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Title: George Herbert and his times
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Hyde, A. G
Subjects: Herbert, George, 1593-1633
Publisher: London : Methuen & co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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inityCollege was founded by Henry VIII. on the 19thof December, 1546, by the appropriation of the sitesand buildings of three older foundations—KingsHall, Michael House and Physwick Hostel—thecorporate life of the first being continued withoutessential break. The Kings Majestys NewCollege, endowed with the revenues of its prede-cessors, and royal grants largely derived from thesuppressed monasteries, quickly assumed the lead-ing place it has ever since held. The originalscheme was enlarged by fresh statutes in 1560,by which the society consisted of a Master, sixtyFellows, sixty-two scholars and thirteen sizars, be-sides chaplains, deans, bursars and other officers.It is interesting to note that Fellows who wereof the degree of Master of Arts had unfurnishedrooms, free commons, and an allowance for livery, with a yearly stipend of £2 13s. 4d.These things doubtless fell to Herberts share onobtaining his Fellowship ; and from what weknow of his tastes it is improbable that his rooms
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•J> a SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY 45 were less pleasantly decorated than those of thelight - hearted fellow - commoners and pensionersbemoaned by Peacham. At this time the members of the college probablyexceeded four hundred, the largest number at anyone college in the University, and its roll of notablemen was already long. Archbishop Whitgift hadheld the mastership from 1567 to 1577 ; Coke,Bacon, and the Earl of Essex had been amongits students ; and the strenuous Puritan, ThomasCartwright, though deprived of his Fellowship,had left a name of strength to his party. AtHerberts election the famous Dr. Nevile, fromhis princely liberality called the Magnificent, hadbeen head of the college for fifteen years. Ap-pointed to the office by Queen Elizabeth, whomade him Dean of Canterbury as well, he hadalready transformed its material fabric, havingcompleted the spacious First Court and advanced,£3,000 that a great Hall might be erectedanswerable to the beauty of the new buildings,while the

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