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many corporate towns now under the Queen's dominion that have not one grammar school at the least, with a sufficient living for a master and usher appointed to the same.
There are in like manner divers collegiate churches, as Windsor, Winchester, Eton, Westminster (in which I was some time an unprofitable grammarian under the reverend father Master Nowell, now dean of Paul's), and in those a great number of poor scholars, daily maintained by the liberality of the founders, with meat, books, and apparel, from whence, after they have been well entered in the knowledge of the Latin and Greek tongues, and rules of versifying (the trial whereof is made by certain apposers yearly appointed to examine them), they are sent to certain special houses in each university, where they are received and trained up in the points of higher knowledge in their private halls, till they be adjudged meet to shew their face's in the schools as I have said already.
And thus much have I thought good to note of our universities, and likewise of colleges in the same, whose names I will also set down here, with those of their founders, to the end the zeal which they bare unto learning may appear, and their remembrance never perish from among the wise and learned.
OF THE COLLEGES OF CAMBRIDGE WITH THEIR FOUNDERS
Years of the Foundation Colleges Founders
1546 1 Trinity College King Henry 8.
1441 2 The King's College King Henry 6, Edward 4, Henry 7, and Henry 8.
1511 3 St. John's Lady Margaret, grandmother to Henry 8.
1505 4 Christ's College King Henry 6 and the Lady Margaret aforesaid.
1446 5 The Queen's College Lady Margaret, wife to King Henry 6.
1496 6 Jesus College John Alcock, bishop of Ely.
1342 7 Bennet College The brethren of a Popish guild called Corporis Christi.
1343 8 Pembroke Hall Maria de Valentia, Countess of Pembroke.
1256 9 Peter College Hugh Balsham, bishop of Ely.
1348 10 Gundewill and Caius Edmund Gundevill, parson of 1557 College Terrington, and John Caius, doctor of physic.
1354 11 Trinity Hall William Bateman, bishop of Norwich.
1326 12 Clare Hall Richard Badow, chancellor of Cambridge.
1459 13 Catherine Hall Robert Woodlark, doctor of divinity.
1519 14 Magdalen College Edward, Duke of Buckingham, and Thomas, lord Audley.
1585 15 Emanuel College Sir Walter Mildmay, etc.
OF THE COLLEGES AT OXFORD
Years of the Foundation Colleges Founders
1539 1 Christ's Church King Henry 8.
1459 2 Magdalen College William Wainfleet, first fellow of Merton College, then scholar at Winchester, and afterwards bishop there.[6]
1375 3 New College William Wickham, bishop of Winchester.
1276 4 Merton College Walter Merton, bishop of Rochester.
1437 5 All Souls' College Henry Chicheley, archbishop of Canterbury.
1516 6 Corpus Christi College Richard Fox, bishop of Winchester.
1430 7 Lincoln College Richard Fleming, bishop of Lincoln.
1323 8 Auriel College Adam Broune, almoner to Edward 2.
1340 9 The Queen's College R. Eglesfeld, chaplain to Philip, queen of England, wife to Edward 3.
1263 10 Balliol College John Balliol, king of Scotland.
1557 11 St. John's Sir Thomas White, knight.
1556 12 Trinity College Sir Thomas Pope, knight.
1316 13 Excester College Walter Stapleten, bishop of Excester.
1513 14 Brasen Nose William Smith, bishop of Lincoln.
1873 15 University College William, archdeacon of Duresine.
16 Gloucester College John Crifford, who made it a cell for thirteen monks.
17 St. Mary's College
18 Jesus College, now Hugh ap Rice, doctor of the civil in hand law.
[6] He founded also a good part of Eton College, and a free school at Wainfleet, where he was born.
There are also in Oxford certain hotels or halls which may right well be called by the names of colleges, if it were not that there is more liberty in them than is to be seen in the other. In my opinion the livers in these are very like to those that are of the inns in the chancery, their names also are these so far as I now remember: