Victoria by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting.
Whereas the Master Fellows and Scholars of the College of Saint John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge have by their Petition under the Seal of the said College humbly represented unto Us that the College of Saint John the Evangelist was founded by our illustrious ancestor the Lady Margaret Tudor Countess of Richmond and Derby who received authority from King Henry the Eighth to make Laws for the Regulation and Government of the new College–That a Code of Statutes was accordingly drawn up by the Lord Bishop of Rochester one of the Lady Margaret's Executors and was in force till the Reformation rendered a revision of those Statutes necessary–That King Henry the Eighth granted a new Body of Statutes which however from various causes enumerated in the following Preamble to the Statutes subsequently given by Queen Elizabeth were found in the Reign of Her said Majesty so imperfect as to call for considerable corrections and additions.
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