. Some famous women . 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 sever
. Some famous women . 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 TCDOR Rose (white and bed).From the gates of the Chapel of Henry VII. RACHEL, LADY RUSSELL Rachel Wriothesley was the daughter of the Earl ofSouthampton and a French Hugueuot lady whom hehad married when travellinor in France, and who wasrenowned for her beauty and virtue. Rachel was bornin 1636. She never knew her mother, who died whenshe was an infant. Her father married again, and weknow nothing about her relations with her stepmother,but we know that she dearly loved her sisters, and wasvery good friends with her stepsister. Enghmd waspassing through troublous times during her childhoodon account of the disputes between Charles I. and hisParliament. Lord Southampton was a sensible, moder-ate man, and he could not approve of the kings doings,but he remained true to him and took his side whenthe civil war broke out. When the terrible end cameand Charles I, was beheaded in 1649, Southampton gotpermission to watch by the kings body during thenight after the execution. He is reported t
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