Willose, Thomas Wendy, doctor in medicine, William Sigit, Thomas Alkins, William Gale, Peter Huet, Geof fry Knite, and John Whitacre. Lastly, in the reign of Elizabeth, Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, gave a salary to support one scholar. Thus endowed, this college retained the name of Gonvile Hall to the time of Philip and Marya.

Thus far is little more than a translation of Caius ; who (as observed of him before) is sparing enough of his biographies, only speaking here of the founder as rector of Terrington, in Norfolk. Let it then be added→→ Sir Edmund was the son of William Gonvile. He was a priest, and patron, as well as rector, of Terrington, Norfolk, in Edward III.'s reign. Thus far Mr. Blomefield.

Gonvile also was, it seems, in the absence of the bishop, guardian of the spiritualities of the diocese, and besides this Hall, he founded likewise the Hospital of St. John the Evangelist, at Lynn. To borrow Parker's genealogical, precision, he was great uncle to the great uncle of Lady Anne Scroope, who, after marrying William Chamberlain, Knight of the Order of the Garter, William Wingfield, Knight of the Order of the Sepulchre, and Governor of Calais, and, thirdly, Lord John, Baron Scroope, of Bolton, Knight of the Order of the Garter, and having no children, enlarged, it seems, a college of Canons, at Rushworth, which was founded by Edmund Gonvile, as well as this Hall. So (to pay Edmund Gon

> Caii Hist. Cantabr, Acad. Lib. i, p, 64.

↳ Hist. of Norf. Vol. i. p. 192. If this is right, Parker is a little wrong. Sir Walter Manly, too, should be Manny. See Froisard's Chronicles, Vol. i. p. 132. Lord Berner's edit. reprinted 1812.

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vile the accustomed honours of a founder) this rector of Rushworth must have been a person of great account and considerable wealth. He died before his foundation was completed, in 1350, leaving Bishop Bateman to finish it, out of a considerable sum of money, left him in trust for that purpose.

Of the remaining part, the Founder speaks modestly enough; all he says being, that on Sept. 4, 1557, thế 3d and 4th of the reign of Philip and Mary, John Caius, physician, bestowing on it estates, for the support of three fellows and 20 poor scholars, and a different college being added to the former foundation, the old name of Hall being blotted out, those princes called it Gonvile's and Caius' College; in which one master, 10 fellows, 10 scholars, 5 servants, and 3 poor men, were supported: but that pensioners also studied in it, supported at their own expense, to the number of 33, and that all together amounted to 62.

To come now to this other Founder.-John Caius, doctor of physic, of Norwich, was the son of Robert Caius of Yorkshire, and 14th warden of Gonvile Hall, being chosen the 24th of Jan. 1559. He was warden, as he tells us himself, seven years; began the new building in 1565, and completed it in 1570. Parker calls him the third founders, including, therefore, Bishop Bateman.

a Parker's Hist. of Cambridge, p. 68-72.

b Caii Opuscula, p. 142. Edit. S. Jebb, M. D. 1729. They had been published before in 1570 and 1574.

Bishop Bateman is also called a founder, in a MS. in Caius College

:

"Dr. Caius died at London July 29th, 1573, after having placed Thomas Legge in the dignity of warden, living himself some time as a commoner in the college, and assisting daily at divine service, in a private seat in the chapel, which he had built himself towards the east end. When his corpse was brought from London to Cambridge, all degrees in the University met it in honourable manner, near Trumpington Ford, and conducted it with the greatest funeral pomp to the college, where he was handsomely buried in the chapel, with this inscription, I know not whether to call more ingenious or magnificent: "Fui Caius--I was Caius." Thus far Mr. Parker.

I cannot forbear adding, from Mr. Blomefield, that when Caius's tomb was removed from the east end of the north wall, where it was first built, near the altar, and placed against the wall, to which it is now raised, "the body was found whole and perfect, his beard was very long, so that, on comparing his picture with his visage, it is said, there was a great resemblance." The inscrip

library, copied from the Archives of Trinity Hall, expressed in these remarkable words-Duas aulas collegiatas in universitate Cantabrigiensi propriis sumptibus honorificè construxit, unam quam intitulavit Sanctæ Trinitatis, de studentibus utroque jure, aliam vero Annunciationis Beatæ Mariæ, de Theologicis et dialecticis disciplinis, quas possessionibus et proventibus sic dotavit, ut inibi degentium accessarius poterit honorifice et honestissime in perpetuum exhiberi.

This MS. is contained in Miscellan. Collect. (Gonvile & Caius's MSS.) in which are also some of Robert, Hare's collections, and the MS. of Itin. Britanniæ, referred to in this History.

tion, as given by Parker, is incomplete; the whole is as follows a:

Fui Caius,

Vivit post Funera Virtus.

Etatis suæ LXIII.

Obiit 29 Julii,

Anno D. 1573.

But Caius has a claim to an ampler testimony. As the founder in part of this college, what has been said must suffice. But he was also a learned antiquary, a curious naturalist, an ingenious critic, a very skilful physician and anatomist: and should we hastily have associated his name merely with idle disputes about the antiquity of Cambridge, or a ridiculous character introduced by Shakespeare in the Merry Wives of Windsor, we must correct our opinion; for he possessed a combination of qualities, which rank him among the most distinguished scholars of his age, and he is placed as the Prince of its Physicians", by an admirable judge. In the few following hints he shall be traced through his own

works.

Of his History and Antiquities of Cambridge, an account has already been given. He also wrote the Annals of the College of Physicians, from its foundation by Dr. Linacre in 1520 to 1565, and the Annals of Gonvile College, from its beginning to 1570°. But these latter being written merely for the use of those colleges

a Collect, Cantab. p. 100, 101.

b Caio, Medicorum olim in Britanniæ principe: Dr. Samuel Jebb, in Dedicatione Opusculorum Caii, Doctori Ricardo Mead.

De Libris suis apud Opuscula, p. 142.

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are only to be found in MS. in their libraries. There is also a treatise of his, de Antiquis Britanniæ Urbibus, on the ancient Cities of Britain: and he began a history of his own city, Norwich, but left it unfinished for other avocations, though, as appears, he had made some advances in that work.

Dr. Caius wrote also a medical treatise a, on a subject upon which he laid great stress himself, as of the utmost consequence în practice; and it is a high proof of his professional reputation, as a physician, that he was appointed, at the request of Henry VIII. to give his anatomical lectures at the College of Surgeons (that of the Physicians not being then founded), which he continued to deliver in London for 20 years; that he was the very oracle of Mary, and in great credit with Elizabeth, our two learned queens, having been, previously, public reader in physic for several years at Padua in Italy. In prosecution of his design of consulting MSS. of the works of Galen, he travelled through France, Germany, and Italy. Galen was his great master. But his views also were directed, in like manner, towards some of the works of Hippocrates. He wrote a book on the works of Galen he discovered some pieces in Greek, both of Hippocrates and Galen, which had been buried in obscurity in libraries. He composed commentaries or annotations on most of his works, and on some of Hippocrates's: he made Latin versions of them, and corrected the reading, in numerous of their treatises (more particularly Galen's), of their very corrupted Greek text; and no one could have done all this, and on his large scale,

a De Medendi METHODO. Duo Libri.

b Caii Opuscula, 205.