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Edition and translation of important documents, providing an
account of the foundation of a Cambridge college. Gonville &
Caius College is exceptional among Oxford and Cambridge colleges in
having had three separate founders at different times: Edmund
Gonville, William Bateman and John Caius. The statutes made by
those founders are also exceptional, for they have two unique
features: first, the statutes of the last founder did not supersede
those of the second founder but took effect concurrently with them
for over three hundred years; and, second, the longest setof the
three founders' statutes was formulated by someone - John Caius -
who was not only a founder but had himself been a fellow of the
college for which he was drawing up his statutes and was Master of
that college during the years in which he was formulating the final
draft of those statutes. As a result, Caius' statutes are
remarkable for the unique detail of their provisions and their
exceptional character. For both these reasons John Caius'
statutesdeserve greater attention than they have been given. In
addition to an edition and translation of the three founders'
statutes, the book also contains an account of the circumstances in
which they were formulated and the very different characters of the
founders who made them. There then follows an examination of five
topics on which the statutes of the last founder either led to
bitter disputes and litigation during the later three centuries or
elsewere simply ignored or tacitly evaded by common consent,
particularly the hitherto neglected subjects of stipends and
dividends.
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