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erudiendam adjiciens,per Impenfas frias diligenti præceptorum Curæ commi-fit, ut ætas infirma Conditiocp paupercula, (cui quamquam Ingenuitas ex-terna fàmiliæ defit, interna tamen animi plerumq-, dari folet,) ibi doceri >coalefcere & ad frugem honeftatis perduci poffet. Neque fic Inftrudamdeferuit, fed & aliud Regium CantabrÎgiæ Collegium aflruxit, ubi plenaconfrimmatis Grammaticis ad Virtutis & Dodrinæ perfedionem Via pa-tefreret. Huic piiffrmo Viro provehendæ Virtutis ac Dodrinæ in Colu-men atque Ornamentum fui Regni & perpetuæ precationis fibi cundifrque defundis procurandæ is erat animus. Poft quem imperiale folium te-P. 22. nuit Edoardus quartus, qui memor avitæ Claritatis, rurfum Oculos inWyndeforum, regale profèdo militareq; Domicilium, illuflrifTime convertit.Ubi Splendorem Equeftrem Ornatu frequentiffrmo præfèntiæ fùæ con-ftabilivit, Canonicorum vidum audiorem reddidit, ftipendia Vicario-rum Sacerdotum adauxit, & Cantoribus fecularibus atque pueris cumnumero proventum uberiorem adjecit, ut qui temporalium Infrgniumatque Ornamentorum nihil non implevetat, æterni pariter honoris Me-moria non careret. Qua Ratione Corpus quoque fiium illic clarilfimæfêpulturæ contradi voluit, cum Regis Henrici fexti venerabile Corpus illucadvehendum antea curâflèt ad quod frequens & operofa Multitudo, Deo(quod „creditur) per Miracula vocitante convolitavit : Ex Ædedivi Georgii,quam tertius extruxerat, Templum multo clarius, fpatiofius & auguftiusexædifîcare deliberavit, quod inconfommatum manere noluerunt qui

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thern to the Care and InßruBion of Teachers and Maßers , to the Intent that theirtender Age and mean Condition (for tho Birth, Befcent, and outward Qualifica-tion, he wanting to a Family, yet inward Ingenuity of Mind is frequently gi-ven) might he there taught, iußruBed, and grow up together to the bringing forththe Fruits of Honeßy and Good-Works. Nor, when he had provided thus fortheir firß Rudiments and InßruBion, did he leave them without Helps to continueit, hut built another Royal College at Cambridge, that the Touth having com-pleat ed their Studies in Grammar, might have a Way made open for them, to per-' feB themfelves in Learning and Virtue. This was the Mind and Intention of thispious Brìnce to promote Virtue and Learning, that they might be a Safeguard andOrnament to his Reign and Kingdom, and that he might procure the Prayers of allto the End of the World, for him and all that were departed this Life. Edward thefourth fucceeded him, who mindful of the illußrious Renown of his Anceßors, turnedhis Eyes towards Windfor, that Royal Seat of military Honour ; where by the Or-nament and Grace of his own frequent Prefence, he confirmed andfettled this knight-ly Order, increafed the Allowance of the Canons Commons, augmented the Salariesof the Vicar Priefls and fecular Chanters, he enlarged the Number of the Chorißersand gave them better Provifion. And this he did to the End, that he who had leftnothing unßnißed to the beautifying and gracing of this Order, might not wantthe Memory of eternal Honour. For which Reafon he ordered his Bodyto be nobly interred there, having firß taken Care to bring thither thevenerable Corps of King Henry the fixth, to which the numerous Company ofthe faithful continually reforted, God calling them (as it was thought) by the Mi-racles which were worked there. He intended out ofthe Temple which King Edward

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