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This occasions the foundation of St John's college here
And soon after of Wolsey's college at Oxford.
Catalogue of the masters or priors of St John's house or
hostel
Carmen phalacium hendecasyllabum
ST JOHN'S COLLEGE.
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The members of God's house continued as members of the
new college
Her intended benefactions at Westminster
Bishop Fisher suggests schools of learning instead
Lady Margaret alters her purpose
Obtains the king's consent for this
ib.
The bishop turns her thoughts from Oxford to St John's
house, Cambridge
The bishop's and king's licence obtained for its dissolution
Death of Lady Margaret
Informality in the codicil to her will
Opposition of Hen. 8 and the bishop of Ely
A bull obtained from the pope dissolving St John's house
The power of naming one fellow reserved to the bishops of Ely
The bishop of Ely grants the jewels and goods of St John's
house
Wisdom of the executors in pursuing the Foundress' intention
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this time
Death of Dr Hornby
ments
His benefactions
The probable date of these
Their enactments
His preferments and death
Error of Burnet and Wharton in sending him to Rome at
His preferments and character
Account of Robert Shorton
Appointed to mastership of Pembroke, and other prefer-
The earliest statutes those of Bishop Fisher
Alan Percy resigns the mastership
Nicholas Metcalfe succeeds as third master
His account of the revenues of the college at that time
Gets the estate at Ospring legally assured to the college
Clears off the building debt
Urges bishop Fisher to obtain increased revenues
The nunneries of Higham and Bromehall obtained from the
king
The bishop's proceedings herein
The disposal of the nuns
The king's and Wolsey's zeal in this matter
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Annual exequies decreed to bishop Fisher as to a founder
The college sympathy with the bishop upon his fall
The king seizes his furniture, etc. belonging to the college
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The king recommends Dr Day for the mastership
Dr Wylson obtains the majority of votes
Dr Wylson refuses the mastership and Day is elected
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Extracts from his sermons on the state of the university
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He retires to Switzerland at the death of king Edward
Returns under queen Elizabeth
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His Genevan doctrines unqualify him for the mastership
Made master of Sherburn hospital
His death, epitaph, and character as a preacher
Advised the queen against the title of supreme head
His marriage a bar to his regaining the mastership
His writings and publications
Thomas Watson succeeds Leaver as eighth master
His county and family
Retained the confidence of the popish party
Bishop Fisher's statutes revived under him
Promoted to the deanery of Durham
A man of learning and a restorer of learning.
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Account of Dr Young the vicechancellor
The university under Gardiner and Pole as chancellors
Cardinal Pole appoints a visitation of the university
Bucer's body condemned and burnt for heresy
The bishop of Ely's last visitation under the old statutes
Dr Bullock ejected under Elizabeth .
Pilkington's hard account of Bullock and others
Desecration of the Fisher and Ashton chapels
Service books, vestments, etc., turned out, and Geneva
psalters brought in.
Leon. Pilkington sometime regius professor of divinity
Resigns the mastership
The reason of this
Admitted to a doctor's degree
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He and his brother John made overseers of Rivington school
Richard Longeworth succeeds as twelfth master
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Sir Wm. Cecill's instructions on the queen's visit to Cam-
The Aulularia of Plautus acted before her there on Sunday
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