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Rh  of this institution, when it is observed, that, among the other learned ornaments of it, the names may be reckoned of Leland, Broughton, Ames, Mede, Cudworth, More, Burnet, Outram, Lightfoot, Milton, Howe, and Sanderson.

Having displayed so much bounty at Cambridge, she was disposed to extend her beneficence to distant places, and other objects: but, through the influence of John Fisher, bishop of Rochester, who had been her confessor and chaplain, she was prevailed upon to carry still farther her patronage to her favourite university. Accordingly, she became the foundress of St. John's College, but died before the design was completed. Her executors, however, were zealous and speedy in fulfilling the purposes of her will. It is needless here to enumerate the many illustrious names this college can likewise boast of.

She was buried in Westminster-abbey. Her charities and the humility which made her not disdain the lowest offices of kindness to the poor, efface the remembrance of her superstition and mistaken zeal, which regretted the times of the crusades. New Annual Register, &c.

princess was so distinguished for her political knowledge, that her father feared to give her a husband with a mind firm and enterprising like her own, lest he should render her too powerful. For this reason, he married her to Peter of Bourbon, count of Beaujeu, a man of an indolent temper and narrow mind. The  fidents