bad Gothic we have seen at King’s College, was allowed to rebuild the great court, including the chapel and hall.  Sir Nicholas Bacon and Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, are two of the most famous names associated with Corpus Christi.  Parker left his old college a splendid collection of manuscripts, which are preserved in the library.  This college has a strong ecclesiastical flavour, and it is therefore fitting that it should possess such a remarkable document as the original draft of the Thirty-nine Articles, which is among the treasured manuscripts.

Queens’.—­After the founding of Corpus there came an interval of nearly a century before the eight colleges then existing were added to.  Henry VI. founded King’s in 1441, and seven years later his young Queen Margaret of Anjou, who was only eighteen, was induced by Andrew Docket to take over his very modest beginning in the way of a college.  It was refounded under the name of Queen’s College, having in the two previous years of its existence been dedicated to St. Bernard.  As in the case of King’s, the progress of Margaret’s college was handicapped by the Wars of the Roses, but fortunately Edward IV.’s Queen, Elizabeth Woodville, espoused the cause of Margaret’s college when Docket appealed to her for help.

Above all other memories this college glories in its associations with Erasmus, who was probably advised to go there by Bishop Fisher.  There are certain of his letters extant which he dates from Queens’, and it is interesting to find that he wrote in a querulous fashion of the bad wine and beer he had to drink when his friend Ammonius failed to send him his usual cask of the best Greek wine.  He also complained of being beset by thieves, and being shut up because of plague, but it need not be thought from this that Cambridge was much worse than other places.

Of all the colleges in the University Queens’ belongs most completely to other days.  Its picturesque red brick entrance tower is the best of this type of gateway, which is such a distinctive feature of Cambridge, and the first court is similar to St. John’s, with which Bishop Fisher was so closely connected as Lady Margaret Beaufort’s executor.  In the inner court, whose west front makes a charming picture from the river, is the President’s Lodge occupying the north side.  Its oriel windows and rough cast walls of quite jovial contours overhanging the dark cloisters beneath strike a different note to anything else in Cambridge.  Restoration has altered the appearance of the hall since its early days, but it is an interesting building, with some notable portraits and good stained glass.  The court, named after Erasmus, at the south-west angle of the college was, it is much to be regretted, rebuilt by Essex in the latter part of the eighteenth century; but for this the view of the river front from the curiously constructed footbridge would have been far finer than it is.  Like the sundial in the first court, this bridge, leading to soft meadows beneath the shade of great trees, is attributed to Sir Isaac Newton.