Cambridge and its story With lithographs and other illus by Herbert Railton, the lithographs being tinted by Fanny Railton . tongues,the education of the youth in piety, virtue, learning, andscience, the relief of the poor and destitute, the prosperityof the Church of Christ, and the common good and happi-ness of his kingdom and subjects. ^ The site upon which King Henry VIII. had decidedto place his college is also mentioned in this preamble to theCharter of Foundation. It was to be on the soil, ground,sites, and precincts of the late hall and college, commonlycalled the Kings Hall, and of a
Cambridge and its story With lithographs and other illus by Herbert Railton, the lithographs being tinted by Fanny Railton . tongues,the education of the youth in piety, virtue, learning, andscience, the relief of the poor and destitute, the prosperityof the Church of Christ, and the common good and happi-ness of his kingdom and subjects. ^ The site upon which King Henry VIII. had decidedto place his college is also mentioned in this preamble to theCharter of Foundation. It was to be on the soil, ground,sites, and precincts of the late hall and college, commonlycalled the Kings Hall, and of a certain late college ofS. Michael, commonly called Michaelhouse, and also of acertain house and hostel called Fyswicke or Fysecke hostel,and of another house and hostel, commonly called HovingeInn. In addition to the hostels here named there were,however, several others which occupied, or had occupied, thesite previous to 1548—for one or two previous to this timehad been absorbed by their neighbours—whose names have Coopers Memorials, V. ii. p. 1- ? i| ?* ? i ?? ••-?•. *-« V-v- »-*-. fp^*--iir-i A SMALL AND A GREAT COLLEGE been preserved, and whose position has been put beyonddoubt by recent researches. These other hostels wereS. Catharines, S. Margarets, Crouched Hostel, Tyler orTylers, S. Gregorys, Caret or Saint Gerards Hostel, andOvings Inn. We may indicate roughly, perhaps, the position of these various halls and hostels in relation to the present college buildings, if we imagine ourselves to have entered the great gate of Trinity from the High Street, from Trinity Street, and to be standing on the steps leading into the Great Court, and facing across towards the Masters lodge. Immediately in front of us, on what is now the vacant green sward between the gateway steps and the sun-dial, there stood in the fifteenth century Kings Hall, or that block of it which a century earlier had been built to take the place of the thatched and timbered house whic
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