[...]... corruption of those who did enter the University The appointment of Bucer, the doyen of the continental reformers, had, in H C Porter's phrase, 'set the seal upon the success of the Cambridge reformers'; and for some the Book of Common Prayer of 1549 might be seen in the same light But there were others, neither few nor THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 13 silent, for whom the new book was too moderate, and for whom... monasteries With the profits of such official employment Thomas was able to purchase the Essex manor of Moulsham (once the property of the Abbey of Westminster) The Mildmay family was thus typical of the novi homines of that age, for whom office was the means to land-owning status, and for whom a university education came to seem a useful preparation for public service What the young Walter made of life at... in academic sloth in the University to the neglect of the flocks for whose spiritual care they were beneficed On the other hand, authority might see in the classis movement all the risks of nonconformity - of the corruption of accepted doctrine and the subversion of established church order, perhaps even of civil order The need for more parochial clergy who had the education and the call to preach was... et de gradu Doctoratus in sacra Theologia 151 Susripiendo Index 153 Plates Between pp 2 and $ 1 (a) The statute-book (b) Opening page of the Statutes 2 The end of chapter 42 3 (a) Base of the silver seal-box (b) The Founder's seal 4 Signatures of the first twelve Fellows to the College orders of December 1588 Preface This translation of the original statutes of Emmanuel College was first made twenty... to the days before the Dissolution But Martin Bucer, the Strasburg reformer brought to Cambridge in 1549 as Regius Professor of Divinity, was no less severe in his comment that the Colleges, endowed for education of the clergy, were now occupied by dons who had adopted all the more deplorable characteristics of the old-time denizens of the abbeys, to the exclusion of the more worthily studious, or the. .. the dons and the undergraduates, but even the under-cook and the laundryman Not everything, of course, could be covered; day-to-day detail of, say, the times of meals or (more important) the prescribed books for lectures or the surveillance of undergraduate behaviour, had to be left to the discretion of the Master and other College officers; but for these matters we are happily able to supplement the. .. necessary and desirable one at that, especially if the clergy (as they had done throughout the Middle Ages) were not only to fulfil the priestly and pastoral functions of the church but to provide leading figures in the government of the country In addition, it had long been the practice of the monastic establishments to 'exhibit' some of their number to the University for the furtherance of their studies,... Even the modern historian of the age, diagnosing in the England of the 15 80s an utterly different world from that of the 15 30s, may too easily forget that there were plenty of men who like Mildmay lived in both It is symbolic - and perhaps no chance either - that Mildmay' s college for the training of a preaching clergy was planted on a site once occupied by the Dominican order of Preachers Mildmay. .. affection for Cambridge and for his college which was to show later in practical ways IV The Dissolution and the Colleges The Cambridge anxiety over the future of the Colleges engendered by the suppression of the monasteries and chantries was happily shortlived Henry VIII, like his successors, showed himself no enemy to the universities, provided they were loyal to the Crown; rather they were to be strengthened... sanctioned until the reign of Queen Mary Whatever, therefore, were the Founder's designs, they show no preference for the new learning or for reformed religion, and are perhaps deliberately reticent in indicating what direction the intellectual life of the College should take They are notable, however, as MuUinger pointed out, for the self-contained character of the constitution they embody The Master was to . alt="" The Statutes of Sir Walter Mildmay for Emmanuel College