Students and teachers found their first permanent home in 1284, when Hugh de Balsham, bishop of Ely, took in a group of them at Peterhouse hospital, stipulated rules of behavior for them, and allocated a sum of money to maintain them.
直到一二八四年，衣黎（Ely）主教波珊（Hugh de Balsham）將一批窮學者收容到聖彼得醫院中，訂出清規章程，又撥出一筆基金，師生們才算安頓下來。