tribute to, 155; visitation of, in
1557, 156; in danger of being known
only as a grammar school, 163; less
favorable to Catholicism than Ox-
ford, 167; state of, in 1559, 170; re-
ligious parties in, 174; experiences
of, in period 1549-1559, 178; exten-
sion of the rights of, in relation to
the town, 184; growing spirit in, of
aversion from ritual, circ. 1565, 197;
low standard of morals among the
students of, 203; improvements in
buildings of, 247; general changes
in, 250; increase in number of com-
petent preachers in, 262; condition
of, as described by Travers in 1574,
263; same, after Whitgift's departure
in 1577, 278; state of discipline in,
in 1577, 280; general condition of,
more satisfactory than that of Ox-
ford, 282; attitude of authorities of,
on seizure of the university press,
296; wofull state of', in the opinion
of Robert Browne, 300; efforts of, to
obtain privilege of returning members
of Parliament, 306; petition of, to
parliament, for the endowment of
research, ib.; correspondence of, with
Whitgift, 336; reaction in, against
Puritan doctrines, 350; statutes of,
taken as a model for Trinity College,
Dublin, 354; constitution of, in time
of king James, contrasted with that
of a century before, 390; becomes
celebrated as a school for the study
of the logic of Ramus, 412; 'sinnes'
of, noted down by Dr Ward, 433, n. 3;
defects of, in common with Oxford,
described by Bacon, 437; decision of
dispute between, and the town, as
regards precedence, 441; appeal of,
to Essex for protection against the
townsmen, 444; lull in theological
dissension in, ib.; deputation of, to
king James at Hinchingbrook, 445;
grace of, in reply to the Millenary
Petition, 448; less compliant than
Oxford in enforcing religious tests,
457; receives the privilege of return-
ing members to Parliament, 459;
application made by, for a draught
of the petition of the town for a new
charter, 548; appeal from, to Bacon,
for the exertion of his influence in
its behalf against the town, ib.; dis-
tinct assertion of, respecting un-
friendly feeling systematically shewn
by the town, 549; obtains draft of the
petition and comments thereon, ib.;
petitions both the king and Bacon

against concession of the new charter,
550; instances of scientific research
in, 573; condition of, towards the
close of James' reign, 574
Camden, Wm., eulogy of, on Dr Caius,
246; a friend of Dr Cowell, 497
Campian, E., D.D. of Oxford, a student
at Douay, 254; fate of, 281
Canon law, professors of, why disliked
by Henry VIII, 7; attempt to re-
model, for English use, 111
Capel, Sir Arthur, one of Preston's
pupils at Queens' whom he rescues
from an unsuitable match, 556
Caps, round, worn in 16th century by
undergraduates, 392, n. 2

Caps, square, wearers of, said by Beza
to resemble priests of Baal, 195, n. 1;
Withers suspended as contumacious
in relation to, 197; agitation against,
reported by Gabriel Harvey, to be at
an end, 280; allusion of Andrew
Melville to, 280, n. 3; reserved in
16th century for graduates, 392, n. 2
Caps and surplices, Bacon's view with
reference to enforced wearing of,
438

Caput, the, ancient constitution and
powers of, 217; how modified, by
statutes of 1572, 222
Card-playing, allowed only at Christ-
mas, 113

Cardan, Jerome, Arithmetic of, used at
Cambridge, 110, 402; merits of same,
according to De Morgan, ib. n. 2
Carleton, Geo. (bp. of Chichester), the
chief representative of Oxford at the
Synod of Dort, 560

Carmelite friars, the, decay of their
house in Cambridge, 23; agreement
of with Queens' College for transfer
of their property, 24; final surrender
of the property of, 25
Carr, Nich., of Trinity, originally of
St John's College, 84; is appointed
Regius professor of Greek, ib.; his
evidence with respect to the state of
study in the university in the reign
of Mary, 98; his testimony to the
neglect of the study of the civil law,
133, 138

Carr, Ri., removed from mastership of
Magdalene in 1559, 178

Carr, Robt., earl of Somerset, according
to lord Brook, induces king James to
come to Cambridge, 540, n. 2
Cartwright, Tho., takes part in the dis-

putations on the occasion of queen
Elizabeth's visit, 190; motives which,
according to Sir G. Paule, dictated

his anti-ecclesiastical policy, 193;
inaccuracies of certain writers, with
respect to the career of, ib. n. 2; facts
in early career of, 194; reputed insti-
gator of anti-ritualistic demonstra-
tions at Trinity, 199; withdrawal of,
to Ireland, 200; returns to Cambridge
and is elected lady Margaret pro-
fessor, 207; proceeds to attack the
English Church, ib.; spread of
Puritan doctrine favored by teach-
ing of, ib.; noncompliance of, with
respect to academic dress, 207; con-
duct of, inconsistent with tenure of
his professorship, 208; he is sup-
ported by Some and others in the
university, 209; Whitgift represented
as actuated by jealousy of, 211; leaders
of the Calvinistic party by whom his
views are disapproved, ib.; inoppor-
tuneness of his policy, 212; censured
by Wm. Chaderton, 215; and by Grin-
dal, ib.; the authorities design to
refuse him his degree of D.D., 218;
it is formally refused him, by John
May, ib.; his letter to Cecil on the
occasion, 219; appropriation of his
salary as professor, 220; suspension
of, from lecturing, 221; further action
taken against by the Heads, 225; he
is summoned before them, but re-
fuses to retract, 226; is deprived of
his professorship, ib.; and of his fel-
lowship, ib.; grounds of his depriva-
tion, 227; withdrawal of, to Geneva,
ib.; accused by Whitgift of violation
of his fellowship oath, ib. ; endeavours
made by friends of, to bring him back
to Cambridge, 228; Cecil declines to
interfere in behalf of, ib.; reappear-
ance of in the university twenty
years afterwards, ib.; removal of,
from his professorship not an act of
exceptional harshness, 229; attack
made by, on Whitgift's administra-
tion at Trinity, 274; and on fellows
who neglected residence at their
cures, 275; reported by Harvey as
forgotten at Cambridge, 280, n. 3;
occasional appearance of at St John's,
323; invited by Andrew Melville to
Glasgow, 366; death of, 454; recon-
ciled to Whitgift before his death, ib.
Cary, Lucius (lord Falkland), period

of residence of, at St John's un-
certain, 471, n. 3
Cary, Valentine (master of Christ's),
early career of, 475; a candidate for
the mastership of St John's, ib.; anti-
Calvinist in his opinions, ib.; rule of,

as master of Christ's, 508; argument
of, with Ames, on the use of the
surplice, 510

Casaubon, Isaac, flight of, after mas-
sacre of St Bartholomew, 242; ex-
pression of disapproval by, with re-
spect to Ramus's innovations in the
study of logic, 409; lament of, over
neglect of Greek in his day, 420; visit
of, to Cambridge, 493; obligation of,
to Richardson, master of Peterhouse,
ib.; the guest of bishop Andrewes, ib.
Case, Jo. (of St John's, Oxford), cha-
racter and pursuits of, 352; his Specu-
lum moralium Quaestionum, ib.
Catholic priests, edict for banishment
of, from England, 458

Catechising, importance attached to,
in 16th century, 488; subjects of, 594
Catholics, Roman, petition presented
by, to king James 1, 446

Cecil, Sir Robt. (earl of Salisbury), ac-
count of the university presented to,
380; succeeds the earl of Essex as
chancellor of the university, 440;
his character as a statesman, 441;
his attachment to St John's and to
the university, ib.; letter to the uni-
versity from, enforcing observance
of church discipline, 456; death of, 513
Cecil, Wm. (afterwards lord Burghley),
diligence of as a student at St John's,
44; succeeds to the chancellorship
on death of card. Pole, 165; career
of, during reigns of Edw. VI and
Mary, 166; letter of, to the univer-
sity, on accepting the chancellorship,
169; moderation of his religious
views, 174; appointed commissioner
to the university, ib.; appealed to
by minority in Queens' College in
1559, 175; proposes to retire from
the chancellorship, 186; visits the
university in the royal train in 1564,
187; St John's his 'old nurse,' ib.;
appealed to by the Heads in 1565
not to permit the enforcement of
ritualistic observances, 198; letter of,
to Beaumont on use of the surplice,
ib.; letter of, to master of St John's on
same, 199; appeals made to, with re-
ference to the conduct of the Puritan
party in the university, 215; his
advice upon the subject, 216; letter
from to the Heads on receipt of Cart-
wright's letter, 219; construction
put upon it, by the authorities, 220;
approves the draught of the univer-
sity statutes of 1572, 222; declines
to interfere in behalf of Whitgift,

228; letter to, from Edw. Dering,
234; petition forwarded to, against
Elizabethan statutes, 237; letter to,
from Whitgift and others, 241; ad-
vises Elizabeth to reject the bill for
repression of abuses connected with
elections to fellowships, etc., 269;
letter to, from Whitgift, respecting
the condition of Oxford, 233; letter
to, from Robert Norgate, respecting
a royal nomination to a fellowship at
Corpus, 283; appeal to, from the
university against royal nominations
generally, 289; difficulties of posi-
tion of, as chancellor, 291; discoun-
tenances the printing of books at
the university, 293; appeal to, from
the university, on seizure of the
press, 294; advises a conference on
the subject, 296; finally sanctions
the establishment of a university
press, 297; sympathies of, with the
Puritan party, checked by fear of
Elizabeth, 299; endeavours to medi-
ate between Whitgift and the Heads,
337; disapproves of the Lambeth
Articles, 348; and of the severity
with which Baro was treated, ib.;
death of, 369; his relations with
Edmund Spenser, 370; distinguish-
ing merit of, ib.; conduct of, as
chancellor of Cambridge, contrasted
with that of Leicester at Oxford, ib.;
portrait of by Gerards, 371; extra-
ordinary assiduity of, ib.
Chaderton, Laurence, first master of
Emmanuel College, character of,
313; attacks Peter Baro, 327; takes
part in the prosecution of Barret,
334; career of, at Christ's College,
476; able administration of, at Em-
manuel, ib.; intimacy of, with Ban-
croft, ib.; his green old age, 569;
reluctance of, to retire from the mas-
tership of Emmanuel, 570; letter to,
from Buckingham, ib.
Chaderton, Wm., D.D., president of
Queens', one of the disputants before
Queen Elizabeth in 1564, 190; cha-
racter of, 214; description given by,
to Cecil, of the state of the univer-
sity, 215; concurs in Cartwright's
deprivation of his professorship,

226

Chancellor of the university, mode of
electing in reign of Edw. vi, 112
Chapman, Edm., of Trinity College,
sermon by, censured by Wm. Cha-
derton, 215

Chark, Wm., f. of Peterhouse, sermon

at St Mary's by, 241; his expulsion
from the university, ib.

Charles I, suspends the statute de Mora

Sociorum at Emmanuel College, 316
Charles, prince (Charles 1), visit of, to
Cambridge, 528; treaty of marriage
of, with Henrietta Maria, signed at
Trinity College, 574

Cheke, Sir Jo., assists in procuring
statutes of 1545 for St John's, 39;
a pupil of Redman at St John's, 41;
his parentage and early academic
career, 42; appointed 'King's scho-
lar,' ib.; Ascham's tribute to the
merits of, 44; his success as a lec-
turer at St John's, 53; his appoint-
ment to the Regius professorship of
Greek, ib.; his researches in con-
junction with Smith into Greek pro-
nunciation, 55; their adoption of the
new method, 56; he attempts to in-
troduce it in the university, 59;
opposition which he meets with, ib.;
enters upon a controversy with Gar-
diner respecting its merits, 60; ser-
vices of, in relation to the question
compared with those of Smith, 63;
appointment of, as tutor to prince
Edward, 77; sits for parliament, 100;
one of the visitors of the university
in 1549, 110; supposed to have com-
piled the Reformatio Legum Ecclesi-
asticarum, 111, n. 1; leaves for
Huntingdon after visitation of 1549,
114; tribute by, to Bucer's varied
excellencies, 124; assists in drawing
up statutes of Trinity College, 138;
committed to the Tower as a sup-
porter of Lady Jane Grey, 151;
death of, 156; one of P. Martyr's
audience at Strassburg, 171

Chevallier, A. R., period during which
he held the professorship of Hebrew,
416; a victim of the massacre of St
Bartholomew, 242, 416

Christ's College, performance of Pam-
machius at, 74; change of Head at,
on accession of Mary, 151; benefac-
tions of Sir Walter Mildmay to, 310;
total at, in 1617, 472; condition of,
under Dr Barwell, ib.; tutorship of
Perkins at, 473; experiences of, under
Valentine Cary, 475; Laurence Cha-
derton at one time tutor at, 476;
Puritan demonstrations at, in time
of Valentine Cary, 508-10
Christopherson, Jo., succeeds to mas.
tership of Trinity on accession of
Mary, 151

Church livings, in the hands of popish

recusants, placed at disposal of the
universities, 461

Church patronage, character of that
preserved by Trinity College, 83
Cicero, attention paid to philosophical
writings of, circ. 1547, 89
Civil law, foundation of Regius pro-
fessorship of, 52; study of, at Padua,
57; text-books prescribed in lectures
on, in reign of Edw. vi, 111; study
of, improved by Alciati, 125; main-
tains its ground in Germany, 126;
critical state of, in England, in reign
of Edw. vi, 127; its special defects
as described by Sir T. Smith, 129;
course of reading in, which he
pursued, 130; want of competent
instruction in, at Cambridge, ib.;
the profession of, a stepping stone
to preferment in England, circ.
1545, 131; use of study of, to
classical scholars, 132; few students
of, circ. 1550, ib.; commissioners of
1549 instructed to take measures for
revival of the study of, 133; its
special uses, ib. n. 1; design of a
college for the study of, ib.; fellow-
ships in, converted into divinity
fellowships, 137; circumstances ad-
verse to the study of, in England,
137-8; two fellowships for, at Trinity
College, 142; just as well studied in
England (according to Dr Caius) as
abroad, 163; proceedings of the
court of the chancellor of the uni-
versity to be regulated by, 233; state
of the study of, at commencement of
17th century, 423; not exclusively
practised by laymen, ib. n. 2; hosti-
lity of common lawyers to, 424;
slight reaction in favour of, circ.
1600, 425; Coke advises that some
'professor' of, should be sent as a
representative of the university to
parliament, 460; design of Cowell in
relation to, in publishing his Inter-
preter, 498

Clare Hall, specially occupied the at-
tention of the Visitors of 1549, 113,
n. 5; proposed amalgamation of,
with Trinity Hall, 134; the scheme
resisted by the fellows, ib.; their re-
sistance successful, 137; state of,
during reign of James 1, 494; emi-
nent fellows of, ib.
Clark, Mr J. Willis, information afford-
ed by, 81, n. 3; 518, n. 3
Classics, the, authors studied in the
time of Ascham, 52-53; authors
chosen by Cheke as the subjects of

his Greek lectures, 53; authors most
studied circ. 1547 at Cambridge, 89
Clayton, Ri. (master of St John's),
succeeds Whitaker as master of St
John's, 345; a royal nominee, ib.;
merits of, as a master, 346; signs
petition against committee of en-
quiry, 385; character of, 470; im-
portance of, among the Heads at
Cambridge, 497, n. 2

Clere, Eliz., a benefactress of Gonville
Hall, 159, n. 2

Clergy, the, numbers of, at the univer-
sities, to the neglect of their cures,
13; required by Tho. Cromwell either
to study or to leave the university,
14; required to maintain scholars at
the universities, 14; participation of,
in performance of Ignoramus, 542,

n. 2

Clerke, Barth., scholar of King's, seeks
to succeed Ascham as Latin secre-
tary to Elizabeth, 205; letter from,
to Gabriel Harvey, 284, n. 3
Clermont, Collège de, at Paris, nar-
rowly escapes falling under Jesuit
influence, 259

Club Law, performance of, at Clare
Hall, 430; resentment of the towns-
men at their treatment in, 442
Cock, Jo., commonplace of, in St
John's chapel, 265; submission of,
to the master, ib.

Codex Bezae, the, 330; Whitgift's
transcript of, ib.

Coke, Sir Edw., of Trinity College,
services rendered by to the univer-
sity, 424; his sympathies entirely
with the common lawyers as opposed
to the civilians, ib.; letter from to
the university notifying the confer-
ring of the privilege of returning
members to parliament, 459; account
given by, of his motives in exerting
himself to obtain the privilege, 460;
bis advice as to the selection of
members, ib.; dislike of, for Dr
Cowell, 497; visit of, as a judge of
assize, to Cambridge, 526; anger of
king James with, on his venturing
to call in question the authority of
the ecclesiastical courts, 528

College discipline, advantages resulting
from, as seen in a comparison of
English and continental universi-
ties, 436
College lands, let at easy rentals, 79,

n. 2

restore impropriations connected
with, 449; failure of his project,
451; it is taken up by the Puritans,
ib. n. 2

College system, advantages of the, 432
Colleges, the Act for the Dissolution

of, 76; advantages which they offer-
ed, 95; they begin to supersede the
courses of instruction offered by the
university, ib.; condition of in 1549,
90; state of in 1574, described by
Walter Travers, 263; advantages
resulting to, from Sir Tho. Smith's
Act, 379; impression produced by on
foreigners, 373; mode of life at, eulo-
gised by William Soone, 374; pros-
perity of, attributable to Sir Thomas
Smith's Act, ib.; tendency of, at
commencement of 17th century, to
foster party prejudices, 466; increas-
ing importance of the history of the,
ib.; sketch of, at commencement of
17th century to end of James' reign,
466
Colleges, Catholic, on the continent,
enumeration of, by Lewis Owen, 458,
n. 4

Cologne, a great centre of Jesuit acti-

vity in 16th century, 258
Commission, university, of 1546, 78; of
1559, 174

Commons, allowance for, in original
statutes of Trinity, 143
Common law, confused condition of,
in reign of king Edward vi, 138;
Cowell endeavours to mediate be-
tween professors of, and the civilians,
498

Common lawyers, tribute paid by Sir
T. Smith to their skill in argument,
132; assailed in the Return from
Parnassus as eating up the civilians,
525; stigmatised in Ignoramus as a
class who wish to see the Church
and the universities overthrown,
533; resentment of, at their general
treatment in the play, 547
'Commonplaces,' specimen volume of,
472, note 3

'Concurrent chairs,' at universities,
meaning of the term, 58, n. 1
Confessions, different, in use in the
Protestant universities abroad, 106
Convocation, Coke advises that mem-
bers of, should not be sent by the
university to parliament, 460
Cooke, Sir Ant., one of P. Martyr's
audience at Strassburg, 171; one of
the university commission in 1559,
174; character of, ib. n. 2

Copcot, Dr (m. of Corpus), elected to
the vice-chancellorship before he
becomes a Head, 321; encourages
Hare in his antiquarian researches,
ib.; unpopularity of, with the Puri-
tans, 322; William Perkins sum-
moned before, respecting a 'common-
place,' 473

Copinger, Hen., f. of St John's, royal
nomination of, to mastership of
Magdalene, 286

Corbet, Clement, master of Trinity
Hall, endeavour of, to bring the
choice of members of parliament
under control of the Heads, 461;
himself defeated as a candidate for
the representation, 464; succeeds to
mastership of Trinity Hall on death
of Cowell, 500

Corpus Christi College, search for sus-
pected books at, 202; resistance of
authorities at, to a royal nomination,
288; preference to Norwich men to
be given in election to a fellowship at,
ib.; exceptional power of the Head
of, 384; condition of, under Dr John
Jegon, 495; decline of, under rule of
his brother, 496; prosperous condi-
tion of, in 1628, ib.

Cosin, Edm., retires from the master-
ship of St Catherine's, 176
Cosin, Ri., signs petition against Eli-
zabethan statutes, 236
Cosyn, Tho., m. of Corpus, elected
chancellor of the university, 2
Cotton, Jo., f. of Emmanuel College,
313; reason why not elected fellow
of Trinity, 480, n. 2; one of Perkins'
hearers, but unconvinced by his
preaching, ib.; conversion of, by
Sibbes' preaching, ib.; position of,
at Emmanuel College, 481; oratori-
cal fame of, ib.; Cotton Mather's ac-
count of sermon preached by, on
repentance, ib.; conversion of Pres-
ton by this sermon, 482
Coverdale, Miles, a member of the
Augustinian friary at Cambridge, 31
Cowell, Jo. (m. of Trinity Hall), ser-
vices rendered by, to the study of
the civil law, 425; adoption by, at
the urgent instance of Bancroft, of
the profession of a civilian, 497; re-
lations of, with Camden, Daniell,
and Coke, ib.; Institutiones Juris
Anglicani of, ib.; importance of,
among the Heads at Cambridge,
ib. n. 2; his Interpreter, 498;
object of, in publishing same, ib.;
promotion of, by Bancroft, to office