at Cambridge. Completion of the Schools.

Rotherham had been elected Chancellor of Chancellorship Cambridge in 1469. His first term of office ended in the troublous year 1471; but he was re-elected in 1473, and held office, probably by further re-election, until 1478. It is impossible, as will be made evident, that he could ever have resided much in Cambridge, but he certainly did not neglect its welfare. The two young foundations of that time would naturally interest him. Queen's College had been founded in 1446, during his residence at King's, and placed by its founder, Andrew Doket, under the patronage of the unhappy young Queen, Margaret of Anjou. Its old court, which still remains, must have been a notable building in those days, when so few Colleges possessed a quadrangle built uniformly at a single date. But the College would appeal more strongly to the Chancellor of 1469 from the fact that four years earlier it had been placed under the patronage of a second Queen, Elizabeth, the wife of Edward IV. Midway in his second Chancellorship, another foundation was established by his old friend, Robert Wodelarke, the third Provost of King's. The original court, chapel, and library of St. Katherine's no longer are in existence; but we know from Rotherham's Will that he contributed largely to the buildings.* In the accounts for the building of King's College Chapel, 1477-80, we find also a gift of 100 from him. His arms also are carved on the tower of Great St. Mary's, for which his benefactions, either in his lifetime, or by his Will, amounted to the

"I also give and bequeathe to the New College at Cambridge, above and beyond the large sums paid and given for the building and repairing of the church there in the time of Mr. Arthur Wodelarke, my best red suit of cloth of gold, with six copes, and all things pertaining to the priest, deacon, and sub-deacon." Guest, p. 141.

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cellorship of Dr. Paris, the front of these scholes were thought to want repair, at which time all the old painted windows were taken down to make room for Crown glass, and all those paintings, tho' perfect and compleat, were taken away by the glazier, to the no small reproach of the University in thus defrauding the pious benefactors and founders amongst us of their grateful memorials. There were also many other antient coats in the open work at the top of each window, all of which were taken away; and though I used all means I could think of to recover them, yet they were broken, dispersed, or mislaid in a month after they were removed in such a manner as I could not find them. One large pane I had as the gift of the ViceChancellor, part of which composes two gothic windows I made in the parsonage at Blecheley in Buckinghamshire. besides some which I put into the east window of the parish church. Since which time the whole of Archbishop Rotheram's building is pulled down, and about the year 1756 an elegant new structure erected upon the same spot, under the auspices of the Duke of Newcastle, the present Chancellor of the University."

Cole goes on to descant on the impolicy as well as ingratitude of the destruction of stained glass in Gothic windows. 'In the magnificent chapel of King's College

was it not for the beautiful windows of painted glass too much light would be uneasy to the eye.' He then describes one of Rotheram's books, "Speculum Historiale," in three volumes, by Vincentius, printed in 1473, with a

of his College of Jesus at Rotherham,' preserved at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge: once over the arms of the See of York, once over Rotherham's own arms, and again over his arms impaled with those of the See of York.