Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- List of Abbreviations
- Chronological Summary
- Dedication
- Chapter I William Byngham, the First Founder
- Chapter II The Dispute with John Langton
- Chapter III The First Royal Licence, 1439
- Chapter IV The Expansion of the Milne Street Site
- Chapter V The Royal Licences of 1442
- Chapter VI Marking Time: 1443 to 1446
- Chapter VII The Royal Licence of 1446 and its period
- Chapter VIII The Foundation Charter of the College of Godshouse and its period
- Chapter IX The Relationship of Godshouse and Clare Hall
- Chapter X The Last Days of William Byngham
- Chapter XI The Proctorship of John Hurte, 1451–1458, and of William Fallan, 1458–1464
- Chapter XII The Proctorship of William Basset, 1464–1477
- Chapter XIII The Proctorship of Ralph Barton, 1477–1490
- Chapter XIV The Proctorship of John Syclyng: Early Years, 1490–1496
- Chapter XV The Proctorship of John Syclyng: Later Years, 1496–1506
- Chapter XVI The Negotiations between Godshouse and the Lady Margaret
- Chapter XVII Syclyng's Death and Will
- Chapter XVIII The Buildings and Furniture remaining from the Godshouse period
- Chapter XIX Godshouse and Christ's College
- Appendix
- Index
- Plate section
Chapter XIX - Godshouse and Christ's College
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- List of Abbreviations
- Chronological Summary
- Dedication
- Chapter I William Byngham, the First Founder
- Chapter II The Dispute with John Langton
- Chapter III The First Royal Licence, 1439
- Chapter IV The Expansion of the Milne Street Site
- Chapter V The Royal Licences of 1442
- Chapter VI Marking Time: 1443 to 1446
- Chapter VII The Royal Licence of 1446 and its period
- Chapter VIII The Foundation Charter of the College of Godshouse and its period
- Chapter IX The Relationship of Godshouse and Clare Hall
- Chapter X The Last Days of William Byngham
- Chapter XI The Proctorship of John Hurte, 1451–1458, and of William Fallan, 1458–1464
- Chapter XII The Proctorship of William Basset, 1464–1477
- Chapter XIII The Proctorship of Ralph Barton, 1477–1490
- Chapter XIV The Proctorship of John Syclyng: Early Years, 1490–1496
- Chapter XV The Proctorship of John Syclyng: Later Years, 1496–1506
- Chapter XVI The Negotiations between Godshouse and the Lady Margaret
- Chapter XVII Syclyng's Death and Will
- Chapter XVIII The Buildings and Furniture remaining from the Godshouse period
- Chapter XIX Godshouse and Christ's College
- Appendix
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
Godshouse and Christ's College are one and the same body, the two names representing the stages of youth and man's estate respectively. The story of the development has been told at length in the preceding pages and it is summarised in the authoritative words of the letters patent of I May 1505, where Henry VII gave, as was customary in such documents, the title by which the college as a legal entity was in future to be known:
Christ's College in the University of Cambridge by Henry the sixth King of England first begun and after his decease by Margaret countess of Richmond mother of King Henry the seventh augmented finished and stablished
That complete title the college on formal occasions regularly employed, it is found in legal documents drawn by order of the college as early as 1508, and it so continued to 1850 or later. Those words fix beyond all question that it was Christ's College that was begun by Henry VI, the same college which the Lady Margaret augmented, finished and stablished. The facts of identity and continuity were clearly known to the university in the early sixteenth century, as is sufficiently seen in that the college was referred to during the years 1505 and 1506, now as Godshouse, now as Christ's College, indifferently; even so late as 4 January 1537 a charter of Henry VIII was addressed to ‘Henry Lockwode Master or Keeper of Christ's College lately Goddyshouse’.
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- The Early History of Christ’s College, CambridgeDerived from Contemporary Documents, pp. 341 - 352Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1934