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1665. This yeare he told me that he was willing to doe some good to the towne where he was borne; that his majestie loved him well, and if I could find out something in our countrey that was in his guift, he did beleeve he could beg it of his majestie, and seeing he was bred a scholar, he thought it most proper to endowe a free-schoole there; which is wanting now (for, before the reformation, all monasteries had great schooles appendant to them; e.g. Magdalen schoole and New College schoole). After enquiry I found out a piece of land in Bradon-forest (of about 25 li. per annum value) that was in his majesties guift, which he designed to have obtained of his majestie for a salary for a schoolmaster; but the queen's priests smelling-out the designe and being his enemies, hindred this publique and charitable intention.