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j&emfcrofte College,

Period.]— -ThIS College was founded in the18th year of Edward the Third, Anno i343> byMary de St. Paul (daughter of Guido de Cha-ftillon, Earl of St. Paul, in France , by Mary,daughter of John, Earl of Richmond, and Bea-trice, daughter of Edward III. King of England),Baronefs of Voiffer and Mountenai, and wife ofAndomare, or Aymer de Valencia, Earl of Pem-broke, a charadter highly diftinguifihed in the turbu-lent reigns of Edward I. and II. His name wascelebrated in the tournaments and battles of the age,and he figured in every important political tranfac-tion. He * was one of the Peers who pronouncedfentence of death againft the Earl of Lancaftc-r, atPontefradl:, to which circumflance his prematuredeath has been attributed; for having, fhortly afterdie Earl of Lancafler’s fentence (offeveral of whofe

* See in the Cotton Library a Mamifcript, intitled, “ Ja-“ cobi Nicholai de Dacia Scholaris Pembrocke Coll. Poe-“ rna in honorem Audomare de Valence.”—Script. An. 1365.

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