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applied to the Lady Elizabeth, third filter and co-heirefs of Gilbert, Earl of Clare, and wife ofJohn de Burgh, Lord of Connaught , in Ireland ,and mother of William de Burgh, laft Earl of Ul-fter; by whofe munificent bounty alone the College was not only entirely built, hut endowed, 35th Ed­ ward III . 134.7, with lands fufficient to maintainone Mailer, ten Fellows, and ten Scholars ; andfrom that time the College , out of refpedt to its li-beral reftorer, has taken the name of Clare Hall*.In the Deed of Endowment, this liberal Lady Hatesher motives to be, “ A defire for the extenfion of“ every branch of ufeful learning, that there might“ no longer remain an excufe for ignorance; and“ to create a firmer concord and clofer union“ among mankind, by the civilizing effects of in-“ dulgence in liberal fiudy.”

Situation.] —The fituation of this College is,in many refpedts, to be preferred to any other in the

* Clare Hall, according to Dr. Cains, and Fuller, wasalfo called Solere Hall, which the former, with moft proba-bility, tuppofes a corruption of Scholars Hall-, but, as theother thinks, comes from Solarium, a fair and light cham-ber. Chaucer alfo fays of Clare,

And, namely, there was a great College*,

Men depen it the Solere Hal! of Cambridge.

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