a good example
(1444), is preserved. John Frith the Martyr, Richard Croke, Giles
Fletcher, Richard Mulcaster, Sir William Temple, William Oughtred, the
poet Waller, and Horace Walpole and others of his family are among many
illustrious _alumni_ of the college.

_Magdalene College_ (pronounced Maudlin) stands on the west bank of the
Cam, near the Great Bridge. In 1428 the Benedictines of Crowland Abbey
founded a home for student monks on this site, and in 1519 Edward, duke
of Buckingham, partly secularized this institution by founding
Buckingham College in connexion with it. After the dissolution of the
monastery, Thomas, Baron Audley of Walden, erected Magdalene in place of
the former house in 1542. The foundation consists of a master and seven
fellows, besides scholars. There are some valuable exhibitions
appropriated to Wisbech school. The appointment of the master is
peculiar, the office being in the gift of the occupant of Audley End, an
estate near Saffron Walden, Essex. Some parts of the original building
are preserved, but the most notable portion of the college is the
Pepysian library, dating _c_. 1700. It contains the very valuable
collection of books bequeathed by Samuel Pepys to the college, at which
he was a student. Buckingham College had Archbishop Cranmer as a
lecturer; Charles Kingsley and Charles Stewart Parnell were educated at
Magdalene.

_Pembroke College_ stands to the east of Trumpington Street. It was
founded in 1347 by Mary de St Paul, widow of Aylmer de Valence, earl of
Pembroke. Henry VI. made notable benefactions to it. The foundation
consists of a master and thirteen fellows, and there are six
scholarships on the original foundation, besides others of later
institution. The older existing buildings are mainly of the 18th
century, but much of the original fabric was removed and rebuilt in
1874. The chapel is of the middle of the 17th century, and is ascribed
to Sir Christopher Wren. The poets Spenser and Gray, Nicholas Ridley the
martyr, Archbishop Whitgift and William Pitt were associated with this
college; and from the number of bishops whose names are associated with
it the college has obtained the style of _collegium episcopale_.

_Peterhouse_ or St Peter's College is on the west side of Trumpington
Street, almost opposite Pembroke. It has already been indicated as the
oldest Cambridge college (1284). Hugh de Balsham, the founder, had
settled some secular scholars in the ancient Augusti