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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1814 Excerpt:...lieu of the chapel of St. Peter's, taken into St. Peter's College by the seculars. But this was no tribute, or acknowledgment of St. Peter's College holding under St. John's College, nor originally paid for the site of St. Peter's College to St. John's College, but to St. John's Hospital, for the site and endowment of the church of St. Peter's a. But the principal evidence, on which Baker grounds his opinion, is, an ancient instrument, now lodged in the Tower at London, in which it is set forth--and upon oath--that the master and brethren of the hospital of St. John the Evangelist held a plot of ground, in fee of the King, whereon the said hospital, with the chapel, was founded; which said plot of'ground a certain burgess of Cambridge, named Henry Frost, gave to the college of Cambridge, to build an hospital, for the use of the poor and infirm; and this judicial testimony, he observes, ought to have more weight than any modern flying evidence that is opposed, there being no ancient history that says any thing of such a foundation by Nigellus, Bishop of Ely. a Eustachius, fifth Bishop of Ely, appropriated St. Peter's Church, in Cambridge, now little St. Mary's, to the religious brethren of St. John's. From an Inspesrimus of Hugh and John, Bishops of Ely, referred to bj, in his MS. account. " I know/' says Baker, " it had been more for the honour of the foundation to have given it a greater patron, and larger endowments; but I must prefer truth to the glory of the house, and Henry Frost ought never to be forgot, who gave birth first to so noted a seat of religion, and afterwards to one of the most renowned seats of learning now in Europe." It should seem, then, that the site of this college had for many ages been appropriated to religious or pu...