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68 "the celebrated John Wyckliffe " was once Warden of Canterbury College, instituted in 1363, and granted in later times by Henry VIII. to Christ Church, its site being upon the present Canterbury Court. Mr. Moore, in his "Gossipy Guide to Oxford," says that Wyckliffe used to preach in a chapel which once stood at the eastern end of the Library. But, it is believed now that this John Wycliffe was another John Wycliffe, not "The Morning Star of the Reformation."

In this same Canterbury College tradition says that Sir Thomas More was tutored by Linacre. William Camden spent some little time at Christ Church, as well as at Magdalen and at Pembroke. In these colleges, as elsewhere, he devoted all his spare minutes to the study of antiquarian lore; and at Christ Church, especially, he was fortunate, according to his own statements, in the support and encouragement of a fellow-student, Sir Philip Sidney, who followed him to Oxford in 1568.

According to Wood, Camden was at Magdalen, as a Chorister, in 1566; thence he was transported to Broadgates, which afterwards became Pembroke, where he stayed two years and a half; and then he was given entertainment, as long as he cared to remain, in the lodgings of a Canon of Christ Church, who was much impressed by the learning