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Excerpt from The History and Antiquities of the Collegiate Church of S. Saviour S. Marie
Fair Maid of Kent - spouse of the Black Prince, and mother of Richard II. - was united in wedlock to Lucia, eldest daughter of the Lord of Milan, Henry IV. Giving the bride away at the Church door;'r it was here, in 1424 (henry that James I. Of Scotland, the Royal poet, was married to Jane, niece of Cardinal Beaufort it was here that Bishop Gardiner condemned the Anglican Martyrs to death in 1555; it was here that John Harvard, the founder of the great American University which bears his name, was bap tised, November 29th, 1607 and it was here that the famous Dr. Henry Sacheverell was elected Chaplain in 1705.
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