. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . nce, is of much less im-portance to the architect and historianthan that of the west end of the nave,which he destroyed. He was right onthe whole; he had a perfect apprehen-sion of the revival of knowledge, andif all English prelates had accepted it as manfully as he and others of his mind, the worst part of the Reformationmight have been saved to England. He anticipated its academic principle,which was to tui-n monastic seminaries into houses of religious, useful, and reallearning. Monasticism had las
. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . nce, is of much less im-portance to the architect and historianthan that of the west end of the nave,which he destroyed. He was right onthe whole; he had a perfect apprehen-sion of the revival of knowledge, andif all English prelates had accepted it as manfully as he and others of his mind, the worst part of the Reformationmight have been saved to England. He anticipated its academic principle,which was to tui-n monastic seminaries into houses of religious, useful, and reallearning. Monasticism had lasted long and done much, but it was clearlycoming to an end, and that in the thoughts of very pious and devoted was in correspondence with Fox of Winchester and Oldham of former had founded Corpus Christi College about ten years before (1515—1517), at first intending to make it a seminary for the Priory of St. Swithinat Winchester, and there is no doubt that he was dissuaded from that puiposeby Oldhams terribly accurate vaticination—Wliat, my Lord, shall we build. ENTRANCE FROM THE CLOISTERS. 199. CATHEDRAL CHURCHES. [Oxfoed. Iiousos and provide livelilioods for a company of monks whose end and fallwe ourselves may live to see ? No; it is more meet a great deal to have earnfor the increase of learning, and for such as shall do good to the Church andCommonwealth. All three prelates did well and wisely, but contributed toa result which went far beyond their wishes or anticipations; nor if theyliad lived could they have ruled the terrors of the ensuing time. Wolseyinvites his Cambridge students, of imusual promise, but already tainted withsuspicion of heresy. Some of them, said Dr. London, Warden of NewCollege, have already had a shrewd name. Some have, indeed, retained it,for among them were Frith and Clark, Sumner and Taverner. Just four yearsafter the date of Cardinal College come Wolseys directions to Dr. Higdon, thefirst dean, for the arrest of Thomas
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