Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) Every attempt has been made to replicate the original as printed. Variation in the spellings of names has not been corrected (i.e. Queens'/Queen's) Some typographical errors have been corrected; a list follows the text. The footnotes follow the text. ^{e} signified a superscript letter e Some illustrations have been moved from mid-paragraph for ease of reading. (etext transcriber's note) CAMBRIDGE AND ITS STORY _All rights reserved_ [Illustration: Oriel Windows Queen's College] CAMBRIDGE AND ITS STORY BY CHARLES WILLIAM STUBBS, D.D. DEAN OF ELY [Illustration] WITH TWENTY-FOUR LITHOGRAPHS AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS BY HERBERT RAILTON THE LITHOGRAPHS BEING TINTED BY FANNY RAILTON 1903 LONDON J. M. DENT & CO. ALDINE HOUSE, W.C. Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & CO. At the Ballantyne Press PREFACE I should wish to write one word by way of explanation of the character of the descriptive historical sketch which forms the text of the present book.