Cambridge 1897-1902. WILLIS, ROBERT, and CLARK, J. W.---- The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge & of the Colleges of Cambridge & Eton. 4 vols. University Press 1886. WORDSWORTH, CHRISTOPHER, fellow of Peterhouse.---- Scholae Academicae. University Press 1877. WORDSWORTH, CHRISTOPHER---- Social Life at the English Universities in the xviii Century. Cambridge 1874. To the above must be added the College Histories, published by F. E. Robinson London. Peterhouse (Walker) 1906. Clare (Wardale) 1899. Gonville and Caius (Venn) 1901. Trinity Hall (Malden) 1902. Corpus Christi (Stokes) 1898. King’s (Austen Leigh) 1899. Queens’ (J. H. Gray) 1899. S. Catherine’s (Bp. of Bristol) 1902. Jesus (A. Gray) 1902. Christ’s (Peile) 1900. S. John’s (Mullinger) 1901. Magdalene (Preston) 1904. Emmanuel (Shuckburgh) 1904. Sidney (Edwards) 1899. Downing (Pettit Stevens) 1899. No complete bibliography of the subject--of the MSS. or printed matter--has been attempted. The above is a list of some Cambridge documents and books most of which have been consulted personally by the writer of the present volume. CAMBRIDGE CHAPTER I THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE I. _pp._ 1-30. The northern schools--legends--the town--the river--the fen monasteries--the school of glomery--the religious orders--the jurisdiction of Ely--the clerk and the religious. In Saxon times our schools of learning were grouped round York the Roman centre of Britain, which represented not only the Roman tradition but the vigorous Christianity of the north. It is this auspicious combination which nourished for over a hundred years the university spirit before universities, carried through Alcuin this spirit to the Continent, and eventually brought learning hand in hand with Christianity to Germany. Whatever may be true as to the distribution of talent in England later in its history, in the vii and viii centuries our great school was to be found at York, and England’s learned men hailed from the kingdom of Northumbria. [Sidenote: The School of York. York and Rome.] [Sidenote: A.D. 657.] The School of York originated in the school established by Hild for the Celtic clan community over which she presided; and Caedmon the first English poet, John of Beverley, Wilfrid of York, Bede the father of English learning, and the scholar Alcuin who has been called “minister of Public Instruction to Charlemagne” were the noble fruit it put forth. [Sidenote: A.D. 664.]