TRINITY COLLEGE
Trinity College was 1) ___________ ( founded    / set    / begin    /starting) by Sir Thomas Pope in 1555. A devout catholic with no surviving children, Thomas Pope saw the Foundation of an Oxford college as a means of 2) ___________( securing     / ensuring    / clinching    / verifying) that he and his family would always be remembered in the prayers and masses of its members. He came from a family of small 3) _____________ ( owners    / landowners    / freeholders    / mistresses) in Oxfordshire, trained as a lawyer, and rose rapidly to prominence 4) ( with     / on        / under    / because) ____________ Henry VIII. As Treasurer of the Court of Augmentations he handled the estates of the monasteries                  5) _______________ ( dissolved    / disintegrated    / crumbled    / withered) at the Reformation, and amassed a considerable personal 6) _____________ ( fortune    / wealth    / rich    / money) . Pope was a discreet and trusted privy counsellor of Mary Tudor, and it was from Mary and Philip that he 7) ______ ( inherited    / conferred    / received    / excepted).  Letters Patent and royal approval for his new foundation. Pope died in 1559. Although his religious 8) ______ ( ideals    / examples    / belief    / value) were never fully realised - Elizabeth I had succeeded her sister and England 9) __________  ( rejoined    / repeated    / returned    / reinstated) to the Protestant faith - nonetheless the memory of his name, like his college, has endured the fluctuating fortunes of over 400 years. His wife, Lady Elizabeth Pope, was a particularly influential 10) ___________ ( outline    / symbol    / shape    / figure) in Trinity's early years. Pope's foundation was for a President, twelve Fellows and twelve scholars, all supported by the income from his 11) ______________ ( generous    / generosity     / bounty    / teeming) endowment of lands, and for up to twenty undergraduates. The Fellows, all men, were required to take Holy Orders and remain unmarried. The College Statutes set out rules for a simple monastic life of religious observance and study. The Garden was an informal grove of trees, mainly elms, amongst which the members of the College could 12) ______________ ( prowl    / walk    / promenade    / yomp) and meditate. 

ANSWERS

1. founded 2. ensuring 3. landowners 4. under 5. dissolved 6.  fortune
 7. received 8. ideals 9.returned 10. figure    11. generous 12. walk