PEMBROKE COLLEGE (Oxford).

PEMBROKE COLLEGE (Oxford). (Founded in 1620 by the joint benefactions of Thomas Tesdale, of Glympton, Co. O.xford, and Richard W'hitwick, B.A., Rector of Ilsley, Co. Berks; originally it was called Broadgate Hall, famous for the study of the civil law and obtained the name of Pembroke College from the Earl of Pembroke, who was Chancellor of the Universitj' when the college was founded.) Per pale azure and gules three lions rampant two and one argent, a chief per pale or and of the third charged on the dexter side with a rose of the second, and on the sinister with a thistle vert. [Of no authority.]

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