Shakespeare purchases the Blackfriars Gatehouse: Index to Grantees
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The Society of Antiquaries of London is the oldest independent learned society in Britain concerned with the study of the past. For 300 years its library and museum collections have been at the Society's heart, helping to shape our understanding of the past.
Founded in 1517 by the statesman cleric Richard Fox, Corpus Christi College was the first Humanist establishment in Oxford. Today one of the smallest of the Oxford colleges, it has a reputation for sustaining academic excellence in a pleasant and tolerant atmosphere.
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The “Hall of the Queen’s Scholars at Oxford” was founded in 1341 by Robert de Eglesfield, a chaplain in the household of Queen Philippa, who named it in her honor. He envisaged an establishment of fellows, chaplains, “poor boys” and various officials and servants, headed by a Provost. Membership was to be open, but with a preference for inhabitants of Cumberland and Westmorland.