Copy 1, Volume 1

Memorials of Cambridge: a series of views of the colleges, halls, and public buildings / engraved by J. Le Keux; with historical and descriptive accounts by Thomas Wright ... and the Rev. H. Longueville Jones.

  • Thomas Wright
Date:
1847
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Credit: Memorials of Cambridge: a series of views of the colleges, halls, and public buildings / engraved by J. Le Keux; with historical and descriptive accounts by Thomas Wright ... and the Rev. H. Longueville Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the present master’s lodge of Trinity College, from whence a lane, apparently that called Foule-lane in old deeds, proceeded by King’s Hall to the river. At the corner formed by this lane and Mill Street, was the back entrance to King’s Hall. is is es Nava tpl), RA norvs] ¢.JEWITT sc Cuultigh TEBTIVS GOWAR STATUE OF EDWARD III. ON GATBWAY TOWER, TRIN. COLL. The period during which King’s Hall flourished, was not, in England, a very literary period. Amongst its distinguished men are reckoned six bishops,— Robert Fitz-Hugh, bishop of London in 1431; Richard Scrope, bishop of Carlisle; John Blythe, bishop of Sarum in 1493; Geoffrey Blythe, bishop of Lichfield and Co- ventry, and lord president of Wales; William Rokeby, archbishop of Dublin, and lord chancellor; and the celebrated Cuthbert Tonstall, bishop of Durham. Of these, the first four were masters of King’s Hall. Among its distinguished. scholars, besides Bishop 'Ton-