The stranger's companion; forming a complete guide through the university and town of Cambridge - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 Excerpt: ...garden is an extensive bowling-green, a pleasant summer-house of platted straw, similar in form and make to a hive, and a shrubbery. EMINENT MEN. James Montague, first master, (brother to the first Lord Montague of Boughton, and to the first Earl of Manchester,) Bishop of Winchester, 1616. Samuel Ward, D. D. master, one of the divines sent by King James I. to the Synod of Dort. Edward Montague, Earl of Manchester, Chancellor of the University. Walter Montague, his brother, Abbot of Nanteuil, and chaplain in ordinary to Queen Mary. Seth Ward, bishop of Sarum, 1667. Sir Robert L'Estrange, ob. 1704. Oliver Cromwell, the protector. William Wollaston, M. A. Author of the Religion of Nature Delineated, ob. 1724. Sidney College, founded on the site of a Monastery of Franciscans, or Grey Friars, was established in this Town in the reign of Henry III. but at the Reformation it was granted by Henry VIII. to the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, and of them purchased by the executors of Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex (the widow of Thomas Radcliffe, third Earl of Sussex) who, by will, in 1588, bequeathed 50001. exclusive of other property to found a College for one Master, ten Fellows, and twenty Scholars, which number, owing to the bequest being insufficient to defray casual expences, was reduced. Its present establishment consists of a Master, 11 Fellows, a Mathematical Lecturer, several Scholars and Exhibitioners, and has 6 livings in its gift. On returning from this College we turn to the left, and after passing Green Street, arrive at the King's Head Inn, from which place conveyance may be had by Coaches to various parts of the kingdom. MARKET STREET is about sixty yards further, and at the corner of the same,--Trinity Church, built in the form of a cross...
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