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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the present master's lodge of Trinity College, from whence a lane, apparently that called Foule-lane in old deeds, proceeded by King's Hall to the river. At the corner formed by this lane and Mill Street, was the back entrance to King's Hall. 5TATUE Of EDWARD III. ON GATEWAY TOWER, TRIN. COLL. The period during which King's Hall flourished, was not, in England, a very literary period. Amongst its distinguished men are reckoned six bishops, ? Robert Fitz-Hugh, bishop of London in 1431; Richard Scrope, bishop of Carlisle; John Blythe, bishop of Sarum in 1493; Geoffrey Blythe, bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, and lord president of Wales; William Rokeby, archbishop of Dublin, and lord chancellor; and the celebrated Cuthbert Tonstall, bishop of Durham. Of these, the first four were masters of King's Hall. Among its distinguished scholars, besides Bishop Tonstall, must be named Gunthorpe; Angel (afterwards chaplain to Queen Mary); Lancelot Ridley, the commentator on St. Paul's epistles; Ritwyse, master of St. Paul's School in London; and Redman, its last master, and the first master of Trinity College. Caius tells us, that King's Hall, for the gravity and wisdom of its fellows, was the ornament of the university. The seal of King's Hall, if we may judge of it by a rude drawing made by Cole, from a deed of the reign of Henry VII., was very rich; it was large and round, most elegantly cut, representing a person sitting under a beautiful gothic canopy, with another person kneeling and presenting something a book, apparently]; under their feet are five Gothic arches, the middle one occupied by a figure in front, and on each side two figures, all in praying attitudes. On one side are the three lions of England in a shield hanging on a tree, and on the other France sembe de fleu...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217400664 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217400663 |
| Weight | 0.62 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.43 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 186 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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