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So INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL HISTORY.
Recently, however, and from a wholly unexpected source, I
have been able to arrive at the same conclusion synthetically, and
for reasons very similar to those which enabled me to determine
on the population during the first half of the sixteenth century.
Some of you may remember that I showed you a survey of the
parish of Gamlingay, in Cambridgeshire, chiefly with the object
of illustrating the system of cultivation in common fields. This
survey was drawn for the purpose of assisting the college in a law-
suit which it had with a family named St. George, between which
family and the college, as I know from the Merton archives, there
had been litigation for centuries. Now in this survey every house
is marked and can be counted, though one has to take care that
one does not include outhouses in the number of habitations.
At the same time All Souls College entered upon a much more
extensive system of surveys. There was a domestic reason for
the action. The College, in which one Hoveden, a man of
considerable energy and character, was Warden, was very per-
sistently importuned by Elizabeth to grant certain highly
beneficial leases to one or more of her courtiers. Elizabeth, like
many other excellent and energetic persons, was exceedingly prone
to provide if possible for her dependents at other people's expense.
She endowed her treasurer Cecil, whom we know as Burleigh, at
the cost of the See of Peterborough ; her Chancellor, Hatton, at
the charge of the Bishop, i.e., the See of Ely ; and similarly
impoverished the endowments of Exeter and Chichester by the
same process and with the same ends. The Colleges at Oxford
and Cambridge did not escape, and partly for policy, occasionally
on compulsion, granted highly beneficial leases to the Cecils and
other people, who no doubt did much public service, but were to a
great extent rewarded at the cost of private corporations.
Hoveden appears to have been firm, and to have saved All
Souls from temporary, perhaps from permanent, spoliation. In
order that the College too might have on record a careful and
accurate description of its estates, he employed Langdon and
another surveyor named Clerke to map out the College estates
to scale, generally sixteen feet to the mile. Now, as before, the
houses in the several parishes are marked, and the collection, in
five folio volumes, still preserved in the Library, is of great interest
Recently, however, and from a wholly unexpected source, I
have been able to arrive at the same conclusion synthetically, and
for reasons very similar to those which enabled me to determine
on the population during the first half of the sixteenth century.
Some of you may remember that I showed you a survey of the
parish of Gamlingay, in Cambridgeshire, chiefly with the object
of illustrating the system of cultivation in common fields. This
survey was drawn for the purpose of assisting the college in a law-
suit which it had with a family named St. George, between which
family and the college, as I know from the Merton archives, there
had been litigation for centuries. Now in this survey every house
is marked and can be counted, though one has to take care that
one does not include outhouses in the number of habitations.
At the same time All Souls College entered upon a much more
extensive system of surveys. There was a domestic reason for
the action. The College, in which one Hoveden, a man of
considerable energy and character, was Warden, was very per-
sistently importuned by Elizabeth to grant certain highly
beneficial leases to one or more of her courtiers. Elizabeth, like
many other excellent and energetic persons, was exceedingly prone
to provide if possible for her dependents at other people's expense.
She endowed her treasurer Cecil, whom we know as Burleigh, at
the cost of the See of Peterborough ; her Chancellor, Hatton, at
the charge of the Bishop, i.e., the See of Ely ; and similarly
impoverished the endowments of Exeter and Chichester by the
same process and with the same ends. The Colleges at Oxford
and Cambridge did not escape, and partly for policy, occasionally
on compulsion, granted highly beneficial leases to the Cecils and
other people, who no doubt did much public service, but were to a
great extent rewarded at the cost of private corporations.
Hoveden appears to have been firm, and to have saved All
Souls from temporary, perhaps from permanent, spoliation. In
order that the College too might have on record a careful and
accurate description of its estates, he employed Langdon and
another surveyor named Clerke to map out the College estates
to scale, generally sixteen feet to the mile. Now, as before, the
houses in the several parishes are marked, and the collection, in
five folio volumes, still preserved in the Library, is of great interest