In 1496, the Bishop of Ely converted a derelict nunnery on the eastern edge of Cambridge, the 12th-century Benedictine nunnery of St. Mary and St. Radegund, into a community for graduate priests studying in the University of Cambridge, with a free grammar school for the choristers serving in the College’s Chapel and other locals. Its full name is “The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist and the glorious Virgin Saint Radegund, near Cambridge.” The name “Jesus” was actually derived from its Chapel. In the 1520s it was still a new, struggling, and tiny school with only six or seven priests and very rarely, other students, who were unlikely to obtain degrees, since degrees were only required for clergymen, church lawyers, and schoolmasters.