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Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

Sidney Sussex College was founded in 1596 and named after its foundress, Lady Frances Sidney[?], Countess of Sussex. It was from its inception an avowedly Puritan foundation: some good and godlie moniment for the mainteynance of good learninge. Oliver Cromwell was among the first students, and it is rumoured that his head is buried beneath the College's chapel.

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