ut off that
event.

Margery blushed somewhat when she saw A'Dale, and though she thought
that he ought to be punished for his continued absence, yet she speedily
relented, and their marriage took place on the same day as mine. I will
not describe it. We were honoured by the presence of Sir Thomas Gresham
and Lady Anne, and a large number of persons of consideration.

My bride and I took up our residence in Lombard Street, where we had
very pleasant apartments not far from A'Dale, who went into the service
of his old master.

My noble patron, after the experience of a long life, had arrived at the
simple conclusion that the cultivation of the understanding, and the
education of the heart, gave birth to the purest pleasures, as well as
the noblest aspirations, and that the best gifts which the State has in
its power to bestow on its youthful members are sound learning and
religious principles. He had long contemplated the establishment of a
college for the accomplishment of this object. Indeed, while building
Gresham House I feel very sure he had this in view. The building itself
has a collegiate air. Within there is a great reading hall, while the
distribution of its apartments are susceptible of every purpose of a
college. He now openly expressed his intention, though I am sorry to
say the University of Cambridge endeavoured to divert him from his
purpose, being jealous that London should have a college, the
authorities wishing that he should rather endow another hall in their
University. By his will, which he now drew up, he ordained that Lady
Anne Gresham should enjoy his mansion house, as well as the rent arising
from the Royal Exchange, during her life, in case she survived him; but
after her death both these properties were to be vested in the hands of
the Corporation of London and the Mercers' Company. These public bodies
were jointly to nominate seven professors, who should lecture
successively, one on every day of the week, on the seven sciences of
Divinity, Astronomy, Music, Geometry, Law, Medicine, and Rhetoric. The
salaries of the lecturers were defrayed by the profits arising from the
Royal Exchange, and were very liberal. The wisdom of my patron is shown
by the sciences he directed should be taught. He considered Divinity to
be the most important, and after that, holding as I know he did in great
contempt the foolish art of astrology, he desired that the noble and
soul-elevating science of as