f England."

_Sidney Sussex College_ faces Sidney Street. It was founded under the
will (1588) of the Lady Frances Sidney, dowager countess of Sussex (d.
1589), and received its charter in 1596. The foundress provided for a
master, ten fellows and twenty scholars, but thirty-six scholarships
are now provided. The original buildings were of brick, but they were
plastered over and greatly altered by Wyatville about 1830. The Grey
Friars had occupied the site, and part of their buildings remained in
the chapel until 1777. A beautiful block of new buildings, with a
cloister, was erected in 1890. The most famous name associated with the
college is that of Oliver Cromwell, who was a fellow commoner, as also
was Thomas Fuller, author of the _Worthies of England_.

_Trinity College_, the front of which is on Trinity Street, is the
largest collegiate foundation in Cambridge, and larger than any in
Oxford. It was founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII. and absorbed several
earlier institutions--King's Hall (founded by Edward III. in 1336), St
Michael's or Michaelhouse (founded by Hervey de Stanton, chancellor of
the exchequer under Edward II., in 1323), Fyswick or Physick's Hostel,
belonging to Gonville Hall, and other hostels. Henry's original
foundation was for a master and sixty fellows and scholars, but Queen
Mary and other later benefactors enabled extensions to be made, and the
foundation now consists of a master (appointed by the crown), at least
sixty fellows, seventy-four scholars and sixteen sizars, with minor
scholars, chaplains librarian and the regius professors of Divinity,
Hebrew and Greek. Major scholarships are open to undergraduates, not
being of standing to take the degree of bachelor of arts, as well as to
non-members of the university under nineteen years of age, while minor
scholarships and exhibitions are open only to the latter. There are
valuable exhibitions appropriated to certain schools, of which the most
important are those confined to Westminster school. Trinity College is
entered from Trinity Street by the King's Gateway (1518-1535) preserved
from King's Hall, but subsequently altered. The principal or Great Court
is the largest in Cambridge and very fine. Its buildings are of
different dates. In the centre is a picturesque fountain, erected by
Thomas Neville, master (1593-1615), under whose direction much of the
building was carried out. The chapel on the north side of the court was
begun in the reign