o be allowed ten days of absence for each sermon. No arms were to
be borne, though archery was allowed as a recreation. No Fellow or
scholar was allowed to keep hounds, ferrets, hawks, or singing-birds in
College. The weekly allowance for commons was 1s. for the Master and
each Fellow, 7d. for each scholar. The President or Bursar was to
receive a stipend of 40s. a year, a Dean 26s. 8d. No one under the
standing of a Doctor of Divinity was to have a separate room; Fellows
and scholars were to sleep singly, or not more than two in a bed. Each
room was to have two beds--the higher for the Fellow, the lower or
truckle-bed for the scholar; the truckle-bed being tucked under the
other during the day.

The College made an excellent start, and was soon full of earnest and
successful students. It is sufficient to mention the names of Sir John
Cheke, the famous Greek scholar; of Roger Ascham, the tutor of Queen
Elizabeth; and, in another sphere, William Cecil, first Lord Burghley,
to give an idea of the influence the College was spreading through her
sons.

In all this Metcalfe had his share. He is the "Good Master of a College"
in Fuller's _Holy State_, where we read: "Grant that Metcalfe with
Themistocles could not fiddle, yet he could make a little city a great
one." And Ascham in _The Scholemaster_ writes of him: "His goodnes stood
not still in one or two, but flowed aboundantlie over all that Colledge,
and brake out also to norishe good wittes in every part of that
universitie; whereby at his departing thence, he left soch a companie of
fellowes and scholers in S. Johnes Colledge as can scarce be found now
in som whole universitie: which either for divinitie on the one side or
other, or for civill service to their Prince and contrie, have bene, and
are yet to this day, notable ornaments to this whole Realme. Yea S.
Johnes did then so florish, as Trinitie College, that princely house
now, at the first erection was but _Colonia deducta_ out of S. Johnes,
not onelie for their Master, fellowes and scholers, but also, which is
more, for their whole both order of learning, and discipline of maners;
and yet to this day it never tooke Master but such as was bred up before
in S. Johnes; doing the dewtie of a good _colonia_ to her _metropolis_,
as the auncient cities in Greice, and some yet in Italie at this time
are accustomed to do."

But troubles were in store both for Fisher and Metcalfe. The
Reformation, the divorce of Henry