SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
Jane countess of Westmoreland ;* lady Eliza- beth Russel r^ lady Burleigh -^ Blanch Parry ;|| Joanna Lumley ;§ lady Fane ;1I Mary Sidney ooonless of Pembroke,** and Elizabeth Jane Weston, were the chief ornaments of this reign. The colleges founded in the reign of Eliza- beth were three in number; and the first en- dowed by a Protestant was Jesus college, in the' university of Oxford, by Hugh Ap Rice, or Price, who obserring that his countrj'men, who were natives of Wales, were much neglected in college endowments, petitioned queen Elizabeth to found a college more particularly for their benefit She accordingly granted a charter, dated 1571; but the queen seems to have rendered no farther practical assistance than by giving a quantity of timber from the royal
London, Is an tntcriiition composed by hermelf. She wms funoos for her knowledge In the Hebrew, Oreek, and Lithi tontnes, and tot her tkUl in poetry.
• Elde«t daughter of Henry earl of Sony, who waa bdieaded Jannary IS, 1M7, (lee pat:e i»t ante.) She waa manied to Charles earl of Weatmoreland, by whom she had foor daaghteis. She was instmcted nnder John Fox.
t Third daoshter of air Anthony Cooke, born Hit, was •oaal to her abters, In having the advantages of a learned •dacatton, and in the skill of languages, Shewasmariied Hist to sir lliomas Hobby,smba8aador to the French court. He died at Paris, in 19M. She next married lord John Ruaarl, son and heirto the earl of Bedford. He died be. fore his father in )5S4. When lady Russel died Is onknown, hot it is supposed to have been about 1SB7 ; for in a letter to her nephew ;Cecil, without date, she complains much of bad health, and inflnnities of age, and concludes, " your lardship's owld awnt of compleat 68 years, that prays for your lordship's long life." Poetical inscriptions and epi- taphs were a tevounte kind of composition with lady Rus- 0^. She wrote epitaphs, in Greei:, Latin, and English, for her hnsbands, eon, daughter, brother, sister, Stc.
t Eldest daughter of sir Anthony Cooke, born US'!. On ttie 91st of December, 1540, and in the sotb year of her age, she was married to sir William Cecil, afterwards created lord Burleigh, lord high treasurer of England, and privy councillor to queen Elisabeth, by whom be had many cbildran, all of whom died young excepting two daughters. After a Jong anil happy marriage of forty-two ycais, she died April «, 1S39, in the 6Jd year of her age. Sbe was a woman of exemplary virtue and engaging qualities, and of an admirable understanding. She was burled in the abbey church of Westminster, where a magnificent monu- ment is erected to her memory. Five days after her decease, lord Burleigh wrote what he calls, A MedilatUm on Me Dtath of Ai< Ladf, written in sorrow, in which he praised her zoU for the maintenance of learning, by her many benefactions to Cambridge, Oxford, and Westmin- ster, her widely extended benevolence, and the secresy with which she did all these things— so that even he knew them not doring her life.
I She was daughter of Henry Parry, Esq. of New- court, Uerefordslure, bora isos, a great lover of an. ttquitlesj and communicated to Dr. niwell, sir Edward Btradltng's manuscript history of the Whmlnr of aiar. morgan^ or Morganmue out of the WeUhman^t Aamii, IfC, which is published by the doctor in his HUtary of Welsh Prmeea. She procured of queen EUzabeth, to whom she was "chief gentlewoman, and keeper of her malesty's Jewels," the grant of the mastership of St. Crosse's for Dr. John Lee, when ho was in distress. She drew up a pedigree of the Parry temily, and the gentility of lier descent. She died a maid, Feb. 13, 1989, In the eighty- second year of her age, and was buried in Westminster abbey, where a monument is erected to her memory, on the south side of the chancel. In her will, written by lord Burleigh's own hand, among other legacies, is ^SOO, for an almshouse at Bacton.
i Joanna Lumley, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Henry Fitx-AUen, earl of Arundel, and wife of John, lord Lumley, by whom she had three sons, who died infants. She died about 1S79, and was buried at Cheam, in Surry, where a monument was erected to her memory.
% The tad) EUxabelh Faae'i 31 Ptalmt and 102 ProKrht. London : printed by Robert Crowley, IS50. Svo.
- • See Countess of Pembroke, nnder the year iit\,po$t.
forests to aid the building. The library con- tains a good collection of books, and some curiosities, among which is a silver bowl, weigh- ing two hundred and seventy-eight ounces, and capable of holdiag ten gallons ; a metal watch, given by Charles 1.; and a huge stirrup, said to have been used by queen Elizabeth.
Emmanuel college, in the university of Cam- bridge, was founded by sir Henry Mildmay, of Chelmsford, in Essex, chancellor of the ex- chequer, and privy councillor to queen Eliza- beth. In the library are many valuable and scarce books, among which is Titlly's Offices, printed by Faust, in 1465 ; it appears to have belonged to prince Arthur, brother of Henry VI II . his arms being pourtrayed on the title-page.
Sidney Sussex coUegewas endowed by Frances Sydney,countess of Sus8ex,and widow to Thomas Radcliffe, third earl of Sussex. For this pur* pose she bequeathed £5,000, and some other property. In the library are several objects, be- sides books, which have been thought worthy of preservation. Amongst these is a part of an in- crustation of a child's skull, found in the isle of Crete, about ten feet beneath the soil, and brought to England in the year 1627. The teeth lue white and sound, and remain unchang- ed ; but the other parts resemble a hard sand- stone. The skull, when first deposited in the college, was whole ; but it was afterwards broken, and some parts lost It was esteemed so great a curiosity, that king Charles I. was desirous of seeing it; and accordingly it was sent up to the famous Dr. Ward, then master of the col- lege, for his majesty's inspection.
The following is a curious regulation respect- ing the library of Bene't college, in the university of Cambridge.* The library is placed over the chapel, and so extremely difficult of access, that even a fellow of the college is not permitted to enter it unaccompanied by another fellow and a scholar, who must remain with him during the whole time of stay; for if a single book is missing, according to the will of the donor, they lose the whole ; and for that reason they are ex- amined every vear, by two persons of another college. This library contains a valuable collec- tion of manuscripts and printed books. Among the former, are many relating to ecclesiastirad affairs, which had been collected by Leland at the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII. and the original manuscript of the thirty- nine articles. O? the latter, is one entitled Rhetoriea Nova, impressa Cant. 1478, shewing the antiquity of printing in Cambridge.
Corpus Christi, or Bene't college, (founded in 1351) differs in its origin from all others in the universities of Oxfora and Cambridge; those having been founded by the benevolence of one
- On May 7, 1589, lord Bnileigh, as chancellor of Cam-
bridge, issues rules for reforming the apparel, and other disorder* of the scholars ; " and that the excess of coloured shirts and ruflli, exceeding one inch and a half, (savijig for the sons of noblemen) be avoided presently ; and that no scholar do wear any long locks of hair upon his head, but that he be polled after the manner of the gravest scholars, under the pain of 6s. 8d.
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