The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton . elonging thereunto twobedchambers and two Studdyes, each of which bedchambers to con-teine in length seaven foot, and in breadth five foot and a halfe, andeach of the said Studdyes to be six foot long and five foot wide. This plan, arranged for two chamber-fellows only, exhibitsa great advance in symmetry and comfort over the last. Eachsitting-room, square in outline, is lighted by two windows,and has three rooms opening into it. Each of these is about 1 [A similar expression is used by Dr R.
The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton . elonging thereunto twobedchambers and two Studdyes, each of which bedchambers to con-teine in length seaven foot, and in breadth five foot and a halfe, andeach of the said Studdyes to be six foot long and five foot wide. This plan, arranged for two chamber-fellows only, exhibitsa great advance in symmetry and comfort over the last. Eachsitting-room, square in outline, is lighted by two windows,and has three rooms opening into it. Each of these is about 1 [A similar expression is used by Dr R. Cosin in his bequest to Trinity Collegein 1594. Vol. 11. p. 478.] 2 [The contract is given at length in the History of Trinity College, Vol. II. —559-] THE BISHOPS HOSTEL, TRINITY COLLEGE. 319 five feet wide by seven feet long, lighted by a separatewindow. There is also a recess of about the same size onone side of each sitting-room. Manifestly two of these sub-ordinate rooms are the studies, and the remaining one, with therecess, represents the two bed-chambers mentioned in the ^j*> |«g j2Q ps |3r !&. #z ^f ,i° j&? ftr _=^t° Fig. 8. Ground-plan of Bishops Hostel, Trinity College, reduced from that appended to the original contract, dated 15 January, 1669. By this means privacy was obtained in the bed-room as well asin the study, for when one chum retired to the smaller bed-room, the sitting-room became a separate bed-room for theother. In the central room the difficulties of the plan seemto have driven the architect into the older arrangement, inwhich two bed-recesses are open to the room, possibly closedby curtains. 320 THE CHAMBERS AND STUDIES. [A similar arrangement was carried out at New College,Oxford, in 1681. The contract for the building then commencedon the south side of the garden-court, provides that it shallconteine three Roomes on a floure, with two Studies and twoBedplaces to each roome of sufficient capacity. The planappended to the cont
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