E-text prepared by MWS and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 57266-h.htm or 57266-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/57266/57266-h/57266-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/57266/57266-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/cambridgeitscoll00thomrich Some characters might not display properly in this UTF-8 text file (e.g., empty squares). If so, the reader should consult the html version or the original page images noted above. [Illustration: Map _of the_ Colleges & Churches _of_ CAMBRIDGE References 1 _Sᵗ. Botolph’s ch._ 2 _Sᵗ. Benedict’s ”_ 3 _Sᵗ. Edward’s ”_ 4 _Sᵗ. Mary the Gᵗ._ 5 _Sᵗ. Michael’s ch._ 6 _Senate House_ 7 _Univʸ. Libʸ. & Mus. of Geology_ 8 _Guildhall & Free Library_] CAMBRIDGE AND ITS COLLEGES [Illustration: The Gate of Honour Caius Coll:] CAMBRIDGE AND ITS COLLEGES by A · HAMILTON · THOMPSON · B.A. St John’s College Illustrated by Edmvnd · H · New “Ground where the grass had yielded to the steps Of generations of illustrious men.” Boston L. C. Page & Company London Methven & Co MDCCCXCIX TO MY MOTHER PREFACE So much has been written about Cambridge that it is difficult to say anything new; and this little book is therefore merely an attempt to put together recorded facts in an orderly way. I have followed throughout the arrangement adopted by Mr Wells in his book on “Oxford and its Colleges,” and have also borrowed his method of marking the portraits of college worthies with an asterisk. Every writer on Cambridge must be under a great obligation to Willis and Clark’s Architectural History of the University; and Mr Atkinson’s lately published book gives a singular completeness to the authorities for the architectural side of the question. Building at Cambridge, however, is a complex problem,—the history of Clare and the University Church are cases in point—and to follow out carefully every date and mark every alteration would be beyond these limits. My endeavour has been, therefore, to indicate the general date of every building rather than to assign a date to every particular part of its construction. For the historical part of the book, the authorities, grave and anecdotal, are too numerous to mention. Among modern works on the subject, I owe a great deal to Mr J. W. Clark’s “Cambridge: Historical and Picturesque Notes” (Seeley, 1890). I am sure, too, that whatever interest my own part in this book may lack, Mr New’s drawings will more than supply. WISBECH, _April 23, 1898_. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE