherwise as they might not stand with his ‘oath or with
Dr Caius statutes, or the Covenauntes between Dr Caius and
the said Colledge, he did there protest against them and desired
also his said protestation might be recorded respective to his
former protestation. Upon conference with the Vice Chaun-
cellour and some assistants, the 8 of August following, the
Master to give further satisfaction to the Chauncellour gave
answer to the particulars in manner following which Saide
answer is to be found upon the precedent page. Non abs re
erit haec recensere quae ante latam sententiam Custos Dr
Branthwaite dicto Cancellario proposuit, viz. contradictiones
aliquot Statutorum etc., una cum responsis sociorum.
Statute contradictions preferred to the Vice Chauncellour
1617,
[p. 205] 1. Bishop Bateman saith, Volumus in Medicinæ
Scientia in dicto Collegio unicus tantum socius aut duo ad plus
Simul audire valeant et studere. But Dr Caius appointed 2
besides of his owne foundation, and giveth libertie for more ; by
occasion hereof there have been of the 12 seniors five physicians
at one time.
2. Bishop Bateman maketh the cator an officer, habeant
socii Collegii duos officiarios pistorem et dispensatorem : Dº Caius
will have him a scholler, sit is scholasticus ea fundatione
(statute 56).
3. Bishop Bateman saith, none can hold his place which
hath 5" yearely without cure in a benefice, or in a benefice
with cure of what value so ever; Ordinamus quod nullus
curatum obtinens beneficium etc. But Dr Caius alloweth to
his fellowes 10" 6* 84 yearely, Statuimºus et ordinamus in ube-
Tiorem studiorum materiam, etc. -
Upon these statutes it may be questioned whether a fellow
may have temporalities there above the revenue expressed in
the said statute, especially there being these words (sta. 8)
non eacludimus indigorum generosorum etc. and, if it be thought
they may exceed, then how farre they may exceed the pro-
portion sett downe in statute, because the fellowes thinke
they may have lands of any value.
4. Touching the preferring of fellowes, Bishop Bateman
PROTESTATIO CUSTODIS. 267
decreeth thus, In electione sociorum scholares nostra, Diocaesios
non beneficiati beneficiatis etc. But Dr Caius thus, in socios vero
éjusdem Collegii scholastici Norfolc. cum Suffolc. preferantur etc.
Auncient practices against statutes; whereas besides the
statutes themselves wee have this caution, Constituimus me quae
consuetudo prevaleat adversus statutum aliquod.
1. The fines upon leases which by statute are to goe to
the Colledge, have been a long time divided amongst the
company (statutes 93 and 95); fines Collegü esse volumus mon
Magistri et sociorum.
2. The Mulcts have beene appropriated to the Deanes,
contrarie to the 73 statute, volumus ut ommes mulcta, cedant
Collegio.
3. The Fellowes probleme hath beene but once a weeke
contrary to the old statute, and new statute the 17, non inter-
mittatur problema Sociorum et pensionariorum majorum etc.
4. There have beene but two problemes of fellowes in the
Vacation contrarie to the former statute, which saith they should
continue ad festum, Bartholomei. -
5. Chamber rents have beene divided which should go to
the Colledg (stat. 66), constituimus ut pensiones cubiculorum
wtriusque Collegii etc.
[p. 206] 6. The Fellowes have often changed their profes-
Sions against statute, In, Scientia quam eligerint audiendum etc.
It would therefore be ordered that everie one be reduced to the
profession he first tooke upon him and used to take his degree
therein, and also that those who by their foundation were
appointed to be divines should direct themselves to divinitie
and according to their foundation enter the Ministry.
7. The Stewards are by Statute to be chosen quarterly
(Stat. 56) volumus...... Žn tres menses eligatur, but they have
been aunciently chosen for a yeare.
8. The Statute is there shall be two Indentures at everie
account of the State of the Colledge whereof one to remain
with the Master the other in the chest, which have been omitted
ever since Dr Caius Statutes.
268 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
9. Lastly neither scholler nor fellow, by statute or practice
of other houses, hath any right to any allowance before his
admission or election, and therefore upon the vacation of places
I have mooved the stipend might goe to the Colledge, but it
hath beene denied. It would be therefore ordered if upon
necessity schollerships be voyd, whether allowance shall be
given from the vacation of the place, or their election.
The answer to the Contradictions.
1. The Donations being by divers founders they doe not
conceive any contradiction, for that every benefactour is free
to bestowe his owne gift as he judgeth it best. And so hath
Dr Caius determined this mattér (Sta. 107) Si qua statuta
mostra diversa, etc.
2. There is no contradiction that one Founder makes the
cator an officer, the other a scholler, for that the same man
may be both a scholler and cator for the Colledge, as well as
steward for the Colledge and fellow.
3. Bishop Bateman alloweth but 5" in spirituall living,
and Dr Caius alloweth that his fellowes may enjoy 10" 6° 8",
is no contradiction, for that it is left to every benefactor to
bestow his owne with what conditions seeme good to himselfe;
neither of these statutes were ever questioned to concerne
temporalities of that value, but onely spirituall preferments,
neither can there be showen any practice, that ever any person
was ever questioned for his temporall state, either in our
Colledge or Trinitie Hall who have the same Statute made by
Bishop Bateman, neither can a rule be made by deduction if
it be not conteyned in the letter of the Law in a grammaticall
sense as the Founder speakes.
4. Both the Founders agree that Norfolke men should
be preferred in all elections, which cannot be understood in
Dr Caius his statutes otherwise then in Bishop Batemans, with
[p. 207] this clause (caeteris paribus) as for Dr Caius owne
Foundation, as he hath made the places proper for Norfolke so
they have been chosen still out of the Countrey.
DE STATUTIS COLLEGII. 269
Answer to the Auncient practices
pretended against Statutes.
1. The Fellowes say that the fines of all copyholds have
alwayes been paid to the chest, the tenants benevolences for
their leases have alwayes been divided amongst the company,
whereof the Custos have ever had a double part.
2. The 75 Statute maketh mention of 10 persons but
of fellowes onely, and therefore the fellowes suppose that
(omnes mulctae) in that place cannot be intended of any mulcts
but those that are imposed upon the fellowes which ever have
been paid to the Colledg. As for the mulcts of schollers they
have been from time to time allowed to the deanes for their
paines in their office, and (as wee have heard our predecessors
say) were so allowed in Dr Caius time.
3. The fellowes problemes are so observed as Dr Caius
left them, one kept by the fellowes, another by the Batchelours,
and the third by the interpretation of Archbishop Parker upon
the 17 Statute cited is left with this quaere, An Sophistoe
possunt supplere vicem in problematibus ea utriusque statutis
decernendum est,
4. That there never were more then two Problems kept by
fellowes during the vacation betweene the Masters commence-
ment and Michaelmas not in Doctor Caius time, so they have
still been performed. In other Colledges (as far as we can
learne) there are none kept by fellowes during the vacation.
5. For answer to the 5*, consult the statute observed by
the common practice.
6. The fellowes never changed their professions but when
they were remooved into new places which gave them that
libertie, and for urging any man to take the degree of Doctor
which hath not meanes to mainteyne it the Societie have
ever held it unreasonable, seeing without the calling of them
by the voice of the major part they cannot be compelled by
any statute. As for those that by their foundation ought to
enter into the Ministry it is alwaies in the Custos power to
urge them to it, upon danger of their places,
270 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
7. The Stewards have beene chosen annually with other
officers, and so passe from quarter to quarter, per tacitum
consensum, but if any doe not performe with that fidelitie and
care that is meete, the fellowes have alwayes been ready to
joyne with the Master to remoove such a steward at the
quarters end: if no just exceptions can be taken against him
they desire not such an extraordinary trouble of remooving and
electing anew such officer every three monethes.
[p. 208] 8. For the making of two Indentures our books of
account doe supply them, and perfect all reckonings at our
auditt. But if the Custos require them, he well knoweth that
no man will deny them.
9. The right of every allowance is due according to the
donation of the Founder of it, and is so to be employed as he
hath ordeyned it, not otherwise. The Colledge chest hath a
proper allowance to itselfe, which as it was ever sufficient for
the common charge so the fellowes never diminish it, therefore
they have alwayes thought that pensions designed for the
maintenance of schollers or fellowes are not to be converted
to the filling of chests, unlesse the manifest necessitie or want
of the Colledge were such as it needed to be releived; neither
doe they understand how that which is given for personall
maintenance should properly belong to any other then either
the present possessor or future incumbent, as it is the practice
both de jure et de facto in other livings in the land belonging
to the maintenance of schollars; and for this deniall which
Dr Branthwaite thinks an offence the fellowes (salvo superiorum
judicio) thinke they doe God and the Commonwealth good
service to urge a perpetuall supply of students and prevent
the daunger that may ensue by keeping places void longer
then they ought to be ; they knowe no necessitie of vacancie,
the land having so greate a number which want maintenance.
1617
16 March 1617. Assensu Custodis Doctoris Branthwaite
et Sociorum convenit inter Johannem Atkinson architectum,
et Martinum Peirse armigerum executorem ultimi testamenti
Doctoris Peirse, de aedificio extruendo ad usum et inhabita-
AEDIFICIA DOCTORIS PERSE. 27I
tionem Sociorum et Scholarium ex fundatione dicti Doctoris
Peirse. Locus aedificio designatus ad boreale latus Collegii e
regione ptochotrophij Caiani, quod aedificium sexaginta tres
pedes erat longum : summa impendenda 500": fabrica et struc-
tura ex scripto hoc indentato peti potest.
&rtitle3 made and agreed uppon the sixteenth day of March
(1617) and in the 15* yeare of the reigne of our soveraigne
Lord King James of England and of Scotland the liº" by the
direction and appointment of the Master and fellowes of
Gonevile and Caius Colledge in the Universitie of Canbridge,
between John Atkinson of the Towne of Cambridge in the
Countie of Cambridge yeoman, on the one part, and Martin'
Perse of the same towne and countie Esquire, executor of
Stephen Perse late of the same Universitie Dr of Phisicke and
[p. 209] one of the fellowes of the same Colledge deceased,
on the other part, for and concerning the building appointed
by the last will of the said Stephen Perse to be made and
builded in the same Colledge.
3First the said John Atkinson for the consideration here-
after expressed doth covenaunt promise and agree for him his
heyres executours and administratours to and with the said
Martin Perse his executours and administratours that he the
said John his workemen servants or assignes shall and will
at and before the feast of All Saints next ensuing the day
of the date of these presents, at their owne proper costs and
charges, well substantially sufficiently and workemanlike erect
and build and fully finish in a place thereunto appointed or
assigned within the said Colledge, and in such sort as more
particularly hereafter is expressed, uppom foundations digged
to the ferme grounds and walls sufficiently rammed, one
building threescore and three foote in length of three stories
in height, with garretts or excelses in the top of the roofe, every
of the three stories to be nine foote in height between the
floores and seelings, the lower storie to be eighteene foote wide
within the walls and to be parted into three like chambers,
everie chamber to have three convenient studies apeice; the
next story to be nineteene foote wide within the walls and to
272 ANNALS OF GON WILLE AND CAIUS.
be parted into three equall or like chambers, with one con-
venient studdie in every chamber; and the third story to be
nineteene foote wide within the walls and to be parted into
three like chambers, everie chamber to have one convenient
studdie ; and the garretts or excelses to be parted into three
like chambers with two convenient studdies in everie chamber,
with fitting and convenient stayres of oken planckes to leade
conveniently to everie of the said chambers. And that the
outward walls of the said building shall be of bricke on the
outside filled or layed with white stone, all the corners thereof
sett with coynes of free stone, the same walls to be of the
thicknesse of three bricks and halfe in length, conteyning two
foote and tenne inches under the water table, the same water
table to lye three foote or more above the ground and to be
of freestone chamford foure inches and halfe thicke, and from
the water table to the middle floore in thicknesse the length
of three brickes conteyning two foote and halfe. And from
the middle floore to the wall plates in thicknesse the length
of two brickes and halfe conteyning two foote; the west end of
the said building to be made gablewise with crests and some
comely finiall finishing of free stone, and all the walls on the
inside to be cast over with lime and haire, and that there shall
be conveniently placed in every of the nine lower chambers
one chimney with chimney peices and borders of white stone
cleane and handsomely wrought, the shafts of the same
chimneys to be brought up arriswise five foote above the levill
of the ridge of the roofe of the building; and that there shall
[p. 210] be in the said building fitly placed two dore steeds
with free stone james and white stone heads and cornises and
kneelers over the same of free stone, and one place bordered
with free stone over the dore in the midst, there to place the
Founders armes; and convenient windowes in the three lower
stories everie light to be eighteene inches wide and in breadth
the first storie three foot eight inches, in the second storie
foure foote, and in the third three foote and two inches, with
free stone soyles six inches thicke and ten inches broad, the
james and minions to be of white stone with hance heads also
of white stone, and cornises and kneelers over everie window
&
AEDIFICIA DOCTORIS PERSE. 273
of free stone, and in the first and second stories with arches
of brick turned over everie window; and in the third storie
with gable ends and crests and finialls of free stone; and nine
windowes of timber with one light apeice in the garrets or
excelses, of oken timber, with roofes of timber over the same,
the whole number of lights in the whole building to be
Seaventie two, and to have one iron barre 3 quarters of an inch
Square and strongly placed and fastned in the midst of everie
of the same lights; and that there shall be thirtie double case-
ments of iron well and cleane wrought fitly and strongly placed
and fastened in the windowes of the three stories, and nine
single casements of iron in the windowes of the garrets or
excelses, and all the same lights and casements shall be well
and sufficiently glazed with good Burgundie glasse, in small
quarries well leaded sodered and sufficiently set into the same
windowes and bound to the barres. And that all the said severall
chambers shall be floared with good sufficient and seasoned
board of oake laid upon sufficient rests of oake timber, and the
Same for the ground floare and good and sufficient dormans
and rests for the other three floares. And that all the partitions
shall be made with good and sufficient groundsills posts girts
punchions and studdes of oake timber, and the same and also
all the studdies to be lathed with hard lath, and the foure par-
titions in the second and third stories and about the staires
to be lathed on both sides with hart lath, and to be all upon
the lathes cast over with lime and haire workermanlike. And
that there shall be in the same building twelve outward dores
of fir deale smoothed and well handsomely and sufficiently
made and fitted to the doresteeds, and hanged on good and
sufficient hookes and hingells, with a good and sufficient locke and
key to every of the same dores, and one and twenty study doares
of good seasoned oake boards smoothed and well and sufficiently
made and fitted to the dooresteed and hanged on sufficient
hookes and hingells. And that the roofe of the same building
[p. 21 1J shall be of sufficient oake timber with Seaven paire
of good and sufficient principall sparres, double purlinges and
wimbeames, and to stand on wall platts of oake six inches thicke
and nine inches broad, and shall be covered with good tile laid
G. A. S. Octavo Series. No. XL. 18
274 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS,
with morter upon hart lath. And that all the said chambers
and studdies in the three stories and in the garretts or excelses
shall be well and workemanlike sealed with lime and haire
laid on reed, well fastned with hart lath unto the timber of
the said building. And the said John Atkinson for him his
executours and administratours doth further covenaunt promise
and agree with the said Martin Perse his executours and
administratours, by these presents, that he the said John his
executours administratours or assignes shall and will at his and
their owne proper costs and charges finde provide and have
ready for the said worke and building all the timber freestone
white stone bricke and tile, the same bricke and tyle to be
good and well burned, lime sand haire boards lath glasse lead
and iron worke lockes keyes mailes reed and all other materialls
and things whatsoever requisite for the making and full
finishing of the said building and worke.
And for the same building so to be made and finished the
said Martin Perse for him his heyres executours and adminis-
tratours doth covenaunt promise and grant to and with the
said John Atkinson his executours and administratours by
these presents that he the said Martin Perse his executours or
administratours shall and will well and truely content and pay,
or cause to be contented and paid, to the said John Atkinson
his executours administratours or assignes, the summe of five
hundred pounds of lawfull money of England, at the now
dwelling house of the said Martyn Perse in Cambridge above-
said in manner and forme following; (that is to say) at the
ensealing and deliverie of these presents one hundred pounds,
on the twentieth day of May next ensuing one hundred pounds
more, and the first day of August next one hundred pounds
more, and the tenth of September one hundred pounds more,
and the first of November one hundred pounds residue in full
payment of the said summe of five hundred pounds. #m
tuitmeå whereof the parties abovesaid to these presents have put to
their hands and seales the day and yeare first above written.
Sealed and delivered in the presence of
Thomas Ellwyn
-> Ric. Robinson secretarius,
John Wiseman -
ÆDIFICIA DOCTORIS PERSE. 275
Noverint universi per presentes me Johannem Atkinsom
de Cantabrigia in comitatu Cantabrigiæ yeomam teneri et
firmiter obligari Martino Perse de eadem villa et comitatu,
armigero, in sexcentis libris bonæ et legalis monetæ Angliæ
solvendis eidem Martimo aut suo certo attornato executoribus
[p. 212] administratoribus vel assignatis suis: ad quam
quidem solucionem bene et fideliter faciendam obligo me
hæredes executores et administratores meos firmiter per pre-
sentes sigillo meo sigillatas. Datum decimo sexto die Martii
anno Regni Domini nostri Jacobi Dei gratia Angliæ Franciæ
et Hiberniæ regis fidei defensoris, etc., decimo quinto, et Scotiæ
quinquagesimo, anno Domini 1617.
Sigillatum subscriptum et traditum im presentia
Thomas Elwyn.
John Wisemam.
Ric. Robinsom, Scr.
The Condicion of this obligacion is such that if the withim
boumdem John Atkinsom his heyres executours administratours
and assignes and everie of them shall well amd truely observe
performe fulfill and keep all such covenauntes promises and
agreements as om his and their parts are to be observed
performed fulfilled and kept, specified and conteyned in cer-
taine articles of agreement bearing date with these presents,
concerning the new building of a new building in Gonvile amd
Caius Colledge in the Universitie of Cambridge, according to
the good intent and true meaming of the said articles and of
these presents, that them this obligacion to be void and of
mone effect or els to stand in full force and effect.
Anno 1618
Quo tempore operarii ædificium Perseanum moliuntur eodem
Martinus Perse, sæpe nominandus executor, alia duo extrui
curavit in parochia, Sancti Edwardi, unum ad publicæ Scholæ
usum, alterum ad subventionem pauperum ptocotrophium
Doctoris Perse vulgo insignitum; interim dum ista procedunt,
opera, cogitat dictus Martimus quomodo secundum voluntatem
testatoris fiat provisio sociorum et scholarium, ac proinde per
18—2
276 ANNALS OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS.
literas suas nominavit, et statuit hos primos fore socios, viz.,
Franciscum Hobman Londimensem, Edmundum Michells Nor-
wicensem, Robertum King Norfolciensem, Edwardum Nicols
Cantianum, magistros artium, et Johannem et Nathanielem
Cradocke, artium baccalaureos, hunc Cantabrigiæ matum, illum
Nottinghamensem ex opido Newarke ; scholares vero primos
statuit Gulielmum Jones Suffolciensem, Thomam Abbat de
Catlidge Cantabrigiensem, Stephanum May, Edwardum Bur-
rough, Thomam Elwin, Gulielmum Jenkinsom, Norfolcienses,
qui omnes tum socii tum scholares, a Custode Doctore
[p. 218] Branthwaite et sociis (ad quos approbandi jus
spectabat) in designatos locos recepti sunt ; et in computo a
festo Sancti Michaelis 1618, magistri Blamkes et Michels per
consensum Custodis et majoris partis sociorum electi sunt
prælectores tertiæ et ultimæ classis, ita ut fruantur stipendio
Doctoris Perse, ut patet in actis illius computi. Hi primi
prælectores erant stipendiarii, antea provisio lectorum ad dictas
classes incumbebat decanis.
Prima solutio stipendiorum ad dictos socios scholares etc.
sustentandos facta fuit sexto Junii 1618, Roberto Wells bur-
sario Collegii, per dictum Martinum executorem e propriis
nummis (nondum enim facta erat, provisio reddituum ex ullis
terris exeuntium): summa persoluta erat 60" 19* quarum distri-
butio ad peculiares usus suos in libro computi Doctoris Perse
clare constat. De ludimagistro et hypodidascolo quære in hoc
tempore suis muneribus designati fuerant.
Januarii octavo (ut testantur Acta Collegii in computo a
festo Sancti Michaelis hujus anni) concessum est magistro
Roberts, de Lynm, ut ex tenemento quod per copiam tenet
exscindat arbores assignandas in proxima curia temenda apud
Roughmton per Custodem et socios. Hic ipse Alexander Roberts
Sacræ Theologiæ baccalaureus, et hujus Collegii olim socius,
tunc temporis vigilantissimus erat pastor Lymn sive Lemma
Regis, vir spectatæ tum probitatis tum eruditionis. Sacræ
Theologiæ studiis medicimam adjunxit ; peritiam ita et animis
et corporibus gregis suæ optime consuluit. Scriptis aliquot;
editis famam suam commendavit posteris viz.: De septem
ultimis verbis Christi morientis: Expositione pia et valde
ÆDIFICIA DOCTORIS LEGGE. 277
consolatoria in Psalmum 130; et tractatu de sagis veneficis.
Quæ omnia scripsit Anglice. Extat quoque (sed manu exarata)
disputatio ejus in publicis Comitiis Cantebrigiæ 1592 habita,
qua nervose et solide asseruit has Theses viz. In omni bono
opere peccatur; et, Sancti mortui non sunt intercessionis me-
diatores. Tandem multis exanelatis laboribus pius senex Linna
Regis placide in Domino obdormivit. * x •
Jan. 15, 1618. Decretum est ut vetera ædificia, ad Orien-
talem plagam Collegii spectantia juxta portam Humilitatis,
demolirentur, et in eodem loco nova extruerentur, ædificio Per-
seano nuper condito conjungenda ; huic decreto consentientibus
Custode Dr Branthwaite et sociis Doctore Gostling, Doctore
Wells, Magistris Stokis, Batchcroft, Husband, Naylour, Kidmam,
Wale, Weatherel, Allem, Randolph, et Cooke. Longitudo ædificii
de qua convenerat inter Collegium et architectum erat 92
pedes. Fabrica, et structura, item summa persolvenda, et
tempora solutionum, ex scripto indentato inter Collegium et
Johannem Atkinson peti possint.
Decreti tenor hic est.
[p. 214] Anno Domini 1618 in loco Capitulari Collegii
de Gonvile et Caius decimo quinto die mensis Januarii per
consensum Custodis, et majoris partis Sociorum, ita decretum
est : ut tenementa antiqua, juxta portam Humilitatis dirue-
rentur et in eorum loco novum erigeretur ædificium Collegio
deinceps adjungendum, ea structura et conditionibus quæ postea
sequuntur.
Primo, ut duodecim distincta fiant cubicula, supra, quatuor
distinctas areas et infra quatuor excelsa distincta.
Secundo, ut jus assignandi cubicula predicta, pro communi
jure Custodis et sociorum in predictis tenementis, ita distribuatur;
ut Custos peculiariter sibi habeat jus assignandi tria cubicula,
cum excelsis continua serie erecta, eaque ita conjuncta primus
èligat, ubi placuerit in toto ædificio; ut novem reliqua cubicula
cum tribus excelsis inter duodecim socios antiquæ fundationis
ita distribuantur, ut singuli socii et eorumdem successores
secundum senioritatem suam singula cubicula, aut excelsa sibi
habeant, quæ scholasticis aut pensionariis pro placito assignent;
proviso semper quod pensiones cubiculorum per consensum
278 ANNALS OF GONV]fJLE ANI) CAIÜS.
Custodis et sociorum imponendæ debitis temporibus solvantur,
ex quibus redditus antiquus reponetur in cista communi, reliquum
Custodi et sociis remanebit.
Ulterius, in eodem capitulo decretum est ut Johannes At-
kinsom curam hujus ædificii perficiendi in se susciperet, et
pretium reciperet à Collegio sexcentas sexaginta libras sol-
vendas temporibus per Collegium assignandis, et ligna preterea,
et lateres et rudera veterum tenementorum ; ita tamen ut
Collegio syngrapham competentem cum præde exhibeat ut
totum hoc ædificium constituto tempore perficiatur, eaque forma
et structura, et materia sufficienti secundum indenturas deinceps
inter predictum Johannem Atkinson et collegium conficiendas,
in quibus conditiones hujus operis exprimentur.
Item, ut in illa structura monumentum aliquod fiat in
memoriam Doctoris Legge, et ut huic decreto Custos et socii
subscribant antequam nummi ex ærario desumantur.
Guliel. Bramthwaite
Custos jussit ut nomen ejus Joh. Gostlim
subscriberetur in presentia FObt. Wells
Thomæ Weatherel, Thomas Bachcroft
Ægidii Sandford. Ch. Husband
Tho. Kidmam
Math. Stokys
Tho. Weatherell
Tho. Wake
John Allem
Thomas Randolph
Tho. Cooke.
[p. 215] Quod penultima clausula cautum est monu-
mento in memoriam Doctoris Legge hactenus non est praes-
titum, cum tamen (ut supra memoratur, ad annum 1607) 600"
ex donatione Doctoris Legge cistæ communi e manerio de
Mortimers accrescentes, in hunc usum Collegio erogarit. Sed
speramus quod pia benefactoris memoria nunquam Collegio
excidet; id ne fiat optamus (prout decreto cavetur) monumentum
aliquod statui, quod omnibus pateat et posteris testatum faciat
nos nec immemores fuisse beneficii nec ingratos.
AEDIFICIA DOCTORIS LEGGE. 279
Jan. 18°1618. &rtitleg of Agreement indented had and made
betweene the right worshipful William Branthwaite Doctor of
Divinity Master of Gonvile and Caius Colledge in Cambridge
and the fellowes of the said Colledge on the one part, and
John Atkinson of the same towne and Countie yeoman on
the other part, the eighteenth day of January in the sixteenth
yeare of the reigne of our Soveraigne Lord James by the Grace
of God of England France and Ireland King, defender of the
Faith, &c., and of Scotland the lii" concerning a range of
building to be erected and sett up in Gonvile and Caius
College aforesaid.
#mprimiş the said John Atkinson for the consideration
hereafter expressed doth covenaunt promise and agree for him-
Selfe his heyres executours and administratours to and with the
said Master and fellowes of Gonvile and Caius Colledge aforesaid
and their successours, by these presents, that he the said John
his workemen servants and assignes shall and will, at or before
the feast of All Saints next ensuing the day of the date of
these presents, at his and their owne proper costs and charges,
well substantially sufficiently and workemanlike erect build
and fully finish in a place within the said Colledge thereunto
appointed, and in such sort as is more particularly expressed,
upport foundations digged to the firme ground and walled, to
be well and sufficiently rammed, one building of ninety two
foote in length ; to be three storyes in height with garretts or
excelses in the topp of the roofe, two of the storyes to be nine
foote between the floore and the sealing, and the halfe story
to be eight foote and a halfe; the lower story to be eighteene
foote wide within the walls, and to be parted into foure chambers,
every chamber to have three convenient studdies apeice; the
[p. 216] next story to be nineteene foote wide within the
walls and to be equally divided into foure chambers likewise,
with two convenient studyes apeice; and the halfe story to be
equally divided into four chambers, and to have two studdies
apeice; and the garretts to be parted into foure roomes and to
have two studdies apeice, with fitting and convenient staires
of oken planks, to leade conveniently to every of the same
chambers; and that the outward walls of the same building
280 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
shall bee of bricke filled or layd with white stone within, all
the corners thereof to be sett with coynes of free stone, the
same walls to be of the thicknesse of three bricks and a halfe
which conteyneth two foote and tenn inches under the water
table, the same water table to lie three foote or more above
the ground and to be of free stone chamfored foure inches and
a halfe thicke ; and from the water table to the middle floore
the length of three brickes which conteynes two foote and a
halfe ; and from the middle floore to the wall platts two bricks
and a halfe in length which conteyneth two foote in thicknesse;
both the gable ends of the same building to be made gablewise
with cresses and some comely finishing of freestone, and all
the walls on the inside to be cast over with lime and hayre, and
that there shall be placed in every of the twelve chambers one
chimney with chimney peices and borders of white stone cleane
and handsomely wrought, the shafts of the same chimneyes to
be brought up cantwise a convenient height above the levill
of the ridge of the roofe of the house or building, and that
there shall be placed two convenient doore stedds with freestone
jaw.mes and whitestone heads with whelmers and kneelers over
the same of freestone, and convenient windowes in the three
low storyes, every light to be eighteen inches wide, the first
to be three foot eight inches in height, the second story foure
foote and the third three foote two inches high, with freestone
soyles six inches thicke and ten inches broade, the jawmes and
munions to be of whitestone with hance heads also of whitestone,
with kneelers and whelmers over every window of freestone,
and in the first and second story with arches of bricke turned
[p. 217] over every window; and in the halfe story with gable
ends with crests and finialls of freestone and twelve windowes
of timber of two lights apeice in the garretts or excelses, and
every light in the second and halfe story to have one barre of
iron of three quarters of an inch square strongly and fitly
placed and fastned in the midst of every of the same lights,
and in the lowest story to have two barres of iron in every
light well placed and fastned, and every studdie window to
have an iron casement of two foote long and every chamber
two casements, besides the studdies of the same length for
AEDIFICIA DOCTORIS LEGGE. 281
through light and ayre, and all the same lights to be well and
sufficiently glazed with good Burgundy glasse in small quarries
well leaded sodred cemented and sufficiently sett into the
Same windowes and bound to the barres; and that all the said
chambers shall be floored with good sufficient and well seasoned
boards of oake layd upon sufficient jeists of oake timber for the
ground floores, and good and sufficient dormans and jeists for
the other three floores; and that all the partitions shall be
made with good and sufficient groundsells posts girts puncheons
and studdes of oake timber, and the same and all the studdies
to be lathed with hart lathes, and the nine partitions in the
second and halfe story and about the staires to be lathed on
both sides with hart lath, and to be all plaistred over with
lime and hayre workemanlike, and all the outward dores to be
made of furdeale cleanely and well wrought, and a sufficient
locke and key for every of the outward dores, and also to make
a good and sufficient dore for every studdy, to be fitted to
the dorested and hanged on sufficient hookes and hinges; and
that the roofe of the same building shall be of sufficient oake
timber, with so many principall sparres as can be conveniently
placed, with strong purloynes and windbeames, and to stand
upon wallplatts of oake six inches thicke and tenn inches
broad, and shall be covered with good tiles laid with morter
upon hart lathes, and that all the said chambers and studdies
in all the storys and the excelses of the said building shall be
well and workemanlike sealed with lime and haire laid upon
reed well fastned with hart lathes unto the timber of the said
building. ámù further the said John for him his heyres exe-
cutours and administratours doth covenaunt to make the side
[p. 218] of the building next the street with battlements after
the order of St Johns new Court, with gutters and spouts of lead to
be well Sothered and workmanlike done, And that the street side
of the said building shall have in every of the foure chambers
in the lower story one three light window and two single light
windowes, and so in proportion and Order in every story of
the said building, and every chamber on the court side of the
said building shall have so many windowes and of the same
order that Dr Perse his building hath. And also the said
282 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
John Atkinson for him his heyres executours and adminis-
tratours promiseth to levell the courte so as the water may fall
into the lane, and to pave it round about by the sides eight
foot broad with peble, and to leave a pumpe in the courte and
to be comely covered by him like the pumpe in Gonvile Courte.
ànt the said John Atkinson doth covenaunte and promise for
himselfe his executours and administratours or assignes that
they shall and will at his and their owne proper costs and
charges finde provide and have ready for the said workemen
and building all the timber freestone whitestone bricke and
tyles, the same to be good and well burned, lime, sand, hayre
boards, lath, glasse, lead and iron worke, with lockes and keyes
(the studdie dores excepted), and all other materialls what-
soever requisite for the making and full finishing of the said
building and worke. &mb for the same building so to be made
and finished the said Master and Fellowes for themselves and
their successours doe covenaunt promise and grant to and with
the said John Atkinson his executours and administratours
that they the said Master and fellowes or their successours
shall and will well and truely content and pay or cause to be
well and truely contented and paid to the said John Atkinson
his executours or assignes the summe of six hundred and
threescore pounds of currant money of England in manner and
forme following, viz. at the ensealing of these presents foure
hundred pounds of currant money, and in and upon the foure
and twentieth day of June next ensuing one hundred and
threescore pounds, and upon the nine and twentieth day of
September next ensuing the date hereof one hundred pounds
in full payment of the said six hundred and threescore pounds.
&nt the said Master and fellowes doe further covenaunt and
agree that the said John Atkinson in consideration of the
performance of the said premisses shall and may have and take
downe, after such time as the said Master and fellowes shall
and can conveniently remoove the schollers and tenants there
abiding, and use all the old buildings either on the street
[p. 219] side or in the Court where this new building is
to stand, to his proper use commoditie and behoofe with all
the appurtenaunces, viz., wood, timber, stone, bricke, glasse,
AEDIFICIA DOCTORIS LEGGE. 283
iron, tiles, casements, and clay, and whatsoever he can finde
within the said courte where the foresaid building shall stand,
to have amd enjoye the same for him his executours and ad-
ministratours for ever. 3£m fmftm£3 whereof as well the said
Master and fellowes their common seale, as the said John
Atkinsom his seale, to these articles indented interchangeably
have putt, the day and yeare first above Written.
Æstimatio cubiculorum in Annalibus ad annum 1569
omissa, hic e libro matriculationis pag. 206 non incommode
restitui et reponi potest. (These articles being heere left out,
are to be placed. Quære, whether nott commodiously to be
placed in 1619.)
Custos Dr Branthwaite ex sputo sanguinis contracta phthisi
languebat ; et ut sanitati suæ consuleret subducens se Collegii
et Academiæ negotiis (erat enim hoc anno Procancellarius
Universitatis) rus se recepit, ubi ingravescente morbo, 14 Feb-
ruarii 1618, apud Badlingham juxta Novum Forum, vulgo
Newmarket, circa mediam noctem placide expiravit, et brevi
post corpus ejus in sacello Collegii tumulandum delatum erat,
ubi in media area inter monumenta Caii et Leggi conditus,
requiescit. Vir hic venerabilis, ortu Norwicensis, primo erat
alumnus Aulæ Clarensis, postea socius a prima fundatione Collegii
Emanuelis, unde ad præfecturam hujus Collegii per Cancellarium
Academiæ promotus est, ut supra dictum est, ad annum 1607 ;
vir sane erat pius, apprime doctus, et ad regimen Collegii
capessendum satis idoneus; hoc tantum ei deerat quominus
habeatur Custos consummatissimus, quod non novit artem
componendi dissidia, quæ ut supra diximus Collegium vexabant.
Quo tempore præfuit, status Collegii erat florentissimus, viro
enim pio et docto qui ad eruditionem et pietatem anhelabant;
cordi erant, ejusque provida cura Collegio accessit novorum
reddituum magnum incrementum, ut ex libris computorum
liquido constat. Quanta erat viri æstimatio ob eruditionem hinc
apparet ; quod per regiam majestatem ad novam versionem
Sacrorum Bibliorum una. cum viris per totam Angliam selec-
tissimis designatus erat, sed hoc censemus præ cæteris, ei laudi
ducendum, quod quamvis tantæ et tam recentes lites inter eum
284 ANNALS OF GONVIII,E AND CAIUS.
et Socios intercesserant, is tamen earum oblitus summa cum
charitate omnes amplexus est, et in subsidium bonarum lite-
rarum per ultimum testamentum legavit Collegio libros suos
pene omnes, aestimatos 230" valere; item scholariatus quatuor
singulis 5" annuatim in stipendium, quadraginta solidos cistae
[p. 22O] communi, 4" ad diem suum anniversarium cele-
brandum, et poculum argenteum deauratum valoris 12", quae
omnia legata per executores ejus fideliter praestita sunt, ut suis
temporibus postea patebit.
Quæ ex ejus testamento huc spectant hic recensuimus.
Hºn the name of Qºob I William Branthwaite Dr of Divinitie
and Master of the Colledge of Gonvile and Caius in the Uni-
versitie of Cambridge, being of perfect memorie and under-
standing, the five and twentieth day of January in the yeare
of the Incarnation of our Lord and Saviour one thousand
six hundred and eighteene, doe make and ordeyne this my
last will and testament, in manner and forme following. Item
for the founding and establishing of foure schollerships of my
foundation in Gonvile and Caius Colledge, and of two other
like schollerships of my foundation in Emmanuel Colledge, in
the same Universitie of Cambridge, I will that my executours
hereafter named or one of them so soone as conveniently they
can, and within two yeares after my decease, if it may be, shall
purchase and after convey and assure or cause to be conveyed
and assured to the Master or keeper and fellowes of Gonvile
and Caius Colledge founded in the honour of the Annunciation
of blessed Mary the virgine in the Universitie of Cambridge,
and to their successours, lands and tenements such as shall
be convenient and fitt to be assured to the said Colledge, of
the cleare yearely value of two and twenty pounds above all
charges and reprizes. And to the Master fellowes and schollers
of Emmanuel Colledg in the said Universitie of Cambridge and
to their successours, other lands and tenements such as shall be
convenient and fitt to be assured to the said Colledge, of the cleare
yearely value of eleaven pounds six shillings eight pence above
all charges and reprizes; And the said Master or keeper and
fellowes of Gonvile and Caius Colledge and their successours
TESTAMENTUM DOCTORIS BRANTHWAITE. 285
with twenty pounds yearely, parcell of the said two and
twenty pounds, shall mainteyne the said foure schollershipps
of my foundation in the said Colledge, and from time to time
elect and choose to the same foure schollers according to the
[p. 22.1] statutes of the said Colledge, and pay and allow to
each of the said foure schollers, so to be elected and chosen
to the said schollerships, five pounds apeice yearely. And the
said Master, fellowes, and schollers of Emmanuel Colledge, and
their successours, with tenn pounds yearely, parcell of the said
eleven pounds six shillings eight pence, shall mainteyne the
said two schollerships of my foundation in the said Colledge,
and from time to time elect and choose the same two schollers
according to the statutes of the said Colledge, and pay and
allow to either of the said two Schollers so to be elected and
chosen to the said schollarshipps, five pounds apeice yearely.
I doe further will and give unto Gonvile and Caius Colledge
a silver tankerd pott gilt, with my armes on it, to be made
altogether like that which my nephewes Richard Branthwayte
and William Webb did give unto the said Colledge. For my
books such as shall be fitt for a library I doe give to Gonvile
and Caius Colledge, which I will have carefully reserved in
the Library of the said Colledge and no wayes sold, alienated
or changed; and a register to be made of them, and kept in
the treasurie. For other bookes such as my executours shall
not thinke fitt to be reserved in the library, I leave to the
said executours to be sold or disposed as Occasion shall serve,
my meaning being that all which are any way fitt for a library
shall be given to the said Gonvile and Caius Colledge; and
I will that the leaves of all the said bookes shall be cast into
one convenient colour, the charges thereof to be deducted out
of my estate or out of such bookes as shall be thought fitting
to be sold, and I desire another register of the said bookes
given by mee to Gonvile and Caius Colledge to be kept in
Emmanuel Colledge Treasurie. Concerning the library of
Gonvile and Caius Colledge, and according to the trust by
mee in them reposed, I will and ordeine that Thomas Weatherell
and Giles Sandford and their heyres shall pay foure pounds
thirteene shillings four pence by them to be received, in manner
286 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
and forme following, (that is to say) foure pounds to Gonvile
and Caius Colledge, whereof three pounds to be bestowed in
a feast upon the superintendents of my library and the Master
and fellowes; and twenty shillings upon the schollers yearely,
upon the day of my death, or within foure dayes after, and the
other thirteene shilling and foure pence to the said Colledge,
ſp. 222] to be paid to my superintendents, to each of them
six shillings eight pence upon the said day, which super-
intendents I name the Master of Emmanuel College and the
Provost of Kings and their successours for ever, whom I desire
to see that the books by mee given to the Library of Gonvile
and Caius Colledge be remaining there perpetually, and if
they find great negligence first to admonish the Master and
fellowes to restore the books, and then if within a yeare after
the first admonition they be not compleatly restored the re-
mainder to fall to Emmanuel Colledge until there be full
reformation. Likewise I ordeine that my executours or one of
them shall purchase land of the yearely value of foure pounds
thirteene shillings and four pence above all reprizes, and by
lawfull conveyance shall assure it to the Master and fellowes
of Gonvile and Caius Colledge for the uses immediately above
named within some convenient time, and then the forenamed
yearely rent of foure pounds thirteene shillings and foure
pence before devised to the said Thomas Weatherell and Giles
Sandford shall be utterly void. And I doe further ordeyne and
appoint or rather desire that the Master of Gonvile and Caius
Colledge with the Provost of Kings College shall yearely either
upon the forenamed feast day or within two dayes after repaire
to Emmanuel Colledge and take a view of the bookes the
plate and the schollers of my foundation, which schollers I
appoint shall be invited yearely at the aforesaid feast, and
have convenient provision in the Hall and 12" apeice, and if
Emmanuel Colledge shall be defective in mainteyning my said
foundation, which I hope they will not, then, a yeare after the
first admonition by the aforesaid superintendents, I will and
ordeyne that the lands and profitts thereof shall goe to Gonvile
and Caius Colledge untill there be reformation. And for the
better surveying the bookes, I appoint 3 registers to be made
TESTAMENTUM DOCTORIS BRANTHWAITE. 287
with the names of all the books given by me to Gonvile and
Caius Colledge and Emmanuel Colledge written therein. And
the Masters of Kings Colledge Caius Colledge and Emmanuel
Colledge each of them to have one dated this five and twentieth
of January, in the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred,
and eighteene.
Probatum fuit hujusmodi retroscriptum testamenti venera-
bilis viri Magistri Guil. Branthwaite Sacrae Theologiae Profes-
soris, Magistri sive Custodis Collegii Gonvil et Caii infra
[p. 223] Universitatem Cantebrigiæ &c.
Fama certo accepta de morte Doctoris Branthwaite, socii
16° Feb. in sacello convenerunt, deliberaturi de Custode novo
eligendo, ubi perlectis regni et Collegii statutis per scrutinium
eligerunt in locum Custodis defuncti dignissimum virum Jo-
hannem Gostlin, Doctorem in medicina, et tunc temporis
Collegii socium. Statim post hunc conventum habitum et
dismissum, Dr Richardson Collegii Trinitatis prefectus literas
attulit regias, in hanc formam sequentem.
James R.
Trustie and welbeloved, wee greete you well, whereas we
understand that Dr Branthwaite Master of your house is
dangerously sicke, and not likely in any mans judgement to
recover, wee have thought fitt out of our gratious care, not
onely of the College, whereof yee are fellowes, but also of
our whole Universitie, to commend unto you in case your
said Master shall depart this life, the choise of such a one
unto his place, as shall be sound and untainted in Religion,
as you will be answereable therein unto us, and if you shall
make election of a divine eligible by your statutes rather then
of one of any other profession as wee doubt not but yee shall
thereby make the best provision of the governement of the
house, so wee assure you ye shall doe that which will be most
acceptable unto us in that point.
Given at our Court at Newmarkett the 21* day of January
1618.
Fertur has literas fuisse scriptas in favorem Doctoris Bing
Sacrae Theologiae Doctoris et Hebraicae linguæ Professoris.
Proximo die viz, 17° Februarii socii denuo ad consultandum
288 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANTO CAIUS.
convenerunt, ubi perlectis literis regiis, quæ liberam electionem
Custodis secundum statuta, societati relinquebant, rursus lectis
regni et collegii statutis quæ ad electionem Custodis spectabant,
iterarunt scrutinium, et cum nullus esset socius Doctor in Sacra,
Theologia, unanimi consensu eumdem Johannem Gostlin denuo
Custodem eligerunt, et quam primum sic electum Regi per literas
commendarunt, qui summa cum gratia, electionem approbavit.
Interim dum hæc in Collegio transiguntur, vacante Pro-
cancellariatu per mortem Doctoris Branthwaite, convenerunt
prefecti Collegiorum ad alium in ejus locum subrogandum,
eorumque punctis ad illud munus subeundum notati fuerunt
Dr Walsall Prefectus Collegii Corporis Christi, S. Theologiæ
Doctor, et hic noster Doctor Gostlim, quem major pars regentium
et non regentium per sua suffragia in locum Procancellariatus
vacantem substituerunt; ita Gostlimus simul Collegii et Aca-
demiæ regimen feliciter capessit.
[p. 224] Postea per literas suas socii Gostlimum electum
sic ut statuta requirunt honoratissimo Academiæ Cancellario
præsentarunt, qui, literis rescriptis, electionem comprobavit,
quarum exemplar insequitur. -
After my hearty commendatioms, I have received your
letters signifieng your election of Mr Dr Gostlin to be the
Custos of that house in the roome of Dr Branthwaite lately
deceased. I doe assure myselfe he is a worthy and discreete
mam and everie way fitt for the place yee have chosen him in.
And therefore I doe give my allowance amd approbation of him
according to your desire, and his good deserving ; and so with
my good wishes unto you all I remaine
Your verie loving freimd and Chancellour
Suffolke.
Suffolke House
Eeb. 23. 1618.
Vicessimo sexto Februarii Johannes Gostlim predictus
admissus est Custos hujus Collegii per Doctorem Wells in
præsentia sociorum Magistri Bachcroft, Magistri Husband,
Magistri Kidmam, Magistri Wake, Magistri Weatherell, Magistri
Randolph, Magistri Cooke.
MANERIUM DE FRATING. 289
Sexto Martii concessum est quarto seniori socio ut minis-
trum habeat in mensa communi in adjumentum reliquorum
ministrorum propter auctum jam numerum sociorum; non de
jure aliquo quod vindicare sibi possit, sed permissione tantum
ad bene placitum Custodis et sociorum.
Hoc eodem die et anno Martinus Perse solus executor
ultimi testamenti Doctoris Perse quo satisfiat Collegio de
legatis manerium suum de Frating in comitatu Essexiæ cum
terris et redditibus eo pertinentibus, ad usus in predicto testa-
mento statutos, vendidit dedit tradidit etc, quibusdam feoffatis,
viz. Roberto Wells Medicinae doctori, Thomae Bachcroft, Christo-
phero Husband, Olivero Naylour, Thomae Kidman, et Thomae
Wake, artium magistris. Quae omnia ex verbis ipsius Chartae
indentatae infra scriptis latius patet.
Qſìjià intenture made the sixt day of March in the six-
teenth yeare of the Reigne of our Soveraigne Lord James by
the Grace of God King of England Fraunce and Ireland,
[p. 225] Defender of the Faith etc., and of Scotland the
two and fiftieth, betweene Martine Perse of the Towne of
Cambridge in the Countie of Cambridge, esquire, the sole
administratour or executour of the last Will and testament of
Stephen Perse late Dr of Physicke and one of the fellowes of
the Colledge called or knowne by the name of Gonvile and
Caius Colledg in the Universitie of Cambridge, deceased, on
the one part, and Robert Wells Dr of Physicke, Thomas
Batchcroft Mr of arts, Christopher Husband Master of arts,
Oliver Naylour Mr of Arts, Thomas Kidman Mr of Arts, and
Thomas Wake Mr of Arts, fellowes of the said Colledg on the
other part, ſuitmeggetſ) that whereas the said Stephen Perse by
his last Will and testament in writing bearing date the twenty
Seaventh day of September in the yeare of our Lord God
one thousand six hundred and fifteen, and in the thirteenth
yeare of the Reigne of our Sovereingne Lord King James,
amongst divers other things did give and bequeath to the
Corporation of the cittie of Norwich two thousand pounds, to
the Corporation of the towne of Cambridge one thousand
pounds, to the Corporation of the towne of St Edmunds Burie
C. A. S. Octavo Series. No. XL. 19
29 () ANNALS OF GONWILLE AND CAIUS.
in the Countie of Suffolke one thousand pounds, and to the
Corporation of the towne or borough of Kings Lynn in the
Countie of Norfolke one thousand pounds, upon certaine con-
dicions in the said last will specified, and to the intent thereout
to raise yearely for ever two hundred and fifty pounds to be
employed for the maintenance of severall good uses in the
said Colledge and elsewhere in the said last will particularly
expressed, with provisoe that if anie inconvenience were or
should be seene into by the executours aforenamed and the
supervisours of his will whom he did appoint to be the Master
and fellowes of the said Colledge, that the said two hundred
and fiftie pounds per annum should not be verie sufficiently
assured to continue in perpetuity, then he willed that land
should be purchased with the same five thousand pounds or
so much thereof as securitie should not be given in for, by the
same corporations to raise or make a revenew of two hundred
and fifty pounds per annum over and above all reprizes, to be
taken in mortmaine or to such uses unto Feoffes as in and
by the last will and testament bearing date as aforesaid more
[p. 226] fully doth and may appeare; which said severall
summes amounting to five thousand pounds have beene offered
and ready to be paid to the said severall corporations respect-
ively according to the said last will, and in default of acceptance
of the severall legacies given to the said cittie and the other
corporations, and in default of sufficient assurance made or
likely to be made from the said cittie and corporations
respectively to have continuance in perpetuitie according to the
said will, the settling of the said uses according to the true
meaning of the said last will is hindred and not performed.
And hereupon great inconvenience being seene into by the
executours and supervisours of the said will by the said Martin
Perse having lately purchased the mannor of Frating and the
lands tenements and hereditaments hereafter mencioned in
the Countie of Essex, which are of the yearely revenue of
two hundred and fifty pounds and above all reprizes, of Sir
Thomas Bendish barronett for the summe of five thousand
pounds, and being desirous that all and every the good uses
mencioned in the last will and testament of the said Stephen
~ *
MANERIUM DE FRATING. 291
Perse to be performed with the said yearely revenue of two
hundred and fifty pounds may be setled and established with
Convenient speed to have continuance for ever according to
the true intent of the said last will, Hit is resolved and thought
meet and agreeable to the true intent of the said last will
that the said mannour and the lands tenements and heredita-
ments hereafter in these presents mencioned shall be assured
and conveyed unto the said Robert Wells, Thomas Batchcroft,
Christofer Husband, Olyver Naylor, Thomas Kidman, and
Thomas Wake, and their heyres, upon speciall confidence and
trust that the same feoffes and the survivours and survivour
of them and the heyres of the survivours or survivour of them
shall permitt and suffer the said Master and fellowes of
Gonvile and Caius Colledge aforesaid and their successours to
receive and take all and singular the rents issues and profitts
of the said mannour lands tenements and hereditaments here-
after in these presents particularly mencioned to be purchased
of the said Sir Thomas Bendish, and the same to dispose to
the maintenance and performance of all and every the good
[p. 227] uses expressed in the last will and testament of the
said Stephen Perse, to be performed with the said yearely
revenue of two hundred and fifty pounds, and hereafter at
such time as to the same Master and fellowes of the said
Colledge shall seeme fitt to convey and assure the said Mannour
lands tenements and hereditaments to the said Master and
fellowes and their successours for ever, that they therwith maie
continue for ever the performance of all and everie the same
good uses according to the true intent and meaning of the
said last will and testament of the said Steven Perse. §20ſm
therefore the said Martine Perse to the onelie intent and purpose
that all and everie the said good uses mencioned and expressed
in the said last will and testament of the said Stephen Perse
to be performed with the said yearely revenue of two hundred
and fifty Pounds may be for ever hereafter well and duly
performed according to the true intent of the said last will and
testament, for and in consideration of the summe of five pounds
of lawfull money of England, betweene the said parties to these
presents agreed, and to him the said Martine Perse, to the
19—2
292 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
onelie intent and purpose thatt all and everie the said good
uses mencioned and expressed in the said last will and testa-
ment of the said Stephen Perse to be performed with the
said yearely revenue of two hundred and fifty pounds may be for
ever hereafter well and duly performed according to the true
intent of the said last will and testament, for and in considera-
tion of the summe of five pounds of lawfull money of England
betweene the said parties to these presents agreed, and to him
the said Martine Perse in hand before the sealing and deliverie
of these presents by the said Robert Wells, Thomas Batchcroft,
Christopher Husband, Oliver Nailor, Thomas Kidman, and
Thomas Wake, well and truelie paid, the receit whereof these
presents effectuallie testifie, hath bargained sold granted en-
ffeoffed and confirmed, and by these presents doth bargaine
and sell graunt enffeoffe and confirme, to the said Robert Wells,
Thomas Bachcroft, Christopher Husband, Oliver Nailor, Thomas
Kidman, and Thomas Wake, all that the mannor of Frating
commonlie called Frating Hall, with all and everie the rights
members and appurtenaunces in the countie of Essex, and all
messuages houses dovehouses gardens orchards lands tenements
meadowes pastures feedings woods underwoods heathes furres
moores rents customes services courts liberties franchizes profitts
commodities and hereditaments whatsoever to the said mannor
belonging or aniewise appurteyning, or part parcell or member
thereof being or being accounted accepted reputed demised
used occupied or enjoyed as part parcell or member of the
same, in Frating, Greate Bently, Litle Bently and Elmestead
in the said countie of Essex, or elsewhere in the said countie,
and also all that Messuage farme lands and tenements late the
[p. 228] said Sir Thomas Bendishes in the tenure or occupacion
of Thomas Higham esquire or his assignes, conteyning by
estimacion two hundred thirty and three acres more or lesse
with the appurtenaunces in Frating and Elmestead aforesaid,
and Thoringtonne in the said countie of Essex, and also all
that messuage tenement and farme with all the lands therewith
demysed by the said Sir Thomas Bendish to Robert Dawkins,
conteyning by estimacion fortie two acres more or lesse, with
the appurtenaunces in Frating aforesaid, and also all that
MANERIUM DE FRATING. 293
messuage farme and lands late the said Sir Thomas Bendishes
in the tenure of John Allen and his assignes, conteyning by
estimacion a hundred twentie and eight acres more or lesse,
with the appurtenaunces in Frating, Great Bently, Litle Bently,
Elmsted and Thorington aforesaid, or anie of them, and alsoe
all that messuage farme lands and tenements late the said
Sir Thomas Bendishes in the tenure or occupacion of John
Sommersom or his assignes, conteyning by estimacion fourscore
and foure acres more or lesse, with the appurtenaunces in
Elmested aforesaid; and alsoe all that messuage farme lands
and tenements late the said Sir Thomas Bendishes, conteyning
by estimacion a hundred and threescore acres more or lesse,
in the tenure and occupation of William Thoringtonne or his
assignes, with the appurtenaunces in Greate Bently and Litle
Bently aforesaid, and Bromley in the said countie of Essex,
or anie of them, and also all that messuage or ferme lands or
tenements late the said Sir Thomas Bendishes, conteyning by
estimacion a hundred acres more or lesse, in the tenure or
occupacion of ............... Turner or his assignes with the
appurtenaunces in Frating and Thoringtonne aforesaid, or
either of them, and also all that messuage or farme lands and
tenements late the said Thomas Bendishes conteyning by esti-
macion fifty five more or lesse in the tenure of ............ Davy
or his assignes, with the appurtenaunces or some other of the
townes aforesaid, and also all that messuage farme lands and
tenements late the said Sir Thomas Bendishes, conteyning by
estimacion thirty foure acres more or lesse, in the tenure or
occupacion of John Crosse or his assignes with the appurte-
naunces in Greate Bently and Litle Bently in the said countie
of Essex, or either of them, or elsewhere in the said countie
of Essex, and also all those woodgrounds woods and under-
woods conteyning by estimacion one hundred and twenty acres
more or lesse after the accompt of the great hundred late in
[p. 229] the tenure of the said Sir Thomas Bendish, with
the appurtenaunces in Greate Bentley, Litle Bentley, Much
Bromely, Litle Bromley and Frating aforesaid, or any of
them, and also six and fourtie acres more or lesse of wood
underwoods and woodground in Frating and other the townes
294 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
aforesaid, or some of them, the whole esteemed nine score six
acres of woodground, and also all other messuages lands tene-
ments meadowes pastures feedings woods underwoods and all
other hereditaments whatsoever in Frating, Great Bentley,
Little Bently, Much Bromley, Little Bromley, Winninghoe,
Thorington, Elmested, Alesford alias Awford, or elswhere in
the said countie of Essex, bargained and sold or mencioned or
intended to be bargained and sold by the said Thomas Bendish
to the said Martine Perse in and by one indenture of bargaine
and sale bearing date the six and twentieth day of June last
past before the date of these presents, together also with all
sheepwalkes sheep.courses libertie of fold and fouldages commones
ways drifts passages liberties priviledges profitts commodities
emolumentes and hereditaments whatsoever to the said mannor
or messuages lands tenements hereditaments and premisses
before mencioned, and to everie part and parcell of the same
belonging or in any wise appurteyning, or with the same or any
part thereof as part or parcell or member thereof, used occupied
or enjoyed with their and everie of their appurtenaunces, and
alsoe all deeds evidences charters court rolls accompts exempli-
fications of recoveryes and other records transcripts of fines
terrears rentalls and all other escripts writings and muniments
whatsoever onelie concerning the premisses or Onelie concerning
any part or parcell of the same, and the true coppies of all
other charters and evidences which the said Martine Perse or
anie to his use hath received of the said Thomas Bendish
concerning the premisses or any part or parcell of the same,
together with other lands and tenements, Qſo babe and to bold
the said Mannor of Frating and all and singular other the
messuages lands tenements liberties profitts hereditaments and
premisses all the said charters deeds and evidences and coppies
of deeds and evidencies before mencioned, to be bargained and
sold with their and everie of their appurtenaunces to the said
Robert Wells, Thomas Batchcroft, Christopher Husband, Oliver
Naylour, Thomas Kidman, Thomas Wake, their heyres and
assignes, to the onelie use and behoofe of the said Robert Wells,
Thomas Batchcroft, Christoper Husband, Oliver Naylour,
Thomas Kidman, and Thomas Wake, their heyres and assignes,
MANERIUM DE FRATING. 295
for ever of the cheife lord of the fee or fees thereof there-
with to performe the trust reposed in them as aforesaid.
ſp. 23O] &nt the said Martin Perse for him his heyres exe-
cutours and administratours doth covenaunt promise and grant
to and with the said Robert Wells, Thomas Batchcroft, Chris-
topher Husband, Oliver Nailor, Thomas Kidman, and Thomas
Wake, their heyres and assignes, by these presents that for
or notwithstanding any act or acts thing or things made done
or willingly or wittingly suffered by him the said Martine Perse
or hereafter to be had made or done or suffered, he the said
Martine Perse at the ensealing and delivery of these presents
doth stand and is lawfully and wrightfully seized of the said
mannor of Frating and all other the messuages lands tenements
liberties profitts hereditaments and premisses before mencioned
to be bargained and sould with their and everie of their
appurtenaunces of good perfect sole and absolute estate of
inheritance in fee simple, and that he the said Martine Perse
and his heyres shall and will continue and be so seised untill
an estate of the same be first had and executed to the said
Robert Wells, Thomas Batchcroft, Christopher Husband, Olyver
Naylour, Thomas Kidman, and Thomas Wake, their heyres
and assignes, by or upon these presents and according to the
covenaunts and agreements hereafter in these presents con-
teyned, without any condicion limitation will use or devise to
alter change or make void the same, Ånt that he the said
Martine Perse, notwithstanding any acte or acts thing or things
had made done or wittinglie or willingly suffered by him the
said Martin Perse, hath good right and lawfull power to bargaine
and sell convey and assure the said mannour lands tenements
liberties profitts hereditaments and premisses all and singular
before mencioned to be bargained and sold and everie part and
parcell of the same in such absolute manner and forme as he
the said Martine Perse before in and by these presents hath
bargained and sould the same, and that the said mannor lands
and tenements liberties profittes hereditaments and premisses
all and singular before mencioned to be bargained and sould
with their and everie of their appurtenaunces. 3 mt, the Šaft,
Robert Wells, Thomas Bachcroft, Christofer Husband, Olyver
296 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
Naylor, Thomas Kidman, and Thomas Wake, their heyres and
assignes, for and in respect of the same and every part and
parcell of the same now are and bee and so shall continue and
be for ever hereafter clere and cleerely acquitted and dis-
charged or otherwise at all times hereafter, and from time to
time well and sufficiently saved and kept harmlesse by the said
[p. 231] Martine Perse his heyres executours or adminis-
tratours, of and from all manner of former bargaines sales
gifts grants leases joynters dowers entayles uses devises con-
dicions limitations forfeitures seisures causes of forfeiture and
seisure intrusions issues forfeited rents charges rents secke
recognizances statutes marchaunt and of the staple judgements
executions and all other titles troubles charges and incumbrances
whatsoever had made or done or willingly or wittingly suffered
by the said Martine Perse or any other person or persons
lawfully claiming by from or under him the said Martine or
by from or under his estate or by his meanes assent consent
knowledge or procurement, the rents and services from hence-
forth to be due to the cheif lord or lords of the fee or fees
thereof onelie except and foreprized. &nt furtſjer the said
Martine Perse for him his heyres executours and adminis-
tratours doth covenaunt promise and grant to and with the
said Robert Wells, Thomas Bachcroft, Christopher Husband,
Olyver Naylor, Thomas Kidman, and Thomas Wake, their
heyres and assignes, by these presents, that the said Martine
and Katherine his wife and the heyres of the said Martin
Perse, and all and everie person and persons claiming by from
or under the said Martin Perse shall and will at all times
hereafter and from time to time during the said tearme of
foure yeares and three monethes ensuing the day of the date
of these presents, upon reasonable request to be made to the
said Martine Perse or his heyres at the costs and charges in
law of the said Robert Wells, Thomas Batchcroft, Christopher
Husband, Olyver Naylour, Thomas Kidman, and Thomas Wake,
or of the survivour or survivours of them, shall and will doe
knowledge make suffer and execute or cause to be done know-
ledged made suffered and executed all and everie such other
and reasonable act or acts devyse and devises in law for the
SOCII DOCTORIS PERSE. 297
conveyance or sure making of the said mannour messuages
lands tenements liberties hereditaments and premisses all and
singular before mencioned, to be bargained and sold with their
and everie of their appurtenaunces to the said Robert Wells,
Thomas Bachcroft, Christopher Husband, Olyver Naylour,
Thomas Kidman, and Thomas Wake, their heyres and assignes,
or by them their heyres or their learned counsell in the law
shall be reasonably devised or advised and required, be it by
deed of feofment deed inrolled the inrollment of these presents
fine with proclamations recoverie with voucher or vouchers
release or confirmation with warrantie by the said Martine and
Katherine his wife and the heyres of the said Martine against
the said Martine and Katherine and the heyres of the said
Martine, so that the said Martine and Katherine nor either
of them nor the heyres of the said Martine be not compelled
to travell thereabouts further than the towne of Cambridg.
Hu ſuftmeg whereof the parties aforesaid to these indentures
[p. 232] interchangeably have put their seales the day and
yeare first above written.
Anno 1619
Octobris 23° perlecta est in Sacello petitio sociorum ex
|Fundatione Doctoris Perse hoc titulo :
Domino Doctori Gostlin hujus Academiae Procancellario
dignissimo, Magistro sive Custodi Collegii de Gonvile et Caius
vigilantissimo, et duodecim senioribus ejusdem sociis ornatissimis,
salutem: Nos Socii ex fundatione Doctoris Perse quorum nomina
subscripta sunt humiliter supplicamus, obnixegue petimus ut
nos omnes in Collegii societatem ascribi seu incorporari dig-
memini eodemgue modo iisdemgue conditionibus quibus socii
ex fundatione Dominae Frankland ascripti sunt et incorporati,
simulque admittamur, et in leges sive statuta Collegii juremur,
sicut illi admissi et jurati sunt, reservata tamen qua jam
fruimur senioritate mostra. Quod si feceritis ad cateram Vestram
in nos benificentiam tanquam cumulus accedet.
298 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
Subscripserunt, Franciscus Hobman, Edmundus Michels,
Robertus King, Edwardus Nichols, Nathaniel Cradock.
De petitione hac Custos et socii predicti seniores Collegii
deliberarunt eodem die quo tradita est post meridiem privatim
in cubiculo Custodis, et responsionem conceperunt proximo die
in Sacello traditam, quam ideo Anglice scripserunt ut petitores
predicti ad executorem Doctoris Perse eandem deferrent: Scripta
est autem ad formulam sequentem.
24 Octob. 1619. . The answer of the Master or Keeper and
the senior fellowes of Gonvile and Caius Colledge in the
Universitie of Cambridge made by the fellowes of Dr Perse
his foundation.
Whereas you have earnestly peticioned for to be elected
and incorporated into the Colledge with the same condicions
of the fellowes of the foundation of Mris Joyce Franckland, and
accordingly reserving your senioritie to be sworne unto the
statutes and admitted, in answer of this your peticion upon
due consideracion wee find by Dr Perse his will that these your
fellowships are not in that condicion to the Colledge that
Mris Francklands either now are or then were when they were
first received, for that the right of the election of your places
and your successours seemeth by your founders will as yet not
[p. 233] to be in the power of the Colledge but to be reserved
to the executours during their lives, which pretence of right
when they shall be pleased to relinquish and give over and
render to the Colledge a free election of these your places, wee
shall then be ready to yeild both to yourselves in present and
your successours in time to come that content which shall
appeare just and reasonable to all the world.
John Gostlin custos, Robert Wells, Thomas Bachcroft,
Christopher Husband, Oliver Naylour, Thomas Kidman, Thomas
Cooke, Thomas Randolph, Thomas Gostlin.
Novembris tertio decretum est, ut bursarius deinceps habeat
annuatim quadraginta solidos in uberiorem laboris Sui mer-
cedem.
SOCII DOCTORIS PERSE. 299
16] 9
[January 14 1619 was the sale of Frating woodes to Mr Perse and
heere to be entred, numb. 30 in the first box of Frating. Quere when the
bargaine was made: either this or the next yeere.]
Januarii decimo septimo 1619 decretum est ut deinceps
tres simul ordine suo declament, duo ex parte adversa, tertius
qui de quæstione determinet. -
Eodem die decretum est, die Veneris deinceps hora tertia
in termino sophismata omittantur, et baccalaurei in artibus
et sophistæ eorum vice alternatim problemata sua proponerent
ordine usitato, et dies antea, eisdem destinati ut prius obser-
ventur. .-
Item ut in omnibus baccalaureorum et sophistarum disputa-
tionibus duo deinceps secundum ordinem a decanis instituendum
opponent.
Decretum de Sociis ex fundatione Doctoris Perse.
18 Febru. 1619
Ad perpetuam Collegii pacem conservandam, et lites con-
troversi usque tollendas, quæ inter socios fundationis Doctoris
Wendy, Jocosæ Frankland, et Doctoris Perse deinceps oriri
possint, matura deliberatione per Custodem et socios. ita de-
cretum est.
Cum venerabilis vir Doctor Perse summa charitate redditus
annuos ad sex socios et totidem scholares alendos Collegio nostro
donavit, et Custodis preterea, et quatuor seniorum sociorum,
et sex sociorum ex donatione Jocosæ Frankland, aliorumque
officiariorum in Collegio stipendia annua adauxit, æquum
visum est, Custodi et sociis eandem donationem omni gratia
et favore quantum per statuta fieri possit adaugere.
Decretum igitur est per predictum Custodem et socios
quod socii presentes et futuri ex fundatione prædicta seniori-
tatem sive locum et præcedentiam cum omni respectu sociis
debito habeant, a tempore quo per Custodem et socios predictos
in commeatum et consortium sociorum assumpti sint, aut
300 ANNALS OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS.
deinceps assumantur, neque præjudicium iis sit, quoad præ-
dictam senioritatem sive præcedentiam, quod juramentum
sociorum non susceperint aut suscipiant, quamdiu per eos non
stet aut deinceps steterit quominus susceperint aut suscipiant.
[p. 234] 3° Martii 1619 cubicula novi ædificii juxta plateam
communem orientem versus, ita a Custode et sociis sigillatim
æstimata sunt ut singula inferiora cubicula annuatim reddant
triginta solidos, superiora quadraginta solidos (exceptis iis in
quibus socii commorantur, quæ tantum viginti sex solidos et
octo denarios reddent, quamdiu socii in iis commorati fuerint),
excelsa autem ut solvant tredecim solidos et quatuor denarios;
Aestimatio cubiculorum in libro Matriculationis pag. 206
si nom alibi huc commode referri possit.
Anno 1620
Richardus Kendall Bac. Art. scholaris ex fundatione Caii
electus est, 6° Maii 1620, in scholariatum fundatum a Doctore
Branthwaite, et utroque stipendio gaudere concessum est, ut
prospiciat, et curam habeat librorum Doctoris Branthwaite, et
aliorum qui in Bibliotheca reponentur.
Eodem die et tempore electi sunt scholares reliqui, ex
fundatione Doctoris Branthwaite, viz. Henricus Mumdem ex
Comitatu Dorset, et Art. Bach., Robertus Loud Lancastriensis
ex nominatione ipsius Doctoris Bramthwaite, et Thomas Oddy
Lancastriensis, atque hi quatuor primi erant scholares dictæ
fundationis.
Octavo Maii 1620 stipendium annuum decretum erat ei qui
in theologicis præceptis juventutem instituerat 6" annuatim,
sed 18° Octobris hujus anni decretum est per Custodem et
socios ut ad stipendium catechisatoris singuli pensionarii
majores singulis quarteriis solvant duodecim denarios, reliqui
infra gradum magisterii qui non sint sizatores solvant sex
denarios, quod si ad summam quinquaginta solidorum per
quarterium non acerescat, reliquum solvatur per Collegium
quod defuerit.
CHARTA RICHARDI BRANTHWAITE. 301
Anno 1621
Vicessimo tertio Aprilis ordinatum est, ne fæminæ ullæ
permittantur lectos scholarium sternere nec eo nomine œcon-
omus quicquam a scholari impensum in librum suum referret.
Decretum hoc rursus confirmatum fuit, anno 1628 Julii 16°.
Junii 6°. Decretum est ut duo Bacchalaurei ordine suo
Litaniam die Dominico aliisque festis diebus canerent, aut
legerent, incipiendo a senioribus, sub pœna duodecim denari-
orum singulis negligentibus.
Julii 10". Decretum est, ut præces vespertinæ hora quinta
indies Deo offerrentur, atque officium præstare singuli socii
ordine suo incipiendo a semioribus temerentur, præcesque ordi-
narias legerent iis diebus quibus non designatur ex usu ut
[p. 235] cantemtur: viz. diebus festis et profestis, quibus
diebus (ut antehac) sacellamus pro more veteri cantare tene-
bitur, non obstante hoc decreto.
Thomas Randolph Norfolciensis Art. Mag: et hujus Collegii
socius, apud Pulham unde natus inde dematus, 6° Augusti
1621, vir sane integerrimus simul et doctissimus, ingens post
se reliquit sui desiderium, et in testimonium pietatis testa-
mento legavit decem libras ad ornandam sacram mensam in
festis solemnioribus, præsertim cum celebranda sit sacra Eu-
charistia, quibus nummis emptum erat peristroma illud cocci-
neum ex holoserico villoso quo nunc Collegium gaudet ac uti
solebat quoties sacra illa solenniora peragenda essent. Insuper
Bibliothecæ Collegii dono dedit Avicennæ opera latine versa
2 volumina, et Adriani Turnebi Adversaria.
Terræ legatæ Collegio per ultimum Testamentum Doctoris
Branthwaite (de quo superius dictum est Martii 1* 1621) per
Richardum Branthwaite hæredem prædicti doctoris donatæ
sunt Collegio ea, quæ sequitur instrumenti formula.
Qji£ ínuemture made the first day of March in the yeare of
the reigne of our Soveraigne Lord James by the Graee of God
of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the
Faith, &c., that is to say of England France and Ireland the
mineteenth and of Scotland the five and fiftieth, between
302 ANNALS OF GON WILLE AND CAIUS.
Richard Branthwaite of Ringwood in the Countie of South-
ampton, esquire, cousin and heyre of William Branthwaite
Doctor of Divinitie late Master of Gonville and Caius Colledge
in the Universitie of Cambridge of the one part, and John
Gostling Doctor of Physicke now Master of the said Gonville
and Caius Colledge founded in the honour of the Annunciation
of blessed Mary the Virgine in the said Universite of Cambridge
and the fellowes of the same Colledge of the other part,
&Hitmeš3tti) that whereas the said Richard Branthwaite by his
Indenture bearing date the third daie of February last past
betweene him the said Richard Branthwaite of the one part
and Gregorie Gawsell of Watlington in the Countie of Norfolk
gent. of the other part, hath demysed granted and to ferm
letten unto the said Gregorie Gawsell his executours and
assignes, all that close of pasture conteyning by estimacion
Seaven and twenty acres more or lesse lying and being in
Wiggenhall St Jermans in the said Countie of Norfolck, next
the lands now or of late of Henry Kervile late esquire now
knight towerds the south, and abutting towerds the east upon
[p. 236] the new land way, and towerds the west upon the
lands of the late dissolved Monasterie of West Derham, which
seaven and twenty acres then lately were in the tenure or
occupacion of Thomas Watson or of his assignes, &nd also
all that land and pasture ground called Gillingor alias Gillingow
conteyning by like estimacion Seaven and thirty acres more
or lesse lying and being in Wiggenhall St Peters in the said
countie of Norfolk next the lands now or late of one Mr Edwards
on the south, and abutting upon the Kings highway leading
from Wiggenhall Mary Magdalene Church to Islington Bridge
in the countie aforesaid towerds the east, and Fenn banke
towerds the west, then lately before in the tenure or occupacion
of John Harteley and Charles Prettyman or their assignes Qſo
babe ant to bolt, the said demysed premisses unto the said
Gregorie Gawsell his executours and assignes from the Feast
day of St Michael the Archangel then last past before the
date of the said indenture untill the full end and tearme of
fourtie yeares from thence fully to be accomplished and ended,
neilding and papíng therefore yearly and everie yeare unto the
CHARTA RICHARDI BRANTHWAITE, 303
said Richard Branthwaite his heyres and assignes the yearely
rent or farme of thirtie pounds of lawfull money of England to
be paid at the two usuall Feast dayes of the Annunciation of
the blessed virgine Mary and St Michael the Archangel halfe
yearely, or within fifteene dayes next after either of the said
Feast days by equall porcions, at or within the common dyning
Hall of Gonvile and Caius Colledg aforesaid, with and under
such covenaunts and other agreements as in the said indentures
are expressed, the reversion of the which so demised premisses
with the rent incident thereunto is of right belonging and
expectant to the said Richard Branthwaite and this heyres, the
said premisses among other lands and tenements being come
and lawfully descended to the said Richard Branthwaite here-
ditarily by and after the death of William Branthwaite Doctor
of Divinitie and late Master of the said Gonvile and Caius
Colledge as cousin and next heyre of the said William, that
is to say, sonne and heyre of Richard Branthwaite esquire
late Sergeant at Law deceased brother and heyre of the said
William Branthwaite, $30ſm further witnesseth these presents
that the said Richard Branthwaite for and in consideration of
the performance of the true intent and meaning of so much of
the last will and testament of the said William Branthwaite
which on the part and behalfe of the said Richard Branthwaite
executour of the said last will and testament of the said
William Branthwaite is to be performed concerning the
[p. 237] conveying settling and assuring of some certaine
competent porcion or quantitie of lands to the value of fortie
marks per annum ultra reprisas unto the said Master and
fellowes of Gonvile and Caius College aforesaid and their suc-
cessours, according to the lymitacion and appointment of the
said William Branthwaite in his said last will and testament,
to be by the said Richard Branthwaite executed and performed,
£atſ) giben granted conveyed assured and confirmed and by
these presents doth give grant convey assure and confirme unto
the said Master and fellowes, &ll that the said close of
pasture conteyning by estimacion Seaven and twenty acres,
more or lesse, lying and being in Wiggenhall. St Jermans
aforesaid, &nd algo all that the said land and pasture ground
304 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
called Gillingoe alias Gillingore conteyning by like estimacion
Seaven and thirtie acres more or lesse lying or being in
Wiggenhall St Peters aforesaid, and also all wayes passages
easements commodities waters fishings bancks fences in-
closures benefitts and advantages to the same belonging or
in any sort apperteyning, and all the estate right title interest
use reversion and rent or rents to the said revercion incident,
and especially the said rent of thirty pounds per annum
reserved upon the said lease and indenture of demyse made
from the said Richard Branthwaite unto the said Gregory
Gawsell, and all demaunds whatsoever which he the said
Richard Branthwaite hath or of right ought to have of, in, to,
and out of, the said close of pasture conteyning by estimacion
Seaven and twentie acres, and the said land and pasture ground
called Gallingoe conteyning by like estimacion seaven and
thirty acres or any part or parcell thereof, and also all deeds
charters escripts evidences and muniments which onely or
cheifly or principally concerne the same or any parcell of the
same, QTO babe amū to bolt the said close of pasture and the
said land and pasture ground called Gellingoe alias Gillingore
and all the other premisses and every of their appurtenaunces,
and all the estate right, title, interest use reversion and rent
or rents to the said reversion incident, and especially the said
rent of thirty pound per annum reserved as aforesaid and all
demaunds whatsoever of the said Richard Branthwaite of in
and to and out of the premisses, and every part and parcell
thereof, and all the deeds charters escripts evidences and
muniments aforesaid unto the said Master and fellowes of
Gonville and Caius College and their successours to the onelie
use and behoofe of the said Master and fellowes and their
successours for ever and to no other use intent or purpose, to
be holden of the cheife lord or lords of the fee or fees thereof
by the rents and services for the same due and of right
[p. 238] accustomed, &nt the said Richard Branthwayte all
and every the premisses with all and singular the appurte-
maunces to the said Master and fellowes and their successours
against him the said Richard Branthwaite and his heyres and
the heyres of the said William Branthwaite deceased and
CHARTA RICHARDI BRANTHWAITE. 305
against all and everie other person and persons claiming by
from or under the said William and Richard or either of them
shall warrant and for ever defend by these presents. &nt the
said Richard Branthwaite for him his heyres executours and
administratours doth covenaunt promise and grant to and
with the said Master and Fellowes of Gonvile and Caius
Colledge and their successours by these presents that he the
said Richard Branthwaite at the sealing and deliverie of these
presents is and untill the first execution conveyance or as-
Surance of an estate to be had and made unto the said
Master and Fellowes and their successours of the said premisses
shall continue and be seized of the same of a good perfect
absolute and lawfull estate of fee simple in reversion, to his
owne use without any limitation or condicion whatsoever, and
that he hath lawfull power and authoritie in his owne right
to give grant convey assure and confirme the said premisses
and every part and parcell thereof, and the said reversion
thereof, together with the said rent of thirty pounds per
annum incident thereunto, to the said Master and Fellowes
of Gonvile and Caius Colledge and their successours in manner
and forme aforesaid, and that the said premisses and everie
part thereof now be and at the time of the executing making
assuring or conveying of any estate of the same to the said
Master and Fellowes and at all times hereafter shall be re-
mayne and continue to the said Master and Fellowes and their
successours for ever fully and clearely acquitted and discharged,
or upon reasonable request saved and kept harmelesse, by the
said Richard Branthwaite and his heyres of and from all former
bargaines former titles, condicions, lymitations, former rights,
reentries, title of reentry, joyntures, dowres, arrearages of rents
or services, leases, rents, charges, rents seck, annuities, statutes
marchant and of the staple, recognizances, uses, wills, mortgages,
intayles, issues of forfeitures, fines, amerciaments, intrusions,
suits, judgements, condemnations, executions, and incumbrances
whatsoever, formerly had made acknowledged done or suffered
by the said Richard Branthwaite or by the said William
Branthwaite his uncle or either of them, or by any other person
or persons claiming the premisses or any part thereof by from
C. A. S. Octavo Series. No. XL. 20
306 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
or under them or either of them, the said lease made by the
said Richard Branthwaite unto the said Gregorie Gawsell
before in these presents mencioned, whereupon the said rent
of thirty pounds per annum is reserved, the which rent is
due, shall be from the day of the date of these presents payable
unto the said Master and Fellowes and their successOurs,
and the rents and services hereafter to be due to the cheife
[p. 239] Lord or Lords of the fee or fees thereof onely
excepted and foreprized, &nd the said Richard Branthwaite
for him his heyres and administratours doth covenaunt and
grant to and with the said Master and Fellowes of Gonvile
and Caius Colledge and their successours further by these
presents that he the said Richard Branthwaite his heyres and
assignes, at the onely cost and charges in the Law of the
said Master and Fellowes and their successours shall and will
at all and everie time and times hereafter during the space of
five yeares next ensuing the date of these presents at and upon
the reasonable requests of the said Master and Fellowes and
their successours, doe make, Suffer, acknowledge and execute,
or cause and permitt to be done made suffered acknowledged
and executed, unto the said Master and Fellowes and their
successours all and everie such further reasonable conveyance
and conveyaunces, assurance and assurances, act and acts,
thing and things, devise and devises in the Law, as shall be
reasonably devised advised and required by the said Master and
Fellowes and their successours, or by their learned Councell
in the Law, for the further better or otherwise conveying or
assuring of the said premisses or any part thereof with all and
singular their appurtenaunces to the said Master and Fellowes
and their successours, be it by fine, feoffment, deed or deeds
inrolled, the inrollment of these presents, release or confirmacion,
recoverie with single or double voucher or vouchers, and by all
the said wayes and meanes or by such or so many of them as
the said Master and Fellowes and their successours or the said
Councell shall thinke fitt, or by any other wayes or meanes
whatsoever, so as the said Richard Branthwaite for the doing
thereof be not compelled to travaile further then the citties
of London and Westminster, &nt laštly the said Richard
LITERAE CANCELLARII. 307
Branthwaite for himselfe his heyres executours and adminis-
tratours doth covenaunt promise and grant to and with the
said Master and Fellowes of Gonvile and Caius Colledge and
their successours by these presents that he the said Richard
Branthwaite his executours or assignes shall deliver or cause
to be delivered to the said Master and Fellowes and their
successours at or before the ending of the tearme of the holy
Trinitie next coming after the date of these presents, all and
singular the deeds charters escripts and evidences before men-
tioned to be conveyed and granted by the said Richard
Branthwaite to the said Master and Fellowes and their suc-
cessours, or so many of them as the said Richard Branthwaite
or any other person or persons to his use or by his deliverie
now hath or have in his or their hands custody or possession,
and also which at any time hereafter the said Richard Bran-
thwaite cann or may lawfully obteyne gett or come by without
suite in the Law, safe whole uncancelled and undefaced, and
in such plight and condition as the same now bee, Hin ſuitmeg
tubereof the parties to these Indentures have interchangeably
[p. 24O] hereunto sett their hands and seales the day and
yeare first above written.
Decembris 3° 1621. Literae a Domino Thoma Haward,
Comite Suffolcia, Cancellario nostro, superiori anno missae ad
Custodem et Socios de expensis reparandis quas socii fecerint
in controversia juris cum Doctore Branthwayte, nunc primum
publicatae sunt in Sacello (etsi privatim statim post earum
receptionem communicatae fuerant) quas Custos Londini absens
in Collegii negotiis sociis commisit, ut de iisdem deliberarent
quid commode in is fieri possit. Literae autem fuerunt hujus-
modi.
To my verie loving freind Mr Doctor Gostlin
Mr of Gonvile and Caius Colledge and
to the senior fellowes of the same house.
Mr Doctor Gostlin, the fellowes of your Colledge have
petitioned unto me, that whereas they have been at great
charges heretofore in the suite betwixt them and Doctor
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308 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
Branthwaite, and received no allowance for the same all the
time he was Master, I would give warrent by my letters for
their releife that they may receive some allowance from the
Colledge. Because the suite was a Colledge businesse I have
thought good to write unto you in their behalfe that you and
they should advise together upon some case to give them
satisfaction according to their severall expences, and because
it is now long since their moneys were disbursed, and they that
have been at charges may depart from the Colledge. I thinke
fitt their allowance should be made the next auditt by your
bursar if you have no hindrance amongst you to withstand it.
So wishing your good in this and all other things, I bid you
heartily farewell.
From Suffolke house this 27% of February 1620.
Your LO. Freind
Tho. Suffolke.
Ergo post literarum publicationem consensum est per Praesi-
dentem et majorem partem sociorum, ut secundum tenorem
literarum Honoratissimi Cancellarii quinquaginta dua librae
rependantur Sociis in restitutionem expensarum praedictarum.
Eodem die per eosdem consensum est ut viginti librae persol-
vantur doctori Gostlin Custodi pro novo aedificio in horto
suo exstructo. Quae summae ut quam primum persolvantur,
consensum per eosdem ut pecuniae debitae a Johanne Ebbes
[p. 241] de Woburne in hos usus transferantur, et ut arbores
apud Worlingham (in Suffolcia) quam primum possit vendantur
et cedantur.
1621
Anno 1622
Hoc et insequenti anno fervet lis inter Collegium et
Thomam Soame armigerum ad asserendum jus nostrum ad
Manerium de Burneham in Norfolcia.
Januarii undecimo 1622. Decretum est ut perpetuo dein-
ceps custos Bibliothecae Collegii sit actu in artibus baccalaureus.
1)ONATIONES BIBLIOTHECÆ. - 309
Anno 1623
Oliverus Naylor Londimensis im artibus magister socius
et hujus Collegii præses, ab Honoratissimo Domino Bathoniensi
Comite ad ecclesiæ Tostochiensis [Tawstock] administrationem
promotus, hoc anno valedicens Collegio gratam nobis reliquit
sui memoriam: vir enim erat inculpatæ vitæ, et ob amoenitatem
morum omnibus acceptissimus, nec minus ob solidam erudi-
tionem in literaria republica celebris, hic ut dum nobiscum
convixit honoris Collegii et commodi semper erat studiosus, ita
ne deesset posteris pietatis et amoris sui monumentum, post
decessum suum curavit Bibliothecam hanc nostram suis sump-
tibus instrui libris optimis ad valorem librarum...... Hujus
enim ex beneficentia, Bibliotheca nostra possidet Bibliothecam
Patrum, Suaresii opera, T)anielis Chamieri opera.
Anno 1624
Quinto Octobris 1624. Christopherus Husband Norfol-
ciensis sponte renunciavit jus suum omne ad sodalitium quo
antea gaudebat in hoc Collegio, et ad avitOs lares se recipiens
privatim egit vitam, ibique consenuit: vir mitis et tranquilli-
tatis cupientissimus studiosus erat Medicinæ, et in ea non con-
temnendos fecerat progressus, sed Collegii commodo magis quam
propriæ ex literis famæ consulens, pene totus erat occupatus in
illius tractandis negotiis, quæ tanta cum fide et dexteritate
administravit, ut eo momine optime de Collegio meruit. Is
relicto Collegio noluit memoriam sui prorsus perire, sed se
amantissimum fuisse alumnum testatum esse voluit libris
quibus auxit Bibliothecam Collegii; his viz. Jodoci Coccii
thesauro Catholico duobus voluminibus ; [de mulierum morbis]
per Israelem Spachium editis.
Decembris vicesimo 1624. Dr Gostlim Custos retuiit in
ærarium quadraginta libras quas honoratissimus Dominus
Gulielmus Comes Bathoniensis, hoc ipso in Collegio olim insti-
tutus, testamento suo legavit expendendas, vel ad novam
[p. 242] Aulam extruendam, vel ad comparandos libros in
augmentum et usum Bibliothecæ. »
310 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
Post molestias graves et expensas haud modicas tandem lis
inter Collegium et Thomam Soame armigerum ad finem perducta
est, ut constat ex decreto seu sententia Domini Cancellarii. Et
ut occasio litigandi inter dictum Thomam et Collegium de illis
fundis in posterum tollatur 4° Februarii 1624 locatio terrarum
nostrarum in Burnham Westgate per Custodem et socios concessa
est dicto Domino Thomae Soame pro termino viginti annorum.
Decretum Cancellariatus hic sequitur.
Jacobus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae et Hiberniae Rex, fidei de-
fensor, etc., Carolo Cornwallis militi Thomae Soame et Johanni
Soame armigeris defendentibus ac omnibus aliis personis quibus-
cunque aliquod jus statum titulum clameum interesse vel deman-
dam de vel in Manerio Scitu terris tenementis et hereditamentis
inferius mencionatis aut devel in aliqua inde parte sive parcella
per vel sub titulo vestri seu alicujus vestrum habentis clameum
vel venditionem ac eorum cuilibet salutem, Cum quoddam
finale Judicium sive decretum coram nobis in Cancellaria nostra
nuper redditum extitit in haec verba, Where before this time
that is to say in or about the terme of St Michael in the yeare
of our Lord one thousand six hundred and twenty, and in the
yeare of the reigne of our sovereigne Lord James the King's
most excellent Majestie that now is over England France and
Ireland King defender of the faith etc. the eighteenth, and
over Scotlande the foure and fiftieth, the Master and Fellowes
of Gonvile and Caius Colledge in the Universitie of Cambridge
complainants did exhibit their bill of complaint into this next
honourable Court of Chancery against Sir Charles Cornewallis
Knight Thomas Soame and John Soame Esq.” defendants,
declaring by the same, that whereas one Leye Ferres Abbott
of the late dissolved monastery of Wymundham in the Countie
of Norff, and the Convent of the same Monasterie before the
dissolution thereof dwelt in or about thirty yeares of the reigne
of the late king Henry the eight were in right of the said
[p. 243] Monasterie seised in the demeasnes as of fee of and
in the Mannor of Burnham Thorpe alias Burnham Wymundham
in the said County of Norff, and of and in one messuage being
the scite of the said Mannour and divers grounds thereto
MANERITUM DE BURNIHAM. 311
belonging and appurteyning conteyning together by estimacion
sixtie Acres of land or thereabouts in Burnham Thorpe aforesaid,
and of tenn shillings of rent due and payable yearely to the said
Manmor from the Lords or owners of the Mannor of Burnham
Westgate, with three severall fould courses for severall quantities
of sheep lying and being in Burnham the estate aforesaid
Burneham Thorpe and in a place called Squanton Hill in
Burnham Norton, And of and in fourescore and five acres of
land in Burnham Westgate in the Sheep pastures there, and
of and in three acres in a certaine place called Brancasterling,
And of and in eleven acres being in the said places called
Brancaster lieing next the bruery there, And of and in fifteen
acres in a place called Pennell Wong, And of and in tenn acres
more lying at the said place called Pennell Wong, And of and
in six acres more lying at the Easthead of the said furlong
called Pennell Wong, And of and in eleven acres called Wentree
and Goodales, And of and in seaven roods or thereabout of land
lying at a place called Wamonstie, And of and in one acre and
halfe a rood of land lying at a place called Broksby, And of and
in five acres more lying next the east head of Pennell Wong
aforesaid, and of and in foure acres called Lampettwong, and
of and in three acres and a halfe abutting upon a certaine
place called Restoughslie, And of and in two acres and one
rood lying next the Churchland of Burnham Thorpe aforesaid,
And two acres and a half lying at a place called Brandonthere,
And of and in divers other lands lying in divers places in the
said towne and feilds, as in a place called Sephland furlong,
in a place called Marishmitt, att a place called Orwall Swent,
at a place called Bassinghow, in a furlong called the Thewell-
sakes, in a place called Greenefold Deele, in a place called
Hetheiwee Deele, at a place called Moculden, and of and in
two peices of land belonging to the said Manmor of Burnham
Thorpe alias Burnham Wymondam lying at a place called
Sithitt, And of and in one peice of land lying at a place called
[p. 244] Ringstead Gate, two peeces of land siding upon a
place Ringrosse Diche and Rislyresbly, six other peices neere
a certaine place called Postead mill and abutting upon the
lands of the Church of Westgate, besides divers other lands
312 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
lying in severall other furlongs and places as namely at a place
called Clackeland, Wymundham hall Goster, Wymundham
Whynus, And of and in fiftie acres lyeing in the Ewes ground
there besides divers other lands meadowes pastures and feedings
sheeps walkes and common of pasture and fouldages for sheep
to the said Mannor belonging, and forty five shillings tenne
pence halfe peny rent of assize per annum, thirty Seaven
combes and a halfe of rent barley per annum due and of right
payable to the Mannor of Burnham Thorpe alias Burnham
Wymundham from the Lords and owners of the Mannor of
Lathes in Burnham Overy and from the lands late of the
dissolved Monasterie of Walsingham in the said Countie of
Norff, and from the lands late of the dissolved Monasterie of
Peterstowe in the said Countie of Norff, And also of and in
divers other lands and tenements rents reversions and services
marshes feedings liberties of fouldcourses lying in the said
townes and other townes adjoyning, And of all manner of titles
and tenthes renewing growing and happening in the townes
and parishes of Burnham Thorpe aforesaid, and divers pensions
and porcions with severall other profitts commodities and ad-
vantages to the said Mannour then of right belonging and
appurteyning, 3 mt, the Complainants by their said Bill of
Complaint did further declare that the said Abbott and Convent
of Wymundham being of the premisses so seized did by their
Indenture demyse grant and to ferme lett unto Richard South-
well then Esquire, since Knight, deceased, all that the said
Mannor of Burnham Thorpe with the appurtenaunces and all
and singular other the premisses from the Feast of the Annun-
ciacion of the blessed lady Saint Mary last past before the date
of the said Indentures unto the end and tearme of foure score
yeares thence next ensuing and fully to be compleat and ended,
yeilding and paying therefore yearely unto the said Abbot
Convent and their successours and assignes sixe pounds of
lawfull English money at the Feast of St Michael the Archangel
[p. 245] and our Lady day by even and equall portions, As
by the same Indenture bearing date the twentieth day of July
in the thirtieth yeare of the Reigne of the said late King
Henry the Eight amongst other things therein conteyned, it
MANERIUM DE BURNEIAM. 313
did appeare, &mb the Complainants further declared that by
vertue of the same demyse the said Richard Southwell into
all and singular the premisses with their appurtenaunces, imme-
diatly upon the commencement of the said lease, did enter
and continued thereof possessed accordingly, And that he being
so possessed and the said Abbot and Convent being also seized
as aforesaid of the premisses in revercion expectant upon the
said lease, the said Monasterie became dissolved and the
revercion of all and singular the premisses expectant upon the
lease together with the said rent and all profitts benefitts and
priviledges thereunto belonging became lawfully vested and
settled in the said King Henry the Eight his heyres and suc-
cessours, by Act of Parliament as in right of his highnesse
Crowne of England, And that the said late King Henry the
Eight dying of the premisses seized as aforesaid the same
discended and came to the late King Edward the Sixt, And
after the decease of the said King Edward the Sixt the premisses
discended and came to the late queen Mary, who together with
King Philip after their intermarriage, that is to say upon or
about the twelfth day of February in the fourth and fifth yeares
of their Reigne, under the Greate seal of England did give and
grant all and singular the said premisses unto John Caius
Doctor of Physicke and his heyres for ever; whereby the said
John Caius became thereof seized in his demeasne as of fee, And
that the said John Caius being thereof so seized did upon Ör
about the first day of March in the said fourth and fifth yeares
of the said late King Philip and Queen Marye reigne by deed
of feoffment in due forme of law convey and assure all and
singular the premisses unto the then Master and Fellowes of
the said Colledge of Gonvile and Caius Colledge in the said
Universitie of Cambridg and to their successours for ever, As
by the same grant and by the licence of alienacion thereupon
had ready to be shewne unto this Courte might appeare, by
[p. 246] vertue whereof the said their Master and Fellowes
of the said Colledge became thereof seized in their demeasme
as of fee in right of the said Colledge, And the said yearely
rent of six pounds at all times from and after the dissolution
of the said Monastery untill the said King Philip and Queen
314 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
Mary did alien the premisses to the said Doctor Caius and
from and after the said alienation untill aboute Michaelmas in
the yeare of our Lord God one thousand and five hundred and
ninety, was well and truely satisfied and paid unto the afore
said severall persons successively without any manner of deniall
thereof, 3 mt, the complainants by their said Bill of Complaint
did further declare that albeit they the Complainants ought
of right to have hould occupie and possesse all and singular the
said premisses yet the said Richard Southwell being in manner
aforesaid possessed of the premisses for the tearme aforesaid
and also become seized in his demeasmes as of fee or for some
other estate of and in two other sygniories or lordships that is to
say of the Mannor and signiory of Lexhams and of the Mannor
and sygniory of Posthead Hall in the said Countie of Norff,
and of divers lands thereto belonging, and of some other lands
purchased by the said Richard Southwell with the said lands
lying very nigh and much intermixed with the said Lease lands,
and the said Lease being of so long continuance as aforesaid,
the said Richard Southwell and such others as had his estate
and interest in the premisses did by all meanes endeavour to
diminish obscure and conceale the said lands right fullie be-
longing to the complainants and their successours as aforesaid
and to gaine the same to the said Mannors of Lexhams and
Posthead Hall, and likewise to extinguish and subtracte the
rents and services due to the Complainants said Mannor, and
therewith to enlarge and increase the rent of the said Mannors
of Lexhams and Posthead Hall and to make them parcell of
the same, And that therefore they had from time to time for
many yeares together kept and used to keep at one and the
same time and in and on the same place one Courte onely as
well for the Complainants said Mannor of Burnham Thorpe
demysed to the said Richard Southwell as aforesaid as for the
said two other Mannors of Lexham and Posthead Hall, thereby
utterly confounding the tenements services rents tenures and
evidences, And had for that purpose also kept but one rentall
and one Courte booke and one Court roll of all the said
Mannors, And also made sundry estates and conveyances as well
[p. 24.7] of the said rents of assize due and payable to the
MANERIUM DE BURNIHAM. 3.15
Complainants said Mannor as aforesaid as likewise of the
demeasme lands fouldcourses and fouldage of sheep and of all
or the most part of the rights and priviledges commodities and
emoluments whatsoever to the said Mannor of Burnham Thorpe
of right belonging and appurteyning, And had so destroyed
altered and confounded and obscured the ancient bounds and
meets landmarkes names furlongs and abuttals of the lands
tenements fouldcourses liberties of fouldage belonging to the
Complainants said Manmor as that it was become unpossible
for the Complainants to discover or sett forth the same, And
the rather because the Court rolles feild bookes draggs terrears
escripts muniments and writings concerning the Complainants
said Mannor and other the premisses thereto belonging being
lately come to the hands and possession of the defendants
Sir Charles Cornewallis Thomas Soame and John Soame, who
pretended to have the said two Mannors of Lexham and
Posthead Hall from or under the said Richard Southwell or
from or under his right or title, They the said defendants refused
to discover the trueth and their whole knowledge touching the
Complainants right in the premisses and to deliver or shew
forth the said Courte rolls feild bookes draggs terrears escripts
muniments and writings, and did also refuse to manifest confesse
and sett forth what be the ancient rents and services belonging
to the Complainants said Mannor, &nd the Complainants shew
by their said Bill of Complaint, that albeit from the said yeare
of our Lord God one thousand five hundred ninety one untill
the Lady day in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand
six hundred and eighteene there did grow due and accrewe
arreare unto the Complainants the arrearage of the said six
pounds per annum whereof the Complainants or their prede-
cessours never received more or other satisfaction then upon
or about the twentieth of Aprill one thousand five hundred
ninety eight twenty pounds, and at or about the Feast of Saint
Michael one thousand six hundred and eleven threescore and
six pounds, yet did the said defendants utterly deny to pay or
satisfie the same arrearages, pretending onely that the Com-
plainants could not sett forth where the said premisses or any
part thereof did lye, by meanes whereof they the Complainants
316 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
were without all manner of reliefe touching the same save in
course of equitie in this Courte. And therefore the Com-
plainants by the said Bill of Complaint did humbly pray the
honourable aid of this Courte and that processe of subpena
might be awarded against the defendants to answer the pre-
misses, as by the same bill remayning of record of this Courte
[p. 248] more at large it doth and may appeare. Qānto ſubíti)
all the said defendants Sir Charles Cornewallis Knight Thomas
Soame and John Soame Esquires made their joynt and severall
answers, And the said Sir Charles Cornewallis by the same
answer for himself said that Thomas Southwell esquire after-
wards knight being seized in fee and of and in the Mannor or
sygniory of Lexhams and of and in the Mannor of Posthead
Hall with their appurtenaunces in the Bill mencioned, some-
times the inheritance and parcell of the possessions of Sir
Richard Southwell knight, in the Bill named conveyed the same
Mannors and premisses unto certaine feoffes in trust to the use
of him the said Sir Charles Cornewallis and his heyres, and
that he the said Sir Charles became also seized in fee by divers
severall purchases of divers other lands and tenements some-
times Robert Jennysons and one Bostons and of the scyte of
the late dissolved priory of Fryers Carmelites in Burnham
Norton with the appurtenaunces, and in divers townes there
adjacent, And that he the said Sir Charles Cornewallis so being
seized did convey the late dissolved house or priory of Fryars
Carmelites in Burnham Norton aforesaid with the appurte-
naunces and divers other Messuages and tenements in Burnham
Norton Burnham Westgate Burnham Depdale Burneham St
Andrewes and elsewhere in the said Countie of Norff, parcell
of the premisses to one Thomas Sturges and his heyres, who
aboute the fourteenth yeare of the now Kings Majesties Reigne
conveyed the premisses to him, assured to the defendants
Thomas Soame and John Soame, and their heyres, and that he
the said Sir Charles in or aboute the said foureteenth yeare
of the said Majesties reigne did convey the said two Mannors
of Lexhams and Posthead Hall and the residue of the premisses
with their appurtenaunces unto Sir Stephen Soame knight
since deceased and his heyres, late father of the defendants
MANERIUM DE BURNEIAM. 317
Thomas and John Soame, &mb the defendants Thomas and
John Soame by their answers denyed to acknowledge or know
of the lease in the Bill mencioned to have been made by the
said late Abbott and Convent of the late dissolved Monasterie
of Wymundham aforesaid to the said Sir Richard Southwell
in the Bill of the said Mannor of Burnham Thorpe and other
the lands demysed by the same lease at the said yearely rent
of six pounds. 35ut the defendant Sir Charles Cornewallis by
the same his answer for himselfe confessed the same lease.
[p. 249] Yet he said that what the particulars of the same
lease were he knew not, howbeitt he confessed that his servants
or officers had taken certaine rent barley and some of the
wheterents belonging to the Mannor of Wymundham and the
profitts of some courts pretended to belong to the said Colledge,
and they had paid three score and six pounds in the Bill
mencioned to the Master of the said Colledg in lieu thereof,
and had paid to him at another time eighteene pounds more
for the same consideration, &nt all the said three defendants
denyed that they or any of them had endeavoured to diminish
obscure and conceale any the lands rightfully belonging to the
Complainants and their successours in right of the said Colledge
or to gain the same to their said Mannors of Lexhams and
Posthead Hall, Neither could they sett forth what were the
rents and service belonging to the complainants and mannors
nor what be the severall quantities contents and parcells of
lands belonging to the complainants as by the same answer
likewise remayning of record in this Courte more at large it
doth and may appeare. CCHijerrunto the said Complainants
replyed and the parties being thereupon att issue witnesses
were examined between them and their depositions published
according to the usuall rules of this Courte. And publication
being so had and graunted a day for hearing of the said cause
was by this Courte appointed, at which day being the sixt of
February in the twentieth yeare of the reigne of the Kings
Majestie that now is uppom hearing of the matter in presence
of Councell learned on both parts, It was alledged on the
Complainants behalfe that the Complainants sought to be re-
leived against the defendant Sir Charles Cornewallis, first for
3.18 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
an arrearage of rent of ninety one pounds due unto the Com-
plainants by reason of his having a long lease of the mannor
and lands in question from and under Sir Richard Southwell
which lease was ended in anno Domini one thousand six
hundred and eighteene, And that the Complainants craved
further reliefe against the defendants for divers rents both
coppyhold freehold and mooveable rents due unto the Com-
plainants said Mannor Burnham Wymundham and by reason
that the defendants made a confusion of the same rents and
gathered them joyntly with other their rents of the like nature
belonging to the said two other Mannors of the said defendants,
namely Lexhams and Posthead Hall by one rentall and therein
not dividing or distinguishing what to each mannor did properly
[p. 25 O] belong. So that by the same meanes the Com-
plainants had lost one of forty five shillings tenpence halfe
peny freehold and coppyhold rent, and foure shillings foure
pence mooveable rent anciently belonging to their Manmor,
fifteene shillings one peny halfe peny, And whereas the Com-
plainants sought further reliefe for divers houses and lands
and for a Sheep course belonging to the said Mannor which by
reason of the said long lease and the promiscuous occupacion
of the Complainants said houses and lands with the houses and
lands of the said defendants belonging to the said Mannors of
Lexhams and Posthead Hall, the Complainants said houses
lands and fouldcourse was now wholly obscured and lost and
this the rather by the defendants or some of their meanes by
ploughing upp altering changing and defacing the meetes bounds
and landmarkes deviding and distinguishing the Complainants
lands from the defendants lands as it was by the Complainants
alleadged, and that forasmuch as the Complainants had prose-
cuted against the said defendants two Commissions, the one
for examinacion of witnesses in the said cause upon interro-
gatories and the other for survey and viewing the lands belonging
to the Complainants in Burneham Westgate aforesaid, and for
discovering and setting out the same, and what fouldcourses
and liberties of fouldage should or did belong to the Com-
plainants mannor, And for that it appeared that the said
defendants had neglected to joyne in either of the said Com-
MANERIUM DE BURNIHAM. 319
missions, although first they had intended it, and had delivered
Commissioners names to that purpose, of both which said
Commissions publications past according to the Orders and
rules of this Courte, And for that by the returne of the said
Commission of Survey it was alleadged that their doth belong
unto the Complaimants in right of the said Mannor one hundred
three score and six acres three roodes and a halfe in the
possession of the defendants John Soame in Burneham West-
gate, some of which lands were by the said Commission of
Survey abutted and laid out, and some likewise by the said
Commission of Survey appeared to be the Complainants lands,
but were not laid out neither could be discovered for the
reasons in the said Commission of Survey alleadged, upon all
which matters and allegations this Court conceived fitt and did
[p. 251] then order that a new Commission should be
awarded returneable the first day of the then next tearme
directed unto Edmund Bullocke Edmund Beddingfeild Thomas
Wyndham and Thomas Holl Esquires giving them or any three
of them authoritie thereby to looke into as well the depositions
and evidences to be produced before them on the Complainants
behalfe as such writings and evidences as should be produced
before them on the defendants behalfe, together with the said
last Commission of Survey and the returne thereof, And that
they likewise should have power to examine upon oath as well
the said defendants for shewing forth and producing their
evidence before them, as any other for discoverie of any wright
belonging to the Complainants and defendants touching the
differences in question, And that likewise the said Commissioners
or any three of them should have power againe to view the
lands by the said last Commission of Survey sett out unto the
Complainants, And such of the same lands as should appeare
in certaine to belonge unto the Complainants the same they
should sett out unto the Complainants by meets and bounds
and for such lands as by the said Commission should appeare
to belong unto the Complainants and could not be distinguished
or discovered from other the defendants lands it was then
ordered that the said Commissioners or any three of them
should sett out what lands they thought fitt of the defendants
320 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
unto the Complainants in lieu thereof unlesse they found good
cause to the contrary, and where the same shall lye, by meets
and bounds and likewise to testifie this Courte what number
of sheep doe belong to the Complainants fouldcourse and to
discover the same by evidences or witnesses to be produced
before them on either parts, or to make certificate of what they
could discover either of the coppyhould or other rents to belong
unto the Complainants said Mannor then already not found
out, and publication of the same Commission to be had upon
the returne thereof, and a day to be appointed in the beginning
of the then next tearme for the hearing and finall decreeing of
the cause. Éittorting to which order a Commission issued out
of this Courte to the purpose in the same order directed, and
the same Commission was duely executed accordingly, and a
Certificate thereof returned into this Courte under three of
the hands of the said Commissioners as by the said Commission
was required, the tenor of which Certificate followeth in these
words viz' 36p bertue of his Majesties Commission unto us
[p. 252] directed and hereunto annexed wee did meet at
Burnham Markett in the Countie of Norff, upon Tuesday
the three and twentieth of September mentioned in the said
Commission, and the better to expedite the said Commission
wee did carefully view and read over the depositions of certaine
witnesses and bookes of survey then shewed unto us by the
Complainants and defendants, mentioning amongst other things
divers and severall peices of land supposed to be lands belonging
to the Complainants Mannor of Burnham Wyndham and for
that the proper names of the abutalls and devisions of the said
lands by reason of the antiquitie thereof were not verie well
knowne unto men now living, whereby it would have prooved
a thing very difficult for us truely to have sett forth and layd
out the said severall peices of land so claymed by the Com-
playnants, Therefore for a peaceable end to be made betweene
the said parties it was accorded by us whose names be hereunto
subscribed and by and with the consent of Dr Gostling who
was a person trusted for the Complainants, and John Soame
Esquire one of the defendants, that in lieu and consideration
of all the lands claymed by the complaymants supposed to
MANERIUM DE BURNHAM. 321
belong to their Mannor of Burnham Wyndham and to be
in the possession of the said John Soame or of any other
person in his right, the said Complainants should from hence-
forth have hold and enjoy to them and their successours a
peice of land now in the possession of the said John Soame,
being in Burnham aforesaid, anciently reputed and knowne
to be the scyte of the said Mannor of Burnham Wyndham, and
that in consideration aforesaid the said Complainants should
also have hold and enjoy to them and their successours five
score acres of land being part of the land belonging to the
fouldcourse of the said John Soame being in Burnham aforesaid
in severall peices, whereof the first peice conteyneth fifty acres
anciently called Wymundham Fifty Acres, and doe lye at a
certaine place called Howhill in Burnham Westgate abutting
upon Stanhow grounds on the south, and on a certaine way
called Chozell (Choseley) gate alias Ringstead way towards the
north, and sideth upon the borders of Docking towerds the west,
and upon the lands of the defendant Mr John Soame towards
the east, And the other fifty acres doe lie in severall peices the
first peice whereof conteyneth by estimacion thirteen acres and
the next a certaine way leading from Docking to Burnham
Deepe Dale towerds the west and upon seaven roods of land
called Creeke Abby lands towerds the east abutteth upon a
certaine way called Chozell gate alias Ringstead way towerds
the west, and next three roods of land in the use and tenure
of Samuel Boston towerds the east, and abutteth upon the said
[p. 253] way called Chozell gate alias Ringstead Way towerds
the south, and upon the said recited peice of land of twenty
acres three roodes thirty three perches in parts and upon the
lands of the said Mr John Soame in part towerds the north,
and also nyne acres three roodes and a halfe lying in another
peice next the three roodes of the said Samuel Bostons towerds
the west, and the lands of the said Mr John Soame towerds the
east, and abutteth upon the said way called Chozell gate alias
Ringstead way towerds the south, and upon the said peice of
land of twentie acres three roodes and thirty three perches in
part, and upon the lands of the said Mr John Soame towerds
the north, and twenty acres three roodes thirty three perches
C. A. S. Octavo Series. No. XL. 2I
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lying in another peice next the said way leading from Docking
to Burnham Deepedale aforesaid towerds the west, and the
lands of Mr John Soame towerds the east, and abutteth upon
the said peices of thirteene acres, six acres, twenty seaven
perches, nine acres three roodes and a halfe, the said seaven
roodes of Creeke Abby lands, and the said three roodes of
Samuel Bostons lands, towerds the south, and upon a peice of
land belonging to the Rectory of Burnham Westgate in part
and upport Burnham Westgate grounds in part towerds the
north, All which said severall peices of fifty acres, thirteene
acres, six acres twenty seaven perches, nine acres three roodes
and a halfe, and twenty acres three roodes and thirty three
perches, doe conteyne together an hundred acres, And also wee
did assigne and sett over unto the complainants the said peice
of land whereon the said barne called Wymondham Barne
sometimes stood being the Scyte of the Complainants said
Mannor as is aforesaid, conteyning an acre and a half be it
more or lesse as it lyeth betweene the lands of the late dissolved
Monastery of Walsingham on the east part and the lands of
Peter Cooke clerk on the west part, and abutting upon
Brancaster gate towerds the north and upon the Close of the
said Peter Cooke towerds the south, a certaine way called Stye
way lying through the south end of itt, and that in full satis-
faccion aforesaid the said severall peices of land shall hereafter
bee accompted lands belonging to the Complainants said Mannor
of Burnham Wyndhams, and that the said Complainants should
from henceforth quietly and peaceably have and hold the same
to their successours for ever which on all parts is desired to be
decreed accordingly, 3.3 bp the same Certificate subscribed
[p. 254] under the hands of the said Thomas Holl and Edmund
Bullocke two of the Commissioners in the said order named as
also subscribed under the hand of the said Edmund Bedingfeld
another of the Commissioners in the same order likewise named,
together with a certaine addition thereunto inserted as certified
by the said last named Commission onely remayning of Record
in this Court itt plainly doth and may appeare. &fter mi)íti)
said certificate made and certified into this Courte in forme
aforesaid the fifteenth day of April last past was appointed
MANERIUM DE BURNEIAM. - 323
by this Courte for hearing of the said Cause. Éitt ſubfth ban
the matter in question between the said parties coming to be
heard in this Courte accordinglie, the Complainants Counsell
attended for that purpose, but the defendants made default
albeit they were served with processe to heare Judgement that
day as by affidavits then read in Courte appeared, whereupon
it was informed by the Complainants Councell that the before
mencioned Commission being formerly awarded unto the said
Thomas Holl and Edmund Bullock Esquires with others for
the setting out and bounding of certaine lands for the Com-
plainants the said Holl and Bullocke had returned the before
repeated certificate under their hands being Commissioners on
either part, whereby it appeared that they had bounded and
sett out certain lands for the Complainants which they were
willing to accept. Itt was thereupon ordered by this Courte
that,the defendants should have notice thereof and shew cause
to this Courte on that day then fortnight, wherefore the
Certificate so certified and returned into this Courte under
the hands of the said Thomas Hall and Edmund Bullocke
Esquires should not be ratified and confirmed by the authority
and decree of this Courte, 3 trotting to which time so given
the defendants for sheweing of cause as aforesaid they the
defendants did by their learned Councell the fourth day of this
instant May upon a false pretence and misinformation to this
Courte procure the decreeing of the said certificate for that
time to be stayed, £20ſubcit this Courte being afterwards
informed by the learned Counsell of the said Complainants on
the eighth day of this present May that the foresaid Commission
being directed to foure Commissioners or any three of them to
bound and sett out lands for the Complainants and that the
said Commission being executed by three of the Commissioners
[p. 255] two of them made the said Certificate and sub-
scribed their names thereunto, which was afterwards subscribed
by a third Commissioner with some addition thereunto, And
that the Complainants having obteyned the said Order of the
Fifteenth of April last past for decreeing of the same Certificate
if cause were not shewed to the contrary within a fortnight
the defendants Councell mooved the foresaid fourth day of this
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324 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
present, alleadging that onely two of the said Commissioners
had testified without any warrant or direction of this Courte,
not informing that another of the Commissioners had subscribed
the said Certificate with addition as aforesaid and thereupon
obteyned an order to stay the decree of the said Certificate.
Wherefore it was on the said eighth day of this instant May
aforesaid ordered by this Courte, the said order of the fourth
of the same moneth notwithstanding, that if the said defendants
should not at the then next Generall Seale shew unto this
Courte good cause unto the contrary, then the said Certificate
so made and returned by two of the said Commissioners and
subscribed by the third Commissioner (the said addition ex-
cepted) should be ratified and confirmed by the decree and
authoritie of this Courte to be performed by all the said parties
to all intents and purposes according to the tenor effect and
true meaning thereof. &nd motor forasmuch as no cause to
the contrary of the said Order hath been hitherto shewed unto
this Court on the part of the said defendants as by the Cer-
tificate of the Register of this Courte made in that behalfe
appeareth, Hit tº therefore this present Friday that is to say
the one and twentieth day of May in the yeare of the Reigne
of our Soveraigne Lord James by the grace of God of England
France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, etc., the two
and twentieth, and of his highnesse reigne of Scotland the
seaven and fiftieth, by the right hon” the reverend Father in
God John Lord Bishop of Lincolne, Lord Keeper of the great
Seale of England, and by the said high Courte of Chauncery
ordered alleadged and Petrºtt, That the said Certificate so
as aforesaid made and returned by two of the said Commis-
sioners and subscribed by the third Commissioner (the said
addition excepted) is and be from henceforth ratified and
confirmed by the authority of this Courte, and this present
decree to be performed by all the said parties to all intents
and purposes according to the tenor effect and true meaning
thereof. Y) obiş tattur et cuilibet vestrum precipimus firmiter
injungentes quod omnia et singula in judicio sive decreto
[p. 256.] predicto contenta et specificata quantum et quoad
vos seu aliquem vestrum in aliquo tangunt vel concernunt
IMORS IDOCTORIS GOSTILIN. 325
faciatis et perimpleatis et quilibet vestrum faciat, et perimpleat
indilate juxta tenorem veramque intentionem Judicii sive
Decreti predicti et hoc periculo incumbente nullatenus omittatis
nec aliquis vestrum omittat. QÜe$te me ipso apud Westmo-
nasterium octavo die Junii anno regni nostri Angliæ Franciæ
et Hiberniæ vicesimo secundo et Scotiæ quinquagesimo septimo,
Cesar Six.
Anno 1625
In superiori elapso anno custodis curæ commissum erat ut
cum Domino Philippo Parker Equite aurato ageret de redditu
hordei debiti manerio nostro de Burnham Thorpe ex manerio
de Lathes, atque conventione facta res rediit, ut decimo septimo
Junii 1625 concessum est dicto Domino Philippo Parker ut
pro 16 quarteriis hordei debitis Collegio ex manerio de Lathes
(in vel juxta Burmham), solveret, quotannis Collegio octo libras
ad annos viginti. Amno insequenti vero, viz. Junii 6. 1626,
locatio communi sigillo Collegii confirmata fuit dicto Domino
Philippò Parker ut constat ex libro Pandectarum.
Anno 1626
Hic annus nobis luctuosus exstitit, ob mortem celeberrimi
viri Doctoris Gostlim Collegii Custodis, ac tunc temporis
Academiæ Procancellarii, qui anno ætatis...21*° Octobris post
horam quintam pomeridianam pie et placide efflavit animam
in sinum Domini. Hic vir hic est qui variis casibus jactatus
(ut supra diximus) tandem favore numinis ad vota nostra nobis
redditus, et tanquam in tutissimum portum faustissimis accla-
mationibus receptus est, ubi per septem plus minus annos
quibus Collegio præfuit, diu desideratam nobis tranquillitatem
et sibi gloriam, tantis meritis debitam, conciliavit ; virum
fuisse ultra communem hominum sortem doctum prudentem
et sagacem, sæpius abunde testatum est ; olim, Procuratorio
munere perquam foeliciter administrato, totius Academiæ
applausu haud usitato, postea dum inter Devonias conversatus
326 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANI) CAIUS.
est, talem se probavit virum ut ab Excestrensibus' ad conventum
[p. 257] Regni Parliamentarium umus e Burgensibus pro illo
municipio honorifice demandatus erat ; quo prospere functus
officio ad Devonienses suos, quos sibi multis devinxit officiis,
rursus se recepit ; sed ibi non diu latuit, nam cum serenissimus
Rex Jacobus in animo haberet suam invisere Cantabrigiam,
præfecti Collegiorum statim cogitant de Gostlino revocando
ut Respondentis in Medicina provinciam subiret, quam (prout
virum undiquaque doctum decuit) ita sustinuit, ut ab Augus-
tissimo Rege totaque qua cinctus erat corona egregiam inde
laudem reportavit. A quo tempore Academicorum Regi (sic
enim optimus Jacobus audire non est dedignatus) ita immotuit
ut post paucos annos Gostlinum ad officium Custodis per socios
electum, Regique per Literas suas commendatum (Regis non
obstantibus literis ad Collegium prius datis) summa cum gratia
approbavit, ut antedictum ; et anno elapso, Professoris in
Medicima vacante cathedra, Gostlimus regio diplomate illam
capessere jussus est, ad quam Spartam ornandam accessit
memoria foelici, solido subactoque judicio, et eloquentia summa,
his enim omnibus emicuit facultatibus, unde nullo umquam
tempore cathedra illa ornatior, nec Medica Professio inter
Cantabrigienses illustrior exstitit. Nec scholis tantum aut
Comitiis publicis viri virtus se continuit, sed ad omne virile
munus par Gostlinus Academica negotia plurimum juvit consiliis
suis, bisque vocatus ad moderandas Academiæ habenas, (intravit
enim et exit Procancellarius) haud minor erat expectatione
votisque nostris ; exhaustas enim replevit cistas, collapsam
restituit disciplinam, artes liberales jacentes erexit, privilegia
strenue asseruit, et ut verbo omnia complectar, Academiam
reddidit florentissimam. Talem se exhibuit posteris in æternum
cum honore spectandum et imitandum, vix ulli æquandum
nunquam ab ullo superandum Academiæ Rectorem. Quod
metoposcopi nugatores, ex fronte nescio quam truculentiam
imaginati sunt, ex eo scilicet quod vultu referebat leonem, false
omnino fuerunt, et arte sua vaniores ; aspectus enim ei quamvis
erat talis qualis decuit virum magni et infracti animi, tamen
* He was member for Barmstaple, not Exeter.
MORS DOCTORIS GOSTILIN. 327
placidissimi ejus mores et tractabiles satis, eos arguunt vanitatis.
Hoc tamen non defitemur quod in censuris ferendis nescio
quam præ se ferre severitatem solitus est, sed nihil huic vitio
vertendum, semper enim vir optimus simul et prudentissimus,
intra fines æquitatis imo laudabilis lenitatis se continuit, et hac
arte vel mutu solo refractarium quemvis magis coercuit quam
alii flagris vel gravioribus mulctis. Sed ut aliorum mores
optime moverat formare, ita mentes scientiis informare semper
[p. 258] ei curæ erat, quod et foeliciter præstitit frequentibus
et elaboratissimis prælectionibus in scholis publicis dum
cathedram insedit medicam ; quas omnes intercidisse non
possumus non dolere, ex ejus enim scriptis (quantum scimus)
solum extant manu exaratæ orationes aliquot in publicis scholis
habitæ, et tractatulus de Cometis quem Jacobo seremissimo, ob
illum qui anno 1618 apparuit sollicito, in scriptis obtulit, indeque
gratiam reportavit, haud modicam. In more ei positum erat
quotannis, ineunte primo termino, exhortatoria aliqua oratiome
Latine habita, in Sacello juvenum animos, vel ad pietatem
accendere, vel ad bonarum literarum studia excitare, quam
optimi custodis laudatissimam consuetudinem (spontaneam
quamvis) omittere noluit, sed paucis ante obitum diebus, viz.
16°° Octobris, ex morbo graviter languens concionem cygniam
habuit, de dulcissimo nomine Jesu, quam pietate undique
refertam his ultimis claudebat verbis, Jesu, Jesu, sis mihi
Jesus: et protinus se subduxit loco sacro nec rursus unquam
intererat divinis officiis, in publico administratis; sed in privatis
ædibus sacram eucharistiam (sociis quoque communicantibus)
summa cum devotione participavit, hoc viatico coelestique
medicina prospexit animæ. Morbo vero ingravescente, et lecto
fixus, revisit testamentum et quæ valens statuerat jam infirmus
confirmavit; quo nobis Caio-Gonvilensibus munificus extitit
benefactor, et charitate nullo exemplo æquanda absque ulla
solicitatione ex proprio motu Aulæ Catherinæ societatis pomœria
dilatavit, non ob alias ullas (quas novimus) rationes, nisi quod
magnificus vir noluit musas in angusto habitare, ob quæ tam
egregia beneficia optime meruit incomparabilis Gostlimus, ut
sit ejus memoria in benedictione justorum. Quæ piis usibus
legavit ex infrascripto testamento petenda.
328 t ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
Testamentum Gostlini, etc.
#n the name of QRob @ men. I John Gostlin Dr of
Physicke, and Master or Keeper of Gonvile and Caius Colledge
in Cambridge being sicke of Body but of sound and perfect
memory (praised be God), desirous to settle my poore estate,
and prepare myselfe for a better world, doe make this my last
[p. 259] will and testament bearing date the nineteenth day
of October one thousand six hundred twenty and six, and
doe by this Act revoke all other wills by me formerly made.
#mprimíš I render my spirit unto the Father of Spiritts, that
is my soule into the hands of my Creatour, humbly beseeching
him to receive it amongst the number of the faithfull departed,
and with mercifull eyes to looke upon it, in the death and
meritts and passion of his deare sonne my Redeemer and
Saviour Jesus Christ the righteous to whom be praise and
glory for ever, Amen. Item I bequeath my body if I dy in
Caius Colledge to be buryed as neere my worthy freind and
patron Doctor Legge as may be. If I dye otherwhere I wish
it buried in Church or Chancell decently, and some little
monument to be made at the discretion of my executour. I
doe give a house or houses called the Rose and Crowne in the
Towne of Cambridge, purchased of Joane Symons, vid. unto
the Master or Keeper and fellowes of Gonvile and Caius
Colledge in Cambridge and to their successours for ever.
Hºtem I doe give to the said Master and fellowes and their
successours my Annuity of thirty pounds a yeare, out of the
Mannor and Lordship of Milton, with arrearage of rent already
due, amounting to the summe of threescore pounds; which
Annuitye I purchased of Mr Harris of the said towne. Hſtem
my will is that for the first seaven yeares they shall onely
gather into the Colledge Chest the rents of the forenamed
house or houses and also of the aforesaid Annuity, and that
time being expired the Master and fellowes for the time being
shall out of that money, together with the houses and the
Annuity, make sufficient and good assurance unto Caius
Colledge aforesaid of forty pounds a yeare for ever to be
TESTAMENTUM GOSTILINI. 329
employed as followeth ; That is to say foure Schollers, borne in
the Cittie of Norwych five poumds apeice per annum, in toto
twenty pounds ; £t£m for a feast upom my Mortuary day foure
pounds; Ítem to the Master of the Colledge the same day for
his care to see my will performed fourty shillings ; ítem to the
Preacher who shall Commemorate that day, (who I leave to the
appointment of the said Master) thirteeme shillings and foure
[p. 26o] pence ; ítem to the Senior fellowes that shall be
at home and present three shillings foure pemce apeice ; £tem
to the schollers of my foumdatiom that shall be at home and
present two shillings six pemce apeice ; £tem the rest that shall
be yearely accrueing I give to the Colledge Chest. £m fmitm£$
whereof I have sett my hand to the former pages, and my
hand and seale to the last, per me Johannem Gostlim. In the
presence of Matthew Stokys, Francis Hobman, Edm : Michel,
Ed. Salter, Giles Sandford, Wm. Cuppey. 33robatum
Thomas Bachcroft, Artium Magister, et Collegii hujus
socius, unamimi omnium sociorum consensu, 22° Octobris 1626
in locum Gostlimi suffectus est, ejus tamen electionem Robertus
quidem Lame S. Theol. Doctor et Collegii D. Johammis socius,
cum aliis clam subvertere machinati sunt, unde Collegio accessit
non levis molestia ; cum enim electus Custos per socios Collegii
(prout statuta jubent) præsentaretur Cancellario, is fictis illorum
rumoribus fidem habens moras nectere coepit approbandi, et
nescio quæ illegalia causatus inquisitionem instituit extra-
judicialem in electionem, cum per statuta Collegii nullum jus
electionem discutiendi Cancellario conceditur nisi dissentientibus
sociis et legittime requisitus fuerit ; imo e contra cavetur me
talem exerceat authoritatem non concessam. Sed eligentium
inconcussa, constantia ad asserendam electionem, licite et
legitime factam, et jurisconsultorum sententiis eam confir-
mantium, tum etiam tota Academia (exceptis malevolis qui-
busdam clanculariis) scripto quodam approbante electionem
et propriis manibus attestante, Cancellarius veritus ne ob tam
inique factum odium omnium et obloquium incurreret, cessavit
ulterius molestiam creare Collegio, et rata habita electione
Thomam Bachcroft dignissimum Custodem 22° domum dimisit
330 ANNALS OF GONVILT,E ANI) CAIUS.
Cancellarius, sed ex hoc ejus tam iniquo facto non leve accrevit
damnum Collegio, et 55* 6* e cista communi in sumptu,
itinerando, ad aulam inutiliter expectando, etc.
Lis orta (hoc anno) inter firmarium nostrum terrarum in
Tuttington et vicinum vindicantem sibi jus semitæ ducentis
per fundos nostros ; sed cum pars quæritans foro cessit, a
nostris partibus adjudicatum fuit, quæ autem fuerit lata
sententia, patet ex hoc scripto.
pages 261, 262 blank
[p. 263] Thomas Bachcroft jam confirmatus Custos, quo
promoveret Collegii commodum omnibus modis studet, atque
inter cætera quæ in administratione officii utiliter gessit, hoc
anno opportune se offerente occasione augendi reditus Collegii
eam non neglexit, sed im utilium fundorum emptiones (prout
statuta jubent) Collegii pecuniam erogavit, et 6° Novembris
hujus anni e communi cista exemptæ sunt 21“ ad emendum
claustrum ut vocant pasturæ juxta molendinum mostrum im
Shelford magna, a Johanne Gostlim tunc temporis socio ex
fundatione Jocosæ Franckland, cujus concessionis scriptum sic
se habet;
p. 264 blank
[p. 265] Johannes hic memoratus Gostlinus, Doctoris Gostlimi
ex fratre mepos Norwicensis, et ut modo dictum Collegii socius,
vir doctus et in disputationibus acris et acutus, relicto Collegio
Eibliothecam nostram ornavit codice S.S. Bibliorum eleganter
manuscriptorum, 1627.
Finienti anno, viz. Martii 13°, convenit inter Collegium et
Martinum Perse armigerum de emendis quibusdam fundis, viz.
tenementis, et 26 acris et 4 pedibus terræ arabilis, in Basing-
bourne in Comitatu Cantabrigiensi jacentibus, pro quibus
accepit a Collegio centum et octoginta libras sub certis tamen
conditionibus et articulis quos infra scriptos una cum ejus
concessionis charta hic exhibemus.
DE FUNDIS IN BASSINGBOTTRNE. 331
Concessio Martini Perse, &c.
Qſì)íg #mbenture made the two and twentieth day of March
in the third yeare of the reigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles
by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland
King, defender of the Faith, &c., Betweene Martyne Pearse of
Cambridg in the Countie of Cambridge Esquire of the one
part, and William Moore William Lynge Edmund Eade and
William Leweing Masters of Arts and fellowes of Gonevile
and Caius Colledge in the Universitie of Cambridge of the
other parte, CGHitmešštti) that the said Martine Pearse for and
in consideration of the summe of one hundred and fourescore
pounds of lawfull English money, unto him in hand paid by
the said William Moore William Ling Edmund Eade and
William Leweing, hath given granted bargained and sould
enfeoffed and confirmed, and by these presents doth fully
freely and absolutely give grant bargaine and sell enfeoffe and
confirme, unto the said William Moore William Lynge Edmund
Eade and William Leweinge and to their heyres, one Messuage
or Tenement with an orchard conteyning halfe an acre of
ground, and all and singular the appurtenaunces to the said
Messuage and premisses belonging, scytuate and being in
Bassingbourne in the aforesaid Countie of Cambridge in a
[p. 266] certaine streete there called Shitborowe Streete,
next unto the Common, the brooke running betweene the said
Messuages and the Common, and also twentie and six acres
and foure foote of arable land (be it more or lesse) lying
dispersedly within the feildes and bounds of Bassingbourne
aforesaid, as they are hereafter in these presents particularly
mentioned and expressed (that is to say) In the... Himprimí3,
One twenty foote going through two furlongs next the lande of
William Etheridge now in the occupacion of Francis Lynn
Gent on the north, the east head thereof abutting upon
London highway. Item one halfe acre being a headland to
part of the Rectory of Weston Colledge, going through two
furlongs and abutts as before. Item two acres and a halfe
betweene balkes, lying on Buckland hill next the land of
332 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CATUS.
|Edward Waller on the north, the west head thereof abutteth
upon the land of John Addams. Item one acre lying in
Buckland next the land of Thomas Addams on the north,
the west head thereof abutts upon a headland of Robert
Stoughton and Mr Ree. Item one acre in Buckland Hill
next the land of Mr Ree on the east, the north head thereof
abutts uppon the Butts of John Meed. Item five roods syding
west upon a balke, next the land of Robert Goade, the south
head thereof abutts upon Harefeild ditch and Newclose. Item
two acres lying next the land of one Dunn on the south, the
east head thereof abutts upon London Waye, and the west
head upon a headland of Robert Stowton. Item halfe an acre
next the lands of Nicholas Curtis on the north, the east head
thereof abutts upon London Way, and the west head upon
Mootelow furlong. In the Rowefeild, #mprimi; five roodes
going through two furlongs next the land of Richard Waller on
the east, the north head thereof abutts upon Wendyhead, and
the south head upon the Rowe Way. Item one acre going
through two furlongs, lying betweene the lands of Sir Gyles
Allington, the north head thereof abutts upon Wendyhead
and the south head upon the Rowe Way. Item three acres
and a halfe next the land of Henry Waller, on the north the
west head thereof abutts upon the Rowe and the east head
upon the Wendy Way. Item halfe an acre next the land of
Sir Gyles Allington, on the south the east head thereof abutts
upon a headland of John Meade and the west head upon the
Rowe. Item halfe an acre in the Willowes, next the lands of
[p. 267] Henry Ward on the east the south head thereof
abutts upon Mobbs headland. Item one roode in Knapcote
furlong next the land of Sir Giles Alington, on the south, the
west head thereof abutts upon Wendy Waie. Hin the 33rooke
feild. Imprimis, one acre next the land of Nicholas Gray on
the west and a Balke upon the east, the South head thereof
abutteth upon Chadwell Brooke, and the north head upon a
headland of Robert Goade, in the tenure of Richard Amy.
Item one rood next the land of Nicholas Curtis on the north,
the east head thereof abutts upon the Brooke and the west
head upon a headland of Henry Waller. Item one roode lying
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betweene the lands of Thomas Addams, the east head thereof
abutts upon the Holme and the west head upon a headland of
Richard Waller. Item one twenty foote lying next the land of
Thomas Donne on the west and the lands of Sir Giles Allington
on the east, the south head thereof abutts upon Brooke
bridge Way. Item five roodes lying next the land of Sir Gyles
Alingtonn on the east and upon the lands of Richard Waller
on the west, the south head thereof abutts upon Brooke bridge
Way. Item one forty foote headland lying next the land of
William Bloose on the south, the east head thereof abutts
upon the Millway and west upon Littlington feilds. Item one
acre next the land of Sir Giles Alington on the east, the
north head thereof abutts uppon a two acre peice of Sir Gyles
Alingtonns, and the South head uppom Millwaye. Item two
halfe acres lying next the lands of Sir Gyles Allingtonns on the
east, the north and south heads thereof abutt upon Millway.
Item one halfe acre lying next the land of Mr Thomas Turpin
on the east, the south head thereof abutts upon Millway.
Item one rood in Shortboulster furlong next the lands of Sir
Giles Allington on the east, the north heade thereof abutts
upon Millway, and the south head uppon the land of Robert
Goades. And also the right title claime interest use demaund
possession reversion remainder and remainders of in and to all
and singular the premisses before mencioned, to be bargained
and sold, and all and singular their appurtenaunces together
with all the deeds charters evidences escripts writings and
muniments concerning the same which the said Martine Perse
now hath or hereafter may come by without suit in law. All
such said deeds evidences writings and muniments the said
Martine Perse doth promise by these presents to deliver unto
the said William Moore William Lyng Edmund Eade and
William Lewing their heyres and assignes upon demaund
[p. 268] respectively, Qſo babe and to bolt, the said Messuage
or tenement orchard and all and singular the arable lands and
prebargained premisses with the appurtenaunces, together with
all the said deeds evidences escripts, writings, and muniments
concerning the same unto the said William Moore William
Lynge Edmund Eade and William Lewinge, their heyres and
334 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
assignes for ever, to be held of the cheif Lord or Lords of the
Fee or Fees thereof, by the tenure of free socage onely and not
in capite, and also by the Rents and services thereof from
henceforth due, neverthelesse to the intent and upon a speciall
confidence and trust that the said William Moore William
Lynge Edmund Eade and Wm. Lewinge and the survivours
and survivour of them and the heyres of the survivours and
survivour of them shall not onely from henceforth from time
to time permitt and suffer the Master and fellowes of Gonvile
and Caius Colledge in the Universitie of Cambridg founded
in the honour of the Annunciation of the blessed Mary the
virgine and their successours, to receive and take all and
singular the rents issues and profitts of the said premisses, by
these presents mencioned to be bargained sold and conveyed,
and the same to dispose to the proper use and behoofe of them
the said Master and fellowes, and of their successours, but also
shall and will hereafter at such times as the said Master and
fellows of the said Colledge for the time being shall thinke
fitt or require, grant assure and convey the aforemencioned
Messuage lands and premisses unto the said Master and
fellowes and their successours, to the proper use and behoofe
of the said Master and fellowes and their successours. And
the said Martine Perse and his heyres the aforesaid Messuage
orchard lands and premisses with the appurtenaunces unto the
said William Moore William Lyng Edmund Eade and William
Leweinge their heyres and assignes against all and every person,
shall and will for ever hereafter warrant and defend. And the
said Martine for him his heyres executours and administratours
doth by these presents covenaunt grant to and with the said
William Moore William Lynge Edmund Eade and William
Leweing their heyres and assignes in manner and forme following
(that is to say) that he the said Martin Peirce is at the time of
the making and deliverie of these presents lawfully and right-
fullie seized of and in the said Messuage orchard lands and all
and singular the premisses with the appurtenaunces by and in
these presents granted conveyed or hereby mencioned to be
granted or conveyed, of a good sufficient and absolute estate, in
fee simple to the use of him and his heyres, without any use,
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trust, condicion, or limitation, and that he hath full power and
[p. 269] lawfull interest and authoritie to bargaine and sell
grant convey and assure the aforemencioned prebargained
premisses and everie part and parcell thereof unto the said
William Moore William Lynge Edmund Eade and William
Leweing their heyres and assignès in manner and forme afore-
said. And also that the said Messuage orchard lands and pre-
misses, with the appurtenaunces hereby granted bargained sold
or conveyed or mencioned or intended to be granted bargained
sold or conveyed, are held by the tenure of free socage only
and not by Knight's service, nor in capite ; and are of the
cleare yearely value of eleven pounds over and besides all
charges reprizes and deductions thereoute or therefore going
issuing or to be expended whatsoever, And that the same
premisses before the making of this present bargaine and sale
and conveyance truely were and now at the time of the
sealing and deliverie of these presents are plainely and truely
lett and demysed for and at the said cleare yearely rent and
revenue of eleven pounds above all charges reprizes expenses
and deductions whatsoever. And also that he the said Martine
Perse and Katherine his wife and the heyres of the said Martine
and everie of them shall and will at all times hereafter from
time to time at the onely costs and charges in the law of the
said William Moore William Lynge Edmund Eade and William
Leweinge their heyres and assignes or the heyres and assignes
of the survivour of them, well and sufficiently doe make
knowledge and execute or cause and suffer to be done made
knowledged and executed all and everie such further act and
acts, thing and things, conveyance and conveyances, assurance
and assurances, devise and devises in the law, whatsoever, for
the further better and more perfect conveyance assurance surety
and sure making of the said Messuage or tenement orchard
lands and premisses hereby mencioned or intended to be con-
veyed with the appurtenaunces and of every part and parcell
thereof, unto the said William Moore Wm. Lynge Edmund
Eade and William Leweing their heyres and assignes and the
heyres and assignes of the survivour of them upon the trust
and confidence aforemencioned, and for the proper behoofe of
336 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
the said Master and Fellowes and their successours, be it by
fyne feoffement recoverie with double or single voucher deed
or deeds inrolled or not enrolled enrollment of these presents,
release and confirmacion with warrantie against the said
Martine Perse and his heyres and against all and singular
other person and persons, as by the said William Moore
William Lynge Edmund Eade and William Lewinge their
heyres and assignes respectively, or by his or their Counsell
learned in the Law, shall be advized devised or required, so as
the said Martyne Perse and his said wife and the heyres of the
said Martyne Perse be not compelled to travell thereabouts,
[p. 27O] further then the towne of Cambridge aforemencioned.
And also that the said Messuage or tenement orchard land and
premisses all and everie of them hereby granted bargained and
sold or conveyed, mencioned or meante to be bargained sold or
conveyed, and everie part and parcell thereof now are and be,
and shall and may for ever hereafter stand remaine continue
and bee, unto the said William Moore William Lynge Edmund
Eade and William Leweinge their heyres and assignes free and
cleare and freely acquitted exonerated and discharged, and att
all times from time to time well and sufficiently saved and
kept harmlesse of and from all manner of former bargaines
sales gifts grants leases joyntures dowers entayles uses demyses
condicions lymitations forfeitures seisures causes of forfeiture
and seisure intrusions issues rents arrearages of rents statutes
recognizances judgements debts to the Kings Majestie and all
other titles charges troubles and incumbrances whatsoever.
And also that the said premencioned bargained premisses shall
be alwayes hereafter from time to time discharged freed and
saved harmelesse of and from the thirds and dower which may
arise happen fall due or be claimed upon or after the death of
the said Martine Perse by or unto the said Katherine Perse his
now wyfe or any other wife of the said Martyne, and also that
at the time of the sealing and delivery of these presents, the
said Messuage or tenement with the appurtenaunces is in good
and sufficient repaire, and that the said Orchard and grounds
thereof doth containe halfe an acre of ground and well fenced
and also replenished and stored with cherry trees and other
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good fruite trees, and also with twelve elme trees at the least
being of twenty yeares growth, besides other trees of divers
sorts, and that the said lands mencioned in these presents to
be bargained and conveyed are justly and truely scituate lying
and abuttalled accordingly as in these presents they are
expressed and mencioned to be, and also that he the said
Martine Perse his heyres executours and administratours
respectively shall and will at his and their costs and charges
within one yeare next ensueing the day of the date of these
presents make and write or procure to be made and written
fairely in parchment a true just and perfect Terrear or Schedule
justly conteyning the true extent number quantitie scituation
and abuttalling of the premencioned or intended bargained
premisses, and after the said making writing and finishing
thereof shall within the said yeare deliver the same unto the
said William Moore William Lynge Edmund Eade and William
Leweing and their heyres and assignes, to the intent the same
may be by them delivered over to the said Master and fellowes
of Gonvile and Caius Colledge to be perpetually kept and
[p. 271] preserved by them the said Master and fellowes
and their successours. And the said William Moore Wm.
Lynge Edmund Eade and William Leweinge for them their
heyres executours administratours and assignes doe covenaunt
and grant to and with the said Martine Perse his heyres and
assignes in manner and forme following (that is to say) that
hereafter from time to time so often as the said Martine Perse
his heyres and assignes shall have cause or occasion to shew
forth or use all or any of the charters evidences and muniments
concerning the prebargained premisses by reason of any voucher
to Warranty aide suite or other matter needing or requiring
the view or shew of the said evidences charters or muniments
or any of them, either by or before any Judge as for perusall
by or upon Councell at Law, they the said William Moore
William Lynge, Edmund Eade and William Leweing their
heyres and assignes shall and will as farre as shall be within
their power respectively upon demand, and at the costs and
charges and for the said necessary use and behoofe of the said
Martine Perse his heyres and assignes, suffer the said evidences
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338 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
charters and muniments to be viewed and perused accordingly,
and also suffer so farre as shall be in their power the said
Martine Perse his heyres and assignes to take coppies in
writing, from out of the said charters evidences and muniments
concerning the conveying of the prebargained premisses and
other lands in Bassingbourne or any parcell of them from John
Lynn of Bassingbourne aforesaid Esq., unto William Lynn his
sonne and heyre apparent, and from the said William Lynn
unto Elizabeth his wife and from the said Elizabeth and
Robert Cromwell Esq., her second husband, unto Sir Oliver
Cromwell Sir Philip Cromwell Knights, Henry Cromwell and
Richard Cromwell Esquires, And from the said Oliver Crom-
well Sir Philip Cromwell Henry Cromwell Richard Cromwell
and Elizabeth then widdow, unto the said Martine Perse
and his heyres. And also that they their heyres and assignes
and the heyres and assignes of the survivour of them shall
and will at all times hereafter from time to time, at the
reasonable requests and at the costs and charges of the
said Master and fellowes of Gonvile and Caius Colledge and
their successours, grant assign convey and passe over unto the
said Master and fellowes and their successours, and to their
proper use, all the right title estate interest which they the
said William Moore William Lynge Edmund Eade and William
Leweing now have or shall have of in and to the prebargained
premisses, and all and everie the evidences writings terrears
and muniments aforemencioned, according to the trust and
[p. 272] confidence by and in these presents in them reposed
or mencioned to be or intended to be reposed, and also
deliver or cause to be delivered unto the said Master and
fellowes and their successours all the deeds writings terrears
evidences and muniments concerning the premencioned pre-
bargained premisses or any part or parcell of them, Him ſuitmeg
whereof the parties first above named to these presents have
interchangeably putt to their hands and seales the day and
yeare first above written.
Qſì)íg £mbenture made the two and twentieth day of March
in the third yeare of the Reigne of our Soveraigne Lord
Charles by the grace of God of England Scotland France and
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Ireland King, defender of the Faith, &c., betweene Martyne
Perse of Cambridge in the Countie of Cambridge Esquire on
the one part and William Moore William Lynge Edmund Eade
and William Leweing Masters of Arts and fellowes of Gonvile
and Caius Colledge in the Universitie of Cambridge aforesaid
on the other part, CGHitmeggetſ) that the said Martine Perse for
and in consideration of the summe of one hundred and four-
score pounds of lawfull money of England to him by the
said William Moore William Lyng Edmund Eade and William
Leweing before the ensealing hereof paid, as for divers other
good and lawfull considerations him thereunto mooveing, hath
bargained and sold and by these presents doth bargaine and
sell unto the said William Moore William Lynge Edmund
Eade and William Lewing to their heyres and assignes, one
Messuage or tenement with an orchard, conteyning halfe an
acre of ground and all and singular the appurtenaunces to the
said Messuage and premisses belonging Scituate in Bassingborne
in the said Countie of Cambridge in a certain streete called
Shitborow street next unto the common, the brooke runninge
betweene the said Messuage and the common, and twenty and
six acres, and foure foote of arable land (be it more or lesse)
lying dispersedly in the feilds and bounds of Bassingborne
aforesaid as they are particularly expressed and sett forth in a
paire of Indentures bearing the date of these presents made
betweene the said Martine Perse on the one part and the said
William Moore William Lynge Edmund Eade and William
Leweing on the other part, Qſo babe amt to bolt, the said
Messuage or tenement orchard and all and singular the arable
[p. 273] lands and prebargained premisses with the appur-
tenaunces unto the said William Moore William Lynge Edmund
Eade and William Lewinge their heyres and assignes, to the
sole and proper use and behoofe of the said William Moore
William Linge Edmund Eade and William Lewinge their
heyres and assignes for ever, to be holden of the cheife Lord
and Lords of the fee or fees thereof by the services thereof due
and of right accustomed, and the said Martine Perse and his
heyres the aforesaid Messuage or tenement orchard and the
said twenty and six acres and foure foote of arable land with
22–2
340 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANID CAIUS.
the appurtenaunces to the aforesaid William Moore William
Lyng Edmund Eade and William Leweinge, to the use and
behoofe abovesaid, against him the said Martine Perse and his
heyres amd agaimst all amd everie other person and persons
Whatsoever clayming the premisses or any part or parcell
thereof from by or under him the said Martine Perse, and all
Other person or persons, doth warrant, and for ever doth defend
by these presents. £m @@íítm££££ whereof the parties above-
said to these present Indentures interchangeably have put to
their hands and seales the day and yeare first above written.
Ad has terras in Bassingborne emendas 100' erant ex supra
memorata donatione Doctoris Harvey, et hac usque reservatæ,
ad fundandum discipulatum Harveanum in posterum nomi-
mandum ; summæ quod erat reliquum, viz. 80°, communis cista
erogavit ad incrementum ejusdem cistæ per residuum redditus
istarum terrarum, atque hoc provide factum ad compensandum
damnum quod per molendinum aquaticum im Shelford antea
sustinuit Collegii cista. .-
Anno 1628
Sexto Maii Edwardus Baldwin Suffolciensis electus scholaris
primus ex fundatione Doctoris Harvey. Hujus scholariatus
census annuus consensu custodis et sociorum statuitur 4' 10*,
quod supererit redditus e muper emptis terris in Bassingborne
communi cistæ cedere voluerant, in usus modo dictos anno
superiori. .
13° Junii. Custos et socii, quo melius officio Capellani ex
fundatione Jocosæ Franckland provisum sit, decretum condunt
et ad finem libri Statutorum describi voluerunt, ut semper
præsto esset cum opus fuerit. Decretum tale.
Eecause meither the Will of M*** Frankland, mor the late
decree touching the Chaplaime made by the Master and fellowes,
1595, hath provided sufficiently for the obligaciom of him to
the performance of the Colledge statutes, it is now therefore
this present day, viz. decimotertio Junii 1628, capitularly
Ordeyned and decreed by us the Master and fellowes of
[p. 274] Gonvile and Caius Colledge in Cambridge that;
every Chaplaine hereafter to be nominated and elected shall,
CAPELLANUS DOMINAE FRANKLAND. 341
within one moneth after his nomination and election into the
place of chaplaineshipp or conductshipp, solemnly promise
in the Chappell to the Master and fellowes that he will faith-
fully and fully observe all the Statutes of the said Colledge
which concerne the junior fellowes, viz. those which be of
M” Frankland her foundation and likewise all decrees and
laudable customes of the said College. And also that he will
according to the will of his Foundresse M* Frankland keep
every year twelve commonplaces, whereof six to be yearely
made at such times as shall be assigned by the Master. It is
also further ordeined and decreed at the same time and place
that the nomination and election shall be actually voyde
without any further cause for deprivation, whensoever any
of the said Chaplaines doe or shall refuse to be subject to the
Colledge statutes or decrees of the said Colledge, or shall deny
to bind himselfe by promise to the observation of the above
named statutes and decrees in manner and forme aforesaid.
Datum 13 Junii 1628
Thomas Bachcroft Custos
Robert Wells
Mathew Stokys Wm. Blankes
Thomas Wake Wm Lynge
Thomas Cooke Edmund Eade
Thomas Gostlin * William Lewinge
Wm. Moore
Hoc anno in augmentum Manerii nostri de Wooborne in
Comitatu Dorcestriae consensu Custodis et sociorum centum et
decem librae impensae sunt ad emendas terras Francisci Levenish,
quibus Manerio illo annexis ejus status multo utilior et
commodior redditus est, eo namoue factum, ut jam integrum
illud oppidum Caio-Gonvilenses solos agnoscit dominos et
possessores.
Scripta quæ huc spectant, ita se habent.
[p. 275] Qſìjià intenture made the nineteenth day of July
in the fift yeare of the reigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles
by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland
King, defender of the Faith, etc., Between Francis Devenish of
342 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
Billington in the Countie of Dorsett and Mary his wife, John
Devenish of Bridgewater in the Countie of Summersett, clerke,
and Joane his wife, on the one part, and the Master or Keeper
of the Colledge of Gonvile and Caius founded in the honour of
the Annunciacion of blessed Mary the Virgine in the Universitie
of Cambridge and the fellowes of the said Colledge, and John
Chetmell of Sherborne in the said Countie of Dorsett gent, on
the other part, CCHitmeggetſ) that the said Francis Devenish and
Mary his wife, John Devenish and Joane his wife, for and in
consideration of the summe of one hundred and tenn pounds
of lawfull English money unto the said Francis Devenish and
John Devenish by the said Master or Keeper and fellowes of
the said Colledge well and truely satisfied and paid, the receipt
whereof the said Francis Devenish and John Devenish doe by
these presents confesse and acknowledge and thereof and of
every part thereof doe acquitt and discharge the said Master or
Keeper and fellowes of the said Colledge, and the said John
Chepmell his executours and Administratours by these presents,
babe granted aliened enfeoffed and confirmed and by these
presents doe grant alien enfeoffe and confirme unto the said
Master or Keeper and fellowes of Gonvile and Caius Colledge
aforesaid and the said John Chetmell, Áll that tenement and
sixteene acres of arable land two acres of pasture and one
acre of meadow with the appurtenaunces lying and being in
Woborne in the Countie of Dorsett aforesaid, now or late in the
tenure or holding of the said Francis Devenish or his assignes,
and all other their and everie of their lands tenements
commons and hereditaments lying and being in the parish
feilds or precincts of Woborne aforesaid, and the revercion
and revercions remaynder and remaynders rents and services
with all and singular the premisses with the appurtenaunces,
Qſo babe and to hold the said tenements sixteene acres of
arable lands two acres of pasture and one of meadow and all
[p. 276] other the premisses with the appurtenaunces unto
the said Master or Keeper and fellowes of the said Colledge
and their successours, and the said John Chetmell his heyres
and assignes, to the use and behoofe of the said Master or
Keeper and fellowes of Gonvile and Caius Colledge aforesaid
MANERIUM DE WOBORNE. 343
their successours and assignes for ever, and to and for no
other use intent or purpose whatsoever, àmb the said Francis
Devenish and John Devenish for the considerations aforesaid
doe also by these presents grant bargaine and sell unto
the said Master or Keeper and fellowes of Gonvile and
Caius Colledge aforesaid, all deeds charters fines evidences
and writings which they and either of them hath or without
suite in law may come by touching or concerning the premises
or any part thereof, the same to be delivered over to the said
Master or Keeper and fellowes or their assignes at or before
the Feast of St Michael next ensuing, fayre uncancelled and
undeclared as now they are or bee, 3nd the said Francis
Devenish for him his heyres executours and administratours
doth for himself covenaunte promise and grant to and with the
said Master or Keeper and fellowes of Gonvile and Caius
Colledge aforesaid their successours and assignes that, for and
notwithstanding any acte or thing done or suffered by the
said Francis Devenish to the contrary, they the said Francis
Devenish and John Devenish at the time of the ensealing and
delivery of these presents are or one of them is, and untill one
fine shall be levyed and acknowledged of the premisses according
to the true meaning hereof, shall and will stand and be seized
of all and singular the premisses with the appurtenaunces of a
good sure rightfull lawfull absolute and undefensible estate of
inheritance in fee simple without any manner of condition
power of revocation limitacion of use or uses trust or trusts or
any other matter or thing whatsoever to alter change deter-
mine and make voyd the same, 3 mt, that they the said Francis
Devenish and Mary his wife, Johne Devenish and Joane his
wife, for and notwithstanding any act or thinge by the said
Francis Devenish and Mary his wife or either of them done or
suffered to the contrary, have or one of them hath full power
lawfull and rightfull authority in their some or one of their
owne rights to convey and assure the foresaid premisses hereby
mencioned to be conveyed and assured unto the said Master or
Keeper and fellowes and their successours, and John Chetmell
and his heyres, to the use and behoofe of the said Master or
Keeper and fellowes of Gonevile and Caius Colledge afore-
344 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
said their successours and assignes in manner and forme
[p. 277] aforesaid, &mb that the said Master or Keeper and
fellowes their successours and assignes shall and may from
time to time and at all times hereafter quietly and peaceably
have hold use occupy and enjoy all and singular the premisses
with the appurtenaunces without the lawful lett interruption
suite trouble molestacion or deniall of them the said Francis
Devenish and Mary his wife, or of any other person or persons
whatsoever lawfully clayming or to clayme any estate or thing
of in out of or to the same or any part thereof from by or
under them or either of them, śānti that as well all and singular
the premisses as also the said Master or Keeper and fellowes
of Gonvile and Caius Colledge aforesaide their successours and
assignes, shall for ever hereafter remayne and be freed acquitted
and discharged or upon everie reasonable request saved and
kept harmelesse of and from all former and other grants
bargaines sales gifts joyntures dowers feoffments wills leases
condicions uses trusts rents and charges rents secke arrearages
of rent judgements executions statutes marchaunt and of the
staple recognizances intrusions alienations without licence
liveryes oustre le maynes titles troubles forfeitures extents
debts to the King's Majestie and all other charges and incum-
brances whatsoever heretofore had made committed done or
suffered or hereafter to be had made committed done or
suffered by them the said Francis Devenish and Mary his wife
or either of them or any other person or persons whatsoever
lawfully clayming or to clayme from by or under them or either
of them, śānti the gaſt. John Devenish for himselfe his heyres
executours and administratours doth by these presents covenaunt
and promise and grant to and with the said Master or Keeper
and fellowes of Gonvile and Caius Colledge aforesaid their
successours and assignes that for and notwithstanding any act
or thing done or suffered by the said John Devenish to the
contrary they the said John Devenish and Francis Devenish at
the time of the ensealinge and delivery of these presents are
or one of them is and untill one fine shall be levyed and
acknowledged of the premisses according to the true meaning
hereof shall and will stand and be seized of all and singular the
MANERIUM DE WOBORN E. 345
premisses with the appurtenaunces of a good sure rightfull
lawful absolute and indefeacible Estate of Inheritance in fee
simple without any manner of condicion power of revocation
limittation of use or uses trust or trusts or any other matter or
thing whatsoever to alter change determine and make voyde
the same, 3 mb that they the said John Devenish and Joane
his wife Francis Devenish and Mary his wife for and notwith-
standing any act or thing by the said John Devenish and
[p. 278] Joane his wife or either of them done or suffered
to the contrary have or one of them hath full power lawfull
and rightfull authority in their some or one of their owne
rights to convey and assure the aforesaid premisses hereby
mencioned to be conveyed and assured unto the said Master or
Keeper and fellowes and their successours and John Chetmell
and his heyres to the use and behoofe of the said Master or
Keeper and fellowes of Gonvile and Caius Colledge aforesaid
their successours and assignes in manner and forme aforesaid,
%imb that the said Master or Keeper and fellowes their succes-
sours and assignes shall and may from time to time and at all
times hereafter quietly and peaceably have hold use occupie
and enjoy all and singular the premisses with the appur-
tenaunces without the lawfull lett interruption suite trouble
molestation or deniall of them the said John Devenish and
Joane his wife or of any other person or persons whatsoever
lawfully clayming or to clayme any estate or thing of in out of
or to the same or any part thereof from by or under them or
either of them, śānti that as well all and singular the premisses
as also the said Master or Keeper and fellowes of Gonvile and
Caius Colledge aforesaid their successours and assignes shall
for ever hereafter remayne and be freed acquitted and dis-
charged or upon every reasonable request saved and kept
harmelesse of and from all former and other grants bargaines
sales gifts joyntures dowers feoffenments wills leases condicions
uses trusts rents charges rents secke arrearages of rent judg-
ments executions statutes marchant and of the staple recog-
nizances intrusions alienations without licence liveryes ouster
le mayne titles troubles seizures extents debts to the Kings
Majestie and all other charges and incumbrances whatsoever
346 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
heretofore had made committed done or suffered or hereafter
to be had made committed done or suffered by them the said
John Devenish and Joane his wife or either of them or any
other person or persons whatsoever lawfully clayming or to
clayme from by or under them or either of them. &nt the
said Francis Devenish severally for himselfe and his heyres
and the said John Devenish severally for himselfe and his
heyres for the better assurance of the said tenements and
premisses according to the intent of these premisses and for
the considerations aforesaid doth covenaunt promise and agree
to and with the said Master or Keeper and fellowes of Gonvile
and Caius Colledge aforesaid their successours and assignes
that they the said Francis Devenish and Mary his wife John
[p. 279] Devenish and Joane his wife shall and will at the
costs and charges in the law of the said Master or Keeper
and fellowes of the said Colledge their successours and
assignes before the end of Hillary tearme next ensueing the
date hereof knowledge and levy before the Justices of his
Majesties Court of Common Plees at Westminster one or more
fine or fines sur conusan's de droit come teo etc. with proclama-
tions in due forme of law thereupon to be had and made
according to the common course of fines with proclamations in
such cases used unto the said John Chetmell and his heyres of
all the aforesaid premisses with the appurtenaunces by such
name and names and in such sort manner and forme as by the
said Master or Keeper and fellowes their successours and
assignes or by their Councell learned in the law shall be
reasonably advized and required. &nt it is hereby covenaunted
concluded and agreed by and betweene the parties to these
presents that the said fine or fines so or in any other manner
to be had and levyed and all and every other fine and fines
hereafter to be levyed betweene the said parties or any of
them of the premisses or any part thereof shall be and inure
and shall bee adjudged construed and taken to bee and inure
to the Onelie use and behoofe of the said Master or Keeper
and fellowes of Gonvile and Caius Colledg aforesaid their
successours and assignes for ever, and to none other use or
purpose whatsoever, &mi, the said Francis Devenish severally
MANERIUM DE woBORNE. 347
for himselfe and his heyres and the said John Devenish
severally for himselfe and his heyres doth furnish covenaunt
promise and agree to and with the said Master or Keeper and
Fellowes their successours and assignes that they the said
Francis Devenish and Mary his wife John Devenish and Joane
his wife and their respective heyres and assignes and all and
every other person or persons lawfully clayming or hereafter
lawfully to clayme any estate or thing in the premisses, or any
part thereof, by or under them or either of them respectively,
for the further and more better assuring surety and sure
making of all and everie the before mencioned premisses with
the appurtenaunces unto the said Master or Keeper and
fellowes of Gonvile and Caius Colledg aforesaid their succes-
Sours and assignes according to the true intent and meaning of
these presents, shall and will at all time and times hereafter
during the space of ten yeares next after the date hereof upon
the reasonable request and at the costs and charges of the
Master or Keeper and fellowes of Gonvile and Caius Colledge
aforesaid their successours or assignes, make doe acknowledge
execute and suffer or cause to be made done executed acknow-
[p. 28O) ledged and suffered all and everie such further and
other reasonable and lawfull act and acts deed and deeds thing
and things devise and devyses in the law whatsoever as by the
Councell of the said Master or Keeper and fellowes of Gonvile
and Caius Colledge aforesaid their successours and assignes
learned in the Law shall be reasonably advised and required
etc., as for the doing thereof the said Francis Devenish and
John Devenish and their said wives be not compellable to
travaile above the space of thirty miles from the place of their
severall dwellings or aboades at the time of such request unto
them or either of them to be made, Élmö the said Francis
Devenish and John Devenish for themselves and their heyres
doe and shall warrante acquitt and defend in manner and
forme aforesaid all and singular the premisses with the appur-
tenaunces unto the said Master or Keeper and fellowes of
Gonvile and Caius Colledge aforesaid their successours and
assignes against the said Francis Devenish and John Devenish
their heyres and assignes by these presents. Hin ſuitmeg whereof
348 ANNALS OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS.
the parties to these presentis have hereunto interchangeably
putt their hands and seales the day and yeare first above written.
QEarolu$ T)ei gratia @mgliæ Scotiæ Franciæ et Hiberniæ
Rex, fidei defensoris, etc. Omnibus ad quos presentes literæ
nostræ pervenerint Salutem. Sciatis quod inter Recorda ac
pedes finium cum proclamatione inde facta secundum formam
statuti in hujusmodi casu nuper editam et prius coram jus-
ticiariis nostris de Banco apud Westmonasterium termino
Sancti Michaelis anno regni nostri quinto QTomtimetur $ít ÍBorgo
Hæc est finalis concordia facta, in curia Domini Regis apud
Westmonasterium in octavis Sancti Michaelis anno regni
Caroli dei gratia Angliæ Scotiæ Franciæ et Hiberniæ regis, fidei
defensoris, etc., a conquestu quinto, coram Thoma Richardson,
Ricardo Huttom, Francisco Harvey, et Henrico Yelverton,
justiciariis, et aliis Domini Regis fidelibus tunc ibidem presen-
[p. 281] tibus inter Johannem Chetmell generosum querentem
et Franciscum Devenishe generosum et Mariam uxorem ejus
et Johannem Devenishe clericum et Johannem uxorem ejus
defensores, de sexdecim acris terræ, una acra prati, et duabus
acris pasturæ, cum pertinentibus, in Woburne @jîmîle 33latitum
Conventionis suum fuit inter eos in eadem Curia $cilicet
quoù predicti Franciscus et Maria et Johannes Devenishe et
Johanna recognoverunt predicta tenementa cum pertinentibus
esse jus ipsius Johannis Chetmell ut illa quæ idem Johannes
habet de domo prædictorum Francisci et Mariæ et Johannis
Devenishe et Johannæ, QBt illa remiserunt, et quietam clama-
verunt de ipsis Francisco et Maria, et Johanne Devenishe et
Johamma, et hæredibus predicto Johanni Chetmell et hæredibus
suis imperpetuum. ®t præterea iidem Franciscus et Maria con-
cesserunt pro se et hæredibus ipsius Francisci quod ipsi warran-
tizabunt predicto Johanni Chetmell et hæredibus suis predicta
tenementa, cum pertinentibus contra predictos Franciscum et
Mariam et hæredes ipsius Francisci imperpetuum. 3Et ulteriu3
iidem Johannes Devenishe et Johanna concesserunt pro se et
hæredibus ipsius Johannis quod ipsi warrantizabunt predicto
Johanni Chetmell et hæredibus suis predicta tenementa cum
pertinentibus contra predictos Johannem Devenishe et Jo-
GREGORIUS SAYRUS ET GEORGIUS ESTEYUS. 349
hannam et hæredes ipsius Johannis imperpetuum. ®t pro bat
recognitione remissione quieta clamatione warranto fine et
concordia idem Johannes Chetmell dedit predictis Francisco et
Mariæ et Johanni Devenishe et Johannæ sexaginta libras
sterlingorum. 3£m cuju$ rei testimonium sigillum nostrum ad
brevia in Banco predicto sigillanda deputatis presentibus apponi
fecimus apud Westmonasterium secundo die Octobris anno
regis nostri supradicto
i* •. T. Richardson
Blake.
[p. 282] Circa hæc tempora lites exortæ inter antiquos
tenentes terrarum nostrarum in Caxton in Comitatu Cante-
brigiæ et Collegium.
[p. 283] Hoc Anno Franciscus Hughes Norfolciensis, Artium
magister atque unus e Bedellis Armigeris istius Academiæ, ut
monumentum fixum et non interiturum maneret, amoris et
benevolentiæ suæ in nostrum Collegium, Bibliothecam nostram
ornavit et instruxit Gregorii Sayri libris duobus, viz. Clavi
Regia etc. quod sane domum non poterat non esse nobis per-
gratissimum quod matris amplexibus tradidit alumnum suum ;
author enim erat in hoc ipso Collegio per multos annos edu-
catus, eique a sacro fonte inditum momen erat Robertus, sed
post ingressum Religioni Pontificiæ Gregorium audire maluit.
Suffolciensis erat ex oppido Redgrave, educatus prius im ludo
literario apud Buddesdale, 5° July 1576 admissus in nostrum
Collegium, pro eo fide jubente magistro Richardo Swayle. Qui
plura de hoc nostro Roberto scire , avet, consulat Johannem
Pitseum de scriptoribus Angliæ ad annum 1602, ubi et, viri
vitam et studiorum rationem redditam inveniet.
Quo anno Sayrus hic concessit Cantebrigiam ad capiendum
ingenii cultum eodem et alius hic merito memorandus in
Collegio nostro admissus est, viz. Georgius Esteyus ab Essexia ;
qui ob egregiam virtutem et summam eruditionem inter socios
Collegii meruit cooptari, viri fama apud exteros celebris, Anto-
nius enim Thysius Belga in præfatione ad tractatum cui titulus
brevis Eaplîcatîo Doctrínæ de electione, etc., istud de hoc nostro
refert elogium. Esteyus (inquit) ex Caii societate Cantebrigiæ
•*
350 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANT) CAIUS.
claruit cum clarissimo Whitakero, quo usus est admodum fami-
liariter, et illius Academiæ spes altera fuit ; orationem diser-
tissimam habuit inter suos magna verborum et rerum ubertate
et gratia instructissimam, qua veterem illam et nunc victam
ac veternosam calumniam, de spreta sanctitate, studioque pie-
tatis, occasione doctrinæ, de fidei salutisque certitudine immota,
amolitur.
Hæc apud Thyseum habentur, eo quo diximus libro, in quo,
inter alia aliorum scripta, extat oratio illa Estheyi insignis.
Editi quoque post mortem eximii viri uno volumine habentur
tractatus aliquot Anglicano sermone scripti, qui pium fuisse
et doctum virum satis indicant. Anno 1599 11° Octobris
resignavit per literas jus suum in sodalitio, successitque ei per
electionem Richardus Parker Artium Magister, de quo supra
anno 1611. Estyus hic Sacræ Theologiæ baccalaureus fuit,
cumque Collegio decesserat in Suffolciam Buriæ Sancti Edmundi
conciomatoris munus fideliter per aliquot annos ita sustinuit,
ut post obitum summo in honore apud auditores habitus erat.
Eibliothecæ nostræ domo dedit T. Livii Decades. -
[p. 284] Huic Estyo, ut et etiam Sayro, institutor erat
clarissimus vir Ricardus Swayle, ex comitatu Eboracensi, tunc ,
temporis Magister Artium et socius, postea vero Juris Civilis
Doctor, et Collegii hujus præses. Dum nobiscum convixit
quinque inter benefactores fenestrarum enumeratur. Swaylus
hic relicto Collegio ad negotia publica tractanda vocatus inter
Magistros Cancellariæ et Curiæ de Arcubus doctores ascribitur ;
tandemque prout meritus est, Equitis Aurati titulo insignitur.
Honoratissimo Domino Christophoro Hatton supremi regni
Cancellario erat ex intimis conciliis, vix umquam ab ejus latere
discedens, ita ut ejus ope semper usus in Cancellariatus munere
administrando nihil desiderari poterat vel im scientia vel
juris praxi, sed prout officii ratio postulabat rigorem juris
summa cum æquitate moderavit ; minus igitur cauta videatur
illa clarissimi Cambdeni censura, de hoc illustri viro Hattono,
cum (inquit) quod deerat ei scientia juris supplevit æquitate,
Swaylo enim usus conciliario, viro Juris peritissimo, æquitatem
Juris basi ita statuminavit ut ex utraque parte nihil deerat
quod merito desideraretur.
EIBLIOTHECARII STIPENDIUM. 35 1
Anno 1629
26° Maii. In absentia, Custodis, Doctore Wells locum
tenente ejusque authoritate munito, socii capitulariter congre-
gati novam fecerunt provisionem pro Bibliothecarii stipendio,
nimirum ut stipendium sex librarum annuatim ei persolvatur
per Collegii œconomium, singulis quarteriis 30°, ex pecuniis in
manus Oeconomi quotannis ad convivandum deponendis per
quæstionistas ad gradum Baccalaureatus promovendos. Hanc
provisionem Custos per literas suas postea confirmavit, cassatis
(ejus et sociorum consensu 20° Junii) quibuscunque decretis
prius factis inter executores Doctoris Branthwaite et Collegium
circa stipendium Bibliothecarii, si modo ulla unquam facta
fuerant.
4° Augusti. Decretum est per Custodem et socios, ut
Custos, socius, aut quivis alius, ad quodcunque beneficium,
curatum aut non curatum, a Collegio in posterum presentatus,
se hæredes et executores suos in duplo valoris illius beneficii
sponte obliget, se institutionem et inductionem quatenus in se
est non omissurum aut alium quemcunque actum commissurum,
quo illius præsentatio inanis et frustra reddatur aliudve com-
mittant in præjudicium Collegii, nec prius commune sigillum
Collegii tali præsentationi apponendum, quam præsentandus
sponte sua syngrapha hæc omnia præstare confirmet.
Syngraphæ forma talis esse solet.
[p. 285] Noverint, universi per presentes me Thomam Wake
Gonvilli et Caii Collegii socium in Artibus magistrum et eleri-
cum, teneri et firmiter obligari Thomæ Bachcroft Sacræ Theo-
logiæ Doctori, Magistro sive Custodi Collegii de Gonville et
Caius fundati in honorem Annunciationis beatæ Mariæ Virginis
in Universitate Cantebrigiæ et sociis ejusdem Collegii, in du-
centis marcis bonæ et legalis monetæ Angliæ solvendis eisdem
Magistro sive Custodi et sociis Collegii predicti aut successoribus
suis. Ad quam quidem solutionem bene et fideliter faciendam
obligo me pro toto et in solido hæredes executores adminis-
tratores et assignatores meos firmiter per presentes sigillo meo
sigillatos. Datum quinto die mensis Augusti, anno Domini
352 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
1629, et regni Domini nostri Caroli Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae
Franciae et Hiberniae Regis, fidei defensoris, etc., quinto.
The Condition of this Obligation is such, that whereas the
above named Master and fellowes, have presented the above
bounden Thomas Wake to the Rectory of Bincombe in the
diocesse of Bristoll, if therefore the said Thomas Wake doe
within the space of five monethes next ensueing the date
hereof, exhibit the said presentation to the Reverend Father
in God the bishop of Bristoll his officiall generall or other
Minister in that behalfe needfull whosoever, and by all meanes
that he lawfully may seeke to be instituted and inducted into
the said Rectory according to the lawes of this realme, so as
by no meanes the said Rectory doe runne in lapse or the right
title or interest of presentation or collation be devolved from
the said Colledge to any other person or persons. And also
if the said Thomas Wake being lawfully possessed of the said
Rectory of Bincombe shall at any time hereafter resigne or
leave the same, or else doe accept and take any other benefice
with cure or without cure, or otherwise doe any manner of act
or acts, thing or things, whereby he may be lawfully dispossessed
of the said Rectory, or loose by law the same. If then the said
Thomas Wake shall give certaine notice and intelligence of his
said cession resignation acceptation of other benefice depri-
vation dispossession or losse in law, or other act or acts, thing
or things, whereby he lawfully may be dispossessed or loose
in law the said Rectory, within two monethes next after it
shall happen any of the premisses to be done, to the said
Master and fellowes and their successours, that then this obli-
gation to be void or els to remayne in full force and effect.
Sealed and delivered in the presence of......
3” Octobris. Controversiae inter Collegium et Johannem
Hare militem, item inter Rogerum Tounshead Baronettem et
Collegium.
24° Novembris. Locatio terrarum a Devenish emptarum
facta fuit AEgidio Sandeford pro annis duodecim a festo Michaelis
1629.
[p. 286] 18 Decembris. Willelmo Prime tenenti Custumario
(ut loquuntur) ulmorum arboretum caedendi libertatem conces-
PESTIS IN CANTABRIGIA. 353
simus de quadam terra per copiam apud Teversham in Comitatu
Cantebrigiæ tenuta, partim ad reparanda cætera tenementa
sua, partim ut Thomæ Heath firmario mostro quasdam de iis
ulmos vendat ad reficiendas domus quasdam ibidem nostras,
modo idem arboretum ad septennium sepe circumcingat ut
ulmi recrescant ; et duo tenentes de nostro manerio customarii
an hoc vere præstitum sit sub pœna 40* in proxima nostra
curia ejusdem manerii dominis significent.
5° Martii. Decretum est ut deinceps majoribus Comitiis
e nummis Magistrorum in Artibus ad conservandum in manus
Oeconomi depositis, 40* ad utensilia Collegii, eorum gratia vario
usu attrita, instauranda, solvantur bursario ad Collegii usum :
si quid vero spoliatum aut perditum fuerit, aliud restituere,
aut justum valorem persolvere tenebuntur inceptores.
Anno 1630
Grassante per Cantebrigiam peste conveniunt Præfecti
Collegiorum ad consultandum quibus modis Academicorum
saluti melius prospiciatur, quo conventu tutissimum fore judi-
cant excercitia scholastica omitti, tum publice tum privatim
in Collegiis, et studiosi omnes (exceptis paucis ad custodiam
Collegiorum relictis) ad loca tutiora se recipere jubentur, sed
ne horum absentia diuturnior in damnum cedat officiariorum
Collegii nostri, et quo melius subveniatur ministris nostris
tenuioris fortunæ, 21° Aprilis Custos et socii ordinatione hac
subscripta, horum incommodis et necessitatibus sic consultum
esse voluerunt.
21 April 1630. Wee the Master or Custos and fellowes of
Gonvile amd Caius Colledge whose names are hereunder Writtem
doe by these presents order weekly allowance to be allowed to
the persons following during the whole time Almighty God
shall please to visite the universitie or towne of Cambridge
with the sicknesse of the plague.
s d q.
Imprimis to the Cooke that shall stay 06 00 0
Item to his boy 01 00 0
Item to the Cooke that shall goe abroade 06 08 0
G. A. S. Octavo Series. No. XL. 23
354 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CATUS.
s d q
Item to the 3 Almeshouses equally to be distributed
every weeke 10 00 0
Item to the baker 06 00 0
Item to the Colledge landresse her stipend viz. O1 O2 O
Item to the butcher 03 04 0
Item to the Porter O4 OO O
[p. 287] Item to the butler 04 0 (0
Item to his boy 02 0 0
Item to the cater 04 O O
Item to the Custos his servant 03 4 0
Item to Samuel Smith the Colledge grocer 02 0 0
Item to Richard Harvey O1 O 0
Item to Mungy Powell O1 O 0
Item to Goodwife Gibson O1 6 0
Item to Ward, a poore servant O1 O (9-
Also it is ordered that the Custos and all fellowes schollers
and pensioners that shall stay in the Colledge during the
visitation shall have their accustomed commons with reasonable
allowance of bread and beere and detriments gratis, not paying
anything for the same; and the sizers residing in the house to
receive schollers commons with the same conditions, as also
the baker and the cooke. Also it is ordered that if it shall
please God to visite any residing in the Colledge with sicknesse
then it is referred to the Custos and fellowes to make all
manner of reasonable provision for them.
Also it is ordered that the absence of any fellow or scholler
during the visitation shall not be prejudiciall to him to cause
any abatement to be made in his stipend, or corne money, or
any other dividend. Also it is ordered that moneyes to defray
the charges of the premisses shall be raised out of the remaynes
of commencements, disputations moneyes, and allocations, and
feasts and commemorations that shall fall in the time of the
visitation. Also it is ordered that the Master and fellowes
residing in the Colledge, if they shall find anything necessary
and convenient to be done not specified in the premisses, shall
according to the present occasion doe that which shall be
most fitt and expedient.
Thomas Bachcroft Custos, Robert Wells, Matthew Stokys,
IPESTIS IN CANTABRIGIA. ¢ 355
Thomas Gostlim, William Moore, William Lyng, Edmund Eade,
Francis Glisson, Thomas Wake. -
Hoc anno Comitia majora in domo regentium celebrata
fuerant...... die octobris ita, ut statuta Academiæ in tali casu
fieri jubent, et me aditus ad gradum incepturis in aliqua facul-
tate præcluderetur ex non concessa venia proponendi gratias
secundum formam per statuta, requisitam, visum erat Custodi
et præsentibus in Collegio sociis ad petentium gradus promo-
vendos expedire, non expectatis absentium sociorum suffragiis
suis solis veniam concedere venerabilibus viris Johanni
[p, 288] Cosin et Nathanieli Bowman ut inciperent in sacra
Theologia, atque hoc illorum factum tali scripto subscriptis
nominibus testatum fecere.
29 Septem. 1630. Wee the Master and fellowes of Gonvile
and Caius Colledge whose names are under written doe testifie
that wee have granted unto Mr John Cosin his grace to
commence Dr in Divinitie the day and yeare above written,
quantum in nobis est, in this extraordinary time of pestilemce.
Thomas Bachcroft Custos
Pobert, Wells
Math. Stokys
Will. Lyng.
October the first 1630. Wee the Master and fellowes of
Gonvile and Caius Colledge whose mames are under written
testifie that wee have granted unto Mr Nathaniel Bowmam his
grace to commence Dr in Divinitie the day and yeare above
Writtem, quantum in nobis est, in this extraordinary time of
pestilence.
Thomas Bachcroft, Custos
Eobert, Wells
Matthew Stokys.
Antiqua locatione manerii nostri de Caxton hoc anno finita
et terminata, nova concessio terrarum nostrarum ibidem facta
erat Gilberto Lewing de Hardingham in comitatu Norfolciae
generoso, 29° Octobris 1630, pro termino viginti annorum ea
tamem conditione ut dictus Gilbertus in summa 100' se obliget
23—2
356 ' ANNALS OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS.
ad expensam expendendam quadraginta libras in ædificiis
extruendis in aut circa situm manerii illius de Caxtom. Quod
quomodo præstitum fuerit inquirendum.
Deus in æternum benedicendus respexit miseros Cantebre-
gienses, ita ut extincta peste et restituta sanitate academici
undique confluunt repetuntque intermissa studia, quam ob
causam Custos et socii convenientes 29°° Novembris modo
dictis ordinationibus et solutionibus finem statuünt nec ulterius
observari permittunt.
Licencia concessa Gilberto Lewing 22 Decembris ut evi-
dentias nostras Caxtonianas inspiciat, ad recuperandas terras
quasdam amissas, et faldagium apud Caxton in Comitatu
Cantebrigiensi pro eventu inquirendum....
[p. 289] Amno 1631
Hoc ammo Willelmus Harris de Milton in Comitatu Cante-
Brigiensi (qui in grandi pecuniæ summa Doctori Gostling erat
obæratus, quamque summam Collegio is moriens legavit) plu-
rimum negotii nobis facessit, sed tandem compulsus ad solutionem
numeravit quadringentas libras, communi cistæ reservandas,
ad usus per testamentum venerabilis Gostlimi statutos ; quos
præstitos in sequenti anno invenies cum mentio fiat emptionis
terrarum in Weetimg.
Anno 1632
Robertus Wells Medicinæ Doctor, Norfolciensis de Gissimg,
et socius hujus Collegii, hoc anno 1632 obiit. Hic, etsi medica
praxi satis fœlix, maluit tamen animum suum applicari trac-
tandis Collegii megotiis, quæ summa cum fidelitate et prudentia
peregit, ita ut ejus fidei et providentiæ Collegium plurimum
debet. Benevolum ejus in Collegium affectum moriens abunde
testatus est, quod testamento condito Collegium constituit
hæredem ex asse, cujus testamenti copiam hic subjunximus.
TESTAMENTUM DOCTORIS WELLS. 357
gym the name of Got 3 mem.
I Robert Wells Doctor of Phisicke and one of the senior
fellowes of Gonvile and Caius Colledge in the Universitie of
Cambridge being sicke in body, but reasonable well in minde
and memorie, praise unto the Almighty God, doe make this my
last will and testament. First I render up my soule into the
hands of Almighty God looking to be saved by the onely
meritts and passion of Christ Jesus my alone and alsufficient
Saviour, and my body to be decently and orderly buried, at
the appointment of my executor. Secondly I give and bequeath
all my temporall estate and goods, as bonds, bills, bookes, moneyes,
and whatsoever is or shall be accrewinge and due to mee upon
just account, unto the Master and fellowes of Gonvile and Caius
Colledge in the Universitie of Cambridge, and to their suc-
cessours, to be bestowed upon pious uses for ever, according to
their discretions, all my debts being first paid and my funerall
charges deducted. And for the better performance of this my
[p. 29O] last will and testament I doe ordeyne constitute
and make Thomas Bachcroft Doctor of Divinitie, Master of the
above named Colledge, my especiall freind, my sole and alone
executor, who I know will faithfully and truely execute the
same accordingly. In witnesse whereof I have sett to my hand
and seale the Seaven and twentieth day of Aprill 1632.
Mem. Administratio commissa Robertus Wells,
erat Dr. Bachcroft quarto die Maii Rich. Colebrand, Daniel Trigge,
tet in Li test - tº
1632 ut patet in Libro testamen: Matthew Trigg, Robert Gawdy,
torum ad Academiam pertinenti, ed
James Peters.
pag. 197.
Concordat cum originali. Ita testor Matthew Whin not.
pub. et Almae Universitatis Cantebrigiae registrarius principalis.
Convenit inter Collegium et Georgium Fowler generosum
de emptione perpetua annuitatis, ad valorem centum librarum
per annum, exeuntis ex manerio de Weeting aliisque terris
juxta sitis, una cum jure patronatus duarum Rectoriarum de
Weeting in Comitatu Norfolciae in perpetuum ; pro quibus
Collegium solvit numeratis pecuniis dicto Georgio 1900", insuper
viginti fere libris impensis ad meliorem confirmationem juris
358 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
nostri in praemissis per varia scripta, prout viri in Jure periti
commodum fore statuebant. Praedictae summae, 1900", 400"
erant ex donatione Doctoris Gostling supra memorata, quas
Collegium erogavit ad fundandos annuos redditus in usus
statutos per testamentum dicti Doctoris.
Qſìíš g|mbenture made the ninth day of April in the eighth
yeare of the reigne of our soveraigne Lord Charles by the grace
of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King, defender
of the faith, etc., betweene George Fowler of Bromhil in the
Countie of Norfolke gentleman of the one part, and Thomas
[p. 291] Bachcroft Doctor of Divinity Master or Keeper of
the Colledge of Gonvile and Caius founded in the honour of
the Annunciation of blessed Mary the virgine the fellowes and
schollers of the same Colledge on the other part, &Hitmeššeth
that the said George Fowler for and in consideration of the
summe of nineteene hundred pounds of lawfull money of England
to him by the said Master and fellowes well and truely contented
and paid, whereof the said George Fowler doth by these presents
acknowledge himselfe fully satisfied and paid, £2atſ) given and
granted bargained and sold, and doth by these presents for
him and his heyres clearely give and grant bargaine and sell,
unto the said Master or Keeper and fellowes of the said Colledge
and their successours the advowsions donacions free dispositions
and the rights of the perpetuall patronages and presentations
of and to the rectoryes and parochiall churches of Weeting in
the said Countie of Norfolke called Weeting St Maryes, and
Weeting all Saints, or by what other name or names the same
are called knowne or distinguished, and also the yearely rent
or summe of one hundred pounds of lawfull English money to
bee issuing and going forth of all the mannors of Weeting with
the appurtenaunces and out of all lands tenements and here-
ditaments now or heretofore knowne reputed or taken as part
parcell or member of the said mannor, or now or heretofore
demysed or occupied to or with the same, the which mannors
and premisses, chargeable and charged with the said yearely
rent as aforesaid, are scytuate lying and being in the severall
townes or parishes of Weeting, Brandon Ferry, Wilton, Hock-
MANERIUM DE WEETING. - 359
wold, Feltwell, Cranwayes and Moundeford or elcewhere in the
Countie of Norfolke and also to the issuing and going forth of
all other his lands tenements and hereditaments in the said
Countie of Norfolke. Qſo babe and to hold the said advowcions,
donations, free dispositions and rights of perpetuall patronages
and rights of presenting to the said rectoryes, and parochiall
churches aforemencioned, Éint algo to have hold perceive and
enjoy the said annuity yearely rent or summe of one hundred
pounds of lawfull English money unto the said Master or
[p. 292] Keeper and fellowes and their successours and
assignes to the onely proper use and behoofe of the Master
or Keeper and fellowes of the said Colledge, and of their
successours and assignes for ever payable yearely at or in the
now common dyming Hall of the said Colledge within the said
universitie of Cambridge at the feast of St Michael the Arch-
angel and at the feast of the Annunciation of the blessed virgine
Mary, or within eight and twenty dayes next after each of the
said feasts by even and equall portions, the first payment
thereof to begin at the feast of St Michael the Archangel next
ensuing the day of the date of these presents, or within eight
and twenty days after ; and the said George Fowler doth allso
for him and his heyres further grant and agree to and with the
said Master and fellowes of the said Colledge, and their suc-
cessours in manner and forme following (that is to say) that if
it shall happen the said yearely rent of one hundred pounds at
any time and times to be behind, unpaid in part or in all by
the space of six and fifty dayes next after any of the said feasts
at which the same is before limitted to be payd, that then the
said George Fowler and his heyres shall forfeite loose and pay
unto the said Master and fellowes of the said Colledge and
their successours and assignes the Summe of tenne pounds of
lawfull English monie nomine poenae for every such default, and
also that if it shall fortune the said yearely rent or summe of
one hundred pounds granted by these presents, or any part or
parcell thereof, to be arreare and unpaid by the space of fowre
score and fowre dayes next after any of the said feasts, or days
limitted for the payment thereof, that then the said George
Fowler and his heyres shall forfeit or loose and pay unto the
360 ANNALS OF GONWILLE AND CAIUS.
said Master and fellowes and their successours and assignes the
summe of five poundes more of lawfull English money nomine
poenae for every such default, the said severall summes of tenne
pounds and five pounds so granted to be likewise issuing and
going forth of the said mannor and premisses out of which the
said yearely rent is limitted to be issuing ; &nd the said
George Fowler doth for him his heyres and assignes further
grant unto the said Master or Keeper and fellowes and their
successours and assignes that if it shall fortune the said yearely
rent, or summe of one hundred pounds, or the said summe or
summes of tenn pounds and five pounds or any of them or any
[p. 293] part or parcell of them to be behind and unpaid,
that then it shall and may be lawfull, to and for the Master
and fellowes of the said Colledge and their successours and
assignes, at all and every time and times to enter into the said
mannor, lands, tenements, hereditaments and premisses, out
of which the said rents and summes of money are before limitted
to be issuing, and there to distreyne as well for the said annuall
rent, or summe of one hundred pounds granted by these presents,
and the arrearages thereof (if any such shall bee), as also for
such summe and summes of money as shall be forfeited and
lost in the name of a payne or paynes, and the said distresse
and distresses so taken to withhold detayne and keepe untill
the same shall bee unto the said Master and fellowes and their
successours and assignes fully satisfied and paid, and for the
further securing and assurance of the true payments of the said
rents and summes of money to the Master or Keeper and
fellowes of the said Colledge and their successours, it is agreed
by and betweene the said parties to these presents that the
said George Fowler, and Rowland Fowler gent., father to the
said George, and Osbert Fowler, gent., brother of the said
Rowland, shall at the costs and charges of the Master and
fellowes of the said Colledge and their successours, convey and
assure to William Moore, William Blankes, Edmund Eade,
Francis Glisson, of Gonvile and Caius Colledge in the uni-
versitie of Cambridge, Masters of Arts, Nathaniell Dod of the
said Colledg Bachelour of Divinitie, Robert Sherringham of
the Colledge aforesaid Master of Arts, and their heyres (who
MANERIUM IDE WEETING. 361
are persons nominated by the said Master or Keeper and
fellowes), the said mannor and premisses chargeable with the
said rent, to the intent that they may at the like costs and
charges of the Master and fellowes of the said Colledg reconvey
the same unto the said George Fowler and his heyres, upon
condicions and covenaunts for the further securing of the said
rent and summes in such sort as is already agreed upon, in
and by writings ingrossed mencioned to beare date the thirtieth
day of Aprill in the eight yeare of the reigne of our said
Soveraigne, and made betweene the said William Moore, William
Blankes, Edmund Eade, Francis Glisson, Nathaniel Dod, and
Robert Sherringham of the one part, and the said George
Fowler of the other part, and upon which the said Thomas
Bachcroft hath on the day of the date of these present in-
[p. 294] dentures indorsed his name. &nt the said George
Fowler doth also for him, his heyres, executours, adminis-
tratours and assignes covenaunte and grant to and with the
said Master and fellowes and their successours in manner and
forme following, that the said mannor and premisses out of
which the said rent is limitted, or any part of them, are not
holden of the Kings Majestie in capite, and that the same are
now of the cleare yearely value of two hundred pounds per
annum besides all charges and reprises, 3 mt, further that for
or notwithstanding any act or thing heretofore done or to be
done by the said George or by Rowland Fowler father of the
said George or by George Fowler brother of the said Rowland,
or any of them or any other, clayming by from or under them
or any of them, or clayming by from or under any other person
or persons whatsoever, the premisses shall continue for ever
hereafter of the cleare yearely value of two hundred pounds
besides all charges and reprizes, except the said rent and
summes nomine poenae hereby granted, and that he the said
George Fowler, at the time of the making of these presents
is seised of and in the said mannor, lands, tenements, heredita-
ments and premisses, out of which the said rent by these
presents granted is to be issuing, as also of and in the patro-
nages of the said churches, of a good sure absolute and un-
defeesable estate in fee simple without any condicion in any
362 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
other person or persons to alter change or determine the same,
and also that hee the said George Fowler hath lawfull power
right interest and authority to grant and convey the said rent,
and the said patronages and advowsions in manner and forme
aforesaid, &nt algo that the said mannor lands tenements
hereditaments patronages advowsions and premisses, with their
appurtenaunces, are at the time of the making of this present
indenture and so shall continue, clearely free acquitted and
discharged of and from all and all manner of other bargaines,
Sales, gifts, grants, leases, feoffments, joyntures, dowres, statutes,
and recognizances, bonds, rents, services, arrearages of rents
and services, intrusions, fines, forfeitures, issues, amerciaments,
jndgements, condemnations, executions, rights, wills, estates,
[p. 295] uses, intayles, title, entryes, and condicions, And of
and from the dower and title of dower of Ann the wife of the
said Rowland, and of and from all other titles charges and
incumbraunces whatsoever other then the aforesaid rent charges
and summes of money nomine poenae by these presents granted,
And other then the rents, and services from henceforth onely
to grow due to the cheife lord or lords of the fee, or fees thereof.
£int also that he the said George Fowler partie to these presents
and his heyres, shall and will well and truely satisfie, content
and pay, or cause to be satisfied contented and payd, unto the
said Master and fellowes and their successours, the said yearely
rent or summe of one hundred pounds granted by these presents
at the aforesaid feasts of St Michael the Archangel and the
feast of the Annunciacion of the blessed virgine Mary, or within
eight and twenty dayes next ensuing each of the said feasts
by even and equall portions. And that for non payment of the
said rent by two equall payments at the feasts aforesaid, or
within eight and twenty dayes next ensuing each of the said
feasts or dayes of payment, and also for the non payment of
the summe and summes of money due upon the payne and
paynes aforesaid the said mannor lands tenements hereditaments
and premisses shall bee from time to time lyable and overte to
the distresse and distresses of the said Master and fellowes
their successours and assignes, for the same rent and summe
and summes of money aforesaid. And also that he the said
MANERITUM DE WEETING. * 363
George Fowler partie to these presents and his heyres, shall
and will, at any time and times within seaven yeares next
ensuing the day of the date of these presents, at the costs and
charges of the Master or Keeper and fellowes of the said
Colledge and of their successours, doe and performe and suffer
to be done and performed, all and every such further and other
act and acts thing and things devise and devyses assurance
and assurances in the law for the more sure making establish-
ing and conveying of the said advowsions perpetuall patronages
and the aforementioned prebargained premisses, unto the Master
or Keeper and fellowes of the said Colledge and their successours
be it by fine or fines recovery or recoveryes with single or double
voucher, deed or deeds enrolled, or not enrolled, enrollment of
these presents, or by all, every, or any of them, or by any other
wayes or meanes, as by the Master or Keeper and fellowes of
the said Colledge and their successours, at their proper costs
and charges shall be reasonably devysed and required. &nt
also that he the said George Fowler, partie to these presents,
[p. 296] and his heyres, shall and will at all and every time
and times hereafter, place and places, when where and as often
as for the defence of the right and title of the said advowsions
and rent charge, the Master and fellowes of the said Colledge
and their successours shall have need or occasion, produce or
shew forth the evidences or muniments concerning the said
advowsions, or the said mannor lands tenements hereditaments
and premisses out of which the said rent is issuing or to be
issuing, upon reasonable request to him the said George and
his heyres and assignes hereafter to be made by the Master
and fellowes of the said Colledge and their successours, and at
their costs and charges shew forth and produce all such evi-
dences, charters, writings, escripts, escrowles, deeds, court rolls,
customaryes, transcripts of fines, exemplifications of record, and
muniments whatsoever, as doe in any wise touch or concerne the
said premisses or any part thereof, or shall bee by the said
Master and fellowes and their successours held convenient or
necessary for the maintenance of the estate, interest, right, title,
or possession, of them the Master and fellowes of the said
Colledge and their successours, in or to the said patronages,
364 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
advowsions and rent charge aforementioned, or any of them.
&nd also that the said George Fowler and his heyres and assignes
respectively shall and will, at and upon the reasonable request
and at the costs and charges of the Master and fellowes of the
said Colledge and their successours, yeild give and deliver, unto
the said Master and fellowes and their successours, true coppies
and transcripts in writing of all and singular the aforementioned
evidences, charters, writings, escripts, escrowles, deeds, tran-
scripts of fines, exemplifications of record, and muniments
whatsoever concerning the said mannor lands and tenements
rectoryes and advowsions aforementioned. Him ſuitmeš32 whereof
to the one part of this indenture remayning with the said
Master and fellowes, the abovesaid George Fowler hath putt
to his seale, and to the other part of this indenture remayning
with the said George Fowler the said Master and fellowes
have put to their common seale the day and yeare first above
written.
Recognita quinto die mensis In dorso Clausarum Cancel-
Septembris annº Domini 1.6% lariae infrascripti domini Regis
Coram me uno Magistrorum Can- to Al o &
e • * º 6” die Septembris anno infra-
cellariae extraordinariorum Henrico
Mowtelow (?) scripto.
[p. 297] Qſbís Émbenture made the tenth day of Aprill in
the eighth yeare of the reigne of our Soveraigme Lord Charles
by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland
King, defender of the Faith, Betweene George Fowler of
Brownhill in the Countie of Norfolke, gentleman, Rowland
Fowler of the said towne and Countie, gentleman, father of the
said George, and Osbert Fowler of Grantchester in the Countie
of Cambridge, gent., brother of the said Rowland, of the one
part, and William Moore, William Blanks, Edmund Eade,
Francis Glisson, of Gonvile and Caius Colledgin the Universitie
of Cambridge, masters of Arts, Nathaniel Dod of the said
Colledge bachelour of Divinitie, Robert Sherringham of the
Colledge aforesaid master of Arts on the other part, &Hitmeššetb,
whereas the said George Fowler by indenture bearing date the
ninth day of April, in the eighth yeare of the reigne of our said
soveraigne Lord Charles, hathe for the considerations in the
MANERIUM DE WEETING. 365
same indenture expressed, granted bargained sold and conveyed
unto Thomas Bachcroft Doctor of Divinitie, Master or Keeper
of the Colledge of Gonvile and Caius founded in the honour of
the Annunciation of the blessed virgine Mary in the Universitie
of Cambridge, and to the fellowes of the same Colledge and
their successours, the advowsions donations free dispositions
and the rights of the perpetuall patronages and presentations
of and to the rectoryes of Weeting in the said County of
Norfolke, called Weeting St Maryes and Weeting All Saints,
or by what other name or names the same are called knowne
or distinguished, and also one yearely rent charge or summe
of one hundred pounds of lawfull English money to be issuing
and going out of the mannor of Weeting in the said Countie
of Norfolke, and out of all other the lands tenements and
hereditaments of the said George Fowler, scytuate lying and
being within the said Countie of Norfolke, in such sort as in
and by the said recited indenture, due reference being thereunto
had, it doth and may appeare. &nt whereas it is mentioned
by the said recited indenture that for the further securing
and assureing of the true and just payment of the said rent
[p. 298] and certaine summes granted nomine poenae to the
said Master or Keeper and fellowes and their successours, it
was agreed by the said recited indenture that the said George
Fowler, Rowland Fowler, and Osbert Fowler, should convey
and assure unto the said William Moore, William Blankes,
Edmund Eade, Francis Glisson, Nathaniel Dod, and Robert
Shérringham, and their heyres, who were persons nominated
by the said Master or Keeper and fellowes in trust for them
and their successours, and for their uses and behoofes, the said
mannor and premisses other then the said advowsions, to the
intent that they might reconvey the same to the said George
Fowler and his heyres, upon condition and covenaunts for the
further securing of the said rents and summes in such sort as
was then already agreed upon in and by writings ingrossed,
320ſm the said George Fowler for the accomplishment and
fulfilling of the said agreement, and the said Roland Fowler
and Osbert Fowler together with him, for and in consideration
of six shillings of lawfull money of England to them the said
366 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
George Rowland and Osbert in hand paid by the said William
Moore, William Blankes, Edmund Eade, Francis Glisson, Na-
thaniel Dod, and Robert Sherringham, have given granted
bargained and sold enfeoffed and confirmed, and by these
presents doe give grant bargaine and sell enfeoffe and confirme,
unto the said William Moore, William Blanks, Edmund Eade,
Francis Glisson, Nathaniel Dod, and Robert Sherringham, their
heyres and assignes, all that the said mannor of Weeting with
the appurtenaunces in the said Countie of Norfolk, and all the
lands tenements and hereditaments now or heretofore knowne
or reputed or taken as part or parcell or member of the said
mannor or now or heretofore demysed or occupied to or with
the same, Scituate lying and being in the severall townes and
parishes of Weeting, Brandon Ferry, Wilton, Hockwould, Felt-
well, Cranewayes, and Moundeford, or elsewhere in the said
Countie of Norfolke, and also all other the lands tenements and
hereditaments of the said George Fowler in the said County of
Norfolke, and all the right title estate interest possession
reversion or reversions remaynder or remaynders demand and
demands whatsoever which the said George Fowler Rowland
Fowler and Osbert Fowler hath or have, or of right ought to
have, of in and to the said mannor and premisses, together
[p. 299] with the deeds evidences and muniments concerning
the same, QTO babº and to hold the same mannor lands tenements
and hereditaments, and all and every the premisses by these
presents conveyed or mentioned to be conveyed, with their and
every of their appurtenaunces, unto the said William Moore,
William Blanks, Edmund Eade, Francis Glisson, Nathaniel
Dod, and Robert Sheringham, and to their heyres and assignes
for ever, to the use and behoofe of the said William Moore,
William Blanks, Edmund Eade, Francis Glisson, Nathaniel
Dod, and Robert Sheringham, and of their heyres and assignes
for ever, upon and to the said trust uses intents and purposes
in the said recited indenture mentioned. &nd the said George
Fowler and his heyres the aforesaid mannor lands tenements
hereditaments and premisses by these presents conveyed or
mentioned to be conveyed unto the said William Moore, William
Blanks, Edmund Eade, Francis Glisson, Nathaniel Dod, and
MANERIUM IDE WEETING. 367
Robert Sherringham, and to their heyres and assignes, as well
against him the said George and his heyres and assignes as
against all and every other person and persons whatsoever, shall
and will warne and for ever defend by these presents. &nt
the said George Fowler, Rowland Fowler, and Osbert Fowler,
for themselves and the heyres and assignes of them and of every
of them, doe covenaunte and grant to and with the said William
Moore, William Blanks, Edmund Eade, Francis Glisson, Na-
thaniel Dod, and Robert Sherringham, and their heyres and
assignes, in manner and forme following, that is to say that he
the said George Fowler is now and so shall continue, until an
estate be executed of and in the aforementioned prebargained
premisses according to the true meaning of these presents, solely
and lawfully seized thereof and of every part and parcell thereof
to his owne onely use of a good sure absolute and indefeasible
estate in fee simple without any condicion use uses or limitation
in any other person or persons to alter change or determine
the same. And also that he the said George Fowler hath law-
fully power right interest and authority to bargaine grant
enfeoffe sell and convey the said mannor and all the afore-
mentioned prebargained premisses in manner and forme aforesaid,
and also that the said mannor lands tenements hereditaments
and premisses, by these presents conveyed or mentioned to be
conveyed, now are and be and shall and may for ever hereafter
remayne and be, unto the said William Moore, William Blanks,
Edmund Eade, Francis Glisson, Nathaniel Dod, and Robert
Sheringham, their heyres and assignes, clearely acquitted and
[p. 3OO] discharged of and from all and all manner of former
bargaines sales giftes grants leases feoffements joyntures dowers
statuts recognizances bonds rents services arrearages of rents
and services intrusions fines forfeitures issues amerciaments
judgements condemnations execucions rights wills estates uses
entayles titles entryes and conditions, and of and from the
dower right and title of Anne the wife of the said Rowland
Fowler, and of and from all and every the tenure and the
tenures of the Kings Majestie by knights service in capite,
or by Soccage in capite, and of and from all other titles charges
and incumbrances whatsoever, the aforesaid perpetuall patro-
nages and advowsions and the aforesaid rent charge and summes
368 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
of money nomine poenae granted unto the said Master or Keeper
and fellowes and their successours, and also the rents hereafter
to grow due, and the said services which are not of capite
tenure from henceforth to be and grow due, to the said lord
and lords of the fee or fees for the premisses onely excepted.
SBeberticle33 it is agreed by and betweene the said parties to
these presents that the said William Moore, William Blankes,
Edmund Eade, Francis Glisson, Nathaniel Dod, and Robert
Sherringham, shall reconvey and reassure unto the said George
Fowler and his heyres the said mannor and premisses hereby
conveyed or mentioned to be conveyed, upon such provisoe
condition covenants and agreements as are expressed and
specified in certaine writings already ingrossed mencioned to be
made betweene the said William Moore, William Blankes,
Edmund Eade, Francis Glisson, Nathaniel Dod, and Robert
Sheringham, of the one part, and the said George Fowler of
the other part, and mentioned to beare date the thirteenth day
of April in the eighth yeare of the reigne of our said Soveraigne
Lord King Charles, and whereupon the said Thomas Bachcroft
hath endorsed his name on the day of the date of these presents.
ânt, it is mutually covenaunted and agreed by and betweene
the said parties to these presents, and the said George Fowler,
Rowland Fowler, and Osbert Fowler, for themselves their heyres
executours administratours and assignes, and for the heyres
executours administratours and assignes of every of them, doe
covenaunt and grant to and with the said William Moore,
William Blanks, Edmund Eade, Francis Glisson, Nathaniel
Dod, and Robert Sherringham, their heyres and assignes in
[p. 3O1] manner and forme following, That is to say that
the said George Fowler, Rowland Fowler, Osbert Fowler, and
all other the sonnes and issues male now living of George
Fowler Gentleman deceased, grandfather of the said George
Fowler party to these presents, at the costs and charges of the
said William Moore, William Blankes, Edmund Eade, Francis
Glisson, Nathaniel Dod, and Robert Sherringham, their heyres
and assignes, shall and will before the ende of Trinity Tearme
next ensuing the date of these presents, or at any other tearme
or time to be appointed or lymitted by the said William Moore,
William Blankes, Edmund Eade, Francis Glisson, Nathaniel
MANERIUM IDE WEETING. 369
Dod, and Robert Sherringham, their heires and assignes, ac-
knowledge and levy a fine with proclamations according to the
statute in that behalfe provided, after the due and common
course of fines in such cases used, unto the said William Moore
and William Blankes, of all the said mannor of Weeting and
of all the aforesaid lands tenements hereditaments and pre-
misses by these presents conveyed, or meant or mentioned to
be conveyed, and of all the lands tenements and hereditaments
of the said George Fowler party to these presents, and being
in Weeting aforesaid, Hockwould, Wilton, Brandon Ferry,
Feltwell, Cranewayes, and Moundeford, in the said County of
Norfolke, and any of them, by such name or names and contents
and in such manner and forme as by the said William Moore,
William Blankes, Edmund Eade, Francis Glisson, Nathaniel
Dod, and Robert Sherringham, and their heyres or their counsell
learned in the law shall be devysed or required, and also that
the said fine so to be levyed shall be and inure. And the said
William Moore William Blankes conusances in the fine to be
named, and their heyres at the very time of levying and
knowledging of the same fine, and ever afterwards, shall stand
and be seized by vertue and force of the said fine of and
in the said mannor of Weeting lands tenements hereditaments
and premisses aforesaid to the onely proper use and behoofe
of the said William Moore, William Blankes, Edmund Eade,
Francis Glisson, Nathaniel Dod, and Robert Sherringham,
their heyres and assignes for ever upon the confidence and to
the uses and intents aforementioned. Hin ſmitme; whereof the
parties to these presents have hereunto interchangeably sett
their hands and seales the day and yeare first above written.
Recognita per Georgium Fowler et Gilbertum
Fowler decimo die mensis Aprilis anno Domini 1632,
coram me uno Magistrorum Cancellariae extraordi-
nariorum. Henrico Mowtelow
[p. 3O2] Qſìjià Hºmbenture made the thirtyeth day of April in
the eighth yeare of the reigne of our soveraigne Lord Charles
by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland
Ring, Defender of the Faith, 36ftſmeene William Moore, William
C. A. S. Octavo Series. No. XL. 24
370 & ANNALS OF GON VIII,E AND CAIUS.
Blanks, Edmund Eade, Francis Glisson, of Gonvile and Caius
Colledge in the universitie of Cambridge masters of arts,
Nathaniel Dod of the said Colledge bachelour of Divinitie, and
Robert Sherringham of the Colledge aforesaid master of arts,
of the one parte, and George Fowler of Bromhil in the Countie
of Norfolke gent., of the other part, &Hitmeggetſ) that the said
William Moore, William Blanks, Edmund Eade, Francis Glisson,
Nathaniel Dod, and Robert Sherringham, for and in the
accomplishment and performance of former agreements men-
tioned in an indenture bearing date the tenth day of April in
the eighth yeare of the reigne of our Soveraigne Lord King
Charles, made between the said George Fowler, and Rowland
Fowler of Bromhill aforesaid gent., father of the said George,
and Osbert Fowler of Grantchester, in the Countie of Cam-
bridge, gent, brother of the said Rowland, of the one part, and
the said William Moore, William Blanks, Edmund Eade,
Francis Glisson, Nathaniel Dod, and Robert Sherringham, of
the other parte, have for the consideration of six shillings of
lawfull money of England to them in hande payde by the said
George Fowler, granted bargained and sould enfeoffed and
conveyed, and by these presents grant bargaine and sell enfeoffe
and convey, unto the said George Fowler and his heyres, all that
the mannour of Weeting with the appurtenaunces, and all the
lands tenements and hereditaments now or heretofore knowne
reputed or taken as parte parcell or member of the said mannor,
or now or heretofore demysed or occupied to or with the same,
the which mannor and premisses are Scytuate lying and being
in the severall townes or parishes of Weeting, Brandon Ferry,
Wilton, Hockwould, Feltwell, Cranewayes, and Moundeford,
or elsewhere in the said Countie of Norfolke, and also all other
the lands tenements and hereditaments lately heretofore of the
said George Fowler, scituate and being in the said Countie of
Norfolke, all which premisses aforemencioned lately conveyed
unto them or mentioned to be conveyed unto them by the said
[p. 3O3] George Fowler, Rowland Fowler, and Osbert Fowler,
by and in the said indenture in these presents aforementioned
or expressed, and all the right title interest possession reversion
or reversions, remainder or remaynders demaund or demaunds
MANERIUM IDE WEETING. 371
whatsoever, which the said William Moore, William Blankes,
Edmund Eade, Francis Glisson, Nathaniel Dod, and Robert
Sherringham, have or of right ought to have of in and to the
Said mannor and premisses, together with the deeds evidences
and muniments concerning the same, all which they now have
at the time of the ensealing and delivery of these presents
delivered into the possession of the said George Fowler, the
receipt whereof the said George doth by these presents accordingly
acknowledge, Qſo babe amt to juſt the said mannor lands tene-
ments and hereditaments, and all and every the premisses by
these presents conveyed or mentioned to be conveyed, with
their and every of their appurtenaunces unto the said George
Fowler his heyres and assignes for ever, to the use and behoofe
of the said George Fowler, his heyres and assignes for ever.
33robfurt alwayes and uppon condicion, that whereas the said
George Fowler, by his indenture dated the ninth day of April
in the said eighth yeare of our said soveraigne Lord King
Charles, made betweene him the said George Fowler of the
one part, and Thomas Bachcroft Doctor of Divinitie Master
or Keeper of the Colledge of Gonvile and Caius founded in
the honour of the Annunciation of Blessed Mary the Virgine
in the universitie of Cambridge and the fellowes of the same
Colledge of the other part, did give grant bargaine and sell
unto the said Master and fellowes and their successours a rent
charge of the annuall rent or summe of one hundred pounds
of lawfull money to be issuing and going forth of the said
mannor of Weeting and all other the aforementioned lands
tenements hereditaments and premisses in these presents ex-
pressed, payable as by the said aforementioned or recited
indenture may appeare, and also did grant and convey unto
the said Master and fellowes and their successours, by the said
aforementioned recited indenture, the advowsions and perpetuall
patronages and rights of presentations of and to the rectoryes
and perpetuall churches of Weeting in the said County of
Norfolke, called Weeting St Maryes and Weeting all Saints or
ſp. 3O4] by what other name or names the same are called
knowne or distinguished, scituate in the towne or townes parish
or parishes of Weeting in the said Countie of Norfolke, as may
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372 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
also appeare by the said recited indenture. Hiſ moto the said
annuall rent of one bumbrel, pounts or any part thereof shall
be behind unpaid by the space of foure monethes next after
any of the feast dayes of the Annunciation of the blessed
Virgine or St Michael the Archangel, limitted in the afore-
mentioned or recited indentures for the payment thereof,
according to the true meaning of the grant and conveyance of
the said 'rent made or mentioned to be made in and by the
aforenamed recited indenture, unto the Master and fellowes of
the said Colledge and their successors, that then it shall and
may be lawfull, to and for the said William Moore, William
Blankes, Edmund Eade, Francis Glisson, Nathaniel Dod and
Robert Sherringham, and the survivours or survivour of them
and the heyres and assignes of the survivour of them, in and
to the said mannor and premisses and every part and parcell
thereof, to reenter and the same to repossesse hold and enjoye
as in their first estate and former right, anything in these
presents to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.
SBebertheleş3t upon trust and confidence, and for the best
behoofe and benefitt of the Master and fellowes of the said
Colledge and their successours, and it is agreed by and betweene
the said parties to these presents for them their heyres and
assignes and every of them mutually and reciprocally, that at
all and every time and times hereafter when the Master and
fellowes of the said Colledge and their successours, shall thinke
convenient to appoint any new feoffee or feoffees person or
persons to be trusted for the benefitt and behoofe of the Master
and fellowes of the said Colledge and their successours, that
then upon reasonable request and at the costs and charges
alwayes of the said Master and fellowes of the said Colledge or
of their successours, the said mannor and premisses by these
presents conveyed or mentioned to be conveyed shall be con-
veyed and assured in fee simple anew by the said George
Fowler his heyres and assignes, unto such person or persons
feoffees or trustees as the Master and fellowes of the said
[p. 3O5] Colledge or their successours shall nominate or
appoint, upon the like trust for the said aforementioned
securitie and benefitt of the Master and fellowes of the said
MANERIUM DE WEETING. 373
Colledge and their successours, under such like grants regrants
reconveyance conditions covenauntes agreements and assurance
as are in the aforementioned recited indenture and in these
presents conteyned and expressed, for and on the part and
behalfe of the said parties respectively and according to the
former purporte intent and meaning as well of the said recited
indenture as of this present indenture. In which said new and
renewed conveyance and conveyances the said William Moore,
William Blanks, Edmund Eade, Francis Glisson, Nathaniel
Dod, and Robert Sherringham, and the survivours and survivour
of them, shall and will joyne if they be livinge. &nt the said
George Fowler party to these presents, doth further for him
his heyres and assignes covenaunt and grant to and with the
said William Moore, William Blankes, Edmund Eade, Francis
Glisson, Nathaniel Dod, and Robert Sherringham, and their
heyres and the heyres of the survivour of them, that if the
said George Fowler partie to these presents his heyres and
assignes shall incurre a forfeiture of the said mannor lands
tenements and premisses by these presents granted or mentioned
to be granted unto the said George Fowler by reason or occasion
of the breach or nonperformance of the said provisoe and
condition in these presents afore expressed, that then the said
George Fowler, and the said Rowland Fowler his father, and
the heyres and assignes of the said George and Rowland
respectively, and also the heyres and assignes of the said George
Fowler deceased, grandfather of the said George, shall and will
at all and every time and times, after the said forfeiture breach
or nonperformance of the said provisoe and condicion happened,
well and sufficiently doe make knowledge finish and execute
and cause, and suffer to be done made knowledged finished and
executed, all and every such further and reasonable act and
acts thing and things devyse and devises, conveyance and con-
veyances, assurance and assurances in the law, of the said
mannor lands tenements hereditaments and all the afore-
mentioned conveyed premisses for the absolute good and perfect
assuring conveying and establishing of all the said mannors
lands tenements hereditaments and premisses with the appurte-
[p. 3O6] naunces to and in the said William Moore, William
374 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
Blankes, Edmund Eade, Francis Glisson, Nathaniel Dod, and
Robert Sherringham, and their heyres and assignes, or to such
other person or persons as the Master and fellowes of the said
Colledge or their successours for the time being shall nominate
limitt and appoint, to the proper use of them and their heyres,
be it by fine or fines, release or releases with warranty or
without warrantie, recovery or recoveryes, with single or double
voucher or vouchers, deed or deeds, enrolled or not enrolled,
or by all every or any of the aforesaid wayes and meanes or
by any other wayes meanes or courses, as by the said William
Moore, William Blankes, Edmund Eade, Francis Glisson,
Nathaniel Dod, and Robert Sherringham, and their heyres and
assignes, at their costs and charges, or by the Master and
fellowes of the said Colledge for the time being, at their costs
and charges, shall be devised or advised or required, never-
theless upon trust and confidence to the use best behoofe and
benefitt of the Master and fellowes of the said Colledge, and
of their successours for ever. &nt the said William Moore,
William Blankes, Edmund Eade, Francis Glisson, Nathaniel
Dod, and Robert Sherringham, doe respectively for them their
heyres executours and administratours covenaunt and grant
to and with the said George Fowler his heyres and assignes,
that neither they nor any of them, have or hath done, or
suffered to be done, any former acte or actes, thing or things,
grant or grants, assurance or conveyance of, in, or concerning
the said mannor and premisses, whereby the said premisses by
these presents conveyed or mentioned to be conveyed unto
the said George Fowler and his heyres may not be enjoyed by
the said George and his heyres, according to the true intent
of these presents, discharged of all charges and incumbrances
whatsoever had made done or suffered by them or any of them,
or by any other person or persons clayming by from or under
them or any of them, the provisoe condicion and agreements
in these presents conteyned onely excepted. Hin ſuitme; whereof
the parties first abovenamed to theise presents have hereunto
interchangeably putt their hands and seales the day and yeare
first above written.
[p. 3O7] Qſo all QChristian people to whom this present
MANERIUM DE WEETING. - 375
writing indented shall come, Wee George Fowler of Bromehill
in the Countie of Norfolke, gent, Rowland Fowler of the same
towne and county gent., father of the said George, and Osbert
Fowler of Grancester in the County of Cambridge gent., brother
of the said Rowland, send greeting in the Lord God everlasting.
3&motu pe that wee the said George Fowler, Rowland Fowler,
and Osbert Fowler, for and in performance of certain cove-
nauntes grants and agreements conteyned declared and specified
in an indenture bearing date the tenth day of April in the
eighth yeare of the reigne of our now Soveraigne Lord King
Charles, made by and betweene us the said George Fowler,
Rowland Fowler, and Osbert Fowler, of the one part, and
William Moore, William Blankes, Edmund Eade, Francis
Glisson, of Gonvile and Caius Colledge in the university of
Cambridge masters of arts, Nathaniel Dod of the same Colledge
batchelour of divinitie, Robert Sherringham of the Colledge
aforesaid master of arts, of the other part, mentioning and
expressing a grant bargaine sale, feoffment and confirmation
unto the said William Moore, William Blankes, Edmund Eade,
Francis Glisson, Nathaniel Dod, and Robert Sherringham, and
their heyres of the mannor of Weeting, with the appurtenaunces,
in the said Countie of Norfolke, and of all other the lands
tenements and hereditaments of the said George Fowler, lying
and being in the said County of Norfolke, and for the further
securinge of the true payment of one yearely rent charge or
summe of one hundred pounds in the said indenture mentioned,
£2abe given granted enfeoffed and confirmed, and by these
presents doe give grant enfeoffe and confirme, unto the said
William Moore, William Blankes, Edmund Eade, Francis
Glisson, Nathaniel Dod, and Robert Sherringham, their heyres
and assignes, all the said mannor of Weeting with the appur-
tenaunces, scytuate lying and being in the said Countie of
Norfolke, and all the lands tenements and hereditaments
[p. 3O8] now or heretofore knowne reputed or taken as parte
parcell or member of the said mannor, or now or heretofore
demysed or occupied to or with the same, scytuate lyinge and
being in the severall parishes of Weeting, Brandon Ferry,
Wilton, Hockwold, Feltwell, Cranwayes, and Moundeford, or
376 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
elsewhere in the said County of Norfolke, and also all other
the lands tenements and hereditaments of the said George
Fowler in the said Countie of Norfolke, and all the right title
estate interest use possession reversion or reversions remaynder
or remainders demaund or demaunds whatsoever which wee
have or of right ought to have of and in the said mannor and
premisses, Qſo babe antſ to bolt the said mannor lands tene-
ments and hereditaments and all and every the aforementioned
premisses, with their and every of their appurtenaunces, unto
the said William Moore, William Blankes, Edmund Eade,
Francis Glisson, Nathaniel Dod, and Robert Sherringham, and
to their heyres and assignes for ever, to the use and behoofe
of the said William Moore, William Blankes, Edmund Eade,
Francis Glisson, Nathaniel Dod, and Robert Sherringham, and
of their heyres and assignes uppom and to the trust uses intents
and purposes in the said recited indenture mentioned. &md
I the said George Fowler and my heyres all and singular the
said mannors, lands, tenements and premisses, with all and
singular their appurtenaunces unto the said William Moore,
William Blankes, Edmund Eade, Francis Glisson, Nathaniel
Dod, and Robert Sherringham, and their heyres and assignes,
to the use and intents trusts and purposes mentioned in the
indenture aforesaid against mee the aforesaid George Fowler
my heyres and assignes, and against all and every other person
or persons whatsoever, shall and will warrant and for ever
defend. Him ſuitmeg whereof to the one parte of these presents
remayning with the said William Moore, William Blankes,
Edmund Eade, Francis Glisson, Nathaniel Dod, and Robert
Sherringham, wee the said George Fowler, Rowland Fowler,
and Osbert Fowler, have putt to our hands and seales. And
[p. 3O9] to the other part of these presents remayning with
the said George Fowler, Rowland Fowler, and Osbert Fowler,
the said William Moore, William Blankes, Edmund Eade,
Francis Glisson, Nathaniel Dod, and Robert Sheringham, have
put to their hands and seales, the one and twentieth day of
September in the eighth yeare of the reigne of our Soveraigne
Lord Charles by the grace of God of England Scotland France
and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, etc. Anno Domini 1632.
TERRÆ IN CAXTON. 377
Quod ad distributionem modo dictæ annuitatis spectat,
Octobris 22°, 1632, ordinatum est, per venerabilem virum
Thomam Bacheroft Custodem et socios, ut ex perpetuo illo
redditu 100'' singulis anni medietatibus ad stipendiorum incre-
mentum, Custos quinque libras, singuli duodecim seniorum
sociorum quinquaginta solidos recipiant.
Insuper eodem die decretum et ordinatum, ut partim ex
eodem perpetuo redditu, partim ex redditu messuagii commu-
niter nominati The Rose amd Crowne (quod Collegio legavit
Dr Gostlim) 40' a festo Michaelis 1633 singulis annis secundum
dignissimi illius viri Johannis Gostlin benefactoris ultimam
voluntatem et testamentum persolvantur.
Hoc eodem anno summa trium librarum Collegium emit a
quodam Richardo Levit unam acram terræ arabilis, jacentem
juxta seu in medio terrarum nostrarum in campis de Caxton,
in Comitatu Cantabrigiensi, et tenens noster Collegio pro
annuo redditu ejusdem acræ decem drachmas bursario singulis
amnis solvere tenetur. Hæc portiumcula non absque magno
nostro commodo empta erat, nunc enim liberum erat tenenti
nostro magnam terrarum nostrarum partem in campis illis
sitam, sepi et fossis circumdare quod et paulo post per...
Whistler suo et mostro emolumento præstitum est.
Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos hoc presens scriptum
pervenerit Richardus Levitt de Gransdem magna in Comitatu
Huntington, husbandman, salutem in Domino sempiternam.
[p. 31O] Sciatis me præfatum Richardum Levitt pro diversis
bonis et legitimis causis et considerationibus dedisse concessisse
feoffasse tradidisse liberasse et hoc presenti scripto meo confir-
masse Thomæ Bachcroft Sacræ Theologiæ Professori Magistro
sive Custodi Collegii Gonvil et Caius fundati im honorem
annunciationis beatæ Mariæ Virginis infra Universitatem Cam-
tebrigiæ, et sociis ejusdem Collegii et successoribus suis, totam
illam meam acram terræ arabilis jacentem et existentem in cam-
pis de Caxtom in Comitatu predicto, et abuttantem super fundum
vocatum Madle Deane ibidem versus australem, cum omnibus
et singulis suis pertinentibus, necnon totum meum jus titulum
statum usum interesse possessionem et demandam quæ ego
378 ANNALS. OF GONVILLE ANI) CAIUS.
prefatus Richardus Levitt nunc habeo aut habui, seu quovis
modo in futurum habere potero vel habere debeo, de et in
premissis, ac etiam revertionem revertiones remanens et rema-
mentia predictorum premissorum, una cum omnibus et omnimodis
evidentiis chartis scriptis munimentisque predictis premissis
concernentibus, 3ßabemùum et tememìum eandem acram terræ
arabilis ac omnia et singula premissa predicta quæcunque
prementionata fore concessa cum omnibus et singulis suis
pertinentibus prefato Thomæ Bachcroft Magistro Collegii pre-
dicti et sociis ejusdem Collegii et successoribus suis ad solum
proprium opus et usum Magistri et sociorum predictorum et
successorum suorum de capitali Domino feodi illius per servicia
inde prius debita et de jure consueta per presentes. QBt £go
prefatus Ricardus Levitt et heredes mei et cujuslibet nostrorum
predictam acram terræ arabilis cum suis pertimentiis prefato
Magistro et sociis et successoribus suis ad opus et usum predic-
tum, contra me et heredes meos warrantizabimus et in perpetuum
defendemus per presentes. £m cujus rei testimonium presen-
tibus sigillum meum apposui. Datum decimo nono die mensis
[p. 31 1] Octobris, anno Domini nostri Caroli dei gratia
Angliæ Scotiæ Franciæ et Hiberniæ regis, fidei defensoris,
octavo, 1632.
Vicesimo Decembris àd petitionem reverendi Patris Episcopi
Londimensis concessæ fuerunt per Custodem et socios 20“
e nummis quæstionistarum depositis ad convivandum ad repa-
rationem Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Divi Pauli Londini.
Hoc anno Johannes Cruso, generosus, civis Norwicensis,
benevolum in Collegium nostrum affectum approbavit, dono
libri a se compositi cui titulus Instructions for the Cavallry
tactûck. Erat hic peritissimus, ac ob id viris militaribus accep-
tissimus: fratrem habuit Aquilam hujus Collegii socium, et
Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Cicestrensis canonicum, virum doctissimum
et Theologiæ callentissimum, et filium Johannem hujus Collegii
quoque socium, et paulo post doctorem juris, Reverendique
Eatris Thomæ Westfeild Bristoliensis Episcopi ab epistolis,
virum eruditum et probum. -
OFFICIUM PROMI. 379
Anno 1633
Hoc anno messuagium quoddam nostrum apud Haddenham
in Insula Eliensi maxima ex parte igne consumptum erat ; ad
quod damnum resarciendum, ædesque reedificandas, concessum
erat 5° Aprilis per Custodem et socios ut Humberstonus
March armiger, tenens noster, tredecem libras sex solidos
octoque denarios e nummis ad convivandum depositis reciperet,
ex gratia, non ex debito.
Eodem anno Gilbertus Luin firmarius manerii nostri de
Caxton, cum pertinentiis totum jus suum in dicto manerio
ad...Whistler generosum transtulit, cui (priori cassata inden-
tura) nova locatio per Custodem et socios concessa est, ad
terminum viginti annorum a festo Sancti Michaelis 1632; sub
his tamen conditionibus, viz., ut messuagium a Gilberto Luin
noviter inceptum exædificet, et perficiat, item ut terras veterum
tenentium sive injuria sive negligentia injuste detentas, una
cum faldagio cæterisque pertinentiis, quantum in se est Collegio
restitui curabit; eique Martii J4° licentia conceditur ut lateres
de et in nostro solo et terris ibidem (sed ut Collegii solius usui)
comburat.
Anno 1634
[p. 312] Cum multa incommoda, et non leve damnum Colle-
gium sæpius sustinuit, per scholares qui officium promi adminis-
trabant, ut iis in posterum quominus eveniant prospectum sit,
per Custodem et socios post maturam deliberationem conclusum
et decretum erat, Aprilis 29°° 1634, ut idoneus aliquis mom-
scholaris deinceps eligatur per Custodem et majorem partem
sociorum, ad munus promi tamquam servus Collegii exequen-
dum ; habeatque in præstiti muneris præmium drachmas...
denarios..., emolumentum ex potu et cervisia usitatum, et
cætera quæ promus in mercedem ministerii sui recipere solebat,
exceptis scholariatus stipendio, granorum portione, et incremento
stipendii ex donatione doctoris Peirse per testamentum legato,
reservandis, in perpetuum promo inter scholares Collegii
annumerando. Insuper decreverant quoque Custos et socii
380 • ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANID CAIUS.
sub-promum illum in dicto officio ministrantem quinque libras
annuatim dicto scholari persolvere, temeri quamdiu in officiis
illis utrique manebunt. Ita ut promus qui fuerit ex funda-
tione scholaris antequam, stipendium scholariatus, portionem
seu pensionem pro gramis, legatum Doetoris Perse et 5" pen-
sionem quot;ammis pro salario accipiet. Istud decretum rursus
Januarii 19°° 1634 confirmatum fuit per Custodem et decem
socios, qui ad dictum munus exequendum elegerunt Jacobum
Peters, virum spectatæ probitatis et tempore electionis Collegii
janitorem.
Rectoria de Pattesley in Comitatu Norfolciæ per cessionem
Magistri Marlton prioris incumbentis vacante, jureque patro-
natus ad nos spectante, 6° Junii 1634 ad dictam rectoriam,
sive liberam capellam præsentavimus sub communi Collegii
sigillo Robertum Sherrimgham, socium Collegii, qui centum
marcarum obligatione tenebatur Collegio, ne rectoria illa, de
Pattesley ejus culpa sive directe sive indirecte lapsum
[p. 313] aliudve damnum patiatur ; is tamen nec institutus
nec inductus canonice unquam fuit, ut postea compertum nobis
erat, unde non leves molestias præter inutiles expensas creavit
Collegio, ut suo loco infra patebit.
Vicesimo nono Decembris 1634 decretum est per Custodem
et socios, ut sophistæ omnes quotquot gradum baccalaureatus
in posterum sint petituri, per dies duos per Custodem et
decanos assignandos, ab hora octava ad undecimam, et a prima
ad quintam, in sacello se examinandos exhibeant,
Anno 1635
Cum aliquot retro annis, Rogerus Townshend, Eques et
baronettus dominusque de Pattesley, et Johannes Heydom,
Eques auratus, de Baconsthorpe in Norfolcia, non desiere nobis
molestias creare, detinendo decimas debitas, incumbenti nostro
in rectoria de Patesley ob non præstitas conditiones contentas
in indentura quadam olim facta inter Christopherum Heydon
militem et Magistrum sive Custodem et socios hujus Collegii
anno Domini....
DOMINUS JOHANNES HEYDON. 381
Nobis de validitate et sensu illius scripti nonnihil hæsitan-
tibus, et contendentibus mom constare umquam factam fuisse
quod petitur (nimirum ut hæredes dicti Christopheri Heydon,
in perpetuo jus obtinuerint nominandi duos scholares per Col-
legium eligendos quoties eorum loca vacaverint) illi rationibus
nostris acquiescere noluerunt, sed acrius insistentes, et graviores
lites intendentes, commodius visum est nobis illorum cedere
potentiæ, quam in re dubia foro litigioso contendere; quam-
obrem ad redimendam vexationem, et ut satisfiat dicto Johanni
Heydom, quoad illam (imdenturæ, modo dictæ) clausulam de
duobus scholaribus nominandis, 4° Maii 1635, Custos et socii
communi consensu statuerunt, duos discipulatus ex fundatione
Gulielmi Cuttings proxime vacaturos assignari, ad quos licebit
predicto Johanni Heydon Equiti, hæredibusque ipsius, secundum
conditionem memoratæ indenturæ, idoneos duos scholares et
per statuta nostra eligibiles, nominare, nobisque præponere
eligendos, nosque tales nominatos eligere tenebimur, atque hoc
in perpetuum fieri, quoties assignati loci vacaverunt, consensu
Custodis et sociorum ratum et stabilitum fuit. Hac Collegii
concessione, concordia inter prædictos viros et Collegium confir-
[p. 314] mata fuit, et Johannes Heydon Miles scripto quodam,
manu et sigillo suo authentice testato, nominavit Edwardum
Dawney, Norfolciensem de Salthouse juxta Holt, ad schola-
riatum proxime vacaturum ex fundatione Gulielmi Cuttings.
Quod scriptum, 6° Junii 1635, in loco capitulari lectum et
consensu Custodis et sociorum approbatum fuit, dictusque
Dawney 3° Novembris 1635 in locum tume vacantem vi ante-
cedentis nominationis et approbationis receptus erat. Hic
primus erat scholaris (quantum scimus) ex Heydonorum nomi-
natione, quamvis a tempore contractus cum Christophero
Heydon ad hanc primam nominationem...... anni interfluxere.
Alter erat Johammes Springall, Norfolciensis, cujus nominatio
ad scholariatum per dictum Johannem Heydon Equitem, 1°
Julii 1636 approbata fuit.
Hoc anno agitur de reparatione seu potius reædificatione
molæ aquaticæ, ad manerium nostrum de Shelford Magna
appertinentis, in quam una cum aggeribus et aquatieis operibus
eo spectantibus, non minus ducentis undecim libris decem
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solidis et quinque denariis Collegium expendit, nec minore
sumptu eam integram et undique sartam tectam præstare
voluerant artifices illarum operarum periti. •,
Decimo septimo Junii hujus amni ob commoditatem situs
Collegium emit pretio 18° a quodam......claustrum quoddam
pasturæ Charityes dictum, in dicta villa de Shelford Magna,
cujus annuus redditus cedit cistæ. Forma instrumenti quo
transit jus ad Collegium talis erat.
pages 315, 316 blank.
[p. 317] Venerabilis vir Matthæus Stokys Norwicensis, artium
magister et hujus Collegii socius, Junii 12 morte obiit repentina,
sed non improvisa, frequens enim meditatio mortis non destituit
eum imparatum. Vir erat (in ætate vigente) vivacis ingenii;
corporis habitu decoro, et elegantia morum, melioris culturæ
viris perquam gratus ; quo nomine Aulicis Academicisque
valde desiderabilis erat ejus affabilis conversatio. Quomodo in
Collegium et musas erat animatus liquido constat ex ejus
testamento, paulo ante obitum condito, quo inter alia pie et
prudenter legata providebat de stipemdiis unius socii et trium
scholarium fundandis, in quem finem redditus locationis recto-
riarum de Dilham et Homing in Norfolcia assignavit. Testa-
menti sui executores Custodem et socios hujus Collegii constituit;
indeque accrevit Collegio ex mobilibus bonis ad summam......
librarum, quæ ad ornandum funus aliosque necessarios usus ad
discretionem Custodis et sociorum dispensata fuit.
£m tj£ mam£ of (f où ãmem, the twentieth day of July 1681,
I Matthew Stokys of Gonvile and Caius Colledge in Cambridge
in the Countie of Cambridge gent., and ome of the senior fellowes
of the said Colledge called Gonvile and Caius Colledge afore-
said, being im good and perfect memorie thanks be given unto
God, doe make and ordeyne this my last will and testament as
followeth. In primis I commend and committ my soule into
the hands of Almighty God my heavenly Father, and of his
somne Jesus Christ, of whose passion and bloodshedding I hope
and assuredly beleive to be Saved. Item I give umto the Master
and senior fellowes of Gonvile and Caius Colledge in Cam-
TESTAMENTUM MAGISTRI STOKYS. 383
bridge aforesaid and their successours all those their rectoryes
of Dilham and Honing in the Countie of Norfolke, with all
the rights members and appurtenaunces thereto belonging or
apperteyning, which I hold by or under the indenture of demyse
thereof made by the late right reverend father in God John,
late Lord Bishop of Eley, unto mee for the tearme of one and
twenty yeares under such yearely rents as by the same indenture
bearing date the fifth day of October in the sixth yeare of the
reign of our Soveraigne Lord King Charles it doth and may
[p. 318] appeare. To have and to hold the same unto the
said Master and fellowes and their successours for and during
all the residue of the said tearme of one and twenty yeares
therein yet to come and unexpired. To the intent and pur-
poses following; that is to say, to the intent, that the said
Master and fellowes and their successours within tenn yeares
now next following shall cause and procure the said lease to be
renewed, and the said rectories and premisses to be demysed
by the Bishop of Eley for the time being, or such other person
or persons as then shall have the inheritance or immediate
revercion of the said premisses to them the said Master and
fellowes and their successours for the like tearme of one and
twenty yeares, and under the like yearely rents as in the said
indenture is mentioned. And likewise to the intent that the
said Master and fellowes and their successours within every
tenn yeares then next following for ever hereafter, shall in like
manner cause and procure the severall leases which thereof
from time to time henceforth shall thereof be made to be
renewed, and the said rectoryes and premisses to be demysed
by the Bishop of Eley for the time being, or such other person
or persons as then shall have the inheritance or immediate
revercion of the premisses unto the Master and fellowes of the
Colledge aforesaid and their successours, for the like tearme
and under the like yearely rent as is aforesaid. And to this
further intent that the said Master and fellowes and their
successours shall pay or cause to be paid within the usuall
dininge hall of the said Colledge, and during the tearme of
five yeares next after my decease, the two severall yearely
summes of twenty pounds of lawfull English money following,
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to be paid at the feast of St Michael the Archangel, and the
annunciation of our blessed Lady the virgine Mary, by equall
portions or within twenty days next after each and every of the
said feasts (that is to say) one of the said yearely summes of
twenty pounds unto Anne Kempe of Norwych, widow, my
sister, yearely, and everie yeare during the said five years, and
if she so long live, and the other yearely summe of twenty
pounds unto Jane Reeve, widowe, my sister, yearely and everie
[p. 31.9] yeare duringe the said tearme of five yeares if she
shall so long live, and five pounds yearely during the tearme of
the said five yeares unto my brother in law Robert Symonds,
if he shall so long live, in manner and forme as the aforesaid
summes of twenty pounds a yeare are to be paid unto my said
sisters Anne Kempe and Jane Reeve. And if my said sister
Anne Kempe shall depart this life before the expiration of the
said five yeares, then I will that the yearely summe of twenty
pounds to my said sister deceased, aforewilled to be paid, shall
be paid unto her two daughters Anne and Elizabeth, to each
of them tenne pounds yearely for and during all the residue
of the said five yeares, in manner and forme as the same ought
to have beene paid unto my said sister Anne. And if my said
sister Jane Reeve shall depart this life before the expiration of
the said five yeares, then I will that the yearely summe of
twenty pounds to my sister Jane Reeve, as aforesaid willed to
be paid, shall be paid unto her sonne Matthew Reeve and her
daughter Elizabeth, to each of them tenn pounds yearely for
and during all the then residue of the said five yeares, in
manner and forme as the same ought to have beene paid unto
my said sister Jame. And my will and minde is that if any of
the children of my said sisters shall depart this life before or
after the decease of their mother, the said summe of twenty
pounds shall be paid unto the surviving sonne or daughter of
the mother, so deceased, during all the said tearme of five
yeares next to come and unexpired after my decease; and to
this further intent and purpose that the said Master and
fellowes and their successours from and after my decease, and
the expiration of the said five yeares wherein the aforesaid
legacyes are to be paid out of the rents and profitts of the
TESTAMENTUM MAGISTRI STORYS. 385
premisses from time to time for ever renewing and coming,
shall yearely for ever pay these yearely severall summes of
lawfull English money following; that is to say three schollers
to be chosen or nominated into three schollershipps within the
said Colledge, in such manner as is herein afterwards mentioned,
the yearely summes of five pounds apeice, and tenn shillings
a peece for chamber rent during the time that they shall hold
the said Schollershipps, according to the statutes of the said
Colledge; and to one fellow of the said Colledge to be chosen
in such manner as is herein afterwards mentioned the yearely
summe of fifteene pounds and twenty shillings for chamber rent
[p. 32O] during such time as he shall hold the said fellow-
shipp, according to the statutes of the said Colledge; and to
the intent that the Bishop of Eley for the time being or such
other person or persons as shall have the inheritance or imme-
diate revercion of the said rectoryes and premisses shall from
henceforth for ever renew the said leases and make such
demyses as aforesaid upon reasonable fine to be given for the
same. I doe therefore further will and declare my intent to
bee that the Bishop of Eley for the time being, or such other
person or persons as shall have the said inheritance or imme-
diate reversion of the said premisses, shall from time to time
for ever hereafter have the nomination of one of the said three
schollers into one of the said three schollerships, within two
monethes next after my decease and the expiracion of the said
tearme of five yeares, and so from thence thenceforth for ever
within two monethes after the same schollership shall become
voyd, and notice thereof given to the said bishop or his suc-
cessours, or to such other person or persons as aforesaid. And
that the said Master and fellowes of the said Colledge and
their successours shall forthwith from time to time hereafter
for ever elect into one of the said schollerships every such
Scholler as shall be so nominated as aforesaid. And I doe
further will the said Master and fellowes of the said Colledge
and their successours, or the greater number of them, shall
from time to time for ever from and after my decease and the
expiration of the said five yeares, nominate and elect the two
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other of the said three schollers out of such person or persons
borne within the Cittie of Norwych or County of Norfolke as
they shall thinke fitt. And so likewise from time to time in
default of the said nomination as is aforesaid to be made of
the said other of the said schollers by the said Bishop of Eley
for the time being, or by such other person or persons as is
aforesaid, within the time appointed nominate and elect the
said third and other of the said schollers. And I doe further
will that the said Master and fellowes and their successours,
or the greater number of them, shall from time to time for
ever from and after my decease and the expiration of the said
five yeares, nominate and elect the said fellow (whom I will
shall then be a divine or shall apply himselfe to the studdies
and profession of a divine and shall be subject unto the same
decree which is sett downe in M* Francklands fellowship),
And I will that all and everie the said elections and nomi-
nations to be made as aforesaid by the Master and fellowes,
shall be made as of my foundation within two monethes next
after my decease and the expiration of the said five yeares,
[p. 32.1] and from thenceforth within two monethes next
after the said schollerships and fellowshipps and everie of them
shall become void by the statutes of the said Colledg, or by
any other lawfull meanes. Item I give the summe of foure
pounds per annum for ever to be bestowed upon a feast for
ever, to be kept in the said Colledg upon the day which my
funerall shall happen to be kept on, to begin after the expi-
ration of the said five yeares. And I give the Master of the
said Colledg for the time being, for his care and paines to be
taken herein, that day wherein my feast is to be kept after
the expiration of the five yeares as aforesaid, the summe of
six shillings eight pence, and to each of the said twelve senior
fellowes of the said Colledge which shall be present at the said
feast two shillings. And I will and desire that the Master and
president of St Johns Colledge in Cambridge, and the three
Esq.” Beadles of the Universitie of Cambridge, be desired and
invited to be present at the said feast by the Master and .
fellowes of Gonvile and Caius Colledge aforesaid. And I give
TESTAMENTUM MAGISTRI STOKYS. 387
to the Master of St Johns Colledge aforesaid for the time being,
if he be present at the said feast, thirteene shillings foure
pence, and to the president of the said Colledge six shillings
eight pence, if he be present to see this my foundation be well
and truely performed. And to each of the said three Beadles
two shillings. And I give for ever to the master cooke, under
cooke, butler, cater, and porter, three shillings foure pence
apeice. Item I give to each of the three almes houses for ever
yearely three shillings foure pence. And I will that the said
summe of foure pounds be bestowed upon the said feasts. And
all other the said yearely summes following the said gift shall
be paid yearely for ever hereafter from the expiration of the
said five yeares, out of the rents and profitts of the said rectories
and premisses, by the said Master and fellowes of Gonvil and
Caius Colledg aforesaid and their successours, upon that daie
yearely wherein my funerall shall happen to be made. &nt
I doe herein ordaine and make the said Master and senior
fellowes of Gonvill and Caius Colledge aforesaid for the time
being for ever executours of this my last will and testament, to
the intent they shall see the same carefully performed. And
that they shall also assent to the said legacies and shall likewise
doe and cause and procure to be done all other reasonable
and lawfull acts for the performance of this my last will and
testament, for the better advancement of the fellowshippe
and schollershipps here by this my will to be made upon
[p. 322] my foundation, according to my true intent and
meaninge therein declared. My will and desire being that the
Master and fellowes, my executours for the time being, shall
procure a particular booke of accompt after my decease for ever,
to be kept of all such money as shall arise upon my guift over
and above the renewing of the lease as the same is appointed
to be renewed by this my last will, to the intent that the same
might by them be employed by purchase or otherwise amongst
their other moneyes, that some reasonable maintenance there-
upon be given for the better advancement of the fellowship and
schollerships by this my will founded. Him ſuitmegge whereof I
the said Matthew Stokys have subscribed my name to everie
sheete of this my last will and testament, the same conteyning
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four sheetes and a halfe, And have likewise hereunto putt my
seale the daie and yeare aforesaid. Matthew Stokys. Sealed and
published in the presence of Thomas Gostlin, Gilbert Lewinge.
This will was first proved in the Vice-chancellor's Court June 13th 1635,
and administration granted to the Master and 4 fellowes constituted
syndics for the College under the common seal, June the 11th, as appears
in the 3rd Vol. of Wills belonging to the University, page 215.
Qſtmore presentium nos Guilfelmuž providentia divina Can-
tuariensis Episcopus, totius Angliae Primas et Metropolitanus,
notum facimus universis, quod decimo quinto die mensis Julii
anno Domini millesimo Sexcentesimo tricesimo quinto apud
London coram venerabili viro Thoma Rives Legum Doctore,
surrogato venerabilis viri Domini Henrici Martin Militis, legum
etiam Doctoris, Curia Prerogativa nostra Cantuariensi Magistri
custodis sive commissarii legitime constituti, probatum appro-
batum insinuatum fuit testamentum Matthaei Stokys generosi,
nuper unius sociorum seniorum Collegii Gonvili et Caii in
Academia Cantebrigiae diocesis Eliensis nostraeque Cantua-
riensis provinciae defuncti, presentibus annexis, habentis dum
vixit et mortis suae tempore bona jura sive credita in diversis
diocesibus sive jurisdictionibus, cujus pretextu ipsius testamenti
approbatio et insinuatio administrationisque omnium et singu-
lorum bonorum jurium et creditorum antedicti defuncti commis-
sio necnon computi calculi sive ratiocinii administrationis hujus-
modi auditio finalisque liberatio sive demissio ab eaderm ad nos
solum et in solidum et non ad alium nobis inferiorem judicem
notorie dignoscuntur pertinere. Et commissa fuit administratio
omnium et singulorum bonorum jurium et creditorum dicti
defuncti et ejus testamentum qualitercumque concernentium
Thomae Bachcroft Sacrae Theologiae Professori Magistro sive Cus-
[p. 323] todi predicto Josepho Loveland unisociorum seniorum
ibidem duobus executoribus in hujusmodi testamento nominatis
primitus de bene et fideliter administrando eaden, ac de pleno
et fideli inventario omnium et singulorum bonorum jurium et
creditorum dicti defuncti conficiendo, et illud in Curiam Prero-
gativae nostrae Cantuariensis secundo die post festium sanctae
Fidis virginis proximo futuro exhibendo, necnon de plane et
sODALITIUM MAGISTRI THOMÆ COOKE. 389
vero compoto calculo sive ratiocinio inde reddendo ad sancta
dei Evangelia iuratis, reservata potestate similem commissionem
faciendi cæteris executoribus in hujusmodi testamento nominatis
cum venerint eam petituri. Datum die mense anno Domini et
loco supradictis et nostræ translationis anno secundo.
Edmundus Woodhull
Registrarius.
Divina benedictione Collegio florescente studentium numerus
im tantum excreverat, ut commode intra Collegii septa habitare
omnes non poterant, hinc erat, necesse de ampliandis ædifi-
ciorum spatiis cogitare, atque in eum finem diruto prius ædificio
veteri ac pene inutili inter culinam et aulam, eo in loco aliud
extruunt ex latere cocto, cui ad inferiorem aulæ partem alterum
adjungunt ; quæ ambo ædificia in quatuor cubicula distinguuntur,
et decem aptis musæis instruuntur. Insuper eodem tempore,
cellare ob nimiam angustiam minus utile ampliandum duximus,
et a gradibus quibus aulam ascenditur orientem versus, ad
spatium 26 plus minus pedum protenditur. In quas omnes
structuras centum octoginta libras collegium impendit.
Thomas Cooke S. Theologiæ baccalaureus et hujus Collegii
socius tertio Augusti 1633 ad rectoriam Ecclesiæ parochialis
de Mutford cum Barnebie in comitatu Suffolciæ præsentatus,
ultra terminum per statuta præfixum manebat socius Collegii;
partim dilatis institutione et inductione, partim nescio quas
lites sibi intentas comminiscendo ; sed Custos et socii mom
ferentes vim ulterius inferri statutis, jubetur ad trigesimum
Julii 1635 adesse in sacello ad reddendum rationem hujus
facti, ubi Custode et duodecim sociis presentibus causam suam
[p. 324] egit strenue, sed admonitus per Custodem de statuto
Batemammi viz. Item ordìnamus quod nullus curatum obtinens
beneficium, etc., et de Statuto Fundatoris Caii de anno vale-
dicendi Reverendus Pater etc., interrogatusque ab eo, an juxta
hæc statuta Fundatorum ultra unius amni spatium a promo-
tionis suæ tempore jus ei esset ut socio manendi in Collegio,
respondit, jus ei integrum esse, idque vi officii locum tenentis
(quod officium olim sustinuit), tum etiam potestate senioris
390 ANNALS OF GONVILT,E ANID CAIUS.
socii ; sed custos una cum majore sociorum parte invalidas has
ejus rationes judicans magistrum Cooke ulterius Collegii socium
non esse debere pronuntiabat.
Hic memorandum, dictum Thomam Cooke constitutum
locum tenentem in absentia Custodis, (scripto dato vicessimo
secundo Maii 1625) secundum potestatem hanc sibi concessam
30° Maii 1635, convocasse octo socios quotquot domi in Collegio
tunc temporis reperti fuerunt, ut convenirent eum in sacello,
qua conventione is nomine Custodis significabat supradictam
rectoriam de Mutford cum Barneby vacare ; et ut magister
Robertus Sherrimgham Collegii socius dictæ rectoriæ præsen-
taretur proponebat, qui ipsius locumtenentis et majoris partis
sociorum suffragiis, jus ad præsentationem obtinuit, idque postea
communi sigillo confirmatum fuit; interim dictus Cooke nec
resignaverat jus suum in manus Episcopi, nec postea cedere de
jure suo in dicta rectoria voluit. *
Pleniorem rerum in sacello gestarum in hoc negotio narra-
tionem Custodis et sociorum nominibus testatam huc retulimus.
(p. 325 blank)
[p. 326] Mr Cooke sic sive amotus sive ejectus Custodis
et Sociorum sententiis aequiescere noluit, sed Regiam Majes-
tatem petitione compellit, Rexque serenissimus hujus causæ
cognitionem mandavit Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Domino
Gulielmo Laud Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi, homoratissimo Hem-
rico Comiti Hollandiæ, Academiæ Cancellario, et reverendissimo
patri Matthæo Wrem, Episcopo Norwicensi, qui statim curant
Custodem per literas accersiri Cancellarii quod sub hac forma
protinus factum fuit.
To Tho. Bacheroft Dr in Divinity
at Cambridge these
After our very hearty commends, Whereas his Majestie
upom the complaint and petition of Thomas Cooke bachelor in
Divinity, hath been pleased to referre to our hearing the
matters in difference betwixt your selfe amd him, QJj£$£ are
to let you know that wee have appointed to heare this businesse
SODALITIUM MAGISTRI THOMAE COOKE. 391
in the Councill Chamber at Whitehall upon Wednesday the
second of the next month, in the afternoone, and doe hereby
require you by your selfe or some other sufficiently instructed
and authorised by you, to attend accordingly: so not doubting
of your care herein we bid you farewell, and rest
f Your loving freind
Holland
Feb. 20, 1635.
Quibus acceptis literis Custos statim se accingit itineri,
comitatus magistris Moore, Dod, Loveland, et Pickarell, sociis
consensu reliquorum deputatis, ut adessent Custodi eumque
juvarent consiliis in praesenti negotio expediendo, insuper
statutis Collegii, Annalibus, aliisque libris quibus in praesenti
lite usus esset instruuntur.
Custos et Socii comites, ad dictum diem praesto erant Lon-
dini, eo in loco ubi jussi erant expectare. Honoratissimi
judices tempore praestituto aderant, adfuitoue simul Mr Cooke
stipatus et munitus duobus doctoribus juris ad ejus causam
agendam, qui ex informatione dicti Cooke graviter accusant
Custodem de non observatis statutis, quibus omnibus Custos
[p. 327] per suos consiliarios (erant enim quoque duo doctores
juris permissi) ita respondit ut calumniae adversarium facile
arguerit, tandem post trium horarum disceptationem re exacte
examinata et discussa, domini judices pro Custode sententiam
ferunt, et magistrum Cooke juste per Custodem amotum statu-
unt, sententiamaue suam Augustissimo Regi his verbis afferunt.
jūan it pleage pour ſºlajpgtíe
According to your Majesties gracious reference upon the
petition of Thomas Cooke bachelor in Divinitie sheweing that
whereas the said Colledge is endowed with rich and great
revenues by the founders and benefactours (being Norfolke and
Suffolke men) for the maintenance of one Master and certaine
fellowes ever to be chosen out of the said Countries, with dis-
cretion of praeferring the poore before the rich if they be equally
qualified with them in worth and parts, and to that end have
ordeyned statutes (injoyning the manner of election, and prae-
392 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
scribed an oath for the due observation of the same), and that
although all elections since the foundation have (for the most
part) ever been made accordingly, and the present Master enjoys
his praeferrement in right of both the countryes and the statutes;
yet contrary to his office and oath hath broake many statutes
and caused of his owne accord many elections to be made of .
strangers of other countryes, and that being remembred thereof
by the petitioner, and withall intreated either to redresse the
same at home or to be judged by certaine visitours (to whom
the power of interpreting statutes and impounding controversies
is solely referred) hath not onely refused soe to doe but still
persists in his errour and in uncharitable requitall of the pe-
titioners discharge of his duty, hath of late endeavoured to
make voyd his fellowship without any ground of statute or
statutable proceeding.
Wee having heard the petitioner and his councell and like-
wise Dr Bachcroft the present Master and divers of the senior
fellowes of the said Colledge and their councell, doe in all duty
hereby humbly declare to your Majestie what upon full hearing
appeareth to us.
(Caius Stat. 8.) First touching the statute of election unto
the said Colledge wee find that the same doth not absolutely
[p. 328] require that Norfolke and Suffolke men and such
as are of the Diocesse of Norwych bee onely chosen, but that
first those of Norfolke then those of Suffolke and of the Diocesse
of Norwych be preferred, and wee find that in all times there
have beene some of other Countryes admitted, and that the
present Master of the said Colledge hath so carefully pursued
that statute as at this time of the twelve senior fellows of that
house eleven are of Norfolke.
(Caius Stat. 48.) Secondly concerning the said Masters
refusing to be judged by visitors, it appeareth that the statute
on that behalfe requires that where the Master and the major
part of the twelve senior fellowes shall dissent in opinion touch-
ing the interpretation of any statute they shall repaire to the
visitors, but the Master and the major part being capitulariter
congregati adjudged (as appeares under the hands of the said
Master and nine of the said fellowes) that Mr Cookes fellowship
SODALITIUM MAGISTRI THOMAE COOKE. 393
and benefice were incompatible by statute, which bound up the
Master so as he could not without manifest breach of that
statute repaire to the visitors Mr Cooke required.
And thirdly where the said Master is charged to have
wronged the petitioner in his owne particular, wee finde his
proceeding against the petitioner to have beene with great
equitie and moderation; and that in all the said three particulars
the Master hath been unjustly charged and is verie innocent.
And as wee find just cause utterly to dislike the very frame of
the said petition, and likewise the petitioners ingratitude and
boldnesse therein, laying heavy scandalls on the Master of the
said Colledge who hath formerly been his tutor, and from whom
the petitioner could not deny but to have received particular
courtesyes; so wee were not well satisfied with the petitioners
carriage and behaviour at our hearing of this businesse, inso-
much as if he had not been put out of his fellowship we should
have enjoymed him to have made a publique submission to the
Master in the said Colledge.
But whereas the petitioner tooke occasion by the generalitie
of the charge layd down in his petition to ravell into sundry
particulars, accusing the said Master with the breach of divers
statutes of that Colledg, wee cannot free the Master altogether,
but find he hath been in some measure to blame in something,
[p. 329] albeit not wilfully or singularly faulty in any materiall
particular, but onely where the steps of some of his latter prede-
cessours misled him. And albeit wee find many of the particular
breaches of statute objected by Mr Cooke to be triviall; yet upon
examination of them, wee have made some observations which wee
have made it our humble duty to offer to your Majesties con-
sideration, to take such order for reforming of the same as in
your Majesties wisdome you shall thinke fitt.
1. (Caius Stat. 31.) That the Master may be injoyned
yearely to appoint a president, albeit their statute doth not
expressly so direct it.
2. That the junior fellowes of the foundations of Franck-
land Perse or any other, present or that hereafter may be of the
said Colledg, may be sworne as well as the Seniors, but not injoy
394 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
more profitts or priviledge of voyce and suffrage, or any thing
else by reason of that their oath then they doe at this present,
untill they shall be chosen and admitted to be seniors. And
for this purpose that your Majestie would be graciously pleased
to give authority to the said Master to administer the said oath,
which we doubt whether he hath now power to doe.
3. That no lease de futuro be made by the said Colledge,
of any impropriation, for longer then five or tenn yeares at the
most, according to the Statute of Caius 86; and that the leases
already made in that kind (however these stand good for the
present yet) that they be not renewed hereafter for any estate
above ten yeares.
4. (Caius Stat. 93.) That the Master and fellowes may
be injoyned, after the expiration of the present leases made of
their lands, not to renew the same or lett any other to any
person or persons contrary to the statute of the Colledge so
to doe.
5. That they take good bonds of their tenants to whom
they grant leases, obliging them or their under tenants, (which
are to be allowed by the consent of the Master and fellowes in
writing) to reside on the land they hould of the said Colledge;
unlesse it be in cases where otherwise the statute gives way.
6. That they may be injoyned to see that three severall
bookes be hereafter exactly kept ; the one for accounts, con-
teyning the expences of the house; a second a register of all
the leases and grants, and other like acts made by the Master
[p. 33O] and fellowes of their lands etc.; and a third con-
teyning the Annales of the moste memorable acts and accidents
of and in the said Colledge; which two last bookes are to be
written by the register there, as the statute on that behalfe
directs. And whereas there hath beene a neglect in keeping of
the third booke ever since 1603, that they see that due care be
taken to draw downe the Annalls from that time to this present,
as well as may be possible, and so to continue the same hence-
forth from time to time. ,&
SODALITIUM MAGISTRI TEHOMÆ. COOKE. 895
All which wee humbly submitt to your Majesties Royall
consideration. -
Whitehall March I. 1635.
Signed
Lord Arch-Bpp of Cant.
Earle of Holland
Lord Bpp of Norwych.
Concordat cum originali..
Ed. Nicholas.
Serenissimus Rex hac accepta informatione presentem litem
finaliter diremit, ac in posterum summa cum gratia prospexit
Collegii commodo regia hac sua infra scripta ordinatione.
Carolus Rex
Whereas a Petition hath beem presented, etc.
Et in fine, To the Master and senior fellowes of Gonvile and
Caius Colledge in Cambridge (vide decretum integrum in
Libro Stat. p. 122). ~.
Summa expensarum hujus litigii, quære, in libro Bursarii
ad computum Annunciationis. •
Cum Magister Matthæus Stokys, per testamentum suum
ultimum, donationis suæ peculiarem computus seu rationis
librum fieri curavit, nec per eum provisum erat de aliqua mer-
cede Bursario aut alio reddenda, ob operam illi impensam
[p. 331] muneri, decretum erat 3° Novembris 1635 per
Custodem et socios illius officii curam Collegii Bursario com-
mitti, qui e redditibus ex donatione illa provenientibus quot-
annis stipendium viginti solidorum ob rationem illam fideliter
redditam recipiat.
27 Novembris, prima locatio manerii nostri de Shelford
Magna in Comitatu Cantabrigiæ pro termino viginti annorum a
festo Sancti Michaelis 1635 facta fuit Edwardo Ventris gene-
roso ; priori indentura Collegio reddita et cassata.
Hoc anno, 1° Februarii, Jeremias Taylor Cantebrigiæ natus,
artium magister et hujus Collegii socius ex fundatione Persiana,
sponte resignavit jus suum omne ad dictum sodalitium. Huic
396 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANI) CAIUS.
erat summum ingenii acumen, quod industria non vulgari
instruxit et polivit adeo ut supra ætatem sapuit et magnis in
Ecclesiæ muneribus subeundis par erat, anno enim uno aut
altero a gradu magisterii suscepto ad fungendum concionatoris
sive prælectoris munere in ecclesia Cathedrali Divi Pauli Lom-
dini vocatus est per eos quorum fidei illius prælecturæ (a Colleto
institutæ) cura commissa erat ; quod quidem officium non nisi
viris ætate maturis et eruditione eminentioribus mandari soli-
tum erat, Taylerus vero hic noster talem hic se præstitit virum
ut admirationem sui apud auditores doctissimos quamvis exci-
tavit. Hinc fama illum undequaque celebrante, ad notitiam
Reverendissimi Archipræsulis Cantuariensis Gulielmi Laud per-
venit, qui viri merita non minori fama deprehendens, suum esse
voluit, ac protinus eum a Collegio nostro amotum, socium Col-
legii Divi Johannis Oxonii eligi curavit, ubi inter viros claros
comstitutus famæ detrimentum nunquam passus, sed doctoratus
in SS. Theologia gradu insignitus splenduit magis. Is, uxore
ducta, ad rectoriam de Uppingham in Comitatu Rutlandiæ
promotus est, ubi vigilantissimi pastoris munere functus est,
quamdiu tumultus militares non obstreperent, sed civili fla-
grante bello Taylerus quod regias tuebatur partes fugatus est,
variisque casibus jactatus, tandem in Walliam compulsus est
ubi poterat latuit ; non tamen Ecclesiæ inutilis vixit, sed libris
editis Episcopatum strenue asseruit, orthodoxæ fidei patronum
se præbuit et ad pietatem aspirantes tum scriptis tum exemplo
(ut fidi Pastoris est) præivit. Libros ab eo scriptos non facile
est recensere, plures tamen quos vir pius et doctus meditatus,
speramus lucem visuros ad Ecclesiæ commodum et dei gloriam.
Multa quæ de Taylero nostro hic referuntur insequentibus amnis
gesta sunt, sed hic simul congessimus, ut dignissimi viri elogium,
melius uno intuitu spectandum proponatur.
[p. 332] Anno 1636
May 27°° 1636, supra memoratæ ordinationes regiæ de
rebus controversis inter Custodem et magistrum Cooke, in
sacello primum exhibitæ et publicatæ fuerunt, ac summa qua
decuit observantia a nobis omnibus acceptæ.
COLLEGIUM ET KATERINA PERSE. 397
Novembris 2°, ordinationes et solutiones superius ad deci-
mum primum Aprilis 1630 constitutæ, hoc anno renovatæ
fuerunt eo quod morbus quidam contagiosus societatem nostram
invasit, quo Jacobus Daniell socius, Edwardus Dod, Edwardus
Rant, scholares, et Johannes Jamniom, pauper scholaris, extincti
sunt. Radulphus Philips socius eo correptus, exorto et rupto
bubone salvus evasit, sed bonus Deus mostrum misertus, gras-
santem luem sistit, ita ut post unum et alterum mensem, qui
aufugere redeunt et desolatum Collegium solita frequentia
exhilarant. Deo salvatori in æternum laus et gloria.
Anno 1637
Hoc anno ad 25° Martii, Catherina, relicta Martimi Perse
armigeri ejusque ultimi testamenti executrix, nobiscum agit de
firmis in Fratimg, Comitatu Essexiæ, et Bassingbourne in Comi-
tatu Cantebrigiæ, olim dicto Martino elocatis, quas cupit rursus
in manus Custodis et sociorum successorumque recipi per
Collegii feofatus. Quis autem conventionis exitus fuerat ex
subscriptis articulis constat.
25 Martii 1637
Agreements betweene the Master and fellowes of Gonvile
and Caius Colledge in Cambridge, om the one party, and
Katherime Perse of Cambridge, widdow, om the other party, as
followeth, viz.
Imprimis, the said Master and fellowes are agreed to take
into their owne hands the lease of Frating in Essex and the
two leases in Bassingborne which Martim Perse held at, his
death. &a
Item, M* Perse promiseth to surrender up the said leases
at or before the last day of this March to the said Master and
fellowes.
Item the said Master and fellowes are to have all rents
hereafter due from all amd every the tenamts.
[p. 333] Item, the said Master and fellowes promiseth that
the said M* Perse shall have to her owne proper use all her
398 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
household stuffe utensills, in Frating house, to sell or carry
away at her pleasure.
Item, the Master and fellowes promise to performe the
covenaunts M* Perse had made with Mr Tuke for his new
lease.
Item, M* Perse is never hereafter to receive any benefitt
by the said leases or any of them, but all is to redound to the
use of the Master and fellowes and their successours.
Item, the said Master and fellowes promiseth to deliver to
the said M* Perse all her bonds and bills and covenants, and
for ever hereafter to discharge her, her heyres successours and
administratours, concerning the premisses. Hºn ſmitmeš32 ſubtreof
they have set to their hands the said 25 day of March 1635.
Witnesse. Thomas Bachcroft Custos.
Valentine Perse. The marke K of Katherine Perse.
Nicholas Whiston, William Moore.
and Richard Pettit.
Cum sacellum interius, divinis officiis destinatum, angustius
erat quam usus postulaverat, nec omnes in Collegio studiosi
commode in eo convenire simul poterant ad sacra peragenda,
ideo Custos et socii illud hoc anno ampliandum curaverunt.
Eo nimirum, a monumento Doctoris Legge orientem versus,
protenso, ad spatium... pedum ; quo tempore necesse fuit monu-
mentum Fundatoris Caii (ablatis cancellis ferreis, quibus cinge-
batur) ab eo quo primum structurm erat loco, amoveri; pauloque
remotius a crypta camerata ubi conditur corpus ad parieterm
illud pensile figi. Eadem tamen (in quantum fieri poterat)
manente fabricae forma, eaclemgue materia, reparatis insuper et
restitutis benefactorum insigniis, in veteri foenestra ad orientem,
suis in locis positis. Cumque Sacelli arcuatum laquear vetustate
corruptum erat, illud refici, et opere caelato artificiose depicto,
auro variisque coloribus eleganter interstinctis decorari cura-
vimus. Ad horum operum sumptus sublevandos contulerunt
93%. 0. 0 viri, ob benevolum in Collegium affectum hic non
tacendi, viz....Hewlett S. Theol. Bacc. et Ecclesiae Norwicensis
praebendarius, olim hujus Collegii alumnus, contulit decem
libras; Johannes Symonds quondam hic sacellanus ex Hibernia
DONATIONES. 399
[p. 334] (ubi tunc temporis floruit) nobis transmitti curavit,
quadraginta libras: Thomas Wake paulo ante Collegii socius,
et rector ecclesiæ apud Borough-greem in Comitatu Canta-
brigiæ, dedit viginti libras. Richardus Wendy, generosus, de
Haslingfield, dedit decem libras. Thomas Richardson, eques
auratus, quondam inter mos commensalis tres libras: Gulielmus
Moore tunc temporis socius decem libras.
Summa, ex benefactorum donis 93 lib.
Johannes Cosin S. Theologiæ Doctor, Collegii Divi Petri
præfectus sive Magister, Ecclesiæ Petroburgensis Decanus
dignissimus, hujus Collegii quondam socius, vir ad ornanda
sacra addictissimus, decem libras dono dedit quibus Sacram
Mensam comparari voluit. Sane vir pius tum hic tum alibi
satis testatum fecit se semper dilexisse decorum domus Dei.
Expensarum quod deerat, ultra summam collatam a benefactori-
bus, erogavit communis cista Collegii, viz., 433" 8°. 10.
Nec nostri solius Sacelli nobis curæ erat, sed ad ornandum
adytum ecclesiæ Sancti Michaelis, hic in vicinio sitæ, quinqua-
ginta solidos gratis dedimus, ad sextum Octobris 1627.
Hic annus sacrarum donationum ferax erat; supra memoratis
enim benefactoribus accessit Gulielmus Skippom generosus
INorfolciensis, comiti Bathoniensi a consiliis domesticis, hujus
Collegii quondam alumnus. Is testamento facto, legavit Collegio
calicem sacram deauratam viginti sex 3... singulis unciis æsti-
matis valere 7* 6°, sculpturæ impenduntur 7°, thecæ 4°, in toto
constitit 10“ 08* 08°. Insculpta visitur effigies boni pastoris
humeris domum referentis ovem deperditam, cum hac in-
scriptione.........
Lucas Skippom ejus ex fratre nepos, vir integerrimus, nec
minus ob pietatem et eruditionem spectandus, is legatum hoc
nobis fideliter præstitit.
[p. 335] Anno 1638
Aprilis 14, 1638. Richardo Londom Norfolciensi artium
magistro, collegii socio, et Medicimæ studioso, concordi consensu
400 ANNALS OF GONVII,ILE AND CAT US.
Custodis et sociorum data est copia absentandi se, et studendi
in transmarinis regionibus, sub iisdem conditionibus quibus per
statuta cautum est, is, 26° Aprilis tactis evangeliis, juramentum
suscepit, se studio tantum Medicinae alienas regiones velle
invisere, reipublicae Brittanicae ac Collegii nostri honori con-
Sulere et consulturum. Quo juramento prestito, ut literas habeat
testimoniales veniae absentandi se in regionibus transmarinis
sub communi sigillo concessumerat. Insuper testimonio gradus,
vitae, morum, et conversationis, eum honestavimus, Scriptoque
commune sigillum apponi fecimus; atque ex abundanti sub-
scriptis Custodis et sociorum nominibus. His ita peractis, de
emolumentis, tempore absentiae percipiendis ex sodalitio, coepit
contendere, eague de re Cancellarium Academiae petitione
exhibita compellavit, cujus facti certiores nos fecit honora-
tissimus Dominus his infra scriptis literis.
After my very hearty commendations I understand by the
petition of Mr Richard London one of the senior fellowes of
your Society, that according to the indulgence of your statutes
to the studdy and professors of Physicke, you have given him
leave to travell, but withall refusd him such allowances as by
the same statute he conceiveth that he ought to have for his
sustentation abroad. His address thereupon and request to me
will best appeare to you in his owne papers, which I send you
here inclosed for that purpose, desiring you if you find reason
in them to make his contentment your owne favour to him,
especially in a case wherein his industry seemeth to deserve
respect, or otherwise so to informe mee in the businesse, as I
may be able to make him such answer as is fitting, and so I
rest
Your assured freind
Greenwhich Henr. Holland.
5 June 1638.
[p. 336] Inclusae chartae tales erant.
To the Right Honourable Henry Earle of Holland one of
his Majesties most honourable privy councell, and Chancellour
of the University of Cambridge.
The humble petition of Richard London, master of arts,
LITIGATIO CUM MAGISTRO LONDON. 401
and one of the senior fellowes of Gonvile and Caius Colledge
in the aforesaid University,
Humbly sheweth,
That whereas by a locall statute of the said Colledg,
leave is given to the students of Physicke onely to travell
beyound the seas for the study of Physicke and the advance-
ment of Learning in that profession, and whereto the petitioner
by his fellowship (founded by Dr Caius) is bound by statute
to apply himselfe and according to the statute hath lately
obtained three yeares leave of the said society with their joynt
consent under their Colledge seale so to doe, yet your petitioner
is denyed by the Master and many of the fellowes such meanes
and emoluments as by good advice upon statute he justly
conceived to appertaine to his fellowship in the said Colledge,
whereby he is made altogether unable to defray the charges
of his journey and mainteyne himselfe in transmarine uni-
versities, as Padua, Bononia, Montpelier, Paris, etc., mentioned
in statute by our learned founder Dr Caius.
So that your Petitioner cannot fulfill that statute to his
owne benefitt, the good of others, or the honour of the said
Colledge, as by oath he is obliged, and further it is the constant
custome of all other Colledges (so farre as he can learne) in
Cambridge and Oxford to allow all dividends to travellours of
this nature.
Your Petitioner therefore most humbly beggs assistance
from your honour herein, beseeching your Lordship of your
honourable goodnesse and wisdome, to require of the said
[p. 337] Master and fellowes, in writing, or demand from
them some sufficient reasons to the contrary, why all such
dividends (not excepted by expresse statute whereunto your
petitioner willingly submitteth himselfe) should not be allowed
him towards his necessary expences in travell as to any other
actually present in the said Colledge.
And your petitioner as in duty bound shall daily pray for
your honours health etc.
To the Right Honourable Henry Earle of Holland, one of
his Majesties most honourable Privy Councell and Chancellour
of the Universitie of Cambridge.
C. A. S. Octavo Series. No. XL. 26
402 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
The humble petition of Richard London master of arts
and fellow of Gonvile-Caius Colledge in the University of
Cambridge.
Having lately exhibited to your Lordship the ground of his
complaint, with the inconveniences that must ensue to the
students in Physicke in that Colledge, etc., and because some
doubts may arise from these quaeryes following, your petitioner
most humbly prayeth your honour to desire the Master and
fellowes of the said Colledge, to these and every of these to
answer expressely to your honour in writing, that by this
meanes your Lordship may truely judge how just the motives
are of your petitioners complaint, who desires no further favour
from your Lordship herein then the justice and meritts of
his cause deserveth. -
1. Whether by the word dividendis in the 54 statute of
Dr Caius, bee meant that all dividends arising since the
making thereof, as corne money, and many other dividends,
should goe to the use of the Colledge or not. -
2. Whether Richard London, fellow of Gonville and Caius
Colledg, hath right to all dividends as any other fellow being
[p. 338] present in the Colledge. -
3. Whether they have any expresse statute (having given
him leave to travell under the Colledge Seale) to take away
his corne rents and other dividends, or not.
4. Whether they have any custome against that particular
statute, of Dr Caius 54, to deprive him of his dividends above
mentioned.
5. Whether you have any convincing reasons to deny him
those his rights and profitts without which the statute is likely
never to be put in execution.
Acceptis Cancellarii literis una cum inclusis chartis modo
memoratis, protinus Custos et socii is tale expediunt responsum.
Right Honourable and our most Noble Lord.
In all humble obedience unto your Lordships pleasure we
heere make tender of our answer unto the complaint of Mr
London, and by these our particular replyes unto his severall
quaeryes (which is the way he desireth your Lordship to prae-
TITIGATIO CUM MAGISTRO LONDON. 403
scribe unto us) wee hope not onely to cleare ourselves unto
your Lordships justice, but also to quiett him, if his aime be
not more to molest us then to satisfie himselfe; if notwith-
standing these our endeavours he shall still seeme confident
of his pretended right, it is our humble petition unto your
Lordship to referre him (so soone as wee shall actually detaine
whatever he may praetend herein due to him) and us to your
Vice Chancellours consistory, a court of justice and equitie.
And least he should pretend that therein we seeke the advan-
tage of his absence before he goeth (if his hast to forreine parts
be such as that he cannot stay), he may sufficiently instruct his
deputy and proctor. Wee are humbly bold to crave this at
your Lordships hands, because otherwise wee feare the prose-
cution may proove both chargeable to the Colledge and
troublesome to our occasions. Wee were taught by late ex-
perience how much disquiet one mans wilfulnesse may bring
[p. 339] upon a whole society, the quietting of which puts
us in mind of that never to be forgotten favour we then received
from your Honour, which shall oblige us ever to remayne
Your Lordships most humble servants
To the Right Honourable Thomas Bachcroft
the Earle of Holland the most Tho. Gostlin Edw. Salter
carefull Chauncellour of the W* Moore Hen. Glisson
University of Cambridge. Will” Blanks Robº Pickarell
Jos. Loveland Jo. Rant.
From Gonvile-Caius Colledge
in Cambridge, June 19, 1638.
The reply and answer to Mr Londons quaeryes.
1. To the first, wee answer that wee conceive that the
dividends specified in the 54 statute were onely such as were in
use in the time of Dr Caius, because he could not foresee what
dividends might after arise, nor the reasons which might justly
cause different proportion of division betweene the discontinuers
and others that were resident.
2. To the second wee answer that Mr Rich. London, while
he is resident in the Colledge, hath right to all dividends as
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404 ANNALS OF GON VILLE AND CAIUS.
other fellowes have and alwayes have received the same, and
have moreover had his share with the present fellowes of all
those dividends which the absent lost, according to the custome
of our Colledge since corne money came in esse.
3. To the third we answer, the dividends in use in Dr Caius
his time are debarred him by the expresse statute 54, and for
the dividend of corne money which arose since, it being by the
statute of the land ordered to be expended for the releife of the
commons and diett in the Colledge, whereof none absent can
partake, we conceive that ground to have been sufficient for our
predecessours at first to have founded that our custome upon,
[p. 34O] as also for us to continue the same, wee being for-
bidden by statute of the Colledge to alter the same manner of
defraying of our diett and commons as was left us by Dr Caius,
and before his time practised in our Colledge.
4. To the fourth wee answer that wee have a custome to
deprive all absent men, though upon as necessary occasions as
he can pretend in this case of his travell, which custome is
neither against that particular, or any other statute.
And further for our parts wee conceive no such absolute
necessity of his travelling, which may be a priviledge to him
more then any other, and for the equitie of the custome, it was
lately approved by your Lordship and the rest of the Honour-
able referrees deputed by his Majesty in Mr Cookes case.
5. To the fifth we answer (1) that we conceive it as reason-
able to deny him this dividend as to deprive others being
absent upon as great if not greater necessity. Secondly wee
have reason to mainteyne this our custome so long practised,
and lately approved by your Lordship. Thirdly wee have en-
quired of the practise of some other Colledges, and doe find
that such as have leave to travell loose as much as other absent
men, either in their corne-money or something equivalent to it
according to their severall customes. And for that clause [that
without he may have his pretended dividend the statute is
never like to be put in execution] wee say that the statute is
only permissive and not obligatory or commanding, and yet this
indulgence of statute may very likely be put in execution by
such as have both meanes and will to travell without desire of
LITIGATIO CUM MAGISTRO LONDON. 405
infringing our ancient customes or intrenching upon the rights
and dues of such, as are necessarily constreyned to attend upon
the service and government of the Colledge.
Huic nostrae responsioni nihil regerit Mr London, unde
Magister Pickarell, quem constituimus causae nostrae actorem et
Sollicitatorem, domum dimittitur, Cancellario nostram responsi-
[p. 34.1] onem approbante, sicut Henricus Lucas, qui ei a
manu erat, hisce ad nos datis literis testabatur.
Sir,
My Lord hath received and perused upon your answer
to his Lordships letters, and Mr Londons petitions and quaeries.
But he appearing not, to make any reply thereunto, Mr Pickarell
is dismissed of any further attendance here, having received
from my Lord his owne expressions of accepting in very good
part the respects and readinesse of your answer. And for ought
I can see in the businesse upon this issue you have driven it to,
you are not likely to be any further troubled therein, unlesse
Mr London thinke so well of his praetended right to pursue it
in Mr Vice Chauncellours Court whither in that case you have
invited him. Howsoever I pray beleive I shall be alwayes
ready according to my weaknesse to serve the Colledge and
your selfe as being
To the Reverend and Your very affectionate and humble
my much honoured freind Servant Henry Lucas
Mr Dr Bachcroft, Mr of St Martins Lane 21 June 1638.
Gonvile-Caius Colledge
in Cambridge.
Ordinationes et provisiones annis 1630 et 1636 factas, jam
tertio advicessimum quintum Junii hujus anni renovari necesse
fuit ; morbus enim pestilentialis Cantabrigiam afflixit non uno
in loco, qui tamen intra tres quatuorve menses summo favore
numinis extinctus erat, ita ultra vicesimum septimum Septem-
bris 1638 dictae ordinationes vim non obtinuerunt. Deo Soteri
laus ob restitutam sanitatem.
Cum Johannes Normington socius diuturniorem absentiae
moram a Collegio faceret quam Collegii Statuta permitterent,
aliasque ob causas, Decembris vicesimo secundo ordinatum est
406 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANI) CAIUS.
per Custodem et Socios eum citatione communi sigillo sigillata
admoneri ut ad vicessimum secundum diem Martii proxime
[p. 342] futurum adesset, in Collegio, redditurus rationem (si
quam haberet) talis suæ absentiæ.
Forma citationis hæc erat.
Thomas Bachcroft, Sacræ Theologiæ Professor, Magister sive
Custos Collegii de Gonvile et Caius fundati in honorem An-
nuntiationis beatæ Mariæ Virginis in Universitate Cantabrigiæ,
et socii ejusdem Collegii, omnibus et singulis Christi fidelibus
has literas visuris vel audituris nec non omnibus et singulis
literatis quibuscunque salutem in Domino. Cum Johannes
Normington in artibus magister ac Collegii predicti socius, sese
a Collegio predicto absentaverit, ultra tempus eidem assignatum
et limitatum pro reditu suo, nullam in Collegio predicto faciens
aut observans residentiam, prout per tenorem statutorum Col-
legii predicti tenetur, in manifestam violationem statutorum
predicti Collegii, Nos igitur prefati Magister et socii vobis
omnibus et singulis committimus, ut eidem Johanni NormantOm
motum faciatis, cui nos etiam per presentes notum facimus eun-
demque tenore presentium citamus, quod compareat coram
nobis in sacello et loco capitulari et consueto dicti Collegii, die
Veneris existente vicesimo secundo die mensis Martii proximi
futuri post datam præsentium, inter horas nonam et decimam
ante meridiem ejusdem diei, causam rationabilem, si quam
habeat, allegaturus et probaturus, quare contra eum pro ab-
sentia, et residentia sua in Collegio predicto juxta tenorem
statutorum dicti Collegii et juris in ea parte exigentium pro-
cedi non debeat, et quare ad corporalem residentiam et moram
faciendam in Collegio predicto compelli etiam non debeat, ul-
teriusque facturi et receptur (?) quod justum fuerit in premissis.
In cujus rei testimonium sigillum commune Collegii pre-
dicti præsentibus apponi fecimus. Datum vicesimo secundo
die mensis Decembris anno Domini millesimo sexcentesimo
tricesimo octavo.
[p. 343] Cum vero dictus Magister Normantom, nec ad
dictum diem nec ullum alium prout oportuit comparuerit, nec
ulla nobis innotuit justa absentiæ causa per literas aut aliter
significata, contumaciæ suæ pœnas dedit meritas, non tamen
DOCTOR GUILIELMÜS WATTS. a. 407
ante vicesimum nonum Maii anni insequentis, quo die ejus.
sodalitium vacare custos pronuntiabat. Is non multo post
trajecto mari ad partes se contulit pontificias.
Anno 1639
Gulielmus Watts Norfolciensis, olim hujus Collegii capella-
mus sive socius, hoc anno gradum Doctoratus in Sacra Theologia
obtinuit. Vir erat faceti et vivacis ingenii, sedentariæ vitæ
impatientis, quo inter homines conversari quam musæolo se
abdere multo meliorem fore conditionem duxit; nec diu urbem
aulamque frequentaverat antequam viris magnis satis innotuit
viri virtus, inter cæteros Dominus Albertus Mortonus eques
auratus affectu haud vulgari eum complexus est ; ita ut anno
1621 dignissimus vir peregre profecturus ad legationem in
Gallia, alibique obeundum, Watsium comitatui suo adjunxit,
concessa prius venia, absentiæ suæ (erat enim tunc temporis
Collegii sacellanus) per custodem et socios quamdiu in regni
negotiis abfuerit, decemque libris ex Collegii dono acceptis ;
quod sane luculentum erat testimonium, eum Custodi et sociis
fuisse percharum. Perfuncta legatione, Dominus Albertus in
ipso reditu moritur, non sine ingenti suorum luctu, inter quos
Watsius tali patrono orbatus justam mæroris causam habuit,
Deo vero providente aliorum accessu ea sarcita est jactura,
statimque post ad Rectoriam [Sti Albani] in Wood street Londini,
promotus. Pluribus annis ibidem incumbit fideliter pastoris
muneri, quo temporis spatio, horis subsecivis multa meditatus
est posteris profutura, inter cætera Anglice vertit Divi Augustini
Confessiones, easque vindicavit a falsa interpretatione cujusdam
Pontificii, notisque eruditis illustravit. Bellum quoque Germa-
nicum a Gustavo Adolpho gestum fideliter narravit libro cui
titulum adscripsit, The Swedish Intelligencer; quod opus, militare
[p. 344] quamvis, non tamen inutile censendum Ecclesiæ
Reformatæ ; plurimum enim intererat ejus dejectum et rursus
erectum statum palam fieri. Mathæum item Parisium inter
historicos principem, multumque desideratum, ad limam revo-
cavit, multisque additamentis et glossario erudito a se composito
408 ANNALS OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS.
auctiorem edidit, anno 1640, atque in testimonium gratitudinis
suæ hujus editionis librum im Bibliotheca nostra reponendum
dono dedit. Concionem quoque edidit de mortificatione, aliaque
plura meditatus, quæ omnia civile bellum intercepit, quo, quod
partibus Regiis addictior erat, ædibus propriis pulsus, fugatus-
que, a Ruperto Principe Palatino receptus est, cujus mutantem
fortunam, terra jactatus et alto, Hyberniam usque secutus,
Kinsalie oppido maritimo obiisse dicitur. Ut supra de Taylero
ita est hic, multa quæ retulimus post hunc annum contigere,
sed maluimus elogium viri simul exhibere, quam aut quædam
dicenda omittere aut intercisam nimis et hiantem narrationem
instituere aliis in locis Watsium memorando.
Cum ex redditibus fundorum apud Frating etc. (vide inte-
grum decretum in libro Actorum Collegii anno 1639).
Sed hic memorandum, dicto stipendii augmento quatuor
librarum socii Persiani diu non gaudebant, ob redditus fundo-
rum in Frating male solutos, alia damna quæ ibidem sustinuimus
ut ex libro rationali Persianæ Donationis liquido constat.
Hoc anno utriusque areæ cancelli, vetustate corrupti et
inutiles, amoti fuerunt ea tamen conditione, ut postea, cum op-
portunum fuerit, alii in eorum loco restituantur. Eodemque
tempore in reficiendis ædificiorum tectis, quæ per totum fere
collegii spatium longo temporis tractu perforata et attrita
ruinam minitabantur, non minus quam trecentæ libræ impensæ
fuerunt in tegularios, fabros lignarios, aliosque id genus
opifices.
Anno 1640
Cum tempus electionis statutum socii et scholarium ex
fundatione Magistri Matthæi Stokys, secundum ejus testament-
um, jam instaret, nono Junii 1640, ad illud negotium expedi-
endum Custos et socii conveniunt in sacello; quo conventu
Thomas Wakeman Norfolciensis et artium magister, fundatoris
Stokys ex sorore nepos, primus hujus fundationis socius; item
Thomas Ralph et Christopherus Scott Norfolcienses, primi
scholares eliguntur, alterum scholarium nominandi jus fundator
[p. 345] voluit ad dictum locum (ad Episcopum Eliensem
SCHOLARES MAGISTRI STOKYS. 409
qui tempore fuerit) intra binas menses spectare, de qua re per
literas infrascriptas eum certiorem fecimus.
Reverendissimo in christo Patri ac Domino Domino Matthæo
Providentia Divina Eliensi Episcopo.
Thomas Bachcroft SS. Theolog. Professor, Magister sive
custos Collegii de Gonvile et Caius fundati in honorem Annun-
ciationis B. Mariæ Virginis in Universitate Cantebrigiensi, et
ejusdem Collegii socii, omnimodas reverentias cum honore.
Cum per ultimum testamentum venerabilis viri Matthæi
Stokys Collegii nostri Caio-Gonvilensis mon ita pridem socii,
stipendia trium scholarium imperpetuum Collegio predicto
concredita, sint, ita tamen, ut eorum unus per Episcopum
Eliensem et successores ejus quoties locus vacaverit nomina-
retur, Nos Magister sive Custos et socii Collegii predicti (prout
voluntate defuncti astricti sumus) significamus plenum ac
primum jus nominandi unum scholarem (modo intra binas
menses) ad paternitatem véstram attinere, humillimeque peti-
mus ut quamprimum reverentiæ vestræ tempestivum videbitur,
quem paterna vestra pietas charitatis intuitu prosequatur, is
in locum jam possidendum nominetur. Hm Qtuju$ rei testi-
monium sigillum nostrum commune præsentibus apposuimus.
Datum in Collegio nostro 15 Junii 1640.
Quibus acceptis literis Matthæus Eliensis Episcopus in hunc
modum rescripsit.
Matthæus Permissione divina Eliensis Episcopus atque de-
canus sacelli Domini Regis, venerabilibus viris Thomæ Bachcroft
[p. 346] SS. T. P. Magistro sive Custode Collegii de Gon-
ville et Caius fundati in honorem Annunciationis B. M. V. in
Universitate Cantebrigiensi atque ejusdem Collegii sociis salu-
tem, gratiam et benedictionem.
Cum per literas vestras datas 15 die Junii ultimo elapsi
mobis significaritis, quod per ultimum testamentum venerabilis
viri Matthæi Stockys Collegii vestri predicti non ita pridem
socii, stipendia trium scholarium in perpetuum Collegio vestro
predicto concredita sint, quodque plenum et primum jus nomi-
nandi unum de tribus scholaribus antedictis ad nos et successores
nostros Episcopos Elienses quoties locus vacaverit, attineat.
410 ' ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANID CAIUS.
Nos igitur virtute testamenti predicti, dilectum nobis in Christo
Thomam Childerstom in Collegio vestro studentem, ad locum
scholaris antedicti per præsentes nominamus, intuitu charitatis
rogantes quatenus præfatum Thomam Childerstom ad locum
scholaris prædicti, quam primum commode fieri poterit, eligatis
sive admittatis. In cujus rei testimonium sigillum nostrum
Episcopale præsentibus apponi fecimus, datis apud manerium
nostrum de Downeham infra, insulam Eliensem 7 die Julii anno
Domini millesimo sexcentesimo quadragesimo, nostræ trans-
lationis ad sedem Eliensem anno tertio.
Hunc Thomam Childerston alias Cheston Suffolciensem, ab
Episcopo Matthæo Eliensi, predicta forma, nominatum, in locum
scholaris ex fundatione dicti Matthæi Stokys Custos et socii
communi consensu elegerunt.
Anno 1641
Ab illo tempore quo locatio rectoriarum de Debham et
Homyng in Comitatu Norfolciensi Magistro Matthæo Stokys ab
Episcopo Eliensi concessa fuit, multi effluxere anni, commodum
igitur Collegio fore duximus prospicere ut locatio dicta tem-
pestive renovetur, atque in eum finem communi consensu Cus-
todis et sociorum ad episcopum Eliensem Matthæum, Londini
commorantem, Mr Loveland missus est, cujus sollicitatione dictæ
[p. 347] Rectoriæ pro termino viginti...annorum rursus
Collegio conceduntur, ut apparet in libro rationali computo
Magistri Stokys appropriato.
Gulielmus Wortes Norfolciensis artium magister et socius
ex fundatione Doctoris Wendy, hoc anno Collegio valedicens, ad
animarum curam in Suffolcia se contulit, ipsoque decessu in sui
memoriam et grati animi testimonium Bibliothecæ dono dedit ;
Jani Gruteri Lampadem, sive Thesaurum Criticum, hoc est
Scriptores Criticos tomis sex distinctos, quo sane dono Biblio-
thecam nostram ornavit et auxit, scriptore non alienigeno et
inhospiti, sed alumno. Janus hic Gruterus Antwerpiæ natus
1563, et Norwici educatus sub Doctore Matthia, . anno 1577
in mostram societatem admissus Junii 11°, prima Academicæ
literaturæ tyrocinia hic apud nos posuit. Is de semet ipso
IMAGISTER, THOMAS BUCKENHAM. 4II
scribens, in præfatione ad florilegium magnum navat, se a matre
et abavia, et esse et audire Anglum, eaque in insula vixisse,
adolevisse, studuisse aut Norwici aut Cantabrigiæ, ab anno
ætatis quarto usque ad decimum nonum ; reliquos adolescentiæ
suæ annos egit Lugduni Batavorum ; Heydelbergiæ consenuit.
Tandem Austriacis armis undique obstrepentibus Gruterus civilis
belli tempestates fugiens meditabatur reditum in Angliam, quod
in Anglia educatus ideoque (ut scribit) ad curam et tutelam
matris proprie propriusque spectare videatur, tanto quidem
magis quod in insula illa fortunata perpetuo vixerit adoleverit
studuerit, etc. Heydelbergia capta et direpta omnibus exutus
bonis, haud multo post ultimam vitæ stationem elegit Brittæ
apud generum, ubi cessit, fatis illustrissimus Gruterus.
p. 348 blank.
[p. 349] Anno 1642
Thomæ Buckenham artium magistro et socio Medicinæ
studioso, concessa est copia se absentandi et studendi in regioni-
bus ultramarinis, ita tamen ut hæc concessio non obtineat;
vim priusquam triennale spatium, magistro Londom anno 1638
concessum, se determinavit. Concessio hæc per literas hac
forma scriptas, et communi sigillo sigillatas, confirmata fuit.
Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos hoc presens scriptum per-
venerit, mos Thomas Bachcroft SS. Theol. Doctor Magister sive
Custos Collegii de Gonvile et Caius fundati in honorem Annun-
ciationis beatæ Mariæ virginis in Universitate Cantebrigiæ, et
socii ejusdem Collegii salutem in Domino. Sciatis nos prefatos
Custodem et socios virtute statuti cujusdam a fundatore nostro
Johanne Cayo in hanc rem conditi, dilecto nobis in Christo
Thomæ Buckinham artium magistro, et Collegii nostri socio,
concordi consensu veniam concessisse, in regionibus transmarinis
peregre per triennium agendi, quo fæliciores in studio Medicinæ,
(cui se addixit) progressus faciat. In cujus rei fidem sigillum
commune Collegii nostri prædicti huic præsenti scripto apposui-
mus Apr. 11° 1642.
412 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANID CAIUS.
Hunc quoque dignissimum virum literis hisce nostris testi-
monialibus insuper honestavimus.
Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos hoc præsens scriptum
pervenerit. Nos Tho. Bachcroft S. T. D. Magister sive Custos
Collegii de Gonvile et Caius fundati in honorem Annunciationis
Beatæ Mariæ virginis in Universitate Cantebrigiæ et socii
ejusdem Collegii salutem in Domino. Cum dilectus nobis in
Christo Thomas Buckenham, artium magister et Collegii nostri
socius, justis de causis testimonium vitæ ac gradus suscepti a
nobis postulaverit, sciatis quod is per tredecim ammos nobiscum
commoratus sit, atque ita vitæ suæ rationem instituerit, ut
[p. 35O] propter morum probitatem ac operam in bonarum
artium disciplinis felicissime positam gradum magisterii in
artibus abhinc sexennio ab Academia obtinuerit ab eo tempore
in Philosophiæ ac Medicinæ studiis et sedulam navarit operam,
et laudabiles progressus fecerit, nobisque dignus apprime visus
sit quem literis hisce nostris vobis omnibus et singulis insuper
commendemus. In cujus rei testimonium nos prefati Magister
sive Custos et socii Collegii predicti huic præsenti scripto
nomina nostra apposuimus.
Dat. Ap. II 1642 Thomas Bachcroft Custos Joh. Loveland
Ed. Salter, secre- Thomas Gostling Præses Edw. Bladwell
tarius. Gulielmus Moore Gulielmus Buxton
Gulielmus Blankes ERob' Pickarell
Robertus Sherringham
Magistrum London ultra, statutum tempus absentandi se
Collegio moras nectantem, adhuc in transmarinis regionibus,
citavimus ut maturet reditum, cujus citationis formula com-
muni sigillo sigillata et ostio sacelli affixa talis fuit.
Thomas Bachcroft SS. Theol. P. Magister sive Custos Col-
legii de Gonvile et Caius fundati in honorem Annunciationis
beatæ Mariæ Virginis in Universitate Cantebrigiæ, et socii
ejusdem Collegii omnibus et singulis Christi fidelibus has literas
visuris vel audituris, necnon omnibus et singulis literatis qui-
buscumque, salutem in Domino.
Cum Richardus Londom Collegii predicti socius, sese a Col-
legio predicto absentaverit ultra tempus eidem assignatum et
CITATIO MAGISTRI LONDON. 413
limitatum pro reditu suo, Nos igitur prefati Magister et socii
vobis omnibus et singulis committimus ut eidem Richardo
London motum faciatis, cui nos etiam per præsentes motum
facimus, eundemque tenore præsentium citamus, quod com-
pareat coram nobis in sacello et loco capitulari et consueto dicti
Collegii, die existente vicesimo quinto die mensis Februarii
proxime futuro post datam præsentium, inter horas nomam et
decem ante meridiem eiusdem diei, causam rationalem si quam
habuit allegatur et probatur quare contra eum pro absentia et
nomresidentia sua, in Collegio predicto juxta tenorem statutorum
dicti Collegii et jura, et juris in ea parte exigentium, procedi
non debeat : ulteriusque facturus et recepturus quod justum
fuerit in premissis. In cujus rei testimonium sigillum commune
Collegii predicti præsentibus apponi fecimus. Datum 25 die
mensis Novembris, ammo Domini millesimo sexcentesimo quad-
ragesimo secundo.
[p. 35 1] Mr Londom expectatus dictis die et horis mom com-
paruit, nec per literas moram excusavit. Custos vero me extremo
jure egisse videatur vacationem sodalitii ejus per aliquot dies
promunciare distulit. Interim Regiæ hæ litteræ datæ sexto
Februarii, sed post vicesimum quintum ejusdem nobis traditæ,
fuere,
To our Trusty and Welbeloved the Master amd fellowes
of our Colledge of Gonvile and Caius in our Universitie of
Cambridge.
Charles Rex.
Trusty and Welbeloved, wee greet you well. Whereas wee
are givem to understand that Mr Richard London, is now fellow
of that our Colledge of Gonvile and Caius in our Universitie of
Cambridge, and that about foure yeares since he hath had,
by your licence granted him according to the statute of our
said Colledge, licence to travaile into forraigne parts for the
bettering of his studies in Physique and Chyrurgery, wherein as
wee are informed he hath not a litle advaneed himselfe and
dayly endeavours to perfect the same. Amd therefore since
you conceive that his absence from our said Colledge eannot by
414 ANNALS OF GONVILLE ANI) CAIUS.
reason of the said Statute be longer dispensed with than til
the five and twentieth of this instant February, Our Royal
Will and Pleasure is, that you grant him further licence to be
absent from our said Colledge for three compleat yeares here-
after to ensue, and allow him all his stipend rights and profitts
accordingly in the meame time, any statute interpretatiom or
impediment to the contrary notwithstanding.
Givem at our Courte at
Oxford the sixt day
of February 1642.
[p. 352] Quibus acceptis nihil a Custode aut sociis contra
actum erat, sed vi dispensationis Regiæ Magistro London
absentia in triennium amplius continuata erat. Quo privilegio
diu mon gaudebat; paulo enim post per Comitem Mancestrensem
omni jure suo in Collegio privatus, Gemoam migrans ibidem
ultimum clausit diem, sed prius (ut accepimus) Patavii docto-
ratus in Medicima gradu insignitus est.
p. 353 blank.
[p. 354] Amno 1643
Vicesimo sexto Octobris 1643 Thomæ Wesenham tenenti
(ut loquuntur) customario de Roughton in Comitatu Norfolciæ
in quibusdam terris quas per copiam tenuit de manerio ibidem
nostro, concessa est potestas et licentia cædendi et vendendi
octodecim quercus et duas ulmos, ea tamen conditione ut ante
festum Pentecostes quinque libras Collegio solvat.
Hic non tacendus Robertus Wells, Suffolciensis, generosus,
anno 1640 admissus hujus Collegii commensalis, qui cirea hæc
tempora ut gratitudinis et beneficentiæ suæ monumentum pos-
teris relinqueret ac etiam ut mathematicas disciplinas promo-
veret, Bibliothecæ mostræ domo dedit infra scriptos libros etc.
• Aquilonii optica, etc.
pp. 355—361 blank,
VICARIATUS DE WILTON. - 415
[p. 362] Anno 1644
Andraeas Doughtie, artium magister ac quondam Collegii
alumnus, canonice resignavit jus omne suum ad vicariatum
ecclesiae parochialis de Wilton in Comitatu Norfolciae, sicut
patet ex literis Reverendissimi Patris Josephi Norwicensis
Episcopi, hac forma ad Collegium datis.
Josephus Permissione Divina Norwicensis Episcopus, dilectis
nobis in Christo, venerabili viro Thoma Bachcroft clerico S. T.
Professori, Magistro sive Custodi Collegii de Gonvile et Caius,
et sociis ejusdem Collegii, salutem in Domino.
Cum ut accepimus jus Patronatus vicariatus Ecclesiae
Parochialis de Wilton in Comitatu Norfolciae nostrae Diocesios
Norwicensis ad vos de jure spectat et pertinet, vobis igitur et
cuilibet vestrum, tenore praesentium, ecclesiam parochialem de
Wilton predictam per liberam et spontaneam resignationem
Andraeae Doughty clerici ultimi vicarii et incumbentis ibidem
de persona eiusdem vacare et vacuum esse, jusque Patrono sive
Patronis Ecclesiae praedictae aliam personam laudabilem et
idoneam ad eandem praesentandam, competere certificamus,
intimamus, et innotescere volumus. In cujus rei testimonium
sigillum nostrum episcopale praesentibus appomi fecimus.
Datis in Palatio nostro Episcopali apud Norwicum vicesimo
tertio die mensis Octobris anno Domini Millesimo sexcentesimo
quadragesimo quarto.
Jos. Norwic. - Steph. Knight
Regist. principal.
[p. 363] Quibus publicatis ad electionem novi vicarii pro-
ceditur, sed ob tenuitatem beneficii et iniquitatem temporis
nullus repertus est idoneus quem ad dictum vicariatum Colle-
gium praesentaret, unde pro hac vice ad Episcopi provisionem
facta est devolutio.
p. 364 blank.
416 ANNALS OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS.
[p. 365] Ammo 1645
Rogerus Spelmam Johannis filii Henrici nepos (qui utrique
mom minus Ecclesiæ patrocinio clari quam equestri dignitate
illustres Norfolcienses), superiori anno commensalis admissus,
hoc anno ut satisfaceret Collegio pro ingressu patris avique
monumentis in æternum duraturis instruxit Bibliothecam hanc
nostram, dedit enim inter alios codices
Concilia Brittanica etc.
p. 366 blank.
[p. 367] Anno 1646
Hoc anno Dominus Thomas Nightingale (Thomæ filius
hujus quoque Collegii olim alumni) Baronettus, in Collegium
nostrum studiorum causa commensalis fuit admissus, cujus
generosa indoles certo pollicetur se sui generis honori non
defuturum, pro ingressu suo dedit Collegio argenteum poculum
uncias...pendens.
p. 368 blank.
[p. 369] Ammo 1647
Carolus Lovell ex Comitatu Cantebrigiæ de Wisbech,
generosus, hoc ammo admissus pensionarius major solitam in-
gressus sui pensionem compensavit hisce libris Bibliothecæ
mostræ donatis.
pp. 370, 371 blank.
[p. 373] Anno 1648
Circa hæc tempora dum alibi per Angliam omnia erant in
turbido, Academicus status favente numine aliquantulum quietior
fuit, rebusque Collegii nostri utcumque compositis prout temporis
ratio pateretur, Custos et socii commodo Collegii sedulo invigi-
lant, et meliora sperantes provida cura prospiciunt posteris ;
eumque in finem quo melior sit conditio terrarum nostrarum
quas in Dokesford in parochia Sancti Johannis possidemus, duo
tenementa cum ædificiis mecessariis etc., quibus antea caruimus,
emuntur a Thoma Symonds armigero, pretio centum et sexa-
ginta librarum. Hinc optime provisum est firmario nostro de
commoda habitatione quæ ante hanc accessionem fundis nostris
deerat.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
I have thought it well to append a few notes to the earlier
portions of Dr Caius' work, as in several cases there seems no
doubt that he fell into error. These notes are substantially
repeated from the third volume of the Biographical History of
our College.
1. Page 2. Dr Caius is wrong in saying that the deed of 1348 mentions
the names of Rougham, Tyrington, Lee, and Pulham. It is true .
that John Colton is there described as master; and “Scholars,”
i.e. fellows, are referred to, but there is no proof that these, or in
fact any, were nominated by Gonville. They are first mentioned
by name in 1354, in the deed of gift, by Bishop Bateman, of the
manor of Triplow. The Foundation deed of 1348 is printed in
my Vol. III., p. 326.
2. Page 2. Gonville certainly drew up a body of Statutes, but it is very
doubtful whether they ever received legal sanction. We have
a copy in our Treasury (Box I. No. 10), which is transcribed in
the volume of Sheriffe's Evidences, in our Library, but the
date is not filled in ; and, though the Statutes are followed by
acknowledgements of approval by the master (John de Tyrington)
and the Vice-Chancellor (Adam de Grantchester) these persons
are indicated only by initials. These documents have evidently
never had seals attached to them, and it certainly seems as if
they were drafts only. They are printed in my Vol. III., p. 341.
3. Page 6. The best account of the life of Bateman is that by Professor
E. C. Clark (Proceedings of Camb. Ant. Soc. xxxix.). No particle
of supporting evidence, in favour of the opinion that Bateman
was buried at Norwich, has ever been found.
C. A. S. Octavo Series. No. XL. 27
418 NOTES AND COMMENTs.
4. Page 13. Most of what is known about Walter Elvedon will be found
in my Vol. I, p. 2. He was, for those early days, an important
benefactor to the College. He was rector of Elvedon, of Snetter-
ton, and of Shropham ; archdeacon of Sudbury ; and precentor
of Hereford. He died about 1360. He gave five MSS. to our
library; but his most important gift seems to have been a
‘perpetual calendar.’ This was long preserved in the chest in
the College Treasury, together with ancient deeds and other
documents of value. It is recorded as being there in 1657, when
the register of the contents of our Treasury was drawn up, but
all trace of it has long since disappeared.
5. Page 13. Gerard’s Hostel is one of the few old hostels of which the
name is still preserved,—in “Garret Hostel Lane.’
Doubtless Caius is correct in his statement that William Tayte
left books, as compensation, to our College; but there is no
mention of Gonville Hall in his will, proved (P. C. C.) in 1544.
6. Page 21. The name of the intending benefactor was John, not Henry,
Carter. The deed is in our Treasury.
7. Page 26. William Somersham was master from 1412 to 1416, when
he was succeeded by John Rickinghall. The long standing error
as to the date of his death was only cleared up by the examination
of his will, which was dated Oct. 6, 1416, and proved Oct. 27 of
the same year in the P. C. C.
8. Page 26. This statement as to Laurence Booth is quite unintelligible,
as I have pointed out, Vol. III., p. 19. The only authority for it
appears to be a note (not contemporary) in our earliest Computus
book, p. 192. There is no mention there of Laurence Booth, but
the name given is simply “N. Bothe,” who, it is stated, was
afterwards bishop of Exeter. There is certainly some error here,
as the bishop of Exeter was John Booth, who was already bishop
in 1465. His brother Laurence was master of Pembroke in 1450,
and bishop of Durham in 1457. They had both been Chancellors
of the University before the assigned date; and there is no
evidence whatever to connect either of them with our College.
Whoever “N. Bothe ” may have been, he cannot have been either
of these. It is necessary to correct the error, as it has got into
print, both in Mr Riley’s report of the MSS. at Cambridge
(App. to 2nd Report of Hist. MSS., 1871), and in Mr Mullinger's
History.
NOTES AND COMMENTS. 419
9. Page 30. None of the various Papal Bulls recorded seem to have been
preserved in our Treasury, nor were they in existence in 1657
when the catalogue of deeds, etc., in the Treasury, was drawn up.
Can they have perished in the holocaust of ‘Popish trumpery’ in
1572, recorded at page 185? Their absence is certainly curious,
considering the care with which nearly all our other early docu-
ments have been preserved. Dr Caius evidently copied the
transcripts of these bulls in Sheriffe's Evidences.
10. Page 37. This ‘Statute,” or College order as it would now be called,
is interesting, as we have now no written reports of the acts and
decisions of the College earlier than 1592. It is the foundation
on which our subsequent Commemoration Services were com-
posed. Here again Sheriffe's volume is our only authority.
11. Page 42. The inclusion of Dr Wendy's name in this list is significant.
In his last instructions, given to Dr Caius, he expressly desired
the establishment of exeguies if the law permitted. He died in
1560. Caius' own name was doubtless inserted by Dr Legge,
the continuator of the Annals. The others here mentioned,
with the exception of Shaxton, all died in pre-Reformation
times. |
27—2
APPENDIX OF BOOKS MENTIONED.
MSS. AND PRINTED BOOKS.
(The references are to the preceding pages.)
Actuarius (J.). 80
Alexander Trallianus.
Biblia (Hebraica). 80
Testamentum vetus hebraicé. 80
Biblia, Sacra. 330
Dionysius Areopagita. 80
Galenus. De medendi methodo.
De differentiis febrium. 80
80
80
MSS.
De placitis Hippocratis et
Platonis. 80
De usu partium. 80
De causis morborum et sympto-
matum. 80
Hippocrates. 80
Homerus. Commentaria.
Galenus.
80
PRINTED BOOKS.
AElianus. Tiguri 1556. Fo. 81
Aetius. [Opera] latiné. Basil. 1535.
Fo. 85
Alexander Trallianus. Paris. 1548.
Fo. 119
Alosii Epistolae. 119
Ambrosius. Opera. Paris. 1529.
Fo. 14
Anselm. Opera. Paris, 1549. Fo.
211–2
Appianus. Graecá et Latiné. Paris.
1551. Fo. 191
Aquilonius. Optica. 414
Aristotle. Opera. Graecó. 3 voll.
Venetiis 1497. Fo. 85
2 voll. Basil. 1539. Fo. 119
(Latiné). 2 voll. Lugd. 1549.
Fo. 119
Arnaldus de Villa Nova [“Regulae
Wniversales']. Basil. n. d.
80. 119
Arnobius. Basil. 1522. Fo. 14
Augustinus. Omnium Operum Epi-
tome. Aug. Wind. 1537. Fo.
188
Aurelianus (Celius). Antiquae lecti-
ones. 119
De ratione victus. 119
Averroes. 119
Avicenna. 81 \
Venet. 1564. Fo. 119
Balbus (J.). Catholicon. 119
Baldus. 261
Bartolus. 261
Basilius. Opera. Colon. 1523. F9.
188
Bernardus. Opera. Paris. 1513. F9. 14
Biblia Graece. Venet. 1518. Fo. 80
Latiné studio Pagnini. Basil.
1564. Fo. 188
Latiné, cum annott. J. Bene-
dicti. [Qu. Paris. 1565. Fº.]
191
Blondus (Flavius). De Roma Trium-
phante. Basil. 1531. Fo.
207
Bonaventura. In Magistrum Senten-
tiarum. 2 voll. Nurem-
bergae 1510. Fo. 188
º
422 . APPENDIX.
Bonifacius VIII. Sextus liber cum
Clementinis. Paris. [1518].
40. 188
Brunfels (Otto). Herbarum vivae ei-
t cones. Argent. 1531–2. F9.
119
Budaeus (G.). Commentaria. Paris.
1529. Fo. 81
Caius (J.). Opera omnia. 81, 119
De antiquitate Cantabrigiae.
1574. 40. 189
Calvin (J.). Institutiones. 1575. 188
Harmonia. R. Stephan. 1560.
Fo. 188
Canones Apostolorum. Mogunt. 1523.
Fo. 1574, 188
Catalogus scriptorum illustrium.
[Missing] 81
Celsus (Cornelius). 119
Chrysostom. 14
Clemens. Rom. Historiae. 191
Concilia Generalia. 14
Cyril Alexandrinus. Opera varia. 212
Demosthenes. Graecá. 85
Dictionarium Graecum. 81
Dionysius Carthusianus. 14
Dionysius Halicarnasseus. 207
Dioscorides. • Graecó. 85
Gr. Lat. 119
Dorstenius (Theod.). Botanicon.
Francof. 1540. Fo. 119
Bruchiridion chirurgicum. 119
Epigrammata antiquae urbis [ed. J.
Mazochius. Romae 1521.
Fol. 191
Erasmus. Cantab. 1521. 125
Chiliades. 81
Testamentum vetus. 14
Estey (George). 350
Euclides. Latiné. 85
Eernelius. Opera. 212
De abditis cum aliis. 119
Frontinus (Julius). De re militari.
207
Fuchsius (L.). Opuscula. 119
Anatom. 119
Herbarium. 119
Galenus. Opera graecá. 80–81,
119
Opera latiné. 81, 119
De composit. med. 119
De compos. sedecim locos. 119
De alimento. 119
De decretis cum aliis. 119
De locis affect. 119
De sanitate. 119
De crisibus. 119
De sanitate cum aliis. 119
De simpl. cum aliis. 119
De symptom. 119
Epit. in comm. 119
Gerarde (J.). Herbal. 213
Gesner. De animalibus. 81
Gilbert (W.). De magnete. 243
Gordonio (Bernardus de). Practica.
119
Gratianus. Decreta. 188
Gregorius. Decretalia. Paris. 1518.
40. 188.
Gregorius. 14
Grimstone (E.). Hist, of Nether-
lands. 225
Gruter (Janus). Lampas, s. Thesau-
rus Criticus. 410
Hesychius. Graecó. 85, 188
Hilarius. Opera. 188
Hippocrates. Graecó. 85
Opuscula. 119
De aere. 119
Aphorismi. 119
Homerus. Graecá. 81
Comm. Graecó. 85
Hondius (Jodocus). 243
Hortus Sanitatis. 119
Irenaeus. 14
Isaac. 119
Jason. 261
Justinianus. Digestum vetus. 260,
261
Pandecta, 119
APPENDIX. 423
Knolles (Richard). Turkish History.
1611. 225
Leonellus. Practica. 119
Lexicon Graeco-latinum. 119
Linacre (T.). Grammatica. 119
Livius (T.). Decades. 350
Ludolphus de Saxonia. Vita Christi.
188
Lydgate (J.). “Cantab. 1521.’ 125
Manardus (Joannes). Epistolae med.
119 - *-
Marcellus, Empiricus. De medicam.
empiricis, 119
Martius (Galeottus). De homine. 119
Matthaeus (J.). Practica. 119
Matthew of Westminster. Chronica.
188
Mela (Pomponius). 119
Mesue (Joannes). 119
Montanus (Joh. Bapt.). Consilia.
[Noribergae 1559. Fº.] 119
Musa (Antonius). In Hippocratem.
119
Musculus (W.). Loci comm. 188
Musius (Joh.). Isagoge. 119
Napier (John) of Merchiston. 243
Nicolaus Myrepsis. 119
Nizolius. 81
Onus Ecclesiae. Colon. 1531. Fo.
188
Oribasius. 119
Pagninus. See Biblia. 188
Paris (Matthaeus). Chronica. 188
Historia. 407–8
Paulus AEgineta. 119
Philaretus. De pulsis. 119
De urinis. 119 |
Pindarus. Graece. 85
Plato. Graecó. 85
Latiné. 85
Plinius. Latiné. 85
Plutárch. Graecó. 2 voll. 85
‘Princip. Medicor.” 213
Proclus. De sphaera. 119
Ptolomaeus. Geographica. 207
Tabulae latiné. 85
Putraneus de p" Graecé. 119
De conceptu. 119
Reuchlin (J.). De verbo mirifico.
Spirae 1494. Fo. 188
Roberts (Alexander). Sacred septe-
narie. 1614. 49. 277
Rocca (A.). Bibliotheca Vaticana.
Romae 1591. 49. 212
Ruellius (J.). De natura stirpium.
[Missing] 85
Paris. 1536. Fo. 213
Sabellicus (A. C.). Rapsodie. Pars
[prima-J posterior. Paris.
1513–1528. Fo. 207
Savonarola (J. M.). ‘De febr.’
[? Practica. Venet. 1561.
Fo.] 119
Practica Maior.
Fo. 213
Sayrus (Gregorius). Clavis Regia.
Westfaliae. 1628. Fo. 349
Seneca. Philosophia. Ed. Erasmus.
Basil. 1515. Fo. 207
Serres (J. de). Inventary of France.
LOnd. 1611. Fo. 225
Binding: Arms of Henry, Prince of
Venet. 1559.
Sidonius Apollinaris. Poema. 119
Silenus. De delapsu. 119
Sophocles. Tragoediae (Graecó).
Florent. 1522. 49. 85
De re med. cum aliis.
119
Spelman (Sir Henry). Concilia
Britannica. 1639. Fo. 416
* Stephanus de phedris.’ 260–1
Stephanus (R.). Thesaurus linguae
latinae. 3 voll. Paris. 1542.
Soranus.
Fo. 85
Suidas. Graecó. Venet. 1514. Fo.
85
Swedish Intelligencer. See Watts.
Sylvius (AEneas). Commentariorum
424 APPENDIX.
Ulpianus in Demosthenem (Graecó).
Venet. 1503. Fo. 85
Varinus, s. Phavorinus. Lexicon
Graecó. Romae 1523. F9.
85
Vesalius. 81
De humani corporis fabrica.
Basil. 1555. Fo. 213
Walsingham (Thom.). Ypodogma.
Lond. 1574. Fo. 188
Binding : , Abp Parker's crest and
initials.
Watts (William). Swedish Intelli-
gencer. 1639. 407
White (John). Way to the true
church. Lond. 1612. 49.
225
Sermons. 1624. 225
Wright (Edward). 242–3
Wright (Sam.). 243
libri duo. Norimbergae.
1532. Fo. 188
Sylvius in Hippocratem. [? Paris.
1561. 89.] 119
Testamentum Vetus. [Qu. Basil.
1545. Fo.] 14
Theodoricus. Chronica. 188
Theophylactus in Evangelia. Romae
1542. Fo. 119
Thesaurus Ling. Lat. See Stephanus.
Thomas Aquinas. In 4 Evangelistas.
Paris. 1540. Fo. 188
In Epp. Pauli. Paris. 1526. Fº.
L88
Summa. Venet. 1500. Fo. 188
Thucydides. Graecá. Venet. 1502.
Fo. 85
Thysius (Anton). Explicatio doc-
trinae de electione. 349
Titelmannus. In Psalmos. Antwerp.
1531. Fo. 207
NoTE. The references to MSS. and books in the text of the Annals are so
slight that it has not been possible to identify them in all cases. The College
Library catalogue has been consulted, but in several cases even the author’s
name, as here quoted, was absent.
C. E. S.
INDEX.
Alban’s, St, Monastery, 61
Albon, Edmund, 7, 12, 38, 42
Aldwyn, John, 200
Alexander VI, Pope, 30, 33, 36
Alington, Sir Giles, 128
Alkin, Thomas, 22, 23
Allen, John, 257, 263
Allyn's Buildings, 207, 226
Altham, James, 188, 199
— Thomas, 199
Annals, The, 210, 394
Ansell’s Buildings, 100
Appleton, William, 124
Argall family, 135
Ashwell, 22
Aspland, Thomas, 13
Astrolabe, 80
Atkinson, John, .270, 279
Atwood, Thomas, 7, 26, 39
Avignon, 6
Awbrey, John, 8
Aylward, John, 41
— Thomas, 11
Aynel's manor, 23, 217
Bacon, Nicholas, 77
— Sir Nicholas, 90
— Thomas, 27, 41, 59
Bakery, The, 191
Baldwin, Edward, 340
— William, 61
Ball, William, 91, 108
Baniard, John, 19
Bansted's, 11, 22
Bardolph, Dr, 10
Barker, William, 17, 46, 174, 191
Barlestone, Philippa, 12
Barly, John, 7, 9, 27
Barningham, 18
Barnstaple, 326
Barrow, Maurice, 223
Barton, 25
Barwick, Thomas, 122
Bassingbourne, 330, 340
Batchcroft, Dr, 289
— election of, 329
Bateman, John, 46, 73
— William, 3, 16
— death of, 6
Bath, Earl of, 191, 210, 309, 399
Bayard, John, 40
Bayly, Dr, 12, 17, 20, 38, 41
Bedmakers, 301
Bell, College, 14, 190
Bell, John and Jane, 211
Bendish, Thomas, 293
Benefices, appointments to, 351
Bereblock, William, 207
Beverly, John, 12, 40
Bier, William, 3
Bincombe manor, 125
— rectory, 135, 352
Bing, Dr, 287
Blundell, Mr, 13
Boleyn, Thomas, 12, 26, 28
Boniface IX, Pope, 5, 30
Booth, Laurence, 26
Bottisham, John, 29
— Nicholas, 28
Bourchier, Edward, 210
Botswayn, William, 18
Botulph, St., 4
426
INDEX.
Bowman, Nathaniel, 355
Brabourne, Theophilus, 225
Bracy, Robert, 58
Branthwaite, Dr, 217, 264
— death, 283
— will, 284
— Elizabeth, 231
Branthwaite scholars, 300
Branthwaite, Richard, 301
Briggs, Thomas, 232
Browne, John, 195, 233
— Richard, 8, 41
Buckenham, Nicholas, 8, 12, 20
— Thomas, 411
— William, 15, 20, 27
Buckhurst, Lord, 156
Buckingham College, 31
Buildings, Caius’, 113
— contracts for, 271
— expense of, 186
— Legge, 277
— New, 206, 389
— Perse, 271
Burnham Overy, 178, 184
Burnham Manor, 60, 308, 310
Burre, Thomas, 46
Bursar, Election of, 264
Busby, Humphrey, 89, 108, 112, 120,
174
Butler, College, 379
Buttery, The, 190
Butts, William, 29
Byng, Thomas, 185
Caduceus, The, 57
Caius, Dr, election as Fellow, 87
— Master, 78
— Doctor’s degree, 59
— gifts by, 58, 80, 122
— outrage on, 185
— resignation, 185
— death of, 187
— tomb of, 185, 189, 192
Calton, Dr, 13
Camden, William, 350
Cantabrigia, John de, 4
Carey, Walentine, 256
Carteling, 11, 22
Carter, Henry, 21
— John, 7, 38, 39
Catechist, 300
Catelyn, Robert, 144
Causton, Richard, 40
Cawston, 11
Caxton, 263, 349, 355, 377
Champneys, Geoffrey, 28
— Justinian, 208, 226
Chapel, the College, 8, 28
— enlargement of, 398
— entrance to, 125
— ornaments, 301
— windows, 191
Chaplain, College, 340
Charter of Foundation or Incorpora-
tion, 43
Chelsfield, 77
Chest, Aylward's, 11
Chesterton, 25
Chetmell, John, 342
Childeaston, Thomas, 410
Chintriaco, Hugo de, 6
Church, Robert, 194, 209
Clarke, William, 46
Clement VII, Pope, 30
Clement, John, 60–80
Clere, Elizabeth, 8, 11, 18, 23, 39
— Robert, 8, 39
— Thomas, 124
Clynt, John, 28
— Mary, 28
Coinage, Base, 81
Colton, John, 2, 26
Comets, Gostlin on, 327
Conway, William, 124, 187, 199
Cooke, Thomas, 263, 389
Corpus Christi College, 4, 122
Cosin, John, 355, 399
Costessy, Henry, 8, 27, 41
Cowell, John, 46, 73
Cowling, 11, 22
Cradock, Nathaniel, 234, 263, 298
Crome, Edward, 17, 85
Crouch, John, 28
Croxley manor, 60
Cruso, Aquila, 378
— John, 264, 378
INDEX.
427
Cubicle, Master's, 5, 7, 58, 192
— rent of, 300
Curson, Robert, .211
Cutting, William, 208, 226
Dabernoons manor, 194
Davys, Thomas, 108, 111
Declamations, 299
Dedication of new Buildings, 113
Degree fees, 353
D'Engaynes manor, 21
Denne, Andrew, 14, 18
Dethic, Derick, Henry, 46, 174
Devenish, Francis, 341, 352
Dilham, 382
Dinsdale, John, 185
Dissections, 209
Dogget, John, 28
Doon, Robert, 178
Dorrington, Francis, 191, 206
Doughty, Andrew, 415
Dovecote, The, 8
Drantall, Thomas, 8
Droll, John, 8, 41
Drury, Anne, 12, 19
Duisborough, Anthony, 209
Duxford, 194
Ebbes, John, 308
Edwards, Mr, 123
Elie, Reginald, 25
Ellesmere, Chancellor, 226
Eltisley, Thomas de, 4
Elvedon, Walter, 13, 40
Elwyn, John, 125
Ely, Bishop of, 7
Emmanuel College, 284
Erasmus, 125
Estey, George, 194, 350
Exeguies of Bp Bateman, 6
IFellowships, Foundation of, 16, 60, 83
— number of, 17, 87
Fen Ditton, 10
Feuds, North and South, 13
Findsilver Lane, 206
Fines on Leases, 267, 269
Fires in College, 111, 122
Fisher, Jesuit, 225
Fishwick, William, 8
— Hostel, 8, 33, 35, 39
Bletcher, John, 232
Fouldon, 5
Foundation, First, 1
— Second, 57
Fowler, George, 357
Foxton, Edward, 234
Frankincense, 10
Frankland, Mrs, 192
— Fellows, 252, 299, 340, 395
Frating, 397, 408
Fynes, Edward, 70
Gale, William, 22, 39, 40
Garden, College, 114, 124
— President’s, 115, 124
Gatton, Hugh, 226
Gerard, Gilbert, 144
— William, 185
Gerard’s Hostel, 9, 13
Gild of Corpus Christi, 4
Glass in chapel, 174
Glover, Robert, 224
Glynn, Hugh, 46, 73
— Owen, 255
Gode, William, 185
Goldcorne, John, 4
Goldwell, James, 9
— John, 237
Gonville, Edmund, 2, 16
— Hall, name of, 3
Gooch, Thomas, 231
Gostlin, Dr, 195, 215, 288, 307
— death of, 325
— will of, 328
— John, 330
Grancester, Anthonius, 2
Green, William, 28
— Oliver, 233
Gresham, Thomas, 29
Grimeston, Thomas, 209, 213
Gruter, Janus, 411
Hackluyt, Richard, 242
Haddenham, 8, 12, 20, 379
Haglo, 203
428
INDEX.
Hall, College, 7, 28
— hangings of, 8
— warming of, 120
— windows of, 206
Hare, Sir John, 352
— P., 56
Harling, Walter, 10
Harris, William, 356
Hartwell, Abraham, 114
Harvey, Dr, 262, 340
Haslingfield, 83, 125, 217
Hatcher, Thomas, 114
Hatton, Sir Christopher, 350
Haveus, Theodore, 190
Hawle, William, 200
Hearle, William, 210
Heath, Thomas, 353
Helvedon, v. Elvedon
Hemegrave, Edmund, 6
Hemenhall, Katherine, 41
— Ralph, 10, 16, 20, 41
Henney, 4, 28
Hewet, Peter, 24
Hewlett (Nich. Howlett), 398
Heydon, Sir Christopher, 190, 232, 380
— John, 21, 380
— Katharine, 21
Hill, Richard, 178
Hinxton, 23
Hobman, Francis, 276, 298
Hoddye, William, 147
Holland, Henry, 89, 191
Hondius, Jodocus, 243
Hone, J., 262
Honing, 382, 410
Honour Gate, 187, 189, 233
Hore, Margery, 23, 39.
Houghton, Thomas, 91, 100
Hughes, Francis, 349
Humility Gate, 125
Huntingfield, William, 11, 41
Husband, Christopher, 289, 309
Hydon, Roger, 13, 39
Indentures, Bursars’, 267, 270
Jacket, Mr, 13
John’s, St., Hospital, 3
Kendall, Richard, 300
Kettilston, John, 46
Kidman, Thomas, 289
Ring, Robert, 276, 298
King's Arms, 100, 125
Knight, Geoffrey, 21, 25, 41
Lacy family, 176
Lancaster, Duke of, 4
Lane, Robert, 91, 115
— Dr, 329
Lathes manor, 325
Laud, Abp, 396
Law, Costs of, 307
Leases, College, 394
Lectureships, 24
Lee, Robert, 64
— William de, 2, 5
Legge, Dr, 185, 213, 278
Le Strange, John, 12, 38, 40, 41
Levit, Richard, 377
Lewes Monastery, 6
Lewing, Gilbert, 355, 379
— John, 9
Librarian, 300, 308, 351
Library, College, 7, 28.
— gifts to, 12, 14, 81, 85, 112, 119,
188, 191, 206, 207, 211, 213, 225,
309, 416
Ling, Richard, 3
Linstead, John, 11, 41
Litany, Reading of, 301
Litigation in College, 257, 391
London, Richard, 399, 412
Long Entré, Le, 3
Loveland, John, 410
Lovell, Charles, 416
— Thomas, 9
Lowd, Robert, 300
Lurghburne Lane, 2, 3, 4
Lyndwood, William, 28
Lyhert, Bp, 39
Magdalene College, 31
Manwood, Peter, 225
Markham, John, 28, 86
Marsh, Humberston, 379
Martin, Thomas, 206, 207
HNDEX. 429
Mary, St, Hostel, 122
Massingham, Great, 252
Masters, List of, 26
Mastership, Election to, 215, 257
Mattin, Henry, 207, 258
Mattishall, 10, 16, 30
Maydenhead, Le, 23
Michael’s, St (Cambridge) 88
— (Norwich) 14, 125
Michael's Lane, 25, 91
Michells, Edmund, 276, 298
Mildmay, Henry, 195
Milles, Thomas, 224
Milton, 328
Moore, William, 210, 399
Morley, Lord, 29, 124
Mortimers manor, 19, 212, 278
Morton, Sir Albert, 407
Mulcts, College, 267
Munden, Henry, 300
Munsey, William, 117
Mutford, 5, 30, 389
Mynn, Nicholas, 179, 184
Napier (John), 243
Naylor, Oliver, 289, 298, 309
Necton, Thomas, 14
Neots, St, Monastery, 200
Newnham, 11
Nichols, Edmund, 276
Nightingale, Sir Thomas, 416
Norfolk, Preference for, 268, 292
Normanton, John, 406
North, Edward, 23
Oddy, Thomas, 300
Ormesby, 19
Orrell, Thomas, 233
Owdolf, John, 8
Paget, William, 213
Pakenham, Mary, 10, 16, 42
— Thomas, 42
Palatine, Count, 223
Pancras, St (Lewes), 6
Parker, Abp, 174, 176, 188
— Edward, 124
— Sir Philip, 325
Parker, Richard, 224, 350
Paston, William, 213
Pattesley, 21, 25, 190, 380
Paul’s, St, Cathedral, 378, 396
Payne's Close, 24
Perne, Andrew, 58, 79
Perse, Catherine, 397
Perse, Martin, 276, 289, 331
— Stephen, 194, 245
— Buildings, 252, 254, 271
— Causeway, 252
— fellows, 297, 299
— school, 249
— tomb, 256
— will of, 245
Person, Andrew, 17
Philip Lane, 192
Pictures, 193
Pitches, Richard, 22
Plague, The, 211, 353, 397
Plate, College, 15, 57, 177, 193, 207,
216
Plumbe, William, 7
Pole, Humphrey de la, 13, 29
Popes, Bulls of, 30
Pory, John, 58, 122, 210
Powle, Richard, 12, 40
Pratt, Henry, 211
Prayers in Chapel, 301
President, The, 393
President’s Garden, 115, 124
Preston, John, 7
Primiget, John, 5
Printer, University, 125
“Problems,’ 267, 299
Profession, Change of, 269
Pulham, Richard, 2, 5, 26
Pulton, 203
Quarles, Francis, 223
Bails in the Court, 192
Randolph, Thomas, 264, 301
Rayles, Le, 190
Rede, Ann, 9
Reeve, Thomas, 207
Rents of rooms, 267
Reppes, William, 29
430 INDEX,
Bichardson, Thomas, 399
Rickinghale, John, 26
Rickmansworth, 60
River, New, 243
Roberts, Alexander, 276
Rogers, Agnes, 234
Rose and Crown, The, 328, 377
Rougham, William, 2, 5, 8, 26
Roughton manor, 60
Rugge, William, 174
Bumbalds, 207, 226
Runcton, v. Roughton
Rushford College, 19
Sandford, Giles, 352
Saville, Richard, 36
— Thomas, 147
Saxey, William, 193
Sayer, Robert, 349
Scholarships, List of, 87.
Scroope, Lady, 19, 40
Seal, College, 4
Servants, College, 85
Sharnfold manor, 159
Shaxton, Nicholas, 14, 29, 39, 88, 120
Shelford manor, 235, 381, 395
— mill, 330
Sherborne monastery, 146
Sheriffe, Edmund, 26
Sheringham, Robert, 390
Sherman, John, 88, 120
Siberch, John, 125
Sigo, William, 23
Site, Enlargement of, 88
Sixtus IV, Pope, 31
Skipp, Dr John, 21, 27, 29, 203
Skippon, Luke, 399
– William, 399
Smith, Sabine, 46
— Stephen, 18, 40
Smyth, Andrew, 91, 100
Snelleshall manor, 60
Somersham, William, 26
Soarne, Thomas, 308, 310
Southwell, Richard, 184
Spelman, Roger, 416
Spencer, Henry, 28
— Robert, 60
Spicer, Robert, 251, 256
— Thomas, 217
Sponne, William, 28
Springall, John, 381
Stable, College, 8
Stackhouse, John, 13
Statutes, College, 2, 3, 189
— dispute about, 265
Steeple Morden, 22, 120
Steward, Nicholas, 259
Stewards, College, 267, 270, 353
Stokys, Matthew, 382
— will of, 382
— scholars, 408
Stone House, The, 4
— foundation, 113
Stow Quy, 21
Stotheridge, John, 226
Stubbes, Edmund, 27
‘Studies,’ 192
Stuteville, Thomas, 206
Styrmin, John, 27
Suffolk, Duke of, 13
— — Sons of, 29
— Earl of, 262, 288, 307
Sundials, 190, 233
Swale, Richard, 206, 350
Swan Inn, 24
Swannesley manor, 188
Symonds, John, 399
Syseley, Clement, 126, 139
Tabor, James, 265
Talbot, John, 91, 100
Taverner, Richard, 18
Tawstock, 309
Taylor, Jeremy, 395
Tayte, William, 13
Teversham, 20, 21, 353
Thomson, Thomas, 10
Thornham, 21
Thorpe, Agnes, 9, 14
— Robert, 9, 14, 29
Thysius, Anthony, 349
Tichwell, 21
Tilbury, West, 207
Tower, Garden, 122, 124
— Sacred, 189
INDEX.
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Townshend, Roger, 380
Trapps, Joan, 89
— Robert, 193
Trinity College, Houses bought of,
90
Trinity Hall, 3
Triplow manor, 5
Tryse, Richard, 200
Tuttington, 19, 330
Tyrington, 2
— John de, 2, 5
Ufford, John, 28
Valenger, Stephen, 124
Vincent, John, 46
Wake, Thomas, 289, 351, 399
Wakering, Bp, 12, 40
Wales, Prince of, 223
Walker, George, 112
— Henry, 29, 58, 112, 119
Walls, Garden, 8, 9, 112, 124, 206
Warner, Thomas, 28
Warrock, John, 7
— William, 39
Watts, William, 407 -
Weatherall, Thomas, 223
Weasenham, Thomas, 414
Webb, William, 231
Weeting, 357
Well, College, 190
Wells, Robert, 257, 289, 351, 357, 414
Wendy, Richard, 399
— Thomas, 17, 29, 42, 83, 125, 217
— Margaret, 83, 125
Westoning, 23
Whitacres, John, 22
Whitaker (William), 350
White, John, 224
— Francis, 224
— Peter, 224
Whitgift, Abp, 185
Wiggenhall, 302
Willison, Anna (Margaret), 203, 204
— Richard, 203
Willoughby, Gilbert, 209
Willowes, William, 19, 22
Wilton, 5, 30, 415
Windows of Hall, 206
Woburne manor, 24, 125, 131, 177,
341
Worlingham, 24, 308
Wright, Edward, 242
— John, 207
— Samuel, 243
— Thomas, 207
Wymondham monastery, 178
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