Lastly, in 1566, Dr Caius bought a small slip of the ground of S. Mary Hostel from Corpus Christi College' to enable him to carry the south wall of his Court in a direct line. This piece was only 3 feet 4 inches wide at the west end, and 3 inches wide at the east end, and cost him 20 shillings. [The fourth garden was the western portion of the Rectory Garden of Michael House: which passed with the Rectory House into the possession of Dr Caius in 1564.] Besides these four gardens, out of which the Caius Court was composed, there was the "herbarium," or "cook's little garden," to the east of Gonville Court, originally part of the property of John Goldcorn. To this Dr Caius added portions of the gardens of the tenements bought from Trinity College (as the plan explains), thereby doubling it in size, and converted it into a garden for the fellows. [It was enclosed by a high wall until 1868.]

[The history of the whole site occupied by the College Buildings in the year 1857 is thus complete. We have now to finish that of the south-east corner, which we have already traced down to 1545. It became the property of the College in 1782, but, as the earliest of its existing title-deeds is dated 1675, there remains a period of 130 years during which we are without any information respecting it. In 1675 it was in the possession of Thomas and Richard Prior. It is described as a messuage, sometime an Inn, called "the Stone House," divided into two, between St Mary's Hostle on the south and Gonville and Caius College on the west, "parcel sometime of the Priory of Anglesea." Thomas and Richard Prior sold the western portion in 1675 to William Morden for £440. This passed to Conyers Middleton in 1738, to Charles Finch in 1761, and from him to the College in 17823. The eastern portion appears to have been divided into two houses before 1711, when we find the corner house in

Gonevill and Caius." The "ould wall" is the west wall of the Priory garden (fig. 1): and the 3 seats, now blocked, may be seen in Senate-House passage between the Gate of Honour and the south gable of the eastern building of Caius Court. They have usually been mistaken for windows.]

[This was the large redbrick house of which the lower floor was used, first as a book shop (Barraclough's) and afterwards as a stationer's shop (Macmillan's), till the year 1854, when it was taken into the College to be used for lecture-rooms. It was

here that Conyers Middleton lived. J. L.]

Fig. 2.

Gonville Court; and the north side of Caius Court, from Loggan's print, taken about 1688. A, Chapel; B, Library; C, Hall; D, Master's Lodge: E, Gonville Court; F, Caius Court, with the dial set up by Theodore Haveus of Cleves.

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the possession of John Richardson, who sold it to Mary Heath for £114, on Dec. 8, 1711. It then passed to Mary Collet, granddaughter of Mary Heath. She sold it for £210 in 1758 to the above Charles Finch, who conveyed it together with the western portion in 1782 to the College. The remaining house in 1761 belonged to Trinity Hall. It passed at the same time as the others to the College. These houses were used as part of the College from 1854 to 1868, when they were demolished and the entrance tower built upon their site. J. L.]

CHAPTER II.

HISTORY OF GONVILLE COURT. WORKS OF DR CAIUS.

GONVILLE and Caius College contains three courts, termed "Gonville Court," "Caius Court" and "Tree Court," besides the Master's garden, yards, etc.

The first-named court (fig. 2) was for two centuries the only one, and it therefore contained within its circuit the essential buildings of the College, the Hall, the Chapel, the Library, and the Lodge. It had an entrance gateway from Trinity Lane which was abolished in 1754. The two latter courts were added in the reigns of Elizabeth and her successor to increase the accommodation for Fellows and Students.

The College possesses a volume containing the annals of its early history drawn up by Dr Caius from documents which have for the most part disappeared'. In this book, after recording

The "Annals" are written in Latin, on vellum, in the form of an annual register of events from the foundation of the College, interspersed with copies of documents in latin and english. The work was begun by Dr Caius, but continued by Dr Legge, his successor, to the year 1603. In 1655 a College order was made for its transcription, from which resulted a paper copy. "A payment to Mr Horne for wrighting the Annals £5. 6s. 10d." in the Bursar's Book, Michaelmas, 1658, shews the conclusion of the work. This copy contains not only the whole of the original, but a continuation of the history to the year 1648, compiled by Mr William Moore,

that the episcopal executor of the founder had exchanged the Hall in Lurghburne Lane for "Le stone house" with its appurtenances and other tenements adjacent thereto late of John Goldcorne, he proceeds1:

"A. D. 1353. Thus was the Hall of Goneville, otherwise of the Annunciation of the Blessed Mary, converted into an orchard for the College of Corpus Christi, the ancient walls still remaining, and the gates, one opening into Lurghburne Lane, the other into the churchyard of S. Botolph. By altering the messuage of John de Cambridge, and the tenements of John Goldecorne, the Bishop made the north side of our College, with a kitchen for the use of the Master and Fellows. The Master's Chamber was over the north gatehouse, the fellows' chambers on either side'. To this Hall of the Annunciation thus lately founded, Thomas Bishop of Ely, and Alan Prior of that Cathedral Church granted licence in 1353", that divine service might

University Librarian 1653—9, at the latter date. No attempts have since been made to continue this chronicle. [An interesting notice of both the original and the copy is to be found in the Cambridge Portfolio (J. J. Smith), p. 44 sq. There is also in the College an older volume entitled "Evidences of the College." This book was written by Edmund Sheriffe (Master 1472—1475) and contains copies of the oldest deeds, charters, licenses in mortmain, etc., and much information about the College property. It is partly copied, MSS. Baker, xxix. 263 sq. Dr Caius was probably indebted entirely to Sheriffe's Evidences for the earlier part of his Annals, and as he entered in 1529, only 54 years after the death of Sheriffe, information about the interval between Sheriffe's time and his own could easily be derived from conversation with living members of the College. A very imperfect copy of this book exists in the College Library (MSS. 621), but the Editor of the Catalogue does not appear to have been aware of the existence of the original. Until 1874 it was kept in the Lodge in the care of the Master; but it was then removed to the Library, where it is now placed with the other MSS. This most interesting volume appears to have escaped the notice of Professor Willis.

It will be convenient to describe here another volume which will be referred to in the following pages, and which also appears never to have come into the hands of the author. This is the oldest "Computus," or Bursar's account book. It is a small folio paper volume of 192 pages, containing the College accounts from 1423 to 1456, 1488 to 1493, and 1508 to 1524. The early pages contain several accounts of expenditure of money in College for repairs and general expenses, some of which will be quoted below; but the book soon becomes a mere record of stipends paid to the Master, Fellows, and Scholars, and the entries in which this history is more particularly interested disappear. J. L.]

1 Annals, 4—7. [For the history of the foundation see Historical Introduction.] [It is possible that the space separating the two houses may have been taken for the gateway. J. L.]

This license still remains in the Treasury. [It is sealed by Bishop Thomas de L'Isle, and by the Prior and Chapter. The Prior was, Alan de Walsingham. The Bishop's seal was affixed on April 1, 1353, that of the Chapter two days afterwards.