doctrines. As early as 1521 a number of Cambridge men had begun to meet at the White Horse tavern to examine and discuss the novel views put forward by the Wittenberg monk. The inn became known as “Germany,” its frequenters as “Germans,” and if Oxford’s reception of the Renaissance was more ready than that of Cambridge, the latter university his at least the honour of having afforded an earlier welcome to the Reformation. Among these Cambridge Reformers were some of the greatest names in the movement: