VOLUME I. Colleges. I. II. III. IV. PETERHOUSE. CLARE HALL. PEMBROKE COLLEGE. GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE. V. TRINITY HALL. VI. CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE. VII. KING'S COLLEGE AND ETON COLLEGE. FOR NATURAL SCIENCE, OBSERVATORY, FITZWILLIAM I. Peterhouse. CHAPTER I. [HISTORY OF THE SITE'. HE site of Peterhouse is bounded on the east by Trumpington Street; on the south by an estate bequeathed to Caius College by the Lady Ann Scroope, called Lammas Leys; on the west by Coe Fen; on the north by the churchyard of S. Mary the Less, anciently S. Peter, and by some dwelling-houses. The southern portion of this extensive ground, anciently called "Volye Croft," and afterwards "English Croft," and "The New Gardens," originally belonged to the White Canons of S. Edmund of Sempringham, whose house, called "Chanons Close," was directly opposite to it on the east side of Trumpington Street2. Volye Croft was purchased by Peterhouse in the reign of Elizabeth, at which time it was laid out as a garden, and let on lease, the College reserving the right of entrance for recreation or exercise, and the tenant engaging to keep the walks "fair and passable and well graviled." In 1795 the eastern two-thirds were let on a building lease, as at present. 1 [The accompanying map (fig. 1) has been drawn to illustrate this.] 2 [Fuller, pp. 57, 67. The position of Chanons Close is shewn on the map of Ric. Lyne, 1574, for which see the History of Corpus Christi College below. The S. wall of the site of the Fitzwilliam Museum would fall nearly in a line with the N. wall of the Close, which has now become the site of Addenbrooke's Hospital.] VOL. I. I |