provided for the foundation of a college,
but the heirs contested the will with the university, and in spite of a
decision against them in 1769, continued to hold the estates for many
years, so that it was not until 1800 that the charter for the college
was obtained. The foundation-stone was laid in 1807, and the two ranges
of buildings, in classical style, represent all that was completed of an
intended quadrangle. The foundation consists of a master, professors of
English law and of medicine, six fellows and six scholars.

_Emmanuel College_ overlooks St Andrew's Street. It was founded in 1584
by Sir Walter Mildmay (_c_. 1520-1589), chancellor of the exchequer and
privy councillor under Queen Elizabeth. The foundation, considerably
enlarged from the original, consists of a master, sixteen fellows and
thirty scholars. There are further scholarships on other foundations
which are awarded by preference to pupils of Uppingham and other schools
in the midlands. Emmanuel was noted from the outset as a stronghold of
Puritanism; it is indeed recorded that Elizabeth rallied the founder on
his intention that this should be so. Mildmay assuredly had the welfare
of the church primarily at heart, and he attempted to provide against
the life residence of fellows, which he considered an unhealthy feature
in some colleges. The site of Emmanuel was previously occupied by a
Dominican friary, and some of its buildings were adapted to collegiate
uses. There is only a little of the earliest building remaining; the
greater part of the present college dates from the second half of the
18th century. The chapel, however, is by Sir Christopher Wren (1677).
Richard Holdsworth, Gresham professor, and William Sancroft, archbishop
of Canterbury, were masters of this college; Bishops Joseph Hall and
Thomas Percy were among its _alumni_, as was John Harvard, principal
founder of the great American college which bears his name.

_Gonville and Caius College_ (commonly called Caius, pronounced Kees),
stands mainly on the west side of Trinity Street. It arose out of an
earlier foundation. In 1348 Edmund Gonvile or Gonevill founded the hall
of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin, which was commonly called
Gonville Hall, for the education of twenty scholars in dialectic and
other sciences, with endowment for a master and three fellows. This hall
stood on part of the present site of Corpus, but on the death of its
founder in 1351 it was moved to the nor