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1371, to give up his office ; and three years afterwards he re- 
tired to his diocefe. But the king foon found that his nobles 
were not capable of conducting his government fo well as his 
clergy ; and notwithstanding the intrigues of the duke of Lan- 
caster, in 1389, william of wickham was again made lord 
high chancellor, and executed this office with great honor for 
three years. After this he devoted his time, and large fortune, 
to the fervice of his country. He died in 14.04, in the eighty- 
firft year of his age, leaving this cathedral and college, together 
with new' college in oxford, as {landing monuments of his 
charity and patriotism 
From the cathedral we pafs’d to the fchool or college. It was 
here the worthy prelate juft mentioned, deftgned that youth 
Should be inftruded and prepared for his college in oxford. 
The fchool-room is fitting up in an elegant manner ; but, I am 
forry to fay, the hall where the youths dine, did not do juftice 
to the memory of their great founder. 
This fchool is faid to be fallen ofr ; whether it ought to be 
imputed to the want of knowledge or attention in thofe who have 
the care of it, or to other caufes, I know not. One is not to 
expert delicacy and elegance, but there is a certain propriety 
which ought to reign in all public places, in every civilized ftate. 
You remember how we were difgufted with the appearance of 
their buttery. If cleanlinefs is to the body, what virtue is to 
the foul : if Schools are the places whence we receive fo great a 
part of the good a nation can enjoy, or the evils it can Suffer; 
every filthy appearance ought to be avoided. Virtue, cleanli- 
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