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and the revenues granted to Edward Earl of Derby, who, when the establishment was re-founded by Mary, still kept possession of the old collegiate house. Elizabeth, in the twentieth year of her reign, incorporated it anew, under the name of Christ's-College in Manchester; endowing it for one warden, and four fellows, priests; two vicars; four singing men, and as many children. To these ordinances Charles I. made some additional regula- tions in 1635, drawn up by Archbishop Laud. The collegiate-house, however, was purchased of the Derby family, for the Hospital, founded and endowed by the will of Humphrey Cheetham, of Clayton, esq; dated December 16, 1651, which dire&ed that the institution should maintain and educate forty poor boys to the age of 16, when they were to be bound apprentices. A library was further to be established, and ioool. bequeathed to be expended in books, besides the residue of the testator's personal estate, for the further aug- mentation of it. The trustees of this charity were incorporated in 1665. By the improvements of the estates belonging to this Hospital, the num- ber of boys received into it has been increased to eighty, a circumstance of incalculable benefit to Manchester, which thus secures to the natives of the town an excellent education, and makes literary

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