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[1] After the Black Death, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, possibly
Corpus Christi, Cambridge, Canterbury College and New College,
Oxford, were founded, and University (Clare) Hall, Cambridge, was
enlarged, partly, at any rate, to repair the ravages the plague
had made among the clergy.--Camb. Lit., ii. 354; cf. Hist. MSS.,
5th Rep., 450.
But the University library was to become the richest
and most considerable in the town. Benefactors were well
greeted. Besides praying for their souls--and some of
them, like Bishop Reed, were pathetically anxious about
the prayers--the University showed every reasonable sign
of its gratitude: posted up donors' names in the library
itself; submitted each gift to congregation three days after
receiving it, and within twelve days later had it chained
up.[1] Many gifts of books were received, some from the
highest in the land: from King Henry the Fourth and his
warlike and ambitious sons--Henry V, Clarence, Bedford,
and Gloucester; from Edmund, Earl of March; from
prelates--Archbishop Arundel, Repyngton of Lincoln,
Courtney of Norwich, and Molyneux of Chichester; from
great Abbot Whethamstede of St.
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