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676 CAMBRIDGE. JosEi'H Turner, D.D., elected 6th Oct. 1784. Ob. in Aug. 1828. Gilbert Ainslie, D.D., elected 15th Aug. 1828, the present master. The arms of this college are thus blazoned : Per pale, semi baron and feme, the first is Barry argent and azure, an orle of martlets, gules ; being the half- part of Valence's coat, joined with half the coat of Guy de Chastillon, who bore Vairy, three pallets gules, in a chief or, or file of three labels. GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE. Edmund Gonville, (younger son of sir Nicholas Gonville, knt.,) rector of Terrington in Norfolk, ob- tained letters patent under the great seal of England, dated 28th Jan. 1347 '*^', 22nd Edw. III., to found a hall at Cambridge, to be named Gonville Hall, dedi- cated to the honour of the Annunciation of the bless- ed Virgin Mary, wherein he appointed a master or keeper, and four fellows'*^; and dying in the year 1350, he left the reverend father in God, William Bateman, then bishop of Norwich, his executor, a great sum of money for the perfecting and endowment of his foun- dation. The establishment was originally called Gon- mlle Hall. MASTERS OF GONVILLE HALL. John Coltox, nominated by the founder in 1348. He was archbishop of Armagh. William de Rougham, M.D., elected in 1353. Richard de Pulham, elected in 1393. William Somersham, 1412. ^ Pat. p. I. 22 Edw. III. m. •*' Statutes in the university li- 33. brary, MS. MM. 420.