Corpun file 3897

Letter of the Corpus Association (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1998)

Then and Now: 1648

We start with perhaps one of the more well known incidents from the College's history. The recording of the last physical chastisement of an undergraduate in Corpus. This incident is recounted in Lamb's History, Bury's pamphlet distributed to new members of College and other published histories. It is usually given in it's [sic] Latin form from the College Order Book:

Johannes Starke de malis moribus Collegio amovendus. Item Benton qui ab eo seductus est per Tutorem suum Mrum Johnson virgis castigandus.

However the College Chapter Book gives a slightly different perspective in English.

Both John Starke and John Benton were allowed to proceed to their degrees despite this incident.