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" Once the Lady Margaret came to Christ's College, to behold it when partly built, and looking out of a window, saw the dean call a faulty scholar to correction; to whom she said,  "
The universities. Le Keux's Memorials of Cambridge, views, with historical ... - Page 4
by Thomas Wright - 1841
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The History of the University of Cambridge: From the Conquest to the Year 1634

Thomas Fuller - 1840 - 368 pages
...came to Christ's College, to behold it when partly built, and looking out of a window, saw the dean call a faulty scholar to correction; to whom she said,...to mitigate his punishment, than procure his pardon : mercy and justice making the best medley to offenders. 6. John Major a Scotchman, and a Scottish...
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The History of the University of Cambridge: And of Waltham Abbey. With the ...

Thomas Fuller - 1840 - 738 pages
...came to Christ's College, to behold it when partly built ; and, looking out of a window, saw the dean call a faulty Scholar to correction ; to whom she...accounting it better to mitigate his punishment than to procure his pardon : mercy and justice making the best medley to offenders.* 6. John Major a Student...
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The nut-brown maids; or, The first hosier and his hosen [by H. Keddie].

Henrietta Keddie - 1859 - 424 pages
...built, and, looking out of a window, and seeing the dean 'call a faulty scholar to correction/ she only said, 'Lente, lente!' 'gently, gently!' 'as accounting it better to mitigate his punishment than to procure his pardon, mercy and justice making the best medley to offenders.' Farther, it is recorded...
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Memorials of Cambridge, Volume 2

Charles Henry Cooper - 1861 - 492 pages
...of a window, saw the deane call a faulty scholar to correction ; to whom she said, lente, Icnte, — gently, gently, as accounting it better to mitigate his punishment than procure his pardon." (a) The college granted Roydon to Henry VIII. in exchange for the priory of Bromehill in Norfolk, with...
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Memoir of Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby

Charles Henry Cooper - 1874 - 358 pages
...came to the college 'Ho behold it " when partly built, and looking out of a window, saw the " deaue call a faulty scholar to correction; to whom she "said...lente 'gently', 'gently', as accounting it better 25 " to mitigate his punishment than procure his pardon 6 ." 1 Mot. Pat. 22 Hen. VII p. 3 3 Nichols's...
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Handbook for Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire ...

John Murray (Firm) - 1875 - 642 pages
...ami. »js Fuller, once " coming to behold :t when partly built, and looking oat of a window, saw tlie deane call a faulty scholar to correction, to whom she said ' Lente, lente' — ' Gently, gaiti; • ,' as accounting it better to mitigate- bis punishment than procure hie perdón." The arms...
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Cambridge: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes

John Willis Clark - 1890 - 344 pages
...once came to the College " to behold it when partly built, and looking out of a window, saw the Dean call a faulty scholar to correction, to whom she said,...mitigate his punishment than procure his pardon." The old quadrangular arrangement may be traced in this college more easily than elsewhere behind the...
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Cambridge: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes

John Willis Clark - 1890 - 352 pages
...out of a window, saw the Dean call a faulty scholar to correction, to whom she said, ' Lente, knte, Gently, gently ! ' as accounting it better to mitigate his punishment than procure his pardon." The old quadrangular arrangement may be traced in this college more easily than elsewhere behind the...
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MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 74

Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1896 - 524 pages
...Margaret came to the college " to behold it when partly built, and looking out of a window saw the dean call a faulty scholar to correction ; to whom she said lente, lente, as counting it better to mitigate his punishment than procure his pardon." It was the advice of her...
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Cambridge Described & Illustrated: Being a Short History of the Town and ...

Thomas Dinham Atkinson - 1897 - 696 pages
...came to Christ's College to behold it when partly built, and looking out of a window, saw the dean call a faulty scholar to correction; to whom she said...to mitigate his punishment than procure his pardon; mercy and justice making the best medley to offenders. 1 The Lady Margaret died in 1509, or about four...
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