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Chapter 54 of 72

54. WILLIAM BRAINTHWAITE, D.D

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Vicar of Evesham; and two years later, he was Rector of Orwell. He was Vice-Master of his College in 1597. In the year 1600, he was made Doctor in Divinity, both at Cambridge and Oxford. Thus he, too, is to be ranked as a scholar and a divine by calling. His death took place in 1612.

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This was a man of mark,—"a vast scholar." He was a native of Bishop's Middleham, in the county of Durham. His father was a gentleman of "more ancientry than estate." He studied at Cambridge, where he was at first a student of Christ's College, then a Fellow of Emanuel, and afterwards Master of Sidney Sussex College. He entered upon this latter office in 1609, and occupied it with great usefulness and honor till his death, thirty-four years after. His college flourished greatly under his administration. Four new fellowships were founded, all the scholarships augmented, and a chapel and new range of buildings erected, all in his time. He was distinguished for the gravity of his deportment,

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and for the integrity with which he discharged the duties of his Mastership.

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