Note 311 — Chapter III · THE UNIVERSITY AS A DEGREE-GIVING BODY
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In 1524 the executors of Sir Robert Rede, Lord Chief Justice, endowed tres liberae lecturae in humane letters, logic, and philosophy; and many distinguished men have been invited to deliver this annual lecture. The Hulsean lecture was founded in the xviii c.
The first exhibitions were founded in the xiii c. by Kilkenny, 9th Bishop of Ely, Balsham’s predecessor, for “2 priests studying divinity in Cambridge.”