Highways and Byways in Cambridge and ElyConybeare, John William Edward
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Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely
Conybeare, John William Edward
Cambridgeshire (England) -- Description and travel; Isle of Ely (England) -- Description and travel
"Here are to be seen, too, and that for nothing, Thefts, Murders,
Adulteries, False Swearings, and that of a blood-red colour.
"And as, in other Fairs of less moment, there are the several
Rows and Streets, under their proper Names, here such and such
Wares are vended, so here likewise you have the proper Places,
Rows, and Streets (namely Countries and Kingdoms) where the
Wares of this Fair are soonest to be found. Here is the Britain
Row, the French Row, the Italian Row, the Spanish Row, the German
Row, where several sorts of vanities are to be sold. But, as in
other Fairs some one Commodity is the Chief of all the Fair, so
the Wares of Rome and her Merchandize is greatly promoted in this
Fair."
We find also reference to the standing Court of summary jurisdiction
under "the Great One of the Fair," with "the trusty Friends" who
formed his police, that took cognisance of the "Hubbub and great Stir
in the Fair" caused by the demeanour of the pilgrims.
As an instance of how wide a range the commodities sold at this fair
covered, we may mention that Sir Isaac Newton there bought his famous
prisms--three of them for L3. They were probably of French or Italian
make; no glass of this character was as yet manufactured in England.
CHAPTER VIII
Roads from Cambridge.--Cambs and Isle of Ely, Girvii, East
Angles, Mercians, Formation of County.--Newmarket
Road.--Quy.--Fleam Dyke.--Devil's Dyke.--Icknield Way.--Iceni,
Ostorius, Boadicea.--Newmarket Heath, First Racing.--Exning,
Anna.--Snailwell.--Fordham.--Soham, St.
Felix.--Stuntney.--Wicken.--Chippenham.--Isleham,
Lectern.--Eastern Heights.--Chevely, Cambridge
Corporation.--Kirtling.--Wood Ditton.--Stetchworth.--Borough
Green.--Bottisham.--Swaffham Bulbeck.--The Lodes.--Swaffham
Prior.--Reach, Peat, Submerged Forest.--Burwell, Church, Clunch,
Brass, Castle, Geoffry de Magnaville.
At the Lepers' Chapel we are clear of Cambridge and well on the road
to Newmarket, probably the most trafficked of all the great roads
which radiate from Cambridge. Of these there are seven; this Newmarket
Road going to the north-east, the Hills road to the south-east, the
Trumpington Road to the south, the Barton Road to the south-west, the
Madingley Road to the west, the Huntingdon Road to the north-west,
and, finally, the Ely Road to the north. This last takes us into the
Isle of Ely; the other six serve the county of Cambridge, more
strictly so-called, _i.e._, the southern half of the Cambridgeshire of
our maps, not so long ago quite separate, politically, from the
northern half, and even now not wholly united for administrative
purposes.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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