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Rh existence, and they are everywhere known! For this reason King Henry VII, not without cause, began a few years ago to try and procure his canonization as a saint from the Supreme Pontiff, Pope Julius II. But he was prevented by death from prosecuting that honourable cause, and left it to his son, Henry VIII, to accomplish.

"Moreover Henry [VI] had a most liberal mind. He held good learning in great reverence and loved those who were endued with it. For this reason he helped his own people to obtain proper teaching. He founded a sumptuous school at Eton, a town adjoining Windsor. In this, he established a college of priests and a great number of children to be educated there and taught their grammar free and without cost. In the same way he was the founder of King's College at Cambridge, which at this day [c. 15 10] so flourishes and with such ornaments of learning that it may well be called the Prince of all Colleges."