The college of St Nicholas, with 20 university students, was founded by Bishop Giles Bridport of Salisbury at Salisbury in 1261, Merton College by Walter of Merton at Malden in Surrey in 1265, and St Edmund's College at Salisbury by Bishop Wyly in 1270, and Merton College was moved to Oxford in 1275.
St Albans was restored by the munificence of its last and well-pensioned abbot; Bury St Edmunds, like a good many more, by grant of Edward VI.; Abingdon by a private donor; Faversham by restoration of the trust-property on cause shown.
Several, like Basingstoke grammar school and StPeter's school, York, were re-endowed in her reign, the former by restoration of gild lands, the latter by appropriation of the endowment of a hospital for poor priests.
Aldwinkle All Saints and AldwinkleStPeter, formerly separate parishes, but which were amalgamated for civil and ecclesiastical purposes in 1885, in Northamptonshire, are situated on the river Nen, near Thorpe station on the L. and N.W.R., and 2 1/2 miles NNE of Thrapston.
The father of the poet Dryden was rector of Aldwinkle All Saints, and the poet was born in the parsonage.
Thomas Fuller, the historian, was a native of AldwinkleStPeter.
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