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Biographical history of Gonville and Caius college, 1349-1897
Biographical history of Gonville and Caius college 13491897 Author:John Venn Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: WILLIAM ROUGHAM. William Rougham, second master (1360-93), was in all probability one of the original fellows; at any rate he appears in the first list we hav... more »e, viz. in the deed of gift of the manor of Triplow by Bateman, in 1353-4. He was a doctor of medicine, and ruled over the college from about 1360 to 1393. It was during his time, and by his agency, that our foundation first emerged from a couple of adapted buildings into the commencement of a college. He is principally known by his completion of the chapel (see under textit{Chapel). This building stood substantially as he left it for nearly 250 years. It had two windows on each side, and one at the East end. The latter, aud one of the former, contained, according to Caius, the inscription, textit{Orate pro anima Willm? de Rougham qui fecit istam capellam fieri. Even at this early date, one pensioner,?fellow-commoner he would now be called,?was in residence, viz. John Ufford, a son of the Earl of Suffolk. He was archdeacon of Suffolk, and died at Cambridge, in 1375. He marked his stay by the gift of a window to the college chapel. The science of the day,?in mathematics and astronomy,?was represented by Elvedon and Wate: both probably residents at this period. RICHARD PULHAM. Richard Pulham, third master (1393-1412), was probably, like his predecessor, one of the original staff of fellows : at any rate his name appears on the list 1354. In 1315 he was rector of Helton, Suff. He appears to have been, like Colton, a chaplain of Bishop Bateman or in some way in his service. In 1346, being at the time a chaplain of St Peter's altar in Lincoln, he obtained permission from the pope to receive the fruits of his chaplaincy for three years, whilst engaged in the service of Bishop Bateman. In 1363 he obtained, at the requ...« less