Cambridge and Its Story

"Nec modo seminarium augustum et conclusum nimis, verum in se amplissimum campum collegium esse cupimus: ubi juvenes, apum more, de omnigenis flosculis pro libita libent, modo m...

"No more as once in sunny Avignon, The poet-scholar spreads the Homeric page, And gazes sadly, like the deaf at song: For now the old epic voices ring again And vibrate with the...

"Tax not the royal saint with vain expense, With ill-matched aims the architect who planned, Albeit labouring for a scanty band Of white-robed scholars only--this immense And gl...

The Early Monastic Houses in Cambridge--Student Proselytising by the Friars--The Oxford College of Merton a Protest against this Tendency--The Rule of Merton taken as a Model by...

The Fourteenth Century an Age of Great Men and Great Events but not of Great Scholars--Petrarch and Richard of Bury--Michael House--The King's Scholars--King's Hall--Clare Hall-...

"Yes, since his dayes a cocke was in the fen, I knowe his voyce among a thousand men: He taught, he preached, he mended every wrong: But, Coridon, alas! no good thing abideth lo...

"Record we too with just and faithful pen, That many hooded cænobites there are Who in their private cells have yet a care Of public quiet; unambitious men, Counsellors for the...

"At this time the fountain of learning in Cambridge was but little, and that very troubled.... Mars then frighted away the Muses, when the Mount of Parnassus was turned into a f...

"Next then the plenteous Ouse came far from land, By many a city and by many a town, And many rivers taking under-hand Into his waters as he passeth down, The Cle, the Were, the...

Quattuor inde novis quæ turribus alta minantur Et nivea immenso diffundunt atria circo, Ordine postremus, sed non virtutibus, auxit Henricus tecta, et triplices cum jungeret sed...

"The noblest memorial of the Cambridge gilds consists of the College which was endowed by the munificence of St. Mary's Gild and the Corpus Christi Gild: it perpetuates their na...

"To London hence, to Cambridge thence, With thanks to thee, O Trinity! That to thy hall, so passing all, I got at last. There joy I felt, there trim I dwelt, Then heaven from he...

Queen Elizabeth and the Founder of Emmanuel--The Puritan Age--Sir Walter Mildmay--The Building of Emmanuel--The Tenure of Fellowships--Puritan Worthies--The Founder of Harvard--...

The New Learning in Italy and Germany--The English "Pilgrim Scholars": Grey, Tiptoft, Linacre, Grocyn--The practical Genius of England--Bishops Rotherham, Alcock, and Fisher--Al...

Monastic Origins--Continuity of Learning in Early England--The School of York--The Venerable Bede--Alcuin and the Schools of Charles the Great--The Danish Invasions--The Benedic...

William I. at Cambridge Castle--Cambridge at the Domesday Survey--Roger Picot the Sheriff--Pythagoras School--Castle and Borough--S. Benet's Church and its Parish--The King's Di...

Henry VI--The most pitiful Character in all English History--His devotion to Learning and his Saintly Spirit--His foundation of Eton and King's College--The Building of King's C...

Dissolution of the Monasteries--Schemes for Collegiate Spoliation checked by Henry VIII.--Monks' or Buckingham College--Refounded by Sir Thomas Audley as Magdalene College--Conv...

The Early Monastic Houses in Cambridge--Student Proselytising by the Friars--The Oxford College of Merton a Protest against this Tendency--The Rule of Merton taken as a Model by...

The Foundation of Trinity Hall by Bishop Bateman of Norwich--On the Site of the Hostel of Student-Monks of Ely--Prior Crauden--Evidence of the Ely Obedientary Rolls--The College...

The Lady Margaret Foundations--Bishop Fisher of Rochester--The Foundation of Christ's--God's House--The buildings of the new College--College Worthies--John Milton--Henry More--...

The Fourteenth Century an Age of Great Men and Great Events but not of Great Scholars--Petrarch and Richard of Bury--Michael House--The King's Scholars--King's Hall--Clare Hall-...

Unique Foundation of Corpus Christi College--The Cambridge Guilds--The influence of "the Good Duke"--The Peasant Revolt--Destruction of Charters--"Perish the skill of the Clerks...

Geographical and commercial importance of the city site--Map of the county a palimpsest--Glamour of the Fenland--Cambridge the gateway of East Anglia--The Roman roads--The Roman...