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"To the Lord CARDINAL's good Grace.

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LEASETH YOUR MOST NOBLE GRACE to understand, that we, your daily Beadfmen, do well perceive the great Zeal and Goodness that your "Grace beareth and hath to the Weal and Profperity "of this the King's Town of Ipfwich, and of the Profperity of the fame, as well by making of your ho"nourable College here of late erected to the Honour, "Laud, and Praife of Almighty God, and of our "Bleffed Lady, as alfo by fetting up your Grammarschool, and the ordering of the Form of the Learning "of the fame, to the great Increase of Learning, of the "fame virtuous bringing up of young Children as "well here as in other Places; which your two before "honourable rehearfed Acts be not only unto us, your "faid Beadfmen, a fingular and great Comfort, but "alfo the People here, as well Children as our aged "Folks, do greatly rejoice at the fame; for the which, "and for many other Benefits by your Grace to us "before this done, we, your faid Beadfmen, for our"felves and in the Names of all the said Inhabitants,

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intending to be your daily Beadfmen, give unto 66 your most noble Grace our moft humble Thanks: "And for that we right well know the fame for our "Parts be not unto your Grace fufficient and condine "Satisfaction, we therefore fhall daily humbly pray "God to fend unto your Grace in this World Life, "Honour, Profperity, and Health in Body, with the "Accomplishment of all your noble Acts, and in "the Life to come the Joys of Heaven. Written at "the faid Town of Ipfwich, the 8th Day of August,

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By your most humble and daily Beadfmen, Henry "Stannard and Nicholas Harvy, Bailiffs of the "faid Town, and other Portmen of the fame,

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After the Receipt of this Letter the Dean of the College, by his Eminence's Order, applied to the Corporation to requeft them to affign the Lands, formerly appropriated for the Ufe of their Grammarfchool at Ipfwich, to the School now founded by the Cardinal, towards the better Support and Maintenance of the Mafter thereof, which they readily complied with, as appears in the following moft refpectful Letter; the Original being likewife to be found in the Exchequer Record-office.

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"To my Lord LEGATE's good Grace.

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LEASETH YOUR GRACE to be advertised, that we, the Bailiffs, Portmen and Inhabiants of this the King's Town of Ipfwich have lately perceived, by Mafter Dean of your new College, of Ipfwich aforefaid, that your Pleafure and Device is, that all fuch "Lands and Tenements, as of old Time have been "limited and appointed to the Grammar-mafter there, "fhould be given to your new College, towards the "Suftentation of your new Mafter of Grammar of your School there, and his Succeffors, and by your "Grace appointed and ordained, and that your Grace "would have our Free Affent unto the fame.

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"It may please your Grace to be advertised, that 66 we well apperceive and confider the manifold Good"nefs that your Grace hath fhewed, as well in the "Erection of the fame College and Grammar-school "there, as also many and divers Things that it hath

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pleafed your Grace to do to the Weal of the faid Town; "for which we confefs ourselves unable to make your "Grace any fufficient Recompence: But, as touching your faid Request and Defire, we all be not only content freely with our Affent to accomplish and "fulfil the fame, but alfo to do and execute all and every other Thing that fhall be hereafter your gra66 cious

*Sure this is an Inftance of his being of an equitable Difpofition, and not arbitrary, as his

Enemies have been fo fond of charging him with; here is no Compulfion, but free Affent required.

"cious Pleasure to advertise us to do for the Coro"boration of the fame, as knoweth our Lord God; "who fend unto your Grace, our especial good and gracious Lord, long Life and Health to his Plea"fure, and to the full Accomplishment of all your "honourable Affairs. Written at Ipfwich,

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"By your most humble and Daily Beadfmen, "the Bailiffs of Ipswich,

"Thomas Hill,
"Thomas Claufer.",

Such was his Affection for this College, and fo defirous was he the Youth fhould be properly educated there, by early learning Grammar Rudiments, that he gave a particular Direction, for the famous William Lilly's Grammar to be made ufe of, and condefcended himself to write a Latin Preface to it, a Tranflation of which and the old Title follows.

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Udiments of Grammar, and a Method of Teaching, not so much prescribed for the Ufe of the School of Ipfwich, happily founded by the moft Rev. Lord Thomas, Cardinal, of York, as for all other Schools "throughout England."

"THOMAS, Cardinal, of York, &c. to the Mafters of "Ipfwich School, greeting.

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E imagine no body can be ignorant of the Care, Study, and Industry of Mind, with "which we have hitherto directed our Labours, not "for our own private Interest, but that of our Coun66 try, and all our Citizens, which we have very much

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at heart ; and in which Particular we shall deem "ourfelves to have been moft amply gratified, if, "by any divine Bleffing, we fhould improve the "Minds of the People. Wherefore, being filled with "the utmoft Zeal to promote Learning and Piety

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"in our native Place, which fhe claims of us as a "certain Right, we have founded a Latin School, no ways inelegant, as an evident Testimony of our "chief Regard for her: But, as it would be imperfect to erect a School, however magnificent, unless at"tended by learned Mafters, we have every way ftu

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died to give the Government thereof to two chofen "and approved Teachers, under whofe Tuition Bri"tifh Youth may by degrees, from their earliest "Years, imbibe both Morals and Letters; well knowing that the Hopes of a Republick arife from their "Minds being then framed aright. And, that the fame may the more happily and fpeedily be brought to "bear, we have taken all manner of Care, that ye "fhould have fuch Books as are most neceffary for the “Inftruction of them. In this our new School, whereof

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ye are Masters, ye must teach the Boys by Turns, "and diligently exercife them in the Rudiments and "Method of Learning, that they may afterwards be ad"vanced to the most elegant Literature and the best "of Morals. To this Purpose, if ye Labour with

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equal Care to our Satisfaction, ye shall not only de"ferve our great Favours for your Pains, but render "it alfo happy for your Succeffors. Fare ye well. "From our Palace, Ann. Dom. 1528, Kal. Sept."

Notwithstanding the honest and generous Views the Cardinal had in erecting his College at Ipfwich, for the further Encouragement of Learning, and leaving a lafting Teftimony of his Regard for the Place of his Birth, it had but a very fhort Continuation; and, in about three Years after its Foundation, he fell with it, being, as Shakespear fays, unwilling to out-live the Good he did it: But the Defign of deftroying his College, upon his Difgrace, gave the Cardinal fo great Concern that he regretted it to the laft Moment of his Life; and therefore, as we apprehend, the Natives of the Town, when they remember the Legacy he propofed

proposed to have left them, ought to reverence his Memory.*

Before this Year expired that great Death of Biand good Man, Dr. Fox, Bishop of Win- Shop Fox. chefter, died, (who had been one of the Cardinal's chiefest Patrons) whofe Character we leave the Reader to collect from what we have already faid of him. The Pope, at the King's Inftance, bestowed the vacant Bishoprick on Cardinal Wolfey, and fent to England the proper Inftruments to confirm him therein.

*We find this Relation given of the Town and Wolfey's Foundion in Camden's Britannia.

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Ipfwich, formerly Gippewich, a little City lowly feated, and as it were the Eye of the • County of Suffolk, has a pretty good Harbour, and was formerly well fortified with Ditches, &c. has a great Trade, ⚫ and is very populous, being adorned with fourteen Parish Churches, and large ftately Buildings. We pafs by the four religious Houfes, now demolished, and the magnificent College begun by Cardinal Wolfey, a Butcher's Son, and ⚫ born in this Place; whofe vaft Thoughts were always taken 6 up with extravagant Projects.' But the modern Account of this Town is, Ipswich is feated at the Distance of 12 Miles from Harwich, upon the Edge of the River which, taking a fhort Turn to the Weft of the Town, forms there a kind of Semicircle, or Half moon, upon the Bank of the River. It is now a very neat and well built Town, and much larger than many Cities, and carries on a confiderable maritime Trade; and, though it is

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but thinly inhabited, to what it has been, yet, whoever looks into the Churches and Meetings on a Sunday, will not, even in this Particular, think fo meanly of it as fome have done; for there are now in this Town 12 Parish Churches, out of the 14, befides two Chapels in the CorporationLiberty, and Meeting-houfes. It has a very fpacious Marketplace, in the midst of which is a fair Crofs adjoining to the Butchers Shambles, very commodious and commonly fuppofed to have been built by Cardinal Wolfey. [This is a Miftake, fince it owes its Original to a much later Date, viz. the 40th Year of Queen Elizabeth.] The Town is governed at this Day by two Bailiffs, a Recorder, 12 Portmen, two Coroners, and 24 Common Council-men, &c. and fends two Members to Parliament, who at prefent are Admiral Vernon and Samuel Kent, Efq;

This Bishoprick is of great Antiquity, and the See has never been removed from it fince the Foundation, which all the reft have been in the South West Parts. The City of Winchester, formerly

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