Cambridge (England) -- History; University of Cambridge -- History
Books, complaint by Roger Bacon of lack of, 57
_Brazen George Inn_, the scholars of Christ's lodged in, 220
British earthworks, 14
Buckingham College, description of, by Fuller, 248;
foundation of, by Benedictine, 248;
hall built in connection with, 248;
lectures by Cranmer at, 249;
semi-secular character of, 249;
conversion of, into Magdalene College, 249
Burne-Jones, designs by, for Jesus Chapel, 203
Caius, John, founder of College, 114;
design for famous three gates by, 114-19;
death of, 119
_Camboritum_, 16, 17
Cambridge, verses on, by Lydgate, 2;
legendary history of, 3-8;
position of, 14;
origin of name of, 15, 16;
geographical position of, 17;
early population of, 24;
farm of, given as dower to the queen, 24;
beginnings of municipal independence of, 27;
"the borough," overflow of, incorporated with township of S. Benet, 28, 32;
first charter of, 48
Cambridge Guilds, 120, 121, 122-26
Cambridge University, migration of masters and
scholars from Paris to, 59, 60;
royal writs concerning, 60;
description of, in Middle Ages, 61, 62, 63;
course of study pursued at, 63, ff.;
learning at, in thirteenth century, 68-70;
library, erected by Sir Gilbert Scott, 144
_Candle rent_, insurrection of towns-people on account of, 132, 133
Cantelupe, Nicholas, legendary history by, 4-7
Carmelites, settlement of, on present site of Queens', 72
Castle, old site of, 15;
foundation of, by William the Conqueror, 22;
use of, as prison, as a quarry, 23;
gate-house of, demolished, 23
Castle Hill, ancient earthwork known as, 14, 15
Chaucer, tradition concerning, 106
Churches--
_Abbey_, the, 39
_All Saints by the Castle_, 34
_Holy Sepulchre_, one of the four round churches of England, 40, 43, 44
_S. Benedict_, 28, 29, 31, 125, 130-31
_S. Edward_, 176;
independence of, with regard to pulpit teaching, 177, 178
_S. Giles_, 34, 35
_S. John Zachary_, 176
_S. Mary at Market_, afterwards _Great S. Mary_, 123
_S. Peter_, without the Trumpington Gate, afterwards
called _Little S. Mary_, 86, 87
_S. Peter by the Castle_, 34
Close, Nicholas, architect of King's Chapel, 147, 148
Coleridge, S. T., scholar of Jesus, 208;
poems written by, at College, 208
College, meaning of the term in olden times, 62
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