Note 72 — Chapter II
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Sir Walter Mildmay, the founder of Emmanuel College, being at the Court of Queen Elizabeth, she said to him:—“Sir Walter, I hear you have erected a Puritan Foundation.” “No, madam,” he replied; “far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws; but I have set an acorn, and when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.”—Fuller’s History of Cambridge, p. 147.