Cambridge and its story With lithographs and other illus by Herbert Railton, the lithographs being tinted by Fanny Railton . Corpus Christi College, the Society has in after ages held a worthy place in the history of the University, and Benet men have occupied positions in church and state quite equal to those of more ample foundations. Three Archbishops of Canterbury—Parker, Tennison, and Herring — have been Corpus men, one of whom, Matthew Parker, enriched it with priceless treasures, and gave to its library a unique value by the bequest of what Fuller has called the sun of English antiquity
Cambridge and its story With lithographs and other illus by Herbert Railton, the lithographs being tinted by Fanny Railton . Corpus Christi College, the Society has in after ages held a worthy place in the history of the University, and Benet men have occupied positions in church and state quite equal to those of more ample foundations. Three Archbishops of Canterbury—Parker, Tennison, and Herring — have been Corpus men, one of whom, Matthew Parker, enriched it with priceless treasures, and gave to its library a unique value by the bequest of what Fuller has called the sun of English antiquity. Indeed, if they have done nothing else, the men of the Cambridge guilds have laid all students ot English history under a supreme debt of gratitude in the provision of a place where so manv of the MSS. so laboriously collected by Archbishop Parker are housed and preserved. From the walls of Benet College, also, there went out many other distinguished men : statesmen, like Nicholas Bacon, the Lord Keeper of the Seal ; bishops, like Thomas Goodrich and Peter Gunning, of Ely ; translators of the Scriptures, like 130. %« »^* , ?-.;-7l^~ ?r-*>Jtfc ^^w y COLLEGE OF THE CAMBRIDGE GUILDS Taverner, and Huett, and Pierson ; commentators on theOld Testament, like the learned and ingenious Dean Spencerof Ely, the Wellhausen of the seventeenth century ; soldiers,like the brave Earl of Lindsey, who fell at Edgehill,or like General Braddock, who was killed in Ohio in thecolonial war against the French ; learned antiquaries, likeRichard Gough ; sailors, like Cavendish, the circumnavigator ;poets, like Christopher Marlowe and John Fletcher. The College as originally built consisted of one court,which still remains, and is known as the Old Court. Itstill preserves much of its ancient character, and is speciallyinteresting as being probably the first origi?mlly planned quad-rangle. Josselin speaks of it as being entirely finished,chiefly in the days of Thomas Eltisle, the first master,
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