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earlier wording when I was going by your representation that the college had been "founded multiple times", and was going to make the argument in the edit summary that that isn't one college being founded multiple times (which makes no sense), it's a succession of colleges each founded under the same name. However, after reading on I realized that that wasn't the situation: It wasn't a matter of a school existing, then shutting down, then someone else starting a new school with the same name.
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Now the lead says what I'd meant it to say when I finished up before. Before I got to it, the lead section just didn't make sense, where it said the college was "founded" in 1505 and then, in the next sentence, that it was "established" in 1437. The college was founded in 1437. Lady
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Did you just suggest that the founder of Christ's college is to the early history of Christ's college as baking is to architecture? Or, to put it another way, if a source is reliable on the history of Christ's college (as, I claim, and you do not seem to dispute, the sources I have provided are),
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I thought I'd altered the statement in the lead section further before I saved it last, and I think that the odd wording I'd left in place is at least part of what you're reacting to. I just altered it to read "The college was founded by
William Byngham in 1437 as God's House, ...." I'd chosen the
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came along in 1505, kicked in some money, and renamed it. She could have completely overhauled its charter and its program, but she would still have been dealing with an existing school. She didn't found it.
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