So many witnesses of Cambridge and Oxford put forth their minds to the fine things in books, because he first provided for the students to have Professors to teach languages. The teachers of law, the theologians and the physicians, and the tongue of the Hellenes and Hebrew studies, shall always display the beneficent provision of the king to men of the future. For to five knowledgeable Professors of these arts he gave four times ten mnas in pay,

Henry endowed professorships in Civil Law, Divinity, Medicine, Greek and Hebrew at Cambridge in 1540 and at Oxford in 1546, including the post of Regius Professor of Greek which Etheridge himself held from 1547.