Identifier: architecturalhis03will_0 (find matches)
Title: The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Willis, Robert, 1800-1875 Clark, John Willis, 1833-1910
Subjects: University of Cambridge Eton College
Publisher: Cambridge (Eng.) : The University Press
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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use3. It isclear, however, that this church was not appropriated to eithercollege. 1 (The conveyance from Dera de Madingley to Hervey de Stanton is dated9 September, 1323 ; the Bishop of Elys licence 3 March, 1324—25. The latter hasbeen printed in the appendix from the original in the Treasury of Trinity College,where both deeds are preserved.) 2 (Hervey de Stantons will is dated 26 August, 1327. By a codicil dated31 October following he desired to be buried in St Michaels Church. In the courseof the action brought against his executors respecting their administration of his effects,they justify the great expense of the funeral by stating that: in vita sua dixit, voluit,et mandauit, quod corpus suum traderetur sepulture in ecclesia Sancti Michaelispredicti in medio cancelli inter scholares suos, et ideo funus suum de Ebor adeundem locum ducebatur. The will and the other documents belonging to it arepreserved in the Treasury of Trinity College. ) 3 (Commiss. Docts. II. pp. 129, I41.)
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Fig. i. Ground-plan of S. Michaels church, Cambridge, reduced from a ground-plan made bySir G. G. Scott in 1849. The walls distinguished by hatching were put up under his directionat that time. 492 THE CHAPEL. King Edward the Third, by letters patent, dated 25 July,1342, gave to his college of Kings Hall, Cambridge, the churchof S. Mary the Great, evidently to serve the purpose of a collegechapel, although it was not in the same parish, the college beingat that time wholly contained within the adjoining parish ofAll Saints. The episcopal licence of appropriation1, dated 19October, 1343, contains a clause identical in substance withthat which I have just quoted from the appropriation-deed ofS. Michaels, though expressed in rather different language,with this exception, that the scholars in the case of S. Marysare described as residing in the same university, instead of inthe same parish. In the case of S. Michaels the parish servicesare not mentioned ; in that of S. Marys the college i

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