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“...Windward Coast. Codrington, which is
the oldest college in the West Indies, is affiliate to
Durham University. 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 “ Col-
!ege and _ Society ”—consisting of 763 acres, three
windmills with the necessary building for the cultivation
of sugar, 315 negroes, and 100 head of cattle, to the
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, in trust for
the maintenance of a convenient number of professors
and scholars, "all of them to be under the vows of
poverty, chastity, and obedience ; who shall be obliged
to study and practise Physic and Chirurgery, as well as
Divinity; that by the apparent usefulness of the former
to all mankind they may both endear themselves to
the people and have the better opportunities of doing
good to men s souls, whilst they are taking care of their
bodies.”
. that time the plantations were computed...”
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