Godshouse and Christ's College are one and the same body, the two names representing the stages of youth and man's estate respectively. The story of the development has been told at length in the preceding pages and it is summarised in the authoritative words of the letters patent of I May 1505, where Henry VII gave, as was customary in such documents, the title by which the college as a legal entity was in future to be known:

That complete title the college on formal occasions regularly employed, it is found in legal documents drawn by order of the college as early as 1508, and it so continued to 1850 or later. Those words fix beyond all question that it was Christ's College that was begun by Henry VI, the same college which the Lady Margaret augmented, finished and stablished. The facts of identity and continuity were clearly known to the university in the early sixteenth century, as is sufficiently seen in that the college was referred to during the years 1505 and 1506, now as Godshouse, now as Christ's College, indifferently; even so late as 4 January 1537 a charter of Henry VIII was addressed to ‘Henry Lockwode Master or Keeper of Christ's College lately Goddyshouse’.