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KING HENRY'S FOUNDATIONS AT
ETON AND CAMBRIDGE
SOMETHING has already been said about the two colleges the King founded at Eton and Cambridge. It will perhaps be interesting to add some more details about these foundations, especially as the fact of the King having thus worked for sound Christian education was one of the matters urged upon the Popes in the petitions of King Henry VII to secure his canonization. These colleges still remain, lasting monuments of the love of their pious founder for learning and religion.
Besides these two great establishments the pious King had already taken a personal interest in the University of Caen, established in his name when he was a child by the Duke of Bedford. He had, moreover, encouraged others by every means in his power to assist learning and piety by making other similar foundations. The college at Eton was pro-
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