. Some famous women . rt. She had thesorrow of seeing him die before her, but she did notlive many months after him. She suffered greatlyfrom rheumatic pains in what Bishop Fisher calls hermerciful and loving hands, so that her ladies andservants wept to see her agony. She died at West-minster and was buried in Henry chapel inWestminster Abbey, where a black marble tomb com-memorates her memory. Bishop Fisher preached herfuneral sermon, and said in it all England for herdeath had cause of weeping; the poor creatures thatwere wont to receive her alms, to Avhom she was ahvayspiteous and me
. Some famous women . rt. She had thesorrow of seeing him die before her, but she did notlive many months after him. She suffered greatlyfrom rheumatic pains in what Bishop Fisher calls hermerciful and loving hands, so that her ladies andservants wept to see her agony. She died at West-minster and was buried in Henry chapel inWestminster Abbey, where a black marble tomb com-memorates her memory. Bishop Fisher preached herfuneral sermon, and said in it all England for herdeath had cause of weeping; the poor creatures thatwere wont to receive her alms, to Avhom she was ahvayspiteous and merciful, the students of both universitiesto whom she Avas a mother, all the learned men ofEngland to whom she was a very patroness, all thegood religious men and women, whom she so oftenwas wont to visit and comfort. Margarets plans forthe foundation of St. Johns College were not finishedat her death, and Wolscy, the favourite of her grandsonHenry A^III., tried to get her lands for other purposes. MARGARET BEAUFORT 69. Photo: A. E. Walshani. Chbists College, Cajibkidge. 70 SOME FAMOUS WOMEN Fishers efforts succeeded in keeping a great deal forSt. Johns, though not so much as Margaret had meantto give. She left all her jewels, books, vestments,plate, and altar cloths to her two colleges. She hadbeen specially fond of fine goldsmiths work, and manybeautiful things had been made for her, adorned withher own emblem, a daisy, or with the rose and the port-cullis, which through her descent from the Lancasterand Beaufort families became the Tudor her colleges, she founded several almshouses,and a school at Wimborne, where her parents wereburied. She used her great possessions as a trustwhich she held for the good of the country, and forherself sought no luxury or display, being, as BishopFisher says in his sermon, temperate in meats anddrinks, eschewing banquets and keeping fast days.
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