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as lords of the manor, by giving it the power of appointing the burgesses, and
allowing the exemption of the precinct and sanctuary.
Little more seems to have occurred during the long period in which Goodman
presided over this college, which he seems to have done with great discretion,
and without any serious interruption of his tranquillity. He frequently endea-
voured to obtain the royal assent to the statutes prepared by Dean Bill. Fie had
also, as it has been already mentioned, some difference with the deans of Christ
Church and the masters of Trinity College, respecting the number of scholars to
be elected from this school*. It may also be reasonably supposed that he in-
fluenced Cecil, then lord high treasurer^td Queen Elizabe.thj, in the year 1594,
to give a perpetual annuity of twenty marks,. to'be distributed among the scholars
elected from hence to the two universities-f.
The dean possessed, and he well deserved it, the character of a wise, learned,
benevolent, and pious man. He was held in high estimation by the two arch-
bishops, Parker and Whitgift, and was zealously recommended by those eminent
prelates to be advanced to the mitre; to the bishopric of Norwich in 1574, and
to the sees of Worcester, Chichester, and Rochester in 1584. Their endeavours,
however, for his advancement were unsuccessful; but the cause of their failure
does not appear in any contemporary writer, or subsequent history. In the year
1590, he founded and endowed an hospital and a school at Ruthin, in Denbigh-
shire, the place of his nativity; and ordered, by his last will and testament, that
the nomination of the warden should be vested in the dean and chapter of
Westminster.
He died June 17, 1601, and was buried in the chapel of St. Bennet. His
* See p. 236.
+ Strype's Life of Parker.
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as lords of the manor, by giving it the power of appointing the burgesses, and
allowing the exemption of the precinct and sanctuary.
Little more seems to have occurred during the long period in which Goodman
presided over this college, which he seems to have done with great discretion,
and without any serious interruption of his tranquillity. He frequently endea-
voured to obtain the royal assent to the statutes prepared by Dean Bill. Fie had
also, as it has been already mentioned, some difference with the deans of Christ
Church and the masters of Trinity College, respecting the number of scholars to
be elected from this school*. It may also be reasonably supposed that he in-
fluenced Cecil, then lord high treasurer^td Queen Elizabe.thj, in the year 1594,
to give a perpetual annuity of twenty marks,. to'be distributed among the scholars
elected from hence to the two universities-f.
The dean possessed, and he well deserved it, the character of a wise, learned,
benevolent, and pious man. He was held in high estimation by the two arch-
bishops, Parker and Whitgift, and was zealously recommended by those eminent
prelates to be advanced to the mitre; to the bishopric of Norwich in 1574, and
to the sees of Worcester, Chichester, and Rochester in 1584. Their endeavours,
however, for his advancement were unsuccessful; but the cause of their failure
does not appear in any contemporary writer, or subsequent history. In the year
1590, he founded and endowed an hospital and a school at Ruthin, in Denbigh-
shire, the place of his nativity; and ordered, by his last will and testament, that
the nomination of the warden should be vested in the dean and chapter of
Westminster.
He died June 17, 1601, and was buried in the chapel of St. Bennet. His
* See p. 236.
+ Strype's Life of Parker.
K k 2