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fented our hero, as an efpecial mark of his favour,with one of the thorns from the crown of ourSaviour, which precious relic lie depofited in thechurch of St. Mary’s, at Leicefter, of which hewas the Founder. A lift of his hair-breadth ef-capes and daring exploits, may be found in Dug-ale’s Baronage. He built and redded at the Palaceof the SavoVj in London , and died of the plague,at Leicefter, in the year 1360, where he is buried.

Other particular Benefaftors to this College wereSir John Cambridge, Elizabeth, wife ofThomas Brotherton, Duke of Norfolk, fon of Ed­ ward I. Eleanor Botelar, her lifter; Arch-bilhop Parker, who gave the living of St. Mary Abchurch , London , a handfome fet of gilt plate,with many printed books, among which is one, in-titled, Rhetorica Nova, impreffa Cant. 1478, fhew-ing the antiquity of printing in Cambridge; a modvaluable collection of MSS. in Church Hiftory andDivinity, well known to the learned world, and ofwhich Dr. Stanley, when Mafter, publifhed a veryaccurate catalogue; and the Rev. Mr. Nafmith aftill more correft one. Sir Nicholas Bacon ,Lord-Keeper of the Great Seal, who was a Student of this College; Archbiftiop Sterne; Dr. JohnSpencer, author of De Legibus Hebrteorum;and Archbiftiops Tennison and Herring, withmany others.

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