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ETON
COLLEGE.
and Cambridge ^ ^ after the model of William of Wykeham's
colleges at Winchester and Oxford. The
gentle mind of Henry was perfectly qualified for a
religious act which required much calculation and
forethought. He spent some time at Winchester,
in order to master the details of Wykeham's school.
Lyndwood drew up the statutes, and, in 1441, Archbishop
Stafford affixed the great seal to the charter.
Floreat Etona! The king finally settled that his
royal foundation at Eton should consist of ten
Fellows, a Master of the School, ten Chaplains, an
Usher of the School, ten Clerks, seventy Scholars,
sixteen Choristers, and thirteen Alms or Beadsmen,
whose particular duty it was to pray for the health
and prosperity of the Founder ; in all 132 persons.
Henry designed his school to be a seminary for a
college in one of the Universities. King's College,
Cambridge, founded in 1441, " was, therefore, the com-
pletion of his wrork. It was to be to Eton what
Wykeham's college at Oxford was to Winchester.
King's -* College ^-' ^-r "* "* ^-* w* was to consist of a Provost and
seventy Fellows and Scholars to be elected from
Eton College.1
No one has ever reproached Henry VI. with having
too little faith, therefore it is well to notice that
his faith made him kind in advance of his age. He
could not bear to be a cause of blood-shedding, r^ and
the barbarities of the time filled him with horror.
' History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster,
etc., pp. 18, 19.