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MARGARET BEAUFORT, 79
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increasing But the civil 1 the wars numb and er his of consequent scholars and misfortunes endowing- stopped it more the largel exe y * -
cution of these good designs . The work was reserved for the Lady Margaretand when Bishop Fisher sought about for a fitting place
_rwhere to ; commence the new foundation , he wisely suggested that what was already begun should be perfected . The name of the
college was changed , and property settled upon it sufficient to maintain a mastertwelve fellowsand forty-seven scholars * The Lady
Margaret took , peculiar deli , ght and interest in this work . She went to Cambridge whilst her new college w _^ as being fitted up , and
, lo a okin pretty out anecdote of window is related she saw about the that dean visit summoning . Once when a scholar she who was g
touched had committed for the offender some fault in the to hands receive of correction his angry . superior Her heart ; lc Lente was ,
lente ! " she cried out to the dean . This _iDolitic display of her classical lore so pleased the college authorities , that they pardoned
the young scholar for her sake . To grace the opening of Christ College the King and Prince
Arthur accompanied Lady Margaret to _Cambridge , and made very handsome presents to the college .
Another work of equal importance at this time occupied the minds of Lady Margaret and Bishop Fisher , and this was the
foundation of a public preachership at Cambridge . Erasmus says that the bishop by no means liked the preaching of that time , which
consisted of cavils about words and dull sophistry , and he wished word that there " gravel should and be with a class an evangelical of men trained spirit who / 7 while should at the preach same God time _' s
y they should be capable of impressing the learned by an " efficacious eloquence . " He communicated his wishes to the Lady Margaret ,
and sheever prompt to do good , gave him the means of supporting , a public preacher , who was to preach at least six sermons every
year The in different life of the churches " venerable . The Margaret stipend was " is to drawing be £ 70 per to a annum close . .
She had been long dead to the world , or , rather , the world was dead to herShe had vowed her remaining years to charity ,
. prayer more , and to penance add to , and her yet crown she but had which one more was never work destined to do , one to
glitter gem there on earth . ' _'' This was , the foundation of a still larger college at Cambridge than the one she had previously her endowed wishes .
She was destined not to see her design completed , but great were faithfull difficulties y interpreted and opposition and ; c and arried St . out John by ' s College Fisher looks in spite up to of
bhe Lady Margaret as its mother and foundress . When King Henry attended died in , all her , the last charm hours of b life her for faithful Margaret friend died and also . guide She , who was
after leading her in the way y of holiness and good deeds on earth ,
with * , " a Grod thoug , " ht says by Erasmus no means , who a womanish was her great one . " admirer , " inspired that woman
Margaret Beaufort, 79
MARGARET BEAUFORT , 79
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1861, page 79, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101861/page/7/
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