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78 MARGARET BEAOTOIiT*
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_tnents of beneficence and charity she Las left . The first of these , created at Ms suggestionwas the foundation at Oxford of a
theolo-, gical lecture to continue for ever , and which is known at the present day as the Margaret Professorship .. She also maintained several
scholars , too poor to pay for their learning , and kept them at Oxford tinder the tuition of Maurice Westbury . A similar Lectureshi
p ¦ appointed was founded the first by her reader at . Cambrid We next ge come in 1503 to _^ one and of Dr those . Fisher two
great institutions which have immortalized her name : the foundation of Christ ' s CollegeCambridge . The Lady Margaret had
, wished to settle a large estate upon Westminster to obtain prayers and requiems for the xepose of her soul after death ; but Fisher
represented to her that the Abbey was the richest religious house in England , whereas the two universities , and especially that of
Cambridge , were but meanly endowed ; that the colleges were yet wanting the wherewithal for their livings ; the professors and
scholars ill-provided for . He _eoimselled her to use her charity iit remedying these evils and thus contribute to the support and
encouragement of learning . She made the sacrifice of her inclination with generous liberality . Nor was it unrewarded . Many and
many a poor scholar said the prayers for her she so earnestly desired ; their hearts warmed with grateful remembrance of her
"benefactions . In these more worldly days is ske ever gratefully remembered by those who drink at the fountains of knowledge she
opened for them ! Qui salt ? There was , however , a difficulty to be surmounted ere Margaret could follow Fisher ' s advice . She had
promised her son that she would settle the money in question upon the Abbey of Westminster , The doctor persuaded her to write for
leave to change her plans , and he himself delivered the letter . This document is not extantbut the king ' s answer is printedin
which he ives consentcouched , in the most affectionate terms , . " Not only g , " he says , "in , this but in all other things that I may
know should be to your honor and pleasure and the weal of your soul ; I shall be as glad to please you as your heart can desire it . "
This obstacle overcome , she commissioned Dr . Fisher , who was now a bishopto take measures for founding and endowing a
col-, lege within the sacred precincts of Alma Mater . In the reign of Henry VI ., 1442 , William Bingham , priest of the Church of St . John
Zachary in London , in consideration of the low state of grammatical learning then in Englandgave a houseknown by the name of
God ' s Plouse , near Clare Hall , College , for , the support of certain grammar scholars . "When Henry VI . founded King ' s Collegeit
, was thought expedient to take God ' s House into the projected site , and Bingham's College was removed to the site of what is now
Christ ' s College , where the king gave them two cottages , formerly belonging to the Abbey of St . Tilseyand various revenues . But
this was a downfall for the college ; and , to compensate for the loss
and inconvenience it had sustained , Henry formed the intention of
78 Margaret Beaotoiit*
78 MARGARET BEAOTOIiT _*
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1861, page 78, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101861/page/6/
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