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Historical Account Of The Life Of William Of Wykeham.
HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM .
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^ TSTHILE Wy keham was busy in reforming charitable institutions , * ^ he was , at the same time , contriving how to execute a design , which he seems to have conceived as soon as he became bishop , of laying out the wealth with which God had blessed him , in some new foundation of his own . He examined and considered the various ^ rules of the relig ious orders , and compared them with the lives of himselfthat he could not find
the professors ; and he declared ; one instance , in which the ordinances of the founders were faithfully observed . This determined him to distribute his riches to the poor with his own hands : but he resolved also to establish two colleges of students for the honour of God , and eilcrease of his worship ; and with this view he purchased several parcels of ground in the cities of
Oxford and Winchester . But Wykeham , while he was pursuing these generous designs , was suddenly attacked by a party formed against him at court , which endangered his whole property , if not his liberty and life . Llenry III . his great friend and benefactor , was now very aged and infirm , and was become little more than an instrument in the Alice The
hands of a favourite mistress , whose name was Ferrers . three first sons of Henry were , the Prince of Wales , the Duke of Clarence , and the Duke of Lancaster : the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Lancaster were then living , but Clarence was dead . The Prince of Wales had a son ; the Duke of Clarence had left a daughter , who was married to Mortimer , Earl of March , and by him had
a son . The Prince of Wales was declining very fast of a sickness , which he had contracted in Spain ; and the Duke of Lancaster , being the next surviving son of the king , considered himself as the person to whom the sofe management of affairs , in their present situation , belonged : but , to obtajn this supposed right , he found it necessary to take Alice Ferrers into his party : by her influence he perfectly
succeeded , assuming a very extraordinary degree of authority , and abusing it to many ill . purposes . The whole nation was alarmed , and suspected he had ' formed a farther design of setting aside his nephew , the Prince of Wales ' s son , and seizing the crown . The prince , who knew that he was himself falling into the grave , was only solicitous to secure the kingdom for his child , aud , therefore , employed the last remnant of his life , which had been one series of heroism and benevolence , in breaking the Duke of Lancaster ' s party , and getting them removed from court , Lord March , whose son , by . the . daugh-
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Historical Account Of The Life Of William Of Wykeham.
HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM .
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^ TSTHILE Wy keham was busy in reforming charitable institutions , * ^ he was , at the same time , contriving how to execute a design , which he seems to have conceived as soon as he became bishop , of laying out the wealth with which God had blessed him , in some new foundation of his own . He examined and considered the various ^ rules of the relig ious orders , and compared them with the lives of himselfthat he could not find
the professors ; and he declared ; one instance , in which the ordinances of the founders were faithfully observed . This determined him to distribute his riches to the poor with his own hands : but he resolved also to establish two colleges of students for the honour of God , and eilcrease of his worship ; and with this view he purchased several parcels of ground in the cities of
Oxford and Winchester . But Wykeham , while he was pursuing these generous designs , was suddenly attacked by a party formed against him at court , which endangered his whole property , if not his liberty and life . Llenry III . his great friend and benefactor , was now very aged and infirm , and was become little more than an instrument in the Alice The
hands of a favourite mistress , whose name was Ferrers . three first sons of Henry were , the Prince of Wales , the Duke of Clarence , and the Duke of Lancaster : the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Lancaster were then living , but Clarence was dead . The Prince of Wales had a son ; the Duke of Clarence had left a daughter , who was married to Mortimer , Earl of March , and by him had
a son . The Prince of Wales was declining very fast of a sickness , which he had contracted in Spain ; and the Duke of Lancaster , being the next surviving son of the king , considered himself as the person to whom the sofe management of affairs , in their present situation , belonged : but , to obtajn this supposed right , he found it necessary to take Alice Ferrers into his party : by her influence he perfectly
succeeded , assuming a very extraordinary degree of authority , and abusing it to many ill . purposes . The whole nation was alarmed , and suspected he had ' formed a farther design of setting aside his nephew , the Prince of Wales ' s son , and seizing the crown . The prince , who knew that he was himself falling into the grave , was only solicitous to secure the kingdom for his child , aud , therefore , employed the last remnant of his life , which had been one series of heroism and benevolence , in breaking the Duke of Lancaster ' s party , and getting them removed from court , Lord March , whose son , by . the . daugh-