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duxerunt. Cantabrigiae gymnafium præceffit Oxonio annis 265, nam Sige, bert A. D. 630. Cantabrigiam erexit, & Alured Oxoniam, A. D. 895. But as fome contend, Cambridge began not to be an University, till fuch Time that Hugh Balham, Bifhop of Ely, founded the

College of Peter-Houfe, in A. D. 1256.

Clare Hall, founded by Elizabeth de Burgo Countefs of Clare, Widow of John de Burgo, Earl of Ulfer, in 4. D. 1347

Pembroke Hall, founded by Mary de St. Paul, Widow of Adomarius de Valentia, Earl of Pembroke, 1347. First named Aula de Valence Maria. Corpus Chrifti, commonly called Bennet-College, was founded by the Aldermen and Brethren of Corpus Chrifti Guild, and the Brethren of our Lady Guild in Cambridge, 1351.

Trinity Hall was of old Time an

Hoftel, or House of Study, wherein Students lived at their own Charge; but Dr. William Bateman founded it a College, 1353.

Gonvil and Caius Coll. first founded by Edmond de Gonvil, Rector of Terrington and Bulbworth in Norfolk, 1353, and was repaired by John Caius, Doctor of Phyfick, 1557. King's Coll. by King Henry the VIth, 1341.

Queen's Coll. by Margaret Andegavenfis, Wife to King Henry the VIth, 1441, but finished by Elizabeth, Wife to King Edward the IVth, 1465.

Katharine-Hall, founded by Robert Woodlark, Provoft of King's College, 1475,

Jefus College, from a defolate Nunnery, was converted into a College by John Alcock, Bishop of Ely,

the Place where the College of
God's Houfe ftood, 1505.

St. John's College, was erected Plamunupon the Ruins of an ancient Hof. dus, A. B. pital of Regular Canons, by the of Cant. faid Margaret, Countess of Derby, 1508.

Magdalene College, firft an Hall,
wherein Monks of divers Monaste-
ries ftudied; but in the Year 1542,
Thomas Audley, Lord Chancellor of
England, founded there a new Col-
lege in Honour of St. Mary Mag-
dalene,

Trinity College, founded by King
Henry the VIIIth, in A. D. 1546.
Emmanuel College, founded by Sir
Walter Mildmay, 1584.

Sidney-Suffex College was found-
ed by Frances Countess of Sussex,
the Daughter of Sir William Sidney,
A. D. 1596.

901.

4,01. der, the eldeft Son of Al A. B. of fred, was crowned at Kingston upon Cant, Thames. At Wodneffield, near Wolfrune-Hampton, he obtained a great Victory over the Danes; for two of their Kings were flain, many of their Nobles, and an innumerable Company of their Commons, which caufed him both to be feared and loved. His Sifter Elfleda had very hard Travail of her firft Child, therefore ever after the forbore the Nuptial Embraces, alledging it to be an over-foolish Pleasure which brought with it fo great Pains. And lifting herself under Mars, fhe, in Perfon, affifted her Brother against the Danes, performing many manly Feats. King Edward died at Farringdon, and was buried in the new Monaftery of Winchester, in A. D. 924. His Iffue were Athelftan, Elfred, Elfward, Edwin, Edmund, Elred, and nine Daughters. He built a Caftle at Stafford, A. D. 914. He likewife built a Caftle at Hunting

Dward, furnamed the El- Atholme,

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don,

And the Stone was not bodily Chrift, though he fo faid. It was 'the fame Myftery in the old Law, and they did ghoftly fignify that ghoftly Houfel of our Saviour's Body, which we confecrate now.' And in other Epiftles of the faid Elfrick, we read it thus enjoined to Priefts: The Priefs fhall fay unto the People on Sundays and Ho

cefter, called by the Britains Caer
Giese, i. e. Fair City, in A. D. 940,
and was buried at Malmsbury in
Wilts, first built by Malmutius, a
King of the Britains. About this
King Athelstan's Time (if ever) liv-
ed the famous Guy Earl of Warwick.
Now flourished that learned Abbot
named Elfrick, who in an Epistle to
Wolftane, then Archbishop of Can-
terbury, thus writeth, Thelidays the Senfe of the Gospel in

• Lord which hallowed Houfel (the
'Sacramental Bread and Wine) be-
'fore his Suffering, and faith, that
'the Bread was his own Body, and
'the Wine was truly his Blood, he
'halloweth daily by the Hands of
the Priests, Bread to his Body, and
'Wine to his Blood in ghoftly My-
ftery, as we read in Books; and
yet that lively Bread is not bo-
dily fo notwithstanding, nor the
felf fame Body that Chrift fuffer-
• ed in.
Nor that Holy Wine is
the Saviour's Blood, which was
'fhed for us in bodily Thing, but
in ghoftly Understanding. Both
be truly that Bread his Body, and
'that Wine alfo his Blood, as was
'the Heavenly Bread which we
'call Manna, that fed forty Years
God's People. And the clear Wa-
'ter, which did then run from the
Stone in the Wilderness, was tru-
ly his Blood, as Paul wrote in
one of his Epiftles. All our Fa-
'thers eat in the Wilderness the
fame ghoftly Meat, and drank the
fame gholly Drink. They drank
of that ghoftly Stone, and that
Stone was Chrift. The Apoftle
hath faid, as you have now heard,
That they did all eat the fame
ghoftly Meat, and they all did
drink the fame ghoftly Drink.
And he faith, not bodily, but
ghoftly. And Christ was not yet
born, nor his Blood fhed, when
that the People of Ifrael eat that
Meat, and drank of that Stone.

English, and fo alfo touching the
Lord's-Prayer and the Creed, fo
oft as he may to Mens Contrition,
that they may know their Belief,
and keep fure their Chriftianity.'

A. D. Dmund, the fifth Son of
940. King Edward, was crown-
ed at King fton. He obtained many
fignal Victories over the Danes in
divers Parts of the Land, recovering
out of their Hands feveral Coun-
ties and Cities; but at his Manor
of Pucklekerks, in the County of
Gloucefter, whilft he was interpo-
fing himself between his Sewer and
another to part a Fray, he was,
with a Thrust through the Body,
wounded to Death, in A. D. 946,
and was buried at Glaftenbury. His
Iffue was Edry and Edgar.

A. D.

946.

Dred was the fixth Son 946. of King Edward, and fucceeded his Brothers in the Nonage of his Sons. Wolfane, Archbifhop of Canterbury, for fome Mifdemeanors, he committed to Cuftody; but afterwards, in Reverence to his Office, difcharged him. So devout he was in the Religion of thofe Times, that he fuffered his Royal Body to be chaftifed at the Will and Direction of Dunfan, Abbot of Glaftentury, unto whofe keeping Otho, he allo committed the greatet Part A. B. of of his Treafures and richeil Jewels. Cant. The flately Abby of Mich at Abingden, built by King Inas, but destroy

956.

his Ear, he employed Earl Ethel
wold, his Favourite, to go to vifit
her, and if he found her Beauty fuit-
ing, then to court and fecure her
for the King. But Ethelwold liked
her fo well, when he faw her, that
he courted her for himself, and at
his Return to Court, pretended to
the King that her Beauty was far
fhort of what it was famed to be;
therefore befought the King, in re-
fpect fhe was a great Heiress, that
he would follicit her Father to be-
ftow her upon him to Wife; which
the credulous King did: But the
Duke had not been long married
with fair Elfreda, e'er a fresh Com-
mendation of her Beauty founded in
the King's Ears: Whereupon he re-
folved to make his own Eyes the
Witneffes; which accordingly he
did; and upon Sight of her Beau-
ty became fo enamour'd of her,
that taking Ethelwold at the Advan-
tage, as they were Hunting toge
ther, he ran him through with his
Javelin, then took Elfreda to be his
Wife, who was very willing to em-
brace the Honour.

963.

Wolves, which then were very plenty, inftead of the Tribute impofed on the Prince of Wales by King Athelstan, he appointed Luduall Prince of Wales, to pay yearly 300 Wolves. His Navy Royal, confifting of 3,600 Ships, he employ'd in fecuring the Coafts from Pirates and foreign Enemies, wherein himself would fail every Summer. And in the Winter he would circuit the Country, taking an Account of the Adminiftration of his Laws, and the Demeanour of his great Men, efpecially his Judges, whom he would punish feverely, if he found them to have been guilty of Bribery or Partiality, infomuch that there was never lefs Robbery, Deceit, or Oppreffion, than in the Reign of this King His State was fo flourishing in Peace and Profperity, that it caufed divers Kings to bind them felves in League with him. Wars he had none in all his Reign, fave a little towards the latter End thereof by the Welch, whom he quickly curbed; but that which darkned his Glory, was his Lafcivioufnefs. For he defloured a certain Nun called Edgar, at the Inftigation of Elfius and Wolfchild, on whom he begat St. Dunstan, now Archbishop of Can- Dunstan, Edyth; after her another named E-terbury, difplaced the married A. B. of theiflede, on whom he begat his Son Priests, and poffeffed their Va- Cant. Edward. And after this, happening cancies with Monks of fingle to hear a Western Duke's Daugh- Life. To reprefs Drunkenness, ter extolled for her Beauty, he came which the Danes had brought in, to her Father's Houfe, commanding he ordained a Size, by certain Pins her to his Bed. But her Mother, in the Pot, with a Penalty to any tender of her Honour, instead of her that prefumed to drink deeper than Virgin Daughter, brought her Ser- the Mark. He died A. D. 975, vant Maid in the Dark to the King; and was buried in the Abby of who well enough pleafed him that Glaftenbury. Night; tho' in the Morning, when he understood the Deceit, he checked the Lady, yet entertained this Servant for his Concubine, keeping to her Bed alone, till he married his lawful Wife Elfreda, Earl Ordgarus's Daughter The Fame of whofe excelling Beauty coming to

His Iffue were Edward, Edmund, and Ethelred.

Ordolph, the Son of Ordgare Earl of Devonshire, in A. D. 961, buile a famous Abby at Taviflake in De

Ethelwald, Bishop of Winchefter, about A. D. 963, and in the Reign of King Edgar, in a great

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