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 QUEEN'S

was founded about 1340, in complement to Philippa, Queen of Edward III., "to the Honor of God, to the Profit and Furtherance of the Church, and to the Salvation of Souls"; especially to the salvation of the souls of the natives of the counties of Westmoreland and Cumberland. Philippa was a good queen and a good woman; and other queens, Regnant and Consort, good and bad, as queens and as women—Elizabeth, Henrietta Maria, Caroline and Charlotte—have been benefactresses of the institution, in small ways and big, although the late Queen, certainly a good woman and a good queen, does not seem to have interested herself particularly in Queen's.

Some of the early rules formed for the guidance of the inmates of Queen's will be of interest, perhaps, to the students of later-day colleges. As they sat at table, before them was to be read the Bible by a Chaplain, to whom they were to pay attention, and not prevent his being heard, by loquacity or shouting. At table they were to speak "modeste," and in French or Latin, unless in obedience to the law of politeness, when they 209