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HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE
such as were worn in Elizabeth’s time; between is a portion of a curtain, as if
the original had extended no further; these figures, also, are larger, and do not at
all harmonise with the others: immediately under the bishop is the following
inscription, which must have been added at the same time : —
/
<&uas prtmtts struxtt
sumrna pretatt Ttatmlpfnts
Btsptrsts nobts hosptttope hehtt
constmtlt stuhto
pta facta sccutus,
23cdktttgtontts cas
auxtt hottorc, honts.
Sftegah' tanhcm ftrmabtt
stngula ttobts
^sscrtstt, prtttccps dMt?abctf)a suo.
<£h'?abetfja bortts nuttpam
contrarta cccptts,
^sptrans stuMs (Hlbabctba bortts.
f^ts nos ornatt honts.
rcgtna, prccamur
Sbeeptra tcncns bi'bas
(£It?abetI)a htu.
There is no account of any further benefaction to this body since the last-
named charter of incorporation granted by Queen Elizabeth, nor of any addi-
tion having been made to the buildings; and, in concluding the history of
this unique and interesting college, which Godwyn says “the executors of
Beckington had rendered the most beautiful of the kind in all England/’* it
were, indeed, to be wished that a more agreeable task were allotted to the
author, than a faithful description of the manner in which the whole Close
has been maintained in repair since that period. It would naturally enough
be supposed, after so munificent a gift by the founder, and so many valuable
additions to the temporalities and comforts of the inhabitants by subsequent
benefactors, that a true spirit of gratitude would have been manifested among
the successors of those immediately receiving so sumptuous an asylum with
many other benefits, and that their first care would have been to retain, as
much as possible, the pristine beauty of the several buildings composing their
% Opes ab Episcopo relictas impenderunt isti universas, in Collegio augendo Vicariorum Choralium, quod omnium
totius Angliae ejus generis speciosissimum reddiderunt.—Godwyn, De Pnesulibus, in Vitd Tomce de Beckington.
HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE
such as were worn in Elizabeth’s time; between is a portion of a curtain, as if
the original had extended no further; these figures, also, are larger, and do not at
all harmonise with the others: immediately under the bishop is the following
inscription, which must have been added at the same time : —
/
<&uas prtmtts struxtt
sumrna pretatt Ttatmlpfnts
Btsptrsts nobts hosptttope hehtt
constmtlt stuhto
pta facta sccutus,
23cdktttgtontts cas
auxtt hottorc, honts.
Sftegah' tanhcm ftrmabtt
stngula ttobts
^sscrtstt, prtttccps dMt?abctf)a suo.
<£h'?abetfja bortts nuttpam
contrarta cccptts,
^sptrans stuMs (Hlbabctba bortts.
f^ts nos ornatt honts.
rcgtna, prccamur
Sbeeptra tcncns bi'bas
(£It?abetI)a htu.
There is no account of any further benefaction to this body since the last-
named charter of incorporation granted by Queen Elizabeth, nor of any addi-
tion having been made to the buildings; and, in concluding the history of
this unique and interesting college, which Godwyn says “the executors of
Beckington had rendered the most beautiful of the kind in all England/’* it
were, indeed, to be wished that a more agreeable task were allotted to the
author, than a faithful description of the manner in which the whole Close
has been maintained in repair since that period. It would naturally enough
be supposed, after so munificent a gift by the founder, and so many valuable
additions to the temporalities and comforts of the inhabitants by subsequent
benefactors, that a true spirit of gratitude would have been manifested among
the successors of those immediately receiving so sumptuous an asylum with
many other benefits, and that their first care would have been to retain, as
much as possible, the pristine beauty of the several buildings composing their
% Opes ab Episcopo relictas impenderunt isti universas, in Collegio augendo Vicariorum Choralium, quod omnium
totius Angliae ejus generis speciosissimum reddiderunt.—Godwyn, De Pnesulibus, in Vitd Tomce de Beckington.