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Winchester, and afterwards bishop there.[238] 1375 3 New College William Wickham, bishop of Winchester. 1276 4 Merton College Walter Merton, bishop of Rochester. 1437 5 All Souls' College Henry Chicheley, archbishop of Canterbury. 1516 6 Corpus Christi College Richard Fox, bishop of Winchester. 1430 7 Lincoln College Richard Fleming, bishop of Lincoln. 1323 8 Auriel College Adam Broune, almoner to Edward 2. 1340 9 The Queen's College R. Eglesfeld, chaplain to Philip, queen of England, wife to Edward 3. 1263 10 Balliol College John Balliol, king of Scotland. 1557 11 St. John's Sir Thomas White, knight. 1556 12 Trinity College Sir Thomas Pope, knight. 1316 13 Excester College Walter Stapleten, bishop of Excester. 1513 14 Brasen Nose William Smith, bishop of Lincoln. 1873 15 University College William, archdeacon of Duresine. 16 Gloucester College John Crifford, who made it a cell for thirteen monks. 17 St. Mary's College 18 Jesus College, now Hugh ap Rice, doctor of the civil law. in hand There are also in Oxford certain hotels or halls which may right well be called by the names of colleges, if it were not that there is more liberty in them than is to be seen in the other. In my opinion the livers in these are very like to those that are of the inns in the chancery, their names also are these so far as I now remember: Brodegates. St. Mary Hall. Hart Hall. White Hall. Magdalen Hall. New Inn. Alburne Hall. Edmond Hall. Postminster Hall. The students also that remain in them are called hostlers or halliers. Hereof it came of late to pass that the right Reverend Father in God, Thomas late archbishop of Canterbury, being brought up in such an house at Cambridge, was of the ignorant sort of Londoners called an "Hostler," supposing that he had served with some inn-holder in the stable, and therefore, in despite, divers hung up bottles of hay at his gate when he began to preach the gospel, whereas indeed he was a gentleman born of an ancient house, and in the end a faithful witness of Jesus Christ, in whose qua
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