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Opposite Emmanuel, Downing Street leads into Pembroke Street , at the west end of which, around the foot of King's Parade, are two more noteworthy town-centre colleges. On the east side of King's Parade is Corpus Christi College (tel 01223/338000), founded by two of the town's guilds in 1352. Ignore the first court and instead head north into Old Court , which dates from the foundation of the college and is where Christopher Marlowe wrote Tamburlane before graduating in 1587. The college library, on the south side, contains a priceless collection of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, while the north side is linked by a gallery to St Bene't's Church , which served as the college chapel, but is of much earlier Saxon origin. Inside, Thomas Hobson's Bible is exhibited in a glass case; Hobson was the owner of a Cambridge livery stable, where he would only allow customers to take the horse nearest the door - hence "Hobson's choice". Nearby Queens' College (daily 10am-4.30pm; GBP1.20; tel 01223/335511), accessed through the gate on Queen's Lane, just off Silver Street, is the most popular college with university applicants, and it's not difficult to see why. In the Old Court and the Cloister Court , Queens possesses two fairy-tale Tudor courtyards, with the first of the two the perfect illustration of the original collegiate ideal with kitchens, library, chapel, hall and rooms all set around a tiny green. Cloister Court is flanked by the Long Gallery of the President's Lodge, the last remaining half-timbered building in the university, and, in its southeast corner, by the tower where Erasmus is thought to have beavered away during his four years here, probably from 1510 to 1514. Be sure to pay a visit to the college Hall , off the screens passage between the two courts, which holds mantel tiles by William Morris, and portraits of Erasmus and one of the college's co-founders, Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV. Equally eye-catching is the wooden Mathematical Bridge over the Cam (visible for free from the Silver Street Bridge), a copy of the mid-eighteenth-century original which, it was claimed, would stay in place even if the nuts and bolts were removed.
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