. General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . r life in works ofcharity and piety, among which she fortu-tunately gave a distinguished place to the en-couragement of learning. In 1502 she foundedtwo perpetual lectures in divinity at the twouniversities, still subsisting under name ofMargaret professorships. At Cambridge shealso endowed a perpetual public preacher,whose duty should be to preach six sermons ayear at certain specified churches ; and shefound
. General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . r life in works ofcharity and piety, among which she fortu-tunately gave a distinguished place to the en-couragement of learning. In 1502 she foundedtwo perpetual lectures in divinity at the twouniversities, still subsisting under name ofMargaret professorships. At Cambridge shealso endowed a perpetual public preacher,whose duty should be to preach six sermons ayear at certain specified churches ; and shefounded a perpetual chantry at Winborne-minster in Dorsetshire, for a teacher ofgrammar. But her noblest foundations werethe colleges of Christ and St. John in Cam-bridge, the former in ii;oi;, tlie latter in i; Johns, indeed, Mas but just begun beforeher death, but was finished by her the magnitude of these foundations be con-sidered, Margaret will appear to have been oneof the principal contributors to the greatness ofthat celebrated university, and it is with justicethat Gray, in his oile on the installation of theduke of Grafton as chancellor of Cambridge,. ^STJOHNS ???*H-,:
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