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england_n	bishop_n	chancellor_n	winchester_n	3,408	5	12.4209	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13103	A motiue to good workes Or rather, to true Christianitie indeede. Wherein by the waie is shewed, how farre wee are behinde, not onely our fore-fathers in good workes, but also many other creatures in the endes of our creation: with the difference betwixt the pretenced [sic] good workes of the Antichristian Papist, and the good workes of the Christian Protestant. By Phillip Stubbes, Gentleman.	Stubbes, Phillip.	1593 (1593)	STC 23397; ESTC S111359	64,680	234

and being not able by reason of the iniquitie of the time to finish it it was afterward perfited by Elizabeth wife to King Edward the 4. in the yere of our Lord 1465. Katherine Hall was built by Robert Woodlarke Doctor of Diuinitie and Chancelor of Cambridge by him indowed with cōpetēt possessions Iesus Colledge was conuerted from a Priorie into a Colledge by Iohn Alcocke Bishop of Ely in the yeare of Christ 1502. and by him both reedifyed and also possessed with sufficient reuenewes the rents whereof were afterward inlarged by Sir Robert Reade Knight Doctor Eleston Doctor Royston and Doctor Fuller with others Christes Colledge was first founded by King Henry the syxt who named it Gods house afterward it was translated by the Lady Margaret Countesse of Richmond Darby in the yeare of our Sauiour 1505. and called Christs Colledge To this Colledge Edward the 6. conferred one felowship and three schollerships That honorable Knight also Sir Gualter Mildmay and Edmund Grindall late Archbishop of Canterbury were notable contributors benefactors to this Colledge gaue to it annuall pēsions for euer Saint Iohns Colledge was translated from a Priorie into a Colledge by the Lady Margaret Coūtesse of Richmond and Grandmother to King Henry the eyght in the yeare of our Lord 1508. Magdalen Colledge was conuerted frō a house of Monks into a Colledge by the noble Duke of Buckingham in the yeare of our Lord 1519. This Colledge hath since beene greatly repayred and beawtified with goodly buildings by Sir Christopher Wray Knight late Lorde chiefe Iustice of England Trinity Colledge was erected by King Henry the 8. in the yere of our Lord 1546. who gaue vnto it yearely for euer 1300. poūds besides the old ancient possessions Qu. Mary augmēted the same Colledge and gaue to it in lands 338. pounds Sir Gualter Mildmay Knight founded a goodly Colledge called Emanuell Colledge in the yeare of our Lord 1584. The Lady Francis Countesse of Sussex hath also begun the foundacion of a newe Colledge and hath geuen to the same 5000. pound in the yeare of our Lord 1588. But to come to the Vniuersitie of Oxforde and so to make an ende Alfredus sometime King of this land for the zeale he bare to good letters erected the Vniuersitie of Oxford in the yeare of our Lord 872. but some attribute the first building of it to Mempricius before Christ 1015. yeares othersome ascribe it to Vortiger after the birth of Christ 474. yeares King Aluredus or Alfredus whether you will for he was called by both those names built the Vniuersitie Colledge which beeing afterwards almost defaced William Bishop of Durham repaired agayne and gaue to it goodly reuenewes in the yeare of our saluation 1217. Bailiol or Ballioll King of the Scots built Balioll Colledge in the yeare of our Sauiour 1263. and his wife Deruergulla indowed it with yearely reuenewes Gualter de Merton sometyme Lord Chancelor of England built Merton Colledge in the yeare of our Redeemer 1264. and inuested it with great and large possessions Gualter Stapleton Bishop of Exceter built Exceter Colledge in the yere of our Lord 1316. Edward the 2. after the Conquest or as some hould Sir Adam Browne Almoner to the sayde King built Oriall Colledge in the yeare of our Lord 1323. Robert Eglesfield Bacheler of Diuinitie built the Queenes Colledge in the yere of our L. 1340. wherto Edmund Grindall Archbish. of Canterbury besides 100 pound in money which hee gaue in his life time gaue also 20 pound a yere for euer The same Archbishop also at his death gaue to the same Colledge many goodly bookes ten pound in mony to buy chaynes to tye them in besides plate and other iewels of great value William Wiccam sometime Bishop of Winchester and Lord Chancelor of Englande built a most stately Colledge called New Colledge in the yeare of our Lord 1375. gaue to it goodly reuenewes The same Bishop also built a goodly Colledge in the suburbs of the Citie of Winchester for the better erudition of youth in good letters Richard Flemming Bishop of Lincolne in the yeare of grace 1420. built Lincolne Colledge and bestowed vpon it lands and possessions which remayne to this day Henry Chichley Archbishop of Canterbury built All Soules Colledge in the yeare of our Lorde 1437. and gaue to it large reuenewes About the same time Humfrey called the good Duke of Glocester built a most famous Schoole called the Diuinitie Schoole wherein he placed a goodly Library of 129. chosen bookes which he had gathered out of the most places in Christendome to his vnspeakable great cost and charges William Wamflet Bishop of Winchester in the yeare 1459. built Magdalene Colledge and gaue fayre lands and goodly possessions to it He built also a good part of Eaton Colledge besides a free Schole at Wamflet in Lincolne shire William Smith Bishop of Lincolne built Brasen nose Colledge in the yeare 1513. Richard Fox Bishop of Winchester erected Corpus Christi Colledge in the yeare 1516. and indowed it with sufficient reuenewes Thomas Wolsey Cardinall Archbishop of Yorke founded a goodly Colledge called Christs Colledge or Christs Church in the yeare 1546. gaue to it many great possessiōs Sir Thomas Pope Knight reedified Trinitie Colledge in the yere 1556. which Colledge was first founded by Thomas of Hatfeild Bishop of Durham for his Monkes and bestowed great possessions vppon it also Sir Thomas White Knight repaired the colledge first begun by Henrie Chichley Archbishop of Cantuburie and called it Saint Iohns Colledge whereto he gaue in reuenues for euer fiue hundred pounds a yeere this he dyd in the yere of Christ 1557. The said sir Tho. White also founded a hall for students called Saint Iohns hall but sometime Glocester colledge which beeing suppressed he bought it with his monie and placed therein a principall and a hundred poore schollers and moe and hauing made great reparations of the same hee adioyned it to Saint Iohns colledge which before he had founded He also erected free schooles at Bristow Reading Moreouer he gaue in his lyfe time two thousand poundes to the citie of Bristow to purchase landes to the value of one hundred and twenty poundes a yeere for the which the Maior and communaltie of Bristow in anno 1567 and so yeerely during the terme of tenne yeeres following shoulde cause to be paide at Bristow one hundreth pounde The first eight hundreth pounds to be lent to sixteene pore young clothiers and free men of the same towne for the space of ten yeeres fiftie pounds a peece they ptuting in sufficiēt sureties for the same And at the end of tenne yeeres the same to bee lent to other sixteene at the discretion of the Maior and communaltie aforesayde The other two hundred poundes to bee imployed for the prouision of corne for the releefe of the poore of the same Citie for theyr readie monie without gains to be taken And after the ende of nine