The foundation of the Vniversitie of Cambridge with a catalogue of the principall founders and speciall benefactors of all the colledges and the totall number of students, magistrates and officers therein being, anno 1622 / the right honorable and his singular good lord, Thomas, now Lord Windsor of Bradenham, Ioh. Scot wisheth all increase of felicitie.

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Title: The foundation of the Vniversitie of Cambridge with a catalogue of the principall founders and speciall benefactors of all the colledges and the totall number of students, magistrates and officers therein being, anno 1622 / the right honorable and his singular good lord, Thomas, now Lord Windsor of Bradenham, Ioh. Scot wisheth all increase of felicitie.
Author: Scot, John.
Publication: [S.l.] :: Printed by Cantrell Legg for Iohn Scot, by the licence of the Right Honorable, Thomas, Earle of Arundell and surrey, Earle Marshall of England, &c. and are to be sold in Popes-head Alley and the signe of the white Horse,; Anno 1622.
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IESVS COLL. 1496.

IOhn Alcocke borne at Beauerly in Yorkshire, Doctor of the Ciuill Lawes, Deane of Saint Stephens in Westminster, Ma∣ster of the Rolles, Bishop of Rochester, after of Worcester, lastly of Elie, and Lord Chancellor of England, procured Licence of King Henrie 7. in the eleuenth yeere of his Raigne, to conuert into a Colledge an ancient Nunnerie, (the Nuns whereof all but two then were dead or dispersed, and the House much wasted) formerly consecrated to S. Rhadegund, and endowed by sundrie Benefactors, whereof Malcolme 4. King of Scotland, and that whole race of the Earles of Hunting∣ton with their Families, were the chiefest, who gaue vnto the Prioresse and Nuns for their better maintenance, and to build a Church vpon the Scyte of the Mannor of S. Rhadegund, and ten acres of Land lying round about this Colledge. He also obtained licence vnder the Great Seale of England, that all the lands belonging to the same Cell should be appro∣priated to this his Colledge, dedicating the same to the honour of the blessed Virgin Marie, S. Iohn the Euangelist, and the glorious Virgin Rhadegund commonly called Iesus Colledge. Wherein after he had builded and endowed the same, he esta∣blished one Master, and six Fellowes, six Scholars: Since by the liberalitie of Sir Robert Read Knight, Lord chiefe Iustice of the Common Pleas; Iohn Andrews, Doctor Royston, and Doctor Fuller, Masters of the same; Thomas Thirlbie Bishop of Elie, Richard Pigot, Godfrey Foliambe, Will. Marshall, Ioane Woods, Thomas Sutton of Balsham Esquier, and other worthie Benefactors it is so increased, as at this present there is in the same, one Master, sixteene Fellowes, twentie two Scholars, besides Officers and Seruants of the Foundation with other Students, the whole number being 130.