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“ of a third hutband, as eafily granted.” Her life,from the turbulence of the times, mu ft have beenthe fubjedt of infinite uneafinefs, which fhe is faidto have fupported with great fortitude.

The Countefs died in the fixty-ninth year of herage, and was buried in Henry the Seventh’s Cha-pel ; where an altar-tomb, with a ftatue of brafs,was erected to her memory. Round the monumentis a Latin infcription, written by Erafmus; forwhich he was paid twenty ihillings by the Univer-fity of Cambridge.

The College was founded on the fcite of a Mo-naftery, called God ’s Houfe, oppofite to St. Andrew’sChurch; and a Matter, twelve Fellows, and forty-feven Scholars (in all fixty), were appointed; towhich King Edward VI . added another Fellowfhipout of the impropriation of Bourne, which he gaveto the College , as well as the revenues of BromwellAbbey.

Henry VI . being the Founder of the Monafterycalled God ’s Houfe, he is commemorated as a Co-Founder. Sir Thomas Finch, and Sir John Baines,founded two Scholarfhips and two Fellowthips.Fither, Bifhop of Rochefter, Sir V/alter Mildmay,Dr. Patinfon, Nicholas Culverwell, Thomas Lang-ton, Mr. Wentworth, Sir Robert Itham, and RichardCarr, were alfo confiderable Benefactors.

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