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consider what lias become of those endowments 

 which were originally intended to be devoted, 

 more or less largely, to the education of the 

 poor. 



When the monasteries were spoiled, some of 

 their endowments were applied to the foundation 

 of cathedrals ; and in all such cases it was ordered 

 that a certain portion of the endowment should be 

 applied to the purposes of education. How much is 

 so applied ? Is that which may be so applied given to 

 help the poor, who cannot pay for education, or 

 does it virtually subsidise the comparatively rich, 

 who can ? How are Christ's Hospital and Alleyn's 

 foundation securing their right purposes, or how far 

 are they perverted into contrivances for affording 

 relief to the classes who can afford to pay for 

 education ? How But this paper is already 

 too long, and, if I begin, I may find it hard to stop 

 asking questions of this kind, which after all are 

 worthy only of the lowest of Radicals. 



