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The transaction was "almost certainly illegal", and was contested multiple times without success. The first and most famous such lawsuit, the Earl of Oxford's case, was pursued in 1615 by Barnabas Gooch, who was master of the college between 1604 and 1626. This court case landed Gooch and the senior fellow in prison for two years. Gooch was subsequently offered £10,000 as a compromise, which he refused to accept. When the Quayside development site of Magdalene

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