Cambridge and Its Story

Charles William Stubbs

PREFACE

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS TINTED LITHOGRAPHS Oriel Windows, Queens'

CAMBRIDGE AND ITS STORY CHAPTER I LEGENDARY ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSITY

CHAPTER II CAMBRIDGE IN THE NORMAN TIME

CHAPTER III THE BEGINNINGS OF UNIVERSITY LIFE

CHAPTER IV THE EARLIEST COLLEGE FOUNDATION: PETERHOUSE

CHAPTER V THE COLLEGES OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY

CHAPTER VI THE COLLEGE OF THE CAMBRIDGE GUILDS

CHAPTER VII TWO ROYAL FOUNDATIONS

CHAPTER VIII TWO OF THE SMALLER HALLS

CHAPTER IX BISHOP ALCOCK AND THE NUNS OF S. RHADEGUND

CHAPTER X COLLEGES OF THE NEW LEARNING

CHAPTER XI A SMALL AND A GREAT COLLEGE

CHAPTER XII ANCIENT AND PROTESTANT FOUNDATIONS

INDEX

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Contents
List of Illustrations
Index
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Oriel Windows Queen’s College

C A M B R I D G E
A N D I T S S T O R Y

BY
CHARLES WILLIAM STUBBS, D.D.
DEAN OF ELY

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WITH TWENTY-FOUR LITHOGRAPHS
AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS BY
HERBERT RAILTON

THE LITHOGRAPHS BEING
TINTED BY
FANNY RAILTON

1903
LONDON
J. M. DENT & CO.
A L D I N E H O U S E, W. C.

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