And thus much have I thought good to note of our universities, and likewise of colleges in the same, whose names I will also set down here, with those of their founders, to the end the zeal which they bare unto learning may appear, and their remembrance never perish from among the wise and learned.

OF THE COLLEGES OF CAMBRIDGE WITH THEIR FOUNDERS

Years of the
Foundation Colleges Founders

1546 1 Trinity College King Henry 8.

1441 2 The King’s College King Henry 6, Edward 4, Henry 7,
                               and Henry 8.

1511 3 St. John’s Lady Margaret, grandmother to Henry 8.

1505 4 Christ’s College King Henry 6 and the Lady Margaret
                               aforesaid.

1446 5 The Queen’s College Lady Margaret, wife to King Henry 6.

1496 6 Jesus College John Alcock, bishop of Ely.

1342 7 Bennet College The brethren of a Popish guild
                               called Corporis Christi.

1343 8 Pembroke Hall Maria de Valentia, Countess of Pembroke.

1256 9 Peter College Hugh Balsham, bishop of Ely.

1348 10 Gundewill and Caius Edmund Gundevill, parson of 1557 College Terrington, and John Caius,
doctor of physic.

1354 11 Trinity Hall William Bateman, bishop of Norwich.

1326 12 Clare Hall Richard Badow, chancellor of Cambridge.

1459 13 Catherine Hall Robert Woodlark, doctor of divinity.

1519 14 Magdalen College Edward, Duke of Buckingham, and
                               Thomas, lord Audley.

1585 15 Emanuel College Sir Walter Mildmay, etc.

OF THE COLLEGES AT OXFORD

Years of the
Foundation Colleges Founders

1539 1 Christ’s Church King Henry 8.

1459 2 Magdalen College William Wainfleet, first fellow of
                               Merton College, then scholar at
                               Winchester, and afterwards bishop
                               there.[6]

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.