CHAPTER IPAGE

Cambridge Greenery. — The Backs. — The Lawns. — Logan's Views. — Old Common Fields. — Old Cambridge. — Origin of Cambridge. — The Castle. — Camboritum. — Granta-ceaster. — Danes in Cambridge. — Cambridgeshire formed. — Battle of Ringmere. — Norman Conquest. — The Jewry. — Religious Houses. — Rise of University. — Town and Gown. — Proctors. — The Colleges. — Examinations. — College Life. — Cambridge and Oxford 1

CHAPTER II

Entrance to Cambridge. — Railways. — Roman Catholic Church. — Street runlets, Hobson, Perne. — Fitzwilliam Museum. — Peterhouse, Chapel, Deer-park. — Little St. Mary's Church, Washington Arms. — Gray's window. — Pembroke College, Large and Small Colleges, "Querela Cantabrigiensis," Ridley's Farewell. — St. Botolph's Church. — The King's Ditch. — Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Guilds, St. Benet's Church, Firehooks, Corpus Library, Corpus Ghost. — St. Catherine's College. — King's Parade. — Pitt Press. — Newnham Bridge, Hermits. — The Backs River, College Bridges, Hithes 20

CHAPTER III

Queens' College, Erasmus, Cloisters, Carmelites, Chapel. — Old Mill Street. — King's College, Henry VI, King's and Eton, Henry's "Will." — King's College Chapel, Wordsworth, Milton, Windows, Rosa Solis, Screens, Stalls, Vaulting, Side-Chapels, View from Roof 47

CHAPTER IV

Spiked gates. — Old Kings. — University Library, Origin, Growth, Codex BezÆ. — Trinity Hall, Colours, Library. — Clare College, "Poison Cup," Court, Bridge, Avenue. — The Backs, Sirdar Bonfire, College Gardens. — Trinity College, Michaelhouse, King's Hall, Henry VIII, Boat-clubs, Avenue, College Livings, Bridge, Library, Byron, Nevile's Court, Cloisters, Echo, "Freshman's Pillar," Prince Edward, Royal Ball, Goodhart, Buttery, College Plate, Grace-cup, Kitchen, Hall, Combination Room, Marquis of Granby, Tutors, Old Court, Fountain, Gate Towers, Clock, Lodge, Chapel, Newton, Organ, Bentley, Windows, Macaulay 78

CHAPTER V

Whewell's Courts. — All Saints' Cross. — The Jewry. — Divinity School. — St. John's College, Trinity and John's, Lady Margaret, Fisher, Hospital of St. John, Gate Tower, First Court, Hall, Wordsworth, Compulsory Worship, Combination Room, Second Court, Library, Great Bible, Third Court, Bridge of Sighs, New Court, Roof-climbing, Blazers, Wilderness. — Caius College, Gonville, The Three Gates, Kitchen, "Blues." — Senate House, Congregations, Vice-Chancellor, Voting, Degree-giving. — University Church, Mr. Tripos, Golgotha, Sermons, Tower, Chimes, Jowett. — Market Hill, Peasant Revolt, Wat Tyler, Bucer and Fagius, Bonfires, Town and Gown 108

CHAPTER VI

Round Church. — Union Society. — The "Great Bridge," Hithe. — Magdalene College, Buckingham College, Pepys, Charles Kingsley, the "College Window," Master's Garden. — Castle Hill, Camboritum, Cromwell's Rampart, Repulse of Charles I, the "Borough," View from Castle. — St. Peter's Church. — "School of Pythagoras." — Westminster College. — Ridley Hall. — Newnham College. — Selwyn College. — Convent of St. Radegund, Bishop Alcock. — Midsummer Common. — Boat Houses, Bumping Races. — Jesus College, "Chimney," Cloisters, Chapter House, Chapel, Cranmer, Coleridge 132

CHAPTER VII

Sidney College, Oliver Cromwell, Fellow Commoners. — Holy Trinity, Simeon, Henry Martyn. — Christ's College, "God's House," Lady Margaret, Flogging of Students, Bathing forbidden, Milton, Lycidas, Gardens, Paley, Darwin. — Great St. Andrew's, Bishop Perry. — Emmanuel College, Harvard, Sancroft, Chapel, Ponds. — University Museums. — Downing College, Miss Edgeworth. — Coe Fen. — First Mile Stone. — Barnwell, Priory, Abbey Church. — Lepers' Chapel, Stourbridge Fair, Vanity Fair 151

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 168

CHAPTER IX

Hills Road. — Gog Magogs. — Vandlebury. — Babraham, Peter Pence. — Old Railway. — Hildersham, Brasses, Clapper Stile. — Linton. — Horseheath. — Bartlow, St. Christopher, Battle of Assandun. — Cherry Hinton, War Ditches, Saffron. — Teversham. — Fulbourn, Brasses. — Wilbraham. — Fleam Dyke, Wild Flowers, Butterflies, Ostorius, Last Cambs Battle. — Balsham, Battle of Ringmere, Massacre, Church Brasses, Grooved Stones 201

CHAPTER X

London Road. — Trumpington, Church, Brass, Chaucer's Mill, Byron's Pool, Upper River. — Grantchester, Church. — Cam and Granta. — The Shelfords. — Sawston, Old-world Industries, Hall, Hiding-Hole, "Little John." — Whittlesford, Old Hospital. — Duxford. — Triplow Heath, Civil War. — Fowlmere, Hinxton, Sacring Bell. — Ickleton, Monolith Pillars. — Chesterford. — Icknield Way. — Saffron Walden 219

CHAPTER XI

London Road. — Hauxton Bridge, Indulgences, Church, Becket Fresco. — Burnt Mill. — Haslingfield. — White Hill, View, Clunch Pits, Chapel, Papal Bulla. — Barrington, Green, Church, Porch Seats, Chest, Fountains, Finds, Coprolite Digging, Hall. — Foxton. — Shepreth. — Meldreth, Parish Stocks. — Melbourn, Shipmoney. — Royston, Origin, Cave, Heath. — Bassingbourn, Old Accounts, Villenage. — Black Death. — Ashwell, Source of Cam, Church, Graffiti. — Akeman Street. — Barton Butts. — Comberton Maze. — Harlton Church, Old Pit. — Orwell Maypole, Church, Epitaph. — Wimpole Hall, Queen Victoria. — Arrington. — Shingay, Hospitallers, Fairy Cart. — Wendy. — Artesian Wells. — Guilden Morden, Screen, St. Edmund, Confessionals 235

CHAPTER XII

Oxford Road, Observatory, Neptune, Cambridge Discoveries. — Coton. — Madingley. — Hardwick. — Toft, St. Hubert. — Childerley, Charles I. — Knapwell. — Bourn. — Caxton. — Eltisley, St. Pandiania, Storm. — St. Neot's, Neotus and Alfred. — Paxton Hill. — Godmanchester, Port Meadow. — Huntingdon, Cromwell's Penance. — The Hemingfords. — St. Ives. — Holywell. — Overcote. — Earith, the Bedford Rivers, "Parallax" 265

CHAPTER XIII

Island of Ely. — Haddenham. — Aldreth, Conqueror's Causeway, Belsars Hill. — Wilburton. — Sutton. — Wentworth. — Via Devana. — Girton, College. — Oakington, Holdsworth. — Elsworth. — Conington, Ancient Bells. — Long Stanton, Queen Elizabeth. — Willingham, Stone Chamber. — Over, Gurgoyles. — Swavesey, Finials. — Ely Road. — Chesterton. — Fen Ditton. — Milton, Altar Rails. — Horningsea. — Bait's Bite, Start of Race. — Clayhithe. — Waterbeach. — Car Dyke. — Denny. — Stretham. — Upware. — Wicken Fen. 282

CHAPTER XIV

Ely. — Island and Isle. — St. Augustine. — St. Etheldreda, Life, Death, Burial, St. Audrey's Fair. — Danish Sack of Ely. — Alfred's College. — Abbey Restored. — Brithnoth, Song of Maldon. — Battle of Assundun. — Canute at Ely. — Edward the Confessor. — Alfred the Etheling. — Camp of Refuge, Hereward, Norman Conquest, Tabula Eliensis, Nomenclature, Norman Minster. — Bishops of Ely, Rule over Isle. — Ely Place, Ely House 303

CHAPTER XV

Bishop Northwold. — Presbytery Dedicated. — Barons at Ely. — Fall of Tower, Alan of Walsingham, Octagon. — Queen Philippa. — Lady Chapel, John of Wisbech, Bishop Goodrich. — Bishop Alcock. — Bishop West. — Styles of Architecture. — Monastic Industries. — MediÆval Account Books. — Clothing and Food of Monks. — Benedictine Rule. — Dissolution of Abbey. — Bishop Thirlby. — Bishop Wren. — Bishop Gunning. — Bishop Turner 324

CHAPTER XVI

Approach to Ely. — The Park. — Walpole Gate. — Crauden Chapel. — Western Tower, Galilee. — Nave. — Baptistery. — Roof. — Prior's Door. — Cloisters. — Owen's Cross. — Octagon. — Alan's Grave. — Transepts. — St. Edmund's Chapel. — Choir Stalls. — Presbytery. — Norman Piers. — Reredos. — Candlesticks 344

CHAPTER XVII

Monuments. — West's Chapel. — Alcock's Chapel. — Northwold Cenotaph. — Bassevi. — Shrine of Etheldreda. — Lady Chapel. — View from Tower. — Triforium. — Exterior of Minster. — Palace, "Duties" of Goodrich. — St. Mary's. — St. Cross. — Cromwell's House. — Cromwell at Ely. — St. John's Farm. — Theological College. — Waterworks. — Basket-making 366

CHAPTER XVIII

Boundary of Fens. — Roman Works, Car Dyke, Sea Wall, Causeway. — Archipelago. — Littleport, Agrarian Riots. — Denver Sluice. — Roslyn Pit. — Fenland Abbeys, Chatteris, Ramsey, Peterborough, Thorney, Crowland 386

CHAPTER XIX

Draining of Fens — Monastic Works, Morton's Learn. — Diversion of Ouse. — Local Government, Jurats, Discontent. — Jacobean polemics. — First Drainage Company. — Rising of Fen-men. — Second Company, Huguenot Labourers. — Third Company, Earl of Bedford, Vermuyden. — Old River. — Cromwell. — Fourth Company, Prisoner Slaves, New River, Denver Sluice. — Later Developments 398

CHAPTER XX

Coveney. — Manea. — Doddington. — March, Angel Roof. — Whittlesea. — Old Course of Ouse, Well Stream. — Upwell, Outwell. — Emneth. — Elm. — The Marshland — West Walton. — Walsoken. — Walpole. — Cross Keys. — Leverington. — Tydd. — Wisbech, Church, Trade, Castle, Catholic Prisoners, Clarkson. — The Wash. — King John. 409