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“...Windward Coast. Cod-
rington, which is the oldest university college in the West
Indies, is affiliated to Durham. It was founded by
Christopher Codrington, Governor-General of the Leeward
Islands, who died in 1710, and bequeathed two sugar
estates* Consett s and “ Codrington’s ”—now called
) College ’’and “ Society ”—which consisted of 763 acres,
three windmills with the necessary building for the culti-
vation of sugar, 315 negroes, and 100 head of cattle, to
fhe Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, in trust
lor the maintenance of a convenient number of professors
land scholars, all of them to be under the vows of
ipoverty, chastity, and obedience; who shall be obliged...”
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