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Very likely it had remained in some quiet monastery library for hundreds of years until Henry VIII. The ambitious cardinal, who was prime minister to Henry VIII. It traced its origin to an abbey school, founded before the Conquest, where the rudiments of learning were taught by Augustine monks; and, like many another establishment of this sort, on the destruction of the monasteries it had been reorganised by the officers of King Henry VIII and thus acquired its name. |
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