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 IV TESTIMONY OF CONTEMPORARIES AS TO HENRY'S PERSONALITY AND CHARACTER

T is important to understand how those who were the contemporaries of King Henry VI, or who come immediately afterwards, regarded his personality. John Ross, the Warwickshire antiquary, who was a contemporary of King Henry and remembered him, as has been already pointed out, when a student at Oxford, thus writes about him:

"King Henry VI as he grew in age increased also in virtue. He was most; devout to God and the Blessed Virgin Mary from his earliest years; but he was little given to the world and the things of the world; leaving those things always to the Council. He founded the new college of Cambridge and that of Eton near Windsor. Moreover, he increased the