building of five bays, which still exists, forming the westernmost part of the south side of the Great Court of the College. The three easternmost bays are taken up by the dining-hall or refectory, the westernmost is devoted to the buttery, the intervening bay is occupied by the screens and passage at either end of which there still remain the original north and south doorways, interesting as being the earliest example of collegiate architecture in Cambridge. The windows of this hall on the south side date from the end of the fifteenth century. The north-east oriel window and the buttresses on the north side of the hall were added by Sir Gilbert Scott in 1870, who also built the new screen, panelling, and roof. At about the same time the hall was decorated and the windows filled with stained glass of very great beauty by William Morris. The figures represented in the windows are as follows (beginning from the west on the north) John Whitgift, John Cosin, Rd. Tresham, Thos. Gray, Duke of Grafton, Henry Cavendish; in the orielHomer, Aristotle, Cicero, Hugh de Balsham, Roger Bacon, Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton; on the south side -Edward I., Queen Eleanor, Hugh de Balsham, S. George, S. Peter, S. Etheldreda, John Holbroke, Henry Beaufort, John Warkworth. After the building of this hall, the College evidently languished for want of funds for more than a century. But in the fifteenth century the College began to prosper, and a good deal of building was done. The character of the work is not expressly stated in the Bursar's Rolls-of which there are some thirty-one still existing of the fifteenth century, and a fairly complete set of the subsequent centuries but the earliest buildings of this date are probably the range of chambers forming the north and west side of the great court. The kitchen, which is immediately to the west of the hall, dates from 1450. The Fellows' parlour or combination room, completing the third side of the quadrangle, and immediately east of the dining-hall, was built some ten years later. Cole has given the following precise description of this room : "This curious old room joins immediately to the east end of the dining-hall or refectory, and is a ground floor called The Stone Parlour, on the south side of the Quadrangle, between the said hall and the master's own lodge. It is a large room and wainscotted with small oblong Panels. The two upper rows of which are filled with paintings on board of several of the older Masters and Benefactors to the College. Each picture has an Inscription in the corner, and on a separate long Panel under each, much ornamented with painting, is a Latin Distic.1 . . .” Then follows a description of each portrait-there are thirty in all-with its accompanying distich. I. A view of the two antient Hostles of the Brothers of Penance and of Jesus Christ: on the spot where they stood, Hugh de Balsham, Bishop of Ely founded this College in 1280. Hic bina fuerunt Scholasticorum Hospitia in qua Qua præit Oxonium Cancestria longa Vetustas, 2. King Edward the First in his robes, crown and Edwardus Rex Anglia ejus Nominis primus Licentian dedit fnndandi hoc Collegium, A.D. 1283. 1 British Museum, Cole, MSS. xxxv. 112. Omnia dum curat Princeps, non ultima Cura est, 3. Hugh de Balsham in his episcopal robes, mitre, pastoral staff in his right hand and a book in his left, with these arms by him, gules three crowns or, for the See of Ely, impaling gules two keys in saltire or; being designed possibly for those of S. Peter. Hugo de Balsam decimus Episcopus, Eliensis primus Utere Divitiis si te Fortuna bearit Hac iter ad Cœlum est, sic ubi Dives eris. 4. Simon de Montacute, Bishop of Ely in his episcopal robes, mitre and crosier: See of Ely impales Argent, a fess lozengée gules, a bordure Barry vert and or for Montacute. Simon Montis-acuti decimus septimus Episcopus Lex ubi pulsa silet, regnat pro Lege Libido ; Jusque Pudorque ruunt, mox ruitura magis. 5. Simon Langham, Episcopus Eliensis, Anno Dom. 1395. or. The See of Ely impales Gules two keys in saltire But these are not Bishop Langham's arms: neither is the date in Mr Earle's account just: for Bishop Langham succeeded to Ely 1361, removed to Canterbury five years after, and died at Avignon in 1376. He is habited as a Bishop. Laus Pueris, Doctrina, Decus florentibus Annis. Solamen Senio, Perfugiumque Malis. 6. Thomas de Castro-Bernard in a clerical habit, holding an open book. Thomas de Castro-Bernard, fuit Magister Collegii, |