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Adhavan kumar [en]. Tordinci [en]. The Benedictines were attracted to having their "Monks' Hostel" north of the river, aiming to distance themselves from the temptations of the town. The monks chose a location which had been inhabited in prehistoric times, an Iron Age settlement of circular houses has been located close by and parts of a paved Roman road, rubbish pits and coins have been found.
The Benedictine monks began building in the s. The Benedictines were only responsible for the communal buildings of their monastic colleges, individual abbeys were invited to provide their own student chambers.
Four local Benedictine abbeys - Crowland, Ely, Ramsey and Walden - each built a staircase of two storeys , three of them in the south range. As a result of patronage by the family of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, the name of the institution was changed from Monks' Hostel to Buckingham College sometime after The College suffered an early misfortune when the Duke of Buckingham was executed for treason in It was not long before students who were not monks were admitted.
Such lay students would have paid rent to the host abbey whose rooms they occupied. Thomas Cranmer, later Archbishop of Canterbury, was appointed a lecturer at Magdalene in He was then 41 and probably ready to endow Magdalene handsomely; but in he, like his father, was executed for treason. The College had to wait another twenty years to find someone willing to play the part of great patron.
Fortunately, this adversity for the parent abbey did not have a particularly disruptive effect on Magdalene: the College, it seems, never closed. The arms of Magdalene, with the motto Garde ta foy 'Keep faith' , and the crest showing the mythic wyvern, are derived from Audley. Once again the College was unlucky in the fate of its patron, and Audley soon died, aged 56, in Audley left behind him a College struggling financially. When Audley refounded Magdalene, he gave the College seven acres of property at Aldgate in the City of London, his reward from the King for helping him dispose of Anne Boleyn.
Today, this property would have brought invaluable income to the College, had it not been permanently alienated to the Crown in , through the machinations of an Elizabethan banker, Spinola. The transaction was thought by many to be illegal, and it was contested unsuccessfully on more than one occasion.
When the splendid Quayside development was completed in , Magdalene commissioned Fluck and Law, the creators of Spitting Image , to produce an unflattering gargoyle of Spinola, who now spouts river water into the Cam. The future diarist Samuel Pepys joined the College in Predictably, Pepys soon fell foul of the puritanical regime and was roundly reprimanded by his tutors for 'having bene scandalously overseene in drink the night before'.
As his famous diaries attest, Pepys' behaviour in that regard improved little throughout his life, but that didn't prevent a glittering career in Restoration London. He became a Member of Parliament, a Baron of the Cinque Ports, an influential Secretary to the Admiralty in which capacity he greatly contributed to the early professionalisation of the Royal Navy , and was elected President of the Royal Society in Pepys' diary, which he kept between and , offers invaluable insights into life in England in the decade after Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth, and important first-hand accounts of major historical events, such as the Restoration of Charles II and the Great Fire of London.
Pepys was a generous benefactor to his College, and made three subscriptions to the new College building that eventually came to bear his name.
Begun in , the fundraising for the elegant addition to the College in Second Court was initially slow, but the building was largely completed by the time of Pepys death in It soon provided a perfect home for his final bequest: his invaluable collection of books and papers which now constitute the Pepys Library. It seems William of Waynflete was not in agreement with the middle vowel shift and attempted to stem the tide. To this very day he is still holding the line in one corner of Oxford.
That is the corner by the college and the Magdalen bridge which are both certainly still pronounced as Maudlin. Spelling was not of course standardized until well into the 18th century but if that is how Caxton spelled it in the first print in the s I guess that is pretty good evidence of how it was pronounced then. On a related note, with regard to the surname Maudlin, turns out it shares a common Y DNA origin with several similarly routed names that eventually found themselves as Modlin, Medlin, Maitlen, Madelin, Meadlin, Maitland, etc.
Most of these are from individuals tested in the US though one English Madelin was found to have a common Y DNA origin, thought to be back round the year or earlier. It is not currently known how a female first name became a patrilineal surname, though there are several theories.
Hi Paul, I do not understand why you refer to patrilineal? If i am not mistaken the father of Mary has always been in dispute, to my mind dependant on opinion and reverence for her? Magdalen may have been her middle name , familial name also in disppute? As for Madelen or Madeleyn for as many years as I recall Maugdelyn Bridge has always been known thus! As a shot in the dark , I feel that is connected to her tears of sadness , therefore the river below? I should remember correct spelling , albeit without checking does the bridge include a g or not?
Thanks for this very interesting article. As a young schoolboy in Indiana, I cannot count the times that I daydreamed about why no one seemed to share my surname, Modlin, and from where it originated.
Then, around , my father and I stumbled onto an older gent in a small shop, scarcely more than a booth, near the antique shops in Everyday Square. The sheet, surprisingly, turned out to be accurate, tracing the spellings back through Modlin, Maudlin, Maudalyne, Maudalyne, and Maudalayne, to Magdalen. It explained the origin of the name was a reference to Mary Magdalene whom, it said, had nearly eclipsed the Blessed Mother in adoration in York, Oxford, and Cambridge.
He made his voyage around My first North American born namesake, Edward Maudlin, was born around Pros and cons include loving knowing the origination of the name and its association with Mary Magdalene. Cons include the definition of the adjective… especially when one is a performer who is best known theoretically, of course for humor and quick wit.
I cannot thank you enough for taking this old man back through history to learn everything that I have ever wanted to know about our family name. Dear Edward, What an interesting and poignant history of your name and your family. Best wishes, Louise Glossophilia.
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