Cambridge (England) -- History; University of Cambridge -- History
King Henry's charter of foundation, 253;
site of, 254
_Trinity College_, relation of old halls and hostels
with present buildings of, 254-55;
Dr. Thomas Neville's work in connection with, 258;
building of new library at, 260;
later additions to, 261;
two minor halls at, replaced by Bishop's hostel, 261;
feud between Master and Fellows of, 261;
Dr. Bentley's work in connection with, 262;
Isaac Newton at, 263;
other famous men connected with, 263
_University Hall_, first foundation of, 93, 99;
refoundation of, as Clare House, 99;
statutes of, 100, 103, 104;
dispute of with King's College, 104, 105;
supposed identity of with Chaucer's "Soler-Halle," 105, 106;
great men associated with, 106
Cornelius, Austin, wood-carver, 153
Cosin, Dr., Master of Peterhouse, building of College Chapel by, 91
Cranmer, entry of, into Jesus College, 204;
fellowship at resigned by, 249;
lectures given by, at Magdalene, 249
Crauden, John of, Prior of Ely, Hostel of, 174, 175;
portrait bust of, 174
Cromwell, Oliver, member of Sidney College, 281-82;
portrait of, by Cooper, 282;
Lowell's verses on, 282
Danes, ravages of, 52, 53
Darwin, Charles, member of Christ's College, 221, 222, 225
_De Heretico Comburendo_, 136
Devil's Dyke, British earthwork known as, 14
Dokell, Andrew, founder of S. Bernard's Hostel, 160
Dominicans, introduction of the new philosophy by, 58, 59;
settlement of, on site of Emmanuel, 72
Drayton, Michael, picture of Fenland by, 11-12
Elizabeth, Queen, visit of, to Cambridge, 251
Elizabeth de Burgh, Countess of Clare, University Hall refounded by, 99
Elizabeth Wydville, Queen to Edward IV., second foundress
of Queen's College, 161
Ely, Lady Chapel, comparison of with King's, 149, 150
Ely, student monks of, Hostel for, provided by John Crauden, 174;
transference of, to Monk's College, 175
Erasmus, residence of, at Queens', 165-68;
"Paraclesis" of _Novum Testamentum_ written while there, 171;
appointment of, to Lady Margaret chair, 211;
his praise of Oxford teachers, 212;
summoned to Cambridge to teach Greek, 214
Eton College, 141;
connection of, with King's, 144
Fenland, changes in physical features of, 9-11;
description of, in _Liber Eliensis_ and other works, 11-13
Fisher, John, Bishop of Rochester, founder of Christ's
and S. John's, 185, 242;
notice of Lady Margaret attracted by, 211;
divinity professorship founded by, 212;
literary revival at Cambridge promoted by, 214, 242;
speech by, in Parliament, 250;
funeral sermon on Lady Margaret by, 228, 229;
sympathy of, with new spirit of Bible criticism, 242;
friendship of, with Erasmus, 242;
attachment of, to Papal cause, 242;
character of, evidenced by his codes of statutes, 243;
opposition of, to divorce of Henry VIII. and Catherine of Arragon, 243;
description of trial and death of, by Froude and Mullinger, 244, 245
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