670 CAMBRIDGE. by tlio college, but nominated by the bishop of Ely. He was removed from the mastership by judgment of the Court of King's Bench. Francis Barnes, B.D., 1788. Ob. ist May 1838. William Hodgson, D.D., i6th May 1838. Ob. i6th Oct. 1847. Henry Wilkinson Cookson, D.D., 3rd Nov. 1847. The arms of this college are thus blazoned : Or, four pallets within a bordure gules, charged with entoyro of eight coronets. CLARE HALL. A small college, by the name of University Hall, was founded by Richard Badew, chancellor of this Univer- sity, about the year 1326; but about sixteen years after a casual fire reduced this house to ashes, on the ruins of which Elizabeth, grand-daughter to king Ed- ward the First, second daughter and coheiress to Gil- bert, earl of Clare, Hertford and Gloucester, widow of John, and mother of William de Burgo, both earls of Ulster, rebuilt and endowed this college, naming it Clare Hall^^ MASTERSJ6. Walter de Thaxsted, 1326. Ralph Kirdington, 1342 ; but his name does not occur in the archives of Clare hall. Nicholas de Brunne held the office in 1359. John Dunwicii or de Donewick, 1374, chancellor of this University in 137 i and 1374. John de Chateresse. The year of his election is un- certain, but it was after 1384. •^ Copies of the statutes in this college being burnt in king MS. Harl. 7932. and MS. Harl. Henry the Eighth's time, their 7041. accounts are imperfect. (Note by 3<' N.B. Part of the archives of Le Neve.)
